tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-129630652024-03-09T10:02:39.762+01:00ComparativeLawBlogComparative Law and Judicial Decision MakingJacco Bomhoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630729945696209221noreply@blogger.comBlogger386125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12963065.post-83634851029109441022012-04-05T14:14:00.002+02:002012-04-05T14:20:38.963+02:00ComparativeLawBlog DormantThis Blog is on hold, and will be so for the foreseeable future. The archive, for what its worth, will remain online, at least for now.<div><br /></div><div>Sean Donlan and colleagues will continue posting on comparative law matters at <a href="http://www.jurisdiversitas.blogspot.com">www.jurisdiversitas.blogspot.com</a>.</div><div><br /><div>Thanks to Sean for his contributions, and to you for your visits.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>Jacco</div><div><br /></div>Jacco Bomhoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630729945696209221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12963065.post-20834209256466233062012-02-28T15:20:00.000+01:002012-02-28T15:20:15.123+01:00NOTICE: International & Comparative Law Quarterly<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12963065.post-68316727780329899402012-02-13T00:05:00.001+01:002012-02-13T00:06:50.829+01:00NOTICE: HERINGA & AKKERMANS ON EDUCATING EUROPEAN LAWYERS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://www.intersentia.com/Default.aspx">Intersentia</a> has recently published <a href="http://www.intersentia.com/searchDetail.aspx?back=reeks&reeksCode=&bookid=102164&author=Aalt">Aalt Willem Heringa and Bram Akkermans (eds), <em>Educating European Lawyers </em>(2011).</a> The description reads: <br />
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<a href="http://eubusinesslaw.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/9781780680187.png?w=109&h=150" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="149" id="il_fi" src="http://eubusinesslaw.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/9781780680187.png?w=109&h=150" style="padding-bottom: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px;" width="109" /></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">The continuing and accelerating process of European integration impacts on European legal education, or ought to have its impact on our ideas about legal education in Europe. Although legal education in Europe is mainly national and usually conducted in the national language, there are initiatives that seek to break through the national barriers and move towards a truly European legal education. The Maastricht European Law School, which focuses on European Union law, international law and comparative law, fully taught in English, is one of these initiatives. In this edited volume we have endeavoured to reflect upon European Legal education in the light of that program, which has been on offer for a couple of years now and which attracts a great deal of students from all over Europe and the world as well, and to offer to interested readers ways forward as well as obstacles and points to ponder.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">This books pays attention to the developments in European law and the effects these have on legal education in general as well as in other fields. Drawing from their own experiences, the authors describe the current state of law, offer perspectives on future developments and explain how they translate these developments in the law school curriculum. All the contributions in this book have in common that each author seeks to better prepare students for a future in a more integrated Europe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">It is our purpose to generate a European debate about the subject and to move the European discussion forward to concrete steps to effectively establish European legal education for new generations of lawyers that will work in an increasingly Europeanised legal domain. </span></div>
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The contents are <a href="http://www.intersentia.com/Files/Books/Inhoudstafel/9781780680187.pdf">here</a>.</div>
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12963065.post-69509231349111134292012-02-12T23:51:00.000+01:002012-02-12T23:51:08.869+01:00NOTICE: British Institute of International and Comparative Law Appointments<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<strong>British Institute of International</strong></div>
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<strong>and Comparative Law (<a href="http://www.biicl.org/">BIICL</a>) </strong></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The Institute is looking to appoint a Deputy Director to provide clear organisational leadership at a senior level and to support the Institute Director in the management of the Institute. Closing Date: 20/02/2012. For further information see: </span><a href="http://www.biicl.org/deputydirector/"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.biicl.org/deputydirector/</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The Institute also wishes to appoint a Publications Editor who primarily acts as the assistant editor of the International and Comparative Law Quarterly, and also undertakes all duties in relation to publications in the Institute. For further information please see our website at: </span><a href="http://www.biicl.org/pubeditor/"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.biicl.org/pubeditor/</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">. The closing date for applications is 13 February 2012. </span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12963065.post-5530121918594823382012-02-12T23:40:00.000+01:002012-02-12T23:40:07.528+01:00NOTICE: Faure and Smits, Does Law Matter?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Intersentia has recently published Michael Faure and Jan Smits (eds), <em>Does law matter? on law and economic growth</em> (2011), the 100th volume of the <span class="SpellE"><span lang="FR">Ius</span></span><span lang="FR"> Commune <span class="SpellE">Europaeum Series.</span></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.isbs.com/images/partnumber/enlarged/9789400002173_5062.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" id="lightboxImage" src="http://www.isbs.com/images/partnumber/enlarged/9789400002173_5062.jpg" width="212" /></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">For many years now, there has been a strong economic scholarship pointing to the importance of institutions in general - and, more particularly, legal rules and the rule of law - for economic development. The importance of law for economic growth has also been empirically tested in many well-known and often cited studies. These studies seem to indicate not only that law is relevant in the development of countries and their economic growth in particular, but </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">more specifically, that particular legal systems do better than others. The tenant of this scholarship (especially initiated by Andrej Schleifer and others) is that the common law would be a more efficient system in promoting economic growth than the civil law. However, many scholars doubt the empirical claim of this and criticize these findings, both on methodological grounds as well as on grounds of a misconception of differences between the civil and the common law. The interest in legal origins for the efficiency of the legal system also focuses on particular legal regimes, such as accident law, environmental law, or corporate law. Increasingly, the question is also asked whether legal institutions and the rule of law are also important in the process whereby poor nations develop their economy. For example, Cooter, Schafer, and Ulen have attempted to examine why particular developing countries do relatively better than others and, roughly speaking, also attribute (part of the) success of some developing countries to legal institutions. However, others (more particularly Ulen) point at the fact that legal rules may play some role, but perhaps only a modest role in economic development. A powerful example which is quoted in that respect is the one of China which, at least at first blush, does not seem to rely strongly on legal institutions (at least in the traditional sense) and nevertheless has experienced a spectacular economic growth. The particular case of China hence remains somewhat puzzling in this debate. So far, these various streams of literature paying attention to the question to what extent legal origins matter for economic growth have not been strongly integrated and have, to a large extent, been developed in separate social sciences (institutional economics, development economics, and comparative law). This multi-disciplinary book brings these approaches together in an integrated and structural manner. (Series: Ius Commune Europaeum - Vol. 100)</span></div>
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The introduction is available on <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1950335">SSRN</a>.</div>
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12963065.post-47599650349038378782012-02-06T13:40:00.001+01:002012-02-06T13:40:03.314+01:00NOTICE: The Development of the German Constitutional Approach to International Law<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">The Goettingen
Journal of International Law (GoJIL) in cooperation with the Institute of
International and European Law, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and the
Minerva Center for Human Rights, Hebrew University of Jerusalem is pleased to
announce its</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;"> international
symposium on<b> </b></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;"></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">Precursors to
International Constitutionalism:</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">The
Development of the German Constitutional Approach to International
Law</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">March 9-10
2012, Paulinerkirche, Göttingen, Germany</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"></span></div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vywpUo6_by0/TSvS5MV1YpI/AAAAAAAAFg4/6ND4gT_y5cQ/s1600/gojil.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vywpUo6_by0/TSvS5MV1YpI/AAAAAAAAFg4/6ND4gT_y5cQ/s200/gojil.jpg" width="140" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">International
constitutionalism is in the focus of contemporary international legal debate and
practice, as evidenced by the recent Kadi-Jurisprudence of the European Courts
and the burgeoning literature that employs constitutional as well as
fragmentation terms with respect to modern international law – dealing with the
pluralistic structure of modern international law, post-national law and
constitutional pluralism. This seemingly new discourse is all-pervasive, with
implications in international politics, law, trade and human rights.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">However, this
project maintains that this is not an entirely new discourse. Its precursors can
be found in what could be considered to be a "German" constitutional approach
towards International Public Law (<i>Völkerrecht</i>) that has been
characterized by a strong constitutional understanding for centuries. While the
roots of the discussion can be traced back to the Eighteenth Century, this has
especially been the case in the Twentieth Century, as discernable in German and
Austrian teachings, from the scholarship of Albert Verdross (with his 1926
'Verfassung der Völkerrechtsgemeinschaft') to Bardo Fassbender's contemporary
analysis of the UN Charter as an international constitution.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">The
cooperation between the Minerva Center for Human Rights (Hebrew University
Jerusalem), the Institute of International and European Law,
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and the Goettingen Journal of International
Law (GoJIL) investigate the historical development and gradual crystallization
of a "German" constitutional approach in both theoretical and practical aspects.
