Call for Papers: 2025 HKU-ALSA Young Scholars Conference

Call for Papers

2025 HKU-ALSA Young Scholars Conference

We are delighted to announce that the HKU-ALSA Young Scholars Conference, organized by the Asian Law Schools Association (ALSA) Young Scholars Chapter in collaboration with the University of Hong Kong, the Australian National University, and Thammasat University, will be held at the University of Hong Kong on 5th and 6th December 2025.

The conference will provide a unique opportunity for young scholars to present their research and receive constructive feedback. It will also feature senior scholars reflecting on and sharing insights from their academic journeys.

Eligibility for paper submissions is limited to young scholars, defined as doctoral candidates, assistant professors, and associate professors with less than 15 years of academic experience. Young scholars working in the following areas are especially encouraged to participate in this call:

• Corporate Law and Bankruptcy Law
• Law and Technology, with a focus on Law and Artificial Intelligence
• Empirical Legal Studies
• Alternative Dispute Resolution

Submissions

Expressions of interest to present at the ALSA Young Scholars Conference should be sent to alsayoungscholars@gmail.com and should include the following information:

- Name, affiliation and contact details of the presenter

- Bio (no more than 150 words)

- Full papers in English that are unpublished, including preliminary or early-stage drafts.

The expression of interest, along with the accompanying information above, should be submitted by 15th August 2025. Please use “Name_Paper Title” as the subject line of your email.

Organizing committee

- Alex Zhicheng Huang, Global Academic Scholar, Faculty of Law, University of Hong

Kong, HKSAR

- Akshaya Kamalnath, Associate Professor of Law, Australian National University,

College of Law, Australia

- Amnart Tangkiriphimarn, Vice Dean for International Affairs and International

Programs, Thammasat University, Faculty of Law, Thailand

Selected speakers will be notified by 10th September 2025 and invited to deliver an in-person presentation in Hong Kong. Early submissions are strongly encouraged. We kindly ask for your understanding that due to the volume of submissions, only selected speakers will receive notification.

We are firmly committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment. We aim to provide an open and collegial platform for scholarly exchange that brings together law scholars from across Asia and beyond. We look forward to receiving your valuable contributions and to building lasting connections within our scholarly community.

Call for Papers: Legal Imaginaries — a Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia Conference 2024

Legal Imaginaries

A Law, Literature and Humanities

Association of Australasia Conference 2024

15 - 18 Dec 2024

The University of Hong Kong

CALL FOR PAPERS
(Deadline Extended to 31 July 2024)

This Conference is an invitation to collectively examine, critique, and, for the more daring, transform the imaginaries that constellate our grasp of reality and sustain the authority of law – from the racialised and gendered representations that give form and force to the colonial and patriarchal imaginaries of both North and South; to the configurations of sovereignty that are held together by the sociotechnical and technoscientific imaginaries of the Anthropocene; to the confined and confining figures of justice that populate the modern imaginaries of the state… With keynotes by Dr Daniela Gandorfer, Prof Peter Goodrich and Dr Kojo Koram, with more special events TBA.

For further information on the Conference, please visit:
https://www.lawlithum.org/conference-2024/

To submit a paper, panel or creative session please CLICK HERE.

We encourage you to identify a stream for inclusion of your paper/panel/session. Streams provide the Conference subthemes, helping to put papers in conversation with each other while creating ongoing conversations across sessions.

STREAMS Corporate Imaginaries | Empire’s Debtscapes: Reparations, Decolonisation, and Possibilities for Justice | Exploring Tensions in Law and Legal Semiotics | Feminist and Queer Imaginaries | From Positronic to AI: Analyzing the Portrayal of Intelligent Machines in Robot Stories | Hope and Law | Imaginaries and the Future of Legal Professions | Imaginaries in/of Legal Education | Imagining Law’s Subjects | Imagining New and Alternative Legal Internationalisms | Law and the Inhuman | Legal Imaginaries across Asia Pacific: Vernacular Laws and Literatures.

