Oñati IISL Newsletter - Boletín del IISJ-Oñati 19

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Oñati-IISL Newsletter – 19 – 2005Read our Web Page – http://www.iisj.es

192005Spring

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Oñati-IISL NewsletterBoletín del IISJ-Oñati

International Institute for the Sociology of LawInstituto Internacional de Sociología Jurídica

Institut international de sociologie juridiqueLege Soziologiako Nazioarteko Erakundea

IISL/IISJ � Antigua Universidad s/n � A.P. 28 � 20560 Oñati � GIPUZKOA ESPAÑA • Tel. [34] 943 78 30 64 • Fax [34] 943 78 31 47 • Correo-e: [email protected]

DOS GRANDES SALTOS ADELANTETodo el mundo tiene en gran estima el Instituto de Oñati por tratarse

de un santuario alejado de la febril y cruel vida académica. Esperamos queel Instituto prosiga siendo un enclave pacífico, pero la permanencia delsantuario está a punto de llegar a su fin. Pero no por accidente o por regalo,sino como resultado de enormes esfuerzos de bastante gente del Institutoo cercana al mismo. Hablo del reconocimiento oficial de nuestro programade Master y el título de Master por la Universidad del País Vasco, y de laPrimera Conferencia Socio-Jurídica Europea.

El 26 de mayo de 2005, la reunión del Consejo rector de laUniversidad del País Vasco decidió reconocer oficialmente el MasterInternacional en Sociología Jurídica ofrecido por el IISJ, un programa deMaster que en el futuro caminará sobre la base legal de un acuerdo entreestas dos instituciones. Convirtiéndose en parte del sistema educativovasco (y español), se solucionan muchos de los problemas que teníamosanteriormente, gracias al reconocimiento de las notas y certificados delMaster. A la vez se resuelven los anteriores problemas de participación enlos programas de becas académicas domésticas e internacionales. Todoslos futuros estudiantes del Master sacarán provecho de este logro, y sustítulos recibirán (entre otros) la firma del Rector.

Puesto que no deseábamos esperar hasta la próxima reunión delConsejo del IISJ, hemos tenido que consultar, vía correo electrónico, atodos sus miembros para obtener su completo apoyo. Semejante colabo-ración hemos logrado de nuestros colegas y las autoridades académicas dela Universidad del País Vasco, y nada se hubiera conseguido sin elentusiasmo y la actividad de mi sucesor, Joxerramon Bengoetxea.

Otro logro tendente al mayor reconocimiento académico es laPrimera Conferencia Socio-Jurídica de Europa, que se celebrará los días6, 7 y 8 de julio de 2005. El programa (ver abajo en este Boletín) evidenciauna amplia agenda de investigación, y muestra que ha llegado la hora deconstruir una identidad europea en nuestras áreas de investigación. Todosestamos de acuerdo, en Europa, de que los congresos de la Law & SocietyAssociation y las investigaciones llevadas a cabo por nuestro colegas deNorteamérica alcanzan el más alto nivel en Sociología Jurídica. Noobstante, el reconocimiento de este nivel académico no significa necesa-riamente una identificación automática con la elección de los temas deinvestigación y la aceptación de presunciones, interpretaciones y méto-dos. El acontecimiento de Oñati puede convertirse en el punto de arranquede una poderosa Sociología del Derecho Europea. El Instituto estáplanteándose albergar un Congreso similar, en un futuro próximo, conespecial énfasis en Latinoamérica y su identidad socio-jurídica.

De nuevo, este Congreso es el resultado del esfuerzo combinado demucha gente, pero la persona que me gustaría mencionar en primer planoes la organizadora de reuniones del Instituto, Malen Gordoa Mendizábal.Como todos saben, todo irá bien siendo ella la encargada.

31 de mayo de 2005 Volkmar Gessner

TWO BIG JUMPSEverybody loves the Oñati Institute for being a niche far away from

the hectic and cruel academic life. We hope the Institute will remain apeaceful place but the niche existence has definitely come to an end. Notas an accident or as a gift but as the result of enormous efforts by quite anumber of people in the Institute or close to it. I am talking about theofficial recognition of our Masters program and our Masters degree by theUniversity of the Basque Country and the First European Socio-LegalConference.

On the 26th of May, 2005, the Governing Board meeting of theUniversity of the Basque Country decided to officially recognize theInternational Masters in Sociology of Law offered by the IISJ, a Mastersprogramme which in the future will be run on the legal basis of anAgreement between these two institutions. Becoming part of the Basque(and Spanish) educational system solves many of the problems we hadwith the recognition of our grades and Master certificates in the past. Thisalso resolves past issues with participation in domestic and internationalscholarship programmes. All future Master students will profit from thisachievement. Their titles will receive (amongst others) the signature of theRector.

Since we did not want to wait until the next IISJ Board meeting wehad to consult with all Board members via email in order to attain fullsupport. Equally supportive were our colleagues and the academic au-thorities of the University of the Basque Country - and nothing would havebeen achieved without the enthusiasm and activity of my successor,Joxerramon Bengoetxea.

Another jump toward further academic recognition is the FirstEuropean Socio-Legal Conference, to be held July 6-8, 2005. Theprogramme (see below in this newsletter) gives evidence of a broadresearch agenda and shows that the time has come to build a Europeanidentity in our field of study. We all in Europe agree that the Con-gresses of the Law & Society Association and the research output ofour US-American colleagues have the highest standard in the Sociol-ogy of Law. But recognition of this academic standard does notnecessarily mean an automatic identification with the choice of re-search topics and acceptance of assumptions, interpretations, andmethods. The Oñati event may become the beginning of a strongEuropean Sociology of Law. The Institute is already planning to hosta similar conference in the near future with an emphasis on LatinAmerican legal culture.

Again, this conference is a combined effort of many people but theperson I should mention in the first place is the Institute’s meetingorganizer Malen Gordoa Mendizabal. As everybody knows, nothing willgo wrong if she is in charge.

May 31, 2005 Volkmar Gessner


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REPORT - INFORME

AURRERANZKO BI JAUZI HANDI

Mundu guztiak dauka estimu handitan Oñatiko Institutuabizitza akademiko gogor eta krudeletik aldendutako santutegia delako.Espero dugu Erakundeak gune baketsua izaten jarraitzea, bainasantutegiaren iraupena amaierara iristekotan dago. Baina ezustekabean edo norbaiten opariagatik, Erakundeko edo hurbilekopertsona askoren ahalegin izugarrien emaitza gisa baizik. GureMasterraren programa eta Masterreko titulua Euskal HerrikoUnibertsitateak ofizialki onartzeaz eta Europako LehenengoKonferentzia Sozio-Juridikoaz ari naiz.

2005eko maiatzaren 26an, Euskal Herriko UnibertsitatekoZuzendaritza Taldeak LSNEk eskaintzen duen Lege-SoziologiakoNazioarteko Masterra ofizialki onartzea erabaki zuen, etorkizuneanbere ibilbidea bi erakunde horien arteko lege-oinarrian egingo duenMaster-programa. Euskadiko (eta Espainiako) hezkuntza-sistemarenparte bihurtuz, aurrez geneuzkan arazo asko konpontzen dira,Masterreko notak eta ziurtagiriak onartzeari esker. Etxeko etanazioarteko beka akademikoetako programetan parte hartzeko aurrekoarazoak ere konpontzen dira. Masterreko etorkizuneko ikasle guztiekaterako dute lorpen horretatik probetxua, eta beren tituluek (bestebatzuen artean) Errektorearen sinadura izango dute.

