International conference, CALL FOR PAPERS : Global Mobility Law: Norms, Geographies and Theory,5-6 September, 2024

At this inaugural international conference of MOBILE – the Danish National Research Foundation’s Center of Excellence on Global Mobility Law – we invite scholars working on different aspects of mobility law to jointly explore:

• What might a common framework and research agenda for global mobility law look like?

• How can we empirically expand and geographically rebalance existing research on mobility law, notably towards the Global South, and what are the normative implications following from such a reorientation?

• What theoretical insights may inform the study of this field, and how may a sustained engagement with global mobility law in turn inform legal theory as well as mobilities research more generally?

The conferences is open to submissions addressing these questions in different ways. Particular themes may include:

• The geographical and material contexts of global mobility law, including the recursive relationship between law, politics, economics, and culture
• The relative significance of and interactions between different rulesets affecting the regulation of human mobility, for example free movement, citizenship, human rights, trade, labour tourism, development, criminal law, and refugee law
• Cross-cutting dynamics, similarities and variations across specialised travel regimes pertaining to e.g. aviation, land transportation, and maritime law
• Normative interactions at different levels of regulation (international, regional/continental, and (sub-)national); and how legal outcomes are shaped by associated dynamics pertaining to implementation and contestation
• Different and novel methodological approaches to the study of global mobility law
• The potential and pitfalls of different theoretical frameworks for conceptualising global mobility law.

The conference invites submissions of abstracts no longer than 350 words.
Click here to upload your abstract no later than 1st March 2024.

For questions concerning the programme and abstract submissions, please contact Dr Sarah Scott Ford: [email protected].

For practical matters contact events coordinator Michelle Goncalves Kjærulff: [email protected] 

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