Editors: Simone Gustafsson, Rebecca Hill & Helen Ngo In this special issue of AFLJ (Vol 43.1, June 2017), we will present a collection of articles addressing the conceptualisation of difference. The articles will take divergent approaches to thinking difference. For example, through a reading of Francis Ponge and Jacques Derrida, one contributor will propose an…
The LLHAA has awarded the 2015 Penny Pether Prize to Alison Young for her book Street Art, Public City. Street Art, Public City is the culmination of ten years’ work by an accomplished interdisciplinary scholar, and displays everywhere the elegance, the authority, and the intellectual agility earned over time. It casts street art at the…
As you’ll know if you attended, the LawLitHum Conference 2015: Complicities, held at UTS in December, was a great success. We asked the recipients of three RHD student bursaries to offer their reflections on the event. Here’s what James Stewart (Adelaide Law School) had to say: Within my broader research area of Critical Legal Studies, the…
Proposals from people interested in guest editing Volume 21 (2017) of the journal Law Text Culture are due by 30 May 2016. Potential guest editors are encouraged to liaise with the Managing Editor to discuss their proposal or ideas for a special issue of Law Text Culture. All submitted proposals will be considered by the…
KSSCT is a rare opportunity for doctoral students and early career researchers to work intensively with a leading critical scholar in their field. Applicants are welcomed from all critical disciplinary perspective. In 2016 the school will take the form of three parallel intensive 2-week seminars: Professor Samantha Frost (“Matters of perception: objects and materialities of affect);…
As you’ll know if you attended, the LawLitHum Conference 2015: Complicities, held at UTS in December, was a great success. We asked the recipients of two RHD student bursaries to offer their reflections on the event. Here’s what Ashley Pearson (Griffith Law School) had to say: There is no forum that could have better served…
ÂÂÂCall for Papers LASSnet Conference 2016, Fourth Edition Dates: 10-12 December 2016 Venue: Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India The fourth edition of the LASSnet conference will be hosted by the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance (JNU, Delhi) in collaboration with the National Law University of Delhi (Dwarka), O.P. Jindal Global University (Sonepat)…
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…
CALL FOR PAPERS FOR GENERAL ISSUE Volume 42.2, December 2016 Deadline of May 30th, 2016 The Australian Feminist Law Journal is seeking articles for publication for the next General Issue of the Journal, namely Volume 42.2 (December 2016). The journal focuses upon scholarly research using critical feminist approaches to law and justice, broadly conceived. As…
No Foundations is an international peer-reviewed journal committed to publishing interdisciplinary legal scholarship of the highest quality at the interface between law and justice. We encourage contributions from all areas of law and beyond, with the aim of bridging the gap once opened between law and other social and human activities and experiences. On the…