Call for Papers: LSA/CLS(UCT) Conference: December 9-11, 2016
The Law and Society Association and the Center for Law and Society at the University of Cape Town will be holding a joint workshop in Cape Town, December 9-11th, 2016. Approximately 50 participants will be recruited from around Africa and also selected internationally from members of LSA who apply by responding to this call for papers. The hope of the organizers is that prospective participants will offer to present their initial papers as part of the Africa CRN at the New Orleans meeting of the Law and Society Association from June 6-9, 2016. However, those who cannot attend the New Orleans conference, especially from Africa, will not be excluded.
The working title for the workshop is: ‘Dynamism, Liminality, Reality? Policy, Research and the Law in an Afropolitan Era’. The conference aims to problematize how policy, research and the law respond to an environment that is at once fluid and responsive, but also focused on social problems that are at times deep-seated and entrenched. Theme panels will focus on:
- Discretion and Impunity
- Legal Recognition of Law and Culture
- Justice and Judging in Transition
- Citizenship in Africa
- Sustainability of Legal Institutions
- Methodologies in Socio-legal Research
Additional panels will be constructed around papers focused on the following keywords: education, resistance, human rights, human security, housing, water, socioeconomic rights, labour, environmental concerns, corruption, urbanism, xenophobia, migration, and language.
Anyone who is interested in being selected to participate in the Cape Town workshop in December 2016 is encouraged to submit a paper proposal based on any of the above themes or keywords. Paper proposals of a minimum of 1000 words (to meet the new LSA Meeting requirements) should be emailed to the co-chairs of the Cape Town workshop: Heinz Klug (Klug@wisc.edu) and Kelley Moult (Kelley.Moult@uct.ac.za) by August 25, 2015.
African scholars at institutions on the African continent whose papers are selected for the Cape Town workshop will receive funding support, to the extent made possible by the workshop budget, in order to attend the workshop.
We look forward to your proposals. Please share this call with your colleagues and anyone who might be interested in submitting a paper proposal.