Call for Papers: the Conference on ‘Hong Kong Bilingual Legal System: Retrospect and Prospect’ (abstract submission: on or before Apr 30)

Conference on ‘Hong Kong Bilingual Legal System:

Retrospect and Prospect’ – Call for Papers

「香港雙語法制：回顧與前瞻」研討會徵稿通知

The Conference on ‘Hong Kong Bilingual Legal System: Retrospect and Prospect’ will be held on 26 and 27 August 2023 at the University of Hong Kong. Organised by the Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong, the conference is the first major international academic conference to focus on legal language of Hong Kong. The Conference aims to provide a platform for experts and legal practitioners from home and abroad to present their research and practical views, as well as to provide networking opportunities. In addition to the presentation sessions, workshops will be held on a variety of topics, covering both theoretical and practical aspects. As the Official Languages Ordinance is approaching its 50th anniversary, this Conference will review the challenges and opportunities of legal language of Hong Kong, and provide new ideas and directions to guide the further development of Hong Kong’s bilingual legal system.

「香港雙語法制：回顧與前瞻」研討會將於2023年8月26日及27日在香港大學舉行。本研討會由香港大學法律學院主辦，是首場以香港法律語言為主題的大型國際學術研討會。本研討會旨在為國內外專家學者及法律從業員提供平台，發表研究成果及實務意見，以及提供交流、聯繫的機會。本研討會除設有專題報告環節外，亦會舉行不同主題的工作坊，兼顧理論與實務層面。適逢《法定語文條例》實施接近50年，本研討會將回顧香港法律語言的挑戰及機遇，並提供新思維、新方向，引領香港雙語法制進一步發展。

Experts, scholars, practitioners, and students in the field of legal language research are invited to submit papers on any topic related to Hong Kong’s bilingual legal system and the legal language of Hong Kong. Each paper will have a tentative presentation time of 15 minutes and a discussion time of 10 minutes. Papers are particularly welcomed on the following topics:

現誠邀國內外從事法律語言研究的專家學者、法律從業員、學生等提交任何與香港雙語法制或香港法律語言有關的論文。每篇論文報告時間暫定為15分鐘，討論時間為10分鐘。本研討會特別歡迎圍繞下列主題的論文：

1. The development of the common law in Chinese

以中文發展的普通法

2. Developments and challenges in the use of Chinese in court proceedings

於法庭程序使用中文的發展和挑戰

3. Developments and challenges in bilingual law drafting

雙語法律草擬的發展和挑戰

4. The impact of information technology on the use of Chinese in law

資訊科技對法用中文的影響

5. The development of bilingual legal education

雙語法律教育的發展

6. Development of legal Chinese in the Greater China Region

大中華地區的法用中文發展

1. This Conference is conducted in both Chinese and English, and abstracts are welcomed in either Chinese or English.

本研討會以中文、英文雙語進行，歡迎以中文或英文提交論文提要。

2. Abstracts should be anonymous and should not exceed 400 words.

論文提要應為匿名，字數不超過400字。

3. Please send your abstract in Microsoft Word (*.docx / *.doc) or as a text file (*.rtf / *.txt) to lawlanghk@gmail.com on or before 30 April 2023 (Sunday).

請於2023年4月30日（星期日）前把論文提要以Microsoft Word 電子檔 (*.docx / *.doc) 或文字檔案 (*.rtf / *.txt) 發送至 lawlanghk@gmail.com.

4. In the email text, please include the (1) real name, (2) affiliation and position, (3) correspondence address, and (4) email address of the author(s).

請於電郵內文註明作者的 (1) 真實姓名；(2) 所屬機構名稱、職稱；(3) 通訊地址及 (4) 電子郵件信箱。

5. Each person may submit a maximum of two individual papers and two co-authored papers.

每人最多只能提交兩篇單獨撰寫的論文，以及兩篇合寫的論文。

6. Abstracts will be anonymously reviewed and approved before they can be presented at the Conference. Review results will be available on 31 May 2023 (Wednesday).

論文提要將經匿名評審，通過評審後始能在研討會上報告。評審結果將於2023年5月31日（星期三）公布。

7. Some of the presented papers may be published in a book, tentatively scheduled for 2024. The final decision of acceptance will be made by the Organising Committee of the Conference based on the academic standard and practical reference value of the paper.

