Comparative Law News

The Acta of the 17th European Forum of Young Legal Historians, held in Maastricht in April 2011, are out. Janwillem Oosterhuis and Emmanuel Van Dongen compiled contributions from Tomislav Karlovic, Henrik-Riko Held, Dave De ruysscher, Valerio Massimo Minale, Paulina Swiecicka, Augustin Parise, Merike Ristekivi, Stefan Weishaar, Tamas Notari, Paulo Potiara de Alcantara Veloso, Frederik Dhondt, Raymond Kubben, Christoph Schmetterer, Diego Nunes, Laszlo Komaromi and Gabor Batho.
In the editors' words: "European legal traditions can be characterised as a continuous balancing act of two seemingly contradictory forces: centralisation and de-centralisation. On the one hand, Justinian’s Corpus iuris, the medieval ius commune of Roman and Canon law, the usus modernus pandectarum, and the current European harmonisation efforts all have a centralizing  or  rather  an  integrative  quality  about  them.  While the ius proprium, including the English Common law, and particularly the national codifications of the 19th century, as well as the study of these laws, exhibit more diverse, decentralizing forces within European legal traditions. This  volume  shows  how  comparative  legal  history  can be  used  as  a  tool  to  analyse  similarities  and  differences between legal systems. It aims to provide a deeper understanding of common strands in law shared by European countries,  in  particular  those  (i)  at  a  substantive  level, through shared legal ideas and principles such as clausula rebus sic stantibus, unjustified enrichment, cessio bonorum,  subsidiarity  or  popular  sovereignty;  (ii)  at  a  formal level, through a common legal language; and created (iii) by scholarly networks and (iv) appellate courts. Above all, these contributions – though eclectic in their subject matter, time period and methodology – all reflect from a historical perspective on the fascinating, diverse European legal traditions."
The book counts 256 pages and can be ordered with Wolf Legal Publishers for € 24,95.
A flyer can be found here.

Resolution of Jewish Disputes in England 1154-1290 19 February 2013, 18:00 - 19:00

Speakers: Professor Derek Roebuck, IALS Senior Associate Research Fellow, and author of 'Mediation and Arbitration in the Middle Ages: England 1154-1558' (Arbitration Press, 2013).

Organised by: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Event Type: Lecture

Venue: IALS

Venue Details: 

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies 

Charles Clore House 

17 Russell Square 

London 

WC1B 5DR

Description This event is FREE but those wishing to attend should register in advance. To register, please use the the automatic form below. A Lecture in a Series of Occasional Lectures in Jewish Law in the names of Leah and Alexander Woolf.

  Glossae: Revista de Historia del Derecho Europeo, a legal history journal published from 1988 to 1996 has been revived.

GLOSSAE -  European Journal of Legal History has preserved its original, international character, accepting works on legal history on a wide variety of themes, chronological and geographical contexts, and within the Western legal tradition or beyond.
The journal is also published online now and its articles, including those of the first series (1988-1996), can be freely accessed and downloaded.  
The first issue of the new series came out in December. 
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Glossae's Editorial Board has decided to publish the next issue in honour of Professor Antonio Pérez Martín, Catedrático Emérito Honorario of Legal History (University of Murcia) and founder of the journal. The Board is especially interested in contributions from those who know Professor Pérez Martín.

To submit an article for this issue or any other, please consult the rules and instructions for publication. The deadline for submissions is 9 September 2013 and texts should be submitted to aniceto.masferrer@uv.es. 

Charles Insley's 'Kings and Lords in Tenth-Century Cornwall' has just appeared in (2012) 98 History 2:

The cementing of English political control over Cornwall and the British of the south-west in the tenth century falls between the creation of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms between the sixth and seventh centuries, and the burst of English expansionism at the expense of the Welsh, Scots and Irish that occupied the two centuries following the Norman Conquest of England. Consequently, the absorption of Cornwall into the English state tends to be a rather neglected subject. This article provides some redress of this neglect and examines, through a consideration of not just the historical narratives but also charters and manumissions, the way in which the kings of the English and their agents extended royal control over Cornwall between the late ninth century and the mid-eleventh. These processes, while making Cornwall part of the new kingdom of the English, also allowed the maintenance of a highly distinctive local identity well into the later medieval period and beyond.

