It’s not too late to submit a paper for the North American Regional Meeting of the International Society of Family Law and the Midwest Family Law Consortium conference June 3-5, 2010 at the University of Missouri Kansas City School of Law. While international law or comparative law papers are encouraged, papers or panels on any topic of broad interest are encouraged. Professors who are engaged in the scholarship of teaching who would like to present their insights on family law education issues are likewise encouraged to contribute.
Selected papers will be published in a symposium issue of the UMKC Law Review (due date for the final articles will be August 1). Interested persons should submit a one-page proposal with the name, title, and institutional affiliation of presenter(s) and a brief summary of presentation to Barbara Glesner Fines, Associate Dean for Faculty, UMKC School of Law at glesnerb [at] umkc.edu.
The conference will begin Thursday, June 3, 2010 with an opening reception. The conference program will run Friday, June 4 with dinner followed by a tour of the Kansas City Arts District. Additional sessions will be held the morning of Saturday, June 5.
Register online at http://www.law.umkc.edu/isfl.htm.
mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 19th, 2010
| Comparative Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, International Law, Family Law, CONFERENCES |
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The New Zealand Yearbook of International Law (University of Canterbury School of Law) is an annual, international refereed publication.
The Editorial Board calls for both short notes and commentaries, and longer in-depth articles, for publication in the 2010 edition of the Yearbook. Notes and commentaries should be between 1,500 to 3,000 words. Articles may be from 6,000 to 20,000 words.
The Editorial Board seeks contributions on current topics in international law. The Board is particularly interested in receiving submissions that are relevant to New Zealand, Australasia, the Pacific, the Southern Ocean and Antarctica.
The closing date for submissions is 1 June 2010.
Submissions should be provided in English, using MSWord-compatible word processing software, and delivered by email to the General Editor at nzyil [at] canterbury.ac.nz .
Contributions must be original unpublished works and submission of contributions will be held to imply this.
Manuscripts must be word-processed and in compliance with the New Zealand Law Style Guide.
mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 19th, 2010
| Comparative Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, International Law |
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The Prague Yearbook of Comparative Law is calling for submission to its 2010 issue. All contributions of comparative nature or from the fields of international, European or WTO law are welcome. Contributions from graduate students and young scientists are encouraged.
Although regionally sounding, the yearbook and its truly international board of editors aim for a periodical of global excellence. Quality of the peer-reviewed contributions is therefore the essential criterion pursuant to which acceptance is being decided upon. The 2009 issue is available in PDF here (printed copies also still available).
Articles of 10,000 to 12,000 words, shorter Articles (4,000 to 6,000 words), and reviews of up to 750 words are currently being accepted. Longer articles are subject to space availability; however they are generally welcome.
All enquiries and submissions should be directed to pycl [at] pycl.eu.
The Board of Editors
mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 19th, 2010
| JUNIOR SCHOLARS, Comparative Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, International Law |
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The University of La Verne College of Law presents What Makes States Successful? Afghanistan and the Future of State Building April 15-17, 2010.
State failure is one of the most challenging public policy problems of our age. Despite the pressures of globalization on the autonomy of states, they remain the most important locations of institutions to promote justice and the welfare of the peoples of the world. States are vital to maintaining peace and security across the globe. We need states to succeed. But they sometimes fail. Why? And how do we turn failed states into successful states? This symposium examines these questions with a four-fold focus. First, the focus is on state failure that is either caused by or is in some way related to armed conflict within a state, either from a civil war or from armed intervention by intervening states, United Nations Security Council action, or otherwise. Second, the focus is on institutional solutions to state failure, with an emphasis on rule of law. Third, the focus is on developing action plans or protocols containing concrete solutions to help failed states become successful states. Fourth, the symposium focuses on Afghanistan. Afghanistan provides a rich source of data and experience on what works and what fails, although Afghanistan remains very much a work in progress. An important symposium aim is to produce policy guidance for future directions in that country. The symposium approach is multi-disciplinary, with the goal of learning from a diversity of views.
mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 11th, 2010
| Comparative Law, International Law, CONFERENCES |
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The University of Cincinnati College of Law Corporate Law Center presents a symposium, “The Globalization of Securities Regulation: Competition or Coordination?” on March 5, 2010.
After the enactment of Sarbanes-Oxley in 2002, influential voices in the business, political, and academic communities expressed concern that the U.S. markets were losing their competitive advantage. While a number of factors were identified as contributing to this decline, higher U.S. regulatory compliance costs and liability risks were, in particular, singled out. Regulators, in turn, considered proposals that would ease barriers to entry. The 2008 financial meltdown increased awareness of the interconnectedness of markets and the importance of a coordinated approach toward securities regulation. Thus, the Obama administration’s Financial Regulatory Reform calls for raising international regulatory standards and improving international cooperation. As policy makers, regulators and academics consider proposals for regulatory reform, how will these considerations – competition and coordination – play out?
mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on January 11th, 2010
| Comparative Law, Securities Law, International Law, CONFERENCES |
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The American Historical Association holds its annual meeting in San Diego, Jan. 7-10, 2010.
