Abstracts and papers are due by April 20, 2012. Interdisciplinary scholarship is especially welcome. For more information contact Professor Haochen Sun, haochen.sun|at|hku.hk.

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In this special issue, the IJTJ will consider how people seek and experience justice after mass atrocity in the context of everyday life. Specific questions to be addressed will include:

• How do communities repair social relationships and networks that violence so often tears apart?
• Through what informal micro-processes and performances do people make sense of and address violent pasts, seek acknowledgement, accountability and justice?
• How do individuals or communities encounter and respond to formal national mechanisms such as truth commissions and trials or efforts to demobilize and reintegrate combatants?
• How do individuals and communities respond to state-generated histories of the past? How do they generate their own narratives about the past?
• How are local meanings of justice and social repair given expression in informal and formal TJ mechanisms?

Further areas may include:

• The meaning of justice and social repair in the context of the everyday
• Rebuilding lives, social networks and relationships
• Indigenous processes and mechanisms for healing, reconciliation and justice
• Ceremonial, ritual and spiritual processes of reconciliation
• Performance and artistic expressions
• Local initiatives of storytelling, memory making and truth telling
• Relationships and tensions between informal and formal processes at the local level
• Formal/state engagement and its impact at community level

IJTJ encourages the submission of papers from a broad spectrum of disciplines: philosophy, literary studies, political science, theatre, Indigenous studies, race and gender studies, post-colonial studies, sociology, anthropology, psychology, criminology, law, memory studies, among others.

The deadline for submissions is April 1, 2012. Papers should be submitted online from the IJTJ webpage

For questions or further information,please contact the Managing Editor at ijtj [at] csvr.org.za

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The Forum’s objective is to encourage the work of young scholars by providing experience in the pursuit of scholarship and the nature of the scholarly exchange. Meetings are held each spring, alternating between Yale, Stanford, and Harvard.

Paper submissions for the Forum should be sent to Ms. Kaitlin Burroughs at Harvard Law School (1525 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138). Electronic submissions should be sent to kburroughs[at]law.harvard.edu. The deadline for submission is February 15, 2012. Please note on the cover letter which topic your paper falls under.

Inquiries concerning the Forum should be sent to Adriaan Lanni (adlanni[at]law.harvard.edu) or Gabriella Blum (gblum[at]law.harvard.edu) at Harvard Law School, Joseph Bankman at Stanford Law School (jbankman[at]stanford.edu), or Ian Ayres at Yale Law School (ian.ayres[at]yale.edu)

The focus of this year’s session will be public law and the humanities. The topics to be addressed are:
Administrative Law
Constitutional Law
Criminal Law
Employment Law, Social Welfare Policy, and Anti-Discrimination Law
Environmental Law
Family Law
Jurisprudence and Philosophy
Law and Humanities (including Law and Literature, Critical Legal Studies, and Gender Studies)
Legal History
Public International Law
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New scientific findings regarding the adolescent brain from the fields of neuroscience, genetics and addiction science have the potential to transform the juvenile justice system by providing new evidence relevant to the culpability, deterrence, and rehabilitation potential of juvenile offenders. This evidence, which was cited by the U.S. Supreme Court in its 2010 decision in Graham v. Florida, has profound legal, policy and ethical implications for decision-makers.This multidisciplinary conference, the fourth in a series of biennual programs on neuroscience and the law held at the Phoenix federal courthouse, will examine how this new scientific information is currently being used, and could be used in the future, to improve juvenile justice. It will provide a balanced spectrum of scientific, legal and ethical perspectives by leading experts from across the nation.

Various groups have recognized that hope and fear are very pwerful driving forces capable of moving nations and shaping its actions. They have utilized both of these emotions to achieve their target, notwithstanding the negative impact on society as a whole. This phenomenon is not new. However, the current trend in this phenomenon is worth investigating in the form of a book containing a number of essays each of which expounds a different aspect of such phenomena. This is, by nature, an interdisciplinary book. Scholars from different disciplines are invited to contribute to this volume.The purpose of the book is not to investigate phobias as a psychological disorder. Rather it aims to focus on how, why, and by what means, social phobias, as an industry, are created by special interest groups such as religious leaders, politicians and financial sector leaders to target the most vulnerable in our society to achieve what is , indeed, impossible to achieve by ethical means.

Topics may include but are not limited to:
• phobias and economy/ economical factors
• political phobias
• religious phobias
• cultural phobias
• racial phobias

A contract for this book will be sought once a comprehensive book proposal is completed after compiling proposals for essays. We are sure, given our publication record, that the book shall be published by major publisher.

The book will consist of 7-8 essays. Each essay between 12,000- 15, 000 words in length including a reference list.

Please send a 300 word proposal or full-length essay, as Word doc attachments, to Dr Hisham Ramadan and Dr. Jeff Shantz via email at hisham.ramadan@kwantlen.ca , Jeffrey.Shantz@kwantlen.ca by Dec 30, 2010.