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October 16-19, 2008
Harvard Law School and Stanford Law School International Junior Faculty Conference
Stanford, CA USA
Harvard and Stanford Law Schools wish to announce plans for an international junior faculty conference. The two sponsoring schools will act as hosts in alternate years. The first conference will be held at Stanford, California, on October 16-19, 2008. The purpose of the conference is to stimulate the international exchange of ideas and research among members of the legal academy, to encourage and further the work of younger scholars in the international community, and to surmount barriers between scholars of different traditions and cultures, in the interests of the development of legal scholarship on a transnational basis.
The sponsoring schools invite any junior scholar to submit an abstract of a paper for the conference. The paper may be on any legally relevant subject, and may utilize any legally relevant approach, quantitative or qualitative, sociological, anthropological, historical, or economic, on the role and function of law and legal systems in the modern world, or in the past. The papers for this initial year should be in English. Any scholar whose home institution is outside the United States and who has held an academic position for less than seven years, as of 2008, or whose last degree was earned less than ten years earlier than 2008, is invited to submit an abstract of no more than five pages that lays out the major argument of the paper he/she would submit, states what method the scholar will pursue to advance that argument, and indicates the paper’s potential contribution to scholarship. On the basis of these abstracts, the sponsoring schools will invite the submission of full papers. The papers will be reviewed by an international committee of senior legal scholars, representing many different countries and many different styles and approaches. Approximately ten of the papers will be selected for presentation at the conference. Each paper will have two commentators, drawn from the international committee of scholars. The sponsoring schools will cover expenses of travel, including airfare, lodging, and food, for each participant.
The deadline for the submission of abstracts is January 4, 2008 and of final papers is May 23, 2008. One copy of each abstract should be sent to: Professor Lawrence M. Friedman (lmf@stanford.edu) Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305 USA
A second copy of each abstract should be sent to: Professor William P. Alford (alford@law.harvard.edu) Harvard Law School Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
It is preferable to submit papers by email. Questions should be directed to either Professor Friedman or Professor Alford.
October 31, 2008
Investor-State Arbitration: Perspectives on Legitimacy and Practice
Suffolk University Law School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Suffolk University Law School is pleased to host this international investment law symposium to mark the inaugural Foreign Direct Investment International Moot Competition (FDI Moot). The conference is held on Oct. 31, 2008, while the FDI Moot competition hearings will take place on Nov. 1-2, 2008. Increasing international investment has encouraged the rapid development of a new field of international law to define the obligations between host States and foreign investors and to create procedures to resolve related investment disputes. In recent years, there has been widespread recourse to arbitration between investors and host States as a means of resolving these disputes. Even while the network of investment agreements continues to expand and the number of investor-State arbitrations increases, there has been an emerging call to take stock and re-evaluate the current system, with several countries moving to denounce their obligations to participate in invest!
or-State arbitration for some or all categories of disputes. This symposium will examine the investor-State arbitration system, with the challenge to panelists to discuss its strengths and weaknesses both in terms of systemic and practice-related issues, and to identify where potential improvements may be made or areas that need further study. Please join a stellar faculty in examining these issues.
http://www.law.suffolk.edu/academic/als/coursedetail.cfm?cid=609#reginfo
November 11-12 2008
3rd Conference on Law & Technology 2008 Legal & Shariah Issues
Palm Garden Hotel, Putrajaya, Malaysia
On behalf of Faculty of Law, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) and Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania (UTAS), Australia, we would like to invite you and all academicians, lecturers, legal practitioners, IT experts and students of your organisation to participate in a two day conference on Law & Technology (Legal & Shariah Issues)
Submission of abstracts - 11 July 2008
Notification of acceptance of abstracts - 29 July 2008
submission of full paper - 11 August 2008
For futher information, kindly visit
http://www.ukm.my/seminarfuu1 or email the Secretariat at clt3@ukm.my
January 6-10
AALS Annual Meeting
San Diego, California, USA
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