OPPORTUNITY: Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 2013-2015

Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 2013-2015 (USC Center for the Study of Immigration Integration and USC Department of Sociology)

The USC Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration (CSII) and the USC Department of Sociology announce a two-year post-doctoral Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship, beginning Fall 2013. The fellowship focuses on immigrant populations and the potential impact and/or need for Comprehensive Immigration reform (CIR) for the 2013-2014 and 2014-2015 academic years. While we would prefer a post-doctoral teaching fellow looking at the populations likely to benefit from CIR in order to help us build a research project looking at the longitudinal effects, we would also be open to candidates who would study the politics of change. We would prefer an interdisciplinary researcher who could utilize and teach mixed methods approaches (i.e., both quantitative and qualitative) to Sociology graduates and undergraduates in his/her teaching role. The fellow will teach one course each semester at USC and is expected to conduct research with CSII. 

The fellowship will offer a competitive salary, a yearly $2,000 research allowance, and fringe benefits. The fellow must have completed all requirements for the Ph.D. by mid-August, 2013.

Review of applications will commence on May 03, 2013, with a decision expected approximately May 17, 2013. 

OPPORTUNITY: Law and Society - Assistant or Associate Professor

Law and Society - Assistant or Associate Professor -- Wilfrid Laurier University,  Brantford Campus (Ontario Canada)

The Law and Society Program at the Brantford campus of Wilfrid Laurier University invites applications for a tenure-stream appointment at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor, subject to budgetary approval, starting July 1, 2013. Applicants must have a completed PhD in law and society, socio-legal studies, sociology, or a cognate discipline that critically examines the relationships between legal forms and social phenomena.

The preferred candidate will have a strong research record, as evidenced by publications in peer-reviewed sources, and a demonstrated record of excellence in teaching. The research and teaching interests of the preferred candidate will address the intersectionality of law and society with an emphasis on surveillance, security and social movements, regulation and governance, or social justice. Preference will be given to candidates with proven and / or promise of leadership skills and who would be able to take on the role and responsibilities of a Program Coordinator at hiring or soon after. The teaching workload norm at the University is four one-term courses. Program Coordinators are granted an appropriate course release and/or administrative stipend as outlined in the Full-Time Collective Agreement (http://www.wlufa.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/FT-CA-2011-July-31-2012_2-Final.pdf).

OPPORTUNITY: Associate Professor in Criminal Law

University of Luxembourg, Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance
Associate Professor in Criminal Law

The University of Luxembourg is a multilingual, international research University. The Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance of the University of Luxembourg has an opening for 1 Associate Professor in Criminal Law (M/F) Ref: F2-080002 (to be mentioned in all correspondence).

MISSION: The responsibilities contain the education at the levels BA, MA and doctorate, the research and the management of research projects and the tutoring of students in the various levels.

JOB QUALIFICATIONS:
- Ph.D in Criminal Law, since at least 3 years.
- Significant postdoctoral research in the fields of European Criminal Law, comparison of criminal justice systems or criminal law theory.
- Preference will be given to candidates with relevant publications in economic and financial criminal law and who can demonstrate a strong interdisciplinary orientation with research in criminology, legal philosophy or economic analysis of criminal law.
- Large experience of teaching also within an international context. The candidate will be ready to become acquainted to foreign criminal justice systems, namely to Luxembourg's Criminal Law.
- The candidate should speak at least two of the three languages of the University: English, French and German.

SEMINAR: Legal Pluralism in Family Law

The Research Group Personal Rights and Property Rights of the University of Antwerp organises an

Expert Seminar
Legal Pluralism in Family Law
on Wednesday 22 May 2013 – 13.30 – 16.00 – A.202

Participation free of charge – RSVP at familierecht@ua.ac.be

Programme
 

ARTICLES: Pruitt on the Rural Landscape/Rosen on Religious Institutions, Liberal States, and Overlapping Spheres

The following articles on SSRN might be of interest:

Lisa R Pruitt, ‘The rural lawscape: space tames law tames space’ (forthcoming in I Braverman, N Blomley, D Delaney & A Kedar (eds), The expanding spaces of law: a timely legal geography (Stanford University Press, 2013)):

A fundamental tenet of legal geographies scholarship is that the legal and the spatial are mutually constituting. This chapter investigates that dynamic in contemporary rural contexts in the United States. In particular, I posit that law and rural spatiality are at odds with one another because the presence of law as an ordering, governing, regulating force of state is in tension with the socio-spatial character of rurality. Law seeks to tame or control rural spatiality, but the material (low population density, dominance of nature over the built environment) and associated social characteristics of rural and remote places effectively resist those efforts. Rural spatiality’s features tend to impede the efforts of law’s agents and processes, making for a thinner, less robust legal presence.

Critical and legal geographers, like legal scholars generally, have largely ignored the rural end of the rural-urban continuum, reflecting a rarely acknowledged urban-normativity (not to mention urban hubris). This chapter begins the work of recovering the rural, bringing it into scholarly view in order to broaden our understanding of the diffuse and localized operation of law in rural places. The chapter is thus a step toward theorizing the significance and force of rural spatiality in relation to law and legal processes. But the investigation into the rural lawscape reveals something not only about rural difference, but also about the otherwise obscure nature of law as variegated and variable. Further, looking to the rural margins reveals something about the center because the process by which law differentiates the rural also depicts, at least implicitly, the default urban norm.

