POST: Emory Colloquium on War and Security in Law, Culture and Society

Colloquium on War and Security in Law Culture and Society

The colloquium will meet on Mondays from 4:15-6 p.m. at the law school (room G114 or G575). Papers will be available approximately two weeks prior to the workshop. To attend, please read the paper in advance.

Jan. 28, 2013 •  Mark Drumbl, Washington and Lee Law School, Law, Reimagining Child Soliders in International Law and Policy

Feb. 18, 2013 • Mary Favret, Indiana University, English, TBA

Feb. 25, 2013 •  Rande Kostal, Western Ontario, Legal History, The Destruction of Philosophies: Allied Planning for the Denazification of German Law, 1944-1945

Feb. 27, 2013 •  Robert Chesney, University of Texas, Law, Beyond the Battlefield, Beyond Al-Qaeda (This will be presented during Emory Law School's Lunchtime Colloquium)

March 4, 2013 •  Matthew Payne, Emory University, History, False Activists and True Misery: Local Resistance to the De-Socialization of Cattle in Kazakhstan, 1932-1934

March 18, 2013 •  Pamela Scully, Emory University, Department of Women's and Gender Studies, History, Grassroots Peacemaking, and Resilience in Liberia

April 8, 2013 •  Mary L. Dudziak, Emory University, Law, Drones and Democracy: How Robotic Warfare Undermines Political Checks on the War Power 

April 15, 2013 •  Judith Miller, Emory University, History, 'Cato's Death' in France, 1792: Painting, Violence and the French Republic after the Terror

Hat Tip to the Legal History Blog.

JOURNAL: Waseda Bulletin of Comparative Law

I recently saw a link to the Waseda Bulletin of Comparative Law:

published mostly in English, is the annual journal of comparative law. The journal devotes to presenting Japanese law, legislation, cases, articles, and academic meetings. In addition, the journal includes articles and book reviews in English or other languages.'

FELLOWSHIPS: Power and Institutions in Medieval Islam and Christendom

PIMIC‐ITN: Power and Institutions in Medieval Islam and Christendom, an integrated training network in research and diffusion for comparative history, is offering 10 PhD Fellowships (each worth c. 50,000 Euros per annum for three years)

“Power and Institutions in Medieval Islam and Christendom” is a research project which will develop from 2013 to 2016. It has been funded as a ‘Marie Curie Initial Training Network’ with a grant of 3.3 million euros. The project combines academic research on medieval power and institutions with training in the wider dissemination of research‐based knowledge, based on a formal network established between universities and private sector companies and funded by the European Union. It provides funding for 10 PhDs at universities in Spain, Britain, Italy, France, and Israel, and two postdoctoral positions, one based at a Dutch publisher (Brill), one at a Spanish TV/film company (Lopez‐Li). During their studies, the PhD students will all have secondments to the publisher and the film company, the post‐docs will come to the Universities to run sessions on print and media diffusion of research. Further training workshops are provided, on academic and other skills, as well as a larger‐scale ‘Media School for Historians’. The project concludes with a conference on ‘Consequences in the Contemporary World.’

PIMIC Academic Partners
CCHS‐CSIC (Coordinator): Dr. Ana Rodríguez
University of St. Andrews: Dr. John Hudson
Universitá Roma Tre: Dr. Emanuele Conte
Birkbeck College London: Dr. Caroline Humfress
Universitá Roma Tor Vergata: Dr. Sandro Carocci
University of Tel Aviv: Dr. Gadi Algazi
Université Paris
I‐Panthéon‐Sorbonne: Dr. Michel Kaplan
School of Oriental and African Studies: Dr. Hugh Kennedy

PIMIC Private Sector Partners
Lopez‐Li Films (Spain)
Brill Publishers (Netherlands)

Contact: pimic@cchs.csic.es

More info: http://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/
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DEADLINE 24 MARCH 2013

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CONFERENCE: Sociology of Law and Political Action

Sciences-Po Toulouse, under Philippe RAIMBAULT’s direction, is organizing, in collaboration with the Research Committee on Sociology of Law of the International Sociological Association (ISA/RCSL), with the support of the European Network on Law and Society (RED and S), and in cooperation with the French Association of Political Science (AFSP), the French Association of Sociology (AFS) and the Thematic Network 13 "Sociology of Law and Justice", a Congress which will take place in Toulouse, from September 3 to 6, 2013.

