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Fiduciaries of Humanity: How International Law Constitutes Authority Criddle,  Fox-Decent 9780199397921 Fiduciaries of Humanity: How International Law Constitutes Authority discusses a new model of public international law where individuals as well as states are proper subjects, while human dignity has come to rival state autonomy as an organizing principle of international law. Translating the Social World for Law: Linguistic Tools for a New Legal Realism Mertz 9780199990559 Translating the Social World for Law: Linguistic Tools for a New Legal Realism provides specific examples of difficulties facing interdisciplinary communication between law and social science in an era where the legal academy is once again turning to social science. Institutionalizing State Responsibility: Global Security and UN Organs Proulx 9780199680399 Institutionalizing State Responsibility: Global Security and UN Organ investigates the contributions of the General Assembly, International Court of Justice...

STILL TIME TO SUBMIT!  Juris Diversitas will accept submissions until the end of March. Contact Prof. Olivier Moréteau at moreteau@lsu.edu with any question.   JURIS DIVERSITAS 5 th  ANNUAL CONFERENCE July 10-12, 2017 Lyon, France In partnership with EM Lyon & Université Jean Moulin Law & Food La cuisine juridique The Theme: For its 5 th  Annual Conference, Juris Diversitas revisits its culinary origins, expressed in the logo. The links between law and food are as old as the concept of law. Babylon, Egypt, Greece, and Rome cared about access to water resources and food, whether it came to trade or protection. Since times immemorial, Bhutan makes sure every citizen has access to a minimal acreage of land to secure food for the family. Whilst religions multiplied food prohibitions and prescriptions, customs redistributed land, shared its occupancy in creative ways, or favored communal property so that everyone had access to food. Laws have multiplied to facili...

Special Issue - Legal Bodies: Corpus/Persona/Communitas We are pleased to offer you free access* to the latest Special issue from Law & Literature on 'Legal Bodies'.  Read the Special Issue here. Law & Literature  is the leading interdisciplinary law journal directed to law and the arts. This issue investigates the way literary and artistic texts interrogate the notion of 'personhood', focussing on both historical and contemporary (re-) conceptualizations of the notion within the domain of law. Articles include:  “Sua cuique persona?” A Note on the Fiction of Legal Personhood and a Reflection on Interdisciplinary Consequences  Jeanne Gaakeer Braying Howling, Growling for Justice: Animal Personhood in Law, Literature, and Cinema   Yasco Horsman The Turn to Passion: Has Law and Literature become Law and Affect?   Greta Olson Corpus Juris, Habeas Corpus, and the “Corporeal Turn” i...

Legitimate Expectations in the Common Law World Edited by Matthew Groves and Greg Weeks The recognition and enforcement of legitimate expectations by courts has been a striking feature of English law since R v North and East Devon Health Authority; ex parte Coughlan [2001] 3 QB 213.  Although the substantive form of legitimate expectation adopted in Coughlan was quickly accepted by English courts and received a generally favourable response from public law scholars, the doctrine of that case has largely been rejected in other common law jurisdictions. The central principles of Coughlan have been rejected by courts in common law jurisdictions outside the UK for a range of reasons, such as incompatibility with local constitutional doctrine, or because they mark an undesirable drift towards merits review. The sceptical and critical reception to Coughlan outside England is a striking   contrast to the reception the case received within the UK. This book provides a detailed sc...

Call for Paper Extended until February 28 JURIS DIVERSITAS 5 th ANNUAL CONFERENCE July 10-12, 2017 Lyon, France In partnership with EM Lyon & Université Jean Moulin Law & Food La cuisine juridique The Theme: For its 5 th Annual Conference, Juris Diversitas revisits its culinary origins, expressed in the logo. The links between law and food are as old as the concept of law. Babylon, Egypt, Greece, and Rome cared about access to water resources and food, whether it came to trade or protection. Since times immemorial, Bhutan makes sure every citizen has access to a minimal acreage of land to secure food for the family. Whilst religions multiplied food prohibitions and prescriptions, customs redistributed land, shared its occupancy in creative ways, or favored communal property so that everyone had access to food. Laws have multiplied to facilitate food trade, security, safety, traceability, and also to promote and protect food and wine production, using trademarks and geographic...

We invite you/your research students to submit a paper to the 6th Annual International Conference on Law, Regulations and Public Policy (LRPP 2017) which will be held on 5 th - 6 th June 2017 in Singapore. The co-Program Chairs are Dr. Suresh V Nadagoudar, Bangalore University, India and Prof. K.C. Sunny,   University of Kerala, India and the Editor-In-Chief is Prof. Tony Carty, The University of Hong Kong. The extended full paper submission deadline is on 10 th February 2017. Hope that provides adequate time for you to complete the paper submission. If you need more time, please let us know and we will consider on a case by case basis for an extended deadline. LRPP 2017 Highlights: !P          Workshop on !§The Climate Future of Law. How will Climate Change Affect the Future Development of the Cognate Areas of Law, Specifically the Law of Property, Contract and Tort! ‥  by Prof. Paul Babie, The University of Adelaide, Australia. !P...

JOB OFFER – VISITING LECTURER  During the Spring Semester of this academic year (2016-2017), the DISTU Department of the University of Tuscia, in its effort to promote the internationalisation of the legal studies, will offer a course on “Civil Law and Common Law Systems: Convergences and Divergences” as part of its Programme in Law.  The course – open to the attendance of undergraduate and doctoral students – will consist of 6 lectures, each one lasting 3 hours, to be held in English, preferably in three consecutive weeks, in the period March-April 2017. The DISTU Department seeks to appoint a foreign (non-Italian) visiting scholar, who will be responsible for the delivery of the course, as well as for the evaluation of the short essays that students will elaborate during the course in order to obtain the certificate and the 10 credits provided for the course. No more than 20 students will attend the course.  The Department has allocated up to a maximum of € 3,000.00 (re...