Juris Diversitas

The ABA-UNDP International Legal Resource Center (ILRC) has received a request from UNDP/Turkey for an expert to conduct an impact assessment of the judicial reform process. The impact assessment will address progress against the judicial reform efforts since 2002 for the effective and efficient delivery of justice together with the capacity assets and needs for its further improvement. The results of this process will in turn result in the development of common strategic framework including the benchmarks to monitor and assess the duration of court proceedings and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the judicial system, in order to address the backlog of pending cases (particularly serious criminal cases). Following the conduct of impact assessment study, the expert is to support the development of a common strategic framework for monitoring of the reforms and improving of the effectiveness and efficiency of the judiciary.
Please see attached terms of reference for further background information. The application deadline is Monday, March 25th, 2013 at 5pm (EST). Application materials must include a CV, cover letter, and P-11 form and Financial Proposal (see attached sample).
S/he must have a) an advanced university degree preferably in the fields of law, international law and/or other fields relevant to the assignment; b) a minimum of fifteen (15) years of professional experience; c) at least 5 years of hands-on work experience in the fields of impact assessment of judicial reform processes; d) proven track record in the provision of high level advice to national governments in the judicial reform programs; e) understanding the dynamics of judicial reform programs promoted by UNDP; f) ability and demonstrated experience in working with multi-disciplinary teams and under pressure against strict deadlines; and e) excellent oral and written skills in English.
Please find an in-depth summary of this request as an attachment. We would be most appreciative if you would review and determine whether you, anyone you know or any organization with which you are affiliated may have any knowledge of experts who might be good candidates. If you or members of your organization are interested in working with UNDP/Turkey, please email updated CV, financial proposal, P-11 form, and cover letter* (attached as word or PDF documents) by Monday, March 25, 2013 at 5PM U.S. EST. As always, we appreciate your assistance and please do not hesitate to contact us for more information or if you have any questions.
Completed applications must be sent to Jacqueline.Gichinga@americanbar.org.

Annual Conference of the Law, Literature and the Humanities Association of Australasia - ANU - Deadline 31 May Interpellations: Annual Conference of the Law, Literature and the Humanities Association of Australasia
5 – 8 December 2013 The Australian National University Canberra, Australia
Confirmed keynote speakers:

• Professor WJT Mitchell, Professor of English and Art History at the University of Chicago
• Dr Honni van Rijswijk, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, University Technology, Sydney
• Professor Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Director of Westminster International Law & Theory Centre

The annual conference of the Association invites scholarly and creative research from academics and graduate students working at the crossroads of law, justice, and culture, whether based in legal theory or in disciplines such as literature, art, film, music, history, continental philosophy, anthropology, psychoanalysis, visual culture, or cultural studies. Contributions may take a variety of forms from traditional academic papers to poster presentations, video, or other genres or media.
Contributors should provide a title and an abstract of 200 words or less, no later than 31 May 2013, by email sent to coast@law.anu.edu.au. Please include your name and the word Interpellations in the subject line.
For more information on this year’s program: http://law.anu.edu.au/conferences/interpellations

John Witte and Joel A Nichols have published their 'Who governs the family?: Marriage as a Test Case of Overlapping Jurisdictions' on SSRN:

In many areas of law and society, religion and law exercise “overlapping jurisdictions.” Often such overlapping claims concern institutions that have both religious and political dimensions, such as education and schooling; charity and social welfare; and marriage and family life. It is the third of these mixed institutions – marriage and the family – that is the focus of this Essay. The headline battles today are over what forms of marriage should be recognized by the state: straight versus same sex marriage, contract versus covenant marriage, monogamous versus polygamous marriage, and more. But an emerging battle concerns not the forms of marriage, but the forums in which marriage and family cases are adjudicated. Specifically, the new battle is looming over the place of faith-based family laws and religious tribunals.

Such jurisdictional conflicts have recently resulted in a growing set of “anti-Shari’a law” statutes, first in Oklahoma and now in Kansas, South Dakota, and elsewhere. Such statutes are based on rather slender, if not specious, rationales – and on a purported study that has not been sufficiently assessed. We argue, contrary to this study, that the very few cases cited by proponents of anti-Shari’a statutes say far more about the use of ordinary principles of comity regarding the law of foreign nations, respect for the voluntary choices of individuals, and a sense of growing multiculturalism in general than they do about any sort of fanciful imposition of Shari'a law on unwitting parties. We oppose such anti-Shari'a laws for their targeted discrimination, their duplication of other laws and decisional norms, their potential conflict with the Federal Arbitration Act, and more.