The Congress will be held on the theme: Sociology of Law and Political Action

English, French and Spanish will be used, although without simultaneous translation.

Plenary sessions will take place each morning; workshop sessions will be scheduled in the afternoon.

The coordination of the scientific organization of the Congress is ensured by Wanda CAPELLER.
Information will be updated each month on the same site.

Further information may be available on the Secretariat of the Congress: Véronique LEROUX

JOURNAL: Transnational Legal Theory

TRANSNATIONAL LEGAL THEORY

Volume 3, Issue 2 has been published.

SPECIAL ISSUE

Symposium: Brian Simpson’s Reflections on ‘The Concept of Law’

Guest Editors: Dino Kritsiotis (University of Nottingham) and Christopher McCrudden (Queen’s University, Belfast)

Brian Simpson’s Reflections on ‘The Concept of Law’: An Introduction to the Symposium

Christopher McCrudden

Free to view - Please click here to view

Brian Simpson’s Approach to Legal Scholarship and the Significance of Reflections on ‘The Concept of Law’

David Sugarman

Brian Simpson’s Empiricism

Joshua Getzler

History, Law and Language; or, What Can Foxes Teach Hedgehogs?

Michael Lobban

LECTURE: Civic Education during Martial Law in the Philippines and Beyond

RIGHTS TALK
Civic Education during Martial Law in the Philippines and  Beyond
Professor Jose Manuel Diokno
Dean, De La Salle University College of Law


Wednesday, 30 January 2013, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Academic Conference Room, 11/F Cheng Yu Tung Tower
The University of Hong Kong



In this talk, Dean Diokno will discuss "Civic Education During Martial Law in the Philippines and Beyond".  He will analyse the extent to which civic education was used as a tool to legitimise Marcos' dictatorship during the martial law period.  He will consider the functions which civic education has served in the Philippines since the restoration of democratic government under President Cory Aquino.  Finally, he will offer some personal reflections on the appropriate role of civic education in today's society.  Dean Diokno will revisit the theme of civic education later in the day when he participates in a seminar together with the 2013 Hochelaga Lecturer Professor K. Anthony Appiah and other panelists on the topic“Does National Education Have a Role to Play in Hong Kong?”  

Professor Jose Manuel Diokno ("Chel") was born in the Philippines in 1961.  His father was Senator Jose Wright Diokno, a noted lawyer and human rights activist, who was imprisoned as a dissident by President Marcos during martial law in the Philippines.  Professor Diokno regularly visited his father in jail at that time and witnessed at first hand the repressive side of martial law during his adolescence. Diokno holds a bachelor's degree in Philosophy from the University of the Philippines and a JD from Northern Illinois University.  Having passed the bar exam in the Philippines, Professor Diokno started his career as a human rights lawyer. Notably, he promoted the work of FLAG (Free Legal Assistance Group), an organisation founded by his father. He has sat in various Human Rights Committees set up by previous Philippine presidents and was himself involved as counsel in the proceedings to impeach President Joseph Estrada. Professor Diokno started the Diokno Law Center in 2006.  An important objective of the Center is to provide legal education and backup to persons working in government agencies.  In 2009 he became the first Dean of the then newly established College of Law at De La Salle University in Manila.  Dean Diokno's publications include Diokno on Trial: The Techniques and Ideals of the Filipino Lawyer (2007) which discusses his father's work and thinking as a trial lawyer

SEMINAR: United Nations Office at Geneva International Law Seminar

International Law Seminar

The United Nations Office at Geneva will host an International Law Seminar this summer:

The Seminar takes place on an annual basis and aims to enable postgraduate students or young university teachers specialized in international law, as well as young lawyers working in the international law field, to widen their knowledge of both the work of the International Law Commission and of the codification and progressive development of international law. It also provides an opportunity for lawyers coming from different legal systems and cultures to exchange views regarding items on the agenda of the Commission.

The International Law Seminar is not intended to be an introduction to international law. Applicants must prove a sound knowledge of international law, on the basis of either their postgraduate studies or significant professional experience in the field.

