JURIS DIVERSITAS: Programme - Annual Conference (17-19 July 2014)

We're pleased to note that the Draft Programme (and additional information) for the JURIS DIVERSITAS ANNUAL CONFERENCE is available here.

The conference takes place from 17 July (evening) to 19 July 2014; its theme is ‘Comparative Law and …/Le droit comparé et …’

We hope to see you there …

LECTURE: Nassare-Aznar on The 2007 Credit Crunch and its impact on Housing

''The 2007 Credit Crunch and its impact on Housing:
A Civilian Perspective''
Prof. Sergio Nassare-Aznar (University of Tarragona)
Date: Friday 11th July, 10:30am-12:00pm
Venue: University of Malta Valletta Campus

The public seminar on Tenancy and Mortgages being held on the 11th July by the Maltese Society For Comparative Law in collaboration with the Civil Law Department will be dealing with the legal aspects surrounding the origination of the 2007 international crisis in the United States, the international credit crunch and subsequent global economic and legal developments. Its negative impact in Europe in relation to access to housing will be considered, including the evolution of European mortgage and lease markets. Although the catalyst of the global crisis was the deficient legal framework of the US mortgage securitization process, the consequences have gone beyond, causing massive repossessions and evictions in many countries. Some innovative developments are examined, such as increased protection for mortgage consumers, the new Directive 17/2014/EU, an increased role of the "right to housing" and new types of housing tenures.

CONFERENCE: Law and Responsibility

Yale Law School hosts the 4th Doctoral Scholarship Conference on Law and Responsibility, which will be held on November 14-15, 2014.

The conference aims to provide doctoral students and recent graduates with a forum to present, share and discuss their work beyond conventional academic boundaries. It seeks to promote quality research and to facilitate discussion across diverse subject areas and methodological approaches, with a view towards fostering a community of aspiring legal scholars.

The conference is open to current doctoral candidates, in law or law-related disciplines, and those who graduated during the previous academic year (2013-2014). Submissions engaging any area of law are welcomed.

Papers will be selected based on quality and their capacity to provoke fruitful debate with other submissions. Selection will be informed - but not strictly bound - by fidelity to the theme.

Abstracts of 300-500 words (with your institutional affiliations) should be submitted to yls.doctoralconference@gmail.com by August 1st, 2014.

Selected applicants will be informed of acceptance in late August, and presenters will be asked to submit their papers of up to 10,000 words in length by October 10, 2014.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Ninth Annual General Conference of the European China Law Studies Association

Ninth Annual General Conference of the 

European China Law Studies Association 

Call for Papers 

“Making, Enforcing and Accessing the Law” 

Hong Kong, 15-16 November 2014 

The 9th Annual General Conference of the European China Law Studies Association
(欧洲中国法研究协会 www.ecls.eu) will be held at the Faculty of Law, The Chinese University
of Hong Kong. The conference will bring together Western and Chinese scholars, professionals,
policy makers, and the like, to reflect on and advance the broader themes of law-making, law
enforcement, and access to law in China from a variety of perspectives.

For further information, please click here

CONFERENCE:Process and Substance in Public Law

The Centre for Public Law at the University of Cambridge will hold a major international conference—the first, it is hoped, of a series of conferences that will become the pre-eminent forum for the discussion of public law related matters in the common law world. 
 
Following an outstanding response to the call for papers, the conference convenors have put together a programme that will bring together around 60 speakers—along with approximately 100 other participants—from across the common law world.

Please see http://www.publiclawconference.law.cam.ac.uk/ for the website including the full programme and registration details.

SEMINAR:Transnational judicial conversations

The annual seminar of the British Association of Comparative Law  University of Nottingham
9 September 2014 (9.30-12.30)
Please see http://gallery.mailchimp.com/47624183ad52dd8428c97d3f6/files/b838c5cf-4e4d-4e53-86df-a6f966efe641.pdf for details of the programme. This event is free and all are welcome to attend.

PhD Studentship – Queen Mary

The Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context at the Department of Law, Queen Mary University of London is calling for applications to a studentship in the history of ideas about law and society in a global context. Details here: http://www.findaphd.com/search/ProgrammeDetails.aspx?PGID=2235&LID=1732 and http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AIX131/dept-of-law-studentship-law-and-society-in-a-global-context/

SUMMER SCHOOL: Middlesex University School of Law

One-week professional course analysing the impact of international and national politics on human rights mechanisms: ‘Confidence Crisis in Human Rights: Implications for the UK’
Hendon Campus, London - 30 June to 4 July 2014.
The five-day courses, led by 10 renowned human rights experts
Places are limited. A detailed programme, full list of speakers and information about how to register for the course can be found at::
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/courses/short/summer-school/courses/confidence-crisis-in-human-rights.aspx

BOOKS: Four new book on the Great Debates in Law series

This summer, Palgrave Macmillan Higher Education is publishing four new texts in the illuminating Great Debates in Law series. Providing an engaging introduction to some of the more advanced concepts in law, the Great Debates in Law series offers a cutting edge for students who are looking to gain additional insights with which to excel. 

In each text, readers are introduced to the many debates surrounding each core area and presented with the key tensions and questions underlying each topic. 

Click on the links below for further information about the books:

Great debates in company law

Great debates in Equity and Trusts 

Great debates in Jurisprudence

Great debates in Medical law and Ethics

CALL FOR PAPERS: Irish Jurisprudence Society's Autumn/Winter Workshop Series

Workshops will follow the usual Irish Jurisprudence Society (IJS) format: the author's paper is circulated in advance to IJS members; at the workshop, the author has up to 40 minutes to present his or her paper followed by an hour or so of discussion.

The venue for these workshops will be the Law School, House 39, Trinity College Dublin. The time will be 7pm on Thursdays. The dates for individual workshops are flexible and will be worked out with speakers.

If you would like to present at a workshop please reply to this email with a provisional title and a short abstract.

Papers can be on any topic in legal theory in the wide sense of that phrase. See the IJS website at http://irishjurisprudencesociety.org/past-events/ for details of previous workshops.