The project also fosters the current debate on modern international law with
regard to constitutionalization and fragmentation trends. European
constitutional thinking with respect to international law will play a role as
well as current ideas of international constitutionalization in international
organizations and tribunals, mainly the International Court of Justice, the
European Court of Justice, and the WTO</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Provisional
Timetable</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"></span><b><u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></u></b></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">March 9 2012,
14:00</span></u></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Panel
1: </span></b><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Origins: The
development of national and international federalism</span></i><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Panel
2:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> <i>The
Historical and Philosophical Background of International Constitutionalism II:
Neo-Kantian Universalism and International Law</i></span><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Dinner</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"></span><b><u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">March 10 2012,
9:00</span></u></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Panel
3: </span></b><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Judicial
Constitutionalism and its Limits</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Panel
4: </span></b><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">A fragmented
Constitutionalism or a Pluralistic Postnational Order?</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Conclusion and
closing remarks</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Interested
scholars and students are invited to attend the conference in the audience and
to contribute to the discussions following the presentation of the
papers.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Deadline:
February 20, 2012</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Note that
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Further
information are available on <a href="https://3c.web.de/client/dereferrer?redirectUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fconference.gojil.eu%2F&selection=tfol119e8c278e489000" target="_blank" title="blocked::https://3c.web.de/client/dereferrer?redirectUrl=http://conference.gojil.eu/&selection=tfol119e8c278e489000">conference.gojil.eu</a>.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">We are looking
forward to your participation. The Conference Committee</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Sponsored by:
Joachim Herz Stiftung, Volkswagenstiftung</span></div>
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12963065.post-38952344610281432872012-02-03T16:22:00.002+01:002012-02-03T16:22:52.571+01:00REMINDER: JURIS DIVERSITAS COLLOQUIUM - Doing Justice: Official and Unofficial ‘Legalities’ in Practice<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i> <b>Doing Justice: </b></i></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>Official and Unofficial ‘Legalities’ in Practice</b></i></span></div>
<br />
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<i><a href="http://jurisdiversitas.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Juris Diversitas</b></span></a></i><span style="font-size: large;"> is organising, with the <i><a href="http://www.cjb.ma/"><b>Centre Jacques-Berque</b></a></i>, a colloquium on Mediterranean laws and norms. It will be held in Rabat, Morocco from 15-16 June 2012. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Participants, both jurists and others, are asked to speak on the complexity of</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.geographicguide.net/europe/maps-europe/maps/mediterranean-image.jpg" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="146px" src="http://www.geographicguide.net/europe/maps-europe/maps/mediterranean-image.jpg" width="200px" /></a></div>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><i>state laws</i> (both Western and non-Western), including the gap between legal theory and practice</li>
<li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">other <i>non-state normative orders</i> (religious, customary, etc)</li>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Speakers
may discuss, in English or French, either of these aspects (including
case studies) or the relationship between the two.</span><br />
<a name='more'></a><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Those engaged in our <i><a href="http://jurisdiversitas.blogspot.com/p/current-projects.html">Mediterranean Hybridity Project</a></i>
may also present preliminary overviews of the jurisdictions they’re
working on. Indeed, related proposals focusing on similar themes beyond
the Mediterranean are also welcome.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">For additional information, see <a href="http://jurisdiversitas.blogspot.com/2011/12/call-for-papers-juris-diversitas.html">the original Call for Papers</a> or contact Seán Patrick Donlan (</span><a href="mailto:sean.donlan@ul.ie"><span style="font-size: large;">sean.donlan@ul.ie</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">) or Baudouin Dupret (</span><a href="mailto:baudouin.dupret@cjb.ma"><span style="font-size: large;">baudouin.dupret@cjb.ma</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Those interested in making a presentation should send a short (250 word) proposal to Baudouin Dupret by 7 February 2012.</span><br />
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12963065.post-87254069078292924382012-02-02T16:13:00.001+01:002012-02-02T16:13:19.591+01:00CALL FOR PAPERS AND SESSION PROPOSALS: Stateless Law? The Future of the Discipline<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.mcgill.ca/law/">Faculty of Law </a>and <a href="http://www.mcgill.ca/crdpcq/">Quebec ResearchCentreof Private and Comparative Law</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">McGill</span><span style="color: black;"> University, Montreal</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: black;">CALL FOR PAPERS AND SESSION PROPOSALS</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">STATELESS LAW? THE FUTURE OF THE
DISCIPLINE</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Faculty of Law, McGill University</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">28</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria;">‐</span><span style="color: black;">29 September
2012</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aFpwWnIYMJo/S_zSjJsu20I/AAAAAAAAAXo/ipHxbKd_Blo/s1600/mcgill.gif" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aFpwWnIYMJo/S_zSjJsu20I/AAAAAAAAAXo/ipHxbKd_Blo/s200/mcgill.gif" width="158" /></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;">To celebrate the 10</span><span style="color: black;">th
</span><span style="color: black;">anniversary
of the first graduating class of the McGill Program, the
Faculty of Law and the Quebec Research Centre of
Private and Comparative Law will host an international
conference on the
future of the
discipline of law. This event
will aim to foster a debate
that critically assesses the
latest developments
in legal thought and innovative approaches
to law, in the light of the challenge of globalization and the
move away from a national paradigm for understanding law. It will also ask the question
of how to integrate the
insights so gained into the teaching
of law. The concern is with law in all its dimensions:
public and private, local and
transnational, formal and informal. By being
forced to abandon, at least in part, the
posited law of the nation state
as their lode
star, legal education
and legal scholarship have been presented
with an opportunity to break the mould of centuries of legal
nationalism: an opportunity that encourages new,
transdisciplinary and transnational ways of thinking about law. In short, the goal is to re-assess and to re-imagine the
discipline of law, its place in the university, and its role
in society. The
working languages of the conference will
be English and French.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;">Some
of the themes which we
expect
to be covered include:
How do globalization and legal
pluralism affect our understanding of law, legal
education or both? In its interaction with other
disciplines, how does law preserve its disciplinary
identity? Can a renewed understanding
of particular fields of law shed light on our evolving
understanding of the discipline?
