DENVER 2024
Abstracts are an important tool in putting together the program for the 2024 Annual Meeting. The Program Committee will review all abstracts to determine acceptance and group together papers into panels that are coherent and relevant to an intellectual theme. The more thoughtful, concise, and clear the abstracts are, the easier it will be to assemble our program.
General Guidelines
- 850 character max for session descriptions
- 2000 character max for individual abstract descriptions
- Use clear, concrete language
- Individual abstracts can be submitted in English
- Session abstracts must be in English.
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Suggested Outline
for Paper Abstracts
General Guidelines
- 2000 character max for individual abstract descriptions
- Choose a title that clearly indicates the topic of the research using no more than 300 characters. The title will play a major role in assigning your paper to a relevant panel.
- State the problem or research question, with specific references to the relevant prior research.
- State the main point or argument of the presentation.
- If your research presents the results of an empirical study, explicitly indicate the nature of the empirical materials you have or will be collecting, as well as the specific hypothesis to be tested.
- If you have completed data collection, report what results you have obtained.
- State the relevance of your ideas to past work or to the future development of the field of law and society and, if applicable, to the conference theme.
- When you submit your abstract to the website, please identify a required primary and an optional secondary keyword that most aligns with your topic’s general area and the methodology you use.
- If you are a member of a CRN, please include that information as well.
A Suggested Outline
for Roundtable Presentations
In a roundtable, there are no formal papers. Instead, a group of scholars exchange views on a particular theme, followed by questions and statements from the audience. Here is a suggested abstract outline:
General Guidelines
- 850 characters or less maximum for session description
- Choose a title for the roundtable that clearly indicates the topic in no more than 300 characters.
- Identify the problem, the issue, or the subject of the roundtable.
- Explain the importance of the subject. Include how it relates to the theme of the conference, or to law and society themes in general.
- Explain what you would like the roundtable to accomplish.
- Mention the different points of view and aspects of the subject that you would like the panel to represent.
- When you submit your abstract to the website, please identify a required primary and an optional secondary keyword that most aligns with your topic’s general area.
- If you are a member of a CRN please include that information as well.