CALL FOR PAPERS AND PANELS: Association for Law, Property, and Society Annual Meeting

Association for Law, Property, and Society, 5th Annual Meeting -- University of British Columbia, Vancouver, May 2-4, 2014

The Association for Law, Property, & Society (ALPS) is a scholarly organization for those engaged in scholarship on all aspects of property law and policy including real, personal, intellectual, intangible, cultural, personal, and other forms of property. Its annual meeting brings together scholars from many disciplines to discuss their work and to foster dialogue among those working in property law, policy, and theory.

The 5th Annual Meeting of ALPS will be held in Vancouver at the University of British Columbia’s Faculty of Law at Allard Hall.

CALL FOR PAPERS, PANELS, ETC: Canadian Law and Society Association Annual Meeting

Canadian Law and Society Association, Annual Meeting 2014 -

- June 6-8, 2014
Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba
Law’s Encounters: Co-existing and Contradictory Norms and Systems

Law is dynamic. Over the course of time, law changes within and across societies. These changes are influenced by the course that society takes and in turn, society changes based on the dictates of law. In the process of societal interactions, law becomes expressed in multiple forms. Some of these forms are complementary, others are contradictory. The focus of the Canadian Law and Society’s Annual Meeting in 2014 is law’s multiple encounters in navigating interactions in society. It involves an exploration of co-existing legal and socio-legal norms as well as the contradictions inherent in some of these encounters. We are interested in papers, panels and other groups that explore law’s encounters at the margins as well as the center.

Our broad theme explores several areas of socio-legal thought and scholarship including:

- Disciplinary allegiances in socio-legal scholarship

- Indigenous laws and traditions and other legal systems
- Interactions between social norms, statute and other forms of legal expression
- International law/norms and domestic law
- Historical foundations of law’s multi-faceted encounters
- New and emerging socio-legal encounters
- Law’s encounters with gender, disability, race, health, age, criminalization etc.
- Crises – war, terrorism, financial crises and others – and spontaneous development of laws in light of pre-existing norms
- Law’s encounters with difference

CALL FOR PAPERS: How Law Sorts its World: Classification and Categories in the Making of Jurisdictions

Apologies for the late notice about this very exciting (proposed) session:

Law & Society Association Annual Meeting 2014 -- 

Call for Papers for Proposed Session: 

"How Law Sorts its World: Classification and Categories in the Making of Jurisdictions"

This panel will examine technical forms of differentiation, classification, and sorting that situate people and phenomena in relation to different bodies of law. Its central concern is the ways in which such distinctions shape boundaries of jurisdiction by establishing categories of subjects and objects suitable to - or, alternatively, outside of - law’s reach. As Bradin Cormack (2007) explains, to consider jurisdiction implies “an abstraction upward from a sphere of substantive law” in which “the latter confronts, in practice, the question of its competence over a given case.” Panelists will explore the criteria, actors, and forms of knowledge that their own research finds creating and reinforcing the distinctions that resolve such questions of competence. The panel may also consider how jurisdiction carries embedded categories which validate and further entrench modes of classification and/or make them transferrable across legal and regulatory domains. Of particular interest will be the ways in which not only spatial, but also temporal and conceptual boundaries become factors determining the application or non-applicability of law.

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JOURNAL: European Law Journal Special Issue

The (2013) 19:6 European Law Journal is now available here.

It’s a special issue from an International Workshop for Young Scholars 2012 on The Future of Transnational Law: The EU, USA, China and the BRICS.

It includes:

Transnational Law and the EU: Reflections from WISH in China (pages 705–710) Francis Snyder and Lu Yi

The Confederal Comeback: Rediscovering the Confederal Form for a Transnational World (pages 711–738) Armin Cuyvers

Transnational Judicial Dialogue as an Organisational Field (pages 739–758) Olga Frishman

ACTA and the Enforcement of Copyright in Cyberspace: the Impact on Privacy (pages 759–778) Iryna Ievdokymova

The European Union as a Global Producer of Transnational Law of Risk Regulation: A Case Study on Chemical Regulation (pages 779–798) Marco de Morpurgo

