We are now accepting abstract submissions!

If you wish to submit an individual presentation, please click the "Individual Submission Form" button below. We will add you to an existing session on a related topic. Abstracts must be between 150-200 words. The presentation should last 20 minutes. The Peer Review team will notify you when your submission has been accepted.  

Note: If you are already part of a Session, you do not need to fill out this form. Please send your abstract to your Session Organizer who will submit on your behalf. 

If you wish to organize a session, please click the "Session Submission Form" button below. As the Session Organizer, you are responsible for submitting the information and abstracts of all presenters in your session on this form. Each Session contains 4 to 5 presentations, which will each last 20 minutes. 

As in the tradition of the IALMH, there exists a Therapeutic Jurisprudence Stream. If you wish to submit an individual presentation or a session in this stream, please fill out the “TJ Individual Submission Form” or the “TJ Session Submission Form” respectively. Please contact Professor Yamada (dyamada@suffolk.edu) or Professor Kierstead (skierstead@osgoode.yorku.ca) with questions related to this stream. 

To make a submission within the Therapeutic Jurisprudence Stream, please use the submission forms  linked above.

Convened by Beverley Clough, Isabel Karpin, Roxanne Mykitiuk, Tess Sheldon, Linda Steele, and Sheila Wildeman

The ‘Disability, Law and Society’ stream embraces socio-legal and critical legal scholarship, and builds on a similar stream at the 2019and 2022 Congresses. We aim to bring together papers that problematise and critique the existing doctrine and categories of disability and mental health law. We are particularly interested in including interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary papers that engage with the humanities, the arts, and social sciences.  Work that examines the intersections of disability and mental health law with lived experiences of people with disability and the knowledges and experiences of politics, culture, history and society is also welcome. We are also interested in papers that develop new critical perspectives on the more traditional ‘core’ concerns of disability and mental health law (e.g. definitions, coercive interventions, legal capacity, CRPD, consent, deprivation of liberty, equality and disability discrimination). These engagements should bring new questions or issues to the conversation, or connect these concerns to broader political dynamics.

The stream will provide an opportunity to consolidate international communities of socio-legal disability scholars, and discuss possible research collaborations and ongoing research networks.

We encourage people with lived experience, anti-oppression activists, those who work for disability rights NGOs and PhD students to consider submitting an abstract.

Please direct any questions about the stream to Linda Steele: linda.steele@uts.edu.au. Linda Steele is the Organizer of the Disability, Law and Society Stream. 

If you wish to submit a presentation in this theme, please email linda.steele@uts.edu.au.