The “Re-imagining Agenda 2063” International Research Collaborative (IRC) of the Law and Society Association (LSA) invites you to submit an abstract for presentation at the Global Meeting on Law and Society to be held from 13 to 16 July 2022 at Lisbon, Portugal. The IRC plans to have in-person and virtual panels at the conference. A short description of the IRC is below this email. Also, you can read more about the IRC and the global meeting.
To participate in panels organized by the IRC at the global conference, please submit your paper or panel abstract to the LSA conference website directly and select/identify IRC 32 in your submission. Also, for conference planning, please send a copy of the same abstract (and your questions, if any) to temitope@onifade.org and copy agenda2063project@allard.ubc.ca in the email. Abstracts should relate to the relationship of law and Agenda 2063, especially economic, socio-political and human development.
The extended IRC deadline for submission of abstract is now November 15, 2021.
Brief IRC Description:
Various legal responses have failed to promote development in Africa, evidenced by unsuccessful legal interventions and conditionalities. Emphasis on pure institutional and economic approaches to law and development constrained nuanced understanding of law within development arenas, including politics, economy, health, education, security and environment, among others. Using Africa’s most recent development formulation, Agenda 2063, we will re-imagine the sociolegal foundation of development in Africa to rethink the challenges and find new pathways. We ask a central question: how should law respond to Africa’s development challenges under Agenda 2063? The initial contribution we make will be to revisit the understanding of law and development under Agenda 2063 (the deconstruction). After, we will create new knowledge on how our renewed sense of law could steer our renewed understanding of development under Agenda 2063 (the reconstruction). We will explore not only how law could affect development, but also how development could influence law. This exercise will lead us to an enhanced understanding of how to theorise and design law to shape the knowledge and practice of development in Africa.
LINA at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, Peter A. Allard Law School, and the LSA in the US are partners on this project. You can read more about the project on their websites: Law and Society Association, Allard Law School and Liu Institute Network for Africa.
Contact: Temitope Onifade, IRC Organizer
temitope@onifade.org
