University of Belgrade Faculty of Law and Serbian Association for Legal and Social Philosophy (IVR Serbia) organize the 8th Student Conference in Theory and Philosophy of Law on the topic Law, Politics and Society in the State of Emergency. The Conference will take place on the 2nd and 3rd of December, 2021 in the Conference hall of the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law.

We kindly invite all interested students of undergraduate, master and PhD studies of law and other social sciences to send their abstracts to our official email address – eudaimonia@ius.bg.ac.rs by September 1, 2021.

Abstracts should be no less than 600 and no more than 900 words in length. Students are free to choose the subtopic of their paper, writing in English or Serbian language, as long as they remain within the frame topic proposed in this call. Due to the fact that the topic of the Conference is broadly set up, the paper can deal with both theoretical and practical issues, such as: Sovereignty and state of emergency, Rule of law in state of emergency, Comparative legal regulations of the state of emergency, State of emergency in the case law of ECHR, Limits to government powers in the state of emergency, Derogation of human rights, Assessment of the extraordinary circumstances etc. The abstract should contain the main thesis that will be argued for in the paper as well as a brief overview of the arguments that the author will use.

In addition to the abstract, students should send the contact details of their mentors/supervisors (name, surname, email address).

The list of participants on the 8th Student Conference will be announced by the 15th of September, 2021 at the official website of the Belgrade Faculty of Law. The selected participants will have to submit the first draft of their papers (8 pages at least) no later than November 20th. The final versions should be completed and sent by February 2022. All papers will be subject to a double blind review. Well rated papers will be published in Eudaimonia – Jurnal for Legal, Political and Social Theory and Philosophy

For further information on the possible subtopics, abstracts or any other details related to the Conference, you may visit the official website of the Serbian Association for Legal and Social Philosophy (http://www.ivrserbia.org), our facebook page (www.facebook.com/studkonf) or write to the email address of the Conference (eudaimonia@ius.bg.ac.rs). We are looking forward to your application!