NEEDED: Post Doctoral Associates - Meridian 180

Post Doctoral Associates

Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture

Law School

Cornell University

Meridian 180, a new community of prominent intellectuals and policy makers in Asia, the United States and around the world interested in new ways of thinking about law and markets broadly conceived, seeks to hire two Post Doctoral Associates at its center of operations at Cornell University, in Ithaca New York beginning no later than September 1, 2012. The aim of Meridian 180 is to generate the new paradigms and solutions for the next generation of transpacific relations. The Associates will play an integral part in this mission through translation, research, and outreach to wider public and policy communities.

Meridian 180 is a project of the Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture at the Cornell Law School. It is a non-profit, non-political project funded through private donations and with support from Cornell Law School. It is comprised of Senior Fellows and of Members in law, the academy, private practice and policy circles who meet regularly via an on-line platform supporting multilingual conversations, as well as periodically in face to face conferences. Ideas that emerge from these conversations are then incubated and developed, with the help of the Associate, into forms in which they can make a difference in each individual society—ranging from policy papers to academic books, blog entries, and individual conversations with policy makers.

REMINDER: CALL FOR PAPERS AND SESSION PROPOSALS - Stateless Law? The Future of the Discipline

I wanted to remind our members that the deadline for proposals (16 April 2012) for the Stateless Law? The Future of the Discipline Conference (Faculty of Law, McGill University, 28‐29 September 2012) is approaching:

This event will aim to foster a debate that critically assesses the latest developments in legal thought and innovative approaches to law, in the light of the challenge of globalization and the move away from a national paradigm for understanding law. It will also ask the question of how to integrate the insights so gained into the teaching of law. The concern is with law in all its dimensions: public and private, local and transnational, formal and informal. 

By being forced to abandon, at least in part, the posited law of the nation state as their lode star, legal education and legal scholarship have been presented with an opportunity to break the mould of centuries of legal nationalism: an opportunity that encourages new, transdisciplinary and transnational ways of thinking about law. 

In short, the goal is to re-assess and to re-imagine the discipline of law, its place in the university, and its role in society.

See the original notice for additional details. Members interested in putting together a Session Proposal, should contact me (sean.donlan@ul.ie) or Salvatore Mancuso (sm.mancuso@gmail.com).

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Journal of Law and Social Research

The Journal of Law and Social Research (JLSR) is a peer reviewed annual journal striving to improve the quality of legal education, encourage legal research, and build a strong tradition of vigorous academic discourse and publication in Pakistan.

JLSR aims to publish original and innovative legal scholarship in the diverse sub-fields of law. JLSR is also keen to publish interdisciplinary socio-legal research that explores the interface between law and political, economic, social and legal institutions.

JLSR invites contributions for its special issue on gender and legal profession in the form of articles, book reviews and case comments focusing on the women in legal profession, its advantages and problems in every day practice. Contributors are welcome to address these aspects from a national, international and comparative perspective. Through multidisciplinary contributions, this special issue of JLSR aims to analyze a variety of aspects and methodological approaches to corruption, in order to comprehend a phenomenon which is is not much talked about and analyzed.