Dear Colleague, Please ensure that the following information is distributed to members of the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) in your law school:
1) Bar - Joint Academic Stage Board Notice re. new JASB Handbook. Deadline for comments: 15.01.2010;
2) Middlesex University - One Day Workshop 18.01 2010 Contract Labour: Beyond Self Regulation; 3) University of Westminster 22.01.2010 One day Conference: 9.30-5.00 After Guantanamo Bay: Perspectives on the War on Terror;
4) University of Kent, Medway Campus, 13.01.2010, Saturday Conference, ‘Privacy and the Individual’;
5) 16.04.2010 XVth Competition Law Scholars Forum Workshop To be held at the Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels Call for Papers deadline: 29.01 2010 £5000 Research Fellowships;
6) The Central European University, in cooperation with the Mental Disability Advocacy Center - 2 week summer school on “Mental Disability Law in Practice”. 19-30.07.2010;
7) The 9th International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law (IRSL 2010) 3-6.09.2010 - Pozna? "Legal Rules, Moral Norms AND Democratic Principles";
8) CALL FOR PAPERS A special issue of the International Journal for the semiotics of Law,
TRANSPARENCY, CONTROL AND POWER: ISSUES IN LEGAL SEMIOTICS. Deadline for Abstracts: 01/05/2010;
9) University of Southampton Postgraduate Research Studentships available Closing date: 12.02.2010. ******************************************************** ************************************************** 1) As you may be aware, the newly constituted Joint Academic Stage Board met for the first time in December. At this meeting, the implementation of the new JASB Handbook was discussed and the Board would now like to invite comments,especially from the Associations, with a view to finalising it for use early in the new year.
The following has now been placed on the Bar Standards Board website (www.barstandardsboard.org.uk) and can be found by selecting ‘Education & Training’ from the main menu, followed by ‘Academic Stage’ and ‘Joint Academic Stage Board’. We would be extremely grateful if you could bring this to the attention of all SLS members. The deadline for comments is the 15th January 2010.
Joint Academic Stage Board *************************************************** ****************************** 2) Contract Labour: Beyond Self Regulation Hendon Campus, Middlesex University, London
One Day Workshop, 10.00-5.00, Monday, January 18th 2010.
The first in a series of ESRC funded seminars will take place at Middlesex and will be looking at the changing employment relationship and attempts at regulation. The series consists of three workshops on Contract Labour, Migration and Private Equity with a final workshop for unions and academics to identify future labour research initiatives in these areas.
For further information, a programme, speakers and booking, please contact either Prof Joshua Castellino, J.Castelino@mdx.ac.uk , Elizabeth Cotton, E.Cotton@mdx.ac.uk, Prof Martin Upchurch, M.Upchurch@mdx.ac.uk or Prof Richard Crouch, R.Crouch@mdx.ac.uk . **************************************************** ************************************************** 3) After Guantanamo Bay: Perspectives on the War on Terror
University of Westminster Fyvie Hall, 309 Regent Street London W1B 2UW
Friday 22nd January 2010 9:30-17:00
The one-day conference marks the first anniversary of the order to close Guantanamo Bay and seeks to re-evaluate international, regional and national responses to terrorism in order to assess the question of how to address international terrorism. In particular the conference aims to examine the legacy of Guantanamo Bay from legal and political perspectives and to discuss the future direction(s) of the war on terror. This includes topics such as the nexus between human rights and security, the use of emergency powers and the rule of law, accountability for treatment of detainees and rendition and other issues related to the theme of the conference, e.g. what role, if any, does law have in the war on terror? If so, what law applies? If not, does the war on terror represent a separation of law and politics?
We are pleased to welcome Clare Algar, Executive Director of Reprieve (www.reprieve.org.uk), Carla Ferstman, Director of Redress (www.redress.org) and Jamil Dawkar, Human Rights Director of the American Civil Liberties Union (www.aclu.org) as plenary speakers. There are three panels addressing the theme of the conference: ‘International Law and the ‘War on Terror’: Application and implications’; ‘Assessing the Legacy of Guantanamo Bay’ and ‘The ‘War on Terror’: Domestic and regional implications’.
Attendance is free, but places are limited. RSVP to Dr Emma McClean E.McClean@westminster.ac.uk ************************************************** ************************************************** 4) Saturday 13 February 2010. Conference, ‘Privacy and the Individual’ Kent Law School, University of Kent, Medway Campus, Chatham, Kent.