LSNEko Kontseiluaren hurrengo bilera arte itxaron nahi ezgenuenez, kide guztiak posta elektronikoz kontsultatu behar izanditugu babes osoa lortzeko. Gure kideetatik eta Euskal HerrikoUnibertsitateko ikasketa-aginpideetatik izugarrizko lankidetza lortudugu, baina ezer ezin izango litzateke lortu nire ondorengo denJoxerramon Bengoetxearen gogo eta jardunik gabe.

Ikasketek onespen handiagoa izatera daraman beste lorpen bat2005ko uztailaren 6, 7 eta 8an ospatuko den Europako LehenengoKonferentzia Sozio-Juridikoa da. Programak (ikus Buletin honetan)ikerketa-agenda handia agertzen du, eta gure ikerketa-alorretanidentitate europar bat eraikitzeko garaia iritsi dela adierazten du.Guztiok ados gaude, Europan, Law & Society Association kongresuaketa Iparramerikako gure kideek egindako ikerketek dutela Lege-Soziologiako mailarik altuena. Baina ikasketa-maila horrenonespenak ez du nahitaez esanahi ikerketa-gaien aukeraketarekinautomatikoki identifikatzea edo iritziak, interpretazioak eta metodoakonartzea. Oñatiko gertakaria Zuzenbidearen Europako Soziologiarenabiapuntu boteretsua bihur daiteke. Erakundea etorkizun hurbileanantzeko Kongresu bat antolatzea pentsatzen ari da, Latinoamerikaneta lurralde horren identitate sozio-juridikoan arreta berezia jarrikoduena.

Berriz ere, Kongresu hori jende askoren ahaleginaren emaitzada, baina bereziki aipatu nahi dudan pertsona Erakundeko bilera-antolatzailea da, Malen Gordoa Mendizabal. Dakizuen moduan, guztiaondo joango da arduraduna bera bada.

2005eko maiatzak 31 Volkmar Gessner

DEUX GRANDS BONDS EN AVANT

Tout le monde aime l’Institut d’Oñati parce qu’il est un havre depaix loin de la vie académique, si cruelle et agitée. Nous espérons quel’Institut restera toujours un endroit paisible, mais la permanence duhavre de paix est définitivement révolue. Non pas par accident ou suiteà un cadeau, mais grâce aux énormes efforts fournis par un certainnombre de personnes de l’Institut ou proches de lui. Je veux parler dela reconnaissance officielle par l’Université du Pays Basque de notrecours de Master et de notre diplôme de Master et de la premièreConférence Européenne de Sociologie Juridique.

Lors de sa réunion du 26 mai 2005, le Conseil de l’Université duPays Basque a décidé de reconnaître officiellement le Master Interna-tional de Sociologie Juridique de l’IISJ, un programme de master quidésormais s’appuiera sur la base légale d’une convention entre cesdeux établissements. Le fait d’intégrer le système éducatif basque (etespagnol) résout les nombreux problèmes que nous avons eus pour lavalidation de nos notes et nos diplômes du Master dans le passé. Cecirésout également la question de la participation dans les programmesde bourses nationaux et internationaux. Tous les futurs étudiants duMaster bénéficieront de cette validation, et leurs diplômes se verrontapposer (entre autres) la signature du Recteur.

Comme nous n’avons pas voulu attendre jusqu’à la prochaineréunion du Conseil de l’IISJ, nous avons dû consulter tous lesmembres du Conseil par e-mail afin d’obtenir leur soutien. De plus, lacollaboration de nos collègues et des autorités académiques de l’Uni-versité du Pays Basque a été précieuse, et rien n’aurait pu être réalisésans l’enthousiasme et l’activité de mon successeur, JoxerramonBengoetxea.

Un autre bond vers une plus ample reconnaissance académiqueest la première Conférence Européenne de Sociologie Juridique, quiaura lieu du 6 au 8 juillet 2005. Le programme (voir ci-dessous dansce bulletin) est impressionnant : il prouve que le moment est venu deconstruire une identité européenne dans nos domaines de recherche.En Europe, nous sommes tous d’accord pour affirmer que les congrèsde la Law and Society Association et que les travaux de recherchesocio-juridique de nos collègues nord-américains sont du plus hautniveau. Mais la reconnaissance de ce niveau académique n’impliquepas nécessairement une identification automatique avec le choix desthèmes de recherche et l’acceptation des hypothèses, des interpréta-tions et des méthodes. L’événement d’Oñati pourrait être le point dedépart d’une sociologie juridique européenne forte. L’Institut pensedéjà à organiser un congrès similaire qui mettra l’accent sur la culturesocio-juridique latino-américaine.

Une fois de plus, ce Congrès est le résultat de l’effort combinéde nombreuses personnes, mais la personne que je voudrais citer enpremier lieu est l’organisatrice de réunions de l’Institut, Malen GordoaMendizabal. Comme tout le monde le sait, avec elle tout ira bien.

31 mai 2005 Volkmar Gessner


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EUROPEAN CONFERENCE

Tuesday 5th July

15:00 - 18:00 Registration at the Administration Office18:00 - 19:00 Opening Session19:00 Welcome cocktail

Wednesday 6th July

09:00 - 10:00 Late Registration

10:00 - 11:45 1 FEATURED SESSIONS

Room 1 1.1 THE AMERICAN VS EUROPEAN WAY OFLAW? (chair: David Nelken)

• Antoine Garapon• Wolf Heydebrand• Robert Kagan

Room 2 1.2 LAW AND LEGALITY IN ‘NEW EUROPE’(chair: Grazyna Skapska)

• Anders Fogelklou• Jacek Kurczewski• Jiri Priban• Grazyna Skapska

Room 3 1.3 CLASSICAL EUROPEAN SOCIOLOGY OFLAW (chair: Reza Banakar)

• Yves Dezalay (introducing Bourdieu)• Alex Ziegert (introducing Luhmann)• Pierre Guibentif (introducing Habermas)

Room 4 1.4 THE TRANSFORMATION OF EU LAW.INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL CAUSES ANDEFFECTS (chairs: Joxerramon Bengoetxea, GerdWinter)

• Gerd Winter - European legal contributionsto global governance: the case of naturalresources

• Matt Harvey - The new European Common-wealth

• Joxerramon Bengoetxea - The silentConstitution: governance of the EU

• Victoria Jennet - The Transformation of sub-state nationalism in conflicted societies: theImpact of European Constitutionalism

• Cristina Reale - The Interactions betweenNational Courts and Luxembourg Courts.The Italian case

11:45 - 12:15 Break

12:15 - 13:15

Aula Magna Keynote Speaker:• Roger Cotterrell (London) - Images of ‘Europe’

in Sociolegal Traditions

13:15 - 15:00 Lunch break2 OTHER SESSIONS

15:00 - 16:30

Room 1 2.1 THE TRANSFORMATION OF EU LAW.INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL CAUSES ANDEFFECTS (Continuation of session 1.4) (chairs:Joxerramon Bengoetxea, Gerd Winter)

EUROPEAN WAYS OF LAWFirst European Socio-Legal Conference

Oñati, July 6-8, 2005

Preliminary Programme

Room 2 2.2 NEW SOCIO-LEGAL PERSPECTIVES INCONFLICT RESOLUTION AND DISPUTEMANAGEMENT (chair: Luigi Cominelli)

• Brendan Edgeworth - Landlords, Tenants andJustice Delivery: Courts and Tribunals Compared

• Ivan Pupolizio - Neighbourhood Mediation inItaly: Ideologies and Practices

• Lisa Webley - Civil Court Based Mediation inBirmingham, UK - What Do We Learn ofCourt Annexed ADR?

