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.

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT: Women, Narrative and Crime: An Interdisciplinary Conference

Teesside University (Darlington Campus)

9^th July 2015

Keynote Speakers: Deborah Jermyn (Roehampton) & Lizzie Seal (Sussex)

From Pat Barker’s novel Blow Your House Down (1984) to Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell’s graphic novel From Hell(1999) and Alecky Blythe and Adam Cork’s stage musical London Road (2011), artists, writers and film-makers have explored the collective memory and cultural meaning of crimes against women, both past and present. This interdisciplinary conference will bring to together researchers and practitioners from the arts, humanities and socials sciences to explore questions of narrative and crime in relation to violence against women, as well as addressing themes relating to women, crime and justice more broadly. 

This conference will critically explore the growing recognition within the social sciences of ‘popular’ criminological texts (Rafter, 2007) - such as film, TV drama, crime fiction, true-crime  - as valid social documents, which shape both public and academic understandings of crime, justice and victimization, and offer alternative means of engaging with criminal events and ‘knowing’ about crime. This conference aims to explore how these ‘differing spheres of representation’ (Brown, 2003) deal with violence against women, reflecting on the relationship between academic and cultural texts (Wakeman, 2011), and the privileging of particular texts as a means of conveying feminist messages relating to misogyny, violence and victimhood.

We welcome abstracts (250 words) for 20 minute papers from researchers and practitioners working in the following fields: criminology; sociology; English; film and media studies; theatre and performance studies; the visual arts; women’s, gender, queer and transgender studies.

Themes for papers may include but are not limited to:

·         Feminism, violence against women and social media

·         Visual criminology

·         Crime, place and myth

·         True crime

·         Narrative criminology

·         Fiction, film, television drama, graphic novels, computer games, visual arts, performing arts

·         The politics and ethics of fictional reconstruction

·         Violence, intersectionality and difference

·         Genres of crime narrative – detective / crime fiction, historical fiction, documentary, creative non-fiction

This event is part of a British Academy funded project at Teesside University; the project explored the significance of the Yorkshire Ripper murders for those living closest to them and highlights how a range of narratives offered by the social sciences, true crime and crime fiction represent themes of misogyny, violence against women and fear of crime.

Abstracts (250 words) and brief author profiles should be submitted to wnccon@tees.ac.uk by 15^th April 2015.

CONFERENCE: Law and Communication

Saint-Petersburg University has announced a Conference ´Law and Communication´ dedicated to the modern communication theory of law.

All interested speakers and authors are invited to join the Conference 12 December 2014.

Where: Law faculty of Saint-Petersburg University, bld. 7, 22 line of Vasilyevsky island, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 199026.

Languiges of the conference: Russian and English.

All materials of the Conference will be published in Russian legal journal Pravovedenie.

Draft of paper should be presented till September 15, 2014 to Andrey Polyakov by email polyakov2008@gmail.com.

All articles should be in compliance with the scholar publication standards  http://www.jurisprudence-media.ru/authors.php

For additional information, please, contact Andrey Polyakov polyakov2008@gmail.com, Elena Timoshina  timochina@yandex.ru, or Michael Antonov mich.antonov@gmail.com.

Hope to meet you in Saint-Petersburg!

CONFERENCE: Law and Responsibility

Yale Law School hosts the 4th Doctoral Scholarship Conference on Law and Responsibility, which will be held on November 14-15, 2014.

The conference aims to provide doctoral students and recent graduates with a forum to present, share and discuss their work beyond conventional academic boundaries. It seeks to promote quality research and to facilitate discussion across diverse subject areas and methodological approaches, with a view towards fostering a community of aspiring legal scholars.

The conference is open to current doctoral candidates, in law or law-related disciplines, and those who graduated during the previous academic year (2013-2014). Submissions engaging any area of law are welcomed.

Papers will be selected based on quality and their capacity to provoke fruitful debate with other submissions. Selection will be informed - but not strictly bound - by fidelity to the theme.

Abstracts of 300-500 words (with your institutional affiliations) should be submitted to yls.doctoralconference@gmail.com by August 1st, 2014.

