IV Colloquio biennale dei giovani comparatisti

CALL FOR PAPERS FOURTH BI-ANNUAL COLLOQUIUM OF YOUNGER COMPARATIVE LAW SCHOLARS

Rome

30/31 May 2014

The Italian Association of Comparative Law (AIDC) is pleased to invite submissions for the Younger Scholars Conference “New trends in comparative law research”, to be held on May 30- 31, 2014 at the European University of Rome. This call solicits scholarly essays examining the new issues of Comparative Law from a variety of perspectives and methodologies. Possible areas of exploration include, but are by no means limited to:

• Research agendas of comparative Law;
• Models of multiculturalism;
• Legal traditions and legal culture;
• Governance and norm-setting;
• Global legal theory;
• New constitutional forms and political projects;
• New contract Law;
• New forms of property and new interests in property;
• Law and economic development;
• Human and post-human concepts in biolaw and bioethics;
• Human rights and gender Identity;
• Sovereign debt restructuring.

A 300 word abstracts should be submitted by 28 February 2014 and emailed as attachments to aidc.2014@gmail.com Abstracts may be in Word or RTF format, following this order: a) author(s) b) affiliation c) email address d) title of abstract e) body of abstract f) up to 10 keywords Abstract file should be entitled: Family Name_Last Name.doc We acknowledge receipt and answer all paper proposals submitted. Authors will be notified within approximately one month from the deadline as to the status of their submissions. A committee of renowned legal scholars will act as referee to select the papers according to acknowledged academic standards. Segreteria presso il prof. V.Zeno-Zencovich Vicolo Orbitelli, 31 – 00186 Roma – tel. 06 681 35 361