JOURNAL: Potchestroom Electronic Law Journal

Post by JURIS Diversitas.

WORKSHOP: Islam, Law, and the State in Myanmar

Post by JURIS Diversitas.

WORKSHOP: Postnational constitutionalism and global governance

Workshop on Postnational constitutionalism and global governance http://t.co/yDXsOr0PpK @JudicialPhil @JurisDiversitas
— gianluigi palombella (@gianpalomb) January 15, 2014

ARTICLE: Palombella on The Law's Two Sides and Their Benefits

Posted "The Law's Two Sides and Their Benefits.Domestic/International" http://t.co/zY8yVa3jjd Law under a non-domination p @JurisDiversitas
— gianluigi palombella (@gianpalomb) January 15, 2014

OPPORTUNITY: Research Assistants - Law Commission (UK)

“Interesting, stimulating, challenging” Join us as a research assistant. We’re recruiting law graduates now: http://t.co/G22EHD9h1K
— Law Commission (@Law_Commission) January 15, 2014

BLOG: Using Foreign Law in Interpreting the U.S. Constitution

Using Foreign Law in Interpreting the U.S. Constitution #comparativelaw http://t.co/31SIyZwbPi
— Andrea Ortolani (@ortospace) January 15, 2014

SEMINAR: European Legal Studies & Sociological Approaches

Jean Monnet PhD Researcher Series Seminar, Jan 29 at 16h30: Profs Karstedt & Schiek on ‘European Legal Studies & Sociological Approaches’.
— EU Law U.Leeds (@CELLS_Leeds) January 15, 2014

SEMINAR: Comparative issues involving financial remedy proceedings on divorce in France and England

Comparative issues involving financial remedy proceedings on divorce in France and EnglandComparative issues… http://t.co/SwO1pXpaeO
— FBLS/AJFB (@fblsajfb) January 15, 2014

ARTICLE: Belavusau on Historical Revisionism in Comparative Law

ARTICLE: Belavusau on Historical Revisionism in Comparative Law

Uladzislau Belavusau's "Historical Revisionism in Comparative Perspective: Law, Politics, and Surrogate Mourning" in Social and Political Philosophy eJournal,Vol. 7, No. 6: Jan 13, 2014, is now available on SSRN.

Recently the law on the Armenian genocide denial in France with a subsequent decision of the Conseil Constitutionnel (February 2012) shed fresh light on the controversial issue of historical revisionism. It disposed the issue in a wider perspective than a recurrent legal discussion on Holocaust denial. Furthermore, in drawing their bill, the authors of the French law invoked the EU Council Framework Decision 2008/913. This article demonstrates the chilling effects of that EU instrument for the freedom of speech in Europe. To these ends, it first explores the “European” model of legal engagement with historiography that is radically different from its counterpart in the USA. It further places this model in a fertile yet under-theorized comparative realm of three Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries: the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland. The CEE is a primary arena of the Holocaust, a region particularly sensitive to interpretations of World War II, and a battlefield of two totalitarian regimes. In normative terms, this comparative study of semantic and pragmatic differences between historical revisionism and hate speech, of victimhood and mens rea in the crime of Holocaust denial, as well as of the appropriation of selected episodes of World War II, concludes that the criminalization of historical revisionism constitutes a substantial impairment to the freedom of (academic) expression for the sake of politics of memory (Geschichtspolitik).

CALL FOR PAPERS: JURIS DIVERSITAS ANNUAL CONFERENCE

17 July (evening) to 19 July 2014

Faculty of Law and Political Science –

Aix-Marseille University - Aix-en-Provence, France

COMPARATIVE LAW AND …

Inherently interdisciplinary, the conference’s primary focus will be comparative law’s links to a wide variety of other disciplines and themes (e.g., anthropology, economics, feminism, history, the humanities, legal education, legal philosophy, literature, politics …). Proposals may be theoretical analyses or case studies on the past or present, North or South, East or West …

Proposals may be in either English or in French. Any proposal on comparative law will be considered. Panel proposals are strongly encouraged, as is the participation of doctoral students and scholars from outside of the discipline of law. 