Selected applicants will be informed of acceptance in late August, and presenters will be asked to submit their papers of up to 10,000 words in length by October 10, 2014.

CONFERENCE: Borders and Boundaries in Transitional Justice

Oxford Transitional Justice Research is holding its biennial summer conference on Friday 27 June, 2014 at the Law Faculty, University of Oxford.  OTJR welcomes papers falling within the theme ‘Borders and Boundaries in Transitional Justice.’

 

The past few years have seen a growing interest in cross-border issues in the study and practice of transitional justice.  For instance, the Operation Condor trial that began last year in a domestic court in Buenos Aires, Argentina, addresses transnational atrocities perpetrated in six countries in South America, and in the process raises questions about the design and validity of domestic amnesties in respect of extraterritorial wrongdoing.  In Europe, states have pursued domestic trials for international crimes committed abroad, such as genocide, or have opted to extradite suspects back to the country where the crimes occurred, highlighting a shift to the domestic application of international criminal law.  In the US, the Supreme Court’s decision in Kiobel has affected one important avenue of accountability for extraterritorial wrongdoing.

 

At the same time, traditional boundaries in the theory and practice of transitional justice are being redrawn, creating new dynamics of inclusion and exclusion.  In Liberia, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission sought to engage the state’s diaspora community, prompting questions about who is included in transitional justice processes.  Regional bodies, including the African Union and European Union, have started to play a more prominent role in determining states’ responses to past wrongs, challenging the boundaries of decision-making in transitional justice.  These developments also raise broader conceptual questions about the relationship between national, regional, and international ideas and practices of justice and accountability. 

The conference will explore how these and other borders and boundaries inform and affect transitional justice.  Within this theme, potential topics might include, but are not limited to:

• How extraterritorial atrocities are addressed in, or excluded from, transitional justice;
• The role of refugee, diaspora, and/or foreign communities in transitional justice;
• Nationalism and pan-nationalism after gross human rights abuses;
• The interaction between domestic transitional justice processes and foreign, regional, or international courts, for example in the application of the principles of complementarity and ne bis in idem; and
• The interplay between domestic and international conceptions of justice and accountability.

 To propose a paper, please send an abstract of no more than 500 words to the OTJR Convenor, Miles Jackson –   miles.jackson@law.ox.ac.uk This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. – by 21 April, 2014.  Abstracts should include your name, contact details, any institutional affiliation, and the title of the presentation.  Applications from scholars of all disciplines and doctoral and early-career researchers are welcomed.

 

Conference page is here.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Procedural Fairness in International Courts and Tribunals

The Surrey International Law Centre of the School of Law of the University of Surrey with the support of the Institute of Advanced Studies, the McCoubrey Centre of the University of Hull and the British Institute of International and Comparative Law ('BIICL') will host a two-day workshop on the identification of core standards of procedural fairness before international courts and tribunals 19 - 20 September 2014. A topical and timely subject for study, the question of procedural fairness entails the identification of fundamental principles inherent to the judicial and arbitral processes. Whilst the manifestation of such core standards of fairness will necessarily diverge according to the particular forum, the workshop aims to identify their essence with reference to the procedural issues arising in practice.

The aim of this workshop is to bring academics and practitioners together to initiate ground-breaking research into this novel topic. The workshop employs a comparative approach whereby participants will analyse the procedures and practices of various international courts and tribunals. It aims to identify patterns of commonality and divergence in the core standards of procedural fairness of international courts and to develop a holistic understanding of the nature of procedural fairness and the challenges to its realisation in the international judicial system.

Proposals are invited on topics relating to the aforementioned themes in addition to specific aspects of international judicial procedure. In addition, the workshop welcomes contributions on the theoretical question of the implications that fairness in international procedural law may have for general international law, such as its systemic traits, the 'humanisation' of international procedure and the responsibility of international courts and tribunals for failure to meet standards of fairness.

This call is directed to academics at all career stages who wish to bring fresh perspectives to the workshop with established scholars and practitioners.

Submissions: Interested parties should submit an abstract of maximum 500 words by the 1st of April 2014 at:http://ocs.som.surrey.ac.uk/index.php/SILC/SILC2014. Speakers will be informed of acceptance by the 1st of May, 2014 and will be expected to submit a paper by the 1st of August, 2014. Participants will be expected to pay a fee and to cover their travel and accommodation, details of which will be announced in due course.

