Call for Papers: ‘Law and Responsibility’: 4th Doctoral Scholarship Conference, Yale Law School, 14-15 November 2014 (abstract deadline 1 August)

Yale Law School is proud to host the 4th Doctoral Scholarship Conference, which will be held on November 14-15, 2014. The conference aims to provide doctoral students and recent graduates with a forum to present, share and discuss their work beyond conventional academic boundaries. It seeks to promote quality research and to facilitate discussion across diverse subject areas and methodological approaches, with a view towards fostering a community of aspiring legal scholars. Law is a central social tool for establishing responsibility and for holding agents accountable for their actions and omissions. These functions of the law raise fundamental questions: What is it that the law does when it calls agents to account? What justifies its authority to do so? … (more)

[Yale Law School, July]

First posted 2014-07-10 06:27:58

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