Association for Legal & Social Philosophy Conference 2007

19th - 21st April 2007

Keele University UK

ALIENS AND NATIONS

Citizenship, Sovereignty and Global Politics

in the 21 st Century

Confirmed keynote speakers:

Seyla Benhabib

Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, at Yale University, who delivered the John Seeley lectures in Cambridge UK on “Aliens, Citizens, and Residents: Political Theory and Membership in a Changing World”.

Stephen Macedo

Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics, and Director of the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University

Treaty of Westphalia – Gerard Ter Borch (1648). National Gallery. London

ALSP'07 GRADUATE BURSARIES COMPETITION

The ALSP 2007 conference organisers are running a graduate bursaries competition. To enter, please submit a paper abstract of 1200-1500 words on one or more of the conference themes, or on any topic that could be reasonably construed as falling under the 'Aliens and Nations' title. The deadline is 15th December 2006. We aim to offer four bursaries to students submitting the most promising abstracts. Award winners are granted a full fee waiver, a contribution towards travel costs, and subsidised membership of the ALSP. In addition, at least one of the chosen papers will be published in a peer-reviewed journal.

Please direct any queries about the competition to ALSP07@ilpj.keele.ac.uk

Call for Papers

Contributors are invited to consider:

• justice, war and international intervention
• immigration and border controls
• multicultural citizenship
• citizenship, loyalty and identity
• environmental citizenship
• nationhood, citizenship and self-determination
• citizens, refugees and asylum
• gender and citizenship
• outlaw states and international law
  transnational jurisdiction , sovereignty and human rights
• freedom, security and counter-terrorism

Papers and Panels

Please send a title and abstract (c.300 words) to: ALSP07@ilpj.keele.ac.uk by 15th December 2006

ALSP welcomes panel proposals of up to three papers.

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION DEADLINE

Please register for the conference by 28th February, 2007

Conference organisers:

Glen Newey (SPIRE, Keele University)

Monica Mookherjee (SPIRE, Keele University)

General enquiries to: ALSP07@ilpj.keele.ac.uk