部分發表的論文可能編集成書，並暫定於2024年出版。錄取論文與否，以其學術水平及實務參考價值為衡量標準，最後結果由研討會籌備委員會決定。

8. Conference participation is free (including a conference dinner on 26 August 2023 for invited guests and paper presenters). Conference participants are responsible for their own travel expenses to and from their place of origin to Hong Kong, meals, accommodation, sightseeing and transportation costs in Hong Kong during the Conference. Paper presenters coming from outside Hong Kong will receive a modest subvention towards their costs.

參加會議是免費的（包括2023年8月26日為受邀嘉賓及論文發表者舉行的會議晚宴）。與會者須自行負責來回原居地與香港的交通費，以及研討會期間在香港的住宿、膳食、觀光和交通費用。來自香港以外的論文發表者將獲得適量的費用補貼。

For enquiries, please contact Mr Wilson Lui (Pre-Doctoral Fellow and part-time Lecturer, HKU Faculty of Law) or Mr Edmund Cham (Adjunct Associate Professor, HKU Faculty of Law) at lawlanghk@gmail.com. 如有查詢，請電郵至 lawlanghk@gmail.com 與呂致延先生（香港大學法律學院博士前研究員、兼任講師）或湛樹基先生（香港大學法律學院客席副教授）聯絡

Call for Papers (Abstracts deadline: Mar 15 2023): The Law & Sustainability Conference Series held by SMU Law, USYD Law, and HKU Law

Call for Papers. The Law & Sustainability Conference Series held by SMU Law, USYD Law, and HKU Law invite papers related to anticipation, connections, resilience. DDL for abstracts is Mar 15 2023.

More info on https://ccla.smu.edu.sg/.../Call-for-Papers_Law...

Also on Chinese Law Blog: https://www.ccl.law.hku.hk/chinese-law-blog

HKU Law Call for Papers: The Empirical Turn in Chinese Legal Research: Challenges, Strategies, and Solutions (due: 30 Nov 2022)

The Empirical Turn in Chinese Legal Research:

Challenges, Strategies, and Solutions

CALL FOR PAPERS

Empirical studies of the Chinese legal system have proliferated in recent decades. This trend has only been accelerated by greater generation of data on the one hand and methodological innovations in the social sciences on the other. Empirical legal research promises to enrich our understanding of legal phenomenon and to furnish a knowledge base for debating legal doctrine and theory. But the apparent objectivity of numbers can also mislead those unfamiliar with the assumptions and extrapolations underlying many of the conclusions drawn from quantitative research. To foster critical and constructive discussion about this emerging field, the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law will host a conference on " The Empirical Turn in Chinese Legal Research: Challenges, Strategies, and Solutions" to be held in-person at the University’s Centennial Campus on 9 and 10 January 2023. The conference organizer will cover the lodging and travel expenses of all invited speakers.

Submissions may address one or more of the following topics:

• Data generation and collection
• Methodological choices and trade-offs
• The generalizability or representativeness of small or local samples
• The relationship between empirical and theoretical or doctrinal research

Submission requirements:

The submission must address the topic of the call for papers, including but not limited to the topics listed above.  Proposals may be submitted as drafts or abstracts of approximately 500 words.

Submissions should be made through the following form on or before 30 November 2022: https://hku.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5mr7O0rwf7l6JLw

Acceptances will be communicated by 7 December 2022. In addition, a special issue of the Hong Kong Law Journal will be dedicated to the proceedings of the conference. Submissions may be revised before publication. Final manuscripts are due 30 April 2023. All enquiries should be addressed to Ms. Yin Xiaohan at yxh0222@connect.hku.hk.

CALL FOR PAPERS - Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality and Anti-discrimination Law (BCCE) 9th Annual Conference 2022

BEKELEY CENTER ON COMPARATIVE EQUALITY

& ANTI-DISCRIMINATION LAW

9th ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2022

Hosted by the University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Law, the Centre for Comparative 

and Public Law, the Human Rights Hub, and the Equality Rights Project 

22-24 June 2022

 

CALL FOR PAPERS 

Comparative Equality Law in a Post-Pandemic World 

The ninth annual conference of the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law (BCCE) will be held at the Faculty of Law at The University of Hong Kong from 22-24 June 2022. Previous conferences were hosted in Paris (Sciences-Po 2012), California (Berkeley Law 2013), Brussels (Université Libre de Bruxelles 2014), Shanghai (Jiao Tong University 2016), Dublin (Trinity College 2017), Melbourne (Melbourne Law School 2018), Stockholm (University of Stockholm 2019), and Cape Town (University of Cape Town 2021). 

