Showing posts with label legal theory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label legal theory. Show all posts

20 August 2013

OPPORTUNITY: Assistant Professor of Jurisprudence/ Legal History


Tilburg Law School offers highly-ranked national and international education and legal research. Within Tilburg Law School, the Department of Public Law, Jurisprudence and Legal History has a vacancy for an assistant professorship in the fields of comparative law, jurisprudence and legal history.

As assistant professor you can be tasked to teach in a range of courses in the fields of comparative law, jurisprudence and legal history, both at the Bachelor as well as the Master level. Assistant professor contributes to the development of courses. Candidate should
  • be a team player and conduct research, individually as well as with colleagues;
  • can also be assigned administrative responsibilities within the Department or Tilburg Law School;
  • will be asked to contribute to the community activities for first year students;
  • have excellent didactic and strong communication skills;
  • be experienced with performing research and preferably also with providing academic education;
  • be able to translate his/her research to social relevance;
  • like to take initiative, are enthusiastic and hold a doctoral degree on one of the domains that are relevant for this vacancy (or expect to obtain this soon);
  • beable to publish academic research papers both nationally and internationally;
  • be ought to have grown to an specialist within his/her field of expertise within a few years from now and to have built the accompanying network;
  • be able to transfer his/her own knowledge in an enthusiastic and clear manner to the students;
  • have to exert effort to acquiring external research projects (via the market, NWO or through other channels);
  • have Basic Teaching Qualification (BTQ) or to acquire this within one year from the appointment on the job.
Additional information about Tilburg University and the Department of Public Law, Jurisprudence and Legal History can be found on: https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/.

Specific information about the vacancy can be obtained from prof. Maurice Adams, per e-mail: M.Adams@uvt.nl.
Applications must be submitted before 1 September 2013. You can apply for this vacancy only online via the link.

11 August 2013

JOURNAL: Transnational Legal Theory

Hart Publishing has released that Transnational Legal Theory Volume 4, Issue 1 is now published.

To access this issue on-line, read the abstracts and purchase individual papers please click here. Subscription and further information about Transnational Legal Theory are available here.

The journal includes the  following articles:



31 July 2013

COURSE: Constitutional Struggles in the Muslim World

 
Coursera.org provides interesting course 'Constitutional Struggles in the Muslim World'. The reader is Dr. Ebrahim Afsah. Dr. Afsah is an Associate Professor of Public International Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen.

This course is a survey of the constitutional ideas and institutions that have developed since the mid 19th century throughout predominantly Muslim countries, but its focus will lie on the actors that have dominated this discourse and shaped its outcomes. The participants will look at the large body of classical writings on the Islamic state only in so far as it is necessary to understand the contemporary debate, but concentrate on the legal and political developments of the 20th and 21st centuries.

The course will consist of lectures in short (10-15 min) videos, each of which will be followed by an exercise in which participants can test their grasp of the new material. The exercises will combine multiple-choice with essay-type questions.

Most lectures will be accompanied by written background material from the instructor which, hopefully, will eventually form the basis of a text-book. Participants are, therefore, welcome to give feedback in order to improve this material.


Topics: Introduction and General Overview, Classical Thinking on the Islamic State, Saudi Arabia and Gulf Monarchies, Egypt and North Africa, Consociational Dilemmas: Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan, Malaysia and Indonesia, The Post-Communist Periphery: Bosnia to Soviet and Chinese Central Asia, Conclusion and Outlook.

Sessions: Dec 2nd 2013 (11 weeks long)

Further information can be found here.

 

29 May 2013

PODCASTS: 2013 UK IVR Annual Conference - Legal Theory and Legal History: A Neglected Dialogue?

The 2013 UK IVR Annual Conference - Legal Theory and Legal History: A Neglected Dialogue? (12-13 April 2013) has made Podcasts of their keynotes and plenaries available here.

These are very highly recommended.
 
The conference was organised by the Legal Theory and Legal History Research Group at Queen Mary, University of London. The Group is convened by Professor Michael Lobban and Dr Maksymilian Del Mar.
 
To hear the Podcasts, click 'Launch Echoplayer' on the links below to play video, slides and audio:
 
  • Legal Theory and Legal History: A neglected dialogue - Keynote 1
  • Professor Quentin Skinner, The Concept of the State in Legal History and Theory
     
  • Legal Theory and Legal History: A neglected dialogue - Keynote 2

  • Professor John Bell, Is Comparative Law Necessary for Legal Theory?
     
  • Legal Theory and Legal History: A neglected dialogue - Keynote 3

  • Professor Joshua Getzler, Law and Self-Interest
     
  • Legal Theory and Legal History: A neglected dialogue - Plenary

  • Dr Eric Descheemaeker, Legal Rationality as Legal History, with commentary by Professor William Lucy.
    Dr Ian Williams, The Role of Rules: Legal Maxims in Early-Modern Common Law Principle and Practice, with commentary by Dr Thomas Poole.

     
  • Legal Theory and Legal History: A neglected dialogue - Closing Panel

  • Professor David Ibbetson and Professor Philip Schofield

    The 2013 annual conference of the UK Branch of the IVR was:

    06 February 2013

    SEMINARS, CONFERENCES, AND WORKSHOPS: Queen Mary, University of London Legal Theory and Legal History Research Group



    [Highly Recommended - SPD]

    Research Seminars

    If you would like to present a paper, please email Dr Maks Del Mar m.delmar@qmul.ac.uk.

    6 March 2013
    Legalism: Anthropology and History - Dr Paul Dresch
    Dr Paul Dresch, St John's College, Oxford, will discuss his introduction and chapter contribution to Legalism: Anthropology and History (2012).

    9 January 2013
    Minorities, Pluralism and Law - Professor Maleiha Malik (co-hosted with GLOCUL)

    21 November 2012
    Authority: Pluralism, Relationships and Relativity
    The first Legal Theory and History Group seminar will be given by Dr Nicole Roughan JSD, LLM (Yale), BA/LLB (Auckland). Dr Roughan is formerly a temporary university lecturer in jurisprudence at the University of Cambridge, and lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Her research interests are in philosophy of law, with a particular focus upon theories of authority, legal pluralism, and philosophy of international and indigenous law. Her current research, and the work which she will be discussing, is an excerpt from her forthcoming book, ‘Relative Authority’, forthcoming with Oxford University Press.

    Conferences / Workshops

    2-13 April 2013
    UK IVR Conference 2013 - hosted by the Legal Theory and Legal History Group
    The theme for the Conference is: Legal Theory and Legal History: A Neglected Dialogue?


    25 January 2013

    JOURNAL: Transnational Legal Theory

    Volume 3, Issue 2 has been published.

    SPECIAL ISSUE
    Symposium: Brian Simpson’s Reflections on The Concept of Law’

    Guest Editors: Dino Kritsiotis (University of Nottingham) and Christopher McCrudden (Queen’s University, Belfast)

    Brian Simpson’s Reflections on ‘The Concept of Law’: An Introduction to the Symposium
    Christopher McCrudden

    Brian Simpson’s Approach to Legal Scholarship and the Significance of Reflections on ‘The Concept of Law’
    David Sugarman

    Brian Simpson’s Empiricism
    Joshua Getzler

    History, Law and Language; or, What Can Foxes Teach Hedgehogs?
    Michael Lobban