Modern Law Review Seminars

Since 1998, The Modern Law Review has been allocating funding, which is currently in the region of £25,000 per annum, to support scholarly seminars on any subject broadly within the publishing interests of the Review. The funds are allocated through competitive bids submitted by 15 October each year.

Seminars supported by The Modern Law Review:

April 2007   Kings College London Regulating Technologies
April 2007   The University of Glasgow Judicial Review of International Economic Sanctions
June 2007   The University of Birmingham Contract Damages: Domestic and International Perspectives
July 2007   The University of Durham Property Law in Comparative Perspective
Summer 2007   The University of Lancaster Legal and Ethical Issues surrounding the Involvement of Children in Health Care Research
September 2007   Queen Mary, The University of London Individual Freedom, Autonomy and the State: the Limits of Intervention in Private Life
10-11 November 2006   Kent Law School Gender and Human Rights
11 May 2006   University of Leicester The Regulation of Sport
May 2006   University of Leicester Health, Law, Faiths and Beliefs: New Dilemmas - New Perspectives
13-14th January 2006   University of Bristol Gustav Radbruch and Contemporary Jurisprudence
January 2006   LSE International Symposium on Reconstructing Employment Contracts
17th and 18th June 2005   University of Warwick Gender and Land Reform in International Perspective
27th May 2004   University of Liverpool New Directions in Mental Health and Mental Incapacity: Law, Policy And Practice'
14th May 2004   University of Leicester Worker Participation: National and European Trends
6 Jun 2003   University of Glasgow Globalisation & Constitutionalism
28 Feb 2003   Queen's University Belfast Racism in Ireland
29-30 Nov 2002   LSE Commecial Law & Commercial Practice
22-24 Nov 2002   University of Edinburgh Privacy, Property & Personality
5 Oct 2002   University of Cardiff Roskill Revisited
26 Oct 2001   University of Cardiff The Implicit Dimensions of Conflict
Jul 2001   University of Leeds Constitutionalism in Transition
2001   University of Leicester Competition Law in the New Economy
29 Jun 2001   St Hilda's College Oxford Law & the Possibilities of Counter-Hegemonic Globalisation
25 Jul 2000   University of Nottingham Theory & International Law
Dec 1999   LSE Juridicial Technologies
6-7 Nov 1999   University of Birmingham Criminal Law Doctrines of General Part
14-15 Sept 1998   King's College London Foundations of Charity

 

Guidelines on Modern Law Review Seminars

  1. The Modern Law Review makes available up to £25,000 each year to fund the organisation of scholarly seminars on any subject broadly within the publishing interests of the Review. The Review would like to encourage applications which facilitate scholarly European and international dialogue, and also those which are innovatory in their approach or objectives A proposal might involve a single paper and discussion, or more than one paper. While the amount of financial support provided will be separately assessed in relation to each successful application, the Review is prepared to provide support of up to £15,000 for one major seminar each year


  2. The Review will expect to have the first right of refusal to publish papers presented at Modern Law Review seminars. Papers presented will usually be original and unpublished, and applicants will use their best efforts to secure that the papers are available to the Review for publication.


  3. The scheme will be advertised in the May, July and September issues of the Review each year. Applications for funding should be submitted by post or electronically (by e-mail attachments) to the Secretary of the Review no later than 15 October at the address below. There is no prescribed form for applications. Decisions on applications will be made by the Modern Law Review Committee on the advice of a sub-committee and notified to applicants by the end of December . The sum awarded will be available for expenditure at any time during the following year.


  4. Awards will only be available to persons in full time employment on the academic staff of UK higher education institutions.


  5. Applications must set out details of the proposed seminar/s, themes to be addressed, details of proposed speakers (together with an indication of whether the speakers have been approached and given any commitment to participate), and a budget for the event. Applicants should note that the Committee places particular emphasis on the possibility of securing articles for publication in the Review from scholars who would not otherwise be likely to publish in it.


  6. Budgets should include details of planned expenditure on:

    • catering
    • booking of room(s)
    • copying and pre-circulation of paper/s
    • travel, accommodation and per diem allowances only for those presenting papers or acting as discussants. Travel should normally be second class rail fare or economy apex airfare. Accommodation costs should not normally exceed £100 per person night. A per diem allowance of up to £30 per day may be paid. Receipts must be submitted for all such expenditure.
    • any other items with details of why they are necessary.

  7. Note that the Review is a registered charity and will not include in its awards any element for overheads or profit generation. The intention is to fund seminars which could not otherwise take place. It follows that other sources of funding must be brought into account, and that the Review is unlikely to fund the usual type of Departmental seminars.


  8. Awards will usually be paid to the higher education institution which employs the applicant/s or the institution where the seminar is being held if this is different.


  9. In addition to the application, applicants should also provide a letter, signed by both the applicant/s and the Finance Office of the institution where the applicant(s) is/are employed, which must undertake to administer the award, if given, following approved procedures.

Applications and the letter in respect of financial administration should be sent to:

R. C. Simpson
Secretary,
Modern Law Review
Law Department
London School of Economics and Political Science
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE
bob.simpson@lse.ac.uk

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