The new issue (vol. 17, No. 10: Feb. 6, 2013) of the Legal History eJournal (Reva B. Siegel ed.: reva.siegel@yale.edu; Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law, Yale University - Law School),  is now available.

To read the abstracts click here




Table of Contents
Slavery, Executive Power and International Law: The Haitian Revolution and American Constitutionalism Robert Reinstein, Temple University - James E. Beasley School of Law
Legal Science as a Source of Law: A Late Reply to Puchta by Kantorowicz Alexander Somek, University of Iowa - College of Law

The New EU Legal History: What's New, What's Missing? Mark A. Pollack, Temple University - Dep. of Political Science, Temple University - James E. Beasley School of Law
Cite Club Ross E. Davies, George Mason University School of Law, The Green Bag
Amendment XIV and Federal Pension Obligations: A Response to Professor Michael McConnell Seth Barrett Tillman, National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUI Maynooth) - Faculty of Law
How Antitrust Lost Its Goal Barak Orbach, University of Arizona
Trends in Gun Law: The Changing Interpretation of the Second Amendment Over Time Matthew William Loeser, Independent
German Law  Helge Dedek, McGill University - Faculty of Law, Institute of Comparative Law  Martin Schermaier, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitaet - Institute of Roman Law and Comparative Legal History 

PIMIC‐ITN: Power and Institutions in Medieval Islam and Christendom, an integrated training network in research and diffusion for comparative history, is offering 10 PhD Fellowships (each worth c. 50,000 Euros per annum for three years)



Deadline 24 March 2013
“Power and Institutions in Medieval Islam and Christendom” is a research project which will develop from 2013 to 2016. It has been funded as a ‘Marie Curie Initial Training Network’ with a grant of 3.3 million euros. The project combines academic research on medieval power and institutions with training in the wider dissemination of research‐based knowledge, based on a formal network established between universities and private sector companies and funded by the European Union. It provides funding for 10 PhDs at universities in Spain, Britain, Italy,France, and Israel, and two postdoctoral positions, one based at a Dutch publisher (Brill), one at a Spanish TV/film company (Lopez‐Li). During their studies, the PhD students will all have secondments to the publisher and the film company, the post‐docs will come to the Universities to run sessions on print and media diffusion of research. Further training workshops are provided, on academic and other skills, as well as a larger‐scale ‘Media School for Historians’. The project concludes with a conference on ‘Consequences in the Contemporary World.’PIMIC Academic PartnersCCHS‐CSIC (Coordinator): Dr. Ana Rodríguez University of St. Andrews: Dr. John Hudson Universitá Roma Tre: Dr. Emanuele Conte Birkbeck College London: Dr. Caroline Humfress Universitá Roma Tor Vergata: Dr. Sandro CarocciUniversity of Tel Aviv: Dr. Gadi Algazi
Université Paris I‐Panthéon‐Sorbonne: Dr. Michel Kaplan School of Oriental and African Studies: Dr. Hugh KennedyPIMIC Private Sector PartnersLopez‐Li Films (Spain)
Brill Publishers (Netherlands)
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Contact: pimic@cchs.csic.es

More info:  http://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/http://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/

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Vacancy for Senior Academic Staff “Legal History 1” (starting date 1 October 2013) The Faculty of Law and the Research Unit for Roman Law and Legal History invite applications for a fulltime position as a member of the Senior Academic Staff in the field of legal history. The assignment consists of teaching in an academic context, scientific research and additional duties of an academic nature, along with those to the wider society.


