Dear Colleagues,

This is a call for papers and posters for the Restitution subject section of the 2016 Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference to be held at the University of Oxford from Tuesday 6th September – Friday 9th September. The theme is ‘Legislation and the Role of the Judiciary’.

The Restitution section will meet in the first half of the conference on Tuesday 6th and Wednesday 7th September and we are delighted that Professor Graham Virgo from the University of Cambridge already agreed to give a presentation. Furthermore, the Society’s President this year is Professor Andrew Burrows, who is of course a leading member of our subject section.

If you are also interested in delivering a paper, please submit an abstract by 11:59 (UK time) on Friday 18th March 2016. All abstracts must be submitted through the EasyChair conference system which can be accessed using the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sls2016. Full instructions on how to use the EasyChair system can be found here: https://gallery.mailchimp.com/47624183ad52dd8428c97d3f6/files/Using_EasyChair_to_Submit_a_Paper_to_SLS_2016_02.pdf. Please do let us know if you experience any problems. We shall inform all those who submit proposals of whether we are able to accept their paper as soon as possible after the deadline.

We should welcome proposals for papers on any issue relating to the law of restitution (broadly construed), including those addressing this year's conference theme. Alternatively, if you would like to propose a topic of current interest for a panel or roundtable discussion, please do get in touch with us by e-mail (our addresses are below) to see if this can be arranged.

As the SLS is keen to ensure that as many members with good quality papers as possible are able to present, we discourage speakers from presenting more than one paper at the conference. With this in mind, when you submit an abstract via EasyChair you will be asked to note if you are also responding to calls for papers from other sections. We shall then liaise with any fellow convenors over those who have submitted to more than one section.

Please note that whilst you need only submit a proposed title and abstract at this stage, speakers will be asked to submit a copy of their full draft paper no later than a week before the conference or, if that is not possible, their PowerPoint slides or an extended abstract (two sides of A4). This is to enable those who wish to read the papers in advance to do so thereby enhancing the quality of feedback and discussion in the subject sections.

We should also note that the SLS offers a Best Paper Prize which can be awarded to academics at any stage of their career. The Prize carries a £250 monetary award and winning papers are published in Legal Studies. To be eligible:

• speakers must be fully paid-up members of the SLS;

• papers must not exceed 11,000 words including footnotes (as counted in Word);

• papers must be uploaded to EasyChair by midnight on Monday 29th August; and

• papers must not have been published previously or have been accepted or be under consideration for publication.

Those wishing to present a poster should select ‘Submit a Poster’ within EasyChair. The SLS offers a Best Poster Prize, which carries a £250 monetary award and the winning poster will be displayed at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in London.

We have also been asked to remind you that all speakers and poster presenters (and indeed convenors) will need to book and pay to attend the conference. As part of a new initiative this year to reduce the number of late cancellations, speakers and poster presenters will be asked to register for the conference by the end of June in order to secure their place within the programme, though please do let us know if this is likely to pose any problems for you. Booking information will be circulated in due course.

We look forward to seeing many of you in Oxford.

With best wishes,

Tatiana Cutts and James Lee

t.cutts@bham.ac.uk 

james.lee@kcl.ac.uk 

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James Lee

Senior Lecturer in Private Law

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