We plan to hold the conference on site in Hong Kong with options for online participation for those unable to join us in person. However, if a face-to-face event turns out to be impossible because of ongoing travel restrictions or other unforeseen circumstances, we will organize an entirely virtual conference instead. 

The conference will expand on many of the themes explored at the BCCE’s previous events and within its various working groups. It will focus on what Covid-19 has revealed about the causes and nature of inequalities which exist within and across countries and regions. Calls to tackle deep-seated structural and intersectional discrimination have increased in recent years, but so has the strong backlash against these campaigns. Indeed, in some places we see attempts to dismantle hard-won, progressive legal and policy change. In others, ongoing efforts to achieve much needed reform have been stalled or defeated. 

With these realities in mind, the conference will consider possibilities for crafting effective short-term and long-term responses as we move forward in a vastly unequal post-pandemic world. These may include: reforms to - or the better implementation of – equality and antidiscrimination law; improved enforcement mechanisms; re-energised social movements; fully representative governance; ensuring equality in economic recovery efforts; tackling inequalities in health care, education, employment, and other sectors; and identifying new, creative solutions in the digital space, the arts, and the media. 

These challenges and more will shape the discussions and plenary sessions at the 2022 conference. As always, the comparative insights and ideas presented by scholars from around the world will enrich the conference experience. We hope to further expand the BCCE’s network and particularly encourage emerging scholars - from within the Asian region and elsewhere - to join us. 

Paper proposals may address the broader themes described above or any area of equality and anti-discrimination law. Specific conference sub-themes reflect the focus of BCCE’s working groups: 

• Covid-19 

• Digital Equality

• Disability Rights

• Immigrant Justice and Climate Refugees

• Pay Equity and Living Wage 

• Sexual Harassment and Violence 

• Global Systemic Racism 

• LGBTQI 

Cross-cutting themes include: structural discrimination; equality and governance; equality and economic recovery; equality and socio-economic rights (healthcare, education, employment, etc.); enforcement and institutional responses; the impact on communities such as older persons, children, indigenous peoples, and non-citizens; the role of the arts and media in promoting equality; and civil society participation and social movements.

We are now inviting submissions for workshop presentations on topics related to these themes, and aspects of equality law more generally. Please submit a completed abstract of up to 500 words to bccehk@hku.hk on or before 1 December 2021. Please include a brief biography (suitable for publication on the conference website) and clearly indicate your objectives and methodology in your abstract. The abstracts will be reviewed by the conference committee and invitations to present will be sent out by early February 2022. Full papers will be due on 15 May 2022. Note that initial abstracts must be submitted in English, but we may be able to make some accommodation if you wish to present in another language at the conference. Please indicate this in your submission.

Call for Papers: Special Edition of Asia-Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law on the 2015 Andaman Sea Crisis

The Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law and the Asia-Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law invites proposals for articles to be included in a special edition of the Journal marking 5 years since the Andaman Sea ‘crisis’ of mid-2015. The purpose of this special edition is to provide high quality peer-reviewed scholarly articles reflecting on the events of 2015 and subsequent developments, including the exodus of Rohingya from Myanmar in 2017, from a range of national and regional perspectives. 

     Authors wishing to contribute an article are invited to submit a short abstract/proposal (max 1 page) for consideration for inclusion in the special edition. Proposals should include: 

• a working title;
• an overview of the article’s content and argument;
• a brief discussion of how the proposed article makes an original contribution or offers a new perspective to existing literature on the topic; and
• the name, affiliation and contact details of all authors.

   Proposals are due by 2 March 2020. Authors of successful proposals will be notified in mid-March 2020, and final articles will be due in July 2020. Articles should be 7000 words maximum in length (including references), plus an abstract, and should follow the OSCOLA (4th edn.) standard for the citation of legal authorities. Publication in the Journal will be subject to the outcome of the peer review process. The special edition will be published in early 2021. To submit your proposal and for more information, please contact Madeline Gleeson at madeline.gleeson@unsw.edu.au.