Legal scholars might be interested in, among others:
- Events of the AHA Working Group for Historical Perspectives on Same-Sex Marriage (15 events over the 4 days of the conference)
- An Archeology of Agency in the Civil Law Tradition: Early Modern Spain, France, and Colonial Spanish America
- The Law and Its Uses? A View from South America
- A World of Hurt: Medieval Marriage Practice and Law in a Century of Crisis
- Control, Discipline, and Order in Modern China
- (Dis)Inheriting Slavery: Property, Power, and Belief in the Last Requests of Masters and Slaves
- Recursive Subjects: Sexuality and the “State” in South Asia
- Mutiny Beyond the Line: Sexual Subjugation in the White Supremacist South and the African American Sedition, 1930–51
- Disability in Global Perspective
- Drugs in Chains: The Illicit Commodity in World History
- Fathers of Illegitimate Children in Public Policy and the Courts: Chile, Brazil, and the Anglophone Caribbean from the Late Nineteenth to the Early Twenty First Centuries
- Educational Equality and the Civil Rights Movement: Freedom Schools, Head Start, and the Supreme Court
mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 28th, 2009
| Law and Race, Comparative Law, Law and Sexuality, Legal History, Civil Rights Law, Education Law, Family Law, CONFERENCES |
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The International Political Science Association (IPSA) RC 20, political finance and political corruption, invites all members and scholars conducting research on any aspect of political finance and political corruption to submit proposals for individual papers and organized panels for the interim meeting Ljubljana, 16-18 July, 2010.
For purposes of grant submission, as well as planning ahead for tours, etc, we would like to know as soon as possible the names and temporary titles to be presented at the meeting. Even if you do not have as yet any finalized proposal, please be kind enough to notify us by the end of the first week in January (Jan. 8, 2010 ) of your intent to submit one in due course. The date for the final submission will be announced in February.
mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 23rd, 2009
| Law and Politics, Comparative Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, CONFERENCES |
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The British Institute of International and Comparative Law’s Annual Conference 2010 will be Energy and Its Impacts on the International Legal System, June 11, 2010. Sessions include
- Protecting Energy Investments in a Changing Legal Regime
- Energy Security: Territorial Limits and Nuclear Power
- Energy, Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples
- Energy Production, Transport and Supply: Cross Border Private Law Issues
- Competition Law and Access and Security of Energy
- National and Comparative Law Issues
mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 18th, 2009
| Comparative Law, Human Rights Law, National Security Law, Antitrust Law, Environmental Law, International Law, CONFERENCES |
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Reminder: the early-bird registration deadline for the Commonwealth Regional Law Conference (Ajuna, Nigeria) is Dec. 31, 2009. For more information, see earlier post. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 13th, 2009
| Human Rights Law, Legal Profession, Comparative Law, Commercial Law, CONFERENCES |
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Bocconi University, Tilburg University, and NYU present the 5th International Conference on Financial Regulation and Supervision (”Finlawmetrics”), June 24-25, 2010 in Milan. The topic will be “Central banking, regulation and supervision after the financial crisis.” The conference committee will consider through January 31 papers that shed light on the different causes of change in, and their consequences for, central banking, regulation and supervision. Keynote speakers are to include Arnoud Boot (University of Amsterdam) and Xavier Vives (IESE Business School). ajc
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 13th, 2009
| CALLS FOR PAPERS, Comparative Law, Commercial Law, International Law, Business Law, CONFERENCES |
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The Pace International Law Review will host this year’s symposium entitled “Comparative Constitutional Law: National Security Across the Globe” on November 13, 2009. The conference will discuss legal issues faced by various nations which must balance constitutional and civil rights with national security needs. jv
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on October 26th, 2009
| Comparative Law, National Security Law, Constitutional Law, CONFERENCES |
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The 2010 Commonwealth Regional Law Conference focusing on comparative law and professional experiences of lawyers in commonwealth countries will be held April 8 - 10 in Abuja, Nigeria. jv
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on October 26th, 2009
| Legal Profession, Comparative Law, CONFERENCES |
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Lexxion presents its autumn conference on European State Aid Law. The main conference is Nov. 27, 2009, at King`s College London. A workshop is planned on the previous day, Nov. 26, with focus on restructuring of banks and airlines; it will be at the Athenaeum.
Topics:
- The Restructuring of financial Institutions under Art. 87 (3) lit. b EC
- Procedure and judicial Protection in State Aid
- State Aid in special Sectors:
- Broadcasting (new Broadcasting Communication of 2 July 2009)
- Broadband (new Guidelines to be adopted)
mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 29th, 2009
| Communications Law, Law and Cyberspace, Comparative Law, Business Law, CONFERENCES |
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The Asian Law Institute’s Seventh Conference will take place May 25-26, 2010, at the the Ahmad Ibrahim Kulliyyah of Laws, International Islamic University, Malaysia, in Kuala Lumpur. The conference theme is Law in a Pluralist Asia: Challenges and Prospects.
The Call for Papers / Participation offers several opportunities:
- individual papers for panels — deadline is Jan. 8, 2010.
- panels — deadline is Jan. 8, 2010.
- papers for the young scholars workshop — deadline is Jan. 8, 2010.
Selected papers from the subthemes may be considered for publication in special issues of the Asian Journal of Comparative Law and the IIUM Law Journal. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 29th, 2009
| JUNIOR SCHOLARS, Comparative Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, CONFERENCES |
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The Global Legal Skills Conference V will take place at Facultad Libre de Derecho de Monterrey Feb. 25-27, 2010.
The Global Legal Skills Conference focuses on international legal education and essential skills, including legal writing, legal research, legal reasoning, legal English, translations and advocacy skills. Additional topics include creating appropriate materials and assignments, cross-cultural and intercultural issues, classroom teaching, clinical legal education, academic support, international legal exchanges and related fields.
Most panel presentations will be in English. Spanish language presentations are welcome, encouraged and actively solicited. Where one of the panels is in Spanish, there will be at least one concurrent panel in English.
The organizers seek proposals for individual presentations (15 min.) and panels (60 min.). The submission deadline is Sept. 25, 2009. The proposal form is here.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 21st, 2009
| Comparative Law, Legal Research & Writing, Legal Education, International Law, CONFERENCES |
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