How is the teaching
and research
of basic private law—contracts,
civil wrongs, property, the law of persons—affected by
the increasingly
transnational and transdisciplinary focus of legal
scholarship?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;">Confirmed
speakers
include:</span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Wingdings-Regular;"></span><span style="color: black;">Professor Mireille Delmas-Marty (Collège
de France)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Wingdings-Regular;"></span><span style="color: black;">Professor John Gardner (University of Oxford)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Wingdings-Regular;"></span><span style="color: black;">Professor Ernest Weinrib
(University
of Toronto)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Wingdings-Regular;"></span><span style="color: black;">Professor Annelise Riles (Cornell University)</span></span></li>
</ul>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;">Proposals for papers
are now invited.
If you would like to offer a paper,
please
submit a working title and an abstract
(of no more than 350 words) by email to </span><span style="color: blue;">crdpcq.law@mcgill.ca </span><span style="color: black;">before April, 16</span><span style="color: black;">th</span><span style="color: black;">, 2012. The abstract should be
written in English or French, the
language of the
abstract indicating the language of the
proposed full paper. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;">Proposals for sessions
may also be submitted. Such proposals should include three or four paper
proposals on a given theme. A session might be
organized around an interdisciplinary nexus,
postgraduate and/or undergraduate
legal education,
or a particular field of law or
approach to law. Session proposals
must include a statement
that all of the proposed speakers have
agreed
to participate, and contact information
for all proposed speakers. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;">Proposals will be
selected on the
basis of their quality and
originality, as well as their engagement
with the conference theme and
their fit with other papers
being presented at
the conference. The selection will be
made by a scientific
committee.
Presenters whose
proposals are accepted
will be expected to
meet
their own travel
and accommodation costs, although the
conference registration
fee
will be waived.
Depending
on the outcome
of applications for financial assistance,
some funds may be available
to assist presenters with travel
and accommodations; those who have need of such funds should indicate this in their
applications.</span></span></div>
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12963065.post-14888249698938962472012-02-02T15:14:00.004+01:002012-02-02T16:20:11.375+01:00NOTICE: BACL Postgraduate Workshop and Conference on Comparative Law.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">CALL
FOR PAPERS</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">British
Association of Comparative Law
(BACL)</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Postgraduate Workshop on Comparative
Law</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Kent Centre for European
and Comparative Law</span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="NL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Kent Law School</span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="NL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Canterbury, UK</span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="NL" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">19–20 June
2012</span></b></div>
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<a href="http://www.seeklogo.com/images/U/University_of_Kent-logo-5F3477BA43-seeklogo.com.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.seeklogo.com/images/U/University_of_Kent-logo-5F3477BA43-seeklogo.com.gif" /></a><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">The <a href="http://www.kent.ac.uk/law/cecl/index.html">Kent Centre forEuropean and Comparative Law</a> (KCECL) will host the
<a href="http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/bacl/">British Association of ComparativeLaw</a> (BACL) “Postgraduate Workshop on
Comparative Law” on 19-20 June 2012. The
workshop will precede an
international conference on “Comparative
Law: Engaging Translation” on 21-22 June
2012. Both events
are scheduled to take
place at Kent Law
School, Canterbury, Kent, UK.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">The BACL Postgraduate
Workshop on Comparative Law is designed
for doctoral students working on
dissertations in the field
of comparative legal studies
and related
subjects. In a round-table setting,
the 2-day workshop will address both the
benefits
and methodological problems of postgraduate
research
in comparative law.</span></div>
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<a name='more'></a><br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">The workshop will start on Tuesday
early afternoon
with a welcome
from the Chair of BACL, Professor Paula Giliker,
and a series
of plenary lectures, followed
by a dinner at a nearby restaurant.
Wednesday
morning will be given over
to student presentations and group discussion, followed by a final plenary
session.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Confirmed Speakers:</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">•
Dr Raluca Bercea,
University
of Timisoara, Romania</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">•
Professor Paula Giliker, University of Bristol, UK</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">•
Dr Simone Glanert,
University
of Kent, UK</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">•
Professor Geoffrey Samuel,
University
of Kent, UK</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">BACL
and KCECL are subsidising most of the costs of this event. However, a</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">contribution,
which covers refreshments,
the conference dinner on Tuesday,
19 June 2012 and a sandwich lunch on
Wednesday,
20 June 2012, will be required (£30 for postgraduate
students whose
institutions are members of
BACL</span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";"></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">,
£40 for students whose institutions are
not members
of BACL, £45 for full-time academics). The
fee
is payable in cash at the beginning
of the workshop.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Participants
will be expected to
organise and pay for their own transport to and from Canterbury.
Canterbury
is easily reached by fast train out of London St Pancras (1 hour) or
out of Paris (2
hours on the Eurostar to Ashford International and 20 minutes
on a local connecting train).
Participants will also be expected to pay for their
overnight accommodation, which can readily be
found in the University’s halls of residence if
so desired.
Bookings must be arranged independently
through the Internet: <a href="http://kenthospitality.kent.ac.uk/kxBnB/">http://kenthospitality.kent.ac.uk/kxBnB/</a>.
A single standard room will cost £30
per night and an en-suite
single room £45 per night (plus VAT). If preferred, a
number of B&Bs and small hotels are
to be found in the city centre within a few
minutes’ reach
of the university
campus: <a href="http://www.guesthousesincanterbury.co.uk/">http://www.guesthousesincanterbury.co.uk/</a>.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Students interested in
participating in the workshop should
submit an abstract of no more than
400 words and a short biographical note
by </span><b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">1 March 2012</span></b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">. All inquiries
and materials should be addressed to Dr Simone
Glanert (<a href="mailto:S.Glanert@kent.ac.uk">S.Glanert@kent.ac.uk</a>), Kent Centre for European
and Comparative Law, University
of Kent,
Canterbury,
Kent,
UK.