But hard questions persist that cannot be easily swept away with a mere assertion that religious groups should enjoy autonomy over the marriage and family affairs of their voluntary faithful. Those are the questions that we have been probing and encouraging others to probe in this and prior writings: What are the appropriate lines between the civil state and religions with respect to marriage? Civil marriage and divorce are perhaps a least common denominator for all citizens, but can there be variations if accompanied by base level protections for women and children? And how can the state best protect vulnerable members and also advance its liberal ends? Such hard questions need not lead to a jurisdictional stand-off between law and religion, however, nor to a universal and over-reaching claim by the state. Instead, negotiation, compromise, and mutual respect may lead to more nuanced and achievable results – especially if we are careful not to be so distracted by conversations about the propriety of Shari'a that we miss the actual complications of the growing marital and legal pluralism in the United States. 

The article will be published in (2013) Faulkner Law Review.

AN INTERNATIONAL COURSE ON LEGAL PLURALISM
1-4 AUGUST, 2013 UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
Overview
In August 2013 the Commission on Legal Pluralism will organize a course in Manchester, UK, about theories, knowledge and methodologies of legal pluralism. The purpose of the 3½-day course, which precedes the IUAES 17th World Congress, is to familiarize the participants with the current international debates and insights in socio-legal studies and legal pluralism and to offer them a comparative perspective allowing them to rethink their own research and practical work. At the center of the discussion will be issues pertaining to rights protection, gender, natural resource management and land tenure, and dispute management in the context of globalizing economic, political and legal developments.
Participation is limited to 25 people to allow for maximum discussion. The participants are academics and/or practitioners, e.g. NGO activists or government officials, who deal with issues related to legal pluralism, informal justice systems and social justice in their academic or professional work. As in past courses (held amongst others in Wellington (New Zealand), Accra (Ghana), Williamsburg (USA), Moscow (Russia), Chiang Mai (Thailand), Fredericton (Canada), Jakarta (Indonesia), Zurich (Switzerland), and Cape Town (South Africa)) the teaching team will consist of senior academics of various backgrounds drawn from the Commission on Legal Pluralism and colleagues from the host country, in this case from the United Kingdom. The course will give participants an opportunity to discuss their work with fellow participants and the teaching staff, and directly engage with leading scholars and practitioners in their fields, allowing them to become part of a growing international network.
Topics for the course will include:
 Theoretical and methodological aspects of legal pluralism,  Legal empowerment, gender and human rights,  Natural resources management and governance,  Land tenure and customary law,  Rights of indigenous communities and economic development,  Informal justice and policing,  Access to justice, legal reform and the role of international development agencies.
Selection, Tuition, and Funding

Prospective students should be either young scholars studying for a JD or PhD degree or having just finished one, or more senior scholars who are relatively new to the field of legal pluralism, or they should be practitioners whose work is directly related to topics discussed in the course. Participants must demonstrate a level of proficiency in English that allows them to read and actively discuss relevant academic literature. Students will be selected based on their motivation to join the course.
The course fee is 250 USD. The participants will be responsible for the cost of their airfare, accommodation, meals and local transportation. Unfortunately, due to limited funding, this year the Commission will not be able to provide any travel subsidies for the students participating in the course. However, a limited number of tuition waivers will be awarded to students from low and lower middle income countries who demonstrate extreme financial need.
Application, Contact and More Information
Individuals interested in participating in the course are kindly invited to apply by May 15, 2013. The application should include a cover letter, brief curriculum vitae, and evidence of English proficiency. Applicants who would like to be considered for a tuition waiver should indicate their request in the cover letter. Applications should be emailed to Yüksel Sezgin at turkeypm@hotmail.com. Applicants will be notified of their admission decision by June 1, 2013.
For more information on the Commission on Legal Pluralism and its past courses please visit: http://www.commission-on-legal-pluralism.com

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Edward Elgar Publishing has announced the publication of: 

David Howarth, Law As Engineering: Thinking About What Lawyers Do:

Law as Engineering proposes a radically new way of thinking about law, as a profession and discipline concerned with design rather than with litigation, and having much in common with engineering in the way it produces devices useful for its clients. It uses that comparison to propose ways of improving legal design, to advocate a transformation of legal ethics so that the profession learns from its role in the crash of 2008, and to reform legal education and research.

Offering a totally new perspective, this book will be a fascinating read for law students and prospective law students, legal academics across all sub-fields, lawyers in government, especially those engaged in drafting legislation, and policymakers.


Additional titles include:

• Gideon Boas, Public International Law: Contemporary Principles and Perspectives
• Robert Kolb (ed), Research Handbook On Human Rights And Humanitarian Law

The excellent 'Nouvelles du monde’, 'Au fil des revue', and 'Repères'--both Anglophone and Francophone--of the European Network on Law and Society (Réseau Européen Droit and Société) are now available.    Have a look.

