CfP: The Law and Ethics of Age Limits - Czech and Slovak perspectives

Centre for Law and Public Affairs (CeLAPA)

Call for abstracts - The Law and Ethics of Age Limits - Czech and Slovak perspectives

One day workshop, Prague, Jan 15th 2015

Convenors: Adam Dolezal (Institute of State and Law, Research Unit for Medical Law and Bioethics ) and Axel Gosseries (Louvain, Hoover Chair and Franz Weyr Fellow, CeLAPA)


This workshop will aim at discussing specific uses of age limits in law and practice, in employment, pensions, insurance, health care, etc. Papers involving a a detailed analysis and a critical discussion of specific practices, will be especially encouraged, as well as comparisons between age limits against the young and against the elderly, between labour practices and health practices, etc. Priority will be given to paper focusing at least in part on the Czech and Slovak contexts, although sumissions that don’t have this dimension will also be considered.

6 papers will be selected by the convenors through a blind-review system. Potential contributors from Law, Philosophy, Sociology, Demography, Politics, etc should send a title and provisional abstract by NOVEMBER 10 to Petr Agha (petr.agha@centrum.cz). The workshop is open to both junior and senior researchers.