Reminder: Job: Deputy Director, British and Irish Legal Information Institute (DL: 19.01.2014) http://t.co/s0rSnPtjmt #Opportunities
— Judicial Philosophy (@JudicialPhil) December 28, 2013
28 December 2013
OPPORTUNITY: Deputy Director, British and Irish Legal Information Institute
27 December 2013
INDIGENOUS LAW: American Federal Recognition Process (Indian Law)
Federal Recognition Process (Indian Law)—Tempe, AZ: The Indian Legal Program at Sandra Day O’Connor College of... http://t.co/gahEmzwiMn
— LegalScholarshipBlog (@LegalScholBlog) December 27, 2013
LAW & RELIGION: Law and Religion Stories Around the Web this Week
Law and religion stories around the web this week: http://t.co/X7Xj0ZXyCW via @CLRForum #lawandreligion
— Ctr Law & Religion (@CtrLawReligion) December 27, 2013
MAP: Upside Down World Map
Upside down world map
Source: http://t.co/dFNMVMz8xj pic.twitter.com/Plip14pes7
— Amazing Maps (@Amazing_Maps) December 27, 2013
CONFERENCE: 11th Annual BIICL Merger Conference
This year's speakers are:
- Giulio Federico, European Commission
- Clara Ingen-Housz, Linklaters Hong Kong
- Nelson Jung, Office of Fair Trading
- Edyth Kyegombe, Shell
- Andrea Lofaro, RBB Economics
- Johannes Luebking, European Commission
- Adrian Majumdar, RBB Economics
- Philip Marsden, British Institute of International and Comparative Law
- Simon Pritchard, Linklaters
- Emily Roche, Rio Tinto
- Gregory Werden, US Department of Justice (Antitrust Division)
This conference will include the following
Panels:
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Panel 1: Screens and Inferences in Mergers
- Panel 2: Efficiencies and Pro-competitive Remedies
- Panel 3: Hot Topics (Minority Stakes, Procedural Simplification, the Rise of MOFCOM)
Location: Fondation Universitaire, rue d'Egmont 11, 1000 Bruxelles, Tuesday 21 January 2014 09:00 to 16:00.
Click here to download the Draft Programme and here to register.
ARTICLE: Law & Literature (As an Approach to Criminal Law)
Simon Stern’s ‘Law & Literature (As an
Approach to Criminal Law)’ is forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of Criminal Law, Markus Dubber & Tatjana
Hörnle, eds. (Oxford UP 2014).
Abstract
'This book chapter discusses the use of literary
material as a means of studying criminal law. The chapter provides an overview
on various methods of combining legal and literary materials (law in
literature, literature in law, law as literature, legal aesthetics) and offers
two case studies (Susan Glaspell's "A Jury of Her Peers" and Robert
Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) to show how
literature can open up questions both about substantive criminal law doctrines
and also about the grounds on which those doctrines are applied. Along the way,
the discussion shows how various scholars of criminal law, such as Nicola Lacey
and Anne Coughlin, have raised questions that have also provoked the interest
of literary scholars such as Dorrit Cohn and Blakey Vermeule.
The chapter also serves as a bibliography for
scholars seeking further resources that examine criminal law through the lens
of literature. These resources include bibliographies of primary texts (such as
crime-based fiction, "dying confessions" circulated at executions,
and movies), secondary texts (discussing law and criminal behavior in relation
to fiction, drama, and poetry), and web-based resources (such as the Old Bailey
Sessions Papers Online). In that spirit, the chapter also discusses some
research that is often overlooked in discussions of criminal law and literature
– such as Todd Herzog’s research on Weimar-era true-crime narratives that were
created from actual case files; Jonathan Eburne’s research on crime in the work
of the French surrealists; Lorna Hutson’s research on civic plots of detection
in renaissance drama and their relation to the development of evidence law; and
Lisa Rodensky’s work on narrative modes in Victorian fiction and their relation
to the treatment of mens rea in contemporaneous legal thought.
The chapter closes with some brief reflections
on the potential for current work in cognitive literary studies to change the
way we think about literature's relation to law, and, in particular, the way we
impose narrative templates on the events we experience.'
Full text of the article is available here.
