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Researching Chinese Legal History in Europe:  The State of the Field SOAS , University of London Various Speakers Date:   4 June 2015 Time:  10:00 AM Finishes:   5 June 2015 Time:  1:00 PM Venue:  Russell Square: College Buildings Room:  G3 Type of Event:  Workshop Series:   Law and Justice in China Workshop Series Programme Registration For centuries, scholars based in Europe have examined China’s past in an attempt to understand the various processes influencing the development and evolution of Chinese legal tradition(s). This line of research continues in Europe today, yet given the diversity of institutions and disciplines in which researchers work, as well as the field-specific publications in which they publish, the current state of the field of Chinese legal studies in Europe remains under specified.  What questions are scholars seeking to answer?  Which methods and theories are being employed to examine historical phenomena in China’s legal past?  What source material is availa

The Tel Aviv University Buchmann Faculty of Law is pleased to invite submissions to its third annual workshop for junior scholars in law. The workshop provides junior scholars with the opportunity to present and discuss their work and receive meaningful feedback from faculty members and peers, and aims to invigorate the scholars’ active participation in the community of international junior scholars in law. Through law, theory comes into our daily lives in many ways. The workshop will explore the connection between theory and life: different fields of law, such as criminal law, public law, corporate law, civil law, international law, cyber law, environmental law and others? What is the connection between human rights theories and their acceptance or rejection by different actors? How does legal theory deal with rapid changes in science and technology? What are the potential theoretical justifications to recognize obligations of states towards foreign individuals or communities? How can

The Cotterrell Lecture in Sociological Jurisprudence: Professor Brian Tamanaha 28 May 2015 Time:  6:30 - 8:30pm  Venue:  Lecture Theatre, ArtsOne Building, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS BOOK NOW The Inaugural Cotterrell Lecture in Sociological Jurisprudence will be given by  Professor Brian Tamanaha  (Washington University Law School), Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Queen Mary University of London in May-June 2015, on 28 May 2015. This event will be chaired by  Professor Richard Nobles  (Queen Mary University of London). In addition to this event, during his visit Professor Tamanaha will give a half-day workshop on  Relating Analytic, Empirical, Evolutionary, Diachronic and Comparative Methods in Constructing Concepts of Law  (10 June) and a  Legal Theory Masterclass  (11 June) for postgraduate students. About Professor Brian Tamanaha Professor Tamanaha is a renowned jurisprudence scholar and the author of eight books and numerous sc holarly articles,

JURIS DIVERSITAS ANNUAL CONFERENCE  2 June (afternoon) to 4 June 2015 School of Law, University of Limerick, Ireland THE STATE OF/AND COMPARATIVE LAW Co-sponsored by School of Law, University of Limerick & Juris Diversitas Tuesday, June 2, 2015 14:00                     Registration 14:30                     Welcoming Address In memoriam Roderick A. Macdonald (1948-2014) and H. Patrick Glenn (1940-2014)] 14:45                     Plenary – Keynote Chair: Seán Patrick Donlan ·          A Theoretical Basis for Comparative Legal Pluralism , Brian Z. Tamanaha , Washington University School of Law (United States) 16:00-16:30         Break 16:30-18:00         Parallel Sessions I I.A          Legal Pluralism in Africa ·          The Dominance of Legal Pluralism in a Post-Colonial South Africa: Where do We Stand almost Three and a Half Centuries after Western Legal Transplantation? , Christa Rautenbach , North-West University (South Africa) ·          The Relevance of Comparative Jurisp

CALUMET: INTERCULTURAL LAW AND HUMANITIES REVIEW 'Calumet is an on-line pioneering review. It was formed with the goal of promoting interdisciplinary collaboration in the face of problems arising from intercultural relationships and their interweaving with legal experience. The premise and starting point of Calumet is the belief that even under the lens of law, people are not norms. More and more often, individuals from different cultures come into daily contact, interact, and arrange their own affairs. History and present intercultural relationships demonstrate, however, that the law inevitably crosses their paths. Normative structures are constantly looming in the background of their actions. The presence of law, perhaps silent at first, is nevertheless ready to burst forth at the first sign of possible conflict. At the same time, every contact between norms coming from different social or political circuits transmits interactions between cultural systems. Those intercultural int

The latest Journal of Comparative Law (Wildy & Sons), a special issue on ‘interdisciplinary study and comparative law’, is out.  The  Guest Editors are Nicholas HD Foster, Maria Federica Moscati,  and Michael Palmer.  The issue includes: Nicholas HD Foster, Maria Federica Moscati, and Michael Palmer, Introduction Eric Heinze, The Literary Model in Comparative Law: Shaespeare, Corneille, Racine Jaakko Husa, Interdisciplinary Comparative Law – Between Scylla and Charybdis? Dionysia Katelouzou, A Leximetric Approach to Comparative Corporate Governance: The Case of Hedge Fund Activism Karen McAuliffe, Translating Ambiguity Fernanda Pirie, Comparison in the Anthropology and History of Law Marian Roberts, A View from the Coal Face: Interdisciplinary Influences on Family Mediation in the United Kingdom Mathias Siems, Bringing in Foreign Ideas: The Quest for ‘Better Law’ in Implicity Comparative Law Florian Wagner-von Papp, Comparative Law & Economics and the ‘Egg-Laying Wool-Milk Sow

The Global Campus of Master’s Programmes and Diplomas in Human Rights and Democratisation  is pleased to announce the first edition of  PRISMA Human Rights Photo Contest . We just launched officially the contest last week during the Venice Art Biennale opening, with Alfredo Jaar as a special guest. The photo contest  is open from May 1 and will accept submissions through June 30 2015 . We invite photographers, professional and amateur, from any part of the world to submit their work. The selected images will be displayed, along with photographs by a special guest photographer, in an exhibition in Venice, at the Monastery of San Nicolò, the premises of  EIUC the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation  in September 2015, during the 72nd Venice International Film Festival. The goal of  PRISMA  is to complement academic research with other media of knowledge, such as photography, to reach a wider international public and foster a better understanding of human

The  2015 vol 18 no 1  issue of the  Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal   ( PER )  is now  freely  available at  http://www.nwu.ac.za/p-per/2015%2818%291 . As follows the index of the current issue: 1.      Domestic Partners and "The Choice Argument":   Quo Vadis ? B Coetzee Bester and A Louw http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/pelj.v18i1. 01 2.      When does State Interference with Property (now) Amount to Expropriation? An Analysis of the   Agri SA   Court's State Acquisition Requirement (Part I) EJ Marais http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/pelj.v18i1. 02 3.      W hen does State Interference with Property (now) Amount to Expropriation? An Analysis of the   Agri SA   Court's State Acquisition Requirement (Part II) EJ Marais http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/pelj.v18i1. 03 4.      Leveraging Traditional Knowledge on the Medicinal Uses of Plants within the Patent System: The Digitisation and Disclosure of Knowledge in South Africa EP Amechi http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/pelj.v18i1. 04 5.      Th