The
Law and Society Association has issued a
Call for Papers for its 2015 conference, to be held May 28-31, 2015, in Seattle, Washington. The deadline is
October 15, 2014.
Law’s Promise and Law's Pathos
in the
Global North and Global South
What has law accomplished in the Global North and Global
South? Its champions have promised much—the spread of human rights and
the rule of law, the elimination of discrimination and the protection
of the vulnerable, the lure of economic development and the fostering
of global trade, endowments of human dignity and restraints on economic
rapacity. Its critics observe law as an instrument for repression,
hegemonic control and infringements on privacy and intrusive
surveillance (in the context of a never-ending and ubiquitous ‘war
against terror’), as a weapon against free speech or political
opposition, as a tool of economic exploitation and domination, and as a
retreat from politics. The 2015 LSA annual meeting will engage law’s
promises and law’s pathos in domestic and transnational contexts,
through plenaries addressing the roles of law in the war on terror, in
climate change, in emancipation and protection of the world’s most
vulnerable populations, and in law’s relationships with religions.
More information is available
here.
