Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 13:00:07

From: Ken Oliphant

Subject: SLS Conference 2007: Call for Papers (Torts)

Call for Papers for the TORTS subject section, Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference, Durham University, 10-13 September 2007

If you would like to present a paper in the Torts subject section this year, please contact the section convenor, Ken Oliphant (Ken.Oliphant@bris.ac.uk) by noon on Wednesday 28th February.

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Timing and location:

This year's SLS Annual Conference will be held at Durham University from 2 pm on Monday 10th September until 12.45 pm on Thursday 13th September. The Torts section meetings will be in subject section stream B, starting 11.15 am on Wednesday 12th and continuing to the end of the conference.

Durham University is located in the city of Durham in the North East of England. Conference accommodation is on campus. The SLS Annual Dinner on the 12th will be held in Beamish Hall. Further details will appear on the SLS website.

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Presenting a paper:

All subject sections are timetabled for four sessions of 90 minutes each. In the Torts section, the usual practice in recent years has been to have two papers per session, with 45 minutes allocated to each. Presenters are expected to produce a full draft of their paper in advance (by 12th August), for posting on the conference website, and to speak for approximately half their allocated time so as to allow ample time for questions and discussion.

IMPORTANT NOTE: presenters of papers must BOOK into and PAY for the SLS Conference like other delegates. The Torts subject section does not cover the registration costs, accommodation costs or travel costs of those giving papers.

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Offers of papers:

If you would like to present a paper, please email me with details of your university (or other) affiliation, the provisional title of your paper, and a brief abstract by noon on Wednesday 28th February. You may also like to address the selection criteria below and/or this year's special conference theme.

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Special conference theme (2007):

As an innovation for this year's conference, the President of the Society (Professor Celia Wells) has proposed a special conference theme: Baroness Hale's contribution to law and legal education (click on this link to see a message from the President). If suitable papers are offered, it is proposed to devote one of the Torts sessions to the special theme. There is an intention to publish a collection of essays based on contributions relating to the theme from across the conference programme.

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Selection criteria:

In selecting papers for the Torts section meeting, I shall take account of the same criteria as employed in previous years:

- the desirability of hearing high quality papers
- the desirability of hearing papers likely to be of significant interest to a large number of members of the Torts subject section
- the desirability of hearing papers which will be available in advance through the paperbank on the Conference website
- the desirability of hearing papers from scholars who have not presented papers to the Torts subject section in recent years
- the desirability of hearing papers from postgraduate members and members who are early in their careers
- the desirability of being able to put two papers on related topics together into a single session
- the desirability of not having overlapping papers
- the desirability of having a balance between the topics, jurisdictions and styles of scholarship covered by papers.

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Ken Oliphant, School of Law, University of Bristol, Wills Memorial Building, Queens Road, Bristol BS8 1RJ

Tel: 0117 954 5690
Email: Ken.Oliphant@bris.ac.uk

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