Download Master Class with Jay Ellis

The Graduate School of the Faculty of Law
invites you to a Master Class with
Professor Jaye Ellis
Mc Gill University, Montreal
Date and time:
Venue:
June 25, 13.00-17.00
VU University, main building, room 9 A 16
Provisional program:
13.00-14.00
Keynote address by professor Jaye Ellis:
‘Resilience: From ecology to law’
14.00-14.15
Break
14.15-15.15
Presentation of research by PhD researchers
(see call for papers below)
15.15-16.15
Presentation of research by PhD researchers
(see call for papers below)
16.15
Drinks
Call for Papers for Master Class with professor Jaye Ellis
Reinventing the Law
Lawyers are constantly called to reimagine and reinvent the law.
New technologies, changing societal structures, the rise of new
actors, changing norms - they all put pressure on the legal
profession to rethink what law is about, who is or can be involved
in its making and enforcement (e.g. private arbitration under
TTIP), and what form it should take (is soft law proper law, or an
oxymoron?)
At this Master Class we will discuss the transformation and
reinvention of law across various fields. In addition to the keynote
by Jaye Ellis, there will be two panels in which PhD researchers
discuss the overall theme of “Reinventing the law” in relation to
their research topic.
We invite PhD – and other - researchers to submit a 500 words
abstract for theses panels. The abstract should be connected to the
overall topic (“reinventing the law”). Possible topics of the
abstracts include (but are not restricted to):
 New technologies and law. How do developments in fields
such as biotechnology, information technology etc. challenge
existing categories of law?
 New forms of lawmaking, adjudication and enforcement.
Examples can be taken from different fields such as internet
law, company law, administrative law, etc.
 The rise of new subjects of law. Think of administrative
agents, transnational co-operations, human-machine
interfaces, etc.
 Scientific expertise and law
 Humanitarian sensibilities and the development of law. This
could be applied to fields such as international criminal law,
law of development, bio-law, etc.
Submissions
Abstracts should be submitted before June 1st and can be sent to
[email protected]
Presenters should also send around a position paper summarizing
the main arguments as well as the structure of the research. The
position paper should be between between 1500-3000 words and
be submitted no later than June 20th .
Please note that the seminar is set-up as a round table discussion.
We expect all participants to read the position papers in advance,
in order to facilitate in-depth discussions.
On the keynote speaker
Professor Ellis, who holds a joint appointment with the McGill
School of Environment, teaches and conducts research in the fields
of international environmental law, public international law,
international legal theory and international relations.
Jaye Ellis’s current research project focuses on the intersections
among law, politics, economics, ethics, and science as these social
systems are brought to bear on problems of environmental
degradation. One facet of this research addresses the increased
importance of transnational law, paying particular attention to the
role of non-state actors in transnational space.