ASSIGNMENT Research The assignment is comprised of research into legal history, with an emphasis on the history of European public law. The candidate can prove his interest in constitutional law and the construction of societies, criminal law, procedural law, international law or human rights. Preferably, the candidate should be adept in the comparative study of historical law, have a view on the Europeanisation of legal scholarship and see legal history as an integral part of legal thought. The candidate will be expected to conduct research at an international level in an independent manner. Part of his/her assignment will be to develop – in cooperation with other members of the research unit – an international and competitive research programme, and to strive for excellent scientific results. The supervision of PhDs will also be part of his/her range of duties. The candidate is expected to add a proposal for a medium-term research programme to his/her application file. Teaching It is expected of the candidate that his/her teaching meet the requirements concerning the standard, orientation and academic character demanded of academic programmes of study. The commitment of the candidate to the quality of the academic programmes as a whole, is considered self-evident. Teaching assignments will include the education of large numbers of students. The candidate may be required to teach at the campuses of Leuven, Kortrijk, Brussels and Hasselt. Furthermore, he/she will organize seminars for smaller groups, will provide the individual supervision of master’s theses and will allot ample time to the education of PhD students. Additional duties It is expected of the candidate that he/she be willing to contribute to the services the university provides to the community, and that he/she should also be willing, in the long term, to accept policy functions at the faculty. The candidate will also be at the disposal of the government, the society and the press for the provision of scientific services and information.
REQUIREMENTS The candidate must hold a doctoral degree and at least one degree that was awarded by a faculty of law. The candidate must clearly possess growth potential. His/her list of publications must also show a commitment to international research in the field of legal history. A thorough perspective on and the capacity to acquire external funding is a plus. Preferably, he/she should have experience with teaching in an academic context and possess demonstrable didactic skills. Moreover, he/she must have mastered the techniques necessary to test the knowledge and skills of large groups. Experience with research-based education is an asset. Candidates who do not speak Dutch will be expected to have achieved sufficient mastery of the language after three years, so that they can provide education in Dutch properly. The candidate has to be prepared to acquaint himself/herself with new legal topics if necessary. The candidate also needs to have the social and executive skills that are necessary to work amicably and flexibly in the teams within the faculty, the research unit and the research group.
OFFER We can offer you a dynamic and international research environment. The Research Unit for Roman Law and Legal History is part of the Faculty of Law. The Faculty has a large national and international network, which is comprised of both academics and legal professionals, at its disposal. The appointment will be made at one of the levels of the autonomous academic staff system (a tenured track with an evaluation after five years at the levels of assistant professor, associate professor or professor), depending on your qualifications. KU Leuven pursues a policy of equal opportunity and diversity.
CONTACT
Prof. dr. Bernard Tilleman, Dean of the Faculty of Law, Bernard.tilleman@law.kuleuven.be
Prof. dr. Laurent Waelkens, Chairman of the Division for Roman Law and Legal History, laurent.waelkens@law.kuleuven.be. 
APPLICATION Candidates are invited to apply online at http://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/vacatures.htm Should you experience any problems with the electronic registration, please contact valerie.vanderborght@kuleuven.be, tel. +32 (0)16 328 325.