Formal invitations to selected
candidates will be issued
before
15 March 2012.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Students invited
to join the workshop may want to
consider attending
the international
conference on “Comparative
Law: Engaging Translation” to take
place on 21-22 June 2012. This conference will
bring together
leading scholars from various
disciplines, including translation
studies, linguistics, postcolonial
studies, sociology and law with a view critically to reflect upon the
many issues arising from legal translation in the
context of comparative legal
studies. For a detailed
conference programme
and information regarding the
registration process, please see: <a href="http://www.kent.ac.uk/law/cecl/News.html">http://www.kent.ac.uk/law/cecl/News.html</a>.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">*</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">The following institutions are
members
of BACL: Aberdeen,
Birmingham, Bristol,
Buckingham, Cambridge (TBC), Derby, Edinburgh, Essex,
Exeter, Glasgow,
Hull, KCL (TBC), Kent, Leicester,
Liverpool JMU, Manchester,
Nottingham, Nottingham, Trent,
Northumbria, Oxford, Sheffield, Strathclyde,
UCL, UEA, Warwick.</span></div>
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12963065.post-11789730306192682022012-01-31T20:23:00.000+01:002012-02-02T16:20:31.627+01:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>Comparative Law Call for Papers for SLS Conference, from David Marrani</b></div>
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<b>SLS Conference 2012 Bristol - Call for Papers: Comparative Law Section</b></div>
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Dear all,<br />
<br />
The 2012 SLS Annual Conference will take place at Bristol University from 11-14 September. The theme of the conference this year is “Pressing Problems in the Law and Legal Education” and papers on that topic are particularly welcome.<br />
<br />
<a name='more'></a><br /><br />
The Comparative Law Section is in group A. We will be meeting on Tuesday 11th (2 slots) after the morning workshop organised at the conference by the British Association of Comparative Law (BACL) and Wednesday 12th (2 slots). Each slot lasts 90 minutes (with two to three papers, if possible grouped around a theme).<br />
<br />
Contributions from established and new scholars are welcome. Papers can be at any stage from work-in-progress to an article ready for publication. Speakers will have to provide an abstract of their paper by August (abstracts will be generally accessible this year, as opposed to being restricted to those registered for the conference), but providing a full text is optional.<br />
<br />
New this year:<br />
<br />
**There will be an opportunity for poster presentations (Posters A1 size) to be displayed beside the publishers’ stands in the area where tea and coffee are served; space is limited (only 20 posters for each half of the conference). Poster presenters are expected to attend the conference in the usual way and to be available to discuss their work. Please let me know if you are interested in this opportunity to present your work in a different way.<br />
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If you are interested in presenting a paper or poster, please email me by Monday 20th February. At this stage I need no more than your name and a brief outline of the paper or poster that you would like to present. Please note that there will be a Best Paper prize and a new Best Poster prize.<br />
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Also I have been asked to remind all speakers that they are expected to book and pay for the conference in the usual way. Furthermore, if you have submitted, or are intending to submit a paper to another section, could you please let me know when submitting your Comparative Law proposal?<br />
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Best wishes,<br />
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Dr. David Marrani,<br />
Convener SLS Comparative Law Section<br />
<a href="mailto:dmarrani@essex.ac.uk">dmarrani@essex.ac.uk</a><br />
SLS Comparative Law Section.<br />
Society of Legal Scholars,<br />
PO Box 3017.<br />
Bristol BS6 9HJ. UK.<br />
<a href="mailto:webadmin@legalscholars.ac.uk">webadmin@legalscholars.ac.uk</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12963065.post-18305995558837959922012-01-23T21:03:00.000+01:002012-02-02T16:20:41.147+01:00CALL FOR PAPERS: International Conference on Judicial Independence and Globalization<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>International Conference on Judicial Independence and Globalization </b></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Sponsored by City University of Hong Kong</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">In collaboration with The Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Centre for Public Law, University of Cambridge</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">21-23 March 2012</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Registration fee for speakers / participants is HK $2,500 (which includes all meals and conference materials, but excludes accommodation charges) Please refer to the registration form for details. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Please make your cheque / bank draft payable to the City University of Hong Kong. An official acknowledgement receipt will be sent to you. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The conference hotel is Royal Park Hotel. Participants who are interested in taking part into the conference and wish our assistance in hotel accommodation can send a hotel reservation form to Ms Emily Chow, School of Law, CityU for central coordination. The reservation form will be made available at a later stage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Should you need further information or have questions, please do not hesitate to contact us <a href="mailto:wschow@cityu.edu.hk">here</a>.</span><br />
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For a registration form and additional information, please see the <a href="http://www6.cityu.edu.hk/slw/Independence/index.html">original notice</a>.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12963065.post-49639039918383207862012-01-21T00:22:00.003+01:002012-01-21T00:37:28.057+01:00The Civil Law and its Codes: A Journey Through the Americas<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Iou63V-1uFM/Txn4Rr4g7eI/AAAAAAAABJM/I-4dKLwI_bM/s1600/26645_CODE%252520CIVIL%252520final.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 200px; height: 303px; float: left; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5699859786135301602" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Iou63V-1uFM/Txn4Rr4g7eI/AAAAAAAABJM/I-4dKLwI_bM/s400/26645_CODE%252520CIVIL%252520final.jpg" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://www.editionsthemis.com/livres/livre-4816-le-droit-civil-et-ses-codes-parcours-a-travers-les-ameriques.html">Les Editions Thémis</a>, Montreal, published <strong>Le droit civil et ses codes: parcours à travers les Amériques</strong>, a collection of papers presented at a workshop series conducted at the Quebec Research Center of Private and Comparative Law at McGill University, edited by Jimena Andino Dorato, Jean-Frédérick Ménard and Lionel Smith. View the <a href="http://www.editionsthemis.com/uploaded/livre/tableMatieres/24275_tdm-droit-civil.pdf">Table of Contents</a>.</div><div> </div><div>Les neufs juristes conviés par le centre de recherche en droit privé et comparé du Québec de l'Université McGill à parcourir le droit civil à travers les Amériques et leurs codes en dressent un portrait pluriel. Cela dit, comme le relève Benoît Moore dans le rapport de synthèse qui clôt cet ouvrage collectif dans lequel il se penche sur l'unicité, la centralité et la pérennité des "codes d'Amérique", des thèmes récurrents traversent les textes des auteurs, indépendamment de leur origine nationale. Ainsi, on observe l'évolution du rôle normatif du Code civil en Argentine avec Julio César Rivera qui s'attarde notamment à ses interactions avec le common law et la lex mercatoria. On constate aussi, tant avec Olivier Moréteau, qui réfléchit à la place du Code civil en Louisiane qu'avec Jimena Andino Dorate, Graciela Jasa-Silveira et Nelcy Lopez Cuellar qui abordent le dialogue des codes civils avec les normes constitutionnelles et internationales en Argentine , au Mexique et en Colombie, que la place du code civil dans l'univers juridique a beaucoup changé depuis la première vague de codification au 19ème siècle. De même, l'exposé de de José Antônio Peres Gediel sur la modernisation du droit des personnes physiques en réponse aux innovations médicales et scientifiques et dans la foulée de l'adoption par le Brésil d'un nouveau code civil rejoint à la fois le propos sur les défis associés à la réforme et à la recodification du droit privé que livre Luis Muniz-Argüelles à partir de Puerto Rico et le point de vue québécois de Sophie Morin sur l'avenir du Code civil du Québec. Tel que l'évoquent en ouverte Jimena Andino Dorato, Jean-Frédérick Ménard et Lionel Smith, cet ouvrage pose un regard renouvelé sur le droit civil tel qu'il s'est développé sur le continent américain et constitue une excellente introduction à son étude comparée. </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12963065.post-69721953331516105442012-01-17T09:52:00.000+01:002012-01-17T09:52:28.851+01:00NOTICE: Pargendler on the Rise and Decline of Legal Families<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Mariana Pargendler (Fundação Getulio Vargas School of Law at São Paulo)'s <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1975273&download=yes">'The Rise and Decline of Legal Families'</a> (2012) 60 <em>American Journal of Comparative Law</em> is now available on SSRN. <br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://www.canbyclinic.org/images/CFPC_Logo_ringed.