Speaking of Subsidiarity...Call for Papers

Rob's kind mention in his last post of the Villanova conference next fall was a reference to the second annual conference on Catholic Social Thought and the law to be sponsored by Villanova's new Journal of Catholic Social Thought. Several of us in the blog group, as well as some other colleagues and friends, participated in the first conference last fall; Mirror of Justice was one of the fruits of that very productive gathering. Next fall's conference will focus on the significance of the CST concept of subsidiarity for the law. The keynote speaker will be a non-legal specialist in CST who will provide some insight on the concept (speaker suggestions welcomed). This will be followed by 6-8 papers on the concept's meaning, applicability, and usefulness for different fields of law and for legal theory. Among specialists in American law, we also hope to have European (or other non-US) specialists in both secular and CST versions of subsidiarity. The conference will be one day, Oct 8, 2004, and held at Villanova. Please consider this a call for paper proposals from both my blog-mates and our readers. It would be helpful to have proposals sent to me by May 15, 2004. Feel free to give me a call if you would like to discuss your ideas.