Proposals of circa 250 words (or 1000 words for panel proposals) should be submitted to Olivier Moréteau at moreteau@lsu.edu by 28 February 2014. Please attach a short biography or resume.

Registration fees are €200 (€125 for Juris Diversitas members paid up for 2014). Membership information and information on fee payment is available on the Juris Diversitas Blog (http://jurisdiversitas.blogspot.ie/).  

Note that registration fees don’t cover travel, accommodation, or the conference dinner (€50).

If want to see who's coming or let others know that you're attending, a Facebook Event Page has also been created at https://www.facebook.com/events/1393753610880875/. 

JUDGMENT: Italian Constitutional Court

Italy Constitutional Court: parliament legitimate, electoral law unconstitutional http://t.co/3Nw4MU7ueD
— JURIST (@JURISTnews) January 14, 2014

ARTICLE: Ginsburg et al on The Global Origins of Constitutional Preambles

Faculty Research: 'We the Peoples': The Global Origins of Constitutional Preambles http://t.co/spTVJJFFnd
— UChicago Law School (@UChicagoLaw) January 14, 2014

BLOG: Le blog Droit et cinéma

One of our members has brought Le blog Droit et cinéma to my attention. Francophones should have a look. - SPD

BOOK: Mastor, Miniato, et al on Les figures du procès au-delà des frontières

I'm happy to note the publication of W Mastor and L Miniato (eds), Les figures du procès au-delà des frontières (2014).

The abstract reads:

Les symboles du procès nous paraissent indissociables du rituel judiciaire. Une justice sans decorum est inconcevable car l'acte de juger n'est pas anodin, les symboles du procès exprimant la gravité du moment judiciaire. Pourtant, ces symboles sont parfois vus comme l'héritage d'une époque révolue, où juger était conçu comme une prérogative d'essence divine. D'ailleurs, la justice managériale et le process judiciaire ont tendance à les reléguer au second plan. L'étude du procès à travers ses symboles s'enrichit de celle de leurs représentations, notamment littéraires ou cinématographiques

A travers les figures du procès - symboles et leurs représentations -, cet ouvrage vous invite à voyager au-delà des frontières disciplinaires pour mieux rendre compte de la justice passée, présente et à venir.

EDUCATION: Diploma in Law - Institute of Studies (Jersey)

Not sure a full law degree is for you? Why not consider a Diploma in Law. Find out more at: http://t.co/Jooda1U81k
— Institute of Law (@InstofLawJersey) January 14, 2014

JOURNAL: International and Comparative Law Quarterly

Access to the most-cited International & Comparative #Law Quarterly papers: http://t.co/GpEjnOfz6H or for mobile: http://t.co/cptshs4nef
— Cambridge Journals (@CambridgeJnls) January 13, 2014

CONFERENCE: Africans and Hague Justice: Realities and Perceptions of the International Criminal Court in Africa

Conference: Africans and Hague Justice: Realities and Perceptions of the International Criminal Court in Africa http://t.co/tRd4xKsN1f
— Derecho Global (@derechoglobal) January 13, 2014

JOURNAL: Asian Journal of Law and Society

CALL FOR PAPERS - #Asian Journal of #Law and Society (AsianJLS) welcomes the submission of... http://t.co/Wl0ySL0dQ7 @Legal_Editions
— Cambridge Journals (@CambridgeJnls) January 13, 2014

HUMO(U)R: LOL My Thesis

From HuffPo: "My Thesis" blog is a big hit and some very funny quotations http://t.co/j6NMsD2JYR via @HuffPostCollege
— anthropologyworks (@anthroworks) January 12, 2014

CONFERENCE: Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States

The United Nations has declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States.


Linked to this is the 'Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States'. The conference

'will be held from 1 to 4 September 2014 in Apia, Samoa, to be preceded by activities related to the conference from 28 to 30 August 2014, also in Apia, Samoa. It will focus the world's attention on a group of countries that remain a special case for sustainable development in view of their unique and particular vulnerabilities.'