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
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) atc3lawconf@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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