Dear List Members,

This is a call for papers and panels for the Restitution section of the 2017 SLS Annual Conference, to be held at University College Dublin from Tuesday 5^th September – Friday 8^th September. This year's theme is ‘The Diverse Unities of Law’.

The Restitution section will meet in the second half of the conference on Thursday 7^th and Friday 8^th September and we are very pleased to announce that Professors Helen Scott and Ben McFarlane have already agreed to give presentations.

If you are also interested in delivering a paper or organising a panel, please submit your paper abstract or panel details by midnight on Monday 27^th March. All abstracts and panel details must be submitted through the EasyChair conference system which can be accessed using the following link:. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sls2017.  Full instructions on how to use the EasyChair system can be found here: https://gallery.mailchimp.com/47624183ad52dd8428c97d3f6/files/19a9d09a-35ae-4604-88c4-74cad8590cd9/Making_a_submission_to_SLS_2017.pdf. If you experience any issues in using EasyChair, please contact Jed Meers at jed.meers@york.ac.uk.

We would welcome proposals for papers and panels on any issue relating to unjust enrichment and restitution, including those addressing this year's conference theme.

Those wishing to present a paper should submit a title and abstract of around 300 words, whilst those wishing to propose a panel should submit a document outlining the theme and rationale for the panel and the names of the proposed speakers (who must have agreed to participate) and their abstracts. Sessions are 90 minutes in length and so we recommend panels of three speakers, though the conference organisers reserve the right to add speakers to panels in the interests of balance and diversity.

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 or panels from other 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 and which is open to those presenting papers individually or within a panel. The Prize carries a £250 monetary award and the winning paper will be published in the first issue of Legal Studies in 2018. To be eligible:

• speakers must be fully paid-up members of the SLS;
• papers must not exceed 12,000 words including footnotes (as counted in Word);
• papers must be uploaded to EasyChair by midnight on Monday 28^th August; and
• papers must not have been published previously or have been accepted or be under consideration for publication.

We have also been asked to remind you that all speakers will need to book and pay to attend the conference and that they will need 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.

A call for posters will be issued separately in due course.

With best wishes,

Tatiana Cutts and James Lee

Restitution Subject Section Convenors

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James Lee

Senior Lecturer in Private Law

Director of Undergraduate Admissions and Scholarships

The Dickson Poon School of Law

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