JURIS DIVERSITAS

CALL FOR PAPERS: Encounters: An International Journal for the Study of Culture and Society

2012-01-23T20:53:00.000Z

A Call for Papers for Encounters: An International Journal for the Study of Culture and Society has been issued. The topic, 'Islamic Law: Society, Culture and State' is quite similar to our Mediterranean Project. The Guest Editor is Sabrina Joseph (Zayed University, Dubai).

The Call for Papers reads:

We invite papers that deal with the intersection between Islamic law and society particularly as it pertains to such issues as: the status of women and/or family law, property rights, land tenure, criminal law, finance/economy, and inter-faith relations. Papers from all periods of history and all disciplines arewelcome, as are papers that examine the impact of Islamic law in western contexts. Questions that are of particular interest include (but are not limited to) the following:

- How is the law a 'living law'? To what extent have legal thinkers integrated custom into the lawmaking process?

- To what extent has the law provided an arena for individuals of different religions to negotiate and/or settle their disputes?

- What sort of relationship has existed between the various schools of law and have legal thinkers drawn upon schools of law other than their own in formulating laws?

- To what extent have Western legal systems accommodated Islamic law? What impact has this had onnotions of citizenship and minority rights?
- How have state law/secular law and shari'a overlapped and/or informed one another in the lawmaking process? How has this relationship evolved over time?

Please submit your paper (6,000 to 10,000) in MS Word format to Sabrina.joseph@zu.ac.ae by July 1, 2012. Submissions should include a cover letter to the editor describing the work in approximately one hundred words.

NOTICE: Janke and Licari on Enforcing Punitive Damage Awards in France

2012-01-23T20:14:00.001Z

Benjamin West Janke (Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC) and Juris Diversitas Member François-Xavier Licari (University of Metz - Faculty of Law)'s 'Enforcing Punitive Damage Awards in France after Fountaine Pajot' is forthcoming in the American Journal of Comparative Law. It is available on SSRN.

In a landmark ruling, the Cour de cassation held that 'an award of punitive damages is not, per se, contrary to public policy,' but that 'it is otherwise when the amount awarded is disproportionate with regard to the damage sustained and the debtor's breach of his contractual obligation.' Schlenzka & Langhorne v. Fountaine Pajot, S.A. involved the failed attempt by American judgment creditors to enforce their California judgment against a French defendant in France. At the same time that the judgment creditors were taking their case through the French legal system, the Cour de cassation, in a different line of cases, liberalized the conditions under which a foreign judgment could be enforced in France. But when the Court opened one door for the American plaintiffs, it closed another by refusing to enforce the judgment because it included disproportionate punitive damages. The Court's reasons were inconsistent with prior interpretations of proportionality and disingenuous to the court's modern approach to the enforcement of foreign judgments. In just a few words, the Court echoed prevailing French and European sentiments about American punitive damage awards. Unfortunately, the prevailing attitudes are dominated more by prejudice than by fact and reason.

The Civil Law and its Codes: A Journey Through the Americas

2012-01-20T23:39:00.003Z

Les Editions Thémis, Montreal, published Le droit civil et ses codes: parcours à travers les Amériques, a collection of papers presented at a workshop series conducted at the Quebec Research Center of Private and Comparative Law at McGill University, edited by Jimena Andino Dorato, Jean-Frédérick Ménard and Lionel Smith. View the Table of Contents.

Les neufs juristes conviés par le centre de recherche en droit privé et comparé du Québec de l'Université McGill à parcourir le droit civil à travers les Amériques et leurs codes en dressent un portrait pluriel. Cela dit, comme le relève Benoît Moore dans le rapport de synthèse qui clôt cet ouvrage collectif dans lequel il se penche sur l'unicité, la centralité et la pérennité des "codes d'Amérique", des thèmes récurrents traversent les textes des auteurs, indépendamment de leur origine nationale. Ainsi, on observe l'évolution du rôle normatif du Code civil en Argentine avec Julio César Rivera qui s'attarde notamment à ses interactions avec le common law et la lex mercatoria. On constate aussi, tant avec Olivier Moréteau, qui réfléchit à la place du Code civil en Louisiane qu'avec Jimena Andino Dorate, Graciela Jasa-Silveira et Nelcy Lopez Cuellar qui abordent le dialogue des codes civils avec les normes constitutionnelles et internationales en Argentine , au Mexique et en Colombie, que la place du code civil dans l'univers juridique a beaucoup changé depuis la première vague de codification au 19ème siècle. De même, l'exposé de de José Antônio Peres Gediel sur la modernisation du droit des personnes physiques en réponse aux innovations médicales et scientifiques et dans la foulée de l'adoption par le Brésil d'un nouveau code civil rejoint à la fois le propos sur les défis associés à la réforme et à la recodification du droit privé que livre Luis Muniz-Argüelles à partir de Puerto Rico et le point de vue québécois de Sophie Morin sur l'avenir du Code civil du Québec. Tel que l'évoquent en ouverte Jimena Andino Dorato, Jean-Frédérick Ménard et Lionel Smith, cet ouvrage pose un regard renouvelé sur le droit civil tel qu'il s'est développé sur le continent américain et constitue une excellente introduction à son étude comparée.

REMINDER: Call for Papers - Doing Justice: Official and Unofficial ‘Legalities’ in Practice

2012-01-20T15:47:00.000Z

Doing Justice:

Official and Unofficial ‘Legalities’ in Practice

Juris Diversitas is organising, with the Centre Jacques-Berque, a colloquium on Mediterranean laws and norms. It will be held in Rabat, Morocco from 15-16 June 2012.

Participants, both jurists and others, are asked to speak on the complexity of

state laws (both Western and non-Western), including the gap between legal theory and practice
other non-state normative orders (religious, customary, etc)

Speakers may discuss, in English or French, either of these aspects (including case studies) or the relationship between the two.

Those engaged in our Mediterranean Hybridity Project may also present preliminary overviews of the jurisdictions they’re working on. Indeed, related proposals focusing on similar themes beyond the Mediterranean are also welcome.

For additional information, see the original Call for Papers or contact Seán Patrick Donlan (sean.donlan@ul.ie) or Baudouin Dupret (baudouin.dupret@cjb.ma).

Those interested in making a presentation should send a short (250 word) proposal to Baudouin Dupret by 7 February 2012.

