“Law in Fragments,” the inaugural Cambridge Doctoral Symposium on Legal Theory in Practice, will be held on the 14th and 15th of April 2011 at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. The Symposium will examine the idea of ‘fragmentation’ in the law.
Legal academics and practising lawyers appear to be increasingly confronted with fragmenting bodies of traditional legal rules and principles (e.g. tort law, constitutional law, commercial regulation), legal systems and institutions (e.g. English law, EU law, international law) or even within legal scholarship and theory itself (e.g. analytical jurisprudence, socio-legal research, law and literature). This Symposium will explore fragmentation from a wide range of viewpoints, and to that end papers from all legal disciplines are welcome.
This Symposium wishes to examine whether ‘fragmentation’ is a useful metaphor for legal theory, and organisers welcome papers within and beyond the suggestions above that explore this topic. Selected papers will be presented at informal seminars among peers, with each presentation lasting between 20-30 minutes. Papers should focus on the authors' research and be written to provoke discussion, as much as prove a point.
Please email the organisers (at cambridgesymposium@gmail.com) with proposals for papers (under 500 words) by 30 October 2010. Decisions will be made by early December 2010.