• Barbara Nagle - US Perspectives on ConflictResolution Education

Room 3 2.3 INTERNATIONAL AND EUROPEAN HUMANRIGHTS (chair: Paavo Uusitalo)

• Corinne Elizabeth Skarstedt - Maximising the Effectsof the International Covenant on Economic, So-cial and Cultural Rights: (Un)spinning Europea’sSocial Model Amidst Social (In)security

• Cecilia MacDowell - Transnational HumanRights Advocacy and Global Judicialization

• Dicle Kogacioglu - How to End and Continuethe ‘State of Exception’?: ConstitutionalPolitics in Post-2001 Turkey

• Renée Römkens - Gender, Islam and the roleof international human rights law

Room 4 2.4 DEVELOPMENTS AND DIRECTIONS IN LAWAND POPULAR CULTURE STUDIES (chair:Peter Robson)

• Guy Osborn• Steve Greenfield• Norma C. Connolly - The Pedagogy of Law

Related Films in Legal Studies Curriculum

16:30 - 17:00 Break

17:00 - 19:00

Room 1 2.5 NEW SOCIO-LEGAL PERSPECTIVES INCONFLICT RESOLUTION AND DISPUTEMANAGEMENT (chair: Luigi Cominelli)(Continuation of session 2.2)

• Tamara Relis - Parallel Worlds of Mediation:Legal versus Lay Perspectives

• Lidia Cristea - Aspects of the higher educationmanagement concerning the labour conflictsresolution at different employees

• Dave Cowan and Caroline Hunter - ‘Is that it?’:Reflections on the role of District Judges

• João Pedroso - The judicial and the non-judicial: the construction of a new relationship

Room 2 2.6 JUDGES AND THE JUDICIARY - AEUROPEAN COMPARISON (chair: Heike Jung)

• Jaanika Erne - European Judges InterpretingDelegated Sovereignty

• João Paulo Dias - Judges and Public Prosecutors:European models of professional organization,management, discipline and evaluation

• Wannes Rombouts - Judicial Involvement inLaw-Making


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• Michael Bohlander - Judicial Recruitment andPromotion in Germany - An Empirical Study

Room 3 2.7 SOCIO-LEGAL ASPECTS OF EUROPEANCOMMUNITY LAW (chair: Jacek Kurczewski)

• Bogusia Puchalska - European CommunityLaw and Social Integration of Europe

• Judy Fudge - Multivalent Legal Regimes andNew Employment Norms in Europe

• Bettina Lange - What is law in EuropeanUnion (EU) integration?

• Brian Jack - The Social Implications ofEnvironmental Regulation in Agriculture

Room 4 2.8 SOCIOLOGY OF LAW AS NORM SCIENCE(chair: Håkan Hydén)

• Åström Karsten and Lina Carlsson - PublicProcurement as a Tool toward SustainableDevelopment - Methodological Explorationsof a Science of Norms

• Annika Reijmer• Per Wickenberg - Norm Supporting Structures

and Actors at the very Local Level ofImplementation (Norm Science)

• Matthias Baier• Eva Friis• Charlotte Agevall - Conceptions of

togetherness An analysis of conceptions aboutthe normative gender structures from afeminist and science of norms perspective

• Jean-Pierre Dénapé - Strategic norms in armedconflict resolution: the paradox of politicaland international legal norms aspectschallenging human and peoples rights in theglobalization process

• Anna Piasecka and Pietro Saitta - InvisibleNorms in International Law. Thecontribution of norm science inunderstanding the normative process withinimplementation of European immigrationlaw

21:00 Dinner

Thursday 7th July

09:00 - 11:00

Room 1 2.9 LAW, JUSTICE AND SOCIAL CHANGE INTHE 21ST CENTURY. A COMPARATIVEVIEW OF EUROPEAN SYSTEMS (chairs:Stephan Parmentier, K.U.Leuven & Jean VanHoutte)

Room 2 2.10 DISPUTE RESOLUTION OF SMALL &MEDIUM SIZED ENTERPRISES (SME) INBUSINESS COOPERATIONS (chairs: AndreasFurrer, Hadumoth von Escher & Per-Anders Havnes)

Room 3 2.11 CROSS-CULTURAL FERTILIZATION OFEUROPEAN LAW (chair: Wolf Heydebrand)

• Martin Hardie - Law in the Age of ImmaterialLabour - European, American or mere life?

• Edward Phillips - Changes and Choices:Common Law, European Law and the Non-European Commonwealth

• Vito Breda - European ConstitutionalMultinationalism: a new model of socialcohesion?

• Lino Rizzi - Is voting a liberty or an obligation?• Doina Balahur and Paul Balahur - The

discontent of European modern law:Restorative justice developments in a pluralistEurope

• Michelle Veljanovska - Fostering Reconcilia-tion: the European Union’s Influence of Rec-onciliation Processes in The former Yugosla-via

Room 4 2.12 SOCIOLOGY OF LAW AS NORM SCIENCE(chair: Håkan Hydén) (Continuation of session 2.8)

Room 5 2.13 NEW SOCIO-LEGAL PERSPECTIVES INCONFLICT RESOLUTION AND DISPUTEMANAGEMENT (chair: Luigi Cominelli)(Continuation of session 2.2)

11:00 - 11:30 Break

11:30 - 12:30

Aula Magna Keynote Speaker:• Richard Münch (Bamberg) - American and

European Forms of Social Theory

12:30 Guided tour

13:30 - 15:30 Lunch break

15:30 - 17:00

Room 1 2.14 THE IMPACT OF EUROPEAN LAW ONGENDER QUESTIONS (chair: Ulrike Schultz)

• Konstanze Plett - European Human Rightsand the Construction of Gender through Law

• Ulrike Schultz - The Impact of European Lawon the Legal Situation of Women in Germany

• Reza Banakar - EC Law and the Right toEqual Treatment in Sweden

• Harriet Silius - Gender Equality and EuropeanLaw in Finland

• Malgorzata Fuszara - The impact of EuropeanLaw on the legal situation of women in Poland

• Isabel Marcus - Dark Numbers: DomesticViolence, Law, and Public Policy in Russia,Poland, Romania and Hungary

• Lidia Seceleanu - The Impact of EuropeanLaw on the Juridical Situation of Woman inthe European Countries

Room 2 2.15 EUROPEAN LEGAL TRADITIONS IN THEEUROPEAN COMMON LEGAL SPACE (chair:Vittorio Olgiati)

• Andrea Brighenti - Immigrants as the realEuropeans

• Franz Belvisi - The ‘Common ConstitutionalTraditions’ and the Integration of EU

• Antonios Platsas - ‘A history and a criticalassessment of Europe’s legal systems andtraditions: The old, the older and the newregime and the parallel development of thetechnical, doctrinal and cultural layers ofEurope’s legal traditions throughout theyears.’

• Ralf Rogowski - The European Social Modeland Coordination of Social and EmploymentPolicies

• Anna Di Robilant - A genealogy of Soft Law• Vittorio Olgiati - Law as Instrumentum Regni.

A study on the notion of “Common EuropeanLegal Tradition”


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Room 3 2.16 LAW, GOVERNMENT ANDTECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION (chair:Bettina Lange)

• Bärbel Dorbeck - Jung and Mirjan van Heffen-Oude Vrielink - How can legal regulationsafeguard scientific-technologicalinnovations?