NOTICE: Pargendler on the Rise and Decline of Legal Families

2012-01-17T08:50:00.000Z

Mariana Pargendler (Fundação Getulio Vargas School of Law at São Paulo)'s 'The Rise and Decline of Legal Families' (2012) 60 American Journal of Comparative Law is now available on SSRN.

The abstract reads:

The effort to group jurisdictions around the world into a handful of legal families based on common characteristics of their laws has traditionally occupied a central role in the comparative law literature. This Article revisits the intellectual history of comparative law and surveys the evolution of legal family taxonomies from the first efforts at classification in the late-nineteenth century to the influential categorizations advanced by René David and Zweigert and Kötz in the 1960s. The early taxonomies differed from their modern counterparts in important ways. Although the nineteenth century is usually viewed as the apex of the common-civil law dichotomy, this distinction was conspicuously absent from legal family classifications until the twentieth century. A number of economic and political factors – ranging from economic liberalism to anti-colonialist sentiment – likely played a role in minimizing the salience of legal traditions in nineteenth-century legal thought.

NOTICE: Palmer on 'The Great Spill in the Gulf . . . and a Sea of Pure Economic Loss'

2012-01-16T09:46:00.000Z

Vernon Valentine Palmer has recently published 'The Great Spill in the Gulf . . . and a Sea of Pure Economic Loss: Reflections on the Boundaries of Civil Liability' in the (2011) 116 Penn State Law Review 105. It begins:

What has been called the greatest oil spill in history, and certainly the largest in United States history, began with an explosion on April 20, 2010, some 41 miles off the Louisiana coast. The accident occurred during the drilling of an exploratory well by the Deepwater Horizon, a mobile offshore drilling unit (MODU) under lease to BP (formerly British Petroleum) and owned by Transocean. The well-head blowout resulted in 11 dead, 17 injured, and oil spewing from the seabed 5,000 ft. below at an estimated rate of 25,000-30,000 barrels per day.

The Deepwater Horizon is technically described as “a massive floating, dynamically positioned drilling rig” capable of operating in waters 8,000 ft. deep. In maritime law, such a rig qualifies as a vessel; yet, as a MODU, the rig also qualifies as an offshore facility that may attract higher liability limits under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA). Under these provisions the double designation as vessel and/or MODU potentially raises the liability limits to as much as $75 million. The operator and principal developer of this well is BP, which owns a 65% interest. Various attempts at stemming the initial flow of oil failed. The oil spread on the surface and in the depths over a very wide area, killing marine life and water birds, entering estuaries, and polluting shores. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration closed commercial and recreational fishing in a very wide area of the Gulf, and the federal government declared a moratorium on exploratory drilling for six months, thus idling about 33 drilling operations in progress. Meantime, BP, after meeting with President Obama, agreed to establish a $20 billion compensation fund, which would be independently administered by a nongovernmental agency led by Kenneth Feinberg. BP carried very little or no third party liability insurance and reportedly operated on a self-insured basis. Given the minimal insurance, questions arise as to whether BP’s pockets are deep enough to meet its overall liabilities which, in addition to the compensation fund already discussed, may include $21 billion further in civil fines under the Clean Water Act (CWA). The compensation fund, after an initial $5 billion deposit in 2010, would receive quarterly installments of $1.25 billion until the full amount is reached in mid-2013. The fund would pay for damage to natural resources, state and local response costs, and individual economic losses (whether in the form of civil judgments or settlements with the fund), but it will not be used to cover any fines and penalties incurred by BP. The right of individuals to seek compensation through the courts instead of the Fund remains open.

The flow of oil was finally arrested on July 15, 2010, 87 days after the blowout. By then more than 200 million gallons of oil had poured into the Gulf, which was nearly 20 times more than the Exxon Valdez emptied into Prince William Sound (11 million gallons) and 60 million gallons more than the Ixtoc I disaster in the Bay of Campeche (140 million gallons). The environmental, economic, and social impacts of the spill are staggering, and long-term effects will be unknown for much time to come.

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: Rethinking Inheritance

2012-01-14T19:45:00.000Z

Call for Participants

The New School for Social Research

2012 Anthropology Conference: “Rethinking Inheritance”

April 28th, 2012

The Theme: Inheritance has typically been conceived as a passive process of reception. Yet, inheritance also implies claims to something. Claiming inheritance and claiming selves, communities, nations and other units as heirs is an active practice. How can we better conceptualize the labor involved in establishing inheritance? How are inheritances rejected, resisted, renewed, reformed, or renegotiated? How are identity and belonging implicated in inheritance?

As we begin to think of inheritance in multiple registers, we hope to challenge its supposed passivity and expand its conceptualization. What does it mean to inherit a citizenship, a nationality, a legal framework, or an ethnicity, and what are the modes for these inheritances? How can inheritance be employed to think through temporal relationships of historical consciousness, collective memory, and their narration? We also hope to think together about how active inheritance relates to materialities and economies, financial institutions, and the act of making claims on properties, whether virtual or physical. Similarly, we can consider inheritance in terms of spaces and boundaries, wondering how territories are passed down and how borders are maintained.

Seeking

Rather than curating panels in which participants read papers, we seek an active, dialogue-driven event featuring multiple conversations through which attendees can move, beginning with a keynote address from an innovative scholar, and closing with a second address that reflects on what we have thought and experienced in the course of the day. To prompt discussion and encourage an expansion of the mediums with and through which we think inheritance, we encourage submissions of “objects” (including, but not limited to, physical objects, artifacts, short film clips, photographs, texts, games, artwork, music/sound, and performance) alongside a brief 300-500 word statement explaining your choice of “object” and how it relates to our theme. When selecting participants, we will primarily be looking for innovative ideas that identify a "site" of inquiry that attendees will engage with during the event. We are NOT looking for finished papers or solidified arguments. Rather, your submitted “object” will inspire new questions and interventions targeting inheritance. Selected participants will attend the event, informally present their “object” as it relates to Rethinking Inheritance, and take part in workshop conversations.

How to Submit: Email submissions, 300-500 word statement, and, if you are including an object or prompt, a picture or description to inheritanceconference@gmail.com by February 20th, 2012. Please also include your full name, academic affiliation, and a current CV in the email.

