Program for International Socio-Legal Collaboration

Approved IRCs (2006-2007):

*After Public Interest Law: A Global Perspective on Lawyering Strategies for Social Transformation. Ruth Buchanan (University of British Columbia, CANADA) and Scott Cummings (UCLA School of Law, USA). A global exploration of public interest lawyers that focuses on (1) the response of public interest lawyers to international influences in domestic legal systems; (2) the emergence of transnational public interest practice; and (3) the transmission of public interest law models between countries

Participants: Paula Barrios (Las Andes Univ., Colombia), Helena Alviar (Las Andes Univ., Colombia), Oscar Vilhena Viera (Conectas, Brazil), Victor Abramovich (Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Argentina), Setsuo Miyazawa (Waseda Univ. School of Law, Japan), Cai Yanmin (Zhongshan Univ. School of Law, China), Rina Rosenberg (Adalah, Israel), Raymond Atuguba (Ghana Legal Resource Center), Cathi Albertyn (Univ. of Witswatersraand Law School, Centre for Applied Legal Studies, South Africa), Upen Baxi (Univ. of Warwick, UK), Ed Rekosh (PILI Hungary/Columbia Law School), Scott Cummings (UCLA School of Law, USA), Louise Trubek (Wisconsin Law School, USA), Manuel Gonzalez Oropeza (National University, Mexico City, Mexico), Sameer Ashar (CUNY School of Law, USA), Muneer Ahmad (American Univ. Washington College of Law, USA), Ann Southworth (Case Western Law School, USA), Lisa Hajjar (Univ. California at Santa Barbara, USA), Ingrid Eagly (Los Angeles Federal Public Defender, USA), Fran Ansley (Tennessee Law School, USA), Jennifer Gordon (Fordham Law School, USA), Jay Krishnan (William Mitchell Law School, USA), Beth Lyon (Villanova Law School, USA), Lucie White (Harvard Law School, USA), Ruth Buchanan (Univ. of British Columbia, CANADA), Christy Ford (Univ. of British Columbia, CANADA)

*Colonial South Asian Legal History. Mitra Sharafi (Sidney Sussex College, UK) and Elizabeth Kolsky (Villanova University, USA). An interdisciplinary study of the Indian legal system during the British colonial project that explores (1) 19^th century contract and labour legislation; (2) commercial regulation in India from late 19^th century to independence; (3) late colonial identity-formation through litigation; and (4) gender and law in late colonial north India.

Participants: Prabhu Mahopatra (Delhi University, India), Rob McQueen (Griffith University, Australia), Kriti Kapila (Cambridge University, UK), Stelios Tofaris (Cambridge University, UK), Mitra Sharafi (Cambridge University, UK), Elizabeth Kolsky (Villanova University, USA)

*Comparative Critical Visions of Law in the twentieth century: Europe and Latin America. Mauricio García Villegas (Centro de Estudios de Derecho Justicia y Sociedad DJS, COLOMBIA and UW Institute for Legal Studies, USA) and José Reinaldo de Lima Lopes (Instituto Brasileiro de História do Direito and Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, BRAZIL). Considers the potential for a new transnational critical legal movement by exploring two earlier “waves” of Western critical legal movements (1920s-1930s and 1960s-1970s) with a focus on 20^th century movements in Spain, Italy, France and Latin America. 

Participants: Antoine Vauchez (Sciences Po, Université Paris II, Université d’Amiens, International Institute for the Sociology of Law-Oñati, France), Martine Kaluzsynski (CNRS, France), María Paula Saffon Sanín (Universidad de Los Andes and Universidad del Rosario, Colombia), Paulo Macedo Garcia Neto (University of São Paulo Law School, Brazil), Thiago dos Santos Acca (University of São Paulo, Brazil), Mauricio García Villegas (Centro de Estudios de Derecho Justicia y Sociedad DJS, Colombia and UW Institute for Legal Studies, USA), José Reinaldo de Lima Lopes (Instituto Brasileiro de História do Direito and Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil)

Comparative Disputing Behavior. Masayuki Murayama (School of Law, Meiji University, JAPAN). Explores how cultural and institutional factors affect the perception of legal problems, claiming behavior, and subsequent disputing behavior in different countries, including both common law and civil law systems.

