SLSA E‐Newsletter
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6478.2012.00587.x |
| Published date | 01 June 2012 |
| Date | 01 June 2012 |
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Socio-Legal
No 66
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Although a UK-based organisation, the SLSA has many
international members at academic institutions the world over.
Non-UK members receive the same benefits as UK members.
These include:
• three issues per year of the Socio-Legal Newsletter;
• discounted fees for the SLSA annual conference and one-day
conferences;
• weekly email news bulletin;
• eligibility for SLSA research grants;
• eligibility to nominate for book and article prizes;
• eligibility for student bursaries;
• free student membership for one year;
• free postgraduate annual conference.
If you want to keep abreast of news and developments in the
socio-legal world, SLSA membership is key. For full details, visit
wwww.slsa.ac.uk/why-join-the-slsa.
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This year’s annual conference is being hosted by Leicester De
Montfort Law School from 3–5 April 2012. The venue is the
university’s new Hugh Aston Building situated in the heart of
Leicester city centre.
The past two years have seen the introduction and
consolidation of the ‘streams and themes’ format and this will
again be the basis for allocation of papers this year. The seven
themes are:
• art, culture and heritage;
• consumers, law and society: ‘education, empowerment and
enforcement’;
• exceptional states: international economic law in times of
crisis and change;
• gender, difference and constitutional change;
• indigenous and minority rights;
• legal consciousness: a stocktake;
• neoliberalism and states of injury.
There will also be 25 streams ranging in subject matter (and
alphabetically) from administrative justice to systems theories.
Standard registration is open until 16 March 2012
representing a saving of £50 on the late price. Non-members can
also save a further £80 by joining the SLSA before booking.
For further information, please visit the conference website
(go to wwww.slsa.ac.uk and follow the links) or email
eslsa2012@dmu.ac.uk.
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We are delighted to announce the winners of this year’s
Hart–SLSA prizes. This year in a very strong field the book prize
and the early career prize are both shared.
The winners will receive their prizes at the annual
conference and take part in the popular author-meets-reader
sessions that have been introduced in recent years.
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• Nicholas Blomley (2011) Rights of Passage: Sidewalks and the
regulation of public flow, Routledge/Glasshouse
• Didi Herman (2011) An Unfortunate Coincidence: Jews,
Jewishness, and English law, Oxford University Press
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• Prabha Kotiswaran (2011) Dangerous Sex, Invisible Labour: Sex
work and the law in India, Princeton University Press
• Lisa Vanhala (2011) Making Rights a Reality? Disability rights
activists and legal mobilization, Cambridge University Press
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• Kieran McEvoy, ‘What did the lawyers do during the
“war”? Neutrality, conflict and the culture of quietism’
(2011) 74 Modern Law Review 350–84
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This year the Research Grants Committee awarded four grants
totalling £6146. Details of the awards are published below.
Inside this issue, retiring chair of the Research Grants
Committee, Dermot Feenan, offers guidance for future
applicants and Elizabeth Craig writes about her completed
project on European minority rights law (pages 4–5) .
We are delighted to announce that the SLSA will be funding
the following four projects in 2012:
• John Jackson, University of Nottingham, and Yassin
M’Boge, University of Leicester, £1950 – A socio-legal
approach to evidence in the International Criminal
Tribunals;
• Kirsten Campbell and Claire Garbett, Goldsmith’s College,
£996 – The gender of justice: the prosecution of sexual
violence in war;
• Emily Grabham, University of Kent, £1300 – The politics of
prognosis: HIV, anti-retrovirals, and the definition of
disability in UK equality law, 1996–2005;
• Geth Rees, University of Southampton, £1900 – The social
construction of forensic sleep expertise.
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There are four one-day conferences currently in the calendar:
our trio of events on ‘Doing, funding, teaching – socio-legal
scholarship’; and ‘Exploring the legal in socio-legal studies’.
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This trio of events will take place in London in 2012. All will be
run by senior socio-legal academics and researchers and will
benefit from contributions from other experts including research
council members, experienced reviewers and successful grant
applicants. A discount is available for attendance at all three.
The first one-day conference on 13 March 2012 is entitled
‘Doing socio-legal research: empirical challenges and solutions’
and will take place at the Nuffield Foundation. The organisers
are Linda Mulcahy and Amanda Perry-Kessaris. There are still
places available for this event.
The second is ‘Funding socio-legal research’ on 14 May 2012
also at the Nuffield Foundation, organised by Rosemary Hunter
and Anne Barlow. Further details will be published in the
weekly e-bulletin in due course. The final one, ‘Teaching socio-
legally: socio-legal studies in the law curriculum’ will be on
31 October 2012, organised by Penny English and Chris
Ashford. Further details, including a registration form, are on
the SLSA website at: wwww.slsa.ac.uk/content/view/291/330.
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Following on from the SLSA’s one-day conference on ‘Exploring
the “socio-” in socio-legal studies’, this event on 21 September
2012 at the London School of Economics (LSE) will focus on ‘the
legal’ in socio-legal studies.
The rationale for ‘Exploring the socio-’ was based on
locating the social within socio-legal studies. We can, of course,
take different views on that location and identity. However, in
doing so, we should not lose sight of the terrain of 'the legal' on
which there have been significant developments in recent years.
Those developments owe a debt to the work of certain STS
(science and technology studies) scholars, such as Annelise Riles
and Bruno Latour. In her work, Riles draws attention to the
significance of metaphor in doctrinal law as an underdeveloped
site for the study of socio-legality, which has tended to be an
outsider to legal technicality. This outsider–insider approach to
legal technicality is potentially productive and recent work
suggests that this (ambitious) project is one in which socio-legal
scholars should engage. Furthermore, the question of legality
engages with thinking about the identity or non-identity of the
‘legal’ in legal consciousness studies, as well as issues around
the scale, space or place of law. Confirmed speakers are:
Annalise Riles, Cornell; Chris Tomlins, California
Irvine/American Bar Association; Linda Mulcahy, LSE;
Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Westminster
Papers are invited which address the conference theme and
which may address the following questions:
• What do we mean by law and legality in socio-legal studies?
• To what extent are the distinctions between ‘law in the
books’ and ‘law in action’, ‘insiders’ and ‘outsiders’,
maintainable as binary oppositions?
• To what extent can a focus on legal technicality enrich socio-
legal studies?
• What types of methods are appropriate for such study?
• To what extent can socio-legal understandings about legal
technicality seep into pedagogical practice?
The call closes on 30 April 2012. Full details of the call and
registration information are available on the website at
wwww.slsa.a c.uk/content/view/2 95/330. If you have any
queries please contact Dave Cowan ed.s.cowan@bristol.ac.uk.
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Many of the members of the SLSA Executive Committee will be
attending the annual conference in Leicester. As usual, we will
have a stand in the foyer and members are welcome to come and
meet committee members, find out more about what they do or
just have a chat – especially if you’re a new member or it’s your
first time at the conference. We look forward to meeting you.
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The SLSA’s annual general meeting (AGM) will take place on
4 April 2012 at Leicester De Montfort Law School. All SLSA
members are invited to attend and can also suggest items for the
agenda. Please send agenda items to Amanda Perry-Kessaris by
26 March 2012.
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Phil Rumney stepped down from the Executive Committee in
January and Dermot Feenan, Jo Shaw and Sue Millns will be
leaving at the AGM. Their colleagues on the committee would
like to thank them for their hard work over the past few years.
Antonia Layard, Cardiff University, joined in January 2012 to
replace Jo Hunt as Journal of Law and Society representative.
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The SLSA Constitution provides that members are elected for a
three-year term, and may, if they wish, re-nominate for a further
three-year term, but must step down after serving two terms.
This year, two elected members are seeking second terms, and
two are stepping down. There are therefore two vacancies for
new members on the SLSA Executive Committee. Nominations
for these vacancies will be accepted at the AGM to be held on
4 April 2012 during the SLSA annual conference at Leicester De
Montfort University. Nominees must be paid-up members, and
nominations must be made by two members and have the
written consent of the nominee. If there are more nominations
than vacancies, a vote will be held at the AGM.
The work of committee members is rewarding and varied.
There are several officers, plus opportunities to serve on sub-
committees or undertake one-off projects. If you have any
queries about the work of the Executive Committee, please
contact any member (see page 2 for details).
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News and feature articles are always needed for the
newsletter, plus information about books, journals and events.
The next deadline is 21 May 2012. Contact the editor Marie
Selwood emarieselwood@btinternet.com or t01227 770189.
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Following the recent upgrading of the SLSA website, members
are reminded that they can update their directory entries
online as and when the need arises. The directory:
• has an individual entry for all SLSA members;
• is searchable by name;
• is searchable by expertise;
• is searchable by institution;
• is browsable by non-members;
• is accessible from the SLSA website.