Visit Our Blog: http://inheritanceconference.wordpress.com
: Participants who are engaged in creative and critical rethinking of inheritance in ways that may include, but certainly are not limited to the ideas above. As part of this process, we are reimagining the conference format that we have inherited as scholars.

NOTICE: New Issue of Jurisprudence

2012-01-13T01:32:00.000Z

The newest issue of Jurisprudence is now available. It includes.

Articles

Natural Law Beyond Finnis

Jonathan Crowe

Self-Reference of the Constitutional State: A Systems Theory Interpretation of the Kelsen-Schmitt Debate

Jiří Přibáň

Discussion

Three Comments on Joseph Raz’s Conception of Normativity

Introduction

George Pavlakos

Raz’s Nexus

Niko Kolodny

Guided by Reasons: Raz on the Normative-Explanatory Nexus

Ulrike Heuer

Problems of Intellectualism: Raz on Reason and its Objects

Douglas Lavin

Reviews

Five reviews of Rae Langton, Sexual Solipsism: Philosophical Essays on Pornography and Objectification, with a response from Rae Langton

Subordination, Silencing, and Two Ideas of Illocution

Jennifer Hornsby

Against Langton’s Illocutionary Treatment of Pornography

Louise Antony

Maker’s Knowledge or Perpetuator’s Ignorance

Jennifer Saul

Langton on Objectification and Autonomy-Denial

Natalie Stoljar

Finding Love in the Kingdom of Ends

Nellie Wieland

Response

Rae Langton

Three reviews of Andrei Marmor, Social Conventions: From Language to Law, with a response from Andrei Marmor

Marmor on the Arbitrariness of Constitutive Conventions

Federico José Arena

The Role of Conventions in Law

Dale Smith

The Conventionality of Promising: A Defence

Hanoch Sheinman

Conventions Revisited: A Reply to Critics

Andrei Marmor

Conceptual Collisions: A Review of Keith Culver and Michael Giudice, Legality’s Borders: An Essay in General Jurisprudence

Andrew Halpin

Philosophy for International Lawyers: A Review of Samantha Besson and John Tasioulas (eds), The Philosophy of International Law

Patrick Capps

Reasonableness, thy Name is Nature: A Review of John Finnis, Natural Law & Natural Rights

Andrés Rosler

Coercion and the State: A Review of B Sharon Byrd and Joachim Hruschka, Kant’s Doctrine of Right: A Commentary

Helga Varden

Intentions, Blame, and Contractualism: A Review of Tim Scanlon, Moral Dimensions: Permissibility, Meaning, Blame

Jussi Suikkanen

Discourse, Principles, and the Problem of Law and Morality: Robert Alexy’s Three Main Works

Martin Borowski

A Review of Izhak Englard, Corrective and Distributive Justice: From Aristotle to Modern Times

Sean Coyle

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Transformation of Property Rights in Land and Property Law in China

2012-01-13T00:02:00.000Z

Workshop on Law, Governance and Development:

The Transformation of Property Rights in Land and Property Law in China

11 May 2012 (9am-5pm)

Call for Papers

Following its workshop on Law and Orientalism in 2011, CEAL, with the support of the Centre of Chinese Studies, SOAS, will hold a workshop on The Transformation of Property Rights in Land and Property Law in China.

Since 1978, China has seen a ‘revival’ of property rights. The decollectivisation of rural communes, the ‘corporatisation’ of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), and the emergence of urban property markets have been hindered or encouraged by legal reforms. The purpose of this workshop is to discuss the nature and significance of the re-emergence of private property in land and the legal framework concerning landed property in the context of rapid socio-economic change in post-Mao China from a variety of perspectives whilst retaining a focus on law. The workshop’s broader aim is to contribute to the understanding of the changing nature of contemporary China through an examination of private property.

Title and abstract of papers (not exceeding 1 page, Arial font size 11 or similar) should be sent to both Carol Tan (ct9@soas.ac.uk) and XU Ting (t.xu1@lse.ac.uk) by the 15 February 2012. Notification of acceptance of abstracts will be sent by the 2 March 2012. Full papers will be required by 15 April 2012. Publication of previously unpublished papers from the workshop will be considered after the workshop has taken place.

Workshop speakers are likely to include the following: Professor Anthony Dicks (CEAL, School of Law, SOAS); Dr XU Ting (Economic History Department, LSE); Dr Zhu Sanzhu (CEAL, School of Law, SOAS); Professor Tim Murphy (School of Law, LSE); Professor Athar Hussain (Asia Research Centre, LSE)

Organiser: Carol Tan and XU Ting
Contact email: ct9@soas.ac.uk, t.xu1@lse.ac.uk

NOTICE: Search for Legal Experts with a Bijural Background

2012-01-11T13:51:00.000Z

The following message (with a deadline today) has just come to my attention. SPD

Greetings,

This memorandum is to notify you that the ABA-UNDP International Legal Resource Center (ILRC <http://www.abanet.org/intlaw/intlproj/ilrc/home.html> ) is in search of legal experts with a bijural background and experience with transitioning to a common law system. UNDP/Rwanda is in the preparatory stages for a regional conference focusing on the civil and common law situation in Rwanda within the East African context. Rwanda has a dual legal system, embracing aspects of both civil and common law, but gradually moving towards a more common law based system. One of the most interesting challenges faced by Rwanda has been the transformation from civil law to common law. Rwanda was a civil law country, and some concepts of the common law practices have not been readily accepted. The challenges related to such transitions can be multiple and wide-reaching. They can include the need for substantial legal and regulatory reform, comprehensive re-training and education of legal and other professionals (such as the judiciary, civil service, parliamentary committees and other authorities), and broad-scale legal education, communication and outreach to inform the private sector and the public about new laws and practices, and the administration of justice in the country. These can require investment of resources in reform and the formulation of new policies, strategies and plans for the transition to ensure predictability and effectiveness in the legal order and to strengthen, rather than undermine, the legal system.

Despite the challenges, such transitions also offer important and unique opportunities to strengthen the rule of law and to reinforce the legitimacy, transparency, effectiveness and efficiency of the administration of justice and governance institutions. Transitioning to common law, for example, can allow more flexible legal responses to bottlenecks and emerging legal issues, broader scope for judicial decision-making and precedent-setting, and the smoother integration of plural legal orders. Such strengthening can help to build confidence of the private sector and the public in the legal order and the state, engender access to justice and further legal protection of rights and entitlements, facilitate smoother integration with the legal, regulatory and judicial systems in the region, and promote economic security and investment.