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Law and Boundaries/Droit et Limites

Post by JURIS Diversitas.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Women in War and at War

The University of Warwick has issued a call for papers.

18th - 19th September 2014 / University of Warwick

Call for papers

Women's roles in war are complex and varied and are not limited to that of victims. During the Arab Spring, women took to the streets protesting against oppressive regimes in North Africa and the Middle East. We are also witnessing a significant rise in female political activism during conflict: many women increasingly find Internet, blogs and social media a useful tool to fight oppression, advocate change but also to report from war zones. Many women actively participate in combat, in regular armed forces but also as guerillas and, freedom fighters. They are also compelled to fight as girl child soldiers.

Sexual violence against women remains an alarming and disturbing feature of modern armed conflicts. This is despite the fact that International Humanitarian Law (IHL) prohibits rape and other forms of sexual violence in war and despite the major advances in International Criminal Law (ICL) in the punishment of gender crimes. Over the past two years, some further steps and initiatives have been taken at national and international level to address this problem.  For instance, in June 2013 the United Nations Security Council issued Resolution 2106 on sexual violence in conflict, calling (once again) for the prevention of sexual violence during conflicts. In April 2012, the UK Foreign Secretary, William Hague, launched the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative, which resulted in adopting a G8 Declaration on Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict and endorsing the Declaration of Commitment to End Sexual Violence in Conflict, which has been signed by 70% of UN Member States.

What impact have these measures had? Will they make a real difference? Have they had any impact on the way that armed conflict is conducted? How much can the law actually achieve? What do recent conflicts tell us about the contemporary representations of women in and at war?

This conference builds on the 2012 Women in War and at War conference held at Aberystwyth University and is designed to focus in particular on recent developments in relation to women and war.

Keynote speaker: Prof. Christine Chinkin, London School of Economics


The University of Warwick invites proposals for papers in the following or related areas:

 -          Women and the conflict in Syria

-          Women, the Arab Spring and the aftermath

-          International Humanitarian Law: effectiveness and challenges

-          International Criminal Law and the prosecution of gender-related crimes

-          Representations of women in and at war

-          Women, war and the media

-          Women in post-conflict settings

-          Gender and conflict.

 Abstracts of max. 250 words should be submitted by 15 February 2014 to womeninatwar@gmail.com. Authors of selected abstracts will be informed by mid-March 2014.

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Informal Enforcement of Competition Law

Post by JURIS Diversitas.

CONFERENCE: 4th Annual International Conference on Comparative Law in Olsztyn

University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland has announced 4th Annual International Conference on Comparative Law 'Dominium and Imperium of the State versus Property Rights' in April 4-5, 2014 (Friday and Saturday).

Registration is open until January 31, 2014 (University has reserved the right to close the registration prior to this date). Register early.

Draft programme will be available on February 5, 2014.

All sessions and panels this year will be held in English.

Scientific Committee: Bronisław Sitek, Katarzyna Ciućkowska-Leszczewicz, Jakub J. Szczerbowski.

Subject areas:

• History of the relations between states and things
• The state and property rights in transformation. Eastern and Central European experiences
• Effectiveness and justice of the imperium in relation to property rights
• State as an owner in the multi-layered legal systems

Details on registration are available on the site on the Conference.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Issue of the Cyprus Human Rights Law Review

European Human Rights Law Institute and Intersentia have issued a call for papers for the special issue of the Cyprus Human Rights Law Review.

The topic of the call of papers is 'Recourse to the European Human Rights Law framework in response to the economic crisis'.

Interested authors are invited to submit an abstract of their proposed paper by 11 October 2013 to info@ehrli.org. The abstracts should be no more than three pages long and be in English. Earlier submissions are welcome. The abstracts will be reviewed by members of the Cyprus Human Rights Law Review’s Editorial and Scientific board and a number of authors will be invited to submit their final papers of no more than 15,000 words by 30 November 2013. Already published papers will not be eligible for consideration.

