07 September 2012
NOTICE AND CALL FOR PAPERS: Electronic Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law (EJIMEL)
The Electronic Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law (EJIMEL) is a new open access, peer-reviewed international
journal published by the Center for Islamic and Middle Eastern Legal Studies
(CIMELS), University of Zurich, Switzerland.
EJIMEL has been founded guided by the awareness that the Arab World
is going through a momentous phase of change and transition, a shift which is
characterized by fallen regimes and political systems, and general policies
being rethought or reshaped. However, the relationships and interdependencies
between the Orient and the Occident have been growing considerably even before
the so-called “Arab Spring”. In fact, Middle Eastern countries have obtained a
key position on the world stage decades ago due to their significant
geopolitical position, their economic resources and perspectives. Rich in
diversity and heritage, the Middle East today keeps evolving faster than any
other part of the world.
The journal individuates itself by laying a special focus on the
multifaceted relations between Islam and national and international law orders
over the course of time and from different points of view. Furthermore, EJIMEL
aims to contribute to the on-going highly topical debates of regional and global
interest in the field of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, such as, e.g., Process
of Democratization, Gender and Human Rights. The editors’ aim is to foster a
vivid debate focusing on the correlation between Islam as a religion with a
distinct body of legal norms and the paramount principles and guarantees of
current international law under the aspects of conflict, competition and
complement. Also, we welcome contributions which inquire into key phenomena in
Middle Eastern law orders such as, e.g., «Re-Islamisation», which have
influenced both codifications and scholarly discourse in a significant way.
LAST CALL FOR PAPERS: 2013 IUAES/Commission on Legal Pluralism (CLP) conference
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NOTICE: O'Brien Human Rights Fellows in Residence Program at the McGill Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism
O'Brien Human Rights Fellows in Residence Program at the McGill Centre for
Human Rights and Legal PluralismAPPLICANT PROFILE: McGill Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism (CHRLP) will select the O'Brien Fellows from a diverse pool of applicants that includes journalists, activists, academics, and practitioners in the field of human rights. Applicants should possess a deep understanding of their chosen subject area and a track record of professional accomplishment. Fellows should be able to work in English with proficiency. Knowledge of French is desirable.
DURATION & LOCATION: 1 to 6 months in residence at the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, McGill Faculty of Law.
CALL FOR PAPERS: The Chinese Journal of Comparative Law (CJCL)
The following information on the Chinese Journal of Comparative Law
(CJCL) has become available:We invite submissions for The Chinese Journal of Comparative Law (CJCL), a brand-new law journal the inaugural issue of which to be officially published by the Oxford University Press in March 2013. The Journal will publish two issues each year and will accommodate substantial articles and shorter works including but not confined to legislative commentaries, case notes and book reviews.
ABOUT THE CJCL: The Chinese Journal of Comparative Law (CJCL) is an independent, peer-reviewed, general comparative law journal published under the auspices of the International Academy of Comparative Law (IACL) and in association with the Silk Road Institute for International and Comparative Law (SRIICL) at Xian Jiaotong University, PR China.
CJCL aims to provide a leading international forum for the interchange of views and research collaboration between Chinese lawyers and lawyers in other parts of the world. It accommodates and fosters top-quality discourses falling within what is broadly conceived as comparative studies on all disciplines of law, including cross-disciplinary legal studies, with a view to serving constructively the Chinese legal system and its continuous evolution and reform. It also aims to contribute, in a vital way, to global legal scholarship by providing to a wide range of legal debates an increasingly important Chinese perspective. CJCL gives preference to articles addressing issues of fundamental and lasting importance in the field of comparative law, particularly those having close relevance to the development of the Chinese legal system.
CALLS FOR PAPERS/NOTICES: European Network on Law and Society (Réseau Européen Droit & Société)
The very informative bulletin of the European Network on Law and Society (Réseau Européen Droit & Société) included information on the following:
Cultural legal studies methodology.
Wherefore art thou?”, Wollongong (Australia),
Friday 21 September 2012The UW Global Legal Studies Center & South Asia Legal Studies Working Group, Sixth Annual South Asia Legal Studies Pre-Conference Workshop, Thursday, October 11, 2012. Lubar Commons (7200 Law) - University of Wisconsin Law School
Institute of Commonwealth Studies, First Decolonization workshop 2012-2013. Londres, 16 novembre 2012
University of Liverpool School of Law and Social Justice, Critical Approaches to International Criminal Law, Liverpool, 6-7 décembre 2012
See below for additional details.
NOTICE: New Issue of Transnational Legal Theory
Transnational Legal Theory Volume 2, Issue 4
has just been published:
Articles
Constitutionalism and the State of the
‘Society of Networks’: The Design of a New ‘Control Project’ for a Fragmented
Legal System
Karl-Heinz
Ladeur
Neither
Dualism nor Monism: Holism and the Relationship between Municipal and
International Human Rights Law
Thomas
Finegan
Fragmentation, Coherence and Synergy in
International Law
Joel P
Trachtman
Jus
Cogens: Towards
an International Common Good?
Mark Retter
Reviews
How to
Theorise Law in a Transnational Context: A review of Detlef von Daniels, The
Concept of Law from a Transnational Perspective
Samantha
Besson
Fuller,
Torture, and Interactional Legal Theory: A review of Jutta
Brunné and
Stephen Toope, Legitimacy and Legality in International Law: An Interactional
Account
Matthew H
Kramer
Differences
in Sameness: A review of Tomer Broude and Yuval Shany (eds) Multi-Sourced
Equivalent Norms in International Law
Jolene Lin