The conference will seek to:

Bring together delegates from Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan;
Identify the shared as well as the distinct challenges faced by the countries in focus with regards to transitions in law and hybrid legal systems;
Highlight the lessons learned, experiences and good practice of other countries with hybrid or transitioning legal situations;
Explore the opportunities offered by such transitions in terms of strengthening the rule of law and access to justice; and
Outline the potential avenues and ways forward to strategically overcome the challenges and enhance the legitimacy and effectiveness of governance in the context of hybrid systems and legal transitions.

While UNDP/Rwanda is still in the preparatory stages of this conference, they hope to host this conference in late February 2012. The agenda is still in draft form, but UNDP/Rwanda has requested assistance in identifying experts who may be interested in serving as speakers. In particular, legal practitioners with experience in hybrid legal systems across Africa and Asia, including South Africa, Cameroon, Mauritius, Sri Lanka, Singapore, and other countries who can share their experiences, lessons learned, and recommendations for Rwanda, Burundi, and South Sudan. It’s important to have proven experience with transitioning to common law. Membership into the East African Community has mandated that Rwanda and Burundi adopt the common law tradition. Kenyan, Tanzanian, and Ugandan legal systems were modeled after the U.K. common law system, while the Rwandan and Burundi systems were heavily based on the Belgian civil law system. Additionally, the newly independent Republic of South Sudan is also facing similar challenges as it returns to the common law system after decades of Shari’a law.

Please note that UNDP/Rwanda hopes to cover the costs of travel and lodging, but this is not 100% confirmed. Experts with proven experience and ability to make presentations, kindly email (Jacqueline.Gichinga@americanbar.org) your CV and short cover letter highlighting your bijural qualifications/experience. Fluency in both French and English is a plus. Furthermore, experts must be willing to travel to Rwanda for the conference set to take place in late February 2012. The deadline for applications is January 11, 2012. Thank you!

Best in 2012,

Jacqueline

Jacqueline Gichinga
International Program Associate
American Bar Association, Section of International Law
ABA-UNDP International Legal Resource Center (ILRC)
740 15th St, NW
Washington, DC 20005
T: +1-202-662-1662
F: +1-202-662-1669
http://ambar.org/ilrc
Jacqueline.Gichinga@americanbar.org (NEW EMAIL ADDRESS)

NOTICE: 8 Doctoral Student Positions - Law in a Changing World Programme

2012-01-05T19:48:00.000Z

The doctoral programme Law in a Changing World announces

8 DOCTORAL STUDENT POSITIONS

for the period 1 September 2012 – 31 August 2016
Law in a Changing World (LCW) includes all the sub-disciplines of law. Each doctoral student will be acquainted with the Europeanization and internationalization of law, but the research conducted does not have to connect to these themes. The student must register in one of the participating Finnish universities to carry out the doctoral studies.

The appointed candidates will focus on completing a doctoral thesis in the field of legal studies. They will participate in the training and other activities organized by the LCW programme. The tasks of doctoral students will include a limited amount teaching and administrative work. Also affiliated self-funded researchers may be accepted to participate in the LCW programme.

A suitable master´s degree in law or a neighboring discipline is required. The student must show the ability and motivation for postgraduate studies and for completing the doctoral degree according to the research plan.

The application must include the following information and appendices:

a cover letter (max 2 pages), which sheds light on the applicant's motivation to conduct doctoral research and to complete a doctoral degree; the sub-discipline of the research should be indicated (e.g. public law, IP law, criminal law)
a research proposal for a doctoral thesis (max 6 pages)
an individual study plan for the degree built on participation in the LCW programme (max 4 pages)
a Curriculum vitae and list of possible publications (or an academic portfolio including these documents)
copies of degree certificates
possible written assessments concerning Master´s dissertations
a possible statement from the proposed supervisor and other possible references (eventual supervisor must be contacted beforehand)
relevant documents indicating proficiency and skills in English (TOEFL test or equivalent)
information on possible previous funding

Salaries will be based on levels 1–4 of the job requirement level chart for teaching and research staff in the salary scales of Finnish universities. In addition, the appointees will be paid a salary component based on personal work performance. The salary will be set at approximately 1.800–2.800 euros per month.

The applications shall be addressed to the LCW doctoral programme and sent in 4 copies with appendices to: Registry and Records Management, Yliopistonkatu 4 (P.O. Box 33), 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland. The applications may be written in Finnish, English or Swedish. The closing date for applications is Wednesday, 15 February 2012, 3.45pm (GMT +2), when all the documents must be received by the University's Registry.

Shortlisted candidates will be interviewed. Final decisions will be made in April. Unsuccessful applicants may be admitted as affiliated researchers to the LCW programme. Affiliated researchers follow the same programme but will not be funded through a work contract.

Further details of the LCW programme can be found at www.helsinki.fi/omm/english/. For further information, please contact Director of the doctoral programme, Prof Kimmo Nuotio (kimmo.nuotio[at]helsinki.fi), or Coordinator, post-doctoral researcher, Dr Ida Koivisto (ida.koivisto[at]helsinki.fi), tel. +358 9 19123538.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: DCU Socio-Legal Studies Review

2012-01-05T14:44:00.000Z

The DCU Socio-Legal Studies Review is accepting submissions for its inaugural volume. The review is a peer-reviewed law journal, which focuses on socio-legal scholarly work, both national and international. This is the only such review in Ireland, and represents a unique platform for work by scholars and practitioners in this area.

Socio-Legal studies encompass the study of law in society. This includes empirical and theoretical research both at the national and international level, focusing on the social, cultural and economic context in which laws are made and enforced. For more information on socio-legal research see the homepage of the Socio-Legal Research Centre.

Submissions:

Submissions are welcome on a broad range of legal issues, which evaluate the impact of legal rules on the society in which they operate and consider the influence of society on the development of law. We accept submissions, including articles, casenotes and recent legislative and judicial updates from undergraduate and postgraduate students, practitioners and trainees.

The guideline length for submissions is 4000 to 6000 words for articles, and 2000 words for casenotes and updates.