To begin updating your profile, visit wwww.slsa.ac.uk and go
to the Members Login menu, on the left.
If you have any problems or questions, please contact Nick
Jackson en.s.r.jackson@kent.ac.uk or Marie Selwood
emarieselwood@btinternet.com.
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Dermot Feenan, chair of the Research Grants Committee,
2010–2012, reports on the scheme, including how the
committee works, and offers advice on enhancing the
prospects of success for an application.
The Research Grants Scheme funds socio-legal research projects
in annual competitive application from members. Projects up to
£2000 are eligible. In the last two years the number of eligible
applications averaged 22 annually.
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The scheme funds socio-legal, not simply legal, research, but
there is no collective or immutable definition of ‘socio-legal’.
Empirical research is eligible. Most of the successful applications
are well-justified with reference to theoretical issues. Other
research is also covered, but the nature of the scheme limits
funding to certain eligible costs – for example, accessing
documentary materials.
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The deadline for applications is 31 October each year. We usually
advertise the scheme by way of e-bulletin to members and in the
Socio-Legal Newsletter. In the last few years we have clarified our
criteria, tightened the process of decision-making, and improved
the format for applications. But there is always room for
improvement, upon which we would be pleased to hear any view.
Details of the scheme, including a bespoke Application
Package, are available on our website. A sub-committee of the
Executive Committee assesses the applications. Applicants are
notified by the end of January each year.
The sub-committee assesses each application according to
published criteria, which are repeated as headings in the
Application Package. We rate each of these broad criteria on a
scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1=weak, 2=fair, 3=sound, 4=strong,
5=outstanding.
Each member of the sub-committee (there are generally four
to five) scores each application independently of the other
members. Scores are then collated to calculate average scores for
each applicant, which allows a preliminary ranking of
candidates. If there is a compelling reason for seeking
references, such as a tie-break, we may request them. The
committee then discusses the top-ranked applications, with
reference to our budget and taking into consideration any
further views amongst us on the respective strengths of the
applications before agreeing a final ranking.
The committee then recommends to the Executive
Committee at its January meeting those final ranked applications
which it believes most meritorious for funding. Only top-quality
applications will be funded. This may mean that not all the
money allocated in one year is spent. In 2011–2012 the success
rate among eligible applications was 18 per cent.
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Applicants are asked to identify aim(s) and objective(s) of the
research. The best applications tend to be brief, clear and precise
in these respects. They will usually have one aim and a few
objectives. There is a limit to how far a small grant can take you.
Will aims and objectives be realistic? Avoid confusing language,
e.g. in the same section saying: ‘main purposes x& y’ and
‘principal aim z’. Delimit, if necessary, temporal, spatial and
other parameters. Aims and objectives should be congruent
with the title of the project and the methodology. High-scoring
applications tend also to neatly embed the aims and objectives
into a précis of relevant issues in the literature.
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Applicants are asked to describe the extent to which the research
is original, innovative and important (including reference to the
existing literature). It is not enough to state that it is ‘socio-legal’.
Justify your research question(s). Why this research? What’s its
novelty and distinctiveness? This invariably requires thorough
knowledge of salient literature. The best applications show a
selective and nuanced knowledge of the key work (and usually
cite name, title and year).
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We ask applicants to describe their methodology, which should
be coherent with the aim(s) and objective(s), practicable and, if
applicable, include ethical considerations. If the application
relates to a research visit, we also ask for a schedule of
arrangements, interviews and personnel.
An explicit justification for the choice of method may help.
If, for example, a face-to-face interview is chosen, why is this
indicated rather than, say, a telephone interview or a
questionnaire? High-scoring applications where interviews are
proposed tend to specify the issues to be explored in interview.
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Stating something like: ‘institutional ethics approval will be
sought’ is less helpful than showing whether you have
considered specific ethical issues. This consideration need not be
complex in the application, but could at least identify key issues.
Study of the SLSA Statement of Principles of Ethical Research
Practice may help. Obtaining ethics approval can be time-
consuming and complex, so a conscious factoring of this into the
proposed timescale will help.
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We ask that applicants set out their budget. This should be
precise. If the research will involve, for example, various modes
of travel, accommodation, transcription of interviews, and
subsistence, set out costs fully and accurately. Reasonable
assessment of specific future costs is acceptable. See the example
below for a fictional research trip from London to Glasgow for
three days of interviews at three government agencies:
• transcription of interviews: 10 interviews x 1.5 hours at
75p/minute = £675 (cost based on estimate from Acme
Transcribers Ltd);
• 1 standard return train fare London–Glasgow = £70;
• 2 nights’ accommodation in Glasgow: £90/night x 2 = £180;
• public transport to and from rail stations @ £8/fare x 4 = £32;
• 3 days’ subsistence: £30 x 3 = £90;
• public transport in Glasgow to and from interviews @
£5/fare x 6 = £30.
Total: £1077
The committee has no preferred budgetary scale. We have
recently funded projects costed from several hundred pounds to
the maximum allowable. In 2011–2012, the average sum sought
in successful applications was approximately £1500.
The SLSA is concerned in the current economic situation to
ensure value for money. The budget should reflect this. For
instance, could five 20-minute largely fact-finding interviews
with officials in Hawaii be better conducted by email, phone or
video-conferencing? Or, for example, is a stay of two nights
overseas to conduct three interviews and to do fieldwork
possible rather than three nights?
It’s best if the application stands alone for a discrete project,
and is not contingent on funding from another application.
However, we are also keen to support projects if they will
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augment complementary research, including enhancement of the
prospects of securing funding for additional research. If so, make
clear that relationship and specify the likely sources of funding.
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We also ask for an explanation of potential impact from the
research. This need not be policy impact. We ask applicants to
include details of any dissemination plans and/or the
enhancement of the prospect of obtaining future research grants
from other grant-making bodies.
Vague or imprecise plans, e.g. ‘the research may lead to a
series of papers and might ultimately inform a book’, are less
helpful than spec ific plans: an ar ticle, monogra ph, edited
collection, chapter, working paper, conference presentation etc.
Better still if you provide full details, e.g. ‘completion of an
article for submission by [year] to Law and Society Review;
completion of a chapter in a book [title] under contract with
[publisher, due for publication (year)] and presentation of a
paper at the SLSA annual conference [year]’. These are perhaps
now standard modes of dissemination, so alternative and
innovative pathways to impact – such as grassroots impact and
new media – are also welcome. But, be realistic. ‘At least three
articles’ may be too ambitious.
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Elizabeth Craig, University of Sussex, £980
The overall aim of the project was to identify lessons that could
be learnt from some of the controversies that arose over the
proposed inclusion of culture, identity and language
provisions in a future Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland. The
project focused on the reasons for some of the problems
encountered with regard to the proposed internalisation of the
requirements of European minority rights into domestic law.
Particular emphasis was placed on the controversy over the
proposed inclusion of ‘the right freely to choose to be treated
or not to be treated’ as belonging to a minority group with no
disadvantage resulting from that choice, a right enshrined in
Article 3 of the Council of Europe’s Framework Convention for
the Protection of National Minorities. The intention was to
acquire a deeper understanding of some of the tensions that
have emerged between the liberal and communitarian agendas
and between the ‘politics of recognition’ and the ‘politics of
redistribution’ discourses.
The funded element of the project involved one research trip
to Germany and two research trips to Northern Ireland. The trip
to Germany involved library-based research in a jurisdiction
that places considerable importance on the individual right to
self-identification. Particular focus was placed on the
interpretation of Article 2(1) of the German Basic Law on the
right to the free development of one’s personality, and on
Article 3, the provision dealing with equality. The research
revealed the particularity of the constitutional context within
which the right was developed as well as ongoing tensions with
the equality framework and with the requirements of the
Framework Convention, particularly in relation to the issue of
data collection.
The research visits to Northern Ireland involved interviews
with political and civic representatives of parties and
organisations that had from the outset adopted a clear position
on culture, identity and language issues within the context of
the work of the Northern Ireland Bill of Rights Forum.
Interviewees were selected on that basis. The interviews were
used to supplement documentary research drawing upon party
and sector position papers as well as other official
documentation. Reasons identified for the failure included
different interpretations of the Framework Convention and the
tendency towards a ‘pick and mix’ approach, as well as the
influence of different political philosophies and of identity-
based politics. The research also revealed that the underlying
tensions, which prevented a consensus being reached, remain
unresolved. The extent to which language rights claims in
Northern Ireland are needs- or identity-based was raised in a
number of interviews, as was the appropriateness of including
socio-economic rights in a Bill of Rights and the relationship
between the equality and human rights frameworks. There was
also considerable discussion of the continued appropriateness of
the ‘two communities’ paradigm enshrined in the Belfast
Agreement of 1998 with particular concern raised by some
interviewees about the problems encountered in the
development of the Cohesion, Sharing and Integration Strategy
and of the ‘good relations’ paradigm.
