German Law Journal Now Online

The new issue of the German Law Journal, Review of Developments in German, European & International Jurisprudence is now available at www.germanlawjournal.com. 

The Editor in Chief writes:  

It is a richly packed issue, indeed. Its Articles section offers contributions on global rulemaking and multinational corporations, Canada's military engagement in Afghanistan and reflections on the USpresidency. 
In addition, we are happy to publish a thoughtful symposium on international legal theory, which includes contributions to the 4th Conference of the European Society of International Law (ESIL) inCambridge in 2011. The symposium, held under the auspices of the International Legal Theory Group within ESIL, brought together scholars who draw on legal theory, political philosophy and international law to map the current state of international legal theorizing. 

NOTICE: PhD/Post-Doc Opportunities - Leiden University

PhD and POST-DOC opportunities

Leiden University is looking for 2 PhD's and 1 postdoc researcher.



The positions are part of the Crime and Gender 1600-1900: a comparative perspective Project. 


One PhD will examine the criminal records of Bologna (Italy); another will examine the criminal records of Frankfurt am Main (Germany).



Additional information is available at http://vacatures.leidenuniv.nl/wetenschappelijk/

NOTICE: IMPERIAL ENCOUNTERS: COLONIALISM AND THE LAW FROM THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, and the London Legal History Seminar, warmly invites you and your colleagues to attend an afternoon on:

Imperial Encounters: colonialism and the law from the eighteenth century to the twentieth century

Date: Friday 18 May 2012, 2.15pm to 5pm

Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR

Speakers:

- DR. STACEY HYND (Exeter) on "The Extreme Penalty for the Extreme Crime"? Capital Punishment and Colonial Law in British Africa, c.1900-50;

- DR. CAROL TAN (SOAS) on Colonial Public Health Laws and the Making of a European Summer Resort in North China;

- DR. NANDINI CHATTERJEE (Plymouth) on Indian Christians and British subjects: religion, race and jurisdictional conflict in early colonial India.

Website: www.sas.ac.uk/events/view/11887

This event is free but those wishing to attend are asked to register in advance by emailing: IALS.Events@sas.ac.uk

ADMISSION FREE, ALL WELCOME

NOTICE: PoLAR REVIEW AND WEBSITE

I received the following last week:


Fellow APLA Members,

The new issue of PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review is available online now. With it, I am happy to announce the launch of the new PoLAR website, which features the innovative content that readers have come to expect as well as new features, including expanded Spillover Conversations and open-access content, easy-to-use keywords to search archived articles, and reflections by PoLAR authors, such as Postscripts to articles in Virtual Issues.

Here is the new interface: http://www.polaronline.org/

Here is the link to the current issue: http://www.polaronline.org/current-issue/

Below my signature is the full table of contents. It includes links that go directly to the Wiley-Blackwell site.

All the best,

Kate

....

May 2012: Volume 35, Issue 1

Editors’ Introduction
John Conley and Justin Richland

NOTICE: (2012) 18 European Law Journal

The (2012) 18 European Law Journal has just been published:·         

• Nupur Chowdhury and Ramses A. Wessel, Conceptualising Multilevel Regulation in the EU: A Legal Translation of Multilevel Governance?
• Giulio Itzcovich, Legal Order, Legal Pluralism, Fundamental Principles. Europe and Its Law in Three Concepts
• Marco Goldoni, Constitutional Pluralism and the Question of the European Common Good
• Katri Havu, Horizontal Liability for Damages in EU Law—the Changing Relationship of EU and National Law
• Steve Peers and Marios Costa, Accountability for Delegated and Implementing Acts after the Treaty of Lisbon
• Qianlan Wu, EU–China Competition Dialogue: A New Step in the Internationalisation of EU Competition Law?

The papers are also available through SSRN.

NOTICE: Heringa and Kiiver on Comparative Constitutional Law

The third edition of Aalt Willem Heringa and Philipp Kiiver, Constitutions Compared: an Introduction to Comparative Constitutional Law (2012) is out. 

 

I've found the previous edition very useful in teaching Comparative Public Law for the last few years. For those who prefer  a mongraph over an Anglo-American style casebook, it's ideal.

The description reads: 

 

This handbook provides a user-friendly introduction to comparative constitutional law. For each area of constitutional law, a general introduction and a comparative overview is provided, which is then followed by more detailed country chapters on that specific area. The subjects covered are the origins and main features of constitutions; federalism and related concepts; parliaments and law-making; governments, their parliaments and their heads of state; and judicial review, including the role of European law and human rights. The country chapters cover the constitutional systems of the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Germany, France and the Netherlands.