Vacancy for Senior Academic Staff “Legal History 2” (starting date 1 October 2013) The Faculty of Law and the Research Unit for Roman Law and Legal History invite applications for a fulltime position as a member of the Senior Academic Staff in the field of legal history. The assignment consists of teaching in an academic context, scientific research and additional duties of an academic nature, along with those to the wider society. ASSIGNMENT Research Conducting research and teaching Dutch courses on legal history, with an emphasis on the history of European private law. The candidate must be interested in the history of various branches of private law, such as the law of property, family law, the law of obligations, international private law or commercial law, but also in, for example, procedural law or the law of evidence. The candidate should have a demonstrable interest in the diverse European systems of private law, ranging from the common law to Eastern European legal history. Preferably, the candidate should be adept at the comparative study of legal history, have a view on the Europeanisation of legal scholarship and on the current research on “law without nations”, and should also view legal history as an integral part of legal thought. Concerning research into the field of legal history, it is expected of the candidate that he will conduct research at an international level in an independent manner. The research unit in Leuven prefers research on the foundations of law that is at the same time “legal history which heals” and which will contribute to the enduring resolution of conflicts in areas in which lawyers from Leuven university will operate. Part of the assignment of the candidate who is appointed will be to develop – in cooperation with other researchers – an international and competitive research programme, and to strive for excellent scientific results. The supervision of PhDs will also be part of the appointed candidate’s range of duties. The candidate is expected to add a proposition for a medium-term research programme to his/her application file. Teaching It is expected of the candidate that his/her teaching meet the requirements concerning the standard, orientation and academic character demanded of academic programmes of study. The commitment of the candidate to the quality of the academic programmes as a whole, is considered self-evident. Teaching assignments will include the education of large numbers of students. The candidate may be required to teach at the campuses of Leuven, Kortrijk, Brussels and Hasselt. Furthermore, he/she will organize seminars for smaller groups, will provide the individual supervision of master’s theses and will allot ample time to the education of PhD students. Additional duties It is expected of the candidate that he/she be willing to contribute to the services the university provides to the community, and that he/she should also be willing, in the long term, to accept policy functions at the faculty. The candidate will also be at the disposal of the government, the society and the press for the provision of scientific services and information.
REQUIREMENTS The candidate must hold a doctoral degree and at least one degree that was awarded by a faculty of law. The candidate must clearly have growth potential. His/her list of publications must show a commitment to international research in the field of legal history. A thorough perspective on and the capacity to acquire external funding is a plus. Preferably, he/she should have experience with teaching in an academic context and possess demonstrable didactic skills. He/she must also have mastered the techniques necessary to test the knowledge and skills of large groups. Experience with research-based education is an asset. Candidates who do not speak Dutch will be expected to have achieved sufficient mastery of the language after three years, so that they can provide education in Dutch properly. The candidate is required to be dynamic and flexible, and to have the necessary executive, organizational and social skills. The candidate must also be willing to acquaint himself with new legal topics, if necessary. The candidate also needs to have the social and executive skills that are necessary to work amicably in the teams within the faculty, the research unit and the research group.
OFFER We can offer you a dynamic and international research environment. The Research Unit for Roman Law and Legal History is part of the Faculty of Law. The Faculty has a large national and international network, which is comprised of both academics and legal professionals, at its disposal. The appointment will be made at one of the levels of the autonomous academic staff system (a tenured track with an evaluation after five years at the levels of assistant professor, associate professor or professor), depending on your qualifications. KU Leuven pursues a policy of equal opportunity and diversity.
CONTACT
Prof. dr. Bernard Tilleman, Dean of the Faculty of Law, Bernard.tilleman@law.kuleuven.be
Prof. dr. Laurent Waelkens, Chairman of the Research Unit for Roman Law and Legal History, laurent.waelkens@law.kuleuven.be. 
APPLICATION Candidates are invited to apply online at http://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/vacatures.htm Should you experience any problems with the electronic registration, please contact valerie.vanderborght@kuleuven.be, tel. +32 (0)16 328 325.

What: International Colloquium “Medieval Europe in motion”  Where: Lisbon When: 18-20 April 2013

Registration deadline: 31 March 2013 

The International Colloquium “Medieval Europe in motion” is directly linked to the current postdoctoral research projects of Dr. Maria Alessandra Bilotta on «Portuguese juridical manuscripts production and illumination between 14th and 15th centuries and theirs connections with manuscripts production and illumination in the French “Midi” (specially Toulouse, Avignon and Montpellier) and in the North-Mediterranean regions (Italy and Cataluña)» and by Alicia Miguélez on «The gesture language in the Lorvão Apocalypse and its rapports with other beatus manuscripts».
It is also related to other on-­going investigations on cultural and artistic circulation during the Middle Ages carried out by the Research Group <Medieval Texts and Images>, coordinated by Prof. Maria Adelaide Miranda at the Institute for Medieval Studies of the Nova University (Lisbon)
The main objective of this initiative is to analyze the influence of circulation, motion and mobility of people, forms and ideas on the artistic creation during the Middle Ages. This is not a completely new topic in the field of Medieval Art Studies as several scientific events have already been organized in the past years on this topic. This Colloquium aims thus to conduct a critical and constructive revision of these matters, proposing new questions to be discussed.
For more information, visit the conference website and the facebook profile. 