Participants: Hazel Genn (University College London, UK), Pascoe Pleasance (Legal Service Research Centre, UK), Albert Currie (Access to Justice and Legal Aid in the Department of Justice, Canada), Herbert Kritzer (University Wisconsin, Madison, U.S.), Shozo Ota (University of Tokyo, Japan), Masayuki Murayama (School of Law, Meiji University, Japan), Erhard, Blankenburg (Free University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands), Bert Niemeijer (Ministry of Justice, the Netherlands) and Marijke Ter Voert, (Ministry of Justice, the Netherlands).

Comparative Socio/Legal Approaches to Consumer Overindebtedness, Debt Adjustment and Insolvency. Johanna Niemi-Kiesilainen (Umeå University, Law, FINLAND), Iain Ramsay (York University Law School, Canada) and William C. Whitford (University of Wisconsin, Law, USA).  A comparative study of consumer overindebtedness that explores the role of international, regional and national interests and ideologies in shaping responses to consumer overindebtedness, such as insolvency/bankruptcy, informal adjustments and “responsible lending” (a preventive approach that limits loans to high-risk consumers).

Participants: Udo Reifner (University of Hamburg, Germany), Claudia Lima Marques (University Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porte Alegre RS, Brazil), Kent Anderson (Australian National University, Australia), Catarina Frade (Coimbra University, Portugal), Nadja Jungmann (Leiden University, Netherlands), Jean Braucher (University of Arizona, USA), Karen Gross (New York Law School, USA), Nathalie Martin (University of New Mexico, USA), Melissa Jacoby (North Carolina School of Law, USA), Adam Feibelman (University of North Carolina School of Law, USA), Christopher Peterson (University of Florida College of Law, USA), Johanna Niemi-Kiesilainen (Umeå University, Law, Finland), Iain Ramsay (York University Law School, Canada), William C. Whitford (University of Wisconsin, Law, USA),  Jason Kilborn (Louisiana State University Law Center, USA)

Gender and Judging. Sally J. Kenney (University of Minnesota, USA), Dermot Feenan (University of Ulster, N. IRELAND), and Ulrike Shultz (FernUniversität Hagen, GERMANY). An interdisciplinary comparative study of gender and judging that explores (1) whether women judges decide cases differently or produce different outcomes; (2) why it matters whether women serve in high judicial office,; (3) how current systems of judicial selection impede the appointment of women; (4) which campaigns in support of women judges have been most effective and why.

Participants: Marie-Claire Belleau (Laval University, Canada), Ivana Bacik (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland), Byrna Bogoch  (Bar Ilan University, Israel), Anne Boigeol (Institut d’histoire du temps présent, France), Jamie Cameron (Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada), Reg Graycar (University of Sydney, Australia), Rosemary Hunter (Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia), Beatriz Kohen (executive director of Latin American Task Force on Justice and Gender), Kate Malleson (Queen Mary College, University of London, UK), Kathleen Mahoney (University of Calgary, Canada), Mary Jane Mossman (York University in Toronto, Canada), Helen O’Sullivan (Griffith University, Brisbane Australia), Judith Resnik (Yale Law School, USA), Margaret Thornton (University, Melbourne, Australia), Guy Seidman ( Interdisciplinary Centre Herzliya, Israel), Lucinda Vandervort (University of Saskatchewan, Canada), Sally J. Kenney (University of Minnesota, USA), Dermot Feenan (University of Ulster, N. Ireland), Ulrike Shultz (FernUniversität Hagen, Germany)

Islamic Institutions and Legal Frameworks in New Lands. John R. Bowen (Washington University in St. Louis, USA) and Claire de Galembert (École Normale Supérieure, FRANCE).  A multi-country, ethnographic study of changing social, religious, and legal norms in Islamic institutions. Studies will include Canada, the US, Belgium and France.

Participants: Anne Saris (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada), Malika Zeghal (University of Chicago Divinity School, USA), Marie-Claire Foblets (University of Leuven, Belgium), Alexandre Caeiro (ISIM, Leiden, Netherlands), John R. Bowen (Washington University in St. Louis, USA), Claire de Galembert (École Normale Supérieure, France)

*Law and Counter-Hegemonic Globalization. Boaventura de Sousa Santos (University of Coimbra and University of Wisconsin-Madison, PORTUGAL) and César A. Rodríguez-Garavito (University of The Andes and University of Wisconsin-Madison, COLOMBIA).  Scholars and activists from North and South explore “counter-hegemonic globalization,” grassroots contestation of the spread of neoliberal institutions and the formulation of alternative legal frameworks by transnational advocacy networks (TANs) and the populations most harmed by hegemonic globalization.