It became clear during the course of the research that
tensions between different agendas and discourses are reflected
within European minority rights law more generally. An initial
summary of these tensions was presented at the W G A Hart
legal workshop on ‘Comparative aspects on constitutions’ in
July 2010 and at the inaugural conference of the Minority
Research Network held at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, in
October 2010. However, the research conducted in both
Germany and Northern Ireland led the researcher to the
preliminary conclusion that such tensions should be addressed
first and foremost at the local level. The research findings are
currently being written up in an article focusing on the problems
and tensions encountered in the internalisation of European
minority rights law into domestic law. Wider dissemination
depends on further developments in the political process.
This project was the researcher’s first experience of
conducting interviews for research purposes, of university
ethics procedures and of the use of NVivo. There were a number
of practical problems encountered (e.g. in relation to the
availability of interviewees) as well as significant changes in the
political context. The lessons learnt informed the researcher’s
input into the teaching of the dissertation option at Sussex in
2010–2011 and have led to more effective supervision of
postgraduate students engaged in empirical legal research.
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It should go without saying that correct presentation is
important. Errors in grammar or spelling may undermine
confidence in, and the coherence of, the application. If necessary,
have it spellchecked and/or proof-read by a friend or colleague.
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We have funded some excellent applications – well-designed,
theoretically informed, methodologically solid and innovative –
which are often also modestly costed. These are worth checking.
Each year the Socio-Legal Newsletter lists awards and publishes
reports. A notable recent example is Professor Richard Collier’s
survey of fathers, lawyers and the work–life balance (SLN 65:5).
We do also provide feedback to unsuccessful applicants who are
not precluded from re-applying in future.
Note: the criteria for the scheme are subject to amendment from year
to year with a view to improving the clarity and transparency of our
procedure. Always use the current criteria. Details of the 2012–2013
scheme will be announced in due course.
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The former secretary general of the Council of Europe (CoE)
Terry Davis divulged some of the secrets of member state
compliance with the European Convention on Human Rights
(ECHR) at a Foundation for Law, Justice and Society (FLJS)
conference held at Wolfson College, Oxford on 11 January 2012.
The conference assessed the emergence and institutionalisation of
international norms, using the CoE as a focus for discussion, and
came in the lead-up to David Cameron’s speech in Strasbourg at
which he used the UK’s presidency of the CoE to push for reform
of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).
Academics from the UK, USA and France opened
proceedings by exploring the concept of ‘norm
entrepreneurship’ and how it can be a useful frame of analysis
for studying the workings of the CoE and other transnational
policy actors.
Professor Denis Galligan from FLJS chaired the subsequent
panel at which conference co-convener Professor Anne
Deighton laid out the historical context of the Cold War against
which the CoE founding convention – the ECHR – was
developed. The adoption of over 200 conventions by the CoE
was then charted by Manuel Lezertua, director of legal advice at
the CoE, who went on to describe the recent critical review of
the conventions commissioned by the secretary general, to
improve their visibility and impact and the number of parties to
these conventions.
After lunch, Professor Rainer Hofmann gave an insight into
his role at the CoE in the implementation of the Framework
Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, which
emerged in 1993 in reaction to the war in the then Yugoslavia. He
described the aims of managing majority/minority relations in
member states in order to avoid similar regional instability in
future. In closing, he noted the challenges posed by the increasing
reluctance of member states to submit to scrutiny and monitoring
by the CoE, citing the objections to interventions on prisoner
voting rights in the UK as one prominent recent example.
The concluding session featured a panel in which experts
explored the ambivalent relationship of both competition and
cooperation between the CoE and the EU in the field of criminal
justice; the conditions necessary to raise regulatory standards in
the development of the Common European Asylum System;
and a comparative perspective on the UN Responsibilities to
Protect (R2P) and to Rebuild.
The conference was brought to a fitting close by Terry
Davis’s address, in which he shed light on the respective roles of
the ECtHR, the Parliamentary Assembly and the Commissioner
for Human Rights in standard-setting and compliance.
Particular successes during his time at the helm of the CoE
included the establishment of the Committee on the Prevention
of Torture and measures to combat people-trafficking – a pan-
European problem affecting countries of origin, transit and
destination that the CoE was able to tackle particularly
effectively by facilitating cooperation across its extended
network of member states.
A full report and podcasts of the speakers are available from
wwww.fljs.org/CouncilofEuropepodcasts. Phil Dines
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In January 2012, the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies launched the
Regulation Discussion Group (RDG), organised by Bettina
Lange, Asma Vranaki, Andres Gonzalez-Watty and Frances
Foster-Thorpe. The group provides a forum for all interested in
analysing regulatory practice from a theoretical, empirical and
public policy perspective. It seeks to facilitate cross-disciplinary
debate about regulation among lawyers, sociologists, political
scientists and economists. The group also organises ‘work-in-
progress’ sessions which will also support graduate students’
work in the field of regulation by providing them with a forum
to network and discuss cutting-edge regulation research.
For its launch, the RDG is presenting a seminar series on the
‘regulatory imagination’. Speakers include: Michael Moran,
University of Manchester; Veerle Heyvaert, London School of
Economics; Sylvia Walby, University of Lancaster; Toni
Williams, University of Kent; and Bronislaw Szerszynski,
University of Lancaster. Please contact Bettina Lange for further
details ebettina.lange@csls.ox.ac.uk and see the website at
wwww.oxonregulationdiscussiongroup.co.uk. Bettina Lange
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Dr Louise Mallinder of the Transitional Justice Institute has been
awarded £600,000 from the Economic and Social Research
Council for a research project on ‘Lawyers, conflict and
transition’ with colleagues from Queen’s University Belfast,
Professor Kieran McEvoy and Dr Marny Requa. The project
begins in March 2012.
This project will explore the role of lawyers in transitions
from violence or authoritarianism. Despite the centrality of the
rule of law to the contemporary theory and practice of
transitional justice, there is little emphasis in the relevant
literature on the role of lawyers outside the courts or, indeed, as
the ‘real people’ at work in the system. Although the importance
of different forms of agency exercised by lawyers in peaceful
societies is well established, analysis of their diverse roles in
transitions is significantly underdeveloped in the literature.
Lawyers are often key actors in strategic litigation or popular
mobilisation before transitions, in political negotiations prior to
and during a transition, in enacting legal reforms and testing
their meaning in the courts, and in shaping the work of past-
focused initiatives that address issues such as truth,
accountability and reconciliation. Lisa Gormley
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In the first of a regular series, we look at the programmes run
by major funders operating either on a rolling basis
throughout the year or currently open. In this issue, we focus
on the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
In the last complete financial year the AHRC’s budget for
funding research was £112m and law is identified as one of its
subject areas for funding.
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The Research Grants Scheme has two routes: early career and
standard. Both routes are intended to support well-defined
research projects enabling individual researchers to
collaborate with and bring benefits to other individuals and
organisations through the development of high-quality
research. Both routes have a minimum amount of £20,000 and
maximums of £250,000 (early career) and £1m (standard).
Applicants can submit proposals at any time and the
assessment process takes approximately 30 weeks.
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The AHRC’s Knowledge Transfer Scheme runs on a rolling
basis with frequent deadlines throughout the year. These
grants are for three-way partnerships between a knowledge
base (e.g. higher education institutions), a non-academic
partner (e.g. companies, charities, public sector organisations)
and a recent graduate employed to work on a specific project.
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The networking scheme supports forums for the discussion
and exchange of ideas on a specified thematic area, issue or
problem to facilitate interactions between researchers and
stakeholders through, for example, workshops, seminars,
networking activities or other events. The aim of these
activities is to stimulate new debate across boundaries, for
example, disciplinary, conceptual, theoretical, methodological,
and/or international. Proposals should explore new areas, be
multi-institutional and can include creative or innovative
approaches or entrepreneurship. Proposals for up to £30,000
may be submitted and the scheme operates on a rolling basis.
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The Cultural Encounters Programme has recently been
announced and is a joint initiative with HERA (Humanities in
the European Research Area). This €18m transnational scheme
aims to enable large collaborative research projects to increase
understanding of ‘cultural encounters’. Applications must
involve consortia of three or more partners based in three or
more different eligible countries (Austria, Belgium, Croatia,
Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Ireland,
Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland,
Portugal, Slovenia, Sweden and the UK). The closing date for
this scheme is 4 May 2012 and there are two information
sessions for interested academics in Edinburgh (13 March
2012) and London (15 March 2012). These briefings will
provide a significant opportunity to ask questions about the
cultural encounters theme, eligibility and how to apply.
Registration is necessary for these events.
