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International Conference of PhD Students and Young Researchers «Integrating Social Sciences into Legal Research». Conference Papers (Vilnius, 10-11 April 2014)
What is legal research? Is legal research’s primary aim merely to collate, organise and describe legal rules and offer commentary on corresponding authoritative legal sources?
Or should it cover a range of disciplinary contexts within the social sciences, humanities and law? Should it relate the legal realm to the sociological, economic, political and other dimensions of human activity? To what extent is legal research interdisciplinary today and how diverse will it be tomorrow? These and other questions are important to the contemporary legal science and will be the core subject-matter of the Conference. Target participants of this Conference are PhD students and young researchers with background in social sciences or/and humanities who are exploring law by inclusion of other sciences into their legal analysis. Although the main focus of the Conference is devoted to legal research, legal practitioners and non-lawyers who are conducting an interdisciplinary research connected with law are participating as well. The scope of the Conference is most extensive: from such questions as ‘Law and Science – Relatives or Strangers?’, ‘How Can Legal Discourse Benefit from Philosophy?’, ‘Is Legal Foresight Crucial for Social Strategic Planning?’ and ‘Could Supply Chain Management Improve Legal Proceedings?’ to interdisciplinary variety of other topics, including such themes as ‘The Necessity of the Anthropological Dimension of Law and State in Modern Jurisprudence’, ‘The Nature of Modern Competition Law: Between Law and Economics’, ‘How Sociological Analysis Can Influence Constitutions’, ‘The Presence of Political Aspects in the Legal Research on International Private Law’ and many others. Conference papers are presented by PhD students and scholars from Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine and the United Kingdom. The main objectives of the Conference are following: (1) to reveal and thoroughly discuss nominal and possible integration of social sciences into legal research; (2) to share exclusive experience of carrying out interdisciplinary research; (3) to summarise and provide solutions and guidelines for arising issues in various fields of interdisciplinary legal analysis and (4) to foster academic cooperation of PhD students and researchers while encouraging interdisciplinary legal science. Keeping in mind the last one, the readers of the Conference papers are encouraged to consider papers as interactive and contact authors with insights and questions.