Submissions should be formatted in line with the OSCOLA Ireland citation guidelines. Editing, where required, will be done only with the agreement of the author. Features should be submitted in word format to lawreview@dcu.ie . The closing date for submissions is Thursday, 16th February 2012 at 5.00 p.m.

Please include the name of the author, and details of professional or student status and contact details in the body of the email. As the peer-review process is anonymous, we ask you not to include your personal details on the submission itself.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Domino Effects and Hybridization of the Mediterranean

2012-01-04T18:46:00.001Z

The 4th International Conference of Mediterranean Worlds: DominoEffects and Hybridization of the Mediterranean will be held in Istanbul,
Turkey from 5-7 September 2012.

I had nothing to do with this, but it sounds wonderfully close to our own Mediterranean Hybridity Project:

This interdisciplinary conference is hosted by the Department of History, 29 Mayis University, in collaboration with The Mediterranean Seminar, University of California Santa Cruz; Bern University, Department of the History of the Art, TransMediterraneanStudies.

The deadline for session and paper submissions is 27 February 2012. For submission guidelines, see http://medworldsfour.wordpress.com/deadline/.

There are countless discussions and publications, case studies and unresolved questions, and eventually, research projects on “histories in and the history of the Mediterranean”, which all underline the commonalities and differences between the cultures and histories of the region. One issue should be kept in mind when considering these: It is no doubt very easy to be captivated by delightful similarities, overlooking diversity or, on the other extreme, to see insurmountable differences under the spell of modern national or global theories.

However, the Mediterranean, a place of constant flux, should be more accurately described as ‘hybrid’: Frontier societies and particularly shores share an amalgam of cosmopolitan socio-economic and political structures.

Shifts of ideas, modes of production, methodology, science, religion, language are among dynamics brought about successively by the various influxes to the region and yield hybrid outcomes. The dislocation of substances, structures, hierarchies, languages, religions and traditions in a domino effect facilitates the re-emergence of these social elements in the new location in novel and ingenious ways. In time, their imported or suspended character takes on a more permanent and assimilated character – a hybrid is born.

Here, we would like to focus on both the source and the outcome of various fluxes, as well as the process of generation, aiming not just to detect origins or traces of separate entities but also to study the liminality of the emerging planes. Our goal is to focus on the effects of mixture upon various elements in the Mediterranean, dwelling on outcomes that are not easily labeled as one thing or other, defining the critical stages of change. This would, in a sense, be an extension of the macro-micro history dialectic and the diversity of the local
regional outcomes as analyzed by Braudel, Horden-Purcell, McCormick and Wickham which retain an undoubted appeal and interest as Magris and Matjievic have often pointed out.

For further information, see http://medworldsfour.wordpress.com/

See also the information on papers and panels.

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: Irish Society of Comparative Law Conference

2012-01-03T14:44:00.000Z

The CALL FOR PAPERS for the IRISH SOCIETY OF COMPARATIVE LAW (ISCL) Conference is closing.

The 4th Annual ISCL Conference will take place on 2-3 March 2012 at the Faculty of Law, University College Cork, Ireland.

See the original Call for Papers or contact b.sage@ucc.ie for additional information.

NOTICE: JURIS DIVERSITAS Constitution

2011-12-20T09:05:00.000Z

The Executive Committee of Juris Diversitas has posted our Constitution on the Juris Diversitas Blog.

The Constitution reflects current practice. We intend, however, to introduce amendments at the 2012 Annual General Meeting on the basis of proposals by the membership.

We are especially keen to alter the existing election and appointment of officers to ensure that members have greater influence on the selection of the Committee.

To ensure that proposals can be considered in advance of the 2012 Annual General Meeting, they should be sent to Ignazio Castellucci (ignazio@castellucci.eu) before 1 May 2012.

NOTICE: 66th Session of the Société Internationale ‘Fernand de Visscher’ pour l’Histoire des Droits de l’Antiquité (SIHDA) - On the Reception of Law

2011-12-15T21:42:00.000Z

The following notice on 66th Session of the Société Internationale ‘Fernand de Visscher’ pour l’Histoire des Droits de l’Antiquité (SIHDA) will take place from 18-21 September 2012 in Oxford. The theme, of special interest to our members, is the Reception of Law.

The notice reads:

First circular
Oxford
14 December 2011

Dear colleages,

I am very pleased to invite you to the 66th Session of the Société Internationale ‘Fernand de Visscher’ pour l’Histoire des Droits de l’Antiquité (SIHDA), which will take place from 18 to 21 September 2012 in Oxford. In accordance with the decision taken by the last General Assembly, the theme of the congress will be Reception of Law.

In this First Circular I shall provide you with general information regarding the congress. In the course of January you will receive a Second Circular with information on how to registration.

The congress will start in the afternoon of Tuesday 18 September and end on Friday 21 September with the General Assembly. A Banquet dinner is foreseen for that Friday night, and excursions are planned for Saturday 22 September.

The theme is ‘Reception of Law’. It is a wide theme, which covers, e.g., the reception of Assyrian law by the Mesopotamians, Greek law by Egyptians, Roman law by the Greeks in the 4th and 5th century, by the Gallic population in the 6th century, but also, as the name of our association implies (‘Histoire des droits de l’Antiquité’), the reception of Roman law after 1100, and I welcome particularly contributions concerning the reception of Roman law after 1100 in Europe, the ‘Civil Law’. Yet, as is the custom of our association, papers on other themes than the proposed are of course always welcome and appreciated, in one of the five accepted languages (French, English, German, Italian and Spanish).

Oxford as a city is well known and needs no further recommendation. Its colleges, of which those in the centre are centuries old, are a major tourist attraction, as is the Radcliffe Camera, the Sheldonian Theatre and the Ashmolean Museum. And of course it is always interesting to combine the congress with a visit or short stay at London. London itself has several airports, of which Heathrow and Gatwick have a regular and direct bus connection with Oxford. Likewise the train connection is very good with the Eurostar going straight from Paris to London-St Pancras through the Channel Tunnel; and a taxi or underground will take you from there to Paddington Station for a good train connection to Oxford.

The congress will be held in St Catherine’s College. It is a college, built in 1962 in splendid Sixties style after the design of Arne Jacobsen and it is excellently suited for a congress of the size of SIHDA. Actually, it is, of all the colleges in Oxford, the only one with sufficient conference accommodation for us; all its rooms have a private shower and toilet. You will receive with the Second Circular the possibility to book an arrangement for the congress in the college.