Participants: Angelina Snodgrass-Godoy (University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.A.), Ronen Shamir (Tel-Aviv University, Israel), Cecilia Santos (University of San Francisco,  Brazil), Balakrishnan Rajagopal (MIT, India), Nina Pacari (National Indigenous Association of Ecuador, Ecuador), Paula Meneses (University of Coimbra, Portugal and Center for African Studies at the University Eduardo Modlane, Mozambique), Heinz Klug (University of Wisconsin Law School and University of the Witwatersrand South Africa), Azelene Kaingang (Director of the Waran Institute for Indigenous Affairs, Brazil), Manuel Jacques (Chile) is the President of the Latin American Institute for Alternative Legal Services (ILSA) and the Dean of the Bolivarian University Law School (Santiago), Andre Cristiano José (University Eduardo Modlane , Mozambique), João Arriscado Nunes (University of Coimbra, Portugal), Luis Carlos Arenas (Colombia), Boaventura de Sousa Santos (University of Coimbra and University of Wisconsin-Madison, Portugal), César A. Rodríguez-Garavito (University of The Andes and University of Wisconsin-Madison, Colombia)

Law and the Public-Private Dichotomy. Brian Gran (Case Western Reserve University, USA). Comparative study of U.S. and European law that explores how law is used in private domains inhabited by children and young people, focusing in particular on government intervention into private domains to shape minors’ abilities to control their bodies.

Participants: Kristin Kelly (University of Connecticut, USA), Jessie Hill (Case Western Reserve University , USA), Jon Kvist (Danish National Institute of Social Research, Denmark), Joanna Phoenix (University of Bath, England), Maya Sabatello (University of Southern California, Israel and United States), Eugeen Verhellen (Ghent University, Belgium), Brian Gran (Case Western Reserve University, USA)

*Lawyers in the Field of State Power. Yves Dezalay (CNRS, FRANCE) and Bryant Garth (Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles, USA).  A study of the relationship between lawyers and the construction of the field of state power through three phases in the development of law and the state: (1) the genesis of the state; (2) the “marketing” of legal legitimacy; (3) revamping legal legitimacy in struggles promoting greater autonomy for the law. 

Participants: Stephaine Balme  (CNRS, Hong Kong University), Randall Perenboom (UCLA), Seong-Hyun Kim (Seoul, Korea), Maria Malatesta (Italy), Antoine Vauchez (France), Antonin Cohen (France), Olie Hammerslev (South Denmark), Fabiano Engelman (UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil), Mikael Madsen (Denmark, European Court and Commission on Human Rights), Nicolas Guilhot (CNRS, Paris) and Inderjeet Parmar (Social Science, Manchester), David Dumoulin (IHEAL, Paris, France), Angela Santamaria (Javeriana Bogota, Colombia), Maria Rita Loureiro (Fondat. Getulio Vargas, San Paulo, Brazil), Afranio Garcia (Museu, Rio, Brazil), Letitita Canedo (UNICAMP/FE Brazil), Yves Dezalay (CNRS, France), Bryant Garth (Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles, USA)

*Lay Participation in Legal Decision Making. Valerie Hans (Cornell Law School, USA). Analyzes the transnational social, political, economic and legal factors that facilitate, impede or shape diverse participation systems to explore: (1) the process of adoption of lay participation; (2) the declining use of lay participation; (3) the movements to reform lay participation systems.

Participants: Shari Seidman Diamond (USA), Masahiro Fujita (Japan), Sang Hoon Han (Korea), Paula Hannaford-Agor (USA), Valerie Hans (USA), Edmundo Hendler (Argentina), Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovich (USA), Mar Jimeno-Bulnes (Spain), Hiroshi Kawatsu (Japan), Sang Jun Kim (Korea), Nikolay Kovalev (N. Ireland), Stephen Landsman (USA), Richard Lempert (USA), Stefan Machura (Germany), Nancy S. Marder (USA), Kwang B. Park (Korea), Steven D. Penrod (USA), Stephen C. Thaman (USA), Neil Vidmar (USA), Richard Vogler (UK)