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A full list of all AHRC schemes is available in the funding
opportunities section of the AHRC website where there is also
a list of current deadlines for schemes with closing dates. The
AHRC also produces a very helpful e-newsletter that is
published every couple of months and provides a useful news
summary with links. wwww.ahrc.ac.uk
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The Law, Development and the Arts Network (LDAN) is a
forum for those who seek to challenge the boundaries of
expertise and expert language, using the arts as an accessible
vernacular to explore and communicate ideas, processes and
projects in law and development. Members are drawn from
academic, policy, non-governmental and artistic institutions.
The academic coordinators are Patrick Hanafin (Birkbeck) and
Deval Desai and Amanda Perry-Kessaris (both School of
Oriental and African Studies).
For more information, please go to the website.
wwww.bbk.ac.uk/law/our-research/centre-for-law-and-the-
humanities/ldan. Amanda Perry-Kessaris
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Cybernorms.net at Lund University is making available a series
of video interviews with European scholars working in the field
of sociology of law. The interviews are conducted by Håkan
Hydén, Samuel Pufendorf professor of sociology of law at Lund.
The whole series will be available on iTunesU, using the search
term ‘Cybernorms’, or they can be watched on the Cybernorms
blog wcybernorms.net. They are intended as a contribution to
the web-based, distance-learning Lund University masters
programme, Sociology of European Law, at the university’s
Faculty of Social Sciences. So far the series includes interviews
with David Nelken, Reza Banakar and Roger Cotterrell.
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Building on the success of its Human Rights Law and
Transitional Justice LLM and the annual summer school in
Gender and Transitional Justice, the Transitional Justice
Institute (TJI) at the University of Ulster will launch its new
Gender, Conflict and Human Rights LLM in September 2012.
This unique new course will provide a foundational knowledge
in human rights law and an advanced understanding of gender
issues in conflict. The course will be delivered by leading
researchers in the field, including Professors Fionnuala Ní
Aoláin and Monica McWilliams, Drs Catherine O’Rourke and
Khanyisela Moyo, and Eilish Rooney. The course will be
delivered at the Jordanstown campus, on a full-time (one-year)
or part-time (two-year) basis, providing excellent flexibility in
duration of study. The programme will enable students to
develop skills highly relevant to advocacy, policy and research,
and will be particularly beneficial to those working (or seeking
to work) in the NGO sector. The taught element of the LLM is
complemented by several internship opportunities with leading
organisations in the field of gender, human rights and conflict,
in addition to a lively events programme.
Visit wwww.transitionaljustice.ulster.ac.uk or email
ellm@ulster.ac.uk. Catherine O’Rourke
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The Economic and Social Research Council wishes to improve
the standards of research methods and stimulate the uptake of
high-quality training courses in research methods across the UK
social science community. Each year there are 50 bursaries for
up to £1000 each to enable staff in the UK social science
community engaged in research, teaching research methods or
supervising research to update their research skills. These
bursaries are administered via the National Centre for Research
Methods. The next time-period for applications opens on 1 April
2012. See wwww.ncrm.ac.uk and follow the training link.
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to and sources of ‘moral well-being’ – of persons, institutions,
and communities – in modern times; on the way there is hardly
a theme or a thinker not touched upon. This was followed by two
short books: The Communitarian Persuasion (2002), which
extended the (liberal)communitarian directions charted in The
Moral Commonwealth, and his last work, A Humanist Science
(2008), which was an attempt to distil the methodological
‘ecumenism’ that had long underlain his writings.
These are all distinguished contributions to the
understanding of particular problems and the development of a
distinctive and expansive conception of the role, resources, and
responsibilities of social science. But Selznick’s work as a whole
adds up to more than those specific elements, for together they
exemplify a character and cast of mind of singular range, strength
and depth. Among its distinctive elements are the following.
Selznick’s underlying subject, no matter what particular
phenomena he investigated, was one with which we are all at
some time or other concerned, but by which ‘value-free’ social
scientists are too often merely embarrassed. The question of
questions for him, as he recollected in The Moral Commonwealth,
was ‘the fate of ideals in the course of social practice . . . the
conditions and processes that frustrate ideals or, instead, give
them life and hope’. This concern was central to all his projects.
The central feature of his projects and writings is his
deliberate interweaving of normative and analytical concerns.
Whatever he wrote displayed a distinctive combination of
empirical observation, explanation, philosophical awareness
and normative engagement. He ultimately came to call this
‘humanist science’. Even before he had the phrase, he had the
idea. The key to it was his long adhered-to conviction that
appreciation of the role and play of values and ideals in the
world is central to social understanding. What they are, what
they do, what threatens them, what protects and sustains them,
what enables them to flourish. That means acknowledging them
as proper objects of study, rather than mere epiphenomena of
whatever is thought really to matter. It also requires
identification of the values at stake in particular social processes,
practices and institutions; clarification of the nature of these
values; understanding what endangers them; and exploration of
the conditions in which they might thrive.
He was interested both in what would secure basic
conditions for the existence and survival of values and ideals,
and in what might count as, and be necessary for, their
flourishing. His early writings exposed recurrent obstacles to
the attainment of ideals, particularly recurring institutional
ones, and what might be needed to overcome them. His later
work explored conditions in which values, once secure, might
flourish and be encouraged. His commitment to honour both
realism and idealism was thoroughgoing. He was that rare but
distinguished type: a Hobbesian idealist, at once alert,
temperamentally and intellectually, to threat and to promise.
Selznick brought to this engagement with the fate of values a
remarkable range, variety and richness of intellectual resources,
from the social sciences, the humanities and, on occasion, world
religions. The labels didn’t matter much to him. He valued the
disciplines and the training, resources and focus they offered, but
was sceptical about the point of insisting on disciplinary
apartheid, or purity, for its own sake. In A Humanist Science he
recalled that the sharp disciplinary distinctions that mean so
much in the modern academy had no hold on its greatest
ancestors, discussion of whom enriches that book, and more
profoundly The Moral Commonwealth. Selznick favoured going
where the problem led, rather than where the discipline dictated.
Enriched by his erudition but not reducible to it, all his work
was spurred by what he identified as his ‘generalizing impulse’.
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Philip Selznick, professor emeritus of law and sociology
at University of California (UC) Berkeley, died on 12 June
2010. He was born in 1919. More than 70 of the years in
between were spent in fruitful engagement with large
questions of social, political and moral significance, and
a large part too in academic leadership, at once
intellectual and institutional. Martin Krygier1looks at
Selznick’s legacy.
The first stage of Selznick’s intellectual development began
before the Second World War, with an intense period in that
strangely fertile womb of academic (and literary) productivity,
the New York Trotskyist movement. From that engagement
came several writings read by a small number of clever would-
be, soon would-have-been, and then never-want-to-be
revolutionaries, including Daniel Bell, Lewis Coser, Martin
Diamond, Herbert Garfinkel, Nathan Glazer, Gertrude
Himmelfarb, Irving Kristol, Seymour Martin Lipset and Peter
Rossi. Out of it, too, came Selznick’s life-long concern with the
fate of ideals in the world. In one way and another, this concern
animated all his subsequent scholarly work.
In his early political essays and in his classic contribution to
the sociological theory of organisations and institutions (TVA
and the Grass Roots, 1947), he explored how organisational
realities tended to undermine even the finest ideals, unless
deliberate attempts were taken to counter and master them. He
then examined what successful attempts of this sort might
require (The Organizational Weapon, 1954; Leadership in
Administration, 1957) which involved not merely empirical
research and sociological explanation, but also led him to reflect
upon large questions of normative social and political theory, to
an extent uncommon in works of this kind at that time. He also
wrote, with Leonard Broom, a major text of general sociology
(Sociology, seven editions). These works had great influence and
probably remain those for which he is best known, which has
less to do with the quality of later work than with the less-
populated areas that he entered and the unfashionable character
of his developing intellectual commitments.
In his second period, beginning in the mid-1950s, Selznick
became one of the first, and one of very few, mainstream
American sociologists to engage with the study of law. He
became a founding and prominent member of the law and
society movement and published several important essays
(particularly ‘Sociology and natural law’, 1961) and books (Law,
Society and Industrial Justice, 1969; Law and Society in Transition:
Towards responsive law, 1978). These works were notable and
unusual for their explicit and pervasive interweaving of
descriptive, analytic, normative and policy-oriented concerns. In
particular Selznick sought to identify the character and some of
the basic ideals of legal ordering, sometimes manifest always at
least latent; their range of variation; and the conditions that
might allow them to be secured, and beyond that, to flourish. At
the same time he was active institutionally, founding the Law
and Society Center (1961), and later the unique Jurisprudence
and Social Policy programme in Boalt Hall Law School, at
UC Berkeley.
