REPUBLIC OF CROATIA

UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB

FACULTY OF LAW
Chair of Sociology
FACULTAS IURIDICA
UNIVERSITAS STUDIORUM
ZAGRABIENSIS

Trg m. Tita 3, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia

Email: soclawzagreb@pravo.hr

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Call for Papers

2016 Zagreb International Conference Society, Law, and Legal Culture
Faculty of Law Zagreb, Croatia 1 2 December 2016
We have the honor of inviting you to be a part of the International Conference Society, Law, and
Legal Culture, taking place in Zagreb, Croatia, 1 and 2 December 2016. The conference is
organized by the Chair of Sociology at the University of Zagreb's Faculty of Law. The conference is
organized as a part of celebrating 110 years of establishing the Chair of Sociology at the Faculty of
Law, with the aim of gathering together scholars of the sociology of law, legal culture, legal theory,
sociology, philosophy, political science, and similar areas of research, for discussions and analyses
about the current state of the sociology of law, as well as about the interplay between the law and
the society as a whole. We are inviting all those interested, to apply for the conference, and to take
part in both advancing the knowledge in the area of sociology of law, and in celebrating our
anniversary.
Topics of the conference:
We are especially interested in abstracts dealing with the sociology of law, as well as with areas that
link society and law. Special interest will be given (but is not limited) to researchers analyzing
topics connected with:
sociology of law,
legal anthropology,
legal culture,
law, politics and power,
legal education,
social legal theory,
social foundations of legal pluralism,
analytical and empirical legal studies,
law and economics,
critical approaches to understanding law,
law in transitional societies,
legal institutions and democracy,
interplay between law and inequality.

Guidelines for abstract submission:

Application through Easy Chair conference system at soclawzagreb.pravo.hr/index.php/about-us/

300 words (max) abstract
Abstract must be in English
Upload short, 100-word, narrative bio

Final participants will be selected by the Organizing Committee, on the basis of scientific
excellence of proposals, with the special focus on achieving fair balance of panelists based on
gender, regional differences, differences in opportunities, and areas of research.
There is no registration fee.
Travel and accommodation expenses are not covered by the organizer.

Keynote speakers:
We are especially pleased to inform you that we will have two keynote speakers headlining each of
our two days of the conference professor Vidar Halvorsen, University of Oslo, and professor
Marina Kurkchiyan, University of Oxford.
Professor Halvorsen has a master`s degree in political science from the University of Oslo. In
2002 he defended his dissertation Ethics, Force and Violence in Policing and has since worked at
the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law of the University of Oslo, from 2013 as
Professor of Sociology of Law. Halvorsen is currently working on an internationally oriented
research project which aims to clarify possibilities and limits for lay participation within different
social fields dominated by professions. The project seeks to combine normative theories of
democracy with empirical research on the varieties of lay participation within institutions of conflict
resolution, for example courts and conflict mediation boards. His main areas of research interests
are: ethics of professions, philosophy of law/legal theory, criminology, sociology of policing, and
philosophy of punishment and criminal law.
Professor Kurkchiyan, has an MSc in physics and mathematics from Yerevan State University.
She received PhD in sociology from Lithuanian Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Law in
Vilnius. Kurkchiyan is currently working as a director and senior research fellow at the Centre for
Socio-Legal Studies, of the University of Oxford. Her recent large-scale international project
scrutinized the differences in the way people perceive, interpret and use law in their everyday life
among the EU countries. The research included ethnographic study of the operation of the lowest
level civil courts in those countries. Her main areas of research interests are: comparative legal
cultures, the Russian socio-legal tradition, legal and institutional transplants, rule of law and
development, and courts and judges in their social contexts: socially constructed images and
meanings.

Important dates:
Opening of the abstract submission process
Last day of abstract submission
Acceptance of abstract information
Online registration of participation
Final program announced
Conference

1 May 2016
1 September 2016 (midnight CET)
1520 September 2016
20 September 15 November 2016
1 November 2016
12 December 2016

Additional information:
For any additional information, please check http://soclawzagreb.pravo.hr
or contact Dario epo, executive assistant, at soclawzagreb@pravo.hr