Call for Papers: for LAW AND SOCIETY INITIATIVE ANNUAL CONFERENCE, 15 December 2025
- University of Lausanne ,Switzerland
- Resistance and Agency in the Digital Society: Beyond Literacy, Transparency, and Risk Assessment
The aim of the conference is to explore the limits of the contemporary set of legal and normative responses (literacy, transparency, and risk assessment) to digital issues from a socio-legal perspective and to critically engage with current and potential future alternatives. It will be an in-person event organised at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, by the Law and Society Initiative (IDES) on 15 December 2025. The IDES is an initiative supported by the University of Lausanne that aims to contribute to interdisciplinary research between law and the social sciences from a law and society perspective.
Eligibility
Early-career scholars in law, sociology, socio-legal studies, anthropology, political science, public administration, and STS working on digital governance and regulation issues are invited to submit original paper proposals. Interested candidates are invited to submit an abstract and, if selected, a fully developed paper. Papers must be unpublished – publication to an electronic database (e.g., SSRN) is not considered publication for the purposes of this call. Senior scholars will discuss selected papers at the conference. We welcome abstracts dealing with theoretical or empirical aspects related to transparency and accountability, risk assessment or literacy
Submission Guidelines
Proposals must include a title of the presentation, an abstract of up to 500 words, and a short curriculum vitae of the proposer (maximum 1000 words) in one PDF file. Proposals should be sent to ides@unil.ch by 20 June 2025. Decisions about the proposals will be communicated on 15 July 2025. Authors who will be selected are expected to send a conference paper of up to 8000 words by 1 December 2025. Some limited travel assistance will be available for young scholars without access to funds. Please indicate if you have a clear need for such funding when submitting the proposal.
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