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Street Protests and Human Rights (APJHRL) [DEADLINE: end of Jan 2020]

Asia-Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law

Centre for Comparative and Public Law

Call for Papers

Special Issue on Street Protests and Human Rights

In 2019 Hong Kong saw unprecedented confrontations between police and protesters sparked by human rights concerns with a proposed amendment bill that would have enabled the surrender of fugitive offenders to other parts of China.  Street protests leading to clashes with the police also flared up in Moscow, Kashmir, West Papua, Cape Town, Mexico, Zimbabwe, and Honduras. Police powers and public order measures can have severe consequences for protesters, journalists, and other members of the public.  These recent events have given rise to many important human rights law issues that may require the attention of courts, tribunals, legislative bodies, governments, and international organisations. To contribute to a global discussion of these issues, the Asia-Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law is soliciting new scholarship on the human rights law issues of street protests in the Asia-Pacific or of potential interest to the region, particularly in terms of international standards.  An editorial committee of experts will peer review submitted papers and the best ones will be published in a special issue of the journal planned for issue 1 of volume 21 (2020). 

  Established in 2000 and now based at The University of Hong Kong, the Asia-Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law is the leading law journal on human rights in Asia.  It has published influential articles on important human rights issues occurring in most Asia-Pacific jurisdictions.  Two issues of the journal are published each year. Abstracts of articles are indexed on Scopus and searchable on Westlaw.  Full text is available on BrillOnline, EBSCO, and HeinOnline. The journal’s website is https://brill.com/view/journals/aphu/aphu-overview.xml.

  Submission instructions. For the special issue, papers should be no longer than 12,000 words (inclusive of footnotes).  Please follow the OSCOLA (4^th edn) standard for the citation of legal authorities. Email papers to apjhrl@hku.hk.  For papers to be considered for the special issue, they must be received by 31 January 2020.

                                                             Editors-in-Chief

Simon N. M. Young                                     Kelley Loper

Professor                                                        Associate Professor

Faculty of Law                                               Faculty of Law

                         The University of Hong Kong                    The University of Hong Kong

Call for Papers: Limitations on Trademark Rights from Comparative and Interdisciplinary Perspectives (HKU Law & Technology Centre)

Limitations on Trademark Rights from Comparative and Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Call for Papers

Deadline for Abstract Submission: September 14, 2018

The Law and Technology Centre at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law and the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy at New York University School of Law will next year co-sponsor a conference on limitations on trademark rights. The conference will bring together scholars from around the world to explore the nature and scope of those limitations from comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives. The conference will be held at the University of Hong Kong on January 7-8, 2019.

      The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) sets no minimum standards for limitations on trademark rights, such as fair use and exhaustion. At the domestic level, the courts in various jurisdictions have adopted conflicting opinions on how to decide cases involving such limitations (e.g., nominative fair use). Comparative studies are therefore useful in understanding the differing legal standards for the limitations on trademark rights adopted in different jurisdictions. Moreover, conventional wisdom largely justifies trademark rights limitations from free speech or market competition perspectives, with other theoretical approaches such as social and cultural studies enjoying limited application in considering the nature and scope of those limitations. Against this backdrop, the conference organizers welcome submissions of papers developing new thoughts and theories on limitations on trademark rights by examining them through a comparative or interdisciplinary lens.

      The Rt. Hon. Professor Sir Robin Jacob will deliver the conference’s keynote speech, and a number of leading trademark scholars have already agreed to present papers. A limited number of presentation slots have also been reserved for scholars to be selected through this call for papers. Both senior and junior scholars are encouraged to submit abstracts of the papers they intend to present. Abstracts will be selected based on scholarly merit and originality.

      Please submit an abstract (no more than 300 words) to Ms. Grace Chan at mcgrace@hku.hk by September 14, 2018. The submission should also include your name, position, institutional affiliation and e-mail address.

      All applicants will be informed of the selection outcome by October 2, 2018. Financial support is available for scholars who experience difficulty obtaining a sufficient travel grant from their institution.

