Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 12:35:39 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Osgoode Hall Graduate Students Conference (fwd)




Hello everyone,

Just in case you'd be interested ...

chantal

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CALL FOR PAPERS

LAWS=92 COLONIES
Legal spaces and the geographies of power

Osgoode Hall Law School 2nd Annual
GRADUATE STUDENTS=92 CONFERENCE
May 13-14, 1999
OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL
York University, Toronto, CANADA

possible panels include:

*International law and national sovereignty * Blurred boundaries - law
and popular culture* Human rights - universal or colonial?* Rocks, trees
and animal rights talk* legal pluralism or neo-colonialism?* Profession
and power* Nations within states, communties within nations * the
public/private divided* Colonial and legal histories* Comparative
consitutionalism* International markets and national laws* Moral reform*
the Internet - new legal territory?* Voices of difference - frontiers of
the legal imagination

We hope to explore some or all of these issues in a broad,
interdisciplinary, and international graduate student conference. Other
suggestions are welcome.

We invite interested graduate students from all disciplines to submit
abstracts (up to 250 words) not later than March 1st to:

GLSA Conference Committee
Graduate Program in Law, Osgoode Hall Law School,
York University, North York, Ontario, M3J 1P3, Canada
Tel: (416) 736-6506; Fax: (416) 736-5736; e-mail: dcharris-AT-yorku.ca



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