• Helen Stout - The role of law in technologicaltransitions

Room 4 2.17 CROSS-CULTURAL FERTILIZATION OFEUROPEAN LAW (chair: Wolf Heydebrand)(Continuation of session 2.11)

Room 5 2.18 LAW AND LAWYERS BETWEENDEMOCRATIZATION ANDGLOBALIZATION - THE SOUTH KOREANCASE

• Kuk-Woon Lee• Dai-Kwon Choi• Sang-Hee Han

17:00 - 17:30 Break

17:30 - 20:00

Room 1 2.19 THE IMPACT OF EUROPEAN LAW ONGENDER QUESTIONS (chair: Ulrike Schultz)(Continuation of session 2.14)

Room 2 2.20 EUROPEAN LEGAL TRADITIONS IN THEEUROPEAN COMMON LEGAL SPACE (chair:Vittorio Olgiati) (Continuation of session 2.15)

Room 3 2.21 EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES ONAMERICAN LEGAL CONSCIOUSNESSSTUDIES (chair: Marc Hertogh)

• Dave Cowan - Legal Consciousness: SomeObservations

• Lieve Gies - Blame It On The Media? LegalConsciousness and the Everyday Experienceof Law

• Rosie Harding - Constructing Rights toEquality: Legal Consciousness and Lesbianand Gay Rights

• Marc Hertogh - A ‘European’ Conception ofLegal Consciousness

Room 4 2.22 ¿DE QUE HABLAMOS CUANDO HACEMOSREFERENCIA A LA NORMALIZACION DELFENOMENO SOCIAL DE LAS DROGAS?(chairs: Xabier Arana and Iñaki Markez)

• Xabier Arana• Acambi• Aitzol Azpiroz• Martin Barriuso• Txus Congil• Eusebio De la Huerga• Lutxi Iturriaga• Iñaki Markez• Iñaki Martínez• Ignacio Muñagorri• Ana Pertika• Nekane San Miguel• Iker Val• Amando Vega

Room 5 2.23 INMIGRATION, STATE POLICIES AND CUL-TURAL DIVERSITY (chair: Amparo Ballester)

• Amparo Ballester - Current challenges of themigration policy in Spain

• Vikki Bell - Protecting Children, GoverningChildhood: Reading the Laming Report

• Mihaela Vancea - Multiculturalism andParadoxes of Immigrant Integration: TheCase of Newcomer Arab Immigrants inMalmö,Sweden

• Esra Ozyurek - Mimesis and Alterity inTreatment of Islamic symbols in Europe andTurkey

• Anna Carline & Alexandra Pimor- Ways ofBelieving: Negotiation of Identity in theManifestation of Religious Belief

• Iker Barbero - Immigrants’ participation: alook to associationism in the Basque Country

20:00 Concert by “Ganbara Abesbatza”

20:30 Dinner - Basque Gastronomic Society

Friday 8th July

09:00 - 11:30

Room 1 2.24 MASS VICTIMISATION AND POST-CONFLICT JUSTICE (chairs: Stephan Parmentier& Elmar Weitekamp, K.U.Leuven)

Room 2 2.25 LAW AND LAWYERS IN THE CONSTRUC-TION OF EUROPE: HISTORICAL AND CON-TEMPORARY ISSUES (chairs: Mikael RaskMadsen & Iyiola Solanke)

Room 3 2.26 SOCIO-LEGAL ASPECTS OF EMERGINGGLOBAL LAW (chair: Malcolm Feeley)

• Volkmar Gessner - Globalization of enablinglaw

• Terence Halliday - The Recursivity of Law:Global Norm-Making and National Law-Making in the Globalization of CorporateInsolvency Regimes

• Geoff Leane - Socio-legal currents inInternational Law theory

Room 4 2.27 INDIVIDUAL PAPERS (SESSIONS TO BEARRANGED) (chair: Mavis Maclean)

• Alexandru Pintea - Prevention and fight againstthe information technology crimes

• Alexandru Pintea - Elements of PenalProcedure in Cases of Informatic Crimes

• Sara Blandy and Judy Nixon- Fragmentedregulation: rent arrears, housing benefit andthe courts

• David Lowe - Policing Crime in the EuropeanUnion

• Stewart Field and David Nelken- The Culturesof Youth Justice: A Comparison of Italy andWales

• Olorunfemi Danda - An Exploratory Study ofEconomic and Financial Crimes Commission[EFCC], Abuja Nigeria

• Jing Li - Village Tension and Legal Aphasia -Questions analyzing for China Legal Reform

11:30 - 12:00 Break

12:00 - 13:00

Aula Magna Keynote Speaker:• Boaventura de Sousa Santos (Coimbra) - Law,

Colonialism and Post-Colonialism

13:00 Lunch


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WORKSHOPS

WORKSHOPS CELEBRADOS DURANTE EL AÑO 2005 Y HASTA LA PUBLICACIÓN DEL BOLETÍN

WORKSHOPS THAT HAVE TAKEN PLACE IN 2005 UNTIL THE PUBLICATION OF THE NEWSLETTER

Normativa / Guidelines for 2007: http://www.iisj.es

Democracia Participativa yDesarrollo Humano1 – 2 Marzo 2005

Parte-Hartuz es un equipo de investigación cons-tituido por diversos profesores/as e investigadores/as dela Universidad del País Vasco - Euskal HerrikoUnibertsitatea que tratan de responder a tres ejes deintervención: investigación, formación y difusión de lasposibilidades, modalidades, problemas y potencialida-des de los procesos de participación ciudadana en EuskalHerria, especialmente en el ámbito local.

En el marco de este objetivo, en el SeminarioInternacional en “Democracia Participativa y DesarrolloHumano” participaron casi un centenar de profesores/as,responsables políticos y técnicos.

Tomaron parte Pedro Ibarra, con Participación yPoder, Quim Brugué presentó la metodología

Paisaje Ciudadano, Delito y Percepción de la Inseguridad: Investigación Inter-disciplinaria del Medio Urbano7 - 8 Abril 2005

participativa de elaboración del Proyecto de Estatuto de Catalunya. Dimensiones del Poder y del Gobierno, y Manuela Fernández, que incorpora lasreflexiones sobre el concepto de Ciudadanía a partir de la experiencia de Cabezas de San Juan.

Yves Sintomer presentó la ponencia Presupuestos participativos como instrumento de transformación?, en la que hizo un repaso al desarrollo deeste tipo de experiencias a nivel mundial, y Bonneto presentó un marco general de análisis de la participación ciudadana en contextos de exclusión socialcomo los de América Latina.

Diana Segovia se acercó a la puesta en marcha de las estrategias de sostenibilidad en América Latina; Renée Jablkowski abordó las dimensionesmás psicológicas de la participación en el desarrollo individual; y José María Puppo apuntó algunas dimensiones centrales de la participación comoinstrumento de desarrollo local.

Durante los días 7 y 8 de abril veinticinco investigadores sobre el fenómeno del control social en el medio urbano pertenecientes adistintas disciplinas (geógrafos, arquitectos, abogados, psicólogos y antropólogos, entre otros) se reunieron bajo el auspicio del InstitutoInternacional de Sociología Jurídica de Oñati (País Vasco). Allí pusieron en común un buen número de reflexiones sobre metodología,herramientas tecnológicas y conceptos con los quese trabaja. Asistieron personas de Portugal, Argen-tina, Francia, Estados Unidos, México y de todo elEstado Español.

Así, han surgido de la reflexión un grupo deapuntes provisionales, entre los que se destacan lanecesidad de reforzar el carácter interdisciplinariode la investigación del fenómeno y la importancia deque se reconozca como derecho de los investigado-res, en una sociedad democrática, el de acceder a losregistros relativos a la actividad relativa a la seguri-dad pública.