This memorandum is to notify you that the ABA-UNDP International Legal Resource Center (ILRC) has received a request provide a commentary on Egypt’s draft Mediation Law. We are in search of 2-3 mediation experts to review the draft law. The Ministry of Justice of Egypt is currently preparing a draft mediation law that incorporates a mix of mediation models - judicial and private, mandatory (for certain cases) and voluntary. Before finalizing this bill, the Ministry is keen to learn from US experience in implementing these models.
We will host Egyptian delegation (mostly from officials from the Ministry of Justice, judges from Economic Courts and Commercial Circuit Courts) on February 21, 2013 and would like to provide them with feedback on this draft law. Therefore, there is a short turnaround for this review. This a pro bono, home based opportunity. Expert(s) will work remotely and no travel will be required. Expert(s) must be available for the next 3-4 weeks to work on this project. Expert(s) will receive the documents to be reviewed via email and return comments and recommendations within the specified timeframe. We expect to begin this project as soon as possible.
The deadline for expressions of interest is February 11th 2013 at 8:00AM EST. Expressions of interest must be emailed to Jacqueline.Gichinga@americanbar.org and include a CV and a short cover letter detailing related and relevant experience.

Qualifications and Experience
Significant extent and duration of experience, knowledge and ability in mediation practice, teaching and training; coordination with governmental executive, legislative and judicial systems, private business and trade and higher education systems; investigation, research, drafting and revision of mediation and dispute resolution rules, procedures and laws; mediation and dispute resolution system design and revision, implementation, evaluation and administration, especially involving international mediation, and in different countries
Optional but valued
a. Language and cultural and historical familiarity in multiple languages and cultures; networks, working relationships and affiliations with international mediation experts and organizations; honors, awards, grants and recognition in mediation development, practice, training, teaching, system design, implementation, evaluation and administration; publications on mediation development, practice, training, teaching and system design, implementation, evaluation and administration; related experience and achievements b. Education and experience in the practice, drafting, evaluation, revision and coordination of the Rule of Law, especially in international contexts and environments c. Language, cultural and historical knowledge of and experience with Egypt d. Experience in the investigation, research, evaluation, drafting and revision mediation and dispute resolution rules, procedures and laws, especially in international mediation, and in and with other countries

Society of European Contract Law (SECOLA)
EUROPEAN CONTRACT LAW AND PROPERTY RIGHTS In collaboration with Universidad de Santiago de Compostela – GI-Derecho Privado Europeo
Invitation to a Conference Santiago de Compostela, 07 and 08 June 2013
Friday, 07 June 2013 9.00 Welcome and Introduction Prof. Javier Lete / Prof. Stefan Grundmann/Prof. Fernando Goméz
9.30–11.15 I. Setting the Framework Chair: Prof. Hugh Collins 1. Property Structures Underlying Contracts Prof. Vincent Forray, Montreal 2. Contract Law and Proprietary Remedies Prof. Sjef van Erp, Maastricht

11.15 Coffee Break
11.45–13.30 3. Contract Law, Liability Rules, and Property Rules Prof. Nuno Manuel Pinto Oliveira, Minho 4. Contract Law and Protection of IP Prof. Richard Epstein, New York
13.30 Lunch
14.45–16.30 II. Contracts and Transaction Costs Chair: Prof. Fernando Goméz 1. Information Disclosure as Transaction Cost Prof. Guido Ferrarini, Genova 2. Property Transactions and Certainty of Title Transfer Prof. Peter Limmer, Würzburg
16.30 Tea Break
17.00–18.45
3. Doing Business Project and European Contract Law Prof. Fabrizio Cafaggi, Florence 4. Common Goods and the Role of Contract Prof. Andrea Nervi, Sassari
18.45 Secola General Assembly
20.30 Conference Dinner
Saturday, 08 June 2013
9.00–10.45 III. Contracts as Marketable Property Chair: Prof. Jacobien Rutgers 1. Securitization of Contracts Prof. Francisco Garcimartin, Madrid 2. Collateralization of Contracts Prof. Eva-Maria Kieninger, Würzburg
10.45 Coffee Break
11.15–13.00
IV. The Interaction between Contract Law and Property Chair: Prof. Pietro Sirena 1. A Comparative Law Approach Prof. Paulo Mota Pinto, Coimbra 2. Contract and Self-help Remedies: The Case of Set-Off in International Contracts Prof. Marta Requejo, Luxembourg
13.00 V. Conclusions Prof. Fernando Goméz / Prof. Javier Lete/Prof. Stefan Grundmann
Conference bureau Dr. Marta Otero-Crespo Phone: 0034 881 814647 Fax: 0034 881 814615 marta.otero.crespo@usc.es
Conference location Salón de actos Facultad de Derecho Campus Vida s/n 15782 Santiago de Compostela