I hope I have provided you with enough information for the moment. If there are any questions, I am happy to answer these, but otherwise I would like to ask you to wait till the Second Circular when more information will be provided. All further communications will be done through email. If you happen to know of somebody who is or might be interested but has not received this circular, please let me have their email address and I shall take care that he or she is included in the address list and will receive this and further notifications. Likewise I would appreciate it greatly to know of changes in email addresses.

All that remains for me now is to wish you a good Christmas holidays and an auspicious New Year,

Best wishes,

Boudewijn Sirks
Regius Professor of Civil Law
University of Oxford

CALL FOR PAPERS: Law and Legal Cultures in Germany

2011-12-15T21:15:00.000Z

The German Studies Association (GSA) Network on Law and Legal Cultures is putting together an interdisciplinary series of panels for its Thirty-Sixth Annual Conference to be held from 4-7 October 2012, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The organisers are Sace Elder (Eastern Illinois) and Timothy Guinnane (Yale). The Call for Papers reads:

For the 2012 German Studies Association annual meeting in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 4-7, 2012, we will be convening a series of panels on the law in all aspects of society, culture, and the economy. We envisage a broad set of topics, from the development of specific legal practices and cultures in Germany to the function of law in wider cultural fields. From the philosophy of law to the legal cultures and literatures that extend from medieval to modern periods, these panels are intended to foster an extended conversation on the law across humanities and social science disciplines.

We encourage submissions from scholars on all aspects of the law (criminal, civil, international) in Germany and are especially interested in both methodological and temporal breadth. Topics might include

-the development of the Rechtsstaat
-legal cultures and the adjudication of criminal and civil law
-the development of business law and legal integration in the nineteenth century
-the culture of the courtroom and the legal profession
-popular perceptions of the law and legal norms
-the law and the regulation of violence
-sex and sexuality in law and legal culture
-property law and economic development
-liberal legal philosophy and the development of civil and criminal law
-law and authority in Germany’s twentieth-century dictatorships
-the emergence and enforcement of human rights law in national and international contexts
-law and immigration

We encourage submission of individual papers; while the GSA prefers complete panels, we hope to combine papers sent to us into complete panels and send them along to the GSA organizers. Complete panels are, of course, also welcome.

The deadline for submissions is January 20, 2011, and should be in the form of an abstract for proposed paper and/or entire panel (150-200 words). Papers in German or English are welcome.

Please submit abstracts and direct inquiries to the organizers at gsa.law.culture@gmail.com

CALL FOR PAPERS: Mixed Legal Systems, East and West

2011-12-14T13:34:00.001Z

Our cousins in the World Society of Mixed Jurisdiction Jurists have co-organised a Mediterranean conference to take place in Malta from 14-15 May 2012 on “Mixed Legal Systems, East and West: Newest Trends and Developments”.

The announcement reads:

The Protection Project at The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), in cooperation with the World Society of Mixed Jurisdiction Jurists, and the Tulane University Law School Eason Weinmann Center for Comparative Law, invite the submission of papers for an international conference on “Mixed Legal Systems, East and West: Newest Trends and Developments,” scheduled to take place in Malta, on the dates of May 14-15, 2012.

The conference aims to break new ground in the study of mixed jurisdictions, focusing on the intersections and interplay between Western and Eastern legal systems, including in particular the study of those countries where common and civil law interact and/or co-exist side-by-side with Islamic law; as well as an examination of the influence of religious law on statutory law. The conference will focus on such topics as “The Integration of Religious Law into the Fabric of Law,” “The Lingering Impact of Colonialism on Contemporary Legal Systems,” “Internal Patterns of Legal Mixing,” and similar. The conference organizers invite scholars especially from mixed jurisdiction countries to submit abstracts, so that experiences of civil-common law mixed jurisdictions may be compared with those legal systems where Islamic law is present.

We invite you to submit a 2-3 page abstract of your paper by email to the selection committee c/o Ms. Anna Koppel, Director of Research and Development, The Protection Project (akoppel1@jhu.edu) no later than January 15, 2012; authors of accepted abstracts will be notified by February 1, 2012, and invited to present their papers at the conference; all conference participation expenses will be covered by the organizers. Conference proceedings will be jointly published by The Protection Project, the World Society of Mixed Jurisdictions Jurists, and the Eason Weinmann Center for Comparative Law.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Juris Diversitas colloquium - Doing Justice: Official and Unofficial ‘Legalities’ in Practice

2011-12-14T10:08:00.000Z

Doing Justice: Official and Unofficial ‘Legalities’ in Practice

Juris Diversitas is organising, with the Centre Jacques-Berque (Rabat, Morocco), a colloquium to be held in Rabat from 15-16 June 2012. As a follow-up to last year’s launch of the Mediterranean Hybridity Project, its theme will be the relation of the diverse and lived ‘legalities’, both official and unofficial, in the region.

The event will also serve as the 2012 Juris Diversitas Annual General Meeting. Proceedings will be in English and French.

The Mediterranean Hybridity Project

The extraordinary legal and normative hybridity of the Mediterranean region was produced in a complex history of conquest, colonisation, and social and legal diffusion across shifting and porous political boundaries.

The objective of the Mediterranean Hybridity Project is, through a collaborative international and interdisciplinary network of experts, to produce and publish a comparative or cross-cultural collection on these ‘legalities’. On the basis of a questionnaire agreed with the participants, the outcome will be more accurate, useful, and accessible account of Mediterranean hybridity. The presentations made at the colloquium will assist us in this Project.

A draft discussion of the Mediterranean Hybridity Project is available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1874095; a revised version will appear shortly in the Journal for Civil Law Studies.

Proposals and costs

While the primary focus of the colloquium is on the region, especially with respect to the Mediterranean Project, related proposals on ‘legalities’ beyond the Mediterranean are also welcome. Those interested in making a presentation should send a short (250 word) proposal to Baudouin Dupret (baudouin.dupret@cjb.ma) by 7 February 2012.

In general, transportation and accommodation costs are not paid by the organisers. There are, however, no conference fees for Juris Diversitas members and other invited speakers. The conference fee for other attendees will be €100. The Centre will support the costs of several invited speakers coming from Arab countries.

