Juris Diversitas, 4th Annual Conference, Highlights

From Monday, May 30th to Wednesday, June 1st, 2016, over forty jurists from all continents convened at the Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Baton Rouge, to attend and present at the Juris Diversitas 4th Annual Conference, on Unity and/or Diversity. Plenary sessions featured three keynote speakers: Professor Vivian Curran (University of Pittsburgh) for the opening, Professor Francisco Reyes (Government of the Republic of Colombia and UNCITRAL) for the 39th Tucker Lecture in Civil Law, and Professor Vernon Palmer (Tulane University) for the closing panel. 36 papers where presented in 13 parallel sessions, including two sessions entirely in French, featuring a great variety of themes and jurisdictions. 

Videos of the plenary events are available online: Opening and Keynote (Vivian Curran), Tucker Lecture (Francisco Reyes), and Closing Panel (Vernon Palmer and Bob Sloan as discussant). Conference Papers are to be published in a volume in the Juris Diversitas Book Series (Routledge).

Below is a selection of photos. Link to full album.

Music, Cultural Heritage and Law

CALL FOR PAPERS

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR THE SEMIOTICS OF LAW – REVUEINTERNATIONALE DE SÉMIOTIQUE JURIDIQUE

http://www.springer.com/law/journal/11196/PSE

Editor-in-chief: Anne WAGNER

Université Lille – Nord de France

Centre de Recherche Droits et Perspectives du Droit, équipe René Demogue

valwagnerfr@yahoo.com

Special issue: Music, Cultural Heritage and Law

Working languages: English and French

Music is a space of possibilities, a realm of cross-cultural events where interpretation is deeply rooted in history and societal evolution. The main complexity is to analyze the coded meaning and view how the same signs, notions and concepts are appropriated, translated, rehistorized and read anew in songs, be they pop songs or national anthems.

This special issue will explore the richly complex manifestations of ‘Music, Cultural Heritage and Law’ in the following ways:
- How do we stimulate our senses with music?
- How do we combine music with national identity and law?
- Is music combined with other sign systems?
- How de we ‘hear’ music, national identity and law?
- What is the creatively approach perception of Music, National Identity and Law?

The International Journal for the Semiotics of Law/Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique invites further discussion into these related questions and welcomes a plurality of approaches, including those of legal studies, philosophy, music, social sciences, linguistics, history, cultural studies and the humanities.

All paper abstracts of 300 words (max) can be submitted by December 2016 to Anne Wagner (Guest Editor) with decisions made by February 2017. Full papers could be written in English or French (abstract and keywords must be in English) and should not exceed 15,000 words.

The Special Issue is expected to be published in 2017-2018.