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von Thomas Dollmaier (HU Berlin)The Chair for Public Law and Comparative Law (Prof.Philipp Dann) at Humboldt University Berlin and the Law and Development Research Network (LDRN) have issued a Call forPapers for the Fourth Annual LDRN Conference. Abstracts can be submitted until15 February 2019. The conference addresses the ‘Plurality of Law andDevelopment’ and will take place at Humboldt University from 25-27 September2019. It is open to participants from partner institutions as well as otherinterested academics and practitioners from within an outside of the law anddevelopment community, who are interested in global interdependences and therole of law in development.TheLDRN seeks to enhance the knowledge and understanding of the role of law, bothdomestic and international, in relation to development and governance on aglobal as well as local level. The network is therefore concerned with thesocial functioning of legal systems primarily in the context of countries inthe Global South, providing space for both orthodox and critical perspectives.HumboldtUniversity and the Chair for Public Law and Comparative Law are among thefounding members of the LDRN. This year’s conference in Berlin will thus also createfruitful synergies with the interdisciplinary and comparative research of the Law and Society Institute, which over the last years hasfostered research on law and development at Humboldt University.Moredetails on the Call for Papers and the theme of the conference can be found here. 