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07 April 2013
CALL FOR PAPERS: New Ground Research Journal of Legal Studies Research and Essays
NEWS AND REVIEWS: European Network on Law and Society (Réseau Européen Droit & Société)
The excellent 'Nouvelles du monde’, 'Au fil des revue', and 'Repères'--both Anglophone and Francophone--of the European Network on Law and Society (Réseau Européen Droit and Société) are now available for this month.
Have a look.
BOOKS: Ashgate Law and Legal Studies
The Ashgate Research Companion to Migration Law,
Theory and Policy complements the already successful Ashgate series Law &
Migration, established in 2006 which now has a number of well-regarded
monographs to its credit. The purpose of this Companion is to augment that
Series, by taking stock of the current state of literature on migration law,
theory and policy, and to sketch out the contours of its future long-term
development, in what is now a vastly expanded research agenda. The Companion
provides readers with a definitive and dependable state-of-art review of
current research in each of the chosen areas that is all-embracing and
all-inclusive of its subject-matter. The chapters focus on the regional and the
sub-regional, as well as the national and the global. In so doing, they aim to
give a snap-shot that is contextual, coherent, and comprehensive. The
contributors are both world-renowned scholars and newer voices and include
scholars, practitioners, former judges and researchers and policy-makers who
are currently working for international organisations.
With contributions from experts in the field of
sociology of law, this book provides an overview of current perspectives on
socio-legal studies. It focuses particularly on the relationship between law
and society described in recent social systems theory as ‘structural coupling’.
The first part of the book presents a reconstruction of theoretical tendencies
in the field of socio-legal studies, characterised by the emergence of a
transnational model of legal systems no longer connected to territorial borders
and culturally specific aspects of single legal orders. In the following parts
of the book, the contributions analyse some concrete cases of interrelation
between law and society from an empirical and theoretical perspective.
Transitional justice is usually associated with
international criminal courts and tribunals, but criminal justice is merely one
way of dealing with the legacy of conflict and atrocity. Justice is not only a
matter of law. It is a process of making sense of the past and accepting the
possibility of a shared future together, although perpetrators, victims and
bystanders may have very different memories and perceptions, experiences and
expectations.
This book goes further than providing a legal analysis of the effectiveness of transitional justice and presents a wider perspective. It is a critical appraisal of the different dimensions of the process of transitional justice that affects the imagery and constructions of past experiences and perceptions of conflict. Examining hidden histories of atrocities, public trials and memorialization, processes and rituals, artistic expressions and contradictory perceptions of past conflicts, the book constructs what transitional justice and the imagery involved can mean for a better understanding of the processes of justice, truth and reconciliation.
In transcending the legal, although by no means denying the significance of law, the book also represents a multidisciplinary, holistic approach to justice and includes contributions from criminal and international lawyers, cultural anthropologists, criminologists, political scientists and historians
This book goes further than providing a legal analysis of the effectiveness of transitional justice and presents a wider perspective. It is a critical appraisal of the different dimensions of the process of transitional justice that affects the imagery and constructions of past experiences and perceptions of conflict. Examining hidden histories of atrocities, public trials and memorialization, processes and rituals, artistic expressions and contradictory perceptions of past conflicts, the book constructs what transitional justice and the imagery involved can mean for a better understanding of the processes of justice, truth and reconciliation.
In transcending the legal, although by no means denying the significance of law, the book also represents a multidisciplinary, holistic approach to justice and includes contributions from criminal and international lawyers, cultural anthropologists, criminologists, political scientists and historians
JOURNAL: Legisprudence
Legisprudence Volume 6
· Issue 3 2012
We are very pleased to let you know that the 3rd issue of the 2012 volume of Legisprudence has just been published. This is a special issue on
the role of courts as regulatory watchdogs and the contents
are shown below. To order or renew your subscription please click
here and to access this issue online please click
here.
Change of Title in 2013
We would like to inform you that in 2013 the title for Legisprudence has changed to Theory and Practice of Legislation. The new title will appear on the first volume of 2013 and it will
commence with Volume 1. Issue 1.
Contents
Special Issue: Courts as Regulatory Watchdogs
Edited by P.Popelier, W. Vandenbruwaene and D.
Keyaerts
ARTICLE: Shah on Reasonable Accommodation in the Context of Religious Universalism
Asking About
Reasonable Accommodation in the Context of Religious Universalism
Queen Mary
University of London, School of Law
April 2, 2013
International Journal of Discrimination and Law, forthcoming
Abstract: Interviews
conducted with leading actors in England asking a range of questions about
religious diversity and the legal framework and, in particular, about reasonable
accommodation, helped identify a number of areas of concern. There was some
doubt about whether specific legal provision should be brought in to guarantee
reasonable accommodation. However, there was broad support for having the
principle adopted in the practice of employers, while some preferred the
current informality rather than the principle being enforced through
litigation. None of the respondents came up with illustrations outside of
Judaism, Christianity or Islam. The results are consistent with recent critical
studies showing that the assumption in social sciences that religion is a
universal has been imported from theology. Religion-based questions only pick
out certain phenomena specific to some cultures and an inevitable skew is
created when asking such questions because they only make sense within an
Abrahamic religious framework. While enabling the identification of some
aspects of culture considered to merit reasonable accommodation on grounds of
religion, the results also pose questions about the adequacy of current,
standard research methodologies which assume that religion is a universal.
