Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 13:26:35 +0000 (GMT)
From: "J. Bergeron Law.staff" <BERGERON-AT-acadamh.ucd.ie>
Subject: Re: Critical Legal Conference


hi Kath,

We're still in the early phases of planning for the conference, but 
the outline is getting a little clearer.  Critical Legal 
Conference 1997 will take place from Sept 4-7 1997 at University 
College Dublin, Ireland.  We are still searching for plenary 
speakers (any suggestions?).  The following workshops are now 
confirmed and calls for papers should be circulated shortly:

- Postcoloniality and History (organiser: Peter Fitzpatrick, Qween 
Mary & Westfield College, University of London)

- Law and Religion (organisers: Sharon Hanson, Birkbeck College, 
University of London and Kathleen Moore, University of Connecticut)

- Law and Literature (organiser: Adam Geary, University of Kent at 
Canturbury)

I am hoping to add at least two or three further workshops, including 
at least one dealing with sexuality, intimacy and justice (which has 
been a strong field for the CLC in the past) and something new on 
French Feminism and Justice.  Of course, the workshops on religion 
and literature could accommodate Kristeva, Irigaray and other writers, 
but your own posting reminds me just how much would be gained by a 
direct engagement with the problems of law and justice.  Thomas 
Spijkerboer at Nimigen has done some very interesting work using 
Irigaray in the context of Dutch asylum law and its treatment of 
women, but he is one of the few I know of.  But the papers would not 
need to be specificly "legal", although the legal connexion would be 
the most relevant, because there is no desire here to exclude the non-
lawyer.  If would be interested in participating, or 
organising, either of these two workshops, please contact me.

I hope that you will be able to make it to Dublin in September, and 
will keep you updated on our progress.  If you would like to present 
a paper, e-mail me a tentative title and abstract.  You might 
consider using posting it to the group has a whole - perhaps we could 
begin this discussion of justice on the net? Thanks again.

Jim

hey Jim,

i think the idea sounds quite interesting.  recentely i've been reading a
little feminist theory as it applies to the law & found it fascinating. i
hadn't really given the subject any thought until i was forced to write the
old essay "why i want to go to law school" thing.  then i had to do some
thinking & reading.  & that's what i found.  after i'd read a dissertation
entitled, "The Disruptive Voice, Women & the Law" i quite fell in love with
the subject.  Using French feminism as the backbone of legal argument was
very interesting, especially since she was quoting several sources i was
reading or had just recently read.

 i'd like to hear more about
the conference.  Please send me any details you've got.


kath


to begin again
to write new poems for the new land
to start life over
to find a new lover
or a dozen lovers
to follow where the hands beckon
to create
and uncreate.

"There is Time" by Elizabeth Brewster




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