CONFERENCE: Australasian Law Teachers Association Annual Conference 2013

Austrlasian Law Teachers Association announced Annual Conference and Call for Papers.

The Conference is being hosted by the ANU College of Law at The Australian National University, Canberra.
29 September 2013 - 1 October 2013.

The theme of this year’s conference explores the proposition that through teaching (and research) we determine the way in which students understand the law and what it is to be a lawyer. The way in which we structure our law school curricula and the individual courses within those curricula shapes how our students conceive of the intellectual and ethical parameters of the law.
The theme of the 2013 ALTA conference invites us to reflect on this gatekeeping role: what responsibilities does it carry? What scope do we have to make distinctive contributions to this role? What role should students play? Is the gatekeeper metaphor accurate?

Deadline for abstracts has been extended to 16 August 2013.

CONFERENCE: International Responses to Social and Justice Challenges

CONFERENCE: International Responses to Social and Justice Challenges

Organization: International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law

Official page: http://www.cvent.com/events/international-responses-to-social-and-justice-challenges/event-summary-b17f4228f53049efb44568853a39af1f.aspx

 August 15th - August 19th, 2013 in Hobart, Tasmania 

OVERVIEW: The International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law will be holding its 26th annual conference, International Responses to Social and Justice Challenges, in Hobart, Tasmania from August 15th – 19th this year.  As in past years the conference will provide an opportunity for updates on various international criminal proceedings and international cooperative development.  For the most part, however, the conference will look at a number of challenges that are confronting national, regional and international criminal justice institutions and governments on a variety of issues that are deeply grounded in the social fabric of societies. 

 This year’s conference will examine the challenges that vulnerable populations, particularly women and children, present as they come into contact with the criminal justice system as victims of violence and abuse, witnesses and as perpetrators of crime. Conference participants will also explore the relationships between mental illness and criminal behavior, including violence, and look at mentally ill people as victims of violence rather than just perpetrators. The conference will feature innovative and effective approaches for addressing the challenges associated with these populations from a criminal justice perspective.

 Another matter in question that has sparked emotional debate as countries increase their efforts to reduce crime is that of firearms legislation and control.  The conference will look at the desirability and effectiveness of firearm controls and legislation at the national level and explore the developments internationally to promote cooperation among States to prevent and eradicate the illegal manufacturing and trafficking in firearms.  

 Corruption is another complex social, political and economic phenomenon that affects all countries. Within the overarching theme of supporting international cooperation on all of the issues discussed the conference will look at the complexities of establishing viable anti-corruption regimes in view of the differing standards and processes that exist throughout nations.

 The conference will provide a forum for judges, prosecutors, policy-makers, representatives of law enforcement agencies and concerned citizens to discuss these challenges from a range of perspectives and try to establish how we can best formulate the criminal law and policy response to these difficult situations moving forward. The ISRCL anticipates a forward-looking conference that recognizes international perspectives on these important issues and contributes to the development of a fair, evidence-based criminal justice and security agenda. 

SECOND CALL FOR ABSTRACTS, PAPERS, AND ROUNDTABLES: International Symposium on Comparative Sciences

International Symposium on Comparative Sciences

SECOND Call for abstracts, full papers, and roundtables

Dear Colleague,

It is my pleasure to inform you that an International Symposium on Comparative Sciences will be organized by the Bulgarian Comparative Education Society and held in Sofia, Bulgaria, 8 - 11 October 2013. This will be a forum where different comparative sciences can meet and discuss problems of common interest.

Scholars from the following sciences are invited: Comparative Education, Comparative Psychology, Comparative Sociology, Comparative Religion, Comparative Linguistics, Comparative Literature, Comparative Civilization Studies, Comparative Mythology, Comparative Anthropology, Comparative Law, Comparative History, Comparative Labour Studies.

The aims of the Symposium are to:

- achieve and foster common understanding in methodologies across comparative sciences;

- develop linkages with comparative educationists, sociologists, psychologists, historians, linguists and representatives of other comparative sciences;

- encourage the use of comparative approaches in academic teaching and research.

