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A new special issue of Global Jurist has just been published: this special issue collects some of the most interesting papers presented during the conference: "Law and Boundaries 2014". Click here for the table of content of this issue.

Stephen Thomson, The Nobile Officium:   The Extraordinary Equitable Jurisdiction of the Supreme Courts of Scotland An ambitious new text has just been published on the nobile officium – the extraordinary equitable jurisdiction of the Supreme Courts of Scotland.   The author, Stephen Thomson, spoke about this unusual jurisdiction at the conference “Filling the Gaps:   The Study of Judicial Creativity and Equity in Mixed Jurisdictions and Beyond” at the University of Catania in May 2013, co-organised by the World Society of Mixed Jurisdiction Jurists. The nobile officium enables the Supreme Courts of Scotland to (i) supply a legal norm where an existing norm is deficient, unavailable or absent, or (ii) provide alleviation where the application of an existing norm would be unduly excessive, oppressive or burdensome.   The jurisdiction has found application across broad areas of civil and criminal jurisdiction, and continues to form an important aspect of procedural l...

The Society of Legal Scholars invites applications from members for the editorship of its prestigious journal  Legal Studies . The Society is looking for an editorial team or individual editor who can build on the success of both the present and past editors. The editors are ex officio members of the Society’s Council and Executive Committee and are appointed for five years. The current editors, Professors Imelda Maher, Blanaid Clarke, Fiona de Londras and Colin Scott have indicated their wish to stand down by September 2016, allowing a handover period to ensure a smooth transition so the new editor or editorial team can take responsibility for the first issue of 2017. The journal is in a healthy position: competition for space in the journal is intense, with a large number of high quality submissions, and it has one of the biggest print-runs of UK academic law journals.  The Society is also well served by its current publishers, Wiley-Blackwell. It now has an  Internatio...

Turin, 16-17 October 2015 Urban Africa Economy, populations, cultures  Call for papers  The Centre for African Studies (CSA) and the Association for African Studies in Italy (ASAI), in collaboration with the Department of Cultures, Politics and Society of the University of Turin and the Department of Architecture and Design of the Polytechnic University of Turin, organize an interdisciplinary conference on “Urban Africa” See the call for papers at  http://urbanafrica.it  and download in English from this link . 

John Cairns (Edinburgh)'s  Codification, Transplants and History: Law Reform in Louisiana (1808) and Quebec (1866)  (The Lawbook Exchange, 2015) is now available: When Louisiana enacted its Digest of the Civil Laws in 1808 and Quebec its Civil Code of Lower Canada in 1866, both jurisdictions were in a period of transition economic, social and political. In both, the laws had originally been transplanted from European nations whose societies were in many ways different from theirs. This book offers the first systematic and detailed exploration of the two new codes in light of social and legal change. Cairns examines the rich, complex, and varying legal cultures French, Spanish, Civilian and Anglo-American on which the two sets of redactors drew in drafting their codes. He places this examination in the context surrounding each codification, and the legal history of both societies. Cairns offers a detailed analysis of family law and employment in the two codes, showing how their...