FYI. Please contact Co-ordinator (e-mail below) for more information. LF
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Call for Papers - Mental Health and Mental Capacity Law Stream
Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Manchester, 18-20 March 2008
The past year has been a lively one for those interested in mental health and mental capacity law. The Mental Health Act 2007 was finally passed in England and Wales, and the Bamford Review of mental health and learning disability published its proposals in Northern Ireland. We are also starting to see the first results of how the new Scots legislation is working in practice. At the international level, the new UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was opened for signature in the spring, and by October 2007, 118 countries had signed.
While these legal developments provide a particularly apt occasion for the stream, papers from all areas of the law relating to mental health and mental disability are welcome, including
civil, criminal or informal mechanisms of control
International law relating to people with mental disabilities
The role of administration or care-givers in the provision of services
The role or experience of service users in mental health care.
We impose no restriction on methodology: papers may be empirical, policy-centred, historical, analytic, traditional legal, or theoretical, in approach.
Please feel free to circulate this call for papers to interested scholars and other interested persons working in any discipline related to law and mental disability.
Stream co-ordinator is Peter Bartlett ([log in to unmask]). Please feel free to forward paper proposals to him, or to contact him with enquiries about the stream.
About the conference
The Socio-Legal Studies Conference occurs annually, in 2008 at the University of Manchester. It attracts a wide variety of scholars, and subject streams within the conference span the range of topics in socio-legal studies. The conference web site may be found at http://www.law.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/events/SLSA2008/index.html.
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