Mark D Rosen ‘Religious institutions, liberal states, and the political architecture of overlapping spheres’ (forthcoming, University of Illinois Law Review)

Alongside the contemporary consensus favoring strong protections for individual religious liberty, controversial new claims on behalf of religiously affiliated institutions have been asserted with increasing frequency. They raise difficult questions. For example, are churches entitled to a “ministerial exception” exempting them from federal anti-discrimination laws when hiring and firing ministers? Must Catholic hospitals be exempted from the Affordable Care Act’s “contraception mandate,” which requires that employers provide their employees health insurance that includes contraceptive devices, because use of contraceptives is contrary to Catholic tenets?

JOURNAL: Transnational Legal Theory

(2012) 3:4 Transnational Legal Theory is now published. It includes:

Articles
Lex Mercatoria, International Arbitration and Independent Guarantees: Transnational Law and How Nation States Lost the Monopoly of Legitimate Enforcement
Cristián Gimenez Corte

Accidental Cosmopolitanism
Alexander Somek

National Sovereignty and the Constitution of Transnational Law: A Sociological Approach to a Classical Antinomy
Chris Thornhill

Review

Cosmopolitan Pluralism as an Approach to Law and Globalisation: A review of Paul Schiff Berman, Global Legal Pluralism: A Jurisprudence of Law Beyond Borders by Lars Viellechner

ARTICLE: Licari on Rabbinical Arbitration

Member François-Xavier Licari (Lorraine) has made his 'L'ARBITRAGE RABBINIQUE, ENTRE DROIT TALMUDIQUE ET DROIT DES NATIONS (RABBINIC ARBITRATION, BETWEEN TALMUDIC LAW AND THE LAW OF THE GENTILES' available on SSRN. The abstract reads:

Rabbinical arbitration has existed for two thousand years, but remains largely unknown. After a long period of decline which lasted until the middle of the twentieth century, it is now in widespread use, and is participating in a renaissance of confessional arbitration throughout the world. Even though it applies fundamental mechanisms which are familiar to us, it is singular in several respects, the most significant being that rabbinical arbitration is not a form of alternative dispute resolution. For members of a Jewish community, it is – or should be – the principal mode of dispute resolution since, in principle, recourse to secular courts is prohibited by Talmudic law. Our study will start with the very nature and scope of this prohibition. Certain aspects of procedure before rabbinical tribunals also merit close examination. After having explored arbitration from an "internal" perspective, i.e. from Talmudic sources, we will examine this from an "external" viewpoint, i.e. from that of the law of nations, in other words the national legal system into which it must be inserted. Such insertion is not straighforward, since even though Talmudic law and the law of nations diverge in many respects by reason of their radically different nature (one is revealed, the other is contingent), in other respects they appear to be on a head-on collision course (witness evidence from women, inheritance rights in particular). This therefore raises questions as to the recognition and enforcement of rabbinical arbitral awards, and on the role of public policy in this respect.

The article was just published in (2013) Revue de l'arbitrage57.

REMINDER: Pluri-Legal Discussion Group

Members might be interested in the excellent Pluri-Legal, an e-mail discussion group on JISC mail.

The group 'is devoted to issues regarding the legal accommodation of cultural, ethnic and religions minorities in Europe.'

It's often the site of informed and invigorating exchanges.

You can join by going to: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/PLURI-LEGAL

SEMINAR: Shah on the Dysfunctional Legal Effects of Secularization

I've recently become aware of a seminar delivered by Prakash Shah (Queen Mary) at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (US).

The seminar was 'The Dysfunctional Legal Effects of Secularization: South Asians and Muslim Law in England'. It was jointly hosted by the Global Legal Studies Center and Center for South Asia at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, on 4 April 2013. The audio, and much more, can be found here.

 

SUMMER SCHOOL: Law Summer School (LSS) Bangalore 2013

We are pleased to announce that the call for applications has been launched for the Law Summer School (LSS) Bangalore 2013.

The LSS Bangalore, which is scheduled from August 25 to September 19, 2013, is an intensive course in international law, organized by the Faculty of Law at the University of Zurich in cooperation with the National Law School of India University (NLSIU) in Bangalore. Admission to the LSS Bangalore is open to 18 to 35 students who have a Bachelor’s or an equivalent degree in law.

The LSS Bangalore offers students an opportunity to intensify their legal knowledge in selected areas of specialization and, simultaneously, to acquire a reflective understanding of the Indian legal system within an intensive intellectual and cultural experience.

The following modules will be taught:

- Religion, Family, Gender and the Law
- European Economic Law
- Climate Change
- Comparative Constitutional Law

Participants may, in principle, enrol for two modules and will be required to take an exam or write a paper for each module. Following successful completion, graduates will be awarded six ECTS credit points per module. In addition, they will receive a Certificate of Attendance. The LSS Bangalore courses are fully recognized by the University of Zurich.

The application deadline is 15 May 2013. For further information and details regarding admission requirements, tuition fees, etc., please visit http://www.rwi.uzh.ch/lehreforschung/alphabetisch/buechler/lss.