[ecrea] Law and Literature Conference 2017

CALL FOR PAPERS - DEADLINE EXTENDED

*LAW AND LITERATURE CONFERENCE 2017*

MASARYK UNIVERSITY (BRNO, CZECH REPUBLIC)

31 MAY – 2 JUNE 2017

The Law and Literature movement is still quite new in the Central Europe 
but its importance is growing lately. A unique legal and cultural 
experience of this area can provide a new inspiration to the Law and 
Literature discussions so the ambition of the conference is to provide a 
new platform to explore current possibilities and spaces of the Law and 
Literature field. It is thus our intention to bring new stimuli to the 
traditional approach to the mainly West-oriented Law and Literature 
movement.

Brno is the second largest city of the Czech Republic, home country of 
Franz Kafka, Milan Kundera and Vaclav Havel. Czech culture is a 
combination of Slavic, Austro/Hungarian, German and both Christian and 
Jewish cultural tradition. As well as the multicultural background, also 
Nazism and Communism left their traces both at the legal and cultural 
environment. Brno itself is a centre of the Czech judiciary: The 
Constitutional Court, the Supreme Court and the Supreme Administrative 
Court. Thanks to all these various influences and conditions, the Czech 
Republic and especially Brno is a perfect venue for the Law and 
Literature conference.

Streams:

• Metamodernism and the Transformation of Narrative (New Trends and 
Possibilities in Law and Literature) - co-convened by Daniela Carpi 
(English Literature, University of Verona, Italy) and Jeanne Gaakeer 
(Legal Theory, Erasmus School of Law, Rotterdam, Netherlands)

• Muss es Sein? Kundera and Law - convened by Rafał Mańko (University of 
Amsterdam)

• Fictional-world Jurisprudence – convened by Terezie Smejkalová 
(Masaryk University, Brno)

• General Stream – co-convened by Martin Škop and Markéta Štěpáníková 
(Masaryk University, Brno)

We welcome also *abstracts regarding media and literature narratives, 
genres, critical discourse* or similarly as there is an 
interdisciplinary overlap among law, literature, communication, 
narrative theory etc.

Extended abstract submission deadline: 5 December 2016

Draft submission deadline: 30 April 2017

Conference date: 31 May – 2 June 2017

Conference proceedings

Best papers will be eventually included in the printed book in English. 
There will be also an opportunity to publish conference papers in a 
special issue of reviewed juridical journal “Časopis pro právní vědu a 
praxi” (The Journal of Jurisprudence and Legal Practice), a legal 
journal of the Faculty of Law, Masaryk University.

Further information is to be found at 
https://lawandliterature2017.wordpress.com/

The titles and the abstracts (200-300 words) of the presentations should 
be submitted by e-mail to (lawandliterature /at/ law.muni.cz) 
<mailto:(lawandliterature /at/ law.muni.cz)>. Please indicate your full name, 
affiliation and e-mail address for contact.



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