Impact of Globalization to Law: the Social and Professional Responsibility of Lawyer
What are the expectations of society and the professional community in relation to the activities of a lawyer? Do they always coincide – and not contradict – with each other? Is the relative social isolation of the professional community of the lawyers – especially judges – among other things conditioned by the requirements of professional responsibility and ethics, still justified? What impact do the processes of globalization have to the conceptions and the relationship between the social and professional responsibility of a lawyer? These and other issues of the conceptual and practical interaction between the social and professional responsibility of a lawyer are the focus of the upcoming conference on the Impact of Globalization to Law: The Social and Professional Responsibility of a Lawyer.
This Conference is one of the events devoted to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the establishment of Vytautas Magnus University and the Faculty of Law therein. Legal practitioners and scholars conducting research in the field of law (as well as in related interdisciplinary fields) are invited to participate in the event.
DATES AND VENUE
Date: 21st of September, 2012.
Venue: S. Daukanto str. 28, Kaunas, Lithuania.
Registration of participants: 9.00 – 9.30 a.m.
Opening of the conference: 9.30 a.m.
Closing of the conference: 17.00 p.m.
PARTICIPATION FORM
Oral or poster presentations are possible.
Oral presentations shall be 10 min. long; after that 20 min. will be devoted to the discussion
CONFERENCE LANGUAGES
English and Lithuanian
PRESENTATION EQUIPMENT
Participants can use a PC and a multimedia projector (using PowerPoint). Presentations should be emailed to the organisers prior to the conference with the file name displaying the participant’s name and surname.
PUBLICATION
Submissions in English will be published in the Baltic Journal of Law & Politics, submissions in Lithuanian will be published in the journal Teisės apžvalga, so long as all such submissions meet all the requirements for publication as posted by the journals. Submitted papers are discussed and accepted for publication by the editorial committees in the order of their presentation. Please note that in no way does free publication incur an obligation on the part of the publishers to publish the papers.
The publication in the Baltic Journal of Law & Politics
You can get more information about the journal at this website:
Formatting and other requirements are provided at this website:
http://www.versita.com/bjlp/authors.
The requirements, provided at these websites, shall be applied, unless they contradict the following rules/statements:
Editing and reviewing: Every paper is reviewed by two independent, anonymous reviewers.
Journal language: English
Copyright: authors retain copyright of the published papers and have full responsibility for their contents. The publisher has the unlimited right to offer and distribute the edition with the papers published in it. The publisher assumes no responsibility whatsoever if the authors have inflicted harm or damage to third parties.
Paper length: papers have to contain a minimum of 5000 words and a maximum of 12,000 words, including sketches, tables, diagrams, footnotes, the bibliographical list of references and abstract.
File title: papers shall be sent in a file named after the participant in the conference in English (name and surname), for example: name_surname.doc.
Software: all papers have to be written in .doc format using MS Word 2003 or later for Windows. Please email the papers to bjlp@fc.vdu.lt.
Page formatting: paper size shall be A4; line spacing shall be 1.5; a margin on all sides of 2,5 cm shall be applied for the entire document; Verdana font style shall be applied throughout all the document; font size shall be 10 points, except for the footnotes, where the font size shall be 8 points.
Title page/pages: the title page/pages shall contain (in the following order): (1) Title, (2) Author’s full name, details of scientific and pedagogical degrees, institutional affiliation, and contact information, including e-mail address, (3) Abstract in English (100-250 words), (4) List of keywords (4-7).
Body text: the body text begins after a title page/pages; the page break shall be made after the keywords. All headings in the text are written with capital letters after a blank line, aligned left. They are numbered using Arabic numerals. The use of multi-level numbering with Arabic numerals shall be applied, such as 1.1; 1.1.1; 1.1.2; 1.2; 1.3 etc.
Figures, tables, diagrams and formulas: figures, tables and diagrams have to be incorporated in the text electronically, irrespective of the programme they have been made with. They can be colour or black-and-white. A line is left before and after any figure, table and diagram. The maximum size of figures, tables and diagrams is 15 x 15 cm. Their orientation is Portrait. The captions are written before or under them with font size 10 points and centred. The numbers and the text inside are written with Verdana font size 10 points.
References: the Humanities Style (advisably as regulated by The Chicago Manual of Style) for the formatting of references shall be used, with the following further instructions: (1) references to works cited shall be provided in documentary footnotes as well as in a bibliographical list provided at the end of the document; (2) documentary notes are to be listed as footnotes (not endnotes); (3) a bibliographical list shall be provided at the end of the manuscript, generally arranged in alphabetical order and called “Bibliography”. The font size of references in footnotes shall 8 points. The font size of bibliographical list shall be 10 points.
Papers that do not comply with the requirements or infected files will not be processed and published.
The publication in the journal Teisės apžvalga [Law Review]
You can get more information about the journal at this website:
http://teisesapzvalga.vdu.lt [in Lithuanian].
DISCLAIMER
As an organiser of the conference, Vytautas Magnus University Faculty of Law assumes no responsibility whatsoever, direct or implied, for the contents of the papers as well as for the consequences arising from misinterpretation or unawareness of the requirements for participation. The fact that you have submitted a registration form for the conference means that you have read and agreed with the present conditions.
THE REGISTRATION (FOR SPEAKERS) INCLUDES
- Certificate for the participation
- Admission to all sessions of the conference
- The oral presentation of a paper
- Publication of a paper meeting the stated requirements, in the Baltic Journal of Law & Politics or the journal Teisės apžvalga [Law Review]
- A printed copy of the Conference Programme
- Coffee breaks
- If feasible and agreed upon in advance, free accommodation in the VMU guest house for speakers from foreign countries
- Free participation in planned social events [a calendar of social events will be provided two weeks before the conference]
IMPORTANT DATES
- For oral presentations: submission deadline for the abstract is the 15th of August, 2012. The length of the abstract: 500-1000 words. For poster presentations: submission deadline for the abstract is the 1st of September, 2012. The length of the abstract: 2000-5000 words.
- Final paper submission deadline is the 30th of November, 2012. Please send your papers, written according to the formatting requirements, for publication at these e-mail addresses: bjlp@fc.vdu.lt (Baltic Journal of Law & Politics) or kargaudiene@tf.vdu.lt (Teisės apžvalga). You will be notified whether the paper is accepted for publication with an e-mail within four weeks after receiving the paper. If you should receive no reply, please contact the organisers by the e-mail or the phone provided at the end.
SOCIAL ACTIVITIES
You will receive information about the events and times of the social programme at a later date.
For more information:
Phone: +370-37-751044 E-mail: dek@tf.vdu.lt Web: http://law.vdu.lt