Codes of Conduct as Private Legal Transplant: The Case of European Extractive MNEs (pages 799–821) Tomaso Ferrando

Lex Sportiva: A Playground for Transnational Law (pages 822–842) Antoine Duval

The Role of Experts in Experts in the Elaboration of the Cape Town Convention: Between Authority and Legitimacy (pages 843–863) Caroline Devaux

Going from One Extreme to the Other: Food Security and Export Restrictions in the EU–CARIFORUM Economic Partnership Agreement (pages 864–883) Giovanni Gruni

CALL FOR PANEL PARTICIPANTS: The Law’s (In)equality: Can Legal Pluralism Deliver on the Law’s Promise of Equality and Justice for All?

The following message was sent to me some time ago. My apologies for the long delay in posting. Note the short deadline.

Dear Colleagues:

I am organizing a legal pluralism panel for the 2014 LSA meeting. I am pasting the description of the panel below. Further information on the LSA meeting can be found at: http ://www . lawandsociety . org. If you are interested in joining the panel please email me a brief abstract (100-250 words) by Oct 10, 2013. The deadline for submissions is Oct 15. My email address is: turkeypm@hotmail.com. For your inquiries regarding travel, accommodation, visas, funding etc. please refer to the LSA website.

Kind Regards,

Yüksel Sezgin

CALL FOR PAPERS, ETC: Journal of Legal Pluralism

The following message comes from the Journal of Legal Pluralism:

Dear Colleagues:

I am pleased to inform you that the Journal of Legal Pluralism is now publishing with Taylor & Francis, beginning in January 2013.

As the pioneering journal in the field of legal pluralism, The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law (JLP) has a long history of publishing leading scholarship in the area of legal anthropology and legal pluralism and is the only international journal dedicated to the analysis of legal pluralism. It is a refereed scholarly journal with a genuinely global reach, publishing both empirical and theoretical contributions from a variety of disciplines, including (but not restricted to) Anthropology, Legal Studies, Rural Sociology, Development Studies and interdisciplinary studies. The JLP is devoted to scholarly writing and works that further current debates in the field of legal pluralism and to disseminating new and emerging findings from fieldwork. The Journal welcomes papers that make original contributions to understanding any aspect of legal pluralism and unofficial law, anywhere in the world, both in historic and contemporary contexts. We invite high-quality, original submissions that engage with this purpose. We also invite special thematic issues.

In pursuit of the publication of high-quality articles, the Journal has adopted the following editorial policies:

• The Journal emphasizes rapid turn around in publication. Most articles are published within four months of acceptance.
• Papers that are well-written and presented in the style of the journal are eligible for a fast track review. We strongly encourage authors to obtain help with English writing if it is not their first language, and to pay careful attention to the "Information for Contributors" which is found at the journal website (http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjlp20/current#.UkreVrx4OfY).
• Legal professionals can report lessons from experience in working papers and short reports.
• There is a section for book reviews and the editors would welcome reviews of recent publications in the field.

JOURNAL: African Journal of International and Comparative Law

(2013) 21:3 African Journal of International and Comparative Law is now available online at:
http://www.euppublishing.com/toc/ajicl/21/3?ai=ruui=12qdaf=T

• The Legal Challenges of Criminal and Civil Asset Forfeiture in South Africa: A Comparative Analysis
• The Requisite Intention for the Acquisition of Domicile of Choice: Permanent or Indefinite – A Comparative Perspective
• The Impact of Nigerian International Petroleum Contracts on Environmental and Human Rights of Indigenous Communities
• The Revised African Convention on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources: Prospects for a Comprehensive Treaty for the Management of Africa's Natural Resources
• Reforming African Abortion Laws to Achieve Transparency: Arguments from Equality
• The Legal Recognition of Electronic Signatures in South Africa: A Critical Overview
• Sharpening the Legal Tools to Overcome Biopiracy in Africa Through Pro-development Implementation of Normative International Standards: Lessons from Brazil, South Africa and India
• Adjudicatory Jurisdiction in International Carriage of Goods by Sea: Would the Rotterdam Rules Settle the Controversy?
• The AU/ECOWAS Unilateral Humanitarian Intervention Legal Regimes and the UN Charter