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Law in the Time of Oxymora A Synaesthesia of Language, Logic and Law By Rostam J. Neuwirth What do different concepts like true lie, bad luck, honest thief, old news, spacetime, glocalization, symplexity, sustainable development, constant change, soft law, substantive due process, pure law, bureaucratic efficiency and global justice have in common? What connections do they share with innumerable paradoxes, like the ones of happiness, time, globalization, sex, and of free will and fate? Law in the Time of Oxymora provides answers to these conundrums by critically comparing the apparent rise in recent years of the use of rhetorical figures called "essentially oxymoronic concepts" (i.e. oxymoron, enantiosis and paradoxes) in the areas of art, science and law. Albeit to varying degrees, these concepts share the quality of giving expression to apparent contradictions. Through this quality, they also challenge the scientific paradigm rooted in the dualistic thinking and binary

Normative Pluralism and Human Rights Social Normativities in Conflict Edited by Kyriaki Topidi The complex legal situations arising from the coexistence of international law, state law, and social and religious norms in different parts of the world often include scenarios of conflict between them. These conflicting norms issued from different categories of ‘laws’ result in difficulties in describing, identifying and analysing human rights in plural environments.  This volume studies how normative conflicts unfold when trapped in the aspirations of human rights and their local realizations. It reflects on how such tensions can be eased, while observing how and why they occur. The authors examine how obedience or resistance to the official law is generated through the interaction of a multiplicity of conflicting norms, interpretations and practices. Emphasis is placed on the actors involved in raising or decreasing the tension surrounding the conflict and the implications that the confli

CALL FOR PAPERS: FOOD LAW: A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE XXV BIENNIAL COLLOQUIUM OF THE ITALIAN ASSOCIATION OF COMPARATIVE LAW (AIDC) UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   MAY 23-25, 2019 aidc.parma2019@gmail.com DEADLINE JANUARY 7, 2019 Parma – Teatro Farnese The Italian Association of Comparative Law (AIDC) opens an international Call for Papers on the subject FOOD LAW: A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE I.                     CALL FOR PAPERS The colloquium intends to put the focus, from a comparative perspective , on the following topics to which a specific session will be devoted: 1.       Models and institutions for agri-food law 2.       Food culture and its relationship with food regulation   3.       Agri-food chain and markets 4.       Origins, denominations, IP Rights: Treaties and transplants 5.       Controls in international trade: sovereignty, diversity, uniformity, barriers 6.       Food education/Food disorders 7.       Animal rights 8.       Food and multiculturality (Religious constraints, veg

CALL FOR PAPERS JURIS DIVERSITAS 6 th GENERAL CONFERENCE 15- 17 April 2019 Potchefstroom, South Africa Faculty of Law In partnership with Faculty of Law, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa http://jurisdiversitas.blogspot.com/ and https://www.facebook.com/JurisDiversitas/ Law, Roots & Space The Theme: A couple of lawyers’ old friends: ‘Sources’ and ‘Jurisdictions’. In their parlance, these notions are often associated to modern, ‘positive’ law. The idea of ‘legal formants’ has been introduced to complete the picture, flexibilising it, making it more accurate, nuanced, realistic; an idea associated to comparative, socio-legal, anthropologic studies. With ‘Roots’ and ‘space’ geographers, historians, political scientists get involved. These are certainly less frequent notions in legal circles: we may still wish to make friends with them, to enrich our perception of legal phenomena. ‘ Roots ’ is often associated to history of law and related discourses – if legal form