His third period, from the 1980s, coincided with his formal
retirement, and was more reflective than investigative, and more
wide-ranging in scale and scope than much of his earlier work.
Its centrepiece is his magisterial The Moral Commonwealth: Social
theory and the promise of community (1992), a work of social
philosophy (or philosophical sociology) of extraordinary range,
ambition, erudition and richness. The overarching concern of this
complex work of intellectual architecture is with the challenges
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Society and Industrial Justice not – spectacularly not – just about
industry and employment. There is always something more and
larger going on that lends depth, richness and complexity to each
of his works, and to the whole. In his case, it is a mistake to take
the title of a particular work as a summation of its significance or
implications. There is always more than one might expect inside.
Selznick’s writings manifest a way of thinking that is also a
way of feeling and of being: there are, of course, arguments and
evidence but there is also sensibility. It pervades his work and
lends it an identifiable tone and character. This appears in a kind
of pervasive judiciousness and thoughtfulness; a determination
to accommodate complexity and not pretend that realities and
choices are simpler or starker than they need be; in particular, an
ability to recognise the existence of tensions and dynamics in
social processes without apocalyptic overdramatisation of them.
He had a kind of allergic response to rhetorical shrillness. It
was not his style. One common ideological manifestation of
such shrillness is undifferentiating labelling of all social
relations as manifestations of, say, ‘power’, ‘domination’ or
some other all-encompassing epithet. Another is the assumption
that societies are riven with irreconcilable ‘contradictions’ that
threaten ‘crisis’. The first tendency encourages blindness to
complexity, variation, mixture, contexts. If all is domination,
then the important questions get shoved aside: what kind of
domination, with what sorts of consequences and what sorts of
differences are we talking about? These distinctions matter as
much to evaluation as they do to description and explanation.
The second tendency often leads to zero-sum
characterisations of the many continuities, overlaps and
interdependenc ies with which th e social world is full, in
dichotomous terms that suggest unavoidable and stark
opposition, incompatibility, often crisis. Selznick shared with
John Dewey, from whom he took the phrase (and much else) a
suspicion of ‘pernicious dualisms’ that he believed tended to
falsify such complex and interdependent realities as often as
they seemed to make for a spurious analytical clarity.
His own work, by contrast, exhibited that ‘high tolerance for
ambiguity’ that he knew was difficult to sustain but that he
commended. Tensions, he often recalled, are normal aspects of
social processes and of life. We often can and need to learn to
live with them, while recognising that they may not be resolved
or resolvable any time soon, or any time at all. We should not
rush to brand them as inescapable contradictions, whether
between self and other, public and private, civility and piety,
universal and particular, liberalism and community. A person of
Selznickian sensibility will be sensitive to empirical variation
and crucial distinctions; alert to the significance of adjectives as
much as nouns; be aware that very little that matters in social life
is ‘nothing but . . .’, or apt to be successfully resolved by a choice
between all and nothing; avoid the pseudo-drama of so many
ideological constructions and confrontations; be suspicious of a
quick fix. She will avoid intellectual habits that blur one’s vision,
even if they might quicken one’s pulse.
This scrupulous and nuanced sensibility is ev ident in
Selznick’s judgments of value and in his appraisal of facts.
Virtues, we learn, are typically mixed with corrupting vices;
vices often have (at least partially) redeeming virtues. It is rare
that we can fly over life’s predicaments ‘as the crow flies’, but
that doesn’t mean we’re stranded; we should endeavour to
navigate as best we can. If some aspects of modernity give us
reason for ‘hopeful sadness’, for example, both the adjective and
the noun matter. There are sources of hope as well as of sadness;
sometimes the same; sometimes one generates the other. Neither
should be thought a priori to cancel the grounds of the other.
Of course this rich stream of reflection and what one might
call wisdom, did not all happen at once. It is a long story. That
being so, given the range of Selznick’s interests and projects, it is
striking how much coherence there is among the themes that
connect them. However, while that coherence is always
important to recall, it should not be misconstrued. For if his
preoccupations, immediate aims, subjects and, indeed,
sensibility, have impressive continuities, they are also
impressively various and subject to development. The
coherence of his thought is complex, not that of someone with
just one thing to say. After all, the thoughts of someone who
keeps repeating himself might be called coherent. They are – it
is! – certainly consistent, but that would not necessarily be
praiseworthy – unless it was a very big thing being repeated.
Nor is simple consistency always a virtue. Trivial consistencies
are commonplace and consistent folly is also not rare. Selznick’s
coherence was not of those sorts. It combined a sustained range
and focus with equally sustained – to use a concept that he had
long used and theorised – integrity.
Integrity might well spur a change of mind or heart. It might
indeed be a mark of integrity to be open to change, even of some
of one’s deepest convictions. This, presumably, is what Keynes
had in mind in his famous response to an accusation of
inconsistency: ‘When the facts change, I change my mind. What
do you do, sir?’
In this, Selznick was with Keynes. He kept returning to a
number of related and large themes, to do with the fate of ideals in
the world, particularly in the modern world, and particularly to do
with the workings of large institutions, among them bureaucracies
and law. But he also kept thinking and rethinking his views,
refining them, elaborating them, exploring them in different
contexts. The scope of his interests, the focus of his passions, his
particular judgments and his public mood and posture, changed
considerably over the years. For what was constant in his work
was not a particular set of conclusions, but the integrity with
which he approached a significant range of problems.
Integrity is a significant term of art in Selznick’s thought,
applied to institutions, persons and communities. It is also an
aspect of his intellectual character. At one point in The Moral
Commonwealth, he quotes a passage from Bernard Williams
about personal integrity. Integrity on this understanding
presumes that:
the person in question has, as seriously as possible, tried to think
about the standards or the fundamental projects which are
sustaining him and her. If he has done that and if, in the light of
the thought he has displayed there, he comes out and does say, this
is what I do most fundamentally believe in, and this is what I am
going to do, then that person is displaying integrity, even though
you do not agree with whatever it is that is sustaining him.
That gets it just about right.
Selznick’s sustained intellectual productivity, combined
with the ease with which he moved between fields, may have
exacted a price in terms of reception of his ideas. Many people
who had been influenced by his early works in organisation
theory had no idea that he went on to spend over half his life
thinking about law, and not all sociologists of law had any idea
of other aspects of his work. Moreover, he came to conform less
and less to the hyper-specialised paradigms of the modern
academy. That is part of his charm to some of us, but it is not
readily emulated or transferred.
But perhaps I speak too soon. Paradoxically, Selznick’s
death seems to have re-awakened interest in his work. In 2010
Law and Social Inquiry published an extended and admiring
review essay by Paul van Seters of his last work, A Humanist
Science (Stanford UP, 2008). The Law and Society Association
(LSA) devoted a panel to ‘remembering Philip Selznick’, which
was the occasion of a remarkable and moving reminiscence by
his widow, Doris Fine. The International Association for the
Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy had a special
workshop on pragmatism and interactionism, to both of which
his contribution was considerable. A paper on his work was
invited for the panel. A special issue of UC Berkeley’s Boalt Law
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School online scholarly journal, Issues in Legal Scholarship, edited
by Jonathan Simon and devoted to Selznick’s work, is to appear
in 2012. The 2013 issue of the annual book series Research on the
Sociology of Organizations will deal with his contribution to
organisation theory. And the Centre for the Study of Law and
Society at UC Berkeley is building a website (to appear at
wwww.law.berkeley/selznick.htm), which will contain the
transcripts of interviews with Selznick by Roger Cotterrell, the
videotapes of eight interviews I conducted with him, papers
from the LSA panel and a range of other material.
And one remarkable new venture deserves to be quoted in
the description of its founder, since it will be of interest to many
involved in socio-legal studies generally as well as those with a
particular interest in Selznick.
Quid Pro Books is an independent academic press started by a law
professor at Tulane University in New Orleans who believes that
ebooks and print-on-demand paperbacks give a second life to
classic out of print books in law, sociology and history (as well as
all-new books). Within a year Quid Pro has published forty titles
and has become the ebook publisher of Harvard Law Review and
Stanford Law Review. Its new titles include Lawrence Friedman’s
The Human Rights Culture and Jerold Auerbach’s Brothers at
War. Republished classics feature such scholars as Jerome
Skolnick, Sanford Kadish, Stuart Scheingold, Kitty Calavita, Neil
Smelser, Jerome Carlin and G E White. In addition, Quid Pro is
bringing back several titles by Philip Selznick, to benefit his
scholarship fund at Berkeley, including TVA and the Grass Roots
(new foreword by Jonathan Simon) and, forthcoming, The
Organizational Weapon (new foreword by Martin Krygier).
