Mais Oui: Law and Society 2008, Montreal

Ever the francophile, I am particularly excited about this year's LSA meeting, May 28 to June 1, Quebec, Canada. As the meeting is outside the United States (that happens often;  last year it was in Berlin), this will be a joint meeting, this time with the Canadian Law and Society Association.

Two meetings ago I posted Unsolicited Advice on How to Have a Successful LSA Experience (and other oversized conferences). I think the list of is still relevant but please add your thoughts and ideas.

In the past few years, we co-organized with concurring opinions a bloggers’ happy hour at these meetings, much like their AALS counterparts. This year, I haven’t heard of many from our blogging community who are attending the meeting (blame Canada?). I actually think that the Law and Society Association Annual Meetings are a must, at least once every few years, for anyone in the legal academy. I believe it is the largest interdisciplinary international annual meeting, bringing together people from law, economics, sociology, philosophy, psychology, polical sci, anthropology and also many other disciplines such as urban planning and architecture, design, information schools…

Alors, are our readers attending? shall we plan post-reception drinks?

One thing to point out is that as often with these huge conferences, alot of the action is in the conferences-within-the-conference. For example, my natural home these days is the Regulation and Governance Collaborative Research Network (organized by Cary Conglianese (Penn) and John Braithwaite (ANU). Cary puts together the R&G whole program planned for those days on the CRN website hosted by the Penn Institute on Regulation which he chairs.