It will address the complex and increasingly significant topic of the interplay between two distinct legal regimes: the conduct of hostilities regime, derived from [international humanitarian law] and the law enforcement regime, derived mainly from human rights law.

Researchers interested in addressing these and other questions related to the conference topic are invited to respond to this call for papers with a 1-2 page proposal for an article and presentation, along with a brief CV. Proposals should be submitted by email to the Minerva Center for Human Rights at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (mchr[@]savion.huji.ac.il) no later than June 1, 2012.

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Call for Papers: Submit an expression of interest with a title and abstract  (300 words maximum) dealing with one or more of the conference questions and themes by May 15, 2012, to secretariat[@]haguecoalition.org.

Guiding themes include:

1. The rights revolution and contemporary challenges
2. International criminal justice: challenging impunity through law and other justice efforts
3. Global justice and international law?

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Abstracts, no longer than one page, should be submitted by April 20, 2012 toandrews@mail.law.cuny.edu.  For questions, please contact Penelope Andrews, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law, City University of NY School of Law atandrews@mail.law.cuny.edu.

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On July 22–25, 2012, the Children’s Defense Fund will sponsor, “Pursuing Justice for Children and the Poor With Urgency and Persistence: A Community and Youth Empowerment Conference,” in Cincinnati, Ohio. The conference will present the latest research findings, best practices, community-building models, and empowerment strategies to meet the needs of children and the poor, including a focus on diminishing child and youth involvement in the juvenile justice system. mmb

Submissions wanted for the call for papers. Authors of selected proposals will be offered full or partial flight and accommodation expenses.  Deadline for submission of proposals: 31 May 2012
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The deadline to submit an abstract for the call for papers is May 15, 2012.

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Papers requested should deal with the following: public international law, international humanitarian law, international human rights law, international criminal law, constitutional law, international administrative law, civil society organizations, and Senegalese law & cases.

DEADLINE: June 30, 2012.

Contact: Charles R. Majinge, cmajinge [@] gmail.com   im

LJ Jackson’s review of civil costs and the ensuing legislative process to enact his recommendations highlights the importance of, and necessity for, academics and their research in the development of policy and law reform. The requirement in the 2014 REF exercise to demonstrate the impact of research provides a strong impetus for the relationship between research and law reform and policy to be explored and invigorated.

This conference aims to provide a unique opportunity to do that by bringing together academics, parliamentarians, civil servants, judges and other users of research.

Contributions are invited primarily from academics in the field of law – including doctrinal and theoretical research as well as socio-legal approaches – but also in political science, sociology and economics. In particular we welcome research papers which:

• identify needs for reform
• have contributed to law reform processes in the last 5 years or are likely to in the near future
• have influenced the development of precedent or other judicial decision making
• capture impacts of law reform
• have improved, or are intended to improve, the depth and quality of policy debate and legal argument
• capture how law making has changed or is changing.

Suggested topics/themes for parallel workshop sessions include:

• (Legal) Business Environment – e.g. EU and domestic laws regulating business transactions (EU contract law, AML), regulation of entities, cyberlaw
• Rights of the individual (and opposing rights)/legal person environment – e.g employment, family justice, human rights/civil liberties, access to justice, medico-legal, migration
• Criminal Justice – e.g. sentencing, victim perspectives, juries
• Rule of Law/Public Law
• International perspectives on law reform

(***examples are provided as a guide and are not intended to be exclusive)

113 Chancery Lane London WC2A 1PL Dx 56 Lon/Chancery Ln
T: 020 7242 1222 f: 020 7831 0344 www.lawsociety.org.uk

We invite submissions of abstracts for 20 minute papers on any aspect of law reform (broadly defined as the process of examining existing laws and advocating and implementing changes in a legal system but also including work which contributes to government legislative programmes and Bill processes, and judicial decision making).

Submission details:
Please email a Microsoft Word document containing your contact details, institution and position, along with a 700 word abstract to tara.chittenden@lawsociety.org.uk and nina.fletcher@lawsociety.org.uk and indicating the workshop subject stream the paper is most suited for.
Deadline for abstracts: 9 March 2012
Word limit: 700 words
Notification: 6 April 2012
Full manuscript: chosen authors are required to submit the full manuscript by September 14, 2012.

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