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       RCSL 2006 Meeting at Durban
       ISA World Congress of Sociology

 


RCSL Sessions   (version circulated January 2006)
 

13 sessions (including the business meeting), 50 papers

Sessions 1 and 2: WG - Social and Legal Systems (and Legal Professions)

Sessions 3 and 4: WG - Socio-Legal Theory and Method (and Law and Linguistics)

Sessions 5 and 6: WG - Human Rights in Transition session

Sessions 7, 8 and 9: New Forms of Regulation

Session 10: WG - Legal Cultures

Session 11: WG - Family Law

Session 12: WG - Disputing Behavior in Comparative Perspective

Session 13: WG - Business meeting

 

 

Session One: Democracy and Transitional Justice”

Chair: Mahmood Mamdani, Columbia University, USA 

Session Two: „Beyond the Rule of Law”

Chair: Grażyna Skąpska, Jagiellonian University, Kraków

Session Three: „Social Devastation and Dilemmas of Reconstruction”

Chair: Ari Sitas, University of Durban, South Africa

 



 

Sessions 1 and 2          [back to contents]

Social and Legal Systems (and Legal Professions)

Chair: Vittorio Olgiati

 

1.Prof. Vittorio Olgiati, University of Urbino, Italy

Email: <olgiati@soc.uniurb.it>

 

2. Hjalmar Newmark

Email: hjalmarnewmark@yahoo.com

No title or abstract

 

3. Dr. Naomi Gale (Gal)

Email: <ngalelaw@yahoo.com>

Title: The “Jury System” and the Israeli Judiciary system

 

4. Luigi Cominelli

Email: Luigi.Cominelli@unimi.it

Title:  The WTO Dispute Settlement System in action. First empirical observations.

 

5.

MARIA CRISTINA CARDOSO PEREIRA

Email: <cristinapereira03@uol.com.br>

Title:  FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, UNIONS AND THE SUPREME COURT IN BRAZIL(1995-2002)

 

6. Dr. Max Travers

E-mail:  max.travers@utas.edu.au

Title: Sentencing in the children’s court: An ethnographic perspective

 

 

7. Philip MILBURN

Email: milburn@neuf.fr

Title: French professional magistrates: claims for autonomy in a context of judicial system evolutions

 

8. Érika Fontánez Torres

efontanez@law.upr.edu

efontaneztorres@hotmail.com

Title: The interaction of meanings:  the irritation of the legal system
in the categorization of citizen participation.

 

9. Ulrike Schultz 
Title: "Do women judge differently." 
e-mail: Ulrike.Schultz@FernUni-Hagen.de

 

10. Yifat Holzman-Gazit and Bryna Bogoch
Email: bogocb@mail.biu.ac.il
Title: The Court, the Press and the Pilot: Discourse of gender 
and National Security in the Converge of an 
Israeli Supreme Court Decision
 

 

Sessions 3 and 4          [back to contents]

Socio-Legal Theory and Method

Chair: Reza Banakar

 

 

1 . Jan Winczorek

Email: Jan.Winczorek@aster.pl

Title:  Grundrechte als pouvoir? On some affinities between luhmannian and foucaultian understanding of rights.

 

2.  Ronaldo Macedo

Email: <ronaldo.macedo@terra.com.br>

 Title: The sociology of contract interpretation in Brazilian Law. Descriptive and normative aspects of a relational approach.

 

3. Andrea Brighenti

Andrea.Brighenti@unimi.it

Title: Visibility as a Socio-legal Category

 

4. Ali Acar

Email: acarali13@hotmail.com

Title:  One of the Forerunners of Sociology of Law “Savigny”

In this paper, I will try to explain Savigny´s theory with regards to its contributions to

 

6. Reza Banakar

rezabanakar@hotmail.com

 

7. Yves van Leynseele
 E-mail:
yves.vanleynseele@wur.nl

Title: 'New Models of Nature Conservation in Northern South Africa: Spaces for Negotiation or Exclusionary Scripts?'
 

8. Sigurd D'hondt

Email: Sigurd.Dhondt@UGent.be

Title: Negotiating agency while describing the 'facts' in a case of libel and resisting authorities

 

9. Håkan Gustafsson

Email: Hakan.Gustafsson@law.gu.se

"Legal sociology as normative jurisprudence or

jurisprudence as normative sociology?".

 

 

Sessions 5 and 6          [back to contents]

Human Rights In Transition session

Chair: Vincenzo Ferrari

 

1. Monica Errico, Università di Milano-Bicocca

Title: Capabilities and Human Rights: New Challenges for Law and Development Studies.

 

2.Michael Humphrey
Title: The Politics of Human Rights in Contemporary Argentina and South Africa

 3.
Dr. Victoria Jennett

Title: Peace Processes, Human Rights and Transparency

 

4. Roberto Cammarata

e.mail: cammarata@sociol.unimi.it

Title: The Rights of Indigenous People. The evolution of self-determination campaigns in the context of the new international policies of recognition.

