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Hi everyone, I wanted to share this interesting call of a LAW and ECONOMICS network METALAWECON that has been very welcoming and supportive of young scholars in the past years. Do apply if you have time!
11th MetaLawEcon Workshop
CALL FOR PAPERS
VENUE: CEVRO Institute, Prague, Czech Republic DATE: 19 – 20 June 2020
The interdisciplinary academic network MetaLawEcon organises its 11th workshop on 19 and 20 June 2020 in Prague, Czech Republic, and is now calling for paper proposals.
This year, we are planning to focus on the values that inspire research and practice in law, in economics, and in law & economics, to characterize them and study their interactions. The idea is to discuss this issue from a variety of perspectives: philosophical, doctrinal, and empirical, among others. We are intending to have a genuinely interdisciplinary workshop where lawyers, economists, lawyer-economists, philosophers and other social scientists contribute to the discussion, and we invite contributors who are willing to confront different perspectives and engage in self-reflection about their own discipline(s).
Extended deadline: 10 Feb
There are indeed epistemic values that economists hold dear, such as parsimony, measurability, rigour, and mathematical elegance. Legal theorists, instead, tend to prefer more holistic, less rigorous approaches, and only rarely recur to formalisations. Legal scholars cherish several systemic values, such as accuracy, coherence, predictability, and legitimacy. The values that currently dominate research at the intersection between the two communities seem to be mostly derivative from economics. There is also a long list of practical values that these communities take into account, to varying degrees: (types of) efficiency, incentive compatibility, deterrence, neutrality, (types of) justice, freedom, respect, institutional competence.
Bearing all this in mind, we welcome in particular papers approaching the following:
- What epistemic values animate research in law, in economics, and/or in law & economics in general, and/or in relation to a particular subject (e.g., administrative law, criminal law, contract law, competition law, etc.)?
- What is the role of a particular epistemic value (e.g., rigour) in law, in economics, and/or in law & economics?
- What practical values animate research in law, in economics, and/or in law & economics in general, and/or in relation to a particular subject (e.g., administrative law, criminal law, contract law, competition law, etc.)?
- What is the role of a particular practical value (e.g., efficiency) in law, in economics, and/or in law & economics?
The workshop is the eleventh yearly event of MetaLawEcon, an international research network on the philosophical and methodological foundations of economic analysis of law. The MetaLawEcon Team consists of Péter Cserne, Jan Broulík, Fabrizio Esposito and Aleksandar Stojanović.
The workshop will be hosted by the CEVRO Institute (Prague, Czech Republic) and catering will be kindly sponsored by FSP, a company owned by Prof. Dušan Tříska (CEVRO Institute). There is no conference fee and participants are provided free refreshments during the two days of the conference. Participants are expected to make their own arrangements for travel and accommodation.
SUBMITTING YOUR PROPOSAL: Those interested to present a paper at the conference should send an abstract of no more than 500 words for consideration to [email protected] by Monday, 10 February 2020. Decisions will be communicated by the end of February. If your abstract is selected you will be asked to provide a short paper (6,000 – 10,000 words) in first full draft by 12 June to be circulated among participants. After the workshop, you may be invited to submit your paper to an edited volume or special journal issue.
Should you have any questions, please contact the MetaLawEcon Team at [email protected].