Los investigadores han asumido el compromiso deconstituir una red que permita tanto emprender activida-des en común como gestionar espacios de intercambio dedocumentación, datos y conclusiones. El primer desafíopara llevar a la práctica este compromiso es la publica-ción de un volumen con los trabajos y las conclusionesdel seminario, que esperamos estén disponibles a finalesde este año.


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WORKSHOPS

Constitutional Reconstruction in Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan28 - 29 April 2005

The workshop organized by Said Arjomand (SUNY, Stony Brook and Princeton University) and Dicle Kogacioglu (Sabanci University, Istanbul)brought together scholars whose papers focused on a number of themes that are key for understanding processes of political reconstruction in Turkey,Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan.

Respuestas a la Exclusión: Políticas e Inmigracion, Interculturalidad y Mediación14 – 15 Abril 2005

Los días 14 y 15 de abril se celebró en Oñati unWorkshop sobre Respuestas a la Exclusión: Políticas deInmigración, Interculturalidad y Mediación, al cual acu-dieron diferentes expertos procedentes de Buenos Aires,Madrid, Valencia, Andalucía, Catalunya y País Vasco.

En este workshop se encontraron diferentes perso-nas que en los últimos años han elaborado diferentes eimportantes documentos, han reflexionado, o han venidoparticipando desde su actividad profesional docente,desde organismos sociales de intervención o desde lainvestigación desde campos como la Sociología, el De-recho, Psiquiatría y psicología, la Mediación, la Antro-pología y la Pedagogía, aportando iniciativas sobre cues-tiones relativas a la inmigración, sus desafíos y respues-tas aun pendientes.

Debatieron cuestiones tan variadas como Inmi-gración, retos en la comunicación entre diferentes comu-nidades, Desigualdades y discriminación a través de laNormativa de extranjería, los Procesos de exclusiónsocial de la población inmigrante, la Asistencia ainmigrantes, la Mediación y la interculturalidad, algunosaspectos SocioPolíticos relativos a los derechos en lalegislación, la Ética del mediador en los contextos

interculturales, Políticas públicas, la acción social y mujeres inmigrantes: los modelos de intervención. las Políticas de inmigración y control de flujosmigratorios, la participación y la ciudadanía, la cuestiones de género en las Políticas de Inmigración, el impacto de estas, las Leyes de Extranjería máshumanitarias.

El desplazamiento de inmigrantes, jóvenes principalmente, hacia los países desarrollados es un fenómeno universal, de gran actualidad y de cuantíacreciente en nuestra área geopolítica europea. Emigrar forma parte del afrontamiento contra las desigualdades y el desequilibrio, necesitando establecerseen otros lugares.

Linda Darling covered the historical background,while Nathan Brown offered a comparative analysis ofthe Middle Eastern process of constitution-making. Thetwo papers on human rights by Ann Mayer and KarimaBennoune were thematic, while those by Andrew Arato,Said Arjomand, Dicle Kogacioglu, Saad Hamid (whocould unfortunately not be with us because of difficultconnections between Kabul and Bilbao), Barnett Rubinand Hootan Shambayati, though implicitly or explicitlycomparative, were case studies of one of the four countries.The discussion focused on the historical making ofconstitutionalism in the comparative context of the MiddleEast, political and cultural foundations that may haveshaped the form that constitutionalism(s) have taken, theeffects of international actors, institutions, and processesin relation to different types of national elites, the politicaland legal effects of Islamist movements and of variousways in which ‘Islam’ as such appears in constitutionaltexts.

The enthusiasm of the participants has led SaidArjomand to take on the role of editor for a book to besubmitted to IISL this summer.


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El Estado de los Sistemas deJusticia en Centroamérica:

Un Balance de 20 añosde Reformas

12 – 13 Mayo 2005

Los días 12 y 13 de mayo de 2005, el InstitutoInternacional de Sociología Jurídica de Oñati celebró elWorkshop “El estado de los sistemas de justicia enCentroamérica: un balance de 20 años de reformas” enel que participaron diferentes académicos, investigado-res y funcionarios procedentes del InstitutoInteruniversitario de Estudios de Iberoamérica y Portu-gal (Universidad de Salamanca), del Área de CienciaPolítica y de la Administración (Universidad deSalamanca), del Instituto Europeo de Florencia (Italia),del Instituto de Estudios Comparados en Ciencias Pena-les (Guatemala) de la Agencia Española de CooperaciónInternacional (AECI) del Banco Interamericano de De-sarrollo (BID) y del Programa de Naciones Unidas alDesarrollo (PNUD).

La finalidad del Workshop fue una evaluación de las distintas agendas de reforma judicial en los países del istmo centroamericano, en términos deindependencia judicial, acceso a la justicia, el papel de los organismos de cooperación internacional, y las dificultades teóricas y metodológicas dedefinición y medición de los conceptos que caracterizan a un rendimiento ideal de Sistema de Administración de Justicia

The Legal Complex andPolitical Liberalism2 – 6 May 2005

Convened by Terence Halliday (American BarFoundation), Lucien Karpik (Ecoles des Mines, Paris)and Malcolm Feeley (University of California, Berkeley),scholars from mature and developing democracies met toadvance comparatively and theoretically the scholarshipon lawyers’ involvement in the advance towards anddefense of political liberalism. The Workshop definedpolitical liberalism in terms of a moderate state, civilsociety, and the core rights of citizenship (e.g., the basicfreedoms of speech, movement, association, due process,property rights, etc.). The workshop examined the role ofthe legal complex (i.e., professions with legalqualifications, such as lawyers, judges and legalacademics) who mobilize on behalf of change in theadvance or retreat of political liberalism in four historicalcontexts: (1) countries where political liberalism was ormay now be under construction de novo (e.g., Franco’s

Spain, Turkey, Korea, Taiwan, China); (2) countries that recovered political liberalism from an earlier period (Hungary, Chile); (3) countries where somefoundations of political liberalism may have been lay down during colonial eras (e.g. Hong Kong, Egypt, Latin America); and (4) mature democraciesthat demonstrate their vulnerabilities when confronted with terrorism, organized crime, and the like (France, Italy, U.S., Israel).

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WORKSHOP CALENDAR / CALENDRIER DE RÉUNIONSCALENDARIO DE REUNIONES / BILEREN EGUTEGIA2006

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April5 - 7

Abril10 - 11

Abril27 – 28

May4 - 5

Mayo11 – 12

May17 - 19

May25 - 26

June1 - 2

June8 – 9

June15 - 16

June22 - 23

Uztaila / Julio3 – 7

July10 – 12

Septiembre18 - 19

COORDINADORES

Volkmar Gessner (Germany-Oñati)

Jordi Grané i Ortega (Barcelona)Sonia Miguel (Barcelona)

Alfonso De Julios (Sevilla)Nuria Belloso (Sevilla)

Marc Hertogh (The Netherlands)

Xabier Arana (Donostia)Iñaki Markez (Galdakao)

Emilio Viano (USA)

Tonia Novitz (United Kingdom)Colin Fenwick (United Kingdom)

María Palma Wolff (Brasil)Sérgio Salamao (Brasil)Salón de Carvalho (Brasil)

Joxerramon Bengoetxea (Gasteiz -Oñati)José Palacio González (Donostia)

Iñaki Soto (Oiartzun)Ekai Txapartegi (Oiartzun)

Sandra Fredman (United Kingdom)Cathi Albertyn (United Kingdom)Judy Fudge (United Kingdom)Saras Jagwanth (United Kingdom)

