CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS: Journal of Law and Religion/Asian Journal of Law and Society

The following Calls were announced through the Society of Legal Scholars:

Journal of Law and Religion

We are pleased to announce the long-running Journal of Law and Religion, previously published by Hamline, will be published by a new team at Emory University's Center for the Study of Law and Religion in partnership with Cambridge University Press from 2014. Information on the journal's new editorial team and how to submit and subscribe can be found at journals.cambridge.org/jlr

Asian Journal of Law and Society

Cambridge University Press and KoGuan Law School, Shanghai Jiao Tong University are launching in 2014 the Asian Journal of Law and Society to add an increasingly important Asian perspective to global law and society scholarship. Find out more including how to submit your paper at journals.cambridge.org/asianjls

BOOK: Comparative Law in Eastern and Central Europe

 Cambridge Scholar Publishing has issued a book 'Comparative Law in Eastern and Central Europe'.

This book is a result of the attempted introduction of comparative law into the region of Eastern and Central Europe. The subject has induced interest beyond expectations. This volume opens with a chapter on the unification of law, both from the perspective of institutional unification by such supra-state organizations, spontaneous and institutionalized unifications between two or more legal systems, and the methods of choosing the right rules in the unification process. Chapters two and three follow the classical division of private and public law, as proposed by the brilliant Roman lawyer Ulpian. Overall, the chapters in this book offer an interesting and engaging commentary on the current topics discussed by academics in Eastern and Central Europe.

Editors: Bronisław Sitek, Jakub J. Szczerbowski and Aleksander W. Bauknecht

Aditional information and content are available here.

JOURNAL: Oñati Socio-Legal Series

Lifted straight from a Commission on Legal Pluralism Notice:

Dear Colleagues,

This is to inform you about the new issue of the Journal Oñati Socio-Legal Series which includes a couple of Legal Pluralism related papers.

Vol 3, No 4 (2013), Law, contestation and power in the global political economy Issue, edited by Edward S. Cohen (Westminster College) and A. Claire Cutler (University of Victoria)

• Cohen, E.S and Cutler, A.C., 2013. Law, Contestation and Power in the Global Political Economy: An Introduction. http ://ssrn . com/abstract=2326624
• Picciotto, S., 2013. Mediating Contestations of Private, Public and Property Rights in Corporate Capitalism. http ://ssrn . com/abstract=2340587
• Quack, S., 2013. Regime Complexity and Expertise in Transnational Governance: Strategizing in the Face of Regulatory Uncertainty. http ://ssrn . com/abstract=2340596
• Cohen, E., 2013. Legal Pluralism, Private Power, and the Impact of the Financial Crisis on the Global Political Economy.
http ://ssrn . com/abstract=2269667
• Gessner, V., 2013. Weberian Versus Pluralistic Legal Forces in the Global Political Economy. http ://ssrn . com/abstract=2272595
• Cutler, A.C., 2013. Legal Pluralism as the “Common Sense” of Transnational Capitalism. http ://ssrn . com/abstract=2327501
• Avant, D., 2013. Pragmatism and Effective Fragmented Governance: Comparing Trajectories in Small Arms and Military and Security Services.
http ://ssrn . com/abstract=2340604
• Cornago, N., 2013. Global Ordo-Liberalism, Private Power and the Transfiguration of Diplomatic Law. http ://ssrn . com/abstract=2341013

NOTICE: The International Encyclopaedia of Laws

The latest newsletter of The International Encyclopaedia of Laws is available here:

The International Encyclopaedia of Laws is more than an academic dream of 1400 scholars & practitioners from some 110 countries and international organisations. Indeed, The Encyclopaedia are now on line, in easy reach of everybody, world-wide. 

We live in a global society with global information needs. We are happy to make a contribution, especially now that IELaws are on line, in easy reach of all. 

Professor Roger Blanpain, General Editor,
Professor Michele Colucci, Associate General Editor

CONFERENCE: International Congress on: Global-regional-local. Institutions, relations, networks. Past and future of the sociology of law

International Institute for the Sociology of Law

International Congress on: Global-regional-local. Institutions, relations, networks. Past and future of the sociology of law

21-23 May 2014 

In May 2014, the IISL will celebrate its 25th anniversary. The IISL was founded jointly by the Basque Government and the RCSL, and we would like to celebrate this unique and highly successful relationship. Since its foundatiohttp://www.iisj.net/iisj/de/call-for-papers-and-panels.asp?dminid=_NDcqKjEwXzEwXzIwMTMjI00uQS5TaW1vblRob21hc0BjZWRsYS5ubA&cod=7968&nombre=7968&prt=1n, the IISL has become the home of the international sociology of law community. In addition, through our Masters programme, workshops, congresses, library and visiting scholars, we have directly contributed to the development of sociology of law locally and internationally.