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Edward Elgar Publishing has announced the publication of:
Mike McConville and Eva Pils (eds), Comparative Perspectives On Criminal Justice In China
Comparative Perspectives on Criminal Justice in China is an anthology of chapters on the contemporary criminal justice system in mainland China, bringing together the work of recognised scholars from China and around the world.
The book addresses issues at various stages of the criminal justice process (investigation and prosecution of crime and criminal trial) as well as problems pertaining to criminal defence and to parallel systems of punishment. All of the contributions discuss the criminal justice system in the context of China’s legal reforms. Several of the contributions urge the conclusion that the criminal process and related processes remain marred by overwhelming powers of the police and Party-State, and a chapter discussing China’s 2012 revision of its Criminal Procedure Law argues that the revision is unlikely to bring significant improvement.
This diverse comparative study will appeal to academics in Chinese law, society and politics, members of the human rights NGO and diplomatic communities as well as legal professionals interested in China.
Linda Carter and Fausto Pocar (eds), International Criminal Procedure: The Interface of Civil Law and Common Law Legal Systems
The emergence of international criminal courts, beginning with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and including the International Criminal Court, has also brought an evolving international criminal procedure. In this book, the authors examine selected issues that reflect a blending of, or choice between, civil law and common law models of procedure. The topics include background on civil law and common law legal systems; plea bargaining; witness proofing; written and oral evidence; self-representation and the use of assigned, standby, and amicus counsel; the role of victims; and the right to appeal.
International Criminal Procedure will appeal to academics, students, researchers, lawyers and judges working in the field of international criminal law.

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Intersentia has announced the publication of:
Inter-American and European Human Rights Journal / Revista Interamericana y Europea de Derechos Humanos
Sisay Alemahu Yeshanew, The Justiciability of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the African Regional Human Rights System
The judicial and quasi-judicial enforceability of economic, social and cultural (ESC) rights has long been disputed based on some flawed characterizations of the rights and concerns about the role of adjudication in addressing issues of socio-economic development. Underscoring the generally poor socio-economic conditions in most African states, this book argues that the justiciability of ESC rights in the African regional human rights system plays a subsidiary role in ensuring social justice and the accountability of public authorities in the states of the continent. It marries theory and practice relating to the normative, institutional and procedural aspects of the justiciability of ESC rights in exploring the actual and potential relevance of the African human rights system to the amelioration of impoverishment, disease, illiteracy, homelessness, starvation, marginalization and other related problems that may be framed in terms of violations of ESC rights.
Gijsbert ter Kuile, Of Bills and Rights: Human rights proofing legislation - Comparing the United Kingdom and The Netherlands

“What actually happens before a bill is drafted? Before it is certified [as human rights proof]? I do not know; I do not think many people really know.” This was a fair comment by a long-standing member of the UK Joint Committee on Human Rights. Who is human rights proofing bills before they come to Parliament, and indeed when in Parliament? And how is this proofing done? These questions are under-researched as human rights studies usually focus on the executive and judiciary branches of government. But what does the legislative branch do to safeguard human rights?
This book provides answers to these questions by mapping the legislative processes of both the United Kingdom and The Netherlands, and comparing them from an ECHR perspective. It then explains the comparative findings by proposing a theory of accountability. Because of webs of accountability legislative actors in both countries actively seek to make bills human rights compatible. More popularly said: everyone’s fingerprints are on the bills to try and render them ECHR proof.
The interest of this book lies with the people that support the formal legislative institutions in this human rights quest. Interviews have been held in London and The Hague with over 25 civil servants, working in departments (the ministries of Justice, the Attorney General’s Office, the Council of State), as draftsmen (the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel), or in the two parliaments (the JCHR, clerks in the States-General). These frank interviews provide new material and insights into the formal process of turning bills into Acts that ideally are Convention proof.

I just discovered this conference. SPD Sapienza University of Rome, the most ancient and largest Italian University, launches an international multidisciplinary conference to be held in Rome, on 20-21-22 June 2013.  The topics of the meeting are related to Empires and Nations from the 18th to the 20th century.    Papers presented to the conference will cover a wide range of matters such as, among others, the creation of Nation States in Modern Europe, the great Multinational empires (Hapsburg, Russian and Ottoman Empires), the rise and decline of colonial empires (Spain, France, Great Britain), the movements for national independence and self-determination in the Nineteenth century (the Italian Risorgimento and the struggle for independence of Eastern European States), the collapse of multinational empires after World War I, the interwar and WWII period and the rise of Fascist and Nazi “Empires”, the post war emergence of ideological “Empires” and the division of Europe during the Cold War, post-ideological and theoretical concepts of Empire in the late twentieth century. The Conference also invites proposals devoted to comparative perspectives on nationalism-related issues, as well as theoretical approaches on the concept of empires and nations that need not be framed to any particular geographic region.  The conference welcomes a multidisciplinary approach inviting scholars from other disciplines such as political science, history, anthropology, sociology, international studies, security studies, geopolitics, area studies, economics, geography, sociolinguistics, literature, psychology, and related fields.  The Conference encourages the submission of single papers, addressing the above mentioned issues based on a chronological framework. Any submission must be framed within one of the five following chronological arches with the relevant keywords:

