The theme for our 2012 Symposium is “Beyond IP: How Intellectual Property and Technology Influence Other Areas of Law.” The topics for our panels are: Climate Change and Clean Technology Incentivization; Technology and Government Surveillance in the Post-9/11 World; and Copyright and the Future of the Entertainment Industry. The Symposium will also include an opening address discussing the effects of the new America Invents Act, as well as a Keynote Luncheon discussing international compulsory licensing of pharmaceutical patents.

The call for papers deadline is May 15, 2012.    mw

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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For more questions, contact katherine.zerwas[at]wmitchell.edu. Submissions are due December 1.
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• Salmon P. Chase and the Legal Basis for the U.S. Monetary System
• Civil War Legislation and the Growth of Federal Power: The Land Grant College Act (The Morill Act), The Homestead Act (origin of the Department of Agriculture), and the Pacific Railway Act (to fund the trans-continental railway)
• Military Trials of Terrorists: From Lincoln Conspirators to the Guantanamo Inmates
• The Civil War Origin of the Rules of War: Francis Lieber and Lincoln’s General Orders No. 100

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