CFP: The Body and Human Rights: A Symposium to be Held at Friends House, Kings Cross, London, February 12, 2018 @Bruneluni @DimitriosGian

From the mailbox (via the ever-vigilant Thom Giddens!):

 CALL FOR PAPERS
 The Body and Human Rights

A symposium to be held at
Friends House, 173-177 Euston Rd, Kings Cross, London NW1 2BJ on Monday 12 February, 2018

 Hosted by Brunel University London's Global Lives Research Centre, Knowing Our  Rights research project, and Britain in Europe think tank.
Convened by Dimitrios Giannoulopoulos and Meredith Jones
 In recent decades the body has become a major area of research across many disciplines, especially in the arts and social sciences. Feminist scholars have made important interventions in the ways that bodies are represented, managed, regulated, treated medically, and modified. Simultaneously, human rights scholars have engaged with challenging questions of how the human body should be legally understood and defined, and what may legitimate the State to become involved with individual choices about what to do with one's body (or how individuals might protect their autonomy from state invasions). This symposium will draw together these two areas. We invite scholars from any discipline to submit abstracts for 15-minute papers that address the body and human rights. Topics may include (but are by no means limited to):

Refugee Bodies and Borders
Transgender Issues
Abortion / Contraception
Body Modifications
Healthcare / Surgery
Euthanasia
Slavery
Egg harvesting / sperm donation
Incarceration
Torture
 Please send titles and brief abstracts for consideration to meredith.jones@brunel.ac.uk by Wednesday 10 January.

CFP: Journal of the Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies

From the mailbox:

2018 – Call for Papers

The Journal of the Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies (JOxCSLS) is currently calling for papers for 2018.  The JOxCSLS is an international online and open access peer reviewed journal established and edited by graduate research students of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford.

Deadline for submissions to next issue: 18 February 2018.

The JOxCSLS welcomes submissions in the following categories:

1.      Academic articles: between 5,000 and 7,500 words (footnotes included);

2.      Law and Society Today: 2,000 words on the socio-legal relevance of a topical issue or event;

3.      Socio-Legal Objects: 2,000 words on socio-legal observations related to or inspired by visual arts, music, architecture, or everyday objects;

4.      Wire from the Field: 2,000 words on experiences of socio-legal fieldwork or methodological issues;

5.      Book Reviews: up to 1,500 words on recent monographs or edited volumes of relevance to Socio-Legal Studies.

All submissions should have clear relevance to the field of Socio-Legal Studies broadly construed. Please refer to the current issue and online archive for examples of the types of papers published by the JOxCSLS.

Please refer to our authors’ guidelines when preparing your submission.  We regret that we are unable to accept submissions that do not meet the guidelines.

Papers should be submitted through this form.

Thinking of submitting an article but not sure if it would be a good fit? Send us an email at: journal@csls.ox.ac.uk and we’ll be happy to discuss it with you.

Annual Comparative Law Works-in-Progress Workshop, 23-24 February 2018, Princeton University: Extended Deadline: Announcement and CFP

From the mailbox:

Annual Comparative Law Work-in-Progress Workshop

23-24 February 2018

Princeton University

EXTENDED DEADLINE: Announcement and Call for Papers

Co-Organized and Co-Hosted by Kim Lane Scheppele (Princeton University), Jacqueline Ross (University of Illinois College of Law), and Jacques DeLisle (University of Pennsylvania Law School)

Co-sponsored by Princeton University, the University of Illinois College of Law, the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and the American Society of Comparative Law

We invite all interested comparative law scholars to consider submitting a paper to the next annual Comparative Law Work-in-Progress Workshop, which will be held February 23-24, 2018 at Princeton University. 

            Interested authors should submit papers to Kim Lane Scheppele at kimlane@princeton.edu.  We have extended the deadline and ask for papers to submitted by January 8, 2018.  We will inform authors of our decision by January 20.   Participants whose papers have been accepted should plan to arrive in Princeton by Thursday night on February 22 and to leave on Saturday afternoon or Sunday morning.   

The annual workshop continues to be an important forum in which comparative law work in progress can be explored among colleagues in a serious and thorough manner that will be truly helpful to the respective authors.   "Work in progress" means scholarship that has reached a stage at which it is substantial enough to merit serious discussion and critique but that has not yet appeared in print (and can still be revised after the workshop, if it has already been accepted for publication.)   It includes law review articles, book chapters or outlines, substantial book reviews, and other appropriate genres.

We ask for only one contribution per author and also ask authors to limit their papers to 50 pages in length, or, if the paper (or book chapter) is longer, to indicate which 50 pages they would like to have read and discussed. 

            Our objective is not only to provide an opportunity for the discussion of scholarly work but also to create the opportunity for comparative lawyers to get together for two days devoted to nothing but talking shop, both in the sessions and outside. We hope that this will create synergy that fosters more dialogue, cooperation, and an increased sense of coherence for the discipline.