 

5. Samir Naim Ahmed, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, Human Rights in a Globalizing World. Societies in Transition in Developing Countries (prov. title)

 

 

5. James T. Richardson,

Email:  jtr@unr.edu

Title:  Regulation of Minority Religions by Constitutional Courts in Former Communist Countries

 

6. Chiara Calderoni, Università di Milan, Italy, 
and Instituto Internacional de Sociología Jurídica, Oñati, País Vasco, Spain, 
The Rights to Italian Nationality of Argentinians 
of Italian Origin. A socio-legal approach (prof. title)

 

7. Letizia Mancini, Università di Milano, Italy, On Cultural Rights of Ethnic Minorities (prov. title)

 

8. Tamar Pitch, Università di Perugia, Italy, Rights to Safety and the Safety of Rights

 

9. Samir Naim Ahmed, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, Human Rights in a Globalizing World. Societies in Transition in Developing Countries (prov. title)

 

10. Ali Acar

Email: acarali13@hotmail.com

Title:  HUMAN RIGHT IN TRANSITION IN TURKEY UNDER THE PROCESS OF EU MEMBERSHIP

 

 

 

Sessions 7, 8 and 9        [back to contents]

New forms of Regulation

Chair: Max Travers

 

1. Vikki Bell, Goldsmiths –

Title:  ethical conduct in the Laming Report on the death of Victoria Climbie

 

2. Katherine O'Donovan, Queen Mary's, University of London –

Title: A Global Rule on Access to Medical Technologies.

 

3. George Pavlich, University of Alberta –

Title: Forensic Criminal Accusation and its Sovereign Exclusions

 

4. Adam Crawford, University of Leeds –

Title: The contractual governance of anti-social behaviour in the UK 

 

Session 8

5. Natacha Freitas and Carlos Casabona, University of the Basque Country

(natachafreitas@netcabo.pt).
Title: Pharmaceutical industry and Regulatory Actions of EU. The (bio) legal challenges and rules of European Commission and EMEA at a supranational level for medicinal products quality and safety

 

6. Bethany Spielman

Email: bspielman@siumed.edu

Title:  Judicial Review of Health Care Ethics Committees

 

7. Teresa Miller, State University of New York at Buffalo –

Title: New Penological Techniques in the Regulation of Immigration in the United States (abstract to be sent)

 

8. Dave Lewis, Middlesex University and Tina Uys (South Africa) - The Impact of Public Interest Disclosure Legislation: A Comparison between the UK and South Africa

 

Session 9

9. Rodrigo Ghiringhelli de Azevedo   
E-mail:
rgdeazevedo@uol.com.br

Title: THE EMERGING PARADIGM IN ITS MAZE:   
Notes for the improvement of the Criminal Special Courts in Brazil
 
 
10.
Frank Welz

welz@uni-freiburg.de

Title: The Quality of Law in a Globalising World

 

11. Chris Beyers

Email: <chrisbeyers@trentu.ca>

Title:  Narratives of entitlement in land claims forms in District Six

 

 

Session 10          [back to contents]

Legal Cultures

Chair: Marina Kurkchyian

 

1. Richard Barron Parker

Email: parker@shudo-u.ac.jp

Title: Language and Legal Culture in Japan.

 

2. Ken Salo

kensalo@uiuc.edu

Title: Contested Legalities in the Production of Post-apartheid South Africa’s Privatizing Seafood Fishery

              

3. Elin Cohen

elin.cohen@stanford.edu>

Title:

 

4. Musa Yusupov

Email: musa_y17@hotmail.com>

Title: Legal Culture in the Transforming Society

 

5. Marina Kurkchiyan, Oxford,
'Legal Culture: Abstraction, Method or Empirical Reality?'
Email: mkurkchiyan@hotmail.com

 

 

Session 11         [back to contents]

Family Law

Chair: Mavis Maclean and Jacek Kurczewski

 

1. Mavis Maclean

Email: <mavis.maclean@applied-social-studies.oxford.ac.uk>

 

2. Jacek Kurczewski

Email: <J.Kurczewski@uw.edu.pl>

 

3. Rukmini Sen

Email: <sen0691@dataone.in>

 

4. Winnie Kamau

Email: <wkamau@yorku.ca>

Title: LAW, PLURALISM AND THE FAMILY IN AFRICA: WHICH WAY FORWARD?

 

 

Session 12          [back to contents]

 

Disputing Behaviour in Comparative Perspective Chair: Masayuki Murayama  

 

1. Isamu Sugino, sugino@catnet.ne.jp  

 

2. Yoshiyuki Matsumura, matsumu@juris.hokudai.ac.jp  

 

3. Eugene Tan, eugene@smu.edu.sg  

 

4. Masayuki Murayama, muramasa@kisc.meiji.ac.jp    

 

 

 

Session 13        [back to contents]

Business Meeting

 

 
 

 

 

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