CALL FOR PAPERS: Law in Translation

Call for Papers

Law in Translation

Special Issue of The Translator (Volume 20, Number 2, 2014)

Guest-edited by Dr Simone Glanert, Kent Law School, Canterbury, UK

The Translator, a peer-reviewed journal enjoying an international reputation in the field of translation studies, invites contributions for a special issue on Law in Translation to be published as Volume 20, Number 2, 2014.

In an era marked by processes of economic and political integration that are arguably unprecedented in their range and impact, the translation of law, whether understood in its literal or metaphorical sense, has assumed a significance that can hardly be overstated. The following situations are typical. As the expression of a strong postcolonial commitment, various African states have decided to draft their legislation in more than one official language with a view to conferring equal authority to colonial and traditional languages. Elsewhere, an influential group of European lawyers is seeking to develop a civil code for the European Union that stands to be translated in 23 languages. Meanwhile, former political and military leaders are being prosecuted for genocide before the International Criminal Court, a body consisting of judges from many different legal backgrounds and operating according to a complex multilingual procedure. Controversially, the US Supreme Court has relied upon foreign law in order to assess the constitutionality of a Texas statute criminalizing certain forms of sexual behaviour.

NOTICE: New Law and Humanities

The Winter 2011 issue of Law and Humanities is now available online.

The articles include:

• Christian Biet, Law, Literature, Theatre: The Fiction of Common Judgment
• Mark Fortier, Education, Aesop, Roger L’Estrange, and Equity
• Melanie L Williams, Conceptions of Moral Luck, Culpability, and The Reader
• Martin A Kayman, The Bill of Rights: ‘Icons’ of Liberty and Law in the Early Twenty-First Century
• Helge Dedek, The Splendour of Form: Scholastic Jurisprudence and ‘Irrational Formality’
• Catrin Fflur Huws, What is the Significance of the Mortgage in Love’s Labour’s Lost?

NOTICE: Tucker Lecture (Louisiana State University)

The Center for Civil Law Studies of the LSU Paul M Hebert Law Center presents the 36th John H Tucker, Jr. Lecture in Civil Law:

"The Quest to Implant Civil Law Method and Restrain Judicial Lawmaking:

Tracing the Origins of Judicial Methodology in Louisiana"

Dr Vernon V Palmer

Thursday, November 17, 2011 at 5:30 pm

Louisiana State University Paul M Hebert Law Center

McKernan Auditorium

Reception to follow in the Tucker Room

RSVP by 10 November 2011 to ccls@law.lsu.edu or 225-578-7831

CALL FOR PAPERS: Entanglements in Legal History: Conceptual Approaches to Global Legal History

I've been asked to post the following, exciting Call for Papers related to (what I call) the historical 'diffusion' of laws:

Entanglements in Legal History:

Conceptual Approaches to Global Legal History

Conference of Legal Historian, Lucerne – 2-6 September 2012

Conference MPI, Frankfurt -

Global History, World History, Imperial History, Atlantic or Pacific History: the variety of transnational historiography is growing ever larger. Hitherto, legal historians have rarely participated in these discourses. On a favourable interpretation, one could argue that legal historians have always thought, researched and worked transnationally – yet this might have different reasons.

It is certain that, in legal history, the exchange and overlapping of different normative spheres beyond territorially-constrained statehood has been the norm: the tiered territorial and legal spheres of influence of antique empires, stratified societies with their regulations tied to civil status, the coexistence of secular normativity and clerical normativity intersecting the secular realm, and finally the complex processes of the period of the ‘Reception’ belong to the classic objects of legal historical research. It has also become clear that the encounter of two hitherto co-existing normative orders, through the intensified exchange and communication since the 16th and particularly during the 19th century in two waves of globalisation, has attracted the interest of legal history.