Events and Announcements: September 1, 2013

Calls for Papers

• The University of Liege Law School will host Nudging Europe: What Can EU Law Learn From Behavioural Sciences? December 12-13, 2013. They have put out a call for papers for this event. Papers addressing the implications of behavioral sciences for contract law, competition law and risk regulation will be particularly welcome, but all areas of EU law are of interest. Where relevant, a comparative dimension (comparison between how behavioral insights are used in various jurisdictions) will also be welcome in full papers. The event will consist of a one-day workshop to be held at the University of Liege Law School on December 12-13, 2013. Invited speakers will be reimbursed for reasonable travel and accommodation expenses. The workshop is supported by the University of Liege and the Jean Monnet Chair in EU Law & Risk Regulation at HEC Paris. Please submit an abstract of between 300 and 500 words, including a title, to Alberto Alemanno (alemanno@hec.fr) and Anne-Lise Sibony (alsibony@ulg.ac.be) by October 1, 2013.
• The Younger Comparativists Committee of the American Society of Comparative Law is pleased to invite submissions for its third annual conference, to be held on April 4-5, 2014, at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon. The purpose of the conference is to highlight, develop, and promote the scholarship of new and younger comparativists. Submissions will be accepted on any subject in public or private comparative law from scholars who have been engaged as law teachers, lecturers, fellows, or in another academic capacity for no more than ten years as of June 30, 2014. Submissions from graduate students enrolled in master’s or doctoral programs will also be accepted. To submit an entry, scholars should email an attachment in Microsoft Word or PDF containing an abstract of no more than 750 words no later than November 1, 2013, to the following address: ycc.conference.2014@gmail.com.
• The Cyprus Human Rights Law Review has issued a call for papers on the theme Recourse to the European Human Rights Law Framework in Response to the Economic Crisis, which will result in a special issue of the journal. The deadline is November 30, 2013.

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