Spread the word!

NOTICE: Transnational Legal Theory

2011-12-14T09:44:00.000Z

Volume 2, Issue 2 of Transnational Legal Theory has been published. A special issue on 'onflicts Law as Constitutional Form in the Postnational Constellation', it contains:

A New Type of Conflicts Law as Constitutional Form in the Postnational Constellation

Christian Joerges, Poul F Kjaer and Tommi Ralli

United They Diverge? From Conflicts of Law to Constitutional Theory

Agustín José Menéndez

Democratic Juridification Without Statisation: Law of Conflict of Laws Instead of a World State

Florian Rödl

The Opium of Democracy: A Comment on Florian Rödl’s Theory of Democratic Juridification without Statisation
Marc Amstutz

The Political Foundations of Conflicts Law
Poul F Kjaer

Global Governance and Conflict of Laws from a Foucauldian Perspective: The Power/Knowledge Nexus Revisited
Martin Herberg

The Limits of the ‘Conflicts Approach’: Law in Times of Political Turmoil
Michelle Everson

NOTICE: Lo Giudice on European Identity and Legitimacy

2011-12-12T21:12:00.000Z

Our member, Alessio Lo Giudice (Catania) has recently published Istituire il postnazionale: Identità europea e legittimazione (Giappichelli, Torino, 2011):

The historical-conceptual presuppositions of the European Union (EU)’s institutional project excludes either a narrow local perspective or an illusory globalist scheme. To rediscover Europe’s cosmopolitan vocation, a process of political and institutional unification must be developed that overcomes the existing national paradigm. Indeed, the crisis of legitimating the resources of EU Member States opens a post-national horizon of a denationalized and autonomous Europe built around spheres of intense, but not totalizing, political, legal and social unity.

In this context and with the necessity to create conditions for the establishment and legitimacy of a social link between strangers, the question of the institutional identity of the EU has great relevance for scholarship in legal philosophy. ‘Solidarity between strangers’ actually develops within the construction of a web of rules, projects and principles meant to fill reciprocal existential deficits; it develops, in fact, within the construction of a shared identity.

In this book, institutional questions about the construction of a European identity are discussed. But the conditions of the theoretical-semantic visualisation and of the pragmatic possibility of such an identity are also dealt with in order to avoid the reduction of the European ideal to rhetorical illusions or vain emotional compensations.

In addition, I want to draw your attention to the University of Catania's Teoria e Critica della Regolazione Sociale. The journal's programme is discussed in English and Italian here. Each issue begins with a central text, often in English, and responses are solicited. This year's central text is Margaret Gilbert's 'Foundations and consequences of collective moral responsibility'. The last issue and earlier issues are available online.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Privatization and Social Responsibility

2011-12-12T10:29:00.000Z

CALL FOR PAPERS

PRIVATIZATION AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

February 17th and 18th, 2012

Emory University School of Law, Atlanta, Georgia

This workshop explores from a cross-cultural perspective how privatization impacts contemporary feminist and social justice approaches to public responsibility. Feminisms have long problematized divisions between the private and the political, partly in reaction to the unprecedented privatization of state responsibilities and public welfare over the past 30 years. Recent critical legal scholarship on vulnerability, state negligence, and resilience can complicate and deepen our understanding of the problems generated by privatization in the 21st century.

We invite papers that explore the effects of diverse forms of privatization from national and cross-national perspectives. Privatization can take the form of outsourcing public activities to private corporations, denationalizing state industries, or deregulating policy. It is evident when social service systems shift from defined benefits programs such as pensions to defined contribution plans such as IRAs. A common denominator is the shifting of social responsibility from public governmental institutions to individual families and privatized entities, such as charities and corporations. There is also a shift in what and who are regarded as the proper objects of state regulation and intervention; subsidizing private property interests or military intervention while withdrawing from broader public obligations such as education and healthcare.

Because vulnerability analysis emphasizes our interdependency within social institutions, it can illuminate how privatization relies upon often-invisible state subsidies to generate its free-market individualistic mythologies. Vulnerability highlights how neoliberalism commodifies social and bodily necessities (e.g. security, healthcare), channeling unprofitable social relationships, such as caretaking, away from state welfare programs and to the individualized realm of the family. In addition to carework, the military, penal system and police are also framed as societally preserving. But they are privatized differently within and across nations, generating distinct national discourses of public and private responsibility.

Disciplinary and interdisciplinary papers exploring the effects of these privatizations on insitutions, individuals, society, welfare, education, healthcare, capitalism, government, military and law are welcomed. State regulation, particularly in the form of socioeconomic welfare, is frequently criticized for policing individual choices and perpetuating social and legal forms of violence. We are particularly interested in how a feminist or progressive analysis of state institutional involvement might mitigate these negative effects and the impact of privatization.

GUIDING QUESTIONS:

*How does the concept of “privacy” relate to privatization?
*How do concepts, objects and systems of privatization vary across nations?
*What is the power of privatization discourse? Weaknesses?
* How are neoliberalism and neoconservatism, and concepts such as choice and efficiency, employed to justify privatization?
*Which groups are benefited by privatization? Which are disadvantaged?
*How does privatization shift collective and individual forms of risk and responsibility?
*What are the gender implications of privatization? And how might they influence the organization and focus of social services?
* What are the relationships between vulnerability, resilience and the privatization of social welfare?
*How does privatization create experiences of vulnerability that vary across groups and institutions?
*What language can be used to challenge privatization?
*What institutional arrangements can replace or supplement privatization to improve individual & institutional resilience?

WORKSHOP CONTACT:

Martha Albertson Fineman, Emory University School of Law, mfineman@law.emory.edu
Ulrika Andersson, Lund University School of Law, Ulrika.Andersson@jur.lu.se
Titti Mattsson, Lund University School of Law, titti.mattsson@jur.lu.se
Katie E. Oliviero, FLT Postdoctoral Fellow, Emory School of Law, koliviero@emory.edu

SUBMISSIONS PROCEDURE:

Please email a paper proposal of 400-600 words by Thursday, December 8th to Emily Hlavaty, FLT Program Coordinator: emily.hlavaty@emory.edu

Decisions will be made prior to the holidays and working paper drafts to be duplicated and distributed prior to the Workshop will be due January 30th.