The Rivonia Trial 50 Years On:  the Courtroom as a Space of Resistance 18-20 June 2013 – University of Pretoria
2014 marks the 50th Anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s historic performance of resistance in the Rivonia Trial, an event widely recognized as “the trial that changed South Africa”. Fifty years after Rivonia, law and the courtroom continued to be the prominent, even the pre-eminent, sites of domination and resistance throughout the world. If communism and Nazism formed the spectre that haunted political justice in the second half of the 20th century, terrorism has become its focal concern in the 21st century.
In recent times, a diverse range of thinkers have attempted to rework and reconfigure conceptions of space, resistance, authority, domination, rights, responsibility, justice, and law’s own place in practices of domination and subjectification. The courtroom has been a key public space where these discursive formations are resignified, articulated, navigated, displaced, and enforced. In celebration of the landmark event that was the Rivonia trial, we want to invite papers that explore the hegemonic and subversive potentials of the space of the courtroom in the light of emerging theoretical, sociocultural, and literary interrogations.
We encourage interdisciplinary contributions that explore not only the Rivonia trial, but also other historically and politically significant trials that open up a space for dialogue on the transformative opportunities, communicative or strategic, of the trial. The organizing committee invites proposals that includes but extends well beyond, the following:
· The legacy of the Rivonia trial1 · The legacy of the Treason trial2 · The courtroom as a site of resistance [specific trials] · The Courtroom and technologies of domination [specific trials] · Trials of ‘terrorists’ · The trial of rupture · Performativity, and theatricality in the courtroom
Selected papers will be published as an edited volume on the ‘Legacy of the Rivonia trial’.
Please submit abstracts and proposals of no more than 350 words to rivoniatrial50@gmail.com by 20 April 2013.
Organised by Professor Emilios Christodoulidis (Glasgow), Professor Karin Van Marle (Pretoria), and Awol Allo (Glasgow)

Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4   Helge Dedek and Martin Schermaier's 'German Law', from the second edition of Jan Smits (ed), Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2012), is on SSRN.
The chapter 'aims at a short introduction into the main features of Germany's legal system and legal culture.'

José María Pérez Collados, Samuel Rodrigues Barbosa (eds.),  Juristas de la independencia, Madrid : Marcial Pons, 2012
The book investigates the extraordinary development of independent constitutional states in Latin-America in the 19th century, from México to Guatemala, from Chile to Argentina, from Colombia to Brasil
For more information click here
The book will be presented today, February 7th 2013, at the Casa de América (Plz. De Cibeles, 2. Madrid), at 7:00 pm. More information here 

What: Call for papers for the panel “Relics, altars and other sacred things in the juridical construction of religious spaces in Ibero-America (XV-XVII centuries)” (Panel n° 21) of the Coloquio Internacional Colonial (Mis)understandings. Portugal and Europe in Global Perspective, 1450-1900  Where: Lisboa When: 17-20 July 2013
Deadline: 8 February 2013
The Centre for Overseas History (CHAM) was created in 1996 and is an inter-university research unit affiliated with the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Universidade dos Açores. CHAM currently consists of 212 associated scholars, including 71 full-time researchers, 24 of these are post-doctoral fellows from Portugal, Brazil, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, and the United States. CHAM´s scholars work on interdisciplinary topics related to European expansion, colonialism, and comparative and global histories from antiquity to the nineteenth century. Special emphasis is placed on the history of Portuguese contact with diverse world regions since the early modern period.
For all information about the conference, including the call for papers, please click here. For information about the panel 21, click here

