1st Global Conference: Evil, Law and the State

Wednesday 14th to Saturday 17th July 2004

Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom

This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary
conference seeks to explore issues surrounding
evil and law, with a focus on state power and
violence. Perspectives are sought from those
engaged in any field that touches on the study of
law and legal culture: anthropology, criminology,
cultural studies, government/politics, history,
legal studies, literature, philosophy,
psychology, religion/theology, and sociology, as
well as those working in civil rights, human
rights, prison services, politics and government
(including NGOs), psychiatry, health care, and
other areas. Papers, reports, work-in-progress and workshops
are invited on issues related to any of the
following themes:

* when and why is law evil or a source of evil?

* state violence and coercion

* justifications for punishment, including
capital punishment

* whether and under what circumstances the
adversary or inquisitorial models of legal
process generate, tolerate, or allow evil outcomes

* issues of distributive justice in law,
including distributing the costs of legal error

* the intersection of law with issues of choice,
responsibility, and diminished responsibility

* state responsibility for terrorism, war,
intervention, ethnic cleansing, and other
problems of international law and international
relations

Papers will be considered on any related theme.
300 word abstracts should be submitted to both
the Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word,
WordPerfect, PDF or RTF formats, and must arrive
no later than Friday 19th March 2004. If an
abstract is accepted for the conference, a full
draft paper should be submitted by Friday 28th
May 2004.

Papers should be submitted to:

Professor John Parry

Associate Professor of Law,

University of Pittsburgh School of Law,

Pittsburgh,
USA

Email: Parry@law.pitt.edu

Dr Rob Fisher

Inter-Disciplinary.Net

Oxfordshire,

United Kingdom

Email: rf@inter-disciplinary.net

The conference will likely consist of roughly 30-
35 people grouped primarily in consecutive panels
so that each person may hear and respond to each
paper. Non-presenters are welcome to attend and
participate as well.

Selected papers accepted for and presented at
this conference will be published, as revised, in
a themed volume. In addition, all papers accepted
for and presented at the conference will appear
in an ISBN eBook.

Evil, Law, and the State is part of a larger
series of ongoing conferences, run under the
general banner 'At the Interface'. This series
aims to bring together people from different
areas and interests to share ideas and explore
various discussions which are innovative and
exciting.

For further information about the project please
go to:
www.wickedness.net/els/els.htm

For further information about the conference
please go to:
www.wickedness.net/els/els1/els04cfp.htm