Zientzi Zuzendaria / Director Científico

Sally Sheldon (United Kingdom)Maria Drakopolou (United Kingdom)Rosemary Hunter (United Kingdom)

Antonio Pedrals (Chile)

TITULO DEL “WORKSHOP”

Legal Certainty beyond the State?Autonomous Structures in Glo-balized Exchange Processes

Diálogos apreciativos: elsocioconstruccionismo en acción

¿Hacia un paradigma cosmopolitadel derecho: pluralismo jurídico,ciudadanía y resolución de conflictos

Living Law: Rediscovering EugenEhrlich

Evaluación de políticas y programasrelacionadas con el fenómeno socialde las drogas en la Unión Europea

International Criminal Justice in theAge of Globalization

Legal Protection of Workers’ HumanRights: Regulatory Changes andChallenges

Sistemas Punitivos en AméricaLatina: Perspectiva Transdisciplinar

The Transformation of Europe 2

Sovereignty, Secession and the Rightto Self-Determination: Challenges tothe International Law

Equality as a social right: towards aconcept of substantive equality incomparative and international law

Udako Ikastaroa / Curso de Verano

Revisiting Equality

Iniciativas individuales para elmejoramiento de la convivencia. Unenfoque socio-jurídico

LENGUA/S PRINCIPAL/ES

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Castellano

Castellano

English

Castellano

English

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Castellano/Portugués

English

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Castellano

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RESIDENCE GRANTS / BECAS DE RESIDENCIA

YDIL AYBARS (Northern Ireland)2 November 2004 - 2 February 2005

I have stayed at the IISJ during three months between November 2004 and February 2005as a Residence Grant holder. My objective in applying for this grant was to carry out part of myPhD project on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men in Employment in the EuropeanUnion (EU).

This project compares four EU Member States, one of which is Spain, in terms of their socialpolicy structures and their conceptualisations of gender equality in general, with a view toquestioning whether or not the increasing EU presence in the field of gender equality leads to agradual erosion of the boundaries between the different welfare systems of the EU Member States.

It is thus an attempt to explore the socio-legal aspects of European integration, as opposed to its economic and political aspects, which have beenmuch more widely discussed. In this regard, the starting point of my study is the now classical typology of four different welfare regimes withinWestern Europe, namely, Liberal/Anglo-Saxon, Continental/Conservative, Scandinavian/Social-democratic, and Mediterranean types. Spain hasbeen selected as the country exemplifying this latter, Mediterranean, or Southern, type.

This Residence Grant provided me with an excellent opportunity to begin my actual research process, after a year of intensive literaturereview, in one of the most peculiar and characteristic examples of the Southern welfare regimes. By offering a wide range of library resourcesboth in English and in Spanish on the related topics, it has certainly broadened my outlook on the particular case of Spain. It is of utmost significancefor a comparative researcher to be able to access the documents written in the native language of the country under consideration. Here, the firstpoint I should thus stress is the opportunity offered to me through this Grant to be able to access many articles on this issue in the IISJ library,which offers immense resources on socio-legal topics.

Secondly, as part of my research, I had the chance to interview a number of key informants, i.e. academicians working on the issue, in Spain,and the location of Oñati and transport facilities have helped a lot when I realised daily travels to other cities. This opportunity, again, would neverbe possible if I did not have the chance to spend three months here. Overall, then, the research period I have spent at the IISJ has been invaluablefor the future of my project.

MERCEDES CALZADO (Argentina)3 - 29 Enero 2005

El trabajo de investigación bibliográfica en el IISJ se inscribe en el proyecto deinvestigación en torno a las significaciones sociales de la noción de inseguridad urbana.

La búsqueda en el Centro de Documentación resultó una herramienta fundamental parafortalecer el contenido teórico y metodológico del proyecto y la futura tesis de maestría, así comoel aporte de otras experiencias de análisis en la problemática de la construcción mediática de lasensación de inseguridad a trabajos de investigación grupales en el ámbito del Instituto deInvestigaciones Gino Germani de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad de BuenosAires.

El Centro de Documentación se encuentra organizado de manera interdisciplinaria y eso fue de gran utilidad para conocer con más detalleslas diversas miradas, abordajes epistemológicos, teóricos y metodológicos en torno al tratamiento mediático de la inseguridad y a la construcciónsocial de dicha percepción. En este sentido considero que conocer investigaciones de grupos de trabajo de otros contextos sociales sobre el mismotópico, amplió mis márgenes de abordaje del novedoso modo de construcción del delito en tanto inseguridad y los modos de categorización dela figura del delincuente, ambos en tanto construcciones significantes. La dificultad de encontrar la gran mayoría de estas investigaciones en loscentros de documentación argentinos, le da una mayor relevancia a la investigación bibliográfica realizada en Oñati.

En este sentido, se han cumplido los objetivos principales de la estadía en El IISJ ya que he podido relevar gran parte de la bibliografía referidaal binomio “seguridad-comunicación” para que luego ésta se inserte en el contexto de investigación local. La bibliografía trabajada y recolectadase vincula tanto al modo de construcción mediática de la idea de inseguridad, como a los modos de generación histórica de lo real en distintosescenarios sociales.

Es importante señalar brevemente que el trabajo sobre mi tema particular en el Centro de Documentación se enriqueció a partir delintercambio de experiencias de investigación con los estudiantes de la maestría del IISJ. La posibilidad de conocer trabajos y proyectos deinvestigación realizados por estudiantes de contextos sociales y políticos tan diversos como los que existen en la cohorte, fue de gran utilidad parareflexionar sobre mi propio objeto de estudio a partir de miradas de distintos intereses, disciplinas y escenarios locales.

COMENTARIOS DE ALGUNAS PERSONAS A LAS QUE SE LES CONCEDIÓ LA BECA DE RESIDENCIA2004-2005

COMMENTS OF SOME VISITORS WHO WERE AWARDED THE RESIDENCE GRANT 2004-2005

Solicitudes / Applications 2006-2007: http://www.iisj.es


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RESIDENCE GRANTS / BECAS DE RESIDENCIA

AUGUSTINE PARK (Canada)13 January - 28 March 2005

The International Institute for the Sociology of Law has been an excellent space forwriting and researching for my dissertation, offering a unique space for contemplation.

Situated in the beautiful mountain town of Onati, the Institute has been an invaluable partof my intellectual development. The Library provides remarkable resources for graduatestudents and faculty, offering both depth and breadth in key sociolegal fields of inquiry. TheLibrary is strong in theoretical, methodological and substantive resources, and has allowed meto develop existing interests while growing new curiosities. During my stay I spent virtuallyevery day in the Library, and shall miss my desk! However, it was not the Library alone thatcontributed to my intellectual growth while in Onati. Rather, my experience of the town wasalso important. In addition to its considerable beauty – nestled among green and jaggedmountains with a creek winding around the town’s venerable, antique buildings – Onati is aculturally and politically fascinating town, and is a mere stone’s throw (well, bus ride) awayfrom other Basque jewels.

The three months I spent in Onati were devoted to research on various aspects of myresearch, and I took particular advantage of the considerable wealth of children’s rights,postconflict, restorative justice, and reconciliation literatures.

Many thanks to the IISL, the Scientific Director (Volkmar Gessner), Malen and the otherstaff, who have been so kind and helpful.

SANNA HYTTINEN (Finland)1 - 23 March 2005

First of all, I would like to thank Scientific Director professor Volkmar Gessner and theInternational Institute for the Sociology of Law for awarding me the residence grant thatenabled my visit to Oñati. Second, I would like to thank the library staff for their kind helpespecially in getting books from other libraries. Special thanks are due to Malen GordoaMendizabal who not only helped me with my travel arrangements but let me know about theresidence grant in the first place.