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200px" src="http://www.canbyclinic.org/images/CFPC_Logo_ringed.gif" width="200px" /></a>The abstract reads:</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The effort to group jurisdictions around the world into a handful of legal families based on common characteristics of their laws has traditionally occupied a central role in the comparative law literature. This Article revisits the intellectual history of comparative law and surveys the evolution of legal family taxonomies from the first efforts at classification in the late-nineteenth century to the influential categorizations advanced by René David and Zweigert and Kötz in the 1960s. The early taxonomies differed from their modern counterparts in important ways. Although the nineteenth century is usually viewed as the apex of the common-civil law dichotomy, this distinction was conspicuously absent from legal family classifications until the twentieth century. A number of economic and political factors – ranging from economic liberalism to anti-colonialist sentiment – likely played a role in minimizing the salience of legal traditions in nineteenth-century legal thought. </span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12963065.post-13680475270415653572012-01-14T20:19:00.000+01:002012-01-14T20:19:47.784+01:00NOTICE: New German Law Journal<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The editors of the <em>German Law Journal</em> has recently circulated a message about the latest issue:<br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/27541_132136566822720_7458_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="129" id="il_fi" src="http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/27541_132136566822720_7458_n.jpg" style="padding-bottom: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px;" width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">Dear Readers: </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">We are pleased to announce that the new issue of the <em>German Law Journal</em>, Review of Developments in German, European and International Jurisprudence, is now available at </span><a href="http://www.germanlawjournal.com/"><span style="font-size: x-small;">www.germanlawjournal.com</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">. </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This issue marks the beginning of a new year and of volume 13 of the Journal. It features excellent scholarship in a variety of fields, including Public International Law's engagement with the unruly discourse on Global Constitutionalism, contested issues of territoriality in the Balkans, the newly revised OECD Guidelines for Multinational Corporations, a case review of recent jurisprudence in EU law, an essay on copyright licensing as well as an interview with German constitutional law professor Christoph Moellers about the Federal Constitutional Court. </span></div><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">What are we missing? Yes, another true gem in this month's issue: A Book Review Symposium on new publications in the area of Human Rights! It was conceived by GLJ student editor, Tiffany Wong, of Osgoode Hall Law School, around the time of her graduation in 2011, with contributions authored by law students at Osgoode Hall and at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Law, and edited by the excellent editorial team at Osgoode. Bravo to all! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">As always: Happy reading and, this time still, a very happy new year! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Russell Miller </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Peer Zumbansen </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Editors in Chief, German Law Journal </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The 4th Annual ISCL Conference will take place on 2-3 March 2012 at the Faculty of Law, University College Cork, Ireland.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">See the <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=12963065&postID=5580601057344295594">original Call for Papers</a> or contact </span><a href="mailto:b.sage@ucc.ie"><span style="font-size: large;">b.sage@ucc.ie</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> for additional information.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12963065.post-87449835160757856172011-12-18T15:05:00.000+01:002011-12-18T15:05:46.867+01:00CALL FOR PAPERS: The Irish Constitution: Past, Present and Future<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">The <strong><a href="http://www.ucd.ie/law/research/constitutionalstudiesgroup/">Constitutional Studies Group at University College Dublin</a></strong> invites submissions for a conference on “The Irish Constitution: Past, Present and Future”. The conference is being organised to mark the 75th anniversary of the enactment of the current Irish Constitution and will take place in Dublin between June 28th and 30th, 2012.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">The conference line-up will feature a range of distinguished speakers from Ireland and other jurisdictions. Confirmed participants so far include:</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://www.ucd.ie/tramp/images/ucd_brandmark_colour.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" id="il_fi" src="http://www.ucd.ie/tramp/images/ucd_brandmark_colour.jpg" style="padding-bottom: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px;" width="135" /></a>• The Chief Justice of Ireland, the Hon. Mrs. Justice Susan Denham</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">• The Hon. Mr. Justice Donal O'Donnell of the Supreme Court</div>• Prof. Philip Pettit (Princeton)<br />
• Prof. Mark Tushnet (Harvard)<br />
• Prof. Cheryl Saunders (Melbourne)<br />
• Prof. Deirdre Curtin (Amsterdam)<br />
• Prof Gerry Whyte (TCD)<br />
• Prof. Martin Loughlin (LSE)<br />
• Dr. Aileen Kavanagh (Oxford)<br />
• Dr. Colm O’Cinneide (UCL)<br />
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The conference organisers welcome proposals from all disciplines on any topic relevant to Irish constitutionalism. Proposed papers are not required to focus on Irish law alone. The organisers particularly welcome submissions from a comparative, conceptual or inter-disciplinary perspective.<br />
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The organisers also welcome submissions from early career researchers. A small number of bursaries are available to cover the travel costs of researchers who have been conferred with their most recent qualification in the five years before June 1 2012 and whose proposals are regarded by the organisers as a leading example of innovative research.<br />
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Possible areas of interest might include:<br />
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• The implications of the IMF/EU bailout for domestic constitutionalism<br />
• The European Union, the Constitution and the Irish courts<br />
• Calls for constitutional reform in Ireland: economic crisis as a constitutional moment?<br />
• How to organise a process of constitutional reform<br />
• Property rights and the property crash: is there a relationship between constitutional theory and economic policy?<br />
• Republican thought and the 1937 Constitution<br />
• Popular sovereignty and the use of the referendum in Ireland<br />
• The relationship between the common law and a written Constitution<br />
• Ireland’s relationship with the Commonwealth between 1921 and 1937<br />
• Defining the state: National identity and territorial claims under the 1937 Constitution<br />
• The influence of religion and religious identity on Irish constitutional law<br />
• The 1937 Constitution and its commitment to the idea of natural law<br />
• The right to education in the Irish Constitution and the judicial enforcement of socio-economic entitlements<br />
• The relationship between the Irish and Indian Constitutions<br />
• The influence of American constitutional thought on Irish constitutionalism<br />
• The horizontal application of constitutional rights: lessons from the Irish experience?<br />