1) Modern age: the first crisis of multinational empires and the emergence of nation States (keywords: Westphalian Europe, sovereignty, 1648, balance of powers), 2) 18th century: the rise of European colonial empires (keywords suggested: geographical explorations, colonization, colonialism, trade, non-European world, Orientalism); 3) 19th century: from Modern States to Nation States: (keywords suggested: national minorities, identity, citizenship, revolutions, national cultures); 4) Early 20th century: the post-war rise of an International Society (keywords suggested: nationalism, War , Wilsonianism, socialism, totalitarian states); 5) Late 20th century: the Cold War and the ideological empires. (keywords suggested: communism, democracy, ideology, soft power, decolonization).

Islamic Family Law in Modern Europe And The Muslim World
The deadline for the conference Islamic Family Law in Modern Europe And The Muslim World. Normative, Legal and Empirical Analyses Beyond The Women’s Rights Issue has been extended. 
The conference will take place in Nijmegen, from 19-21 June 2013. Keynote speakers will be prof. Lynn Welchman, dr. Ziba Mir-Hosseini and dr. Prakash Shah. Abstracts (max. 300 words)can be submitted to CMRCongress@jur.ru.nl Before March 25.
There will be limited grant possibilities for early career researchers from low and lower-middle income economies (as classified by the World Bank). If you would like to qualify for one of the grants, please mention this when submitting your abstract.
Further information can be found at http://www.ru.nl/rechten/cmr/nieuws/nieuws/@877893/conference-islamic/

Postwar Decolonisation and Its Impact on Europe
University of Exeter, United Kingdom, 2-3 December 2013

The unravelling of European empires was foundational to the making of the modern world. An old imperial order was swept away, and a new age of nation states rapidly replaced it. Whilst decolonisation played a fundamental role in the shaping of postwar world, its repercussions for Europe itself, in a host of political, social and cultural spheres, are still relatively little examined. Its impact outside Europe's so-called 'western core' has attracted even less attention.  

This conference will examine how the global dynamics of decolonisation impacted upon different parts of the continent. To this end, we would like to encourage papers from a diverse range of countries and political areas within Cold War Europe, and, where possible, comparative (and even collaborative) proposals that explore impacts across national or regional boundaries. In doing so, we seek to explore the diversity of the continent's responses to decolonisation, as well as shared experiences across eastern, southern and western Europe.

Proposals are welcomed on the following themes.

1.    How did decolonisation impact on cultural, political or economic debates about Europe's role in the world and how Europeans thought collectively about themselves and their futures? In what ways did elites re-imagine a role for Europe after the end of empire, whether of the capitalist or state socialist variety?
2.    What were the impacts of decolonisation on different national  identities in Europe?
3.    How did decolonisation impact on the relationship between blocs  in a divided Europe?
4.     How did decolonisation reshape ideas of race, immigration and  citizenship?
5.    What impact did decolonisation have on the domestic political  sphere - how did political parties, labour and social movements respond to the end of empire?
6.    How did decolonisation shape ideas about extra-European  'interventions', whether in terms of development, aid, or humanitarian, peace-keeping or military assistance? How did decolonisation reshape debates about human or social rights?

The organisers are open to suggestions for other panels relevant to the theme. We welcome papers that deal with major transnational and national debates, alongside those which focus on case studies. Some funding is available for the conference, but speakers are also encouraged to look to their universities or other funders to help support their participation. The conference is organised by the University of Exeter, with the assistance of the Imre Kertész Kolleg, Jena and the Centre for Area Studies, Leipzig.

Proposals should be sent to James Mark - j.a.mark@ex.ac.uk  - by 5 May 2013.

This conference will followed by an event hosted by the Imre Kertész Kolleg, Jena and the Centre for Area Studies, Leipzig, in March/ April 2014, focusing on the interaction between eastern Europe and the 'global South' during and after the Cold War.

