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Université d'Utrecht / Universiteit Utrecht
Critical Legal Conference
10-12 September, Utrecht 2010
“Great Expectations”
Multiple Modernities of Law
“Great Expectations”
Multiple Modernities of Law
The Critical Legal Conference
Since 1984, every first weekend in September, the Critical Legal Conference brings together critical and radical legal scholars from all over the world. It has been a phenomenal success despite its modesty. The CLC is also exactly that: a conference. No organisation, presidents and secretaries, members and subscriptions.
This conference is a transient community; an inoperative community always to come, lasting for three days every year, without orthodoxies, exclusions or stars and gets down to the business of thinking and being together. In doing so, a variety of critical schools, such as postmodernism, phenomenology, deconstruction, feminism, post-colonialism, critical race, queer theory, the ethics of otherness, the ontology of plural singularity, and the critique of bio-politics have been pioneered in these conferences, creating new and stronger links between theory and practice.
Most conferences have taken place in the UK but we have also been to South Africa, India, Ireland and Scandinavia. This is the first time, the CLC is organised in the Netherlands. It hopes to bring together different schools and approaches to critical legal scholarship at a time when collaboration and solidarity across Europe and the world is imperative.
Programme (provisoire)
The Conference takes place, primarily, in De Pietershof, in the old centre of the city of Utrecht. The location is clearly marked on the map which is included in the booklet. At strategic points, students will assist you to get to the locations. The registration office and ‘nerve centre’ of the Conference is located in room 0.25 of Pietershof, where you can present your registration, seek information or ask questions pertaining to your stay.
12.-14.30 - Registration
14.30 - Welcome
14.45 - Keynote lecture by Prof. Gunther Teubner (Raadzaal): "Constitutional polycontexturality". The lecture is sponsored by the journal Law and Critique 16 - Tea/coffee
16.15 - 17.45 Parallel sessions
Reception (18-19.30)
Location: ‘Maskeradezaal’, Academiegebouw, Domplein
09-10.30 - Parallel sessions
10.30-10.45 - Coffee/tea
10.45-12.15 - Parallel sessions
12.15-13.15 - Lunch
13.15-14.45 v- Parallel sessions
14.45-15 Coffee/tea
15-16.30 - Parallel sessions
16.45-18. - Panel discussion “Multiple modernities of Law” (Raadzaal).
Friday 10 September
Location: Pietershof (Achter St. Pieter 200/Kromme Nieuwegracht)12.-14.30 - Registration
14.30 - Welcome
14.45 - Keynote lecture by Prof. Gunther Teubner (Raadzaal): "Constitutional polycontexturality". The lecture is sponsored by the journal Law and Critique 16 - Tea/coffee
16.15 - 17.45 Parallel sessions
Reception (18-19.30)
Location: ‘Maskeradezaal’, Academiegebouw, Domplein
Saturday 11 September
Location: Pietershof (Achter St. Pieter 200/Kromme Nieuwegracht)09-10.30 - Parallel sessions
10.30-10.45 - Coffee/tea
10.45-12.15 - Parallel sessions
12.15-13.15 - Lunch
13.15-14.45 v- Parallel sessions
14.45-15 Coffee/tea
15-16.30 - Parallel sessions
16.45-18. - Panel discussion “Multiple modernities of Law” (Raadzaal).
Panelist include Peter Fitzpatrick (Birkbeck, London), Willem Schinkel (Rotterdam) and Urs Stäheli (Hamburg) Conference dinner and after party
Location: “De Rechtbank” Hamburgerstraat/Lange Nieuwstraat
09-10.30 - Parallel sessions
10.30-10.45 - Coffee/tea
10.45-12.15 - Parallel sessions
12.15-13.15 - Panel discussion “The future of a critical attitude” (Raadzaal)
13.15-14.00 - Business meeting (Raadzaal)
Location: “De Rechtbank” Hamburgerstraat/Lange Nieuwstraat
Sunday 12 September
Location: Pietershof (Achter St. Pieter 200/Kromme Nieuwegracht)09-10.30 - Parallel sessions
10.30-10.45 - Coffee/tea
10.45-12.15 - Parallel sessions
12.15-13.15 - Panel discussion “The future of a critical attitude” (Raadzaal)
13.15-14.00 - Business meeting (Raadzaal)
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