Socio-Legal Studies Association Conference 2006
Entertainment and Sports Law Stream: Call for Papers
Stirling 2006, Tue 28thMarch - Thu 30th March
Entertainment – Media – The Arts – Sport – Law and Regulation
The Entertainment and Sports Law stream, to be run in conjunction with the Entertainment and Sports Law Journal (http://go.warwick.ac.uk/eslj) invites papers addressing socio-legal, theoretical and doctrinal aspects of this dynamic and rapidly expanding area of legal theory and legal practice. The areas encompassed include both substantive law and interdisciplinary research and will doubtless include regulation of the Arts (broadly defined) as well as more discrete, established disciplines such as Media Law, Sports Law and Licensing Law. We will use the term ‘entertainment’ in its broadest form, to embrace all aspects of regulation within the entertainment industries and note that areas such as fashion, computers, gambling and several other sectors of the leisure industry are particularly ripe for academic treatment. The focus will be eclectic and we encourage submissions from all areas of law that intersect with entertainment, construed in its broadest form.
Building upon the ‘Law and Popular Culture’ sessions held at previous SLSAs, the aim of this stream is to provide a supportive, stimulating environment for considered discourse among those engaged in what is now a well-established field of study. Whilst such discourse will generally be from an academic perspective we also welcome contributions that stress the practical dimension to the area and the interaction between theory and practice. On this occasion the stream will not be confined to the final morning conference ‘graveyard slot’, and the people who are supposed to be chairing the sessions will actually turn up.
We would encourage prospective participants to browse through the journal’s content via the link above and to thus engage with the cutting-edge, high-level scholarship represented therein. Having done so, the prospective participant will doubtless feel sufficiently enthused to submit to your kind host an abstract of about 300 words (plus four or five key words) for SLSA 2006, and thereafter to work towards submitting a paper for the journal that will prove to be your natural home.
Abstracts to be submitted by the end of January please.
School of Law, University of Stirling, Stirling FK4 9LA
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