LEGAL THEORY AND LEGAL HISTORY RESEARCH GROUP - EVENTS
[Highly Recommended - SPD]
Research Seminars
If you would like to present a paper, please email Dr Maks Del Mar m.delmar@qmul.ac.uk.
6 March 2013
Legalism: Anthropology and History - Dr Paul Dresch
Dr Paul Dresch, St John's College, Oxford, will discuss his introduction and chapter contribution to Legalism: Anthropology and History (2012).
9 January 2013
Minorities, Pluralism and Law - Professor Maleiha Malik (co-hosted with GLOCUL)
21 November 2012
Authority: Pluralism, Relationships and Relativity
The first Legal Theory and History Group seminar will be given by Dr Nicole Roughan JSD, LLM (Yale), BA/LLB (Auckland). Dr Roughan is formerly a temporary university lecturer in jurisprudence at the University of Cambridge, and lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Her research interests are in philosophy of law, with a particular focus upon theories of authority, legal pluralism, and philosophy of international and indigenous law. Her current research, and the work which she will be discussing, is an excerpt from her forthcoming book, ‘Relative Authority’, forthcoming with Oxford University Press.
Conferences / Workshops
2-13 April 2013
UK IVR Conference 2013 - hosted by the Legal Theory and Legal History Group
The theme for the Conference is: Legal Theory and Legal History: A Neglected Dialogue?
21 November 2012
Professor Eric Heinze's Inaugural Lecture - What is Injustice? Political, Legal and Literary Perspectives
7 September 2012
Systems Theory Workshop: Socio-legal conversations across systems in a world in crisis

ACADÉMIE INTERNATIONALE DE DROIT COMPARÉ  *  INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF COMPARATIVE LAW


Present / présentent
The XIXth International Congress of Comparative Law/Le XIXe Congrès International de droit comparé
Under the patronage of the President of the Federal Republic of Austria /  Sous les auspices du Président de la République Fédérale de l’Autriche
DR. HEINZ FISCHER
Hosted by Interdisciplinary Association of Comparative and Private International Law (IACPIL) / Interdisziplinäre Gesellschaft für Komparatistik und Kollisionsrecht (IGKK) in cooperation with  University of Vienna  and Pan European University Bratislava

July 20 - July 26, 2014 / 20 juillet - 26 juillet 2014 University of Vienna, Austria

Member Louis Assier-Andrieu’s ‘Le crépuscule des cultures: L'affaire Pitcairn et l'idéologie des droits humains/The Twilight of Culture: The Pitcairn Affair and the Ideology of Human Rights’, on the Pitcairn prosecutions and Lawrence Friedman's Human Rights Culture, is now available in Droit and Société.

UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK
POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES IN THE FACULTY OF ARTS, HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
A two year scholarship €12,000 p.a. with EU fees is available for an MA by research or PhD in any of the following schools/departments:

• Department of History
• School of Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication
• School of Law
• Department of Politics & Public Administration
• Department of Sociology.

Applications are invited from all prospective postgraduate students, including current undergraduate students due to graduate in 2013.
Applicants must include ALL of the following

1. A completed Postgraduate Studies Research Application Form (www.graduateschool.ul.ie).
2. A research proposal (for guidelines see www.graduateschool.ul.ie).
3. Original transcripts for all third level degrees.
4. Two academic references.
5. A 200 word statement outlining reasons for applying for a scholarship.

Please forward completed applications to: Niamh Lenahan, AHSS Graduate Research Centre, Foundation Building, University of Limerick. Email: niamh.lenahan@ul.ie Tel: + 353 61 202945
Closing date for receipt of application forms is Friday 26th April 2013.

