CCJHR IV Annual Postgraduate Conference: Borders of Justice: Locating the Law in Times of Transition
The Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights at UCC will host its fourth annual postgraduate conference on Thursday, 29 April, 2010.
The Conference will be taking place in Brookfield Health Sciences Building on College Road. Registration is at 9 am..
The theme for this year's event is "Borders of Justice: Locating the Law in Times of Transition." The aim is to reflect upon how reactionary law making and the related rhetoric of crisis impact negatively on fundamental rights protection and the criminal law. We hope that this theme will encourage debate on the challenging and complex questions which arise when defining the remit of the law in changing and turbulent times.
This year’s conference program features an eclectic mix of papers on a diverse range of topics, approached from empirical, doctrinal and theoretical perspectives. With contributors drawn from a variety of institutions both nationally and internationally, the 2010 conference is the largest postgraduate conference of its kind.
The Confrence Program is located here
Please note:
CPD Certificate of Attendance for up to 5 hours will be issued for this event.
Keynote address - Professor John Gardner
John Gardner has been Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford since 2000. He was formerly Reader in Legal Philosophy at King's College London (1996-2000), Fellow and Tutor in Law at Brasenose College, Oxford (1991-6) and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford (1986-91). He has also held visiting positions at Columbia, Yale, Texas, Princeton, and the Australian National University. In 2010 he will hold short-term positions at Auckland and Genoa. He serves on the editorial boards of the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Legal Theory, Law and Philosophy, and The Journal of Moral Philosophy, among others. His work extends across a wide range of topics in the philosophy of law. Currently he is working mainly in the philosophy of private law, but he has also written philosophically on topics as diverse as constitutions, discrimination, human rights, the emotions, the nature of law, and the nature of rationality. His most extensive body of work is in the theory of criminal law and some of it is collected in his 2007 book Offences and Defences (OUP). For further information on Professor Gardner, see: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~lawf0081/biblio.htm
Best Paper Prize
The best paper of the conference will receive a prize of €200 which is sponsored by the Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights. Speakers who wish to be considered for this prize must submit their conference paper in full to ucclawconf@gmail.com by Monday 5th of April.
Registration
To reserve your place at the conference, please complete the registration form (link below) and send it to ucclawconf@gmail.com by Monday, 12 April 2010. There is a €30 attendance fee which can be paid on the day.
Sponsors
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Links
Registration Form
Conference Programme [tba]