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Persons interested in participating in the event should submit an abstract of no more than 800 words together with a covering letter and CV. Submissions should be made to <a href="mailto:ucd2012@gmail.com">ucd2012@gmail.com</a>.<br />
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Early career researchers should state in their covering letter if they wish to be considered for a travel bursary. They should also include a short explanation of why they feel they should be provided with one of the available bursaries.<br />
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Submissions should be received by February 29th, 2012.<br />
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Once a selection is made by the organisers, final papers must be submitted by June 1st, 2012.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12963065.post-66534904504346091342011-12-15T22:50:00.000+01:002011-12-15T22:50:00.985+01:00CALL FOR PAPERS: Doing Justice - Official and Unofficial ‘Legalities’ in Practice<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Doing Justice: Official and Unofficial ‘Legalities’ in Practice</span></strong><br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/373055_277044279014254_35072609_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" id="il_fi" src="http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/373055_277044279014254_35072609_n.jpg" style="padding-bottom: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px;" width="180" /></a><em><a href="http://jurisdiversitas.blogspot.com/">Juris Diversitas</a></em> is organising, with the <em><a href="http://www.cjb.ma/">Centre Jacques-Berque</a></em> (Rabat, Morocco), a colloquium to be held in Rabat from 15-16 June 2012. As a follow-up to last year’s launch of the Mediterranean Hybridity Project, its theme will be the relation of the diverse and lived ‘legalities’, both official and unofficial, in the region. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">The event will also serve as the 2012 <em>Juris Diversitas</em> Annual General Meeting. Proceedings will be in English and French.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">The extraordinary legal and normative hybridity of the Mediterranean region was produced in a complex history of conquest, colonisation, and social and legal diffusion across shifting and porous political boundaries. </div><br />
The objective of the Mediterranean Hybridity Project is, through a collaborative international and interdisciplinary network of experts, to produce and publish a comparative or cross-cultural collection on these ‘legalities’. On the basis of a questionnaire agreed with the participants, the outcome will be more accurate, useful, and accessible account of Mediterranean hybridity. The presentations made at the colloquium will assist us in this Project.<br />
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A draft discussion of the Mediterranean Hybridity Project is available at <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1874095">http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1874095</a>; a revised version will appear shortly in the <em><a href="http://www.law.lsu.edu/index.cfm?geaux=jcls.home">Journal for Civil Law Studies</a></em>.<br />
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<strong>Proposals and costs</strong><br />
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While the primary focus of the colloquium is on the region, especially with respect to the Mediterranean Project, related proposals on ‘legalities’ beyond the Mediterranean are also welcome. Those interested in making a presentation should send a short (250 word) proposal to Baudouin Dupret (<a href="mailto:baudouin.dupret@cjb.ma">baudouin.dupret@cjb.ma</a>) by 7 February 2012.<br />
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In general, transportation and accommodation costs are not paid by the organisers. There are, however, no conference fees for <em>Juris Diversitas</em> members and other invited speakers. The conference fee for other attendees will be €100. The Centre will support the costs of several invited speakers coming from Arab countries.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12963065.post-40197635179282840812011-12-10T23:51:00.000+01:002011-12-10T23:51:36.366+01:00NOTICE: 2012 Thematic Congress of International Academy of Comparative Law<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://www.law.ntu.edu.tw/iacl/images/right_logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" id="il_fi" src="http://www.law.ntu.edu.tw/iacl/images/right_logo.jpg" style="padding-bottom: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px;" width="163" /></a><span>The <a href="http://www.law.ntu.edu.tw/iacl/law.html">2012 Thematic Congress of <em>International Academy of Comparative Law</em></a> is being hosted by the College of Law at National Taiwan University, on May 24-26, 2012. </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span>The general theme of the congress is codification, with the second day (May 25) dedicated to the sub-theme “Codification and Legal Transplant: the East Asia Experience”, focusing on Taiwan, Japan, Korea and China.</span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12963065.post-21826964306453924322011-12-01T14:59:00.000+01:002011-12-01T14:59:25.959+01:00NOTICE: Husa and Smits on Comparative Functionalism<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The following <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1965933">'Dialogue on Comparative Functionalism'</a> between Jaakko Husa and Jan Smits may be of interest:<br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://repec.imdea.org/newsletter/images/jc_maastricht_journal.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><img border="0" src="http://repec.imdea.org/newsletter/images/jc_maastricht_journal.jpg" /></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">The use of the functional method when comparing legal systems remains debated, even to such an extent that some authors have discarded functionalism as a fruitful method. The two authors of this paper ask what we can still expect from functionalism. While Husa presents an argument in favor of rule-of-thumb functionalism, Smits claims that functionalism has a bright future if it is reshaped. The authors present their arguments by way of a dialogue that was written for the ‘Legal debates’-section of the Maastricht <em>Journal of European and Comparative Law</em>.</span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12963065.post-89511718856379757962011-11-30T10:46:00.000+01:002011-11-30T10:46:45.745+01:00NOTICE: A Decade of the German Law Journal<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The newest issue of the <em><a href="http://www.germanlawjournal.com/">German Law Journal</a></em> is available. In addition, the editors note the publication of <em><a href="http://oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Law/LegalProfessionandPracticeManage/~~/dmlldz11c2EmY2k9OTc4MDE5OTc5NTIwOA==?view=usa&sf=toc&ci=9780199795208">Comparative Law as Transnational Law: A Decade of the German Law Journal</a></em> (OUP).<br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://images.indiebound.com/208/795/9780199795208.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200px" src="http://images.indiebound.com/208/795/9780199795208.jpg" width="131px" /></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">This issue is packed to the rim with first-rate, exciting scholarship and it is ---- collaborative! Have a look at our call for papers in conjunction with the English translation of Hermann Kantorowicz's 1906 article on "Der Kampf um die Rechtswissenschaft" in the context of a growing discontent with legal formalism and positivism.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Other highlights in this issue are the articles and case reviews concerning one of the most important constitutional law cases out of Germany in recent years, concerning the so-called Hartz IV payments to social welfare recipients. The landmark decision is discussed in the context of a more comprehensive assessment of the trajectories and the prospects of the much-acclaimed German welfare state system.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Furthermore, you find in this issue a comparative study on the abortion rights cases in both </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;">the U.S. and Germany. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">We are one issue away from drawing this year, the Journal's twelfth volume, to an end, and we would like to extend our gratitude and appreciation to our readers, authors and students who continue to make the Journal's publication worthwhile - and possible. We do receive a very high number of submissions and, as a result, are sometimes facing longer delays in our peer-review process, for which we ask for your patience and understanding. </span><br />
