CALL FOR PAPERS: Privatization and Social Responsibility

CALL FOR PAPERS

PRIVATIZATION AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

February 17th and 18th, 2012

Emory University School of Law, Atlanta, Georgia

This workshop explores from a cross-cultural perspective how privatization impacts contemporary feminist and social justice approaches to public responsibility. Feminisms have long problematized divisions between the private and the political, partly in reaction to the unprecedented privatization of state responsibilities and public welfare over the past 30 years. Recent critical legal scholarship on vulnerability, state negligence, and resilience can complicate and deepen our understanding of the problems generated by privatization in the 21st century.

We invite papers that explore the effects of diverse forms of privatization from national and cross-national perspectives. Privatization can take the form of outsourcing public activities to private corporations, denationalizing state industries, or deregulating policy. It is evident when social service systems shift from defined benefits programs such as pensions to defined contribution plans such as IRAs. A common denominator is the shifting of social responsibility from public governmental institutions to individual families and privatized entities, such as charities and corporations. There is also a shift in what and who are regarded as the proper objects of state regulation and intervention; subsidizing private property interests or military intervention while withdrawing from broader public obligations such as education and healthcare.

CALL FOR PAPERS: 18th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture

CALL FOR PAPERS

18th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture

May 10-12, 2012

University of California, Los Angeles

Presented by The Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture Graduate Student Association (CLIC-GSA) at the University of California, Los Angeles and The Language, Interaction, and Social Organization Graduate Student Association (LISO-GSA) at the University of California, Santa Barbara

Plenary Speakers

• Penelope Eckert, Anthropology and Linguistics, Stanford University
• William Hanks, Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
• Jenny Mandelbaum, Communication, Rutgers University
• Cheryl Mattingly, Anthropology and Occupational Science and Therapy, University of Southern California

Submissions should address topics at the intersection of language, interaction, and culture. Approaches include, but are not limited to, conversation analysis, discourse analysis, ethnography of communication, ethnomethodology, interactional sociolinguistics, language ideologies, and language socialization.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Kent Critical Law Society Conference

The first annual conference of the Kent Critical Law Society will take place on the 10-11 March 2012.
 
Aimed at all those who have an interest in critical perspectives on current legal issues, the conference is entitled ‘Equality- Are We There Yet?’

Submissions by 1 February 2012. Please direct all enquiries to: conference@kentcls.org

The website notes:

Our aim for this conference is to provide an open space for intellectual discussion, debate and criticism of the law and legal systems from a variety of different professional and academic perspectives.

NOTICE: National Science Foundation Law & Social Sciences Program

National Science Foundation Law & Social Sciences Program

New Funding Solicitation and Dear Colleague Letter

The Law & Social Sciences (LSS) Program at the National Science Foundation is pleased to announce the release of a new funding solicitation (see http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504727) and an associated Dear Colleague Letter (see http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12022/nsf12022.jsp)

CALL FOR PAPERS: Fifth Annual International Junior Faculty Forum

Stanford Law School and Harvard Law School have established an International junior Faculty Forum. The purpose is stimulate the exchange of ideas and research, among younger scholars in the academy, from all parts of the world. We live today in a global community– in particular, a global legal community – and we would like to foster legal scholarship on a transnational basis. Scholars in different countries are often divided by barriers of time and space and also by barriers of different legal traditions and cultures. We hope that the Forum will be a step in the direction of surmounting these barriers. The papers at the 2011 forum were on a very wide range of subjects, from street law in Mexico City, to social justice in intellectual property law, to young people’s perceptions about war crimes trials in Bosnia, and the art and law of macroeconomics. The authors of these papers came from many countries, as did the senior scholars who chose the papers and commented on them. A wide range of views, techniques, and methodologies were represented.

The sponsors, Harvard and Stanford Law Schools, are pleased to announce plans for the fifth international forum. It will be held in fall, 2012, either in October or November (the exact date has not yet been fixed). It will take place at Stanford Law School, in Stanford, California.

In order to be considered for the 2012 International Junior Faculty Forum, authors must meet the following criteria:

- Citizen of a country other than the United States
- Home academic institution is outside of the United States
- Have held a faculty position or the equivalent, including positions comparable to junior faculty positions in research institutions, for less than seven years as of 2012; and
- Last degree earned less than ten years before 2012

CALL FOR PAPERS: Justice Studies Association Conference

The Justice Studies Association seeks presentations for its 14th Annual Conference, May 30-June 1, 2012, Loyola University Chicago (Lake Shore Campus, Rogers Park). The Conference theme is “Justice and Work.” Possible topics for presentation include:

—How the distribution of and compensation for work affects the quality of life and development of persons, families, communities, and societies

—The just distribution of work in the family and school

—Immigration and work and societal responses to "illegal" work

—Gender, race, class, sexual orientation, and political ideology in the workplace