     All conference enquiries should be addressed to Ms. Grace Chan at the above e-mail address or at (+852) 3917-4727.

Call for Papers: 11th East Asian Conference on Philosophy of Law @ HKU (13-14 Dec 2018)

11th East Asian Conference on Philosophy of Law
“Justice, Dignity and the Rule of Law”

*Call for Panels and Papers*

Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong 

13-14 December 2018

We are pleased to announce that the 11th East Asian Conference on Philosophy of Law will be held in Hong Kong on December 13-14, 2018, under the auspices of the University of Hong Kong’s Faculty of Law and its Centre for Chinese Law. The event is also part of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong. The overarching theme of the conference is “Justice, Dignity and the Rule of Law”.

     The East Asian Conference on Philosophy of Law has been held once every two years since 1996. The China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing hosted the 10th conference in 2016, and Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul hosted the 9th conference in 2014. The conferences provide a forum for dialogue among East Asian scholars of legal philosophy and other scholars interested in Asian legal philosophy. 

     The 11th Conference will be divided into plenary sessions and parallel sessions. We now invite proposals to present papers at the Conference.  A proposal to present a paper at the Conference should include the title and abstract of the paper. If you are interested in submitting a proposal for the conference, please note the following:

1.  The closing date for submission of proposals is 30 June 2018. 

2. The conference will be mainly in English and Chinese. Proposals to present papers at the Conference and panel proposals (mentioned below) should be written in English or Chinese. Oral presentations at the Conference should be in English or Chinese, except that (1) in panels formed (according to the procedure mentioned below) by Japanese or Korean scholars, the oral presentations may be in English, Japanese or Korean (scholars speaking in Japanese or Korean are strongly encouraged to provide a written English translation of their presentations); (2) interpretation will be provided for specially invited speakers at the plenary sessions who speak in Japanese or Korean (who will provide a written English translation of their speeches). 

3.  The proposed papers may relate to any aspect of philosophy of law or related fields, and need not be limited to the general theme of the conference (“Justice, Dignity and the Rule of Law”). 

4.  Every participant at the Conference (including paper presenters, and chairmen and discussants at the panels mentioned below who are not presenting papers themselves) should submit the ‘individual proposal form’. Paper presenters will make an oral presentation at the conference (approximately 15 minutes). Submission of full papers is welcomed but not required. 

5.  Proposals to form a panel at a parallel session are welcomed. Panel organisers should submit a ‘panel proposal form’. Panel members presenting papers at the panel should also submit ‘individual proposal forms’. The ‘panel proposal form’ should include the panel topic, the name of the chair and/or discussant, the names of the presenters of papers, and the title of each paper. The chair and discussant may also serve as a paper presenter. The same person may serve as both chair and discussant. 

6.  The conference registration fee is waived; however, participants who would like to join the conference dinner will be required to make a payment in advance. Conference participants are responsible for their own travel and accommodation expenses. A list of recommended hotels will be provided on the conference website. 

7.  Inquiries may be emailed to: shelbyc@hku.hk.

     The Conference will be an excellent opportunity for you to meet East Asian scholars of the philosophy of law to discuss topics of common interest. We hope you will be able to join us in Hong Kong!  To access the Conference website, click here.

Call for Papers: Copyright in the Asian Pacific (HKU 21-22 Nov 2016)

APCA

Asian Pacific Copyright Association

in conjunction with the Law and Technology Centre, University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law, invites you to its forthcoming conference:

“Copyright in the Asian Pacific: the challenges and opportunities”.

at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law, Hong Kong, 21-22 November 2016

Confirmed keynote speakers:
Professor Peter Yu
Co-Director Centre for Law and Intellectual Property Texas A&M University School of Law

Dr Rebecca Giblin
Deputy Director, Monash JD and Monash Centre for Commercial Law and Regulatory Studies (leading Innovation and Intellectual Property) Monash University Faculty of Law

Co-convenors:
Associate Professor Susan Corbett 

General Secretary APCA
School of Accounting & Commercial Law Victoria University of Wellington

Associate Professor Haochen Sun
Director, LLM in Information Technology and Intellectual Property Law University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law