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS (EXTENDED): Islamic Family Law in Modern Europe And The Muslim World

Islamic Family Law in Modern Europe And The Muslim World

The deadline for the conference Islamic Family Law in Modern Europe And The Muslim World. Normative, Legal and Empirical Analyses Beyond The Women’s Rights Issue has been extended. 

The conference will take place in Nijmegen, from 19-21 June 2013. Keynote speakers will be prof. Lynn Welchman, dr. Ziba Mir-Hosseini and dr. Prakash Shah. Abstracts (max. 300 words)can be submitted to CMRCongress@jur.ru.nl Before March 25.

There will be limited grant possibilities for early career researchers from low and lower-middle income economies (as classified by the World Bank). If you would like to qualify for one of the grants, please mention this when submitting your abstract.

Further information can be found at http://www.ru.nl/rechten/cmr/nieuws/nieuws/@877893/conference-islamic/

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS EXTENDED: Filling the Gaps - The Study of Judicial Creativity and Equity in Mixed Jurisdictions and Beyond

Filling the Gaps: The Study of Judicial Creativity and Equity in Mixed Jurisdictions and Beyond

Catania, Italy - May 27-28, 2013

NOTE THAT THE CALL FOR ABSTRACTS HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO MARCH 8, 2013 (SEE BELOW)

The Protection Project at the John Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), in cooperation with the World Society of Mixed Jurisdiction Jurists (WSMJJ), and the Tulane University Law School Eason Weinmann Center for Comparative Law, invite the submission of papers for an international conference on "Filling the Gaps: The Study of Judicial Creativity and Equity in Mixed Jurisdictions and Beyond" scheduled take place in Catania, Italy on May 27-28, 2013: Our host for this conference is the Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e sociali of the University of Catania.

The conference explores the sources, methods and approaches used by the courts in mixed jurisdictions when they face a lacuna in the law, ie when they arrive at a case of first impression without a legal rule.

The following questions are meant to be suggestive, not exhaustive.

• What differences exist in the approaches to gap-filling in mixed, civilian and common law systems?
• What differences in technique exist within the mixed jurisdictions themselves, eg between codified systems and uncodified systems?
• To what extent is the borrowing of common law solutions taken to be "equity" or gap-filling? Is this considered a legitimate form of equity?
• To what extent is "equity" understood as a civilian concept? Is it fully divorced from the "Equity" of the common law?
• How are gaps defined, revealed or recognized? Is their existence a precondition of equitable activity? Is there a taxonomy of gaps?
• Is there an established procedure, a Directory Provision, a hierarchy of sources to be consulted, or is the process of gap-filling left entirely to the discretion of the judge?
• To what extent is this form of judicial activity synonymous with the production of seminal and leading cases?
• Which substantive fields of the law are particularly fertile for gap-filling?

Papers that explore gap-filling in either single or multiple fields of private or public law are welcome.

We invite you to submit a 1-2 page abstract of your paper by email to the selection committee c/o Ms. Anna Koppel, Director of Research and Development, The Protection Project (akoppel1@jhu.edu) no later than March 8, 2013.

Authors of accepted abstracts will be notified by March 15, 2015, and invited to present their papers at the conference. The expenses of conference speakers will be covered by the organizers.

Conference proceedings will be jointly published by The Protection Project, the World Society of Mixed Jurisdictions Jurists, and the Eason Weinmann Center for Comparative Law.

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Law and Boundaries Conference

Law and Boundaries / Droit et Limites

Annual International Conference / Sciences Po Paris / May 23d and 24th 2013

 

Call for Abstracts / Appel à propositions

Call for Abstracts

Law and Boundaries  is an interdisciplinary yearly conference that aims to discuss and propose new perspectives on  the challenges the legal discipline is facing regarding its object, its function, its theoretical foundations and  its practical outcomes.

The focus of this year’s conference is the idea of “conflicts” and the ways law and the neighboring disciplines account for the notion and its manifestations, particularly when it comes to conflicts embedded within the globalization processes.

We expect young scholars from all disciplines to submit their abstracts (250-300 words) before March 15th. Papers  (max. 7000 words) will be circulated among participants during the conference and should be sent by May 5th. A limited number of papers will be selected for publication.

To submit an abstract, click here

We are interested in receiving contributions from graduate students and young scholars that address the following topics: