From: Moore, Marcus <moore@allard.ubc.ca>

Sent: Tuesday 15 July 2025 17:54

To: obligations

Cc: Marina Pavlovic

Subject: Upcoming Conference- Call for Papers

Dear Friends,

We are pleased to invite you to submit a proposal for our upcoming conference:

Conference on Contract, Consumer, and Commercial Law (C3)

The Ascension of Contract: Understanding the Crucial Role of Contractual Ordering and of Consumer and Commercial Transactions in the Continuously Evolving Landscape of Modern Society

November 5 & 6, 2025

Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

The conference will honour the career of distinguished Allard Law professor of Contract and Commercial Law Bruce MacDougall. The conference aims in part to build on the 44-year legacy of the Workshop on Commercial and Consumer Law led by the late Jacob Ziegel of the University of Toronto, and is sponsored by Allard's Centre for Business Law. We also welcome those attending the North American Workshop on Private Law Theory Nov 7 at UBC whose research or interests relate to areas covered by the C3 Conference.

Abstracts of approx. 250 words should be submitted by Aug 25, 2025 to organizers Marcus Moore (UBC) and Marina Pavlovic (UOttawa) at c3lawconf@gmail.com. Please include your institutional affiliation. Panel proposals (3-4 papers) are also welcome. We anticipate sending acceptances by Sept 3, 2025. As we may arrange publication of a collection of selected conference papers, please indicate if you are interested.

Proposals are welcome on a wide range of topics relating to the conference theme, including but not limited to:

● The multifaceted roles played by contracts in modern life

● Contract s adaptations with the continuously evolving landscape of modern society

● Trends of commodification, propertization, contractualization, privatization, governance by contract

● The impact of digital technologies and AI on issues relating to contract and consumer protection

● Issues relating to supply chains, labour transformations, global commerce, cross-border contracts

● Standard form contracts, consumer contracts, and algorithmic contracting

● Regulation of contracts

● The intersection of contract with competition law, unfair trade practices, or intellectual property

● Issues in commercial transactions (e.g., sales, secured transactions, negotiable instruments)

● State reliance on, and subjection to, contractual power

● Ethical issues, issues of public policy and private ordering, the role of contract in social (in)equality

● Comparative perspectives on contract, consumer, and commercial law

● Sociological, historical, economic, and behavioural perspectives on evolutions in these fields

● Contractual issues and coping abilities in times of economic uncertainty

The conference welcomes diversity in backgrounds, and research methodologies and approaches.

For full information, please see the attached call for papers.

We hope to see several of you in Vancouver Nov 5-6!

With Best Wishes,

Marcus Moore, University of British Columbia

Marina Pavlovic, University of Ottawa

Together With the Allard Centre for Business Law

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