Call for Papers: Abstracts of approximately 350 words should be sent to Susan Corbett via email at susan.corbett@vuw.ac.nz by 10 October 2016. Each abstract submission should include the author’s name, title and affiliation. Abstracts will be approved on a rolling basis.  The Conference theme is: Copyright in the Asian Pacific: the challenges and opportunities.  At APCA’s inaugural conference in November 2015, Professor Adrian Sterling presented a draft Asian Pacific Copyright Code for discussion. As is usual for international legal instruments, the Code is drawn in broad terms, leaving much discretion to individual States. The theme of this Conference will address additional possibilities for the Code - should it for example include specific minimum standards and /or exceptions for the protection of indigenous culture; orphan works; Internet and other digital works; cultural heritage; education and libraries, etc. If so, what form should these minimum standards and/or exceptions take? Conversely, are there matters that should be omitted from the Code and left entirely to the legislatures of individual States? 

     Further details about the conference, including registration and accommodation options, will be available shortly on the APCA website.

Spectacular Law - CALL FOR PAPERS (HKU, 8-10 December 2016)

SPECTACULAR LAW

Law, Literature and the Humanities Association of Australasia Conference 2016

The Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong, 8-10 December 2016

Preceded by a half-day Graduate Research Student Workshop

CALL FOR PAPERS

The LLH Association of Australasia invites researchers working at the intersection of law and the humanities to Hong Kong in 2016 to explore the complex relations between law, theory, culture and visuality. This conference invites participants to re-affirm the enduring capacity of interdisciplinary, creative and critical legal scholarship to allow us to see the law otherwise.

     The theme of ‘spectacular law’ invites reflection on the performance and dramaturgy of political and legal power, the affective lures of sovereignty and the technologies that reveal – and conceal – legality, dissent, (dis)obedience, and different modalities of regulation. This conference will examine the various ways in which we can see, and be seen by, law, politics and power. The location of this year’s conference prompts its theme. Hong Kong is a visually striking city: fading tower blocks, gleaming edifices, remnants of a colonial past, and canopies of neon suspended over street corners, all enframed by lushly forested hills and the increasingly contested waters of the South China Sea. The powerful visual affect, as much a result of the city’s geography as it is of its legal and political orderings, inspires an exploration of the spectacle.

     We invite either individual paper proposals or pre-arranged panels of 3-4 papers. Participants may present in the form of a traditional academic paper, panel discussion, or innovative presentational forms that engage video, performance or other media. We will consider proposals in any area of law, literature and the humanities. However in addressing the conference theme papers might wish to reflect on the following questions:

• What are the techniques through which law’s operative power is made (in)visible today? 

• How do the various methodologies of ‘law and humanities’ allow us to approach questions of speech, surveillance, censorship, and freedom? 

• How are the spatial, aural, textual and haptic dimensions of law and power refracted through – or obscured by – a focus on the law’s visuality, its spectacles and spectaculars? 

• In what ways might we think about the performance of law in a plurality of settings: on the stage, the screen, in literature or in the courtroom?

• Does the development of new technologies necessitate the re-examination of how justice is seen to be done?

PLENARY SPEAKERS

Laurent de Sutter, Professor of Legal Theory at Vrije Universiteit Brussels

Christine Black, Senior Research Fellow at the Northern Institute, Charles Darwin University

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS AND PANEL PROPOSALS 15 MAY 2016

Paper and panel proposals should be submitted through the conference webpage.

Accepted participants will be notified of the registration and payment details in June.

Conference Fees

Standard rate 1,300 HKD

Student rate 600 HKD

Conference dinner 500 HKD

Graduate bursaries

10 bursaries of 2,000 HKD will be available to support graduate students from outside Hong Kong attending the Graduate Workshop and presenting a paper at the conference. For full details and how to apply, see the Conference website.

Dates & Times

The Graduate Workshop will be held on the morning of the 8 December.

The Conference will begin in the afternoon of 8 December and end at 5pm on the 10 December. The Conference Dinner will be on the evening of 9 December.

Practicalities

Information about registration, accommodation, plenaries and panels, updates and all other matters will be available through the Conference website.

Conference website http://www.law.hku.hk/lawandhumanities/
Email address lawandhumanities@hku.hk