Dec 5, 2011
Call for Papers: Equality – Are We There Yet?
The Kent Critical Law Society at the University of Kent, Canterbury is pleased to announce its first annual conference which will take place on the 10th and 11th March 2012. This conference is aimed at all those who have an interest in critical perspectives on current legal issues.
This year’s conference is entitled ‘Equality- Are We There Yet?’ and will include a broad range of panels. The aim is to explore critically whether or not current and proposed legislation and legal systems achieve equality. Equality is a difficult concept to measure so we are sure that this conference will spark debate on the complex issue of achieving equality.
This event has already attracted research scholars and professionals from all over the UK and we hope to attract more academics and professionals. We are especially interested in papers relating to, employment issues, mental health, feminist perspectives on inequality, age discrimination, protest and activism, the treatment of witnesses and victims, freedom of speech, disability and inequalities in the family. However we also warmly welcome papers on other panel topics and on legal equality issues more generally.
Our speakers include:
· Lord Navnit Dholakia (House of Lords, Commission for racial equality )
· Corinna Ferguson (Legal officer at National Council on Civil Liberties)
· Ann Furedi (Chief executive at British Pregnancy Advice Service)
· Hicham Yezza (Editor-in-Chief at Ceasefire magazine)
· Pragna Patel (Founding member of Southall black sisters and Women against fundamentalism)
· Karon Monaghan QC (barrister practising in Equality, Discrimination, Human rights and Public Law)
Those wishing to present papers at the conference should submit abstracts of no more than 200 words to the Kent Critical Law Society Committee at conference@kentcls.org by 1st February 2012
For more information visit: http://www.kentcls.org/