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The book is described as follows:<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">At more than 500 pages, the volume collects selected scholarship from the Journal published over the first ten years of its existence. The book is but a glimpse into the wealth and originality which our authors have contributed and continue to contribute to the Journal. Its breadth and scope illustrate the mandate of the Journal to provide an open, critical forum for transnational legal debate and inquiry. We are immensely grateful to all who have been part of this endeavor over the years. And we do apologize to all of our authors, whose piece did not find its way into the book,but remains equally visible and available through the <a href="http://germanlawjournal.com/index.php?pageID=2">Online Archive of the Journal</a>, which collects the entire Journal from 2000 to the present day. The book is not the tip of an iceberg, but a small spotlight of what we have come to appreciate as a most enriching and inspiring, certainly also time-consuming, journey. The law has been undergoing tremendous change, comparative lawyers have more and more moved from the periphery into substantive areas of legal practice and theory, realizing that national reference points of their subject matter have become accompanied, challenged and relativized by an increasingly transnational world of law and regulatory governance. The Journal has developed into a forum, where the transformation of national law in a global world has been one of our work's prime focal points, and the global origin of the work published in the German Law Journal suggests that there is an interest in this inquiry. For its ongoing vitality and seriousness, we are grateful.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12963065.post-81614597962582556782011-11-21T17:54:00.000+01:002011-11-21T17:54:24.896+01:00NOTICE: Uzelac and van Rhee on The Landscape of the Legal Professions in Europe and the USA<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Intersentia has published another volume in the <em><a href="http://intersentia.com/Serie.aspx?serieCode=IUS&langId=2">Ius Commune Europaeum</a></em> series. A Uzelac and CH van Rhee (eds), <em><a href="http://intersentia.com/SearchDetail.aspx?bookId=102058&title=The%20Landscape%20of%20the%20Legal%20Professions%20in%20Europe%20and%20the%20USA:%20Continuity%20and%20Change">The Landscape of the Legal Professions in Europe and the USA: Continuity and Change</a></em> <br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://www.intersentia.be/Files/Books/Cover/9781780680149.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img align="left" alt="The Landscape of the Legal Professions in Europe and the USA: Continuity and Change" border="0" class="DetailBookCover" id="MainContent_imgBook" src="http://www.intersentia.be/Files/Books/Cover/9781780680149.jpg" style="width: 125px;" /></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">deals with recent developments in the legal profession in Europe and in the United States of America from a comparative and historical perspective. Apart from discussing the legal profession in general, specific attention is paid to the Latin Notary, the Advocates, the Rechtspfleger, the State Attorney, court experts, and mediators and arbitrators. Topics addressed include the decline of Big Law in the U.S., the classification of court experts as legal professionals in Italy, the demise of anticompetitive measures in the modern legal services market, as well as the question whether mediators should be classified as ‘new’ legal professionals given the fact that mediation services are currently being offered by many of the ‘old’ legal service providers. The volume concludes with a contribution on the collaboration of various legal professions in providing for the needs of legal practice. </span></div><br />
The <a href="http://intersentia.com/Files/Books/Inhoudstafel/9781780680149.pdf">table of contents</a> includes:<br />
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<li><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Judge</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Latin Notary</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Advocate</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Rechtspfleger and the State Attorney</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Court Expert</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Mediator and the Arbitrator</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Legal Profession: Cooperation in the Shaping of the Law</span></li>
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Lider Lab of Scuola Sant'Anna in collaboration with the Confucius Institute of Pisa would like to invite you to the workshop on "Alternative Dispute Resolution Models in China and Western Countries Practice".</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The workshop will be held in English language on November 25-26, 2011 at Scuola Superiore S.Anna in Pisa.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">For further information and application, please visit </span><a href="http://www.lider-lab.sssup.it/lider/it/didattica-e-conferenze/aggiornamenti/306-workshop-alternative-dispute-resolution-models-in-china-and-western-countries-practice.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.lider-lab.sssup.it/lider/it/didattica-e-conferenze/aggiornamenti/306-workshop-alternative-dispute-resolution-models-in-china-and-western-countries-practice.html</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> (page in Italian) or contact us directly at </span><a href="mailto:formazione@lider-lab.org"><span style="font-size: x-small;">formazione@lider-lab.org</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">. </span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12963065.post-46345593446531033642011-11-07T10:05:00.000+01:002011-11-07T10:05:27.257+01:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LZwDjj0-knU/S2lybAWoPNI/AAAAAAAAALg/s-65E2uK9Ws/s1600/UMAC+Logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LZwDjj0-knU/S2lybAWoPNI/AAAAAAAAALg/s-65E2uK9Ws/s200/UMAC+Logo.jpg" /></a><strong>University of Macau</strong></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><strong>Macau Association of Comparative Law</strong></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><strong>International Conference</strong></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><strong>11 November 2011</strong></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">9.30 – 9.50 Welcome Speeches</div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Prof. Liu Gaolong, Interim Dean, Faculty of Law of the University of Macau</li>
<li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Prof. Paulo Canelas de Castro, Associate Professor of European Union Law, University of Macau, Jean Monnet Chair</li>
<li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Prof. Salvatore Mancuso, Associate Professor of Comparative Law, University of Macau; President of the Macau Association of Comparative Law</li>
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10.00 – 11.15 1st Session: Comparative Law: methodologies and development<br />
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Chair: Prof. Salvatore Mancuso, Professor of Comparative Law, University of Macau; President of the Macau Association of Comparative Law<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Prof. Mauro Bussani, Professor of Comparative Law, University of Trieste, Italy: Comparative Law Beyond the Trap of Western Positivism</li>
<li>Prof. Rostam J. Neuwirth, Associate Professor of Law, University of Macau: Law and the Mind: A New Role for Comparative Law?</li>
<li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Prof. Sean Donlan, Professor of Comparative Law and Legal History, University Limerick, Ireland: The Ubiquity of Hybridity: Norms and Laws, Past and Present, and Around the Globe</li>
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">11.15 – 11.30 Coffee break</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">11.30 – 12.45 2nd Session: Comparative Law in the International Legal Framework</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Chair: Prof. Mauro Bussani, Professor of Comparative Law, University of Trieste, Italy</div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Prof. Salvatore Casabona, Associate Professor of Comparative Law, University of Palermo, Italy: “Shaken but not Stirred” Legal Systems: Some Rhapsodic Considerations on the Category of “Mixed Legal Systems”</li>
<li>Prof. Muruga Perumal Ramaswamy, Associate Professor of International Law, University of Macau: Comparative International Law: Emerging Trends and Methods</li>
<li>Prof. Wei Dan, Associate Professor of Law, University of Macau: Analytical Comparison as a Challenge for International and Comparative Competition Law</li>
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">12.45 – 14.30 Lunch</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">14.30 – 15.45 3rd Session: Comparative Law in an East Asian Perspective</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Chair: Prof. Tong Io Cheng, Professor of Law and Associate Dean, University of Macau</div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Prof. Ignazio Castellucci, Professor of Chinese Law, University of Trento, Italy, Visiting Pro <div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div>fessor, University of Macau: Comparative Law in Asia</li>