Organised Crime and the Law: A Comparative Analysis By Dr. Liz Campbell 
5:00 p.m., Thursday, March 7th, 2013 Criminal Courts of Justice, Parkgate Street, Dublin 8, Ireland
Those wanting to attend should contact joanne.davidson@fulbright.ie / 01.660.7670 by February 28th, 2013 . Please indicate if you will join us for the tour at 5:00 or just the reception at 6:00.
Organised Crime and the Law (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2013)
Organised Crime and the Law presents an overview of the laws and policies adopted to address the phenomenon of organised crime in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It assesses the degree to which these justice systems have been recalibrated in preventing, investigating, prosecuting, and punishing organised criminality. While the notion of organised crime is a contested one, States’ legal responses treat it and its constituent offences as unproblematic in a definitional sense. This book advances a systematic doctrinal critique of those domestic criminal laws, the laws of evidence, and sentencing practices.
Organised Crime and the Law constructs a theoretical framework on which an appraisal of these legal measures may be based, focusing in particular on the tension between due process and crime control, the demands of public protection and risk aversion, and other adaptations. In particular, it identifies parallels and points of divergence between the different jurisdictions in the UK and Ireland, bearing in mind the shared history of subversive threats and anti-terrorist policies. It further examines the extent to which policy transfer is evident in the UK and Ireland in terms of emulating the United States in reacting to organised crime.
Dr. Liz Campbell is a Senior Lecturer in Criminal Law and Evidence at the University of Edinburgh School of Law, having being based at the University of Aberdeen previously (2007-2012). Liz carried out her doctoral study at University College Cork as a Government of Ireland scholar (2004-2007) and received her BCL and LLM degrees from UCC also. 
Liz's principal areas of research are criminal law/justice, with a particular interest in the legal responses to organised crime, DNA databases, and the presumption of innocence. She publishes widely in leading academic journals and co-authored a textbook on Irish criminal law. Liz is a regular participant at national and international conferences, frequently provides expert commentary to the media, and was a key participant in an RTÉ documentary on organised crime.
In 2011 Liz was awarded a Fulbright fellowship to support her research on counter-organised crime measures in the UK and Ireland and spent 2011-2012 at the University of Maryland, writing Organised Crime and the Law.

Conference Announcement
The Future of Law School
 
September 26 - 28, 2013
University of Alberta Faculty of Law
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN AT: http://www.lawschool.ualberta.ca/centenary/conference.aspx

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS INCLUDE:

- Professor Harry Arthurs, Dean Emeritus, Osgoode Hall Law School
- Dean Kim Brooks, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University
- Dean Irwin Chemerinsky, California Irvine School of Law
- Dean Ian Holloway, University of Calgary, Faculty of Law
- Professor William Henderson, Indiana Maurer School of Law
- Professor Rosalie Jukier, McGill University, Faculty of Law
- Professor Carrie Menkel-Meadow, California Irvine School of Law
- Dean Lorne Sossin, Osgoode Hall Law School
- Professor Richard Susskind OBE, Independent Scholar & Advisor, UK
- Professor Margaret Thornton, Australian National University, College of Law
- Hugh Verrier, Chair, White & Case LLP

PLACE & PURPOSE: The culminating event to the Faculty of Law Centenary, this Conference is ideally timed to solicit a wide professional, judicial, academic and public response. Witness the 2007 Carnegie Report Educating Lawyers that issued strong criticism of professional legal education and that has had a profound and continuing impact throughout the common law world; the 2009 Federation of Law Societies of Canada's Report on the Common Law Degree in Canada; and the installation of the Legal Education and Training Review (LETR) in the UK: the Law School and the Profession it supplies are being criticized from without and contested from within as never before and their futures are now, as never before, very much up for grabs. Indeed, it wouldn't be hyperbole to suggest that this unprecedented contest has risen to the status of a cultural war, within the legal academy and the profession and among the wider public, over the future of law school, of lawyers, and with that, of the law itself.

This Conference is dead set on contributing loudly and meaningfully to this cultural battle. Leading legal thinkers -- academic and practicing lawyers and judges -- are coming together in Edmonton to state the case against the present and for the future, before members of the international common law legal community and before the public at large. The Conference will be structured around the following four themes:

- Foundations: Theories of Contemporary Professional Legal Education
- Circumstances: Law Schools, Regulators, and the Market for Legal Services
- Challenges: Reflecting Changes in the Practice of Law
- Practices: Innovating the Content and Delivery of Legal Education

Wherever you are placed in the legal community, if you find yourself disgruntled by the present legal education and committed to its renewal, you mustn't miss this Conference.