IT Law - Paris

The International Federation of National IT Law Associations (IFCLA) Conference, IT Law Challenges in a Changing World: Global, Virtual, Open & Outsourced, takes place in Paris on June 5-6, 2008. The deadline for the call for papers is September 5, 2007.

Legal Pluralism - Kunming, China

The Commission on Legal Pluralism holds its next conference, Legal Pluralist Perspectives on Humanity, Development and Cultural Diversity, July 15-23, 2008, in Kunming, China.

Islamic Finance - Cambridge, MA

Harvard Law School - Islamic Legal Studies Program - Islamic Finance Project hosts the Eighth Harvard University Forum on Islamic Finance, “Innovation and Authenticity,” April 19-20, 2008, in Cambridge, MA. The call for papers deadline for abstracts was Sept. 1.

Islamic Legal Studies - Cambridge, MA

Harvard’s Islamic Legal Studies Program hosts the second Law of Waqf Conference May 16-18, 2008. The call for papers deadline is September 30, 2007.

Thanks: Identity Unknown.

Ethical Theory - Edinburgh

The British Society for Ethical Theory will hold its 2008 conference in Edinburgh July 14-16, 2008. The call for papers deadline is December 7, 2007.

Thanks: Legal Theory Blog.

Legal Education - Warwick

The UK Centre for Legal Education presents the Learning in Law Annual Conference (LILAC) at the University of Warwick, Coventry, UK, January 3-4, 2008. The theme is (Dis)integration…designs on the law curriculum. The call for papers deadline is October 2, 2007.

Third International Conference on Universal Digital Library

Third International Conference on Universal Digital Library
November 2-4, 2007
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA

August 25, 2007 Deadline

CENTRAL STATES LAW SCHOOL ASSOCIATION AND JOURNAL OF LAW IN SOCIETY

JOINT CONFERENCE
October 26-27, 2007

Announcement & Call For Papers

Symposium Paper Proposal Submission Deadline:  August 25, 2007

Open Workshop Abstract Submission Deadline:  August 25, 2007

U.S. Federalism Panel - Oslo

Reprinted from lawprof|at|chicagokent.kentlaw.edu:

Greetings lawprofs. This is a call for papers and panelists, seeking proposals from senior academics and from LLM and SJD students as well.

International Interdisciplinary Conference on Women - Madrid

Mundos de Mujeres / Women’s Worlds, “the most important academic congress on gender and Women’s Studies and feminist social movements,” will be hosted by the University Complutense of Madrid, July 3-9, 2008. The call for papers deadline is February 28, 2008.

Patenting Tax Strategies

The Houston Business and Tax Law Journal is soliciting papers for a symposium issue on Patenting Tax Strategies. Submissions are due October 2, 2007. At an evening program on Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2007, two speakers will discuss the issue — a patent expert opposing the practice, and a tax expert arguing for it.

Thanks: Tax Prof Blog.

Early English Law - London

The Institute of Historical Research, the Institute of English Studies, and the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (all at the School of Advanced Study, University of London) are cosponsoring Early English Law: A Centenary Conference on Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen of Felix Liebermann (1903-1916), July 16-17, 2008.

Call for papers deadline is October 31, 2007.

Race, Law, Inequality - Irvine

The Law & Society Review and the Center in Law, Society and Culture at the University of California, Irvine, are cosponsoring “The Paradoxes of Race, Law and Inequality in the United States,” May 2-3, 2008, Irvine, CA.

The deadline for submitting abstracts is October 31, 2007.

EU in International Affairs - Brussels

“The Institute for European Studies (IES) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB), the Institut d’Études Européennnes (IEE) at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), the UN University programme for Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS), and the Egmont – Royal Institute for International Relations invite papers for the GARNET Conference ‘The European Union in International Affairs’, to be held in Brussels on 24-26 April 2008. The conference will be the first of what we hope will be a series of conferences on this theme. The second conference is planned for 2010.”

The deadline for abstracts is September 25, 2007.

Gender, Family - Brighton, UK

Sussex Law School hosts Gender, Family Responsibility and Legal Change Conference 2008 (”An international, interdisciplinary conference), July 10-12, 2008, at Sussex Downs (near Brighton).

Paper proposals will be reviewed in four batches: those received by Sept. 30, 2007, those by Oct. 31, 2007, those by Dec. 31, 2007, and those by April 30, 2008.

Obligations — Goals of Private Law — Singapore

“The Fourth Biennial Conference on the Law of Obligations will be held at the National University of Singapore from 23-25 July 2008. The conference will be co-hosted by the National University of Singapore, the University of Melbourne and the Singapore Academy of Law. The theme of the conference is ‘The Goals of Private Law‘. Scholars working in the fields of contract, tort, unjust enrichment, equity or private law theory are invited to submit proposals addressing the conference theme.” Call for Papers: deadline is December 1, 2007.

Rhetoric - Eugene

The University of Oregon hosts “The Promise of Reason: The New Rhetoric After 50 Years,” May 17-20, 2008, in Eugene.

Chaim Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca published La Nouvelle Rhétorique: Traité de l’Argumentation in 1958, a work that has since come to represent the revival of rhetoric and its reintegration with philosophy in the twentieth century. The influence of this work is felt in rhetoric, philosophy, jurisprudence, communication studies, critical theory, and the newer disciplines of argumentation and informal reasoning.

The deadline for paper proposals is Sept. 21, 2007.

Rhetoric - Seattle

The Rhetoric Society of America holds its 13th Biennial Conference, May 23-26, 2008, Seattle, Washington. The conference theme is: The Responsibilities of Rhetoric.

Proposals for sessions and individual presentations are due by September 15, 2007.

Accounting Research - Chicago

The Journal of Accounting Research, Regulation of Securities Markets: Perspectives from Accounting, Law, and Financial Economics in Chicago, Illinois on May 9-10, 2008.  The Call for Papers deadline is Nov. 15, 2007.

Global Legal Skills - Monterrey, Mexico

Facultad Libre de Derecho de Monterrey hosts Global Legal Skills Conference III, Feb. 28-March 1, 2008.