CISDL Call for Papers: Legal Empowerment for Sustainable Development - CLOSED

The Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL) is holding a call for papers for its Working Paper Series on "Legal Empowerment for Sustainable Development."

Abstracts are being accepted until 1 August 2011, and full papers should be submitted by 1 December 2011 to sstephenson@cisdl.org 

Selected papers will be posted on the CISDL website and will be launched at a side event of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro in May 2012.

Applicants should submit their 250 word abstract and 50 word author biography in Microsoft Word. Submissions must be in 12-point, Times New Roman font and be single-spaced. Footnotes must be formatted in accordance with the European Journal of International Law (http://www.ejil.org/about/STYLESH.pdf).

From CISDL:

"With this Working Paper Series on "Legal Empowerment for Sustainable Development," the CISDL aims to encourage new and rigorous scholarship of compelling interest to scholars and policy-makers active in relevant fields. Contributions should focus on the law and policy aspects of different pillars of legal empowerment and/or include empirical studies of the implications of legal empowerment for sustainable development. Contributions that focus on cross-cutting effects of legal empowerment on both the environment and development are especially welcome."