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Notes
1 Martin Krygier is Gordon Samuels professor of law and social
theory, University of New South Wales, and adjunct professor in
the Regulatory Institutions Network, Australian National
University. His book, Philip Selznick: Ideals in the world, will be
published by Stanford University Press in April 2012. A shorter
version of this article appeared in the Law and Courts Newsletter of
the American Political Science Association 20:2.
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A collaborative research cluster from Germany has
recently been launched to attend to the emerging field of
‘global constitutionalism’. Maren Hofius summarises the
project’s aims and objectives.
The topic of global constitutionalism is being studied and
explored by an interdisciplinary project group whose
cooperation is based on theoretical triangulation, an innovative
method that reflectively combines heuristic concepts of global
governance, world society and international law. It thereby
seeks to unravel a paradox of international relations observed in
the twenty-first century: while the global space is increasingly
populated by ‘constitutionalised’ international organisations
and an ever-broader range of actors with different levels of
authority and legitimacy, the implementation of common rules,
contracts and resolutions is, at the same time, highly contested.
The project thus takes as its title ‘constitutionalism unbound’
(in the sense of unchecked or unregulated constitutionalism) – a
situation that offers both political uncertainty and opportunities.
To explore these opportunities, the project combines a number
of subprojects to address certain problems.
First, it seeks to study concrete situations where contestation
can be observed, i.e. where constitutional norms are a main
reference point for argument; second, it aims to reconstruct and
discuss constitutionalising processes of international
organisations in their context and with reference to normative
standards. In sum, the project observes a shift from globalised to
constitutionalised international relations. This shift raises the
question of corresponding quantitative and qualitative
transformation processes in global space, which are to be
reconstructed empirically, e.g. by examining
constitutionalisation with reference to environmental
conditions, success criteria and sustainability, but also discussed
normatively with references to fundamental norms,
organisational principles and standardised procedures.
The project is principally coordinated by Professor Antje
Wiener PhD AcSS (chair in political science and global
governance, University of Hamburg) and conducted together
with researchers clustered around Hamburg and Berlin. They
recently received start-up funding from the Hamburg Research
and Science Foundation for 18 months in order to develop a
longer-term project.
To date, a kick-off workshop took place in Hamburg in
November 2011 where researchers sought to find a common
understanding of the two core concepts ‘constitutionalisation’
and ‘constitutionalism’. The former has been identified as
denoting a process by which institutional arrangements in the
non-constitutional global realm have taken on a constitutional
quality. Constitutionalism, by contrast, represents a theoretical
approach, i.e. a framework which allows studying the
phenomenon of increasingly constitutionalised international
relations. Based on these definitions, another workshop in
February 2012 was concerned with developing a shared
conceptual basis for the subprojects of the cluster.
For more detailed information and a full list of the
participating institutions, please visit the project website
www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/institute/ipw/individualseiten/
wiener-antje/forschung/global-constitutionalism.
Social & Legal Studies 21(1)
The crown in a multicultural age: the changing epistemology
of (post)colonial sovereignty – M Valverde
Contextualised equality and the politics of legal mobilisation:
affirmative action in Northern Ireland – C Harvey
Taking exception: the cases of financial and urban governance
– R Lippert & J Williams
Are judicial approaches to adult social care at a dead end? –
H Carr & C Hunter
Auctoritatis interpositio. How systems theory deconstructs
decisionism – A Fischer-Lescano & R Christensen
Review essay: Europe’s last colony: 1918 Palestine’s Arab
majority, Jewish immigration, and the justice of founding
Israel outside Europe – R Wintemute
Social & Legal Studies 21(2) (special issue)
Repairing Historical Wrongs
Introduction – G Johnstone & J Quirk
Looking (further) backwards: transitional justice and socio-
economic wrongs – L Waldorf
‘Who’ll pay reparations on my soul?’: Compensation, social
control and social suffering – C Moon
Attaining ‘closure’ for historical wrongs by non-state actors:
the case of Japan and the ‘comfort women’ – S Suzuki
Is political apology a sorry affair? – J Thompson
Repairing historical wrongs and the end of empire – D Butt
Repairing historical wrongs: public history and transatlantic
slavery – J Oldfield
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project1on intent and forseeability
The purpose of this grant was to investigate the role that the
psychology of intent and foreseeability plays in people’s
everyday psychological constructs of guilt and responsibility in
child injury and infanticide cases, under the premises of
section 5 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004.
This large-scale study was prompted by the case of Rebecca
Lewis. She shocked the public by her inaction and, thus, guilt of
familial homicide under section 5 by allowing her baby son
Aaron Gilbert to be killed by her violent partner. Familial
homicide, the ‘cause or allow’ offence, is a relatively new offence
in the UK in which both caregivers can be prosecuted if one
caused a child’s death while the other allowed it by not
intervening. Rebecca Lewis’s inaction in this case was deemed to
have allowed baby Aaron’s death and thus, by law, she caused
his death equally in conjunction with her partner. This project
identified that this law could be difficult for jurors to consider
because psychologically ‘cause’ and ‘allow’ have different
meanings even though the outcome is the same for both by law
and the actions or the intention behind those actions are so
divergent. For Lewis there was no evidence of intent to harm,
but she claimed to have a misplaced hope that her partner’s
behaviour would improve.
Three questionnaire survey studies were designed to
measure the public’s attribution of guilt and responsibility and
intuitive sentencing, using a quantitative–qualitative mixed
method, to identify where individuals might diverge from legal
prescriptions for scenarios in which a woman in Rebecca
Lewis’s situation might be more or less psychologically
culpable. The three studies demonstrated that the psychological
reality of how people reason about intent behind actions or
inactions, or ascribe an ability to foresee consequences from
the woman’s perspective in the scenario, does not correspond
neatly to the legal logic defined by the cause or allow offence
under section 5.
Overall the findings showed that a better understanding of
how people anticipate outcomes that could have reasonably
been foreseen could provide a critical intersection for examining
responsibility, punishment and appropriate balanced
intervention or adjudication in child protection, in the context of
the cause or allow offence.
Study 1: Intentional Actions and Inactions found that the
presence or absence of intent in a legal scenario in a ‘cause or
allow’ case predicted the extent of the public’s intuitive
sentencing of the defendant when the defendant was the
mother’s partner. Regardless of whether the mother acted or did
not act, if her partner had intended to cause harm then he was
sentenced more harshly. Moreover, intentional allowers of harm
by inaction or non-intervention are punished more when
discovered than allowers who have no intent to harm.
Study 2: Intentions and Concordant and Discordant
Outcomes found that, regardless of whether the outcome
matched the defendant’s intent, that is, when the intent to cause
a negative or harmful outcome in fact led to a negative outcome
as opposed to a positive one, judgments of guilt and sentencing
punishments were harsher. However, guilt and sentencing were
found not necessarily to be psychologically the same.
Defendants contributing to accidental injuries, whether positive
or negative outcomes occur, are judged the least guilty in
comparison to intentional and unintentional positive and
negative outcomes in the absence of accidental contribution; but
they are sentenced relatively more harshly than when there is no
intent or accidental contribution for positive outcomes. The
defendant receiving the harshest judgments for guilt and
sentencing was the defendant who intended harm when in fact
a positive outcome resulted. In other words, intent trumps
outcome for guilt and sentencing, especially when thwarted.
Study 3: Witness Foresight and Reasonable Prevention
focused on the allower and her gender, relative to a male causer,
and how harshly people judged her in accordance with how
much abuse she had witnessed, or how much foreknowledge
she had relative to being aware of his propensity for abuse. In
terms of finding her not guilty of causing, but guilty of allowing,
participants opted for guilty of allowing or doubt 79 per cent of
the time, and innocent 21 per cent of the time. This finding was
reasonably consistent across all conditions regardless of
whether she had been an eye-witness to the abuse or not,
whether she knew her partner had a prior conviction or not, or
whether there was any evidence against her at all. These results
and an interdisciplinary discussion about foresight and the law
are now available in the e-Policy Focus Report: Foresight and
reasonable prevention in child protection contexts: the public’s
perspective (by M Cowley, C Beckett, B Esam, A Pote, L Wall and
P West, ESRC, available in spring 2012).
Note
Further outputs of ESRC Grant RES-000-22-3114 include: M Cowley,
‘The psychology of witness foresight in preventative intervention:
how the public perceive vulnerable adult and child cases’ (journal
article in preparation); M Cowley et al, ESRC Foresight Workshop
wwww.law.ox.ac.u.uk/conferences/csls_foresight/index.php;
M Cowley (2011) ‘Foresight, children, and the law’, Health Service
Executive Nurse Training, Department of Risk Management, Our
Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda; M Cowley (2010). ‘Lenses of
evidence: how juries reason about evidence’, KBW King’s Bench
Chambers legal practice guest speaker, Ashmolean Museum/
Worcester College, Oxford.
