Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 15:41:32

From: Ken Oliphant

Subject: SLS Conference 2006: Torts Section: Call for Papers

Call for Papers for the TORTS subject section, Annual Conference of the Society of Legal Scholars, Keele University, U.K., 4-7 September 2006

If you would like to present a paper in the Torts subject section this year, please contact the new section convenor, Ken Oliphant (OliphantKA@cf.ac.uk) by noon on Wednesday 1st March.

Timing and location:

This year's SLS Annual Conference will be held at Keele University from 2 pm on Monday 4th September until 12.45 pm on Thursday 7th September. The Torts section meetings will be in subject section stream B, starting 11.15 am on Wednesday 6th and continuing to the end of the conference.

Keele University is situated two miles to the west of Newcastle-under-Lyme in North Staffordshire, England. Conference accommodation is on campus. The SLS Annual Dinner on the 5th will be held in Keele Hall. Further details will appear on the SLS website.

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 11th 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.

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 1st March. You may also like to address the selection criteria below.

You do not have to be a member of the Society to present a paper, but members will generally be given preference in the selection of papers for the meeting. Non-members pay a slightly higher conference fee than members.

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.

Ken Oliphant, Cardiff Law School, Law Building, Museum Avenue, Cardiff CF10 3XJ

Tel: 029 2087 5365. Web page: http://www.cf.ac.uk/claws/staff/oliphant.html

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