CALL FOR PAPERS: Comparative Law Discussions Conference (20-22 April 2012 - Lviv, Ukraine)

Fourth International Conference 

Comparative Law Discussions  

April 20 – 22, 2012  

Ukraine, Lviv 

International Scientific Conference "Comparative Law Discussions" - an extraordinary annual event in the scientific life of Ukraine. The first (2009, Kyiv) and second (2010, Ivano-Frankivsk) conference were held in the framework of international scientific symposia "Days of Comparative Law." In 2011, the third "Comparative Law Discussions" was held as the individual event in Lviv.  The program provides the round table, open lectures of famous scientists and sectional sessions. 

During the conference will be organized presentations of books and magazines, law books exhibition, participants will have the opportunity to spread or sell their publications. 

Cultural program is organized. 

Working languages ​​- Ukrainian, Russian and English.

Participants will receive certificates. Prior to the event will be published the theses collection.

Contact addresses: 

NOTICE: International & Comparative Law Quarterly

International & Comparative Law Quarterly (ICLQ), marks 60 years of publication in 2012. To mark the occasion the editorial board has taken the opportunity to reflect on the contribution the ICLQ has made in the key areas of legal scholarship such as public international law, private international law, comparative law, EU law and human rights law.

Read the full introduction to this issue here.

Selections of articles have been specially chosen by the Editors to show the quality and diversity of the ICLQ. Each selection can be accessed online without charge by following this link.

You can also see the complete table-of-contents from the first 2012 issue here.

Temple University Press has recently released Etienne Balibar, Sandro Mezzadra, and Ranabir Samaddar, The Borders of Justice (2012):

International in scope and featuring a diverse group of contributors, The Borders of Justice investigates the complexities of transitional justice that emerge from its “social embeddedness.” This original and provocative collection of essays, which stem from a collective research program on social justice undertaken by the Calcutta Research Group, confronts the concept and practices of justice. The editors and contributors question the relationships between geography, methodology, and justice--how and why justice is meted out differently in different places. Expanding on Michael Walzer’s idea of the “spheres of justice,” the contributors argue that justice is burdened with our notions of social realities and expectations, in addition to the influence of money, law, and government.

To order a copy please contact Marston on +44(0)1235 465500 or email direct.orders@marston.co.uk or visit http://bit.ly/w0FII6

"The Borders of Justice interrogates the concept and practices of justice in original and provocative ways, combining the geographical diversity of the authors with a variety of disciplinary and methodological approaches. The essays reveal how justice appears differently in different places and from different perspectives. This is an important contribution to contemporary debates on justice."

—Michael Hardt, Professor of Literature at Duke University, and co-author (with Antonio Negri) of Empire, Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire, and Commonwealth

NOTICE: WORKSHOP AND CONFERENCE ON LEGAL PLURALISM IN NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

The following may be of interest. Apologies for the late notice:

Commission on Legal Pluralism

A group of Indian scholars is organizing a seminar on legal pluralism and natural resource management which will take place on March 30 and 31st, 2012, in Coimbatore, South India. They would like to have some participation also from the SE Asia network of the Commission, and there is actually some funding available to bring 1-2 members to India for this purpose. Further information can be found below. Interested persons can contact Dr Amalendu via ailp_conference@cb.amrita.edu.

Workshop and Conference on Legal Pluralism in Natural Resource Management

30th and 31st March 2012

Conference Organised at Amrita School of Business

By Asian Initiative on Legal Pluralism

and supported by Commission on Legal Pluralism

Venue: Amrita University, Ettimadai, Coimbatore, India
Venue: Amrita University, Ettimadai, Coimbatore, India
Date of workshop: 30th March 2012
Date of Conference: 31st March 2012

Theme

NOTICE: FAURE AND SMITS, DOES LAW MATTER?

Intersentia has recently published Michael Faure and Jan Smits (eds), Does law matter? on law and economic growth (2011), the 100th volume of the Ius Commune Europaeum Series.

For many years now, there has been a strong economic scholarship pointing to the importance of institutions in general - and, more particularly, legal rules and the rule of law - for economic development. The importance of law for economic growth has also been empirically tested in many well-known and often cited studies. These studies seem to indicate not only that law is relevant in the development of countries and their economic growth in particular, but more specifically, that particular legal systems do better than others. The tenant of this scholarship (especially initiated by Andrej Schleifer and others) is that the common law would be a more efficient system in promoting economic growth than the civil law. However, many scholars doubt the empirical claim of this and criticize these findings, both on methodological grounds as well as on grounds of a misconception of differences between the civil and the common law. The interest in legal origins for the efficiency of the legal system also focuses on particular legal regimes, such as accident law, environmental law, or corporate law. Increasingly, the question is also asked whether legal institutions and the rule of law are also important in the process whereby poor nations develop their economy. For example, Cooter, Schafer, and Ulen have attempted to examine why particular developing countries do relatively better than others and, roughly speaking, also attribute (part of the) success of some developing countries to legal institutions. However, others (more particularly Ulen) point at the fact that legal rules may play some role, but perhaps only a modest role in economic development. A powerful example which is quoted in that respect is the one of China which, at least at first blush, does not seem to rely strongly on legal institutions (at least in the traditional sense) and nevertheless has experienced a spectacular economic growth. The particular case of China hence remains somewhat puzzling in this debate. So far, these various streams of literature paying attention to the question to what extent legal origins matter for economic growth have not been strongly integrated and have, to a large extent, been developed in separate social sciences (institutional economics, development economics, and comparative law). This multi-disciplinary book brings these approaches together in an integrated and structural manner. (Series: Ius Commune Europaeum - Vol. 100

The introduction is available on SSRN.