The 2008 annual meeting of the RCSL will be devoted to “Law and Justice in the Risk Society” and held from Wednesday 9 July afternoon, to Saturday 12 July 2008, on the invitation of the Associazione di Studi su Diritto e Società, the Sezione di Sociologia del diritto dell’ Associazione Italiana di Sociologia, the University of Milano, the University of Milano-Bicocca, the University of Insubria-Como and the Centro Nazionale di Prevenzione e Difesa Sociale (CNPDS).

Besides the panels organized by the RCSL Working Groups, the following Workshops, specifically connected with the topic of the conference, will take place:

• Ecology
• Commons
• European Integration
• Market Economies, Enterprises and Work
• Health and Assistance
• Identities and Religion
• Media and the Internet
• Legal Systems and their Risks
• War and Terrorism
• Security and Social Control
• Law and Family
• Law and Biomedical Technologies
• Law and Anthropology.

Individual contributions on socio-legal topics will also be welcomed and discussed in ad hoc sessions of "Research in Progress".

The languages of the meeting will be English, French and Spanish. Registration fees will include a social dinner, conference meals and coffee-breaks and will be as follows: 100 Euro - Students and ‘C country’ participants; 170 Euro - RCSL Members; 200 Euro: non-members.

Paper abstracts and full panels proposals must be submitted by February 15, 2008, using the forms which can be downloaded at this page: http://users.unimi.it/RCSL2008/