The Basel Institute on Governance has the pleasure of inviting you to submit proposals for a two-day interdisciplinary and international conference on “Conflicts of Interest”.

Selected contributions to the conference will form the basis for an edited publication, to be submitted to an internationally acknowledged academic publishing house.

The conference will be held on 7-8 May 2010 at the University of Basel, Switzerland.

Call for papers – submission of abstracts
Contributions from individual researchers, members of research institutions, think tanks, and organisations working in relevant fields, with a disciplinary background in law, political science, economics, philosophy or related disciplines, or with practical experience in dealing with conflicts of interest are welcome. Contributors are invited to send in a one-page abstract to the organisers by 30 August 2009, to: Anne Lugon-Moulin, Executive Director, Basel Institute on Governance, email.

An academic and practitioners’ panel representing all relevant disciplines will review the abstracts. Besides academic excellence, the salience for the proposed modules of the conferences, the diversity of disciplines, and the objective to reach a mix of theoretical contributions and case studies will guide the selection.

Selected participants are expected to submit a full draft paper before 15 April 2010 for distribution at the conference to all participants. The papers must be original and will be subject to review for publication in the interdisciplinary monograph.