WORKSHOP DETAILS:

The Workshop begins Friday at 4PM in room 575 of Emory Law School, 1301 Clifton Road. It continues on Saturday from 9:30 AM to approximately 5PM.

CALL FOR PAPERS: 18th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture

2011-12-12T10:17:00.000Z

CALL FOR PAPERS

18th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture

May 10-12, 2012

University of California, Los Angeles

Presented by The Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture Graduate Student Association (CLIC-GSA) at the University of California, Los Angeles and The Language, Interaction, and Social Organization Graduate Student Association (LISO-GSA) at the University of California, Santa Barbara

Plenary Speakers

• Penelope Eckert, Anthropology and Linguistics, Stanford University
• William Hanks, Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
• Jenny Mandelbaum, Communication, Rutgers University
• Cheryl Mattingly, Anthropology and Occupational Science and Therapy, University of Southern California

Submissions should address topics at the intersection of language, interaction, and culture. Approaches include, but are not limited to, conversation analysis, discourse analysis, ethnography of communication, ethnomethodology, interactional sociolinguistics, language ideologies, and language socialization.

Abstracts for presentations and posters are welcome from graduate students and faculty. Presentations that include video and/or audio recordings of naturalistic interaction are encouraged. Speakers will have 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion. A subset of papers presented at the conference will be published in the conference proceedings, Crossroads of Language, Interaction, and Culture, Volume 9, 2012.

Abstracts are due no later than Friday, January 20, 2012, by electronic submission only. The submission guidelines are provided below and on the CLIC-GSA website (http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/CLIC-GSA/).

Submission Guidelines

Abstracts should be submitted through the CLIC-GSA website (http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/CLIC-GSA/callforpapers.htm). Please provide the following information:

• Whether the abstract is for a presentation or a poster
• The name(s) of the author(s)
• The affiliation(s) of the author(s)
• The preferred mailing address, phone number, and e-mail address for notification
• The title of the paper
• An abstract no longer than 500 words
• Any additional comments

Abstracts should clearly state the main point or argument of the paper; briefly discuss the problem or research question with reference to previous research and the work’s relevance to developments in the field; and may include a short example to support the main point or argument. Conclusions should be stated, however tentative.

Abstracts should be accessible to a wide audience, as they will be reviewed by scholars from a variety of language-related fields, such as anthropology, applied linguistics, education, and sociology. Presentations and posters will be accepted based on reviewers’ evaluations of the anonymous abstracts.

The deadline for the receipt of abstracts is Friday, January 20, 2012. Late submissions will not be accepted. Notification of acceptance or nonacceptance will be sent via e-mail in March 2012.

Conference registration is free and will be accessible at the CLIC-GSA website: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/CLIC-GSA/registration.htm

CALL FOR PAPERS: Kent Critical Law Society Conference

2011-12-10T23:19:00.000Z

The first annual conference of the Kent Critical Law Society will take place on the 10-11 March 2012.

Aimed at all those who have an interest in critical perspectives on current legal issues, the conference is entitled ‘Equality- Are We There Yet?’

Submissions by 1 February 2012. Please direct all enquiries to: conference@kentcls.org

The website notes:

Our aim for this conference is to provide an open space for intellectual discussion, debate and criticism of the law and legal systems from a variety of different professional and academic perspectives.

Naturally within the Critical Legal Society, there is much interest amongst the students to discuss the Law within its wider social/political context; therefore there is a large focus on equality within the legal system and professions in the majority of our discussions, a topic which provides a large scope for debate, generating much enthusiasm. In evaluating the current state of equality within our own and other legal systems, we feel we can develop more in depth understanding of the wider social and political impact policies and the law. In recent years there has been much domestic legislation aiming to create and assist the development of a more equal society and we feel that this law must be looked at critically to explore its in-practice impact and significance socially, economically and politically.

The conference will be held over two days beginning with a video introduction from Michael Mansfield, who unfortunately cannot attend in person, and will have two different plenary speakers on each day as well as the opportunity for you to attend some of the panels listed below.

Gender Sexuality and the Law
Race, Ethnicity and the Law
Equality in Employment Law
Tuition Fees; are they re-establishing class divide?
Equality Act 2010
EU and Equality
Property Law and Equality
Age Discrimination
Feminist Perspectives on equality in Law
Human Rights Act 1998- does it promote equality?
Religion and Equality
Equality and the cuts
Equality, housing and homelessness
The Law of Protest and Activism
Sharia Law in England
Judicial Appointments
Equality for Witnesses and Victims
Equality and the Financial system
Access to justice and Equality- The Legal Aid Cuts
Determinism and Equality- Should all Defendants be treated equally despite conditioning?
Forced Migration and the Law
Legal Equality in the Family
Equality in Freedom of Speech

NOTICE: National Science Foundation Law & Social Sciences Program

2011-12-10T23:05:00.000Z

National Science Foundation Law & Social Sciences Program

New Funding Solicitation and Dear Colleague Letter

The Law & Social Sciences (LSS) Program at the National Science Foundation is pleased to announce the release of a new funding solicitation (see http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504727) and an associated Dear Colleague Letter (see http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12022/nsf12022.jsp)

ABOUT THE LSS PROGRAM: The LSS program supports social scientific studies of law and law-like systems of rules. Successful proposals describe research that advances scientific theory and understanding of the connections between law or legal processes and human behavior. The program funds the best proposals submitted within the field broadly defined, regardless of specific subfield, and strives to support an interdisciplinary community of scholars studying relevant topics. Fields of study include many disciplines (including anthropology, communication, criminology, economics, legal scholarship, political science, public policy, psychology, and sociology), and often address significant problems including though not limited to: Crime, Violence and Punishment; Economic Issues; Governance; Legal Decision Making; Legal Mobilization and Conceptions of Justice; and Litigation and the Legal Profession.

The LSS program offers several modes of funding, including support for graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and research faculty in both the social science and law school academies. The program is particularly interested in enhancing its support of JD/PhD scholars in the law school academy, as outlined in the Dear Colleague Letter referenced above and detailed on the LSS program website.

SUBMISSIONS/FURTHER INFORMATION: Questions regarding the LSS program or proposal submissions may be directed to the program officers, Dr. Christian Meissner (cmeissne@nsf.gov) or Dr. Susan Sterett (ssterett@nsf.gov)