A maximum of 24 participants from various Member States of the United Nations participate in ILS. As well as attending the meetings of ILC, participants are expected to take an active part in the discussions which follow lectures given by members of the Commission, officials of the United Nations or specialized agencies in Geneva and other speakers invited for the occasion.

The 2013 session of the Seminar will be held in Geneva from 8 to 26 July 2013 and will be directed by Mr. Markus Schmidt, Senior Legal Adviser at UNOG.

Additional information is available here.

LANGIAPPE: Crash Course On Socializing At A Scientific Conference Dinner

LAGNIAPPE:

Crash Course On Socializing At A Scientific Conference Dinner

A blog entry on The Thesis Whisper on conference attendance--circulated by Jan Smits--might be of interest:

You  meet anybody new at the last scientific conference.

You paid high registration fees, travelled to the other side of the world, listened to boring talks, nobody came to your poster.

At least you met interesting people at the conference dinner, didn’t you?

Well, it’s kind of hard when you are hanging out all the time with the people of your own group.

Attending a scientific conference is a great opportunity to meet new people and do some networking.  A large network will come in handy to land new projects, collaborations or jobs to progress in your scientific career.

You cannot change anything from past conferences. Luckily, there’s a new one in a few months and you are going to get your stuff together and make the most of it.

But do you know how? Do you know how to network at a conference?

If you follow these tips you will be a master of socializing at scientific conference dinners.

See the full post here.

ARTICLE: Hamoudi on Religious Minorities and Shari’a in Iraqi Courts

Haider Ala Hamoudi’s ‘Religious Minorities and Shari’a in Iraqi Courts’, is on SSRN.  Hamoudi has a blog on Islamic Law in Our Times. The article is forthcoming in the 2013 Boston University International Law Journal. Its abstract reads:








There is a rising interest in our academy in the study of constitutional states, particularly in the Islamic world, whose legal and constitutional structure is at least as a formal matter both founded on and subject to religious doctrine. For those of us interested in the Arab spring, and indeed in constitutionalism in much of the Islamic world, this work is not only valuable, but positively vital. Without it, we are unable to discuss most emerging Arab democracies in constitutional terms. In Iraq, and in Egypt after it, two of the premier Arab states which have recently seen constitutions approved through popular referendum, Islam is described as state religion, as source of legislation and as constraint upon law as well. Nobody reasonably aware of the region imagines that Libya and Syria (were the latter to develop into a democratic state) would reach a different conclusion respecting the role of Islam in the public order. While the details may well differ from one state to another, the principle of “constitutional theocracy” holds fast throughout much of the Arab world. The effect of this on religious minorities that are not Muslim is the subject of this essay, with particular reference to the one Arab state with which I am most familiar, that of Iraq.  

In assessing how rising constitutional theocracies like Iraq happen to balance the priorities they afford Islam in foundational text with religious freedom, a value also invariably enshrined in the constitutions of emerging democracies in the Middle East, it is important to note that the going opinion is very much in favor of some form of protection for and tolerance of non-Muslim minorities. It is also important to note that in assessing any conflicts with shari’a, there is a great deal of nuance, indeed near incoherence, in understanding not only the precise impact which that body of rules is supposed to have as a legal matter in the modern constitutional theocratic state, but also what the rules of the shari’a are and how much reinterpretation of the historic content of the shari’a will be tolerated.

CALL: International Symposium on Comparative Sciences

International Symposium on Comparative Sciences

First Call for abstracts, full papers, and roundtables

Dear Colleague,

It is my pleasure to inform you that an International Symposium on Comparative Sciences will be organized by the Bulgarian Comparative Education Society and held in Sofia, Bulgaria, 8 - 11 October 2013. This will be a forum where different comparative sciences can meet and discuss problems of common interest.

Scholars from the following sciences are invited: Comparative Education, Comparative Psychology, Comparative Sociology, Comparative Religion, Comparative Linguistics, Comparative Literature, Comparative Civilization Studies, Comparative Mythology, Comparative Anthropology, Comparative Law, Comparative History, Comparative Labour Studies.

The aims of the Symposium are to:

- achieve and foster common understanding in methodologies across comparative sciences;

- develop linkages with comparative educationists, sociologists, psychologists, historians, linguists and representatives of other comparative sciences;

- encourage the use of comparative approaches in academic teaching and research.