'Life Imprisonment in Asia: Law and Practice'
Online Conference

5-6 October, 2021

Call for Papers

We invite scholars and practitioners working in the following areas to submit abstracts that would fit within the broad themes of the conference.  The themes of the online conference will include:

  • Imposing life imprisonment (on whom, for what, and how is life imprisonment imposed)
  • The treatment of life sentence prisoners (regime, conditions, access to rehabilitation)
  • Release of life sentence prisoners (including conditional release, recall to prison, if applicable)
  • The application of international human rights standards to life sentences
  • Life sentence prison population statistics

Details about requirements of abstracts and papers are available via the link below:

Call for Papers

Submission of Abstracts

Authors should submit a 200-400 word abstract, which includes a title of the proposed paper and his/her short biographical details (including name, email, academic appointment, affiliations). Abstracts are to be submitted by 30 July 2021 via the link below:

Submission of Abstracts