3rd International Conference of PhD Students and Young
Researchers
SECURITY AS THE PURPOSE OF LAW
9-10 April 2015
Vilnius University Faculty of Law
The conference papers will be published online on the website of the Faculty of Law of Vilnius
University and at least one open access database as special edition. Therefore, we ask you to
observe the topic of the Conference (“Security as the Purpose of Law”). The papers should be
written in a clear, easy to understand manner, grammatical edited and be readable for a wide
audience. The Scientific Committee of the Conference will consider papers and will not publish
incomplete or irrelevant papers.
Requirements for papers
A paper should include the following parts:
1. Title (maximum of 70 characters)
2. Information about the author (concise)
3. Abstract (up to 300 words)
4. Keywords (4-5)
5. Introduction
6. Main body
7. Conclusion
8. Bibliography
Please make sure that you use British English. Papers should be 1 500 to 3 000 words (introduction,
main body, conclusion; excluding footnotes, bibliography).
Font: Times New Roman
Size: 12
Line spacing: single
Special attention should be paid to quotations, footnotes, and references. All citations and
quotations must be verified before submission of the paper. The accuracy of the contribution is the
responsibility of the author. Footnotes should be numbered consecutively, using the footnote
function in Word so that if any footnotes are added or deleted the others are automatically
renumbered. A bibliography should be included in the end of the paper.
Also we invite to visit the online special edition of Conference papers 2014:
http://www.tf.vu.lt/dokumentai/Admin/PhD_konferencija_2014/Conference_Papers_2014.pdf
References (in the footnotes)
Books (author, ‘title’ (place of publication: publisher year) pages)
Example: F. Knight, ‘Risk, Uncertainty and Profit’ (Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1921) 19-20
Articles (author, ‘title’ [year] journal number pages)
Example: L. Kaplow, ‘An Economic Analysis of Legal Transitions’ [1986] 99 HLR 519
Legislations (authority title number year source)
Example: Council Directive (EC) 93/104 concerning certain aspects of the organisation of working
time [1993] OJ L307/18 (Working Time Directive)
Cases
Examples: Bressol and Others, Case C-73/08 [2010] ECR I-02735; Campbell and Fell v UK,
application no. 7819/77 [1984] 7 EHRR 165
Final remarks
These requirements for papers will be sent personally to selected participants until 10 February
2015 after the evaluation and the selection of the abstracts procedure by the Scientific Committee of
the Conference.
Submitted papers are understood to be final versions. They must not have been published or
submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers should be submitted in Word format.
By submitting author of a paper agrees that the paper will be published by the Organisers of the
Conference in the official website of the Faculty of Law of Vilnius University, other open access
databases and distributed during the Conference.