The participants in the workshop will consist of the respective authors, commentators, and faculty members of the host institutions.  The overall group will be kept small enough to sit around a large table and to allow serious discussion.  The papers will not be presented at the workshop. They will be distributed well in advance and every participant must have read them before attending the meeting.  Each paper will be introduced and discussed first by two commentators before opening the discussion to the other workshop participants.  Each of the authors selected for the workshop is expected to have read and to be prepared to discuss each of the papers selected.  The author of each paper will be given an opportunity to respond and ask questions of his or her own.  There are no plans to publish the papers. Instead, it is up to the authors to seek publication if, and wherever, they wish.  The goal of the workshop is to improve the work before publication. 

            The Workshop will be funded by the host school and by the American Society of Comparative Law. Authors of papers and commentators will be reimbursed for their travel expenses and accommodation up to $600, by either by the American Society of Comparative Law or Princeton University, in accordance with the ASCL reimbursement policy (as posted on its webpage.)  We ask that authors inquire into funding opportunities at their home institutions before applying for reimbursement by the ASCL or by the Princeton University.

In this cycle of our annual workshop, we are excited to welcome our newest co-organizer, Professor Jacques DeLisle, Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and we bid a fond farewell to Professor Maximo Langer of the UCLA School of Law, with whom we have greatly enjoyed co-hosting many meetings of this annual workshop series.   

CFP December 10, 2017: Legality/Illegality: Rules, Regulations, and Resistance @DMUHeadLMS @dmuleicester

News of an interesting event, March 1, 2018:

ABSTRACTS of 250 words can be sent to lms18conference@gmail.com by 10th December 2017

Eventbrite link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/legalityillegality-rules-regulations-and-resistance-tickets-39088380398

Fees - £75 full ticket, £35 postgraduate/PhD ticket ..... lunch provided

Legality/Illegality: 

rules, regulations and resistance 

1^st March 2018 (10am-6pm)

Leicester Media School

Head - Professor Jason Lee

‘If you and I are liable to be prosecuted, fined and perhaps imprisoned,

for doing or failing to do something, we ought to be able …

to find out what it is we must or must not do on pain of criminal penalty’

(Tom Bingham, The Rule of Law, 2010)

‘There's one law for the Rich and another for the Poor’

(Traditional Utterance)

Conference Correspondence to:

lms18conference@gmail.com

Venue:

De Montfort University,

3^rd Floor, Clephan Building

Bonners Lane

LE1 9BH

Organisers:

Stuart Price and Fernanda Amaral, Media Discourse Group, LMS

Keynotes on:

Brazil – ‘Favela Media Activism: the ‘breakdown’ of law and the rise of citizen power’ Leo Custodi, University of Helsinki

Leo Custodi is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Social Research, University of Tampere, Finland, and conducts research on media activism and interdisciplinary research into social movements: his most recent book is Favela Media Activism

Catalonia – ‘Damage to Catalonia? The role of state power from May 1937 to October 2017’ Stuart Price, De Montfort, Media Discourse Group

Stuart Price is Chair of the Media Discourse Group, LMS

Description of the event

This peer-reviewed Conference examines the ways in which various types of human expression and activity (economic, cultural, and political) are influenced, both by popular notions of legitimacy (combining our understanding of everyday normative standards with an often-imprecise sense of what is actually lawful/unlawful), and by the actual sanctions and/or rights enshrined within existing legal systems and forms of precedence (operating at the national and/or supranational/transnational level).

In our Call for Papers, we welcome critical overviews of the relationship between legality and illegality (i.e. theoretical interventions that address the conceptual and practical interdependence of these terms, under the general rubric of ‘the law’), the alteration over time of notions of legality (where, for instance, an activity once thought legitimate may lose that status, and vice versa), specific case-studies of public controversies, the public mediation of the legal system or of law enforcement (through, for example, cinematic or televisual texts), the fascist Right’s attempt to manipulate liberal notions of freedom of speech, illicit state surveillance of dissenting individuals and groups, and the debate over ‘states of exception’.

Specific fields of enquiry and useful topics may include but are not confined to the following:

Performance rights and intellectual ownership within the ‘neo-liberal’ work environment

Freedom of speech, violence and anti-fascist activity

Questions over the obligation of news organisations to pursue the truth in a ‘post-truth’ politics

The ‘moral right’ to break or disregard oppressive laws

Arguments over the legalisation of drugs

The historical reconstitution of the law

Questions of sexuality and the state

Transnational legal obligations and Brexit

The Dance Culture and ‘illegal’ or non-commercial parties

Issues in investigative journalism

Fan adaptations of copyrighted texts

Transnational, national or region-specific events that test the parameters of legality