PROGRAMME: International Master on Sociology of Law

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CALL FOR GRANTS AND WORKSHOPS: the International Institute for Sociology of Law

Hall of Residence Grants – for carrying out research work at the Oñati International Institute for Sociology of Law 2014 - 2015

The Board of the International Institute for Sociology of Law has created residence grants for scholars who would like to conduct research at the Institute’s Library and Documentation Centre. These grants cover lodging in a shared room for a maximum of 3 months at the Institute’s Hall of Residence between the months of October and March. Those interested in applying for such a grant should fill out the application form and submit it before the 17th of February 2014. For more details, check here. 

Call for workshops. The Oñati Institutes also welcomes applications to organize workshops on topics within the broad field of law in society. It provides a very congenial location for discussions and interactions among a relatively small group of researchers. For more details, check here.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Resident Grants - International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Oñati'

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Workshops - International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Oñati

JOURNAL: (2013) 3:6 Oñati Socio-Legal Series

CONFERENCE: III congreso internacional sobre Justicia restaurativa y mediación penal

CONFERENCE: Asian Criminological Society

JOURNAL: Oñati Socio-Legal Series

Lifted straight from a Commission on Legal Pluralism Notice:

Dear Colleagues,

This is to inform you about the new issue of the Journal Oñati Socio-Legal Series which includes a couple of Legal Pluralism related papers.

Vol 3, No 4 (2013), Law, contestation and power in the global political economy Issue, edited by Edward S. Cohen (Westminster College) and A. Claire Cutler (University of Victoria)

• Cohen, E.S and Cutler, A.C., 2013. Law, Contestation and Power in the Global Political Economy: An Introduction. http ://ssrn . com/abstract=2326624
• Picciotto, S., 2013. Mediating Contestations of Private, Public and Property Rights in Corporate Capitalism. http ://ssrn . com/abstract=2340587
• Quack, S., 2013. Regime Complexity and Expertise in Transnational Governance: Strategizing in the Face of Regulatory Uncertainty. http ://ssrn . com/abstract=2340596
• Cohen, E., 2013. Legal Pluralism, Private Power, and the Impact of the Financial Crisis on the Global Political Economy.
http ://ssrn . com/abstract=2269667
• Gessner, V., 2013. Weberian Versus Pluralistic Legal Forces in the Global Political Economy. http ://ssrn . com/abstract=2272595
• Cutler, A.C., 2013. Legal Pluralism as the “Common Sense” of Transnational Capitalism. http ://ssrn . com/abstract=2327501
• Avant, D., 2013. Pragmatism and Effective Fragmented Governance: Comparing Trajectories in Small Arms and Military and Security Services.
http ://ssrn . com/abstract=2340604
• Cornago, N., 2013. Global Ordo-Liberalism, Private Power and the Transfiguration of Diplomatic Law. http ://ssrn . com/abstract=2341013

CONFERENCE: International Congress on: Global-regional-local. Institutions, relations, networks. Past and future of the sociology of law

International Institute for the Sociology of Law

International Congress on: Global-regional-local. Institutions, relations, networks. Past and future of the sociology of law

21-23 May 2014 

In May 2014, the IISL will celebrate its 25th anniversary. The IISL was founded jointly by the Basque Government and the RCSL, and we would like to celebrate this unique and highly successful relationship. Since its foundatiohttp://www.iisj.net/iisj/de/call-for-papers-and-panels.asp?dminid=_NDcqKjEwXzEwXzIwMTMjI00uQS5TaW1vblRob21hc0BjZWRsYS5ubA&cod=7968&nombre=7968&prt=1n, the IISL has become the home of the international sociology of law community. In addition, through our Masters programme, workshops, congresses, library and visiting scholars, we have directly contributed to the development of sociology of law locally and internationally.

We would like to celebrate our anniversary through an international congress that reflects upon and further develops the synergies between the different layers of the IISL´s communities: international, regional and local, in all of their institutional dimensions. We wish to toast our successes, and we especially invite all of our former students, teachers and visitors to return to Oñati. We also want to critically examine the nature of sociology of law in its many institutional dimensions, and to discuss the challenges for the future.