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MULTILINGUAL LEGAL EDUCATION: THEORY & PEDAGOGY General Registration – No Charge, but required To register, go to www.wcl.american.edu/secle/registration. For further information, contact Office of Special Events & Continuing Legal Education, 202.274.4075 or secle@wcl.american.edu
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 ~ 9AM-5PM American University Washington College of Law 4801 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. ~ Room 603
This conference will bring together law school faculty, staff, and language specialists to discuss how best to prepare U.S. law students for the multilingual practice of law. The one-day gathering will involve panel discussions and working groups. Specific topics for discussion include:

• Best practices for non-English-language instruction, including language-for-lawyers courses, hybrid courses, experiential learning opportunities, and summer and overseas programs.
• Models for promoting this instruction more systematically within law schools, through comprehensive programs and the development of teaching materials.
• Pedagogical objectives that underlie instruction in other languages.
• The forces – both within and outside of the academy – that are driving efforts to integrate non-English-language instruction into law school curricula.

Confirmed Speakers

• Raquel Aldana, Professor of Law & Director of the Inter-American Program, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law
• Hon. Veronica Alicea-Galvan, Des Moines, Washington Municipal Court Judge
• José Gabilondo, Associate Professor of Law, Florida International University College of Law
• Werner Hein, Senior Counsel, Mayer Brown LLP
• José R. (“Beto”) Juárez, Jr., Professor of Law and Director of Lawyering in Spanish Program, Sturm College of Law, Denver University
• Theresa Kaiser, Director, Study Abroad & International Exchange, American University Washington College of Law
• Victoria Ortiz, former Dean of Students, University of California, Berkeley School of Law
• Jayesh Rathod, Associate Professor of Law & Director, Immigrant Justice Clinic, American University Washington College of Law
• Macarena Saez, Fellow, International Legal Studies Program, American University Washington College of Law
• Catherine Schenker, Associate Director, International Legal Studies Program, American University Washington College of Law

Additional speakers to be confirmed
General Registration – No Charge, but required To register, go to www.wcl.american.edu/secle/registration. For further information, contact Office of Special Events & Continuing Legal Education, 202.274.4075 or secle@wcl.american.edu

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Intersentia has published Massimo Fichera and Jens Kremer (eds.), Law and Security in Europe: Reconsidering the Security Constitution:
This collection of essays is divided in two parts. In the first part, security is considered from a theoretical angle, as a phenomenon that has become an integral part of modern society and inevitably interacts with law in many ways. The aim of the authors’ analyses is to emphasise the ambiguity of the notion of security and its tendency to expand and affect simultaneously different fields of law.
Depending on the adopted approach, security can be understood in many different terms and through various concepts: inter alia through exceptionality, from a constructivist viewpoint, or as human security. Whereas for example, an ‘existential’ approach takes risk and danger as a fact of life and is based on the assumption of the fragility of the human condition, leading to traditional and military understandings of security, a constructivist approach regards security as a discursive speech act enabling criticism of security claims. Analysing security in connection with law highlights both tensions and contradictions. From classical analyses on states of emergency to new conceptualizations of security as a specific dimension within the process of European integration (‘the European Security Constitution’), legal approaches to security and law today are facing many paradoxes and challenges.
The second part of the book considers some of these security dilemmas in two specific areas of law: human rights and criminal law. Here, the authors address the militarisation of the fight against terrorism, the distinction between administrative and penal sanctions, the limits of intelligence activities and the scope of criminalisation.
As the book brings together scholars from different fields of law focusing on law on security from particular perspectives it is appealing to those constitutional, criminal, international and EU lawyers who are interested in both theoretical and practical aspects of the relationship between security and law. 
Other forthcoming titles include:

• EU Sanctions: Law and Policy Issues Concerning Restrictive Measures - Iain Cameron (ed.)
• Actus Reus and Participation in European Criminal Law - Johannes Keiler
• European Federal Criminal Law The Federal Dimension of EU Criminal Law - Carlos Gómez-Jara Díez
• Inside Police Custody: An Empirical Account of Suspects' Rights in Four Jurisdictions - Taru Spronken, Ed Cape and Jacqueline Hodgson (eds.)
• Feminist Perspectives on Transitional Justice From International and Criminal to Alternative Forms of Justice - Estelle Zinsstag, Martha Albertson Fineman (eds.)
• Historical Memory and Criminal Justice in Spain A Case of Late Transitional Justice - Josep M. Tamarit Sumalla

ECAH 2013 - The European Conference on Arts and Humanities
18th to 21st July 2013
Brighton, United Kingdom

Enquiries: ecah@iafor.org
Web address: http://ecah.iafor.org/
Sponsored by: IAFOR - The International Academic Forum

CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MAY 20, 2013

Hear the latest research, publish before a global audience, present in a supportive environment, network, engage in new relationships, experience the UK, explore Brighton and London and the UK, join a global academic community...

