CFP: “Law on the Edge” CLSA/​LSAANZ Joint Conference, July 2013, UBC Vancouver

Law on the Edge is jointly presen­ted by the Cana­dian Law and Soci­ety Asso­ci­ation and the Law and Soci­ety Asso­ci­ation of Aus­tralia and New Zea­l­and and will be hos­ted on-​campus at the beau­ti­ful Uni­ver­sity of Brit­ish Columbia in Van­couver from 1 — 4 July 2013. Pro­pos­als for con­fer­ence ses­sions must be e-​mailed to lawontheedge@​law.​ubc.​ca by 10 Decem­ber 2012.

The concept of liv­ing on the edge is not simply geo-​political. While it is a polit­ics of the edge, per­petu­ally respond­ing to and writ­ing back at the centre, it is also a recog­ni­tion that law itself con­sti­tutes bound­ar­ies and edges, cre­at­ing same­ness, dif­fer­ence, Oth­ers and allies. The con­fer­ence plan­ning emphas­izes the fol­low­ing themes:

— Law in times of crisis, tragedy & uncer­tainty;
— Indi­geneity, plur­al­ism & dif­fer­ence;
— Law on the geo­pol­it­ical edge;
— Con­nec­tions, depar­tures, mobil­it­ies; and
— New legal spaces on the edge.

The con­fer­ence organ­isers have planned a mix of pro­gram­ming to allow par­ti­cipants an immers­ive exper­i­ence with:

— con­sid­er­able expos­ure to the best and most innov­at­ive law and soci­ety schol­ar­ship;
— a sense of the local con­text and rel­ev­ance of law and soci­ety in situ; and
— a sus­tained oppor­tun­ity to meet and exchange ideas with par­ti­cipants who have shared interests and who diverge dis­cip­lin­ar­ily, con­cep­tu­ally, and methodologically.

We encour­age soci­olegal and inter­dis­cip­lin­ary con­tri­bu­tions that explore law on the edge in a vari­ety of spatio-​temporal con­texts as well as other law and soci­ety schol­ar­ship. The con­fer­ence pro­gram has been care­fully designed to max­im­ize oppor­tun­it­ies for dia­logue. The con­fer­ence plan­ning com­mit­tee invites a vari­ety of pro­pos­als includ­ing, but extend­ing well bey­ond, tra­di­tional papers.

1. Paper and panel proposals

2. Gradu­ate stu­dent workshop

3. Research work­shops

4. Field trips

5. Chair­ing panels

All pro­pos­als must be e-​mailed to lawontheedge@​law.​ubc.​ca by 10 Decem­ber 2012. We will acknow­ledge receipt.

Key­note and plen­ary speak­ers The con­fer­ence plan­ning com­mit­tee is excited to have arranged a lead­ing group of key­note and plen­ary speak­ers including:

— Leah Bas­sel “Para­doxes of Pro­tec­tion: Gender at the Bor­ders“
— John Bor­rows “Ningiiwitaa-​inaakonige: Walk­ing Around the Edges of Indi­gen­ous Law“
— “Belong­ing on the Edge” with Cath­er­ine Dauvergne & Jenni Mill­bank, Shaunnagh Dor­sett, Julie Evans and Sherene Razack.
— “Law, Space and Bound­ar­ies” with Nick Blom­ley, Dav­ina Cooper, Lee God­den and Val­maine Toki.
— “Look­ing out from the Salish Sea” with Douglas Har­ris, Aaron Wilson and Bruce Miller.

More inform­a­tion about these speak­ers will be pos­ted on the con­fer­ence web­site <http://​www​.law​.ubc​.ca/​e​v​e​n​t​s​/​l​a​w​_​o​n​_​t​h​e​_​e​d​ge/> soon.

Law on the Edge
1 – 4 July 2013
Pro­pos­als due by 10 Decem­ber 2012

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