Now into its third edition, this book is a helpful guide for students who are for the first time exploring comparative constitutional law, and a solid foundation for more advanced graduate-level courses. The book includes a table giving an overview of the systems discussed, a glossary and an index, model exam questions, fresh translations of the relevant constitutional texts and a selection of important international treaty provisions.

The Table of Contents is also available here.

NOTICE: Licari on Gény in Louisiana

One of our members, François-Xavier Licari (Metz) has posted a paper (in French) on SSRN. The paper is entitled 'François Gény En Louisiane (François Gény in Louisiana)':

In his book "François Gény and Modern Jurisprudence", Jaro Mayda wrote (p.69) : "The important point…is that, despite the art represented by the current literature, the pragmatic temper of America and of its mixed jurisdictions, such as Louisiana, may well be the environment that will send Gény’s themes toward their integration into a rational, modern jurisprudence". This paper tells the story of the realization of this scholarly prophesy.

 

L'oeuvre de François Gény a fait l'objet d'une véritable réception tant par la doctrine que par la jurisprudence louisianaises. Cette contribution narre cette sucess story doctrinale.

NOTICE: A collaborative Doctoral Programme in Contemporary Legal and Political Theory

I've just discovered (belatedly perhaps) the following interesting programme: 

A Collaborative Doctoral Programme in Contemporary Legal and Political Theory

  Participating Institutions:  

University of Antwerp, Centre for Law and Cosmopolitan Values

University of Glasgow, School of Law,

Christian-Albrechts University (Kiel), Chair of Public Law and Legal Theory

Tilburg University, Chair of Legal Philosophy 

The 'Globalisation and Legal Theory’ doctoral programme builds on a collaboration between the Universities of Antwerp (Belgium), Glasgow (United Kingdom), Kiel (Germany) and Tilburg (The Netherlands) that combines the expertise of all four institutions in bringing critical legal thought (in a broad sense) to bear on contemporary global challenges. The doctoral programme draws on different strands of legal theory around the foundational notions of normativity, (human) rights, and justice in a globalised world. We welcome PhD proposals that address these foundational notions as well as their relation to concrete and practical issues and problématiques. 

What we offer 

The Collaborative Doctoral Programme combines the advantages of close, personalised supervision in research institutions with an excellent reputation in legal theory with the exciting opportunity to become part of a dynamic research community that spans across four universities in four different EU Member States. With mobility and cooperation being key features of the programme, there will be ample opportunity for doctoral students to become involved in research activities of all participating universities. A collective annual doctoral colloquium, regular workshops, and seminar series involving internationally renowned academics and practitioners are integral parts of this doctoral programme that encourages the engagement of its researchers in a vibrant international research culture.

New Edition of Int'l Journal of Law in Context Now Online

International Journal of Law in Context Volume 8 / Special Issue 02 
Family – An International Affair, June 2012, pp 187 - 335 
Published Online on 30th April 2012

The International Journal of Law in Context has published its recent edition online.  Titled "Family: An International Affair," the edition features articles on Islamic family law in Europe, gender equality in religion, personal family law systems, Arab Israeli women's renunciation of inheritance shares, same-sex relationships, and immigration and the family.  The edition also features a number of book reviews, including At Home in the Law by Jeannie Suk, The Household by Robert C. Ellickson, European Human Rights and Family Law by Shazia Choudhry and Jonathan Herring, and Marriage Proposals edited by Anita Bernstein. 

The Introduction to the edition describes it thus:

This collection of articles arises from a conference held in Tel Aviv in 2009 at the Concord Research Centre for the Integration of International Law in Israel, School of Law, College of Management Academic Studies. Delegates to the conference came from a variety of professions and areas of expertise and included academics and legal and welfare practitioners. What was common among us, however, was our interest in the international dimensions of both understandings of the family and of the normative systems that define and regulate it. We all believed that understandings of family are situated in and across cultural and economic manifestations of reproduction, dependency and care relations in a global context and that they are regulated in international and regional as much as in domestic law.

The journal may be accessed online at http://journals.cambridge.org/IJC 

NOTICE: Edinburgh Legal Theory Workshops

For the 5th year running, the Edinburgh Legal Theory Group is organizing a 3-day workshops series, which will take place from Tuesday 29th to Thursday 31st of May 2012, at the University of Edinburgh School of Law. 

The event will consist of 5 workshops, in the areas of Private Law, Medical Ethics, Legal Reasoning and Constitutional Law:

- Private law: Theories and methods (29th May)
- Challenging individualism: Why the individual might no longer be the appropriate focus for ethics in the regulation of medicine and research (29th May)
- Objectivity between scientific and legal decision-making (30th May)
- Practical reason, objectivity and legal judgment (30th May)
- Is parliament still sovereign? (31st May)