ECAH2013 is organized by The International Academic Forum (IAFOR) in partnership with Waseda University (Japan), Birkbeck University of London (UK), The National Institute of Education (Singapore), The National University of Tainan (Taiwan), University of Lincoln (UK), the Hong Kong Institute of Education, Auburn University (USA), and its global partners is proud to announce the Inaugural European Conference on Education, to be held from July 18-21 2013, in Brighton, UK.

The Inaugural European Conference on Arts and Humanities offers a true celebration of interdisciplinary study in a stimulating scholarly environment, and in the wonderful physical and cultural surroundings of the Southeast of England. This international research conference will bring together university scholars working throughout Europe and beyond to share ideas and forge working relationships with each other over a stimulating, challenging, and long weekend.

Conference Theme 2013: Connectedness, Identity and Alienation

The 2013 conference theme is "Connectedness, Identity and Alienation" and the organizers hope that this will encourage and inspire exciting new research avenues, and further encourage academic and personal encounters and exchanges across national, religious, cultural and disciplinary divides.  

Professor Stuart D.B. Picken
Order of the Sacred Treasure,  B.D., Ph.D., F.R.A.S.
Chairman, Japan Society of Scotland and Chairman IAFOR IAB
Conference Chair, The Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities 2013

Publishing Opportunities:

Authors of accepted abstracts will have the opportunity of publishing their associated paper in the official conference proceedings, and a selection of papers will be considered for inclusion in the internationally peer-reviewed IAFOR Journal of Arts and Humanities, and Journal of Literature and Librarianship. The IAFOR Journal of Arts and Humanities is edited by Professor Tom French of Ritsumeikan University, Japan, and the IAFOR Journal of Literature and Librarianshipis edited by Dr Melissa Kennedy of the University of Vienna, Austria.

ECAH 2013 will be held alongside the Inaugural European Conference on Language Learning - ECLL 2013, and registrants for either conference will be given the opportunity to attend sessions in the parallel event at no extra charge.

ECAH is the partner conference of the Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities (ACAH), Asia's leading forum for exchanging the latest ideas and views in the Arts and Humanities. For more information about ACAH, go to www.acah.iafor.org

REMINDER: Book proposals are being sought for the Juris Diversitas Book Series with Ashgate Publishing:
Rooted in comparative law, the ... Series focuses on the interdisciplinary study of legal and normative mixtures and movements. Our interest is in comparison broadly conceived, extending beyond law narrowly understood to related fields. Titles might be geographical or temporal comparisons. They could focus on theory and methodology, substantive law, or legal cultures. They could investigate official or unofficial ‘legalities’, past and present and around the world. And, to effectively cross spatial, temporal, and normative boundaries, inter- and multi-disciplinary research is particularly welcome. 
Our first volume will be Seán Patrick Donlan and Lukas Heckerdon-Ursheler (eds), Concepts of law: comparative, jurisprudential, and social science perspectives. 

While we anticipate publishing future collections (original, conference-based, Festschriften, etc), we're also very interested in publishing monographs and student texts. 

For additional information, contact Seán Patrick Donlan at sean.donlan@ul.ie.

Juris Diversitas invites individuals and institutions to work with us. Check out our Blog and Facebook page, read about our publications and projects and our new Book Series with Ashgate (UK), and perhaps attend our inaugural annual conference this summer. You might even consider membership.

Articles are being sought for publication in Comparative Legal History (CLH), an international and comparative review of law and history. 

CLH is the official journal of the European Society for Comparative Legal History (ESCLH) and is published by Hart Publishing (UK). 
The journal is published, both online and in print, twice a year, appearing in the spring and the autumn. The first issue will appear in Spring 2013:
Articles will explore both 'internal' legal history (doctrinal and disciplinary developments in the law) and 'external' legal history (legal ideas and institutions in wider contexts). Rooted in the complexity of the various Western legal traditions worldwide, the journal will also investigate other laws and customs from around the globe. Comparisons may be either temporal or geographical and both legal and other law-like normative traditions will be considered. Scholarship on comparative and trans-national historiography, including trans-disciplinary approaches, is particularly welcome.
The Editors welcome scholarly submissions in the English language:
To submit an article please contact Articles Editor Heikki Pihlajamäki (heikki.pihlajamaki@helsinki.fi). The optimal length for articles is between 7500 to 15000 words, including footnotes. All articles are submitted to double blind peer review.
To propose a review, please contact Reviews Editor Agustin Parise (agustin.parise@maastrichtuniversity.nl). Book reviews will generally range from 1500 to 2500 words. Review articles will also be considered.
The Hart website also has information on the Editors (both the Editorial Staff and International Editorial Board), an Email alert service of the 'Table of Contents', and subscription information. 
Note that a special arrangement between the ESCLH and Hart has been made to ensure that ESCLH membership fees include a subscription to CLH.
Potential contributors should pay special attention to the ‘Notes for Contributors’ on the website. In particular, contributors whose first language is not English are strongly advised to have their papers edited by native Anglophone scholars in advance of their submission to ensure a clear presentation of their ideas and an accurate appraisal of their work.