Journal of Law and Society (special issue 2012)
Material worlds: intersections of law, science,
technology and society
Introduction – A Faulkner, B Lange & C Lawless
The pragmatic sanction of materials: notes for an ethnography
of legal substances – J Lezaun
The regulation of nicotine in the UK: how nicotine gum came
to be a medicine, but not a drug – C Rooke, E Cloatre &
R Dingwall
The donor-conceived child's ‘right to personal identity’: the
public debate on donor anonymity in the UK –
I Turkmendag
A socio-legal analysis of an actor-world: the case of carbon
trading and the clean development mechanism – E Cloatre
& N Wright
Nanotechnology and the products of inherited regulation –
E Stokes
The emergence of biobanks in the legal landscape: towards a
new model of governance – E Rial-Sebbag & A Cambon-
Thomsen
The legal landscape for advanced therapies: material and
institutional implementation of European Union rules in
France and the UK – A Mahalatchimy, E Rial-Sebbag,
V Tournay & A Faulkner
Bodies of science and law: forensic DNA profiling, biological
bodies and biopower – V Toom
The materiality of what? – A Pottage
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International Journal of the Legal Profession: special issue in honour
of William Twining 18(1–2) 2011 on the theme of ‘Legal
education – past, present and future’, Avrom Sherr and David
Sugarman (eds). Contributors include: H W Arthurs, Anthony
Bradney, Ray Cocks, Fiona Cownie, Paul Maharg, Avrom Sherr,
Hilary Sommerlad, David Sugarman and William Twining.
wwww.tandfonline.com/loi/cijl20
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Transnational Environmental Law: call for papers – this new
journal is dedicated to the study of environmental law and
governance beyond the state. It approaches legal and regulatory
developments with an interest in the contribution of non-state
actors and an awareness of the multi-level governance context in
which contemporary environmental law unfolds. Editors: Thijs
Etty, VU University Amsterdam, and Veerle Heyvaert, London
School of Economics. Please see website for details.
wjournals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=TEL. .
Journal of Law and Courts: now open for submissions – please
visit the website for full details and submission guidelines.
wwww.jstor.org/page/journal/jlawcourts/forAuthor.html
Global Constitutionalism: call for papers – Cambridge
University Press has recently launched this journal. Editors:
Mattias Kumm, Anthony Lang, Miguel Maduro, Antje Wiener
and James Tully. See wjournals.cambridge.org/GlobCon.
Dissenting Judgments in the Law "3/: 3/16 /<2
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A team of expert contributors reassess 19 landmark cases from
different areas of the law, each of which had the potential for the
law to have developed in a markedly different direction. The
cases have been selected on account of their continued relevance
to the law today or the controversial nature of the majority’s
decision. A key feature of each case was a dissenting opinion
from a judge who thought that the law should develop in a
different direction. The aim of the contributors is to re-evaluate
important cases, such as Plessy v Ferguson (1896) and R v Brown
[1994], by assessing the merits of the judgments given, before
deciding whether the law would, in fact, have been better served
by following the dissenting opinion rather than that of the
majority of judges in the case.
Marital Agreements and Private Autonomy in Comparative
Perspective 33 32/@BJ>>
This book deals with a subject that has recently been the focus of
debate and law reform in many jurisdictions: how much scope
should spouses have to conclude agreements concerning their
financial affairs and under what circumstances should such
agreements be binding and enforceable? These marital
agreements include pre-nuptial, post-nuptial and separation
agreements. The book is the result of a British Academy-funded
research project which investigated and compared the relevant
law of 14 jurisdictions (including England and Wales and
Scotland) and has a chapter on the ‘English practitioner’s view’
and comparative analysis of the different matrimonial property
regimes and the rules on marital agreements. It provides a
comprehensive source of reference on ancillary
relief/matrimonial property and maintenance and the rules on
pre-nuptial, post-nuptial and separation agreements.
Integrating Socio-Legal Studies into the Law Curriculum
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This is an important new collection examining how socio-legal
studies and empirical legal research can be integrated into the
undergraduate law curriculum, looking at both core qualifying
subjects and standalone socio-legal modules, and considering
theoretical and methodological approaches combined with
practical examples.
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The third edition of this work on family law, comprising text,
cases and materials, provides not only an explication of legal
principle but also explores, primarily from a feminist
perspective, some of the assumptions about, and constructions
of, gender, sexual orientation, class and culture that underlie the
law. It examines the ideology of the family and, in particular, the
role of the law in contributing to and reproducing that ideology.
Structured around the themes of welfare, equality and family
privacy, the book aims to offer the benefits of a textbook while
also giving students a wide-ranging set of materials for
classroom discussion. As well as providing a firm grounding in
family law, the text sets the law in its social and historical
context and encourages a critical approach to the subject.
Not the Marrying Kind: A feminist critique of same-sex
marriage "71=://@93@$/:5@/D3!/1;7::/>
Not the Marrying Kind is a new and comprehensive exploration
of the contemporary same-sex marriage debates in several
jurisdictions including Australia, Canada, South Africa, the
United Kingdom and the United States. It departs from much of
the existing scholarship on same-sex marriage, which argues
either for or against marriage for same-sex couples. Instead, this
book begins with a critical analysis of the institution of marriage
itself (as well as separate forms of relationship recognition, such
as civil partnership, pacte civile de solidarité, domestic
partnership) and asks whether and how feminist critiques of
marriage might be applied specifically to same-sex marriage. In
doing this, the author combines the theories of second-wave
feminism with insights from contemporary queer theory.
Home Equity and Ageing Owners: Between risk and
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The growing use of housing equity to support a range of
activities and needs raises complex issues, particularly for older
owners. In an environment in which older owners are pushed
towards housing equity transactions to meet income and
welfare costs, they are required to make choices from a complex
and sometimes bewildering range of options. The transactions
which facilitate the use of home equity as a resource to spend in
later life – from trading-down and ordinary secured and
unsecured debt to targeted products including reverse/lifetime
mortgages, home reversion plans and sale-and-rentback
agreements – raise important legal and regulatory issues. This
book provides a contextual analysis of the financial transactions
that older people enter into using their housing equity.
Journal of Law and Society (forthcoming in 2012)
Whither the law and the law books? From prescription to
possibility – R Brownsword
‘I just wanted him to hear me’: sexual violence and the
possibilities of restorative justice – C McGlynn,
N Westmarland & N Godden
Share and share alike? Hedge funds, human rights, and owning
enterprise in Britain – by J Gray, D Bholat & A Dunn
Jurisdiction and scale: rent arrears, social housing, and human
rights – D Cowan, C Hunter & H Pawson
There’s nothing new in dying now: will welfare attorney
decision-making at end-of-life make a real difference? –
J Samanta
Beyond ‘constitutionalism beyond the state’ – G Anderson
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10—11 March 2012: University of Kent, Canterbury
This conference is aimed at all those who have an interest in critical
perspectives on current legal issues. This year’s conference is entitled
‘Equality – are we there yet?’ and will include a broad range of
panels. The aim is to explore critically whether or not current and
proposed legislation and legal systems achieve equality. For more
information visit: wwww.kentcls.org/.
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Please see website for details of this event and other training
opportunities at the National Centre for Research Methods.
wwww.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=3179
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Oriental and African Studies, London
Please see website for full details of dates remaining.
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23 March 2012: Chartered Accountants House, Dublin
Organised by the Irish European Law Forum. Please see website for
programme and booking details.
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29—30th March 201 2: School of Law, University of Leeds
The confirmed speakers are as follows: Roger Brownsword, KCL;
Hugh Beale, Warwick; David Campbell, Leeds; Hugh Collins, LSE;
Roger Halson, Leeds; Ethan Leib, Fordham; Jonathan Morgan,
Oxford; Linda Mulcahy, LSE; Peter Vincent-Jones, Leeds; John
Wightman, Kent Law School. Further details can be found at the
conference website wwww.law.leeds.ac.uk/research/events/the-
future-of-relational-contract.php.
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16—17 April 2012: British Library, Euston Road, London
Speakers include: Laurel Brake, Roy Greenslade, Tristram Hunt, John
Durham Peters, Geoffrey Robertson.
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This conference provides early career researchers with an opportunity
to engage in academic debate. wwww.iglrc.com
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20—21 April 2012: Centre for Housing Law, Rights and Policy,
School of Law, National University of Ireland, Galway
The conference will offer the opportunity to explore significant
contemporary issues in housing law, rights and policy from a
European and international perspective and includes the following
themes: housing and homelessness; international perspectives on
developments in housing law, rights and policy; impact of the UN
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on housing and
independent living; impact of the EU Charter of Rights and the Treaty
of Lisbon on housing, land and planning; recent developments in
EU/US mortgage law and policy; developments in the rented
housing sector in Europe; consumer protection and defining the
relationship between law, rights and policy in housing, land and
planning in the meta-regulatory era and public interest law and
housing rights. wwww.conference.ie
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Organised by Zhejiang Police College and Multicultural Association
of Law and Language. The theme is ‘multiculturalism, multimodality
and multidimensionality’. For more details, please email
elldmall@hotmail.com.hk.