ARTICLE: Berman on Legal Pluralism
11 International Journal of Constitutional Law 801-808 (2013) has published Paul Schiff Berman’s, ‘How Legal Pluralism Is and Is Not Distinct from Liberalism: A Response to Dennis Patterson and Alexis Galán’.
Abstract
Alexis Galan and Dennis Patterson largely
accept the descriptive account of plural authority described in my book, Global
Legal Pluralism: A Jurisprudence of Law Beyond Borders. However, they are
concerned that my normative argument for procedural mechanisms, institutional
designs, and discursive practices for managing pluralism is simply liberalism
in another guise and not pluralist enough. Given that pluralists are usually
criticized from the opposite side for an approach that results in too much
fragmentation and destabilization, I am in some sense happy to welcome this new
critique. After all, a position cannot easily be simultaneously too radical and
not radical enough. Nevertheless, while there is clearly a liberal bias at its
core, I don't think it's true that the pluralist vision I espouse is solely
liberalism in disguise. Accordingly, in this brief response, I sketch out ways
in which the proceduralist pluralism I advocate, while it is not necessarily
incompatible with liberalism, at least shifts the emphasis to a set of values
that are not always fully captured in the design of liberal procedures and
institutions.
The article is available here.
26 December 2013
MAP: Areas of the World that Were Once Part of the British Empire
Areas of the world that were once part of the British Empire- almost 25% of the Earth's total land area (Wikipedia) pic.twitter.com/qrQGAUix9n
— Amazing Maps (@Amazing_Maps) December 26, 2013
LAW & RELIGION: Constructing Muslims in France
Fredette, "Constructing Muslims in France: Discourse, Public Identity, and the Politics of Citizenship" http://t.co/TEtHJ1j9qg
— Ctr Law & Religion (@CtrLawReligion) December 26, 2013
25 December 2013
MAP: The 22 Countries Britain Hasn't Invaded
A map of the 22 countries Britain hasn't invaded pic.twitter.com/bliArT6tkS
— Amazing Maps (@Amazing_Maps) December 23, 2013
24 December 2013
JOURNAL: 'Global Jurist' On-Line
A new issue of 'Global Jurist' Volume 13, Issue 1 (Jan 2013) is
now available online from De Gruyter Online with a new article 'Incorporating Cultural
Dynamism into International Human Rights Law: A Solution from Anthropology' by Sean Goggin.
Abstract
Culture remains one of international human rights law’s most vexing subjects. While the right of minority groups to protect culture has existed for nearly four decades, fundamental questions still prevail in the jurisprudence in the area. To add to the unresolved debate, the essay argues for the incorporation of a new dynamic approach to culture, borrowed from the cultural insights of anthropology.
BOOK: International Criminal Procedure
Edward Elgar Publishing has published a new
book 'International Criminal Procedure. The Interface of Civil Law and Common
Law Legal Systems'.
Edited by Linda Carter, Professor of Law and Co-Director,
Global Center for Business and Development, University of the Pacific, McGeorge
School of Law, Sacramento, California, US and Fausto Pocar, Professor Emeritus
of International Law, University of Milan, Italy, Appeals Judge and past
President ICTY, The Hague, The Netherlands.
‘International Criminal Procedure, edited by two insiders to international criminal proceedings, Professor Linda Carter and Professor Fausto Pocar, a judge at the ICTY and a former President of this Tribunal, is a coherently organized, well-researched, very informative and not the least elegantly-written contribution to a young and rapidly developing legal sub-discipline. The book provides its reader with a highly accessible and up-to date introduction into key elements of international criminal procedure as well as with critical commentary and rich inspiration for improvements of current practices.’
– Claus Kreß LL.M.
(Cantab.), University of Cologne, Germany and Institute for International Peace
and Security Law.
‘This book addresses compelling issues that have come before international criminal tribunals. They include the self-representation of accused persons, plea bargaining and victim participation. It usefully approaches all of the issues and problems from a comparative law perspective. This excellent and accessible work is essential reading for practitioners, faculty and students of international criminal law.’
– Richard Goldstone,
Retired Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and former Chief
Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia
and for Rwanda
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.
2013 272pp. Hardback 978 0 85793
9579 Regular price £ 80 Web price £ 72 ebook 978 0
85793 958 6
23 December 2013
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