Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 17:35:09 +0100 (BST)
From: "J. Bergeron Law.staff" <BERGERON-AT-ollamh.ucd.ie>
Subject: SPOON-ANN: CFP: Citizenship, Minority Rights & Law - CLC97


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SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS   SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS   SECOND CALL FOR 


                    IN THE WAKE OF THE LAW...

                  CRITICAL LEGAL CONFERENCE 97

                      4-7 September 1997
                   University College Dublin
                   
Confirmed Plenary Speakers: Slovoj Zizek and Simon Critchley

SECTIONS AND ORGANISERS:

LAWS OF POSTCOLONIALISM
Peter Fitzpatrick, Faculty of Laws, Queen Mary and Westfield College, 
Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, United Kingdom, phone 44-171-975-5555, 
fax 44-181-981-8733.
Barry Collins, School of Law, University of East London, Longbridge 
Road, Dagenham, Essex RM8 2AS United Kingdom, phone 44-181-849-3467, 
e-mail: b.collins-AT-uel.ac.uk

SACRED FRAGMENTS IN THE TEXTS OF LAW: PLAYING WITH RIDDLES
Sharon Hanson, Department of Law, Birkbeck College, University of 
London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX, United Kingdom, phone 44-171-
631- 6619, fax 44- 171-631-6688, e-mail: s.hanson-AT-cems.bbk.ac.uk
Kathleen Moore, Department of Political Science, University of 
Connecticut, Box U-24, 341 Mansfield Road, Storrs CT, USA, phone 1-
860-486-3747, fax 1-860-486-3347, e-mail: kmoore-AT-uconnvm.uconn.edu

DROWNING IN THE TURBULENCE?  CITIZENSHIP, MINORITY RIGHTS, 
NATIONALISM AND LAW IN THE NEW WORLD DISORDER
Bill Bowring, Department of Law, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, 
Colchester, Essex CO4 3SQ, United Kingdom, phone 44-1206-873-723, fax 
44-1206-873-428, e-mail: bowring-AT-essex.ac.uk

SEXUALITY, LAW AND DIFFERENCE
Maria Drakopoulou, Kent Law School, Eliot College, University of 
Kent, Canterbury CT2 7N5, United Kingdom, fax 44-1227-827-831, 
e-mail: m.drakopoulou-AT-ukc.ac.uk
Ivana Bacik, Law School, House 39, Trinity College, Dublin 2, 
Ireland, phone 353-1-608-2299, fax 353-1-677-0449, 
e-mail: icbacik-AT-tcd.ie                                                
          
EUROPEAN COMMUNITY LAW AND THE CHALLENGE OF ETHICS
Sionaidh Douglas-Scott, School of Law, King's College London, Strand, 
London WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom, phone 44-171-873-2316

LAW AND THE PERTURBATIONS OF CHILDHOOD
Michael King, Centre for the Study of Law, the Child and the Family, 
Brunel University, Uxbridge UB8 3PH, United Kingdom, fax 44-181-959-
6240, e-mail michael.king-AT-brunel.ac.uk

LAW, LITERATURE AND AESTHETICS
Adam Gearey, Kent Law School, Eliot College, University of Kent, 
Canterbury CT2 7N5, United Kingdom, phone 44-1227-823-012, e-mail: 
a.d.gearey-AT-ukc.ac.uk 

GENERAL INFORMATION:

The Critical Legal Conference brings together academics, 
lawyers and students from the UK, Ireland, North America, Europe and 
beyond.  It has established itself as a major forum for critical and 
interdisciplinary thinking about law.

The conference opens at 5:00pm on Thursday, 4th September and runs 
until the afternoon of Sunday 7th September.

The conference will be held in Dublin, on the Belfield Campus of 
University College.  UCD is located two miles from the historic 
centre of Dublin.  Accommodation is available at the UCD Residence 
Halls which are immediately adjacent to the conference buildings.

SECTIONS, PANELS and PAPERS

Papers are invited on the theme of the conference under the sections 
listed above.  The Section Organisers are coordinating panel 
contributions, offers of papers and workshops.  If you wish to 
organise a section or contribute a paper unrelated to the Sections 
listed, please contact the Conference Organiser.  Offers of papers 
are welcome until 31st July 1997, but we may not be able to accept 
very late proposals through lack of space in the conference timetable.
Full conference details and booking information will be available in 
April.  If you are interested in receiving further information and 
registration forms, please contact the Conference Organiser.

Jim Bergeron
Conference Organiser CLC97
Faculty of Law
University College Dublin
Belfield, Dublin 4 Ireland
phone 353-1-706-8743
fax   353-1-269-2655
email bergeron-AT-ollamh.ucd.ie


                    SECTION CALL FOR PAPERS

Drowning in the turbulence? Citizenship, minority rights, nationalism 
and law in the new world disorder. 


European and international law on citizenship, minority rights, and 
rights of indigenous peoples is undergoing explosive growth and 
proliferation, just as many participants in the very conflicts with which 
the new law is intended to deal find it irrelevant or inadequate. The 
new world order is not only the funeral of the old, stable bi-polar 
system, but is shown to be a new zone of turbulence as the concepts 
of nationalism, ethnicity and citizenship take on new life and content. 
The "new" Europe is more than ever a Europe of nation states. At 
the same time, there are many nations without states. The old 
nations, shorn of their colonial possessions, struggle to redefine 
themselves in the context of European integration driven by 
economic priorities, in a Europe dedicated to exclusion of 
immigrants and refugees. Each new nation confronts its own new 
nations, each demanding special rights. Is it possible now to talk 
about  a new model of membership, to be found in "deterritorialised 
notions of personal rights"? Are we present at the birth of 
"post-national citizenship"? This stream is open to all contributions 
on doemstic and international issues of citizenship, minority rights, 
rights of indigenous peoples, and self-determination.

Abstracts should be submitted no later than 31 July 1997.  

Bill Bowring, Section Organiser
Lecturer in Human Rights in Russia and East Europe
Department of Law
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
Colchester, Essex CO4 3SQ
United Kingdom

Direct tel: 44-1206-873723
Fax: 44-1206-873428
E-mail: bowring-AT-essex.ac.uk