Thanks!

Thank you to all participants for making the third annual conference a tremendous success. We look forward to remaining in touch. Please continue to visit this space for updates about future events.

Conference Program

The final conference program is now available for download here.

Publication Opportunities

Conference presenters are invited to submit their papers to the Comparative Research in Law and Political Economy working paper series. For more information, please contact Sujith Xavier (sujithxavier@osgoode.yorku.ca) and Fenner Stewart (fennerstewart@osgoode.yorku.ca).

Conference presenters will also invited to submit their papers to the new journal, Transnational Legal Theory, convened by Professor Craig Scott.

Registration

Registration for the Third Annual Toronto Group conference will open at 8:30 a.m. on Friday, 29 January 2010. Space has been reserved for presenters; others may register on a first-come, first-served basis. The conference registration fee is $20, payable in cash.

Tickets for the conference dinner will go on sale at the same time ($30, in cash). Space at the dinner is limited and priority will be given to conference presenters, chairs, and discussants.

Thanks

The conference organizers would like to thank for their financial support:

• The University of Toronto Faculty of Law
• Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
• The Jack & Mae Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security
• The Osgoode Hall Graduate Law Students’ Association
• The University of Toronto Graduate Law Students’ Association

Submissions Closed

Thank you for your submissions! We are delighted to announce that we have received an unprecedented number of proposals for our third annual conference, Concerning States of Mind, Disturbing the Minds of States, to be held 29-31 January 2010 at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall Law School, York University.

The submissions process is now closed. We are now reviewing the proposals we have received, and we will notify all authors by Monday 9 November 2009.

Keynote Speakers

We are pleased to announce that, in addition to Prof. Koskenniemi, we will be joined at the conference by Mariana Valverde, Professor of Criminology, University of Toronto. Prof. Valverde’s keynote speech is tentatively titled “Jurisdiction and scale: Toward a multiscalar analysis of governance.” Details of the conference schedule should be available in the coming weeks.

Third Annual Conference: 29-31 January 2010: Call for Papers available

The Toronto Group for the Study of International, Transnational, and Comparative Law is pleased to announce its third annual graduate student conference: Concerning States of Mind, Disturbing the Minds of States. Please see the Call for Papers for details.

The principal aim of this conference is to encourage critical inquiry and collaborative discussion among graduate students and junior faculty members, providing a forum in which to explore the work at play in various projects aimed at historicizing and redefining international, transnational, and comparative law and legal scholarship. 

Keynote speakers will include Martti Koskenniemi, Academy Professor, University of Helsinki.

Participating faculty members from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and Osgoode Hall Law School, York University will include Jutta Brunnée, David Dyzenhaus, Jennifer Nedelsky, Obiora Chinedu Okafor, Lisa Philipps, Mariana Mota Prado, Benjamin J. Richardson, Kerry Rittich, Sara Slinn, and Craig M. Scott.

Please join us 29-31 January 2010 at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and Osgoode Hall Law School, York University.