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NOTICES
 
1) Peter Birks Prizes for Outstanding Legal Scholarship 2013

Each year the Society offers two prizes for outstanding published books by scholars in their early careers. The prizes will be presented at the annual dinner of the Society at the Annual Conference.  The value of the prizes will be £1,000 for the first prize and £300 for the second prize.  The judges may decide to award one prize or not to award a prize, or may decide to divide the whole sum or either prize between two winners. The judges will be the President of the Society, the Vice-President and the Immediate Past President.  They will be entitled to take advice from such professorial members of the Society as they see fit.

The following notice concerns the arrangements for the award of the Peter Birks Prizes for 2013.

 It is expected that the publishers of the nominated books will provide three copies, one for each of the three judges, and these will not be returned. It is also the intention that after the full list of nominated books has been submitted to the Executive Committee, it will be placed on the Society’s website. The shortlist will also be placed on the website once determined by the judges, which should be one month before the Annual Conference.

The rules are strictly adhered to and are attached.  Particularly note the rules regarding membership of the Society, nomination and the need for the author’s consent.

Nominations, including the nominated books, should be sent to the Administrative Secretary, Sally Thomson, by 31 May 2013.
 
2) LETR research report update

Good progress is being made by the research team in their work to ensure that the range and depth of the data collected through extensive engagement with stakeholders is fully reflected in their final report. The report is not now expected to be submitted to the three sponsoring regulators¬ Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), Bar Standards Board (BSB), and ILEX Professional Standards (IPS), before May 2013, following which it will be published.

The sponsoring regulators support the research team's view that it is important to ensure that the data is fully reflected in the report, even though that means a delay in its finalisation.

3) Open Access Publishing
 
The Academy of Social Science has produced a useful briefing from its recent conference.  The SLS Vice President was one of the speakers.  The briefing can be downloaded at: can be downloaded at:

http://www.acss.org.uk/docs/Professional%20Briefings/Professional%20Briefings%
201%20Jan%202013%20Open%20Access%20Publishing.pdf

SITUATIONS VACANT

1) UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX

There are 14 positions vacant for Snr.Lecturers and lecturers in various disciplines at the School of Law.  Closing date for all posts is 21 March 2013.

Please see http://www.sussex.ac.uk/aboutus/jobs/current  for details.
 
2)  Newcastle Law School is pleased to announce the following posts:1 x Chair in Law (Ref G545)
1 x Reader in Law and Finance (Ref G546)
2 x Lecturer in Law (Ref B577A (LAW ) )

For details and applications please enter the Ref No or Newcastle Law School at https://www15.i-grasp.com/fe/tpl_newcastle02.asp?newms=se
Those wishing to make informal enquiries about the posts or the Law School should contact Professor Chris Rodgers on (0191) 222 7612 or by email at christopher.rodgers@ncl.ac.uk Deadline for applications: 24 March 2013

3) Southampton University Law School

   Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Law (3 posts)

   Reference:  211713JJ
   Closing date: 31 March 2013

Details at https://jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?id=4029&forced=1

4)  University of Leeds
Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law Centre for Criminal Justice Studies School of Law

Research Fellow/Principal Research Fellow

Closing date: 27th March 2013.

Further details in attachment.

5) Scholarships to study for an LLM at Warwick Law School
 
- available for candidates who are interested in studying for a taught Masters degrees in Advanced Legal Studies (ALS); International Development Law and Human Rights (IDLHR); International Economic Law (IEL); and International Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation (ICGFR) For more information on the scholarships and how to apply go to http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/pg/pgprogram/scholarships/funding_opps
For more information on the programmes go to http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/pg/pgprogram/
Or contact Sara Prestleton s.e.prestleton@warwick.ac.uk

6) Sciences Po Law School, France is seeking to recruit a full time senior or junior professor in intellectual Property for a public-sector teaching position. The Professor will be required to have a wide knowledge of the fields, with both an European and an International point of view.

EVENTS AND CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS AND PAPERS

1) Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Each academic year the Institute runs three National Training Days in a programme called “How to get a PhD in Law” to assist MPhil and PhD students in law. Day one was held in November last year and there are two more this Spring.