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26 April 2012: Cardiff University School of Social Sciences
Keynote speaker: Professor Barbara Perry. This event is free but
registration is essential. Please contact Corinne Funnell for more
information efunnellcg@cardiff.ac.uk.
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26 April 2012: Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights,
University College Cork
Theme: ‘Transformation and reform: structures and mechanisms for
rights-based protections’. This conference is aimed at postgraduate
researchers working in the areas of criminal law, criminal justice and
human rights. Please see wwww.ucc.ie/en/ccjhr/news/.
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2 May 2012: Newcastle Law School
Conference organised by the Newcastle Forum for Human Rights and
Social Justice. Plenary speakers: Ian Leigh, Durham; Shaun Gregory,
Bradford; Tom Hickman, Blackstone Chambers; Tory Lavers,
Leicester. For more information, please visit the conference webpage.
wwww.ncl.ac.uk/nuls/research/conferences/hrrg/
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11 May 2012: Kingston Law School
Labour law faces increasing challenges in the light of the global
economic crisis. This event aims to explore current problems in labour
law at this crucial juncture. Are we witnessing the ‘death of labour
law’ as Harry Arthurs foresaw over a decade ago? This conference
organised by the Group for Employment Law and Policy invites
contributions from any area of labour law that may be relevant to this
theme. Please send an abstract of 200 words to the joint organisers,
Gwyneth Pitt eg.pitt@kingston.ac.uk and Michael Wynn
em.wynn@kingston.ac.uk by 30 March 2012.
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11 May 2012: Centre for East Asian Law, School of Orient al and
African Studies, London
Organisers: Carol Tan and Xu Ting. Please visit website for details.
wwww.soas.ac.uk/ceal/events/
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11—12 May 2012: Aberystwyth University
Sexual and gender-based violence against women (SGBV) is one of
the greatest threats to human rights in contemporary armed conflicts.
SGBV continues to be used in modern wars as a deliberate strategy
and illegitimate method of warfare, which poses serious threats to
women’s lives. Although international humanitarian law prohibits the
use of SGBV, the international community is confronted with the
reality of continuing ‘gender warfare’ and the challenge of ensuring
adherence to the rules of war by actors in armed conflicts. Where do
we go from here? Is the law adequate? How do we nurture respect
for the existing law? How can the situation of women in the
aftermath of conflict be addressed? How much can the law actually
achieve? Please see website for details and registration form.
wwww.aber.ac.uk/en/law-criminology/research/conferences/
womeninwarandatwar/
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18 May 2012: Wolfson College, Oxford
Since Edmund Burke coined the expression ‘the Fourth Estate’, the
media has been seen to play a crucial role in uncovering the truth and
holding the powerful to account. Today, the influence of
multinational media empires and the phone-hacking scandal have
seen the press become the focus of questions about accountability and
responsibility. Print journalism faces a crisis but also an opportunity
for self-reflection and reform. This event brings together media
experts, lawyers and policymakers to examine ongoing attempts to
devise a new framework for media regulation in the light of the
phone-hacking scandal and the competitive pressures of the evolving
new media landscape. wwww.fljs.org/events ephil.dines@fljs.org
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5—8 June 2012: Honolulu, Hawaii
This is the joint annual meeting of the Law and Society Association
and the Research Committee on Sociology of Law (International
Sociological Association) and is co-sponsored by the Canadian Law
and Society Association, the Japanese Association of Sociology of Law
and the SLSA. This year’s theme is: ‘Socio-legal conversations across a
sea of islands’. See the LSA’s website for details.
wwww.lawandsociety.org
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6—9 June 2012: La Jolla, California, USA
Theme: ‘Fresh waters from an old spring: the semiotics of restorative
justice, recognizing harms and healing communities anew with old
ways’. Conveners: Jack B Hamlin and Chandrika Kelso. Archivist:
Steven Fleisher. Contact: Anne Wagner at evalwagnerfr@yahoo.com.
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14—15 June 2011: International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Oñati
This Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the
Environment (GNHRE) seminar (chaired by Anna Grear, GNHRE
director) will bring together philosophers, lawyers, policymakers,
NGO staff and activists in a search for a new conceptualisation of the
relationship between human and environmental rights, blending
theory, law and praxis in fresh and productive ways. Contact: Anna
Grear eanna.grear@uwe.ac.uk.
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15—17 June 2012: Newcastle University
Keynote Speakers: Helen Berry, Newcastle University; Joseph
Bristow, University of California; Cora Kaplan, Queen Mary,
University, London; Richard C Sha, American University. Key
conference questions: How were the complex relations between
sexual licence, pleasure and coercion understood, represented and
negotiated during the long nineteenth century? How did censorship
and obscenity laws shape the literary/cinematic/theatrical landscape?
How were sexually controversial texts produced, circulated,
preserved and consumed? Enquiries to Ella Dzelzainis at
eella.dzelzainis@ncl.ac.uk.
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21—22 June 2012: Kent Law School, Canterbury
Opening keynote: ‘Translation and the new global order’ by Professor
Michael Cronin, Dublin City. Please see website for full programme.
wwww.kent.ac.uk/law/cecl/News.html
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26—28 June 2012: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
Plenary speakers include: Peter Andreas; Margaret Beare; Roger
Cotterrell; Bill Gilmore; Chris Harding; Alison Liebling; Dario
Melossi; David Nelken; Michael O’Kane; Mark Pieth; Robert Reiner;
Richard Sparks; John Spencer; Takis Tridimas; John Vervaele. Please
visit website for details. wevents.sas.ac.uk/support-
research/events/view/10925?
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27 June 2012: School of Law, University of Leeds
Hosted by the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, University of
Leeds. Since the late 1980s, the private sector’s role in the delivery of
criminal justice services has expanded in terms of its reach and
significance and government plans mean that it is set to expand still
further. This timely conference will have a clear policy focus and
draw together policymakers and representatives of private, statutory
and voluntary sector organisations. wwww.law.leeds.ac.uk/
research/events/private-sector-involvement-in-criminal-justice.php
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28—29 June 2012: University College Dublin
Theme: ‘Economy, crime and punishment’. Attendance is free but
please register in advance via email ecriminology@ucd.ie. 300-word
abstracts should be emailed to the same address by 30 March 2012.
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The session on ‘New ethnographies of crime and justice’ will present
new ethnographic research about crime and criminal justice. It is
hoped that a side event will be arranged where a larger number of
participants will present ethnographic papers and reflections on
professional practice. For more information see,
wconference.acspri.org.au/index.php/rc33/2012/index.
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10—13 July 2012: Durham, United Kingdom
Theme: ‘Entering the mainstream: clinic for all’. This event will ask
and attempt to answer the following questions. Clinic for all – in
whose interest? Clients, the profession or students? Who leads?
Students, the profession or academics? Should clinic integrate into
traditional legal teaching? What is the evidence that clinic works?
What are the limitations of clinical teaching? Can clinic teach the law
or just skills? The relationship between lawyering skills instruction
elsewhere in the curriculum and the clinical experience; what should
be the role of classroom instruction in the clinical experience? For
further information, please visit wwww.ijcle.com.
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1—4 August 2012: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Objectives: to provide a meeting place for the various research
committees, working groups, and thematic groups; to develop a
socially significant theme involving public actors and to which
different areas of sociology can contribute; to hold the interim
Research Council business meeting. See wwww.isa-sociology.org/
buenos-aires-2012/.
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29—31 August 2012: University of Liverpool
Seventh annual joint symposium organised by the University of
Liverpool Management School and Keele University Institute for
Public Policy and Management. This year’s theme is ‘Ethnographic
horizons in times of turbulence’. Full details: wwww.liv.ac.uk/
managementschool/ethnography_conference/2012_symposium.htm.
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An international conference with presentations from leading
academics, policymakers and practitioners. Please see website for
details: wjcfj.ie/news.html. Call closes: 13 April 2012.
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12—14 September 2012: Magdalen College, Oxford
The Legal Services Research Centre conference brings together
leading academics, policy officials, practitioners and legal service
administrators from around the world to present research on legal
services and access to justice policy. Further details can be obtained
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James W. Williams
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On the Right of Exclusion
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Bas Schotel
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Feminist Perspectives on
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Genocide, State Crime
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Online Child Sexual Abuse
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Elena Martellozzo
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Carl Schmitt
Law as Politics, Ideology and Strategic Myth
Michael G. Salter
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March 2012: 312pp
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Jacques Derrida:
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Jacques de Ville
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