We would like to celebrate our anniversary through an international congress that reflects upon and further develops the synergies between the different layers of the IISL´s communities: international, regional and local, in all of their institutional dimensions. We wish to toast our successes, and we especially invite all of our former students, teachers and visitors to return to Oñati. We also want to critically examine the nature of sociology of law in its many institutional dimensions, and to discuss the challenges for the future.

To that end, we invite abstracts on all topics connected with the general theme of the congress but specially welcome on the themes as numerated below:

SYMPOSIUM: Paul Scholten from the perspective of Comparative Legal Theory

SYMPOSIUM: PAUL SCHOLTEN FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF COMPARATIVE LEGAL THEORY

15 NOVEMBER 2013

UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM

For the occasion of the launch of the new website, a Symposium is being organized: Paul Scholten from the perspective of Comparative Legal Theory, hosted by the Paul Scholten Research Centre of the University of Amsterdam. As well as two members of the Editorial Board of the project, there will be three speakers from foreign institutes, who have shown a continued interest in the project during the past two years and who want to cooperate actively in the near future to achieve an international collaboration on comparative legal theory on the website.

• The symposium will be held in the Doelenzaal of the University Library, Singel 425. See the program and abstracts here.
• If you wish to attend, please send an email to Alexandra Neut-Welling: A.M.Welling@uva.nl.

EVENT: World Bank Law, Justice and Development Week (LJD) 2013

The World Bank Law, Justice and Development Week (LJD) 2013, part of the Global Forum on Law, Justice and Development (Global Forum) where ABA International is a Founding and Intellectual Partner, is November 18-22, 2013. LJD Week 2013 will explore how law and justice concepts, tools and knowledge can be used to improve development delivery and help translate the values of voice, social contract and accountability into development impact. Members of the ABA and ABA International have worked through the Global Forum on various sessions discussing the environment, natural resources, insolvency, public-private partnerships, justice and rule of law reform.

This year's LJD Week is structured around three clusters of events addressing global, regional and institutional issues:

• Days 1 and 2 (November 18-19) will explore the emerging concept of "Science of Delivery in Development," in particular how law and justice can help shape it;
• Day 3 (November 20) or "Africa Day," co-organized with the African Development Bank, will be devoted to an in-depth focus on critical legal issues in Africa's development process; and
• Day 4 (November 21) will explore current legal, policy and institutional issues of common interest to International Financial Institutions (IFIs).
• ABA Sponsored Reception: November 19, 2013 from 6:30pm – 8:00pm

For more information about the conference, please visit www.worldbank.org/ljdweek2013.

BOOKS: New Titles from Edward Elgar

Edward Elgar has announced the following new titles in 'Legal Scholarship':

• Bert van Roermund, Legal Through and Philosophy: What Legal Scholarship is About
• David Howarth, Law as Engineering: Thinking About What Lawyers Do
• Jan M Smits, The Mind and Method of theLegal Academic

ARTICLE: Smits on Legal Education

Jan Smits' 'Three Models of Legal Education and a Plea for Differentiation' is on SSRN:


In many parts of the world there is a continuing discussion about the best possible law curriculum and teaching method. Each of these discussions is shaped by the specificities of the country in question. This contribution aims to generalise from these national debates and identify three main driving forces behind them. The three main drivers identified here are the requirements that the university poses for any type of academic study, the demands of legal practice, and the expectations that society has of the legal profession. These three factors can be balanced in different ways. This is why a much needed differentiation among different types of law schools or law programmes is proposed. Law schools of the future should be much more conscious of the aims they want to achieve and make well-reasoned choices for one type of legal education or the other. The three models discussed in this contribution are Law as Doctrine, Liberal Law and Legal Engineering. 

JOURNAL: (2013) 7 Law and Humanities

(2013) 7 Law and Humanities is available. It includes:

• Piyel Haldar, ‘Forensic Representations of Identity: The Imago, the X-Ray and the Evidential Image’
• M Paola Mittica, ‘The Deception of Cadence: Toward a Dissonant Law’
• Christopher Harding and Nicola Harding, ‘Representations of Governance in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Europe: The Iconography and Dramatic Presentation of the Sovereign Ruler’
• Dominique Goy-Blanquet, ‘Killing the Queen: ‘It lawfully maie be done’
• Ralf Grüttemeier and Ted Laros, ‘Literature in Law: Exceptio Artis and the Emergence of Literary Fields’
• Jay Sanderson, ‘Pigoons, Rakunks and Crakers: Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake and Genetically Engineered Animals in a (Latourian) Hybrid World’