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Beyond Responsibility to Protect:
Towards Responsible Use
of International Law?
University of Hull Law School
McCoubrey Centre
for International Law4- 5 July 2013, Hull, UK
Keynote Speaker:
Professor Andre Nollkaemper, Professor of International Law, University of
Amsterdam
The McCoubrey Centre for International Law is hosting a two-day
conference for research students and early career scholars. The theme of the
conference is "Beyond Responsibility to Protect: Towards Responsible Use of
International Law?"
OVERVIEW: The key idea is that international law
increasingly requires states not only to abstain from breaking the law, but also
to pro-actively protect common interests or values of the international
community. Seen from this perspective, sovereignty is not merely about rights,
but also (perhaps, primarily) about duties; in particular, that States have a
responsibility to take steps to prevent breaches of international law,
especially the commission of heinous crimes.
2013 Osgoode Forum - Law, Culture, Critique
May
10-12, 2013
Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto, Canada Conference
Website:
http://glsa.osgoode.yorku.ca
Shelley wrote that 'poets
are the unacknowledged legislators of the world'. We want to engage with the
deeper aspect of Shelley's claim, which is that law is culturally pervasive; as
Gramsci noted, every person is an intellectual and a 'legislator.' Legal
scholars can learn from this wider ambit of law where these 'legislators'
practise art, activism and critical analysis. Thus the two main themes of this
conference are the intersections between law and culture and the role of
critique in legal scholarship. The ubiquity of law is captured in cultural
manifestations, whether it is narratology, rhetoric or aesthetics. It is the
ideological function of the law which is reflected by cultural practices; law
has been used to suppress, shape and create culture in all its forms - such as
art, music, literature and media. We are inspired by 'law and literature'
scholars who have pioneered its study by questioning how law and text inform one
another. We would like to extend their emphasis on law's role in shaping
knowledge to other intersections of law and culture - from intellectual property
rights and artistic expression to environmental law and indigenous knowledge to
the privatization of space and graffiti art.
Illegality Regimes: Mapping the Law of Irregular
Migration
VU University Amsterdam, 30 May - 1 June 2013
http://www.illegality.org
OVERVIEW: Recent years have
seen the development of increasingly sophisticated legal and policy approaches
to address the phenomenon of irregular immigration. Many states have moved
beyond traditional means of law enforcement, such as criminalization, without
necessarily abandoning them. In addition, they have begun to employ other areas
of law (such as administrative law and labor law) in pursuit of controlling
irregular immigration.
For example, the verification of legal residence
status, by means of ID-controls, has become increasingly necessary in the day to
day life of all people: citizens and non-citizens alike. Private citizens, and
not government agents, are evolving into the primary enforcers of these
policies, as they have been made legally responsible for the control of legal
residence status, for example in the case of employment.
These legal and
policy instruments have sometimes been justified with reference to economic
theories, such as 'attrition through enforcement', the broken window theory, and
most recently 'self-deportation', a term that ironically originated in a
stand-up sketch performed by two Hispanic comedians in the mid '90s, and was
briefly promoted to a major policy proposal in the Romney campaign for the US
presidential elections.
Among economic scholars, a debate about the (lack
of) effectiveness of these policies has been growing the last couple of years.
What is still absent, however, is a more rigorous analysis by legal and other
social science scholars. This conference aims to explore the more systemic
dimensions of these responses to irregular migration. For this purpose, scholars
from all disciplines are invited to consider (any of) the following questions,
or to respond with additional insights and approaches: What are the various
legal and policy tools that have been developed to move beyond, or away from the
criminalization of irregular migrants? In other words, how have the various
innovations sought to counter the inflow of irregular migrants? Have these
policies had a significant impact within their legal or policy
field?
FURTHER INFORMATION: More information at: http://www.illegality.org
PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be emailed (preferably attached in
.pdf format) to submissions@illegality.org by 7 February 2013. Please also
include a short bio in the same document as the abstract. The closing date for
submissions of (full) papers will be 30 April 2013. For more information, write
to info@illegality.org
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