<li>Prof. Zhang Lihong, Professor of Comparative Law and Roman Law, East China University of Political Science and Law, Shanghai, China: The Development of Comparative Law in China</li>
<li>Prof. Chao Wang, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Macau: Conservative Political Nature and Subservient Judiciary: An Illiberal Model of Rule of Law in Postwar Japan</li>
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15.45 – 16.00 Coffee break<br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">16.00 – 17.15 4th Session: Comparative Law between Portugal and Macau</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Chair: Prof. Paulo Canelas de Castro, Associate Professor of European Union Law, University of Macau, Jean Monnet Chair</div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Prof. Dario Moura Vicente, Professor of Comparative Law, University of Lisbon, Portugal: The Common Law of Portuguese-speaking Countries and Territories</li>
<li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Prof. Paula Nunes Correia, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Macau: The Macanese Legal System: a Comparative Law Perspective</li>
<li>Prof. Augusto Teixeira Garcia, Associate Professor of Commercial Law and Associate Dean, University of Macau: The Commercial Code and Comparative Law: a Happy Marriage?</li>
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">17.15 – 17.30 Conference Closing remarks </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Prof. Salvatore Mancuso, Associate Professor of Comparative Law, University of Macau; President of the Macau Association of Comparative Law</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12963065.post-55806010573442955942011-11-03T16:00:00.001+01:002011-11-03T16:00:53.170+01:00CALL FOR PAPERS: Irish Society of Comparative Law Conference (2-3 March 2012)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">CALL FOR PAPERS</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><em><a href="http://www.irishsocietyofcomparativelaw.blogspot.com/"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">IRISH SOCIETY OF COMPARATIVE LAW</span></strong></a></em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">4th Annual General Meeting and Conference</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd March 2012</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">Faculty of Law, University College Cork</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Papers placing Irish law in comparative perspective are especially encouraged, but any topic in comparative or legal systems may be proposed: Private and Public Law, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, Taxation, Legal Education, Legal History, etc. Research in the area of Law and Language and Translation will be considered with interest. Papers on European or International law will also be considered.</div><a name='more'></a><br />
The primary objective of the Irish Society of Comparative Law is to encourage the comparative study of law and legal systems. Students fully registered for a masters in law, or law-related area (LL.M, MA) are therefore encouraged to submit papers, and a special ISCL Young Researcher Prize will be awarded to the best paper delivered by a student in this category. <br />
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Proposal should be short (250 words) and sent to <a href="mailto:b.sage@ucc.ie">b.sage@ucc.ie</a>.<br />
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The deadline for receipt of proposals is Tuesday 3rd January 2012. You do not have to be a member of the ISCL to propose a paper. <br />
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The Annual General Meeting and first plenary address by Dr Simone Glanert, University of Kent, will take place on Friday 2nd March. Conference sessions, the second plenary address (speaker TBC) and conference dinner will take place on Saturday 3rd March. Registration forms and additional information will be available shortly. <br />
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The Irish Society of Comparative Law was established in June 2008 and is recognised by the International Academy of Comparative Law. The ISCL is open to those interested in Irish and comparative law. Its purpose is to encourage the comparative study of law and legal systems and to seek affiliation with individuals and organisations with complimentary aims. Queries should be directed to the Secretary of the Society, Dr Bénédicte Sage-Fuller, Faculty of Law, University College Cork, at <a href="mailto:b.sage@ucc.ie">b.sage@ucc.ie</a>.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12963065.post-84388498115488924272011-11-01T20:47:00.000+01:002011-11-01T20:47:37.307+01:00CALL FOR PAPERS: ASCL Younger Comparativists Committee Conference - New Perspectives in Comparative Law<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I've been asked to post the following:<br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.comparativelaw.org/">AMERICAN SOCIETY OF COMPARATIVE LAW</a></em></strong></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/71076_355198012564_3080537_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="144" id="il_fi" src="http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/71076_355198012564_3080537_n.jpg" style="padding-bottom: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px;" width="146" /></a><a href="http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/71076_355198012564_3080537_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><strong></strong></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>YOUNGER COMPARATIVISTS COMMITTEE</strong></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT: </strong></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>NEW PERSPECTIVES IN COMPARATIVE LAW</strong></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Younger Comparativists Committee of the American Society of Comparative Law is pleased to invite submissions for its inaugural conference to be held on April 20, 2012, at George Washington University Law School in Washington, DC. The purpose of the conference is to highlight and develop the scholarship of new and younger comparativists, hence the title of the conference: New Perspectives in Comparative Law.</span></div><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Submissions will be accepted on any subject of public or private comparative law from scholars who have been engaged as law teachers, lecturers, fellows, or another academic capacity for no more than ten years as of June 30, 2012.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Members of the Younger Comparativists Committee’s Scholarship Advisory Group will review submissions with the authors’ identities concealed. The Scholarship Advisory Group will select a best paper which will be showcased during a plenary panel with comments from senior scholars in the area. Other papers will be assigned to separate panels according to subject.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The American Society of Comparative Law has generously agreed to provide a limited number of modest stipends toward travel expenses for participants with a demonstrable need of financial assistance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">To submit an entry, scholars should submit completed papers no longer than 30,000 words (including footnotes) no later than February 15, 2012, to Judy Yi at the following address: </span><a href="mailto:judy.yi@bc.edu"><span style="font-size: x-small;">judy.yi@bc.edu</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">. Papers should reflect original research that will not yet have been published by the time of the conference. The paper should be accompanied by a separate cover sheet indicating the author’s name, title of the paper, institutional affiliation, and contact information. The paper itself must not contain any references that identify the author or the author’s institutional affiliation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The final conference program will be circulated no later than March 26, 2012.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The Younger Comparativists Committee is delighted to thank George Washington University Law School for serving as our host for the conference, in particular Claudia Haupt for coordinating the event, and Markus Wagner of the University of Miami School of Law for chairing the Program Committee.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Please direct all inquiries to Richard Albert, Chair of the Younger Comparativists Committee, by email at </span><a href="mailto:richard.albert@bc.edu"><span style="font-size: x-small;">richard.albert@bc.edu</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> or telephone at 617.552.3930.</span></span> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0