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Two PhD vacancies | Migration and the Family in Morocco | Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance & Society, Leiden, The Netherlands

The Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance & Society at the Leiden Law School currently has vacancies for two PhD candidates to work on “Migration and the Family in Morocco” as part of the  research project “Living on the Other Side”.

Both PhD projects will be carried out in Morocco. The aim is to gain a detailed understanding of the ways in which the legal rights of migrants are regulated, distributed, and claimed in the domain of family law by focusing on four Moroccan cities.

The project is led by Dr Nadia Sonneveld and funded by The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) by means of an Innovational Research Incentives Scheme, also known as the VIDI grant.

Deadline: 18 March 2019

 See more information and apply on the VVI website

 

Three post-doctoral positions | China, Law & Development Project | University of Oxford, UK

The China, Law and Development (CLD) project based at the University of Oxford is seeking three Post-Doctoral Research Associates (PDRAs).

CLD is a unique inter-disciplinary and multi-sited research project that aims to understand the nature of order that underlies China’s new globalism, an order that has multiple sources, one of which may be law. This project breaks new ground in analysing Chinese approaches to “law and development” in recipient or host states in the global South.

PDRAs will join an international research team in developing empirical data on China’s impact on law and development in host states. Each PDRA will be responsible for conducting a case study that examines different emergent formations of China’s globalism, working in field sites in Southeast Asia (e.g. Cambodia or Thailand), Central Asia (e.g. Kazakhstan or Tajikistan), or Africa and the Middle East (e.g. Algeria or the United Arab Emirates).

The posts would suit either a) social scientists (with training in sociology, anthropology, developmental economics, political science, etc.) who focuses on law, or b) legal scholars who are trained in social scientific methods. These are full-time posts, fixed-term for 28 months starting on 1 September 2019, and including a 12 month period of fieldwork.

For more details and to apply, visit the University of Oxford website

Deadline: 8 March 2019

LDRN Annual Conference 2019: confirmed keynotes, one week left to apply!

The Law and Development Research Network is pleased to announce the following confirmed keynote speakers for its 4th annual conference, “The Plurality of Law and Development”, to be hosted by Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, on 25 – 27 September 2019 :

Justice Madan Lokur (Former Judge at the Supreme Court of India), Prof. Katharina Pistor (Columbia Law School), Prof. David Trubek (University of Wisconsin Law School)

Only one week left to respond to the call for papers! Deadline: 15 February 2019 (decisions will be communicated in April)

See the conference website for more info on submitting your panel proposal (200 words), paper abstract (300 words), expression of interest (100 words) or travel stipend application (motivation letter + CV)

 

 

 

LDRN Publication Workshop for Early Career Researchers in Law & Development | University of Antwerp, Belgium | 25 – 26 March 2019

The LDRN Publication Workshop for Early Career Researchers in Law & Development will take place at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, on 25 – 26 March 2019. It is co-organised by the University of Antwerp Law and Development Research Group and Warwick University Law School, with the cooperation of Cardiff Law and Global Justice at Cardiff University.

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Most researchers in law aim to transform their doctoral theses into monographs. Monographs are often viewed as important scholarly milestones for any researcher, especially early career researchers (ECRs) and monographs remain important set pieces of legal scholarship and scholarship in humanities and social sciences. There is also growing interest in publishing the theses contained in a dissertation in stand-alone scholarly articles. The conversion of a doctoral dissertation into a monograph or stand-alone journal articles requires significant shifts, substantively and stylistically, and there are several challenges to overcome in this transition. 

This workshop, the first under the auspices of the Law and Development Research Network (LDRN), is aimed at bringing together a small group of early career law and development scholars who are in this transition stage to work together alongside more experienced colleagues in the field to develop their ideas and writing further, whether in terms of crafting a conversion project or writing. The workshop will be a combination of peer learning, directed and self-directed writing activities and sharing of experiences aimed at ECRs within the law and development field (broadly defined).

We welcome scholars who are engaged in the completion of a PhD thesis and its conversion, or potential conversion, into a monograph or stand-alone articles. There is no fee for attending the workshop but participants will need to cover their travel and accommodation costs. 

For any queries or to confirm your interest in attending, please contact Dr. Gamze Erdem Türkelli (gamze.erdemturkelli [at] uantwerpen.be) or Assoc. Prof. Dr. Celine Tan (celine.tan [at] warwick.ac.uk).

 The Workshop is supported by an OJO 2018-2019 (Support for Young Researchers) grant from the Antwerp Doctoral School (University of Antwerp).

ISS launches edited volume on the pedagogy of crises

On 25 January, the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) – a founding LDRN partner – launched ‘The Pedagogy of Economic, Political and Social Crises‘, a volume edited by Prof. Bob Jessop and Dr. Karim Knio and published by Routledge.

Crises have been studied in many disciplines and from diverse perspectives for at least 150 years. Yet recent decades have seen a marked increase in the crisis literature, reflecting growing awareness of crisis phenomena from the 1970s onwards. The volume responds to this mainstream literature with a number of key innovations and important insights into the pedagogy of crisis.

A number of ISS researchers contributed to this volume, including LDRN executive committee member Jeff Handmaker with a chapter on ‘The Legitimacy Crisis Within International Criminal Justice and the Importance of Critical, Reflexive Learning’.

