CONFERENCE: Legal Remedies for Corruption

A conference on the Legal Remedies for Corruption will be taking place at the Said Business School on Saturday 28 June 2014.

The conference will be jointly hosted by the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and armed Conflict (Oxford Department of Politics and International Relations) and Open Societies Foundation, Justice Initiative provide a forum to discuss how litigation, based on innovative legal approaches, has been useful in challenging, mitigating, remediating and deterring corruption.

Discussion will focus on current legal practice in the fight against corruption globally and its evolution since 2005. 

Some of the case studies will focus on the cases against the ruling elites in Equitorial Guinea, Gabon, Zambia and South Africa.

Further information on the conference is available at the following link:
http://www.elac.ox.ac.uk/downloads/Flyers/Corruption%20Conference%20ELAC%20advert.pdf and in the attached document.

To register, please contact Miss Vuyelwa Kuuya at vuyelwa.kuuya@politics.ox.ac.uk

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS: 5th Global Conference: Space and Place

5th Global Conference: Space and Place Wednesday 3rd September - Friday 5th September 2014 Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom  Call for Presentations Questions of space and place affect the very way in which we experience and recreate the world. Wars are fought over both real and imagined spaces; boundaries are erected against the "Other" constructing a lived landscape of division and disenfranchisement; while ideology constructs a national identity based upon the dialectics of inclusion and exclusion. The construction of space and place is also a fundamental aspect of the creative arts either through the art of reconstruction of a known space or in establishing a relationship between the audience and the performance. Politics, power and knowledge are also fundamental components of space as is the relationship between visibility and invisibility. This new inter- and multi-disciplinary conference project seeks to explore these and other topics and open up a dialogue about the politics and practices of space and place. We seek submissions from a range of disciplines including archaeology, architecture, urban geography, the visual and creative arts, philosophy and politics and also actively encourage practitioners and non-academics with an interest in the topic to participate.

JOURNAL: Transnational Legal Theory

Juris Diversitas is very pleased to let you know that Transnational Legal Theory, Hart Publishing, Oxford,  Volume 4, Issue 2 is now published.

About the Jorunal:

The objective of Transnational Legal Theory is to publish high-quality theoretical scholarship that addresses transnational dimensions of law and legal dimensions of transnational fields and activity.

Central to Transnational Legal Theory's mandate is publication of work that explores whether and how transnational contexts, forces and ideations affect debates within existing traditions or schools of legal thought. Similarly, the journal aspires to encourage scholars debating general theories about law to consider the relevance of transnational contexts and dimensions for their work. With respect to particular jurisprudence, the journal welcomes not only submissions that involve theoretical explorations of fields commonly constructed as transnational in nature (such as commercial law, maritime law, or cyberlaw) but also explorations of transnational aspects of fields less commonly understood in this way (for example, criminal law, family law, company law, tort law, evidence law, and so on). Submissions of work exploring process-oriented approaches to law as transnational (from transjurisdictional litigation to delocalized arbitration to multi-level governance) are also encouraged.