CONFERENCE: Negotiating Religion
Negotiating Religion: Inquiries into the History and Present of Religious Accommodation
Date: Wednesday 1st May 2013
Venue: UCL Laws, Bentham House, Endsleigh Gardens, London, WC1H 0EG
This conference is the closing event of a four-worshop series which took place at UCL in 2010-12. It offers a cross-disciplinary assessment of these different forms in which religious identity, commitment and community are negotiated in the contemporary world. Without claiming to exhaust the topic, it proposes to look at the agents, procedures and outcomes of these negotiations, and hopefully will evaluate the potentials and limits of negotiation of religion.
BOOK: Takenaka on Intellectual Property in Common Law and Civil Law:
Edward Elgar Publishing has just published Toshiko Takenaka's Intellectual Property in Common Law and Civil Law:Despite increasing worldwide harmonization of intellectual property, driven by US patent reform and numerous EU Directives, the common law and civil law traditions still exert powerful and divergent influences on certain features of national IP systems.
Drawing together the views and experiences of scholars and lawyers from the United States, Europe and Asia, this book examines how different characteristics embedded in national IP systems stem from differences in the fundamental legal principles of the two traditions. It questions whether these elements are destined to remain diverged, and tries to identify common ground that might facilitate a form of harmonization.
Containing the most current and up-to-date IP issues from a global perspective, this book will be a valuable resource for IP and comparative law academics, law students, policy makers, as well as lawyers and in-house counsels.
BLOG: Open Anthropology Cooperative
Members might be interested in the Open Anthropology Cooperative:
The OAC was launched on 28 May 2009 by a group of friends who met on Twitter before joining Ning.
The most important word in our title is the first. By this we mean open access, open membership, open to sharing new ideas, open to whatever the organization might do or become; open to everyone, as in ‘open source’. The word ‘open’ is highly contested, including within anthropology. In identifying this network with ‘open anthropology’ we do not imply any specific association with the Open Anthropology Project, Open Anthropology Journal, Open Access Anthropology, or Shared and Open Anthropology.
Anthropology has a distinguished past, but it has an even greater future. We hope that professionals and students who are already committed to the discipline will find here like-minded anthropologists, as well as new tools, resources and opportunities for collaboration. But we also welcome anyone for whom our conversations are interesting. An engaged anthropology for the 21st century should be open to interdisciplinary collaboration. This depends on making full use of the emerging social and technical synthesis entailed in the digital revolution.
We do not have anything specific in mind by calling our network a ‘cooperative’; but we hope that some members will eventually find fruitful ways of working together, as well as enjoying the site as a rich source for individual consumption. We have already started many discussion groups, blogs, a forum and places to share a variety of ideas and materials, including a wiki for more permanent deposits. This is just the beginning: we expect to hold virtual conferences and seminars, to add podcasts, publish longer pieces online and incorporate a variety of social networking devices into our exchanges. We encourage initiatives using languages other than English.
The OAC is for all of us to explore and elaborate. Let the people take over! There is a Forum where you can participate in shaping the Cooperative’s development. A small team of administrators takes responsibility for collective tasks and is available to help you make the most of what is here.
OPPORTUNITY: Visiting Assistant Professor in Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought, Amherst College
Applicants should submit electronically to https://jobs.amherst.edu/view/opportunity/id/538 a cover letter addressed to Professor Lawrence Douglas, curriculum vitae, sample of their scholarship, and the names and email addresses of three individuals to whom we may write to solicit recommendations. Review of applications will begin May 15, 2013, and will continue until the position is filled.
Amherst College is a private undergraduate liberal arts college for men and women, with 1,800 students and more than 200 faculty members. Located in the Connecticut River Valley of western Massachusetts, Amherst participates with Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts in the Five-College Consortium.
Amherst College is an equal opportunity employer and encourages women, persons of color, and persons with disabilities to apply. The College is committed to enriching its educational experience and its culture through the diversity of its faculty, administration, and staff.
03 April 2013
ARTICLE: Cunneen on Colonial Processes, Indigenous Peoples, and Criminal Justice Systems
Chris Cunneen’s ‘Colonial Processes,
Indigenous Peoples, and Criminal Justice Systems’ is available on SSRN:
This
chapter considers the interaction between colonial processes, Indigenous
peoples and criminal justice systems. The commonalities in the experiences of
Indigenous peoples in white settler societies (Australia, Canada, New Zealand
and the US) provide the focus for an exploration of the implications of the
colonial process for understanding Indigenous contact with western criminal
justice systems across a number of domains. A fundamental point derived from
this exploration is that the politics and outcomes of colonization are not
simply of historical interest.
Rather, the contemporary relationship between Indigenous people and crime,
punishment, and justice is structured by these longer term relationships.
The chapter will appear in the
forthcoming M Tonry and S Bucerius (eds), The
Oxford Handbook
of Ethnicity, Crime, and Immigration.
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