My research deals with the justiciability of economic and social rights. Even though it isa rather juridical topic, the research has several aspects with which the materials of the IISLLibrary are of great help. The Institute library had enlarged greatly since the time I did theMaster’s programme in 1996-1997. I had done some database searches via the Internet alreadyin Finland, but still I was able to find more material than what I was expecting.

First, I was able to find Spanish materials, both books and articles that deal specificallywith my research topic. Second, the library proved to be helpful also with regard to one of themain contestations concerning the justiciability of economic and social rights - the practicabilityof judicial protection. Third, the so-called principle of progressive realisation means that whenit comes to the determination of the content of and to the interpretation of economic and socialrights human rights indicators and benchmarks plays a significant role. In this regard I foundvaluable materials concerning e.g. statistics and their role in judicial decision-making. Fourth,every research has to be placed into a more general context.


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MASTER'S

Joxerramon Bengoetxea, Oñati, UPV, & Volkmar Gessner,Oñati, Bremen (3 – 7 October)

Comparative Law and Legal Cultures

Reza Banakar UK (10 - 21 October 2005)Introduction to the Sociology of Law

This course introduces some the important theoretical and empiri-cal developments within the sociology of law by exploring three interre-lated themes. It explores how sociologists have used law to study thedistinctive features of modernity, postmodernity and globalised condi-tions; it examines how policymakers have viewed and employed law toregulate behaviour and social developments; and finally it examines howsociology has been used as part of an attempt to transform law, legaleducation and legal research.

Angela Melville, UK (24 October - 11 November 2005)Socio-Legal Research: Theory and Practice

This course will critically evaluate the relationship between lawand society through the application of socio-legal theory and methods.Students will examine the theoretical underpinnings of socio-legal re-search, including the differences between quantitative and qualitativeresearch. They will also develop an understanding of the variety ofapproaches and methods used in socio-legal research. This understandingwill be underpinned by an examination of the methods, findings andimplications of a range of socio-legal research projects that examine therole of legal institutes in society.

Ben Sloot, Netherland (14 - 25 November 2005)The Sociology and Politics of Affirmative Action

This is a very tentative outline of the topics I would be dealing with.Obviously, it will have to be furnished with relevant sociological litera-ture. Compared to the ocean of literature about the normative bases ofaffirmative action, there is however only a limited body of empiricalstudies about this subject. Yet the emphasis in this course will fall onempirical sociological studies and theories.

Mikael Madsen, Denmark & Antoine Vauchez,France (28 November - 9 December 2005)

The Production of International Legal Fields:Theoretical and Empirical Approaches

The course seeks to explore the complex relationship betweenState, legal orders and international centers of law production with a

Master’sCourses

2005-2006

starting-point in extensive empirical studies of the production of interna-tional legal fields conducted in recent years. The focus will particularly beon the processes taking place at the crossroads of transnational networks,local and international power struggles, as well as the impact of theentrepreneurship of individual actors or collective entities.

Badrinath Rao, India (12 - 23 December 2005)The Sociology of Law in South Asia

The objectives of this course are as follows: To provide a broadoverview of the complex interplay of social structures and legal institu-tions in the countries of South Asia. To offer a nuanced analysis of theimpact of socio-economic, political, and cultural forces and structures onthe institutionalization of the rule of law in post-colonial South Asia. Toexplore the peculiarities of jurisprudence and the unique challengesinvolved in the dispensation of justice in societies where traditions ofcanonical laws and modern legal sensibilities are often at variance witheach other.

Sergio López Ayllon, Mexico (9 - 20 January 2006)Constructing and Implementing Public Policy and Regulation

Jeremy Sarkin. South Africa (23 January - 3 February 2006)Transitional Justice

Transitions from repressive rule to democracy have become aworldwide phenomenon. In most cases, the displaced regimes werecharacterized by massive violations of human rights. All countries intransition have to solve similar problems: should or must they punishhuman rights violations committed under old order? Is an amnestyperishable and necessary in the interest of peace and inner unity? Doessociety need an official accounting and acknowledgement of the wrongsof the past?

Issi Rosen-Zvi, Israel (6 - 17 February 2006)Law, Space and Society

At the center of the course lies the question of the relationshipbetween the space we live in – the material, the social and the mental – andour legal system. Does space construct the law, is it constructed by the law,or maybe they shape each other. Philosophical, sociological, and politicaltheories, as well as city planning schemes were developed in order tounderstand the way space influences both the human subject and its socialforms of organization.

Francisco Javier Caballero, Iker Barbero (defending thesis) Volkmar Gessner & Pedro Ibarra.


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MASTER'S

Terence C. Halliday, USA (20 February - 3 March 2006)Law, Markets and Globalization

This course examines law in the context of recent economic andsocial trends (dubbed “globalization”) which have increasingly integratedthe world’s social and economic systems. Globalization occurs as interna-tional flows of capital, goods, services, and people increase. These flowsare sustained and regulated by an institutional foundation that typicallycenters on the legal system. As part of globalization, particular legal andinstitutional forms are also spreading throughout the world.

Heike Jung, Germany (6 - 17 March 2006)Judges and Decision Making - An Intercultural Comparison

Judges have for long been on the agenda of scholarly interest. Inparticular, judicial discretion, the recruiting of judges, lay participa-tion or, more generally, the impact of the different procedures on the

position of the judge have been a matter of discussion and also asubject of empirical studies. In the mean-time, new issues have comeup and call for a re-appraisal of the role of judges and the judiciary,namely the political role of the judge, questions of evaluation andaccountability as well as of alternatives to traditional forms of litiga-tion.

Maureen Cain, UK, (21 - 31 March)Crime and Globalisation

Juan Ignacio Ugartemendía & Maite Zelaia,UPV (14 November - 31 March)Legal and Political Institutions

of the Basque Country and Spain in the EU context(Wednesday Optional Afternoon Course)

La Universidad del País Vasco, en su Reunión del Consejo Rectordel 26 de mayo de 2005 ha decidido reconocer oficialmente elMaster internacional de Sociología Jurídica que es ofrecida por elInstituto Internacional de Sociología Jurídica en Oñati como untítulo propio de la Universidad del País Vasco.

El Instituto Internacional de Sociología Jurídica y la Universidad delPaís Vasco han mantenido una larga historia de colaboración a travésde un Acuerdo bilateral que ha estado operativo durante algunosaños. Por virtud del nuevo Acuerdo aprobadoen el Consejo Rector de la Universidad, la Universidad incorporaahora formalmente el Master Internacional de Sociología Jurídicaofrecido por el Instituto.

Leioa, 26 de mayo de 2005

Juan Ignacio Pérez IglesiasRector de la Universidad del País VascoEuskal Herriko Universitateko errektorea

President of the University of the Basque Country

The University of the Basque Country, in its Governing BoardMeeting of 26 May 2005 has decided to officially recognize the

International Master in Sociology of Law which is offered by theInternational Institute for the Sociology of Law at Oñati as its own

title of the University of the Basque Country.

The Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law and theUniversity of the Basque Country have had a long history of

collaboration through a bilateral Agreement which has been inoperation for some years. By virtue of a new Agreement approved

by the Governing Board of the University, the University nowformally incorporates the International Master Course in Sociology

of Law offered by the Institute.