—Cooperation, mutual aid, collaboration, and shared decision-making in work situations and their salutary effect on personal and collective well-being

—Historical and contemporary struggles over collective bargaining and unions (e. g. the Pullman Strike of 1894 and recent corporate and governmental incursions into unions in the United States)

—Having a "Calling in Life" or "Life's Work" as opposed to a career
—Philosophies of work and employment especially those that promote freedom from work
—Labor in prison settings such as correctional institutions and internment camps
—Separation of work from healthful living in contemporary society
—Utopian visions of work in literature, film, and communal living arrangements

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Sensing the Law

Sensing the Law

The Canadian Initiative in Law, Culture, and Humanities (CILCH) is calling for contributi

ons to an interdisciplinary edited collection on law and the senses. The book will emerge from a collaborative process that includes a workshop meeting of all authors in February 2013.

Sensing the Law addresses the numerous interfaces between law and the senses. While law is often presented as disembodied and abstract, the senses refer to the embodied, messy, and fleeting qualities of human life. The collection asks not only how law makes sense of the senses, but also how law is made sense of through vocabularies of sensory perception. The senses are mobilized in relationship to legal institutions in a variety of ways: as metaphors, embodied realities, sources of evidence and institutional rationalities. Yet, the senses seem to exceed and confound law in a number of ways.

NOTICE: Husa and Smits on Comparative Functionalism

The following 'Dialogue on Comparative Functionalism' between (member) Jaakko Husa and Jan Smits may be of interest:

The use of the functional method when comparing legal systems remains debated, even to such an extent that some authors have discarded functionalism as a fruitful method. The two authors of this paper ask what we can still expect from functionalism. While Husa presents an argument in favor of rule-of-thumb functionalism, Smits claims that functionalism has a bright future if it is reshaped. The authors present their arguments by way of a dialogue that was written for the ‘Legal debates’-section of the Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law.

Members would do well to look at the authors' other publications on SSRN.

CORRECTION: Entanglements in Legal History: Conceptual Approaches to Global Legal History

Note that the deadline for Call for Papers for papers for contributions on the Entanglements in Legal History: Conceptual Approaches to Global Legal History, to be held at the 39th Rechtshistorikertag (Conference of Legal Historians) in Lucerne (2-6 September 2012) and the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt am Main (the week of 20 August 2012), is 15 December 2011 (rather than 1 December 2011 as the original notice stated).

CALL FOR PAPERS: International Association of Legal Methodology Conference on 'Transparency: a principle of governance'

Twelfth Conference of the International Association of Legal Methodology

Douzième Congrès de l’Association Internationale de Méthodologie Juridique

Transparency: a principle of governance

La transparence, principe de gouvernance

Thursday 1st – Friday 2nd November 2012

Jeudi 1er – Vendredi 2 Novembre 2012

Loyola University New Orleans College of Law

CALL FOR PAPERS

APPEL À CONTRIBUTIONS

Transparency, a principle of governance

Transparency is dealt with as a principle of governance, whether governance takes on a unilateral or a contractual mode. With regard to the unilateral form of governance, transparency of course impacts the act of governance itself, whether it is a legislative act, a regulation, or a judicial act. Where governance proceeds contractually, transparency remains a governing principle of the award procedure of public contracts. Lastly, the contractual mode of governance may consist in the carving out of a sphere reserved for the contractual autonomy of private actors. However, in this case, state self-restraint does not amount to absolute state abstention. In reality, the state regulates the exercise of contractual freedom. Thus, within this private contractual sphere, transparency remains a requirement as well.

La transparence, principe de gouvernance

La transparence est appréhendée comme un principe directeur de la gouvernance que celle-ci emprunte un mode unilatéral ou un mode contractuel. S’agissant de la forme unilatérale de la gouvernance, la transparence empreint évidemment l’acte de gouvernance lui-même que celui-ci soit acte législatif, acte réglementaire ou acte juridictionnel. Lorsque la gouvernance préfère la forme contractuelle, la transparence n’en demeure pas moins une règle de la contractualisation de l’action publique. Enfin, le mode contractuel de la gouvernance peut consister en l’aménagement d’une sphère réservée à l’autonomie contractuelle des acteurs privés. Mais alors que l’Etat dans cette hypothèse choisit une position de retrait, il ne se fige pas pour autant dans l’abstention. En réalité, il encadre l’exercice de la liberté contractuelle. À ce titre, l’exigence de transparence trouve une autre occasion de se déployer.

Paper proposals should be sent by 20 December 2011 to the two following email addresses:

Professor Dominique Custos : dcustos@loyno.edu
Professor Jean-Yves Chérot : j-y.cherot@univ-cezanne.fr

The topic box of your email should read 'AIMJ-IALM Congres 2012-2012 Congress'. The list of selected papers will be communicated on 15 February 2012.