CFP: Stirling Graduate Conference 2008

CALL FOR PAPERS  

LAW AND PHILOSOPHY 2008  

Stirling 2nd Graduate Conference  

Thursday 11 - Friday 12th December 2008 

Department of Philosophy, University of Stirling, Scotland  

Keynote Speakers:  

Prof. John Horton (Keele University)  

Prof. Leif Wenar (King's College) 

Submission deadline: 10th October 2008 

Following the success of last year's event, the Department of Philosophy at Stirling University is holding the 2nd Postgraduate Conference Law and Philosophy. This event aims at bringing together postgraduate students working on any area of Political and Legal Philosophy. The focus of this year's Conference will be particularly, but not exclusively, on issues of Political Obligation and Global Justice (e.g. State Legitimacy, Anarchism, Civil Disobedience, Distributive Justice, Nationalism/ Cosmopolitanism, Legal Positivism, Natural Law, etc.).    

Contributions are invited from graduate students working on any topic in political and/or legal philosophy.  Each postgraduate presentation should be max 30 minutes, and will be followed by a 10-minute reply, and by an open discussion. Each session will last 90 minutes. Abstract of max. 500 words should be sent via email to lawandphilosophy2008@stir.ac.uk  by 10th October 2008. Selected participants will be required to send a full draft of their paper by 3rd November. Thanks to generous support from the Department of Philosophy of Stirling University, The Roberts Funds and The Scots Philosophical Club, there will be bursaries available for participant postgraduates. Inquiries should be sent to Ambrose Lee or Piero Moraro