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Fundamental Labour Rights in China - Legal Implementation and Cultural Logic Editors: Ulla Liukkunen, Yifeng Chen Book Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice Volume  49   2016 Springer.com     http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319231556    Springerlink        http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-23156-3

CONFERENCE: The Fate of Scholarship in American Law Schools  March 31-April 1, 2016 The  University of Baltimore School of Law  will host this groundbreaking conference       on March 31 and April 1, 2016, at UB’s landmark new  John and Frances Angelos Law Center  in midtown Baltimore. As American legal education faces an identity crisis, what will become of scholarship in U.S. law schools? Will it survive the tumult –  should  it survive – and in what form? The conference will reexamine first principles of legal scholarship – its value (to legal education, to the legal profession, to society) and its essential aspects – and will survey particular issues of contemporary concern, including emerging scholarly forms and technologies and the relationship among legal scholarship, journalism and new media. The two-day conference will consist of themed plenary sessions, concurrent small-group sessions, opportunities to interact informally and a keynote address by  Jack M. Balkin   ,  Knight P

Weaving Intellectual Property Policy in Small Island Developing States Miranda Forsyth and Sue Farran September 2015 | ISBN 978-1-78068-225-9 | xiv + 280 pp. | paperback 62 euros | 74 US dollars | 59 GB pounds This book considers the challenges of creating appropriate intellectual property frameworks in developing economies. It focuses on the small island states of the Pacific region to explore and illustrate the many dilemmas, drawing together considerations of policy, theories of development and law, and empirical studies to suggest solutions and possible strategies. read more...

APPEL À COMMUNICATIONS JURIS DIVERSITAS CONGRÈS ANNUEL   Du 30 mai au 1 er juin, 2016 Louisiana State University Law Center, Baton Rouge, États-Unis Unité et/ou Diversité Colloque international et interdisciplinaire de droit comparé T hème : Les études juridiques comparatives ont longtemps été perçues comme un moteur de convergence, d’harmonisation et d’unification des traditions et des systèmes juridiques. Le pluralisme juridique met aujourd’hui l’accent sur la reconnaissance de la diversité humaine et sociale. Faut-il pour autant conclure que nous devons choisir entre unité et diversité, jus unum ou juris diversitas  ? Dans quelle mesure les sociétés pluralistes embrassent-elles ou rejettent-elles l’harmonisation et l’uniformité, ou les ignorent-elles tout simplement ? Unifions-nous vraiment ou ajoutons-nous un niveau supplémentaire de complexité juridique ? L’histoire révèle-t-elle un mouvement de la diversité vers l’unité ou un conflit entre les deux ? À quelles

CALL FOR PAPERS JURIS DIVERSITAS ANNUAL CONFERENCE   May 30 - June 1, 2016 Louisiana State University Law Center, Baton Rouge, USA Unity and/or Diversity An International, Interdisciplinary Conference on Comparative Law Theme : Comparative legal studies have long been perceived as an engine pulling legal traditions and systems towards convergence, harmonization, and unification. Today, legal pluralism pushes towards the recognition of human and social diversity. Does this mean that we have to choose between unity and diversity, Jus unum or juris diversitas ?  To what extent do pluralistic societies embrace or reject harmonization and uniformity, or simply ignore them? Do we unify or add layers, increasing the complexity of legal orders? Does history reflect a move from diversity to unity or an ongoing conflict between the two? What makes unity successful or sustainable? This is an invitation to discuss, in an interdisciplinary way, the development of laws and social