Leioa, May 26, 2005

Juan Ignacio Pérez IglesiasPresident of the University of the Basque Country

Rector de la Universidad del País VascoEuskal Herriko Universitateko errektorea

Master’s official title Título oficial del MasterMaster’s official title Título oficial del Master

ARCHER, Angela ................................................................. Santa Barbara, USA

ACAR, Ali ..................................................................................... Ankara, Turkey

DREIER, Sarah ....................................................................... Evanston IL. USA

FRLETA, Branka ............................................................................ Zadar, Croatia

CHANG, Maurice Hong-Cheng .............................................. Taichung, Taywan

McDONOUGH, John ................................................................ Goleta, CA. USA

MIREMADI, Seyed Kaveh Nasser .............................................. Irving, CA. USA

SZYMELFEJNIK, Milena Kamila ............................................ Gizycko, Polonia

MÜLLER, Ulrike ........................................................................ Berlin, Germany

MUSTAFAYEV, Nurlan ............................................................. Baku, Azerbaijan

OÑORBE, Cristina ......................................................................... Madrid, Spain

ROUT, Shyama Prasad .................................................................. Cuttack, India

MASTER’S STUDENTS

2005/6

URETA, Janelle ......................................................................... Goleta, CA. USA

ORTUÑO, Ivonne ............................................................... Mexico D.F., Mexico

BARTLEY, Jennifer .............................................................. Santa Barbara, USA

DAKA, Auxensio .......................................................................... Lusaka, Zambia

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2004-05 Master’s students with Prof. Angela Melville and friends of Oñati in footballcompetition.


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LIBRARY / BIBLIOTECA

The IISL library and documentation centre are now well established asone of the key reference sources for sociology of law researchers.

The number of guest lecturers, Master’s course students, postgraduatestudents, doctorate students and researchers who visit us is increasing year byyear. Similarly, the number of different countries from which these visitorscome is also growing steadily, and now encompasses all five continents.

The fact that it is now possible to consult the bibliographical databasesover the Internet, through the link www.iisj.es/bdiisj, has contributed notice-ably to ensuring that visitors are already familiar with our library resourcesprior to their arrival in Oñati.

Currently, the number of books and documents available in the librarytotals over 14,000. A concerted effort has been made to increase the diversityof the collection, as regards both country of origin and the geographical areaon which new acquisitions focus, always within the framework of sociologyof law.

As regards periodicals, two hundred publications are received on aregular basis. We have complete collections of the twenty or so specialistsociology of law magazines, as well as those relating to the most importantsister disciplines. A list of magazine collections which focus mainly onsociology of law is available on the IISL’s website, through the library link‘user services’.

This increase in the library’s resources has inevitably led to the currentproblem of lack of space, a problem we hope to resolve in the medium term bysetting up new storage rooms.

We are currently in the process of inventorying and transferring part ofthe resources to a new room. The collection of grey literature or unpublishedmaterial that has been scanned has been saved in digital format only, a decisionwhich has freed up space in our rooms for monographs from some of thespecialist theme-based sections of our library.

Library and Documentation Centre

La biblioteca y el centro de documentación del IISJ se han consolidadocomo una de las fuentes de referencia de la comunidad de investigadores de lasociología del derecho.

El número de profesores visitantes, alumnos del Master, estudiantes depostgrado, doctorandos e investigadores que nos visitan se mantiene en uncrecimiento sostenido. Igualmente, los países de procedencia se han idodiversificando hasta alcanzar los cinco continentes.

El hecho de que la consulta a las bases de datos bibliográficas ya estéaccesible en el enlace www.iisj.es/bdiisj , ha contribuido de manera notable aque los usuarios que nos visitan ya conozcan de antemano nuestros fondos.

Actualmente, el número de ejemplares disponibles en la bibliotecaascienden a más de 14.000 monografías. Se ha hecho un esfuerzo en aumentarla diversidad tanto del país de origen como del ámbito geográfico del que seocupan las nuevas adquisiciones, siempre dentro del foco de interés de lasociología del derecho.

En cuanto a las publicaciones periódicas, se reciben de manera regulardoscientos títulos. Disponemos de las colecciones completas de la veintena derevistas especializadas en sociología del derecho, y de las más relevantes delas disciplinas relacionadas. El listado de las colecciones de revistas cuyo temacentral es la sociología del derecho están accesibles en la página web del IISJ,en el enlace de la biblioteca “servicios a usuarios”.

Este crecimiento de los fondos bibliográficos ha conducido de manerainevitable al actual problema de espacio, que esperamos poder resolver amedio plazo con el acondicionamiento de nuevas salas de depósito.

Actualmente nos hallamos en pleno proceso de inventario y simultánea-mente de traslado de parte de los fondos a una nueva sala de depósito. Lacolección de literatura gris o material no publicado, que se ha escaneado, hapasado a guardarse sólo en formato digital. Esta medida ha liberado espacio ennuestras salas para acoger a las monografías de algunas de las secciones de laclasificación temática especializada que utiliza la biblioteca.

Biblioteca y Centro de Documentación


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Healing the Wounds. Essays on theReconstruction of Societies after WarEds. Marie-Claire Foblets & Trutz von Trotta

In recent decades the world has experienced the rise of so-called “law

intensity conflicts”. Unlike conventional wars these very bloody armed

conflicts are no longer the affairs of state governments and their armies. In

their place appear police-like armed units, security services and secret

services, and bands of mercenaries. For the practice of peace, this kind of war

has far-reaching consequences. The authors examine various paths to peace

and reconciliation in low intensity conflicts. The articles shed new light not

only on ways and chances of interventions by the international community

but also on the role of nongovernmental organisations in violent conflicts.

Imaginary Boundaries of Justice. Socialand Legal Justice across DisciplinesEd. Ronnie Lippens

It has become increasingly difficult to grasp the notion of social or legal

justice in an age when words have left their moorings. Perhaps images are

more stable that words; maybe images and imagery possess a certain

viscosity, even a sensory quality, which prevents them from evaporating.

This “maybe” is what this book is about. The contributors to this collection

explore the issue of how the imaginary has a role in the productions and

reproduction of “visions” of legal and social justice. It argues that “visions”

of justice are inevitably bounded. The book captures an emerging interest in

images and the visual, or the Imaginary more broadly.


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Proyección social del derecho y clínicas jurídicasen las Universidades de América del siglo XXIEd. Antonio Peña Jumpa

El conjunto de trabajos del presente libro presenta una variedad de temas de

debate como: ¿Qué se entiende por proyección social del derecho? ¿Qué se

entiende por clínica jurídica? ¿Cuál es la relación entre la proyección social

del derecho y las clínicas jurídicas? ¿Cuál es su relación con la formación del

abogado y su perfil profesional? ¿Cuál es la relación con las instituciones del

Estado? Estos encuentros ayudan a afianzar redes y alianzas que deben ser

profundizadas. Conocer y compartir las experiencias de los diferentes países

y universidades de América y otros continentes puede ayudar a obtener

respuestas más seguras a las anteriores interrogantes.

Igualdad de oportunidades e igualdad de género:Una relación a debateEds. Mª Angeles Barrère & Arantza Campos

En este libro se abre el debate sobre el papel desempeñado por el Derecho

en el logro de la igualdad de género. Se analiza el binomio subjetividad-

ciudadanía para la consecución del igualitarismo. Se contempla asimismo

el papel de las acciones positivas y las cuotas de mujeres en cargos de

representación política. Se analizan también la transversalidad de género,

el asunto de la prostitución, tema polémico dentro de feminismo, la

discriminación institucional, la incidencia de los medios de comunicación

en la igualdad, y como broche final, la aportación de la figura de “Agente

para la igualdad de oportunidades”.

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