Conference Announcement and Call for Papers
Journal of Law, Finance, and Accounting (JLFA) 2019
17 May 2019 - 18 May 2019, Hong Kong
The Journal of Law, Finance, and Accounting (JLFA) is pleased to announce its 8th conference, to be held in Hong Kong on Friday May 17 and Saturday May 18, 2019. The conference is co-organized by School of Accounting and Finance, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Submissions are invited from faculty and graduate students for a two-day conference on “Amending America’s Unwritten Constitution,” a timely subject of importance in history, law and politics.
Convened by Richard Albert (Texas), Yaniv Roznai (IDC), and Ryan C. Williams (Boston College), this Conference will be held on the campus of Boston College on Thursday and Friday, May 16-17, 2019.
Subject-Matter of the Conference
CALL FOR PAPERS
Abstracts Due: October 30, 2018
Introduction
The California Western Law Review and International Law Journal seek articles for their Spring 2019 joint symposium issue on “Border Myths.”
Description
The Berkeley Center for Consumer Law and Economic Justice, its director Ted Mermin, and co-organizers Abbye Atkinson, Kathleen Engel, Rory Van Loo, and Lauren Willis are pleased to announce the inaugural Consumer Law Scholars Conference (CLSC), which will be held the afternoon and evening of February 21 and all day February 22, 2019, in Berkeley, CA.
This multidisciplinary seminar aims to examine key debates and perspectives arising from various contemporary challenges to international human rights and emancipatory politics. First, the seminar examines whether, and if so, how the apparently declining influence of the West, the rise of authoritarianism, and increasing material inequality within and between nations could impact the legitimacy and effectiveness of international human rights.
The Arbeitskreis junger Völkerrechtswissenschaftler*innen and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationales Recht have issued a call for papers for a conference on "Cynical International Law? Abuse and Circumvention in Public and Private International Law as well as European Law," which will take place September 6-7, 2019, at the Freie Universität Berlin.
Despite claims to the contrary, and to paraphrase Mark Twain’s famous quip, the rumours of cus- tomary law’s death have been greatly exaggerated – customary international law remains alive and well. Not only is it one of the formal sources of international law, but its importance is underlined by the fact that rules of customary international law cover all areas of international law, are usually binding on all states and continue to be valid law even if they are codified in treaty texts.
The sixth bi-annual TILTing Perspectives Conference on the intersection of law, technology, and society will be hosted by Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society at Tilburg University May 15-17, 2019. The 2019 conference theme is Regulating a World in Transition.
The 16th ASLI Conference will be held June 11-12, 2019 at the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law. The 2019 conference them is “The Rule of Law and the Role of Law in Asia”.
Recent years have seen a blossoming of scholarship on the philosophical concept of human rights, and the related notion of human rights law, with contributions from authors as diverse as Allen Buchanan, Charles Beitz, Costas Douzinas, James Griffin, and Gunther Teubner. The objective of this roundtable is to consider the distinctive offering from systems theory to the debate, including the closed systems theory of autopoiesis and open theory of complexity.