(i) How to get a PhD in Law: What legal research skills will I need?
Literature reviews, qualitative and quantitative research and comparative legal research.
16 March 2013, 10:15 - 16:30

http://events.sas.ac.uk/events/view/12063

(ii) How to get a PhD in Law: Preparing yourself for the vivas. Getting yourself known - presenting skills, publishing your work, and networking.
22 May 2013, 10:15 - 16:30

http://events.sas.ac.uk/events/view/12333
 
2) Birmingham Law School
University of Birmingham - The Institute of Judicial Administration
Conference: The Challenges of Transnational Investigations

21-23 March 2013

The conference will address issues such as prosecutors coordinating investigations across the EU,  the particular challenges of investigating crimes against the financial interests of the EU, the potential contribution of a European Public Prosecutor's Office and securing defence rights in transnational investigations.

 For further information please visit
http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/law/events/2013/conference-ija-trans-natio
nal-investigations.aspx or contact s.j.cole.2@bham.ac.uk
 
3)  Faculty of Law, University College Cork
Conference:  Reforming Abortion Law: Comparative Perspectives March 22nd 2013 (1:30 – 5:30 p.m.)

Booking, programme and more details are available at http://www.ucc.ie/en/lawsite/wh-/details-216025-en.html
 
4) Call for Submissions - The Irish Review of Community Economic Development Law and Policy -  a peer reviewed online journal, published twice a year by the Northside Community Law Centre, in Coolock, Dublin.

We are currently requesting articles for Volume 2 Issue 1. The suggested theme for this issue is “Restorative Justice and Mediation”

For more details see: http://www.nclc.ie/overview/default.asp or email the editor at editor@nclc.ie.
The journal publishes articles of between 1,500 and 10,000 words in length, and the deadline for submissions is March 29th 2013.

Irish Society of Comparative Law 
public lecture on Data Protection Law, 20 March 2013
The Irish Society of Comparative Law in conjunction with Trinity College Law School and the IIIS is hosting a public lecture entitled:
“Data Protection and European Developments: a German View”
by Professor Heinrich Wolff, Professor for Public Law at the Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) and Visiting Fellow at the Institute for International Integration Studies in Trinity College Dublin and chaired by Mr Paul Lambert, of Merrion Legal Solicitors and NUIG, author of “Data Protection Law in Ireland”, at 7pm on Wednesday 20 March in the IIIS Seminar Room, 6th Floor Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin.

This event is free and all are very welcome to attend.

International Conference on  “The Rule of Law with Chinese Characteristics in Transition” Call for Papers
Date: 5-7 June 2013 Venue: Connie-Fan Multi-media Conference Room, 4/F Cheng Yick-chi Building, CityU Language: The Conference will be conducted in English and Putonghua. Simultaneous interpretation will be provided during the conference. Organizer: The Centre for Chinese and Comparative Law (RCCL), School of Law, City University of Hong Kong
Conference Objectives
The objectives of the conference include three facets generally. The first objective is to provide a platform for scholars from different areas, and make the dialogue much more diverse and fruitful. Accompanied with much more openness of Greater China, more and more dialogues are needed for understandings and agreements among one another. The theme on the rule of law with Chinese characteristics is such a one needed to be explored and discussed for the future of China.
The second is to focus on this theme from comparative perspectives, get consensus on the pros and cons of the features of the rule of law with the so-called Chinese characteristics in transition so as to keep these characteristics, follow the track of the rule of law and arrive at Chinese rule of law eventually.
The third is to bridge the communications between China (including Hong Kong, Mainland China, Macau and Taiwan), North America, Europe, Australia and other countries and regions, so as to make Hong Kong academia know much more about the recent intellectual developments in these relevant areas. This would make the Centre for Chinese and Comparative Law, School of Law, City University of Hong Kong more open and leading in these areas potentially.
Issues to be explored during the conference:
(1) The rule of law with Chinese characteristics from comparative perspectives (2) The rule of law in transition from historical and comparative perspectives (3) Particular legal systems with Chinese characteristics in the practice (4) Confucian constitutionalism, authoritarianism and the global constitutionalism (5) Religious freedom and the moral foundations of the rule of law with Chinese characteristics from comparative perspectives (6) Human rights protection and democracy with Chinese characteristics in comparison
Submission Procedure
If you are interested in participating in the conference, please submit the following in English to Ms Emily Chow, School of Law, CityU at wschow@cityu.edu.hk on or before 15 April 2013.
1.     CV (about 200 words) 2.     Abstract (200-300 words) with paper title 3.     Digital photo of presenter with good resolution
All speakers / paper presenters are expected to submit a final draft of their papers on or before 20 May 2013.