CALL FOR PAPERS
IRISH SOCIETY OF
COMPARATIVE LAW
4th Annual General Meeting and Conference
Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd March 2012
Faculty of Law
University College Cork
Papers placing Irish law in comparative perspective are especially encouraged, but any topic in comparative or legal systems may be proposed: Private and Public Law, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, Taxation, Legal Education, Legal History, etc. Research in the area of Law and Language and Translation will be considered with interest. Papers on European or International law will also be considered.
The primary objective of the Irish Society of Comparative Law is to encourage the comparative study of law and legal systems. Students fully registered for a masters in law, or law-related area (LL.M, MA) are therefore encouraged to submit papers, and a special ISCL Young Researcher Prize will be awarded to the best paper delivered by a student in this category.
Proposal should be short (250 words) and sent to b.sage@ucc.ie.
The deadline for receipt of proposals is Tuesday 3rd January 2012. You do not have to be a member of the ISCL to propose a paper.
The Annual General Meeting and first plenary address by Dr Simone Glanert, University of Kent, will take place on Friday 2nd March. Conference sessions, the second plenary address (speaker TBC) and conference dinner will take place on Saturday 3rd March. Registration forms and additional information will be available shortly.
The Irish Society of Comparative Law was established in June 2008 and is recognised by the International Academy of Comparative Law. The ISCL is open to those interested in Irish and comparative law. Its purpose is to encourage the comparative study of law and legal systems and to seek affiliation with individuals and organisations with complimentary aims. Queries should be directed to the Secretary of the Society, Dr Bénédicte Sage-Fuller, Faculty of Law, University College Cork, at b.sage@ucc.ie.
Purpose
Thursday, September 22, 2011
LAW, LITERATURE, AND TRANSLATION CONFERENCE
TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN 9-10th of June 2012
There is no law without literature for law is also literature. Irish druids were not only poets: they were also invested with judicial authority. Still to this day, literature and translation of literature often deal with law, but very often the focus lies on the many ways of breaking the law. Especially in Ireland, poets and jurists are both celebrated and blamed for their talents in using words. Both are endowed with the power to charm their audience, sometimes at the cost of truth. The training of both a jurist and a poet involves a certain degree of self-characterization formed and influenced by culture. Law and literature, like all the humanities, share a common interest in the human experience and they look into what makes them specifically human. However, law aims at the clarity of an objective science whereas the power of literature and its translation rely on emotion and sensitivity of interpretation. Unlike what is expected from law, they feed on ambivalence, ambiguity, paradox and contradiction. Both Law and Literature are caught in the extensive possibilities but also the limitations of both written and spoken words. This conference aims to create an interdisciplinary dialogue between scholars of law, literature, and translation studies, and it seeks to explore the various interactions between these disciplines. It takes a broad approach to the fields of law, literature, and literary translation, welcoming papers considering key areas such as the following (and beyond):
· Law in literature
legal and criminal figures in literature
crime and punishment
writers and criminals
heroes and public offenders…
· Law of literature
censorship
freedom of expression
freedom of information
libel and defamation
ethics
publishing issues
copyright issues
· Law as literature
the rhetoric of law
the narrative of law
law as a performing art
staging law
law as performance
criminal confessions and jurists’ memoirs
legal reading and interpretation
translating law and comparative law
Law and translation Ownership
Copyright law
Questions of originality
An abstract of no more than 500 words should be emailed to Dr Peter Arnds (arndsp@tcd.ie) and Dr Sandrine Brisset (brissesm@tcd.ie) by the 1st of November 2011.
TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN 9-10th of June 2012
There is no law without literature for law is also literature. Irish druids were not only poets: they were also invested with judicial authority. Still to this day, literature and translation of literature often deal with law, but very often the focus lies on the many ways of breaking the law. Especially in Ireland, poets and jurists are both celebrated and blamed for their talents in using words. Both are endowed with the power to charm their audience, sometimes at the cost of truth. The training of both a jurist and a poet involves a certain degree of self-characterization formed and influenced by culture. Law and literature, like all the humanities, share a common interest in the human experience and they look into what makes them specifically human. However, law aims at the clarity of an objective science whereas the power of literature and its translation rely on emotion and sensitivity of interpretation. Unlike what is expected from law, they feed on ambivalence, ambiguity, paradox and contradiction. Both Law and Literature are caught in the extensive possibilities but also the limitations of both written and spoken words. This conference aims to create an interdisciplinary dialogue between scholars of law, literature, and translation studies, and it seeks to explore the various interactions between these disciplines. It takes a broad approach to the fields of law, literature, and literary translation, welcoming papers considering key areas such as the following (and beyond):
· Law in literature
legal and criminal figures in literature
crime and punishment
writers and criminals
heroes and public offenders…
· Law of literature
censorship
freedom of expression
freedom of information
libel and defamation
ethics
publishing issues
copyright issues
· Law as literature
the rhetoric of law
the narrative of law
law as a performing art
staging law
law as performance
criminal confessions and jurists’ memoirs
legal reading and interpretation
translating law and comparative law
Law and translation Ownership
Copyright law
Questions of originality
An abstract of no more than 500 words should be emailed to Dr Peter Arnds (arndsp@tcd.ie) and Dr Sandrine Brisset (brissesm@tcd.ie) by the 1st of November 2011.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
NOTICE: Joint Conference of the Irish Society for European Law and the United Kingdom Association for European Law
SAVE THE DATE
Reflections on the Role of European Law through the Financial and Economic Crisis
A Joint Conference of the Irish Society for European Law and the United Kingdom
Confirmed Line-up includes: STATE AID: Judge Aindrias Ó Caoimh, Court of Justice of the European Union; Leo Flynn, European Commission Legal Service; FINANCIAL REGULATION: Professor Takis Tridimas, Queen Mary University of London, School of Law; Nadia Calviño, Deputy Director General, DG Internal Markets and Services; Simon Crown, Clifford Chance London; LITIGATION: Judge Donal O'Donnell, Supreme Court of Ireland; Piers Gardner QC, Monckton Chambers; FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS: Judge John Cooke, High Court of Ireland; Peter Oliver, Legal Advisor to the European Commission in Brussels; Fernando Castillo de la Torre, European Commission Legal Service; Sir Francis Jacobs, Centre of European Law, King's College London; and Judge Nial Fennelly, Supreme Court of Ireland;
Friday, 18 November 2011
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