To that end, we invite abstracts on all topics connected with the general theme of the congress but specially welcome on the themes as numerated below:

JOURNAL: Ultima Ratio, a Principle at Risk

Vol 3, No 1 (2013) of the Oñati Socio-Legal Series is available.

Its theme is:

Ultima Ratio, a principle at risk. European Perspectives

Issue edited by Joxerramon Bengoetxea (University of the Basque Country), Heike Jung (Saarland University) and Kimmo Nuotio (University of Helsinki)

Papers resulting from the workshop Ultima Ratio. Is the General Principle at Risk in our European Context? held in Oñati on 2nd - 4th February 2012.

CALL FOR PAPERS: International Congress on Gender Violence: intersectionalities

International Congress on Gender Violence: intersectionalities  (IISJ Onati, July 10-12, 2013) 

 

The congress will be hosted by the International Institute for Sociology of Law, which is located in Oñati, Spain. Sessions will be held in both English and Spanish, with simultaneous translation provided for the final keynote speaker session. 

 

This congress is aimed at examining the main conceptual frameworks for thinking about gender violence. We invite participants to consider how useful the concept of gender violence is for tackling violence against women. We also particularly encourage papers that will examine the intersections of gender violence with other determinants of inequalities. Papers are invited from researchers working in the area of gender violence, as well as policy makers, practitioners and activists. We feel that this interdisciplinary framework may help to produce new conceptualisations of gender violence.

 

It is proposed to have sessions on:

• New theoretical models of gender violence: questioning the primacy of gender inequality
• The persistence of gender violence as a gendered phenomenon
• The intersection of gender, race and ethnicity
• Giving voice of marginalised women: disabled women’s experiences of violence
• Debunking stereotypes of battered women: intersections of gender and class
• Sexuality and violence

Abstracts should be submitted online before March 4th, 2013.  For further information, visit the IISJ website: www.iisj.net.

NOTICE/ARTICLE: Oñati Socio-Legal Papers and Hussin on Circulations of Law

The Facebook page of the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law noted this morning that '[t]his weekend our Oñati Socio-Legal Papers [on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN)] beat the 10,000 downloads! Just two years after its lauch! Thank you to all our readers!' The papers are available here.
 
Among the papers, I want to highlight Iza Hussin's 'Circulations of Law: Colonial Precedents, Contemporary Questions' for Oñati Socio-Legal Series, Vol. 2, No. 7, 2012. The abstract reads:  

While the project of law-making has seemed an obvious and inherent part of empire-building, and law-delivery has often been a justifying rationale for imperialism, this paper asks more detailed questions about the travels of law. How is a ‘universal’ law made ‘local’, and to what effect? How have past and contemporary legal delivery projects delineated between the categories of local and universal? Our analytic project, therefore, is not simply that law travels, but with whom; not just that it is carried, but alongside what other commodities and baggage; not just that it moves, but that it is transformed by its passage across borders and among localities. Further, whereas much of rule of law and imperial law scholarship sees legal travel as from metropole to colony, this paper argues that ports of call are equally important for the fate of law.  

Aunque el proyecto de legislación parecía una parte obvia e inherente al proceso de construcción del imperio, y la creación de leyes ha sido a menudo una justificación para el imperialismo, este artículo lanza preguntas más detalladas sobre los recorridos del derecho. ¿Cómo se convierte una ley “universal” en “local”, y qué efectos conlleva? ¿Cómo han diferenciado entre las categorías “local” y “universal” los proyectos de legislación pasados y contemporáneos? Así pues, nuestro proyecto analítico no concluye simplemente que la ley tiene un recorrido, sino con quién; no simplemente que es transportada, sino con qué otras comodidades y equipaje; no sólo que se mueve, sino que se transforma en su viaje a través de límites y localizaciones. Es más, mientras que gran parte de la comunidad científica del estado del derecho y el imperio del derecho ve que las leyes van de la metrópoli a la colonia, este artículo defiende que las escalas que realiza son igual de importantes para el destino del derecho. 

STUDY: Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law Master Handbook 2013-2014

Information about the 2013-14 Programme of the International Masters in Sociology of Law at the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law is available here.