Confirmed speakers: Sir David Eady (Mr Justice Eady), High Court Judge, Queen’s Bench division, Glenda Cooper, journalist, Maria Drakopoulou, Kent Law School, Alan McKenna, Kent Law School, John Fitzpatrick, Kent Law School.
Further information from: Lesley Phippen (l.phippen@kent.ac.uk), Eleanor Curran (e.a.curran@kent.ac.uk) or Sarah Slowe (s.e.slowe@kent.ac.uk)
Students are free and others £25 for the day. ********************************************** ********************************************** 5) Please see attached CLaSF call for papers re workshop on Due Process and Innovation in EU Competition Law to be held in Brussels on 16 April 2010. This is an incredibly important and topical theme, and we look forward to hearing from any interested parties with abstracts/applications by no later than 29 January 2010. As noted, we hope to be in a position to offer up to 5 scholarships to PG students/academics, who are interested in applying for scholarships and fulfil the relevant criteria. Please pass this Call to any other thrid parties who you think may be interested in applying for a scholarship and/or submitting an abstract- please bear in mind the tight deadline. In early February, decisions on successful abstracts/applicants will be made and the outline programme published, at which stage we will be publicising the event again and looking forward to hearing from members (corporate or individual) who are interested in attending the event. **************************************************** **************************************************** 6) Summer School on Mental Disability Law in Practice: Call for applications
The Central European University, in cooperation with the Mental Disability Advocacy Center, is delighted to announce a summer school on “Mental Disability Law in Practice”. The two-week course will be held in Budapest, Hungary, from 19 to 30 July 2010.
Full details at http://www.summer.ceu.hu/02-courses/course-sites/mental/index-mental.php
Deadline for applications is 15 February 2010. ********************************************************** ********************************************************** 7) The 9th International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law (IRSL 2010)
3-6 September 2010 - Pozna?
Legal Rules, Moral Norms AND Democratic Principles
Conveners: Adam Mickiewicz University Pozna?, University of ?ód?, Pozna?skie Towarzystwo Przyjació? Nauk
Conference Venue: Department of Philosophy, Adam Mickiewicz University & PTPN, Pozna? Everyone interested in participating in The 9th International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law to send us an abstract by the 1st of May 2010. For full details see:- http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/epc/srb/signpost/IRSL%202010%20-%20CALL%20FOR%20PAPERS.pdf ********************************************************** ********************************************************** 8) As promised at the time of the International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law in Hong Kong 2009 (http://www.english.cityu.edu.hk/irsl/), we confirm the plan to publish two separate volumes based on the presentations from the 8th International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law on “Transparency, Control and Power: Issues in Legal Semiotics”. 1. A special issue of the International Journal for the semiotics of Law, & 2. An edited volume consisting of a selection of papers from the Roundtable and a few others, if necessary, specially solicited from scholars on the theme of the volume. We now solicit papers for inclusion to these two publications. The deadlines for submissions are as follows: 1. First draft submissions: 31 March 2010
2. Editorial decisions: 31 May 2010
3. Revised paper submissions: 30 September 2010
4. Publication date: 2011
The length of the paper should not normally exceed 7000 words, including references, footnotes, and appendices, if any. Please follow the style sheet for the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law (Visit the website at http://www.springer.com/law/journal/11196)
Proposals in English should be sent by e-mail to Vijay K. Bhatia at enbhatia@cityu.edu.hk
The School of Law is delighted to offer a number of Studentships that will provide the opportunity to undertake research leading to the award of PhD.
These prestigious awards will be granted to those applicants who demonstrate excellent academic achievement in Law and present a high quality research proposal which shows the ability to complete research which is a new contribution to the knowledge base.
The Studentships are available in the areas of law in which the School is able to offer supervision. Each award is initially available for one year with the expectation of renewal for a further two years subject to satisfactory performance.
AHRC Studentship One AHRC award is available to UK students who satisfy the relevant residency criteria. The award covers fees and a maintenance grant of £13,290 p.a.
School of Law Studentships Up to three awards are available providing total financial support of £15,375 p.a. This comprises stipendiary income, teaching income and includes a fee waiver of £3,300 (UK/EU level).
Open Studentships Up to four awards are available providing a fee waiver of £3,300 p.a. (UK/EU level).
For further information about the School’s research and how to apply for these awards please visit our webpages: www.southampton.ac.uk/law/research
Deadline for applications: 12 February 2010 ******~~~~~~~~~*******~~~~~~~********~~~~~~~~ ******~~~~~~******~~~~~~******~~~~~~~~******~~~ **~~~~~~*******~~~~~~******~~~~~~******~~~~~~~ END