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Annual Conference Registration Registration Fee w/ Dinner €250.00 EUR Members Registration Fee w/ Dinner €175.00 EUR Registration Fee Only €200.00 EUR Members Registration Only €125.00 EUR Links to Conference Hotels ($119 per night plus tax; book by May 8): SpringHill Suites Baton Rouge South Fairfield Inn & Suites Baton Rouge South Complimentary bus service will be provided  morning and evening Closest airport: Baton Rouge (BTR) 2016 Annual Conference:  Unity and/or Diversity Unité ou diversité May 30 to June 1, 2016 Louisiana State University Law Center Baton Rouge, USA 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 ?...

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 norms, i...

" Human Rights in Translation: Intercultural Pathways" conference at Saint Louis University's Center for Intercultural Studies, St. Louis, March 31--April 1, 2016.  When defining human rights, we often invoke certain beliefs--deemed to be universal--on which such rights are based: dignity inherent to every person, common humanity, and natural state of liberty. However, the norms and values of many cultures are incommensurable, or even incompatible, with these "universal" principles. One way out of this quandary, rooted in the concept of organic wholeness of humanity, has been to call for a convergence of world cultures around the universal idea of human rights, presumed to be shared by all people at a "deeper" level. The problem with this view is that homogenizing world cultures implies eradicating their diversity, in itself a denial of the right to uphold one's culture. Another solution has been to acknowledge the cultural differences in interpr...