For more information on this book, see the publisher’s website

Van Vollenhoven Institute & international partners launch TRAFIG empirical displacement research project

On 1 January 2019, research partners from Europe, Africa and Asia launched a new EU-funded Horizon2020 research project, TRAFIG (Transnational Figurations of Displacement), which aims to contribute to finding solutions to protracted displacement.

TRAFIG introduces a novel perspective by focusing on refugee’s connectivity and mobility as a part of the solution rather than part of the problem of protracted displacement situations. It will entail comparative empirical research in refugee camps and cities in Asia, Africa, and Europe.

Founding LDRN partner The Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance & Society at Leiden University will play a key role in this project, with LDRN member Dr Carolien Jacobs leading the empirical research focusing on displacement in Africa.

For more information on this project, see the Leiden University website.

 

EDOLAD Summer School | North-West University, South Africa | 3 – 8 March 2018

The EDOLAD (European Joint Doctorate in Law and Development) consortium is organising its first summer school at North-West University (NWU), South Africa, in the week 3-8 March 2019.

The programme is a combination of skills training and keynotes, panels and roundtables on pressing issues in the field of Law and Development. The skills training focuses on fieldwork and communication, and there are writing workshops with senior scholars. The summer school is designed for doctoral researchers and early career academics, and aims to bring together scholars, activists and government actors.

There is no fee for the summer school but participants need to fund their own travel and accommodation. We have six scholarships of up to €1000 each for doctoral researchers registered at African higher education institutions. The deadline for scholarship applications is 31st January. For more information about the school, please contact the EDOLAD programme director, Prof. Morag Goodwin (m.e.a.goodwin [at] uvt.nl).

Upcoming proposal deadline for LDRN annual conference (15 February 2019)

 

Proposals and expressions of interest for the 2019 LDRN annual conference are due on 15 February 2019 – don’t miss out!

See the call for papers or download it here

The 4th annual conference of the Law & Development Research Network –  “The Plurality of Law and Development” will be hosted by Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, on 25 – 27 September 2019

The conference aims to investigate the plural nature of law and development as a field of study, meaning and practice. As in prior conferences, it shall bring together a variety of researchers from the Global South and North who share an interest in law and development. We particularly encourage speakers from the Global South to participate and further pluralize the field and the network. We invite contributions to two tracks of themes:

  • Reflections about the ‘field’ of law and development

  • A general track open to any issue raised by proposals

For more details, download the call for papers 

Proposals can be for fully formed panels or individual papers. The organizers also invite expressions of interest for two additional formats, namely ‘Practitioner Conversations’ and ‘Book Launch Conversations’.

Applications for travel grants should be submitted together with the proposal.

For further information and proposal formats, please visit the conference website

LDRN member publications: December 2018 / January 2019

The following chapters, articles and/or other contributions were recently published by LDRN members: 

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Christoph Antons, ‘Copyright Law in Indonesia: From a Hybrid to an Endogenous System?’, in: John Gilchrist and Brian Fitzgerald (eds.), Copyright, Property and the Social Contract: The Reconceptualisation of Copyright, Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2018 (pp. 73-88)

Kinnari Bhatt,‘Chagos: A Chance for the ICJ to do more for advancing human rights through the rule of law?‘ QIL, Zoom-out 55 (2018) 85-92 (part of a series of articles ahead of the ICJ Advisory Opinion on the Chagos Archipelago)

Danny Bradlow, ‘World Bank president: list of reforms African states should be demanding‘, The Conversation, 21 January 2019    

Jeff Handmaker, ‘The Legitimacy Crisis Within International Criminal Justice and the Importance of Critical, Reflexive Learning‘, in: Bob Jessop & Karim Knio (eds), The Pedagogy of Economic, Political and Social Crises: Dynamics, Construals and Lessons, Routledge: London, 2018 (pp. 189–206)

Carolien Jacobs, ‘Seeking justice, experiencing the state: criminal justice and real legal uncertainty in the Democratic Republic of Congo‘, The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law, published online 14 January 2019

Bashar H. Malkawi, ‘Corporate Governance in Jordan: Role of the External Auditor‘, in: Dima Jamali, Virginia Bodolica & Yulia Lapina (eds), Corporate Governance in Arab Countries: Specifics and Outlooks, Virtus Interpress: Sumy, 2018 (pp. 179-203)

Edna Odhiambo, ‘Regulatory preparedness for non-motorised transport in Nairobi‘, in: Patricia Kameri-Mbote, Alexander Paterson, Oliver C. Ruppel, Bibobra Bello Orubebe, Emmanuel D. Kam Yogo (eds.), Law | Environment | Africa, Nomos: Baden-Baden, 2019 (pp. 201 – 220).

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LDRN members are welcome to announce their latest publications via this monthly list – please send references and links to the Editor by the final Monday of the month.

Preference goes to publications released in the past month over earlier ones.

Call for LDRN members’ monthly publication highlights

A monthly list of LDRN members’ publications is being compiled on the website to give visibility to individual members’ research and keep readers up to date on recent work.

If you are an individual LDRN member and would like to highlight a recent publication, please send references and/or links to the Editor by the final Monday of each month. 

Preference generally goes to publications released in the past month over earlier ones.  A combined December 2018/January 2019 list will be released at the end of this month.