Legal Consciousness in Comparative Perspective. Benjamin Fleury-Steiner (University of Delaware, USA) and Marc Hertogh (University of Groningen, Netherlands). Explores the constitution, reproduction, contestation, and resistance of social inequalities such as race, ethnicity, class, gender and sexuality in lay and professional narratives of "law" in a variety of transnational and national contexts

Participants: Hadar Aviram (University of Tel-Aviv Law School, Israel), Dicle Kogacioglu (Sabanci University, Turkey), David Cowan (Professor, University of Bristol, UK), Jérôme Pelisse (University of Rheims Ardenne Champagne, France), Benjamin Fleury-Steiner (University of Delaware, USA), Marc Hertogh (University of Groningen, Netherlands)

*Legal Culture and the Judicialization of Politics in Latin America. Javier Couso (Universidad Diego Portales, CHILE), Alexandra Huneeus (UC-Berkeley, USA), Pablo Rueda (UC-Berkeley, USA). Challenges assumptions of formalism, legalism and positivism in Latin American legal cultures to explore the changing notions of law that accompany, cause, and are a consequence of the incipient judicialization of politics. 

Participants: Martín Federico Bohmer (Dean of Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Palermo, Argentina), Catalina Smulovitz (Director, Departamento de Ciencia Política y Estudios Internacionales, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina), Rodrigo Uprimny (Universidad Nacional de Bogotá; Director of the Masters in Law at Universidad Nacional; Director of Centro de Estudios de Derecho, Justicia y Sociedad DJS. Colombia), Maria Inés Bergoglio (National University of Córdoba, Argentina), Javier Couso (Universidad Diego Portales, Chile), Alexandra Huneeus (UC-Berkeley, USA), Pablo Rueda (UC-Berkeley, USA)

Legal professionalism in East Asian context. Yoshitaka Wada (Waseda University, JAPAN), Carol Jones (University of Glamorgan, UK) and Kay-Wah Chan (Macquarie University, AUSTRALIA). Study of “legal professionalism” in East Asian context organized by the International Research Network on East Asian Legal Profession that explores differences among East Asian concepts of legal professionalism as well as between East Asian and Western concepts.  Focuses on five research streams: (1) Legal education; (2) Lawyers in transition; (3) Cause lawyering; (4) Judiciary in transition; (5) Legal professionalism as a concept

Participants: Kay-Wah Chan (Macquarie University, Australia), Akira Fujimoto (Shizuoka University, Japan), Takayuki II (Waseda University, Japan), Carol Jones (University of Glamorgan, UK), Manako Kinoshita (Doshisha University, Japan), Grace Shu-chin Kuo (National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan), Jae-Hyup Lee (Kyung Hee University, Korea), Emiko Nakaami (Waseda University, Japan), Eri Osaka (Until 31 March 2006, Heisei International University, Japan; From 1 April 2006, Surugadai University, Japan), Kwang-Jun Tsche (Kyung Hee University, Korea), Yoshitaka Wada (Waseda University, Japan)

*Legal reform in Period of Transition and state-building: the case of Palestine. Mudar Kassis (Birzeit University, PALESTINE), John Strawson (University of East London, UK), Kim Van der Borght (University of Hull, UK). A critical analysis of the legal reform in Palestine including the ways legal reform agendas are formed and constructed, interpreted and utilized in the particular historical Palestinian context.  It focuses on:  (1) how the concept of legal reform is defined, and shaped by external and internal factors; (2) how legal reform can serve a process of Palestinian state-building and the struggle for de-colonization; and (3) how legal reform can empower the Palestinian society.

 Participants: Feras Milhem (Birzeit University, Palestine), Jamil Salem (Birzeit University, Austria), Anne Paquier (Birzeit University, France), Du'a Mansour (Birzeit University, Palestine), Mahmoud Fayyad (Birzeit University, Palestine), Mudar Kassis (Birzeit University, Palestine), John Strawson (University of East London, UK), Kim Van der Borght (University of Hull)

Public Opinion and the Courts. Cheri Wilson (Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, USA) and Kristina Galstyan (European Regional Academy in Caucasus Law School, ARMENIA). Cross-national study of public opinion of justice systems, legal traditions, and different regimes in historical context that explores how society influences legal practice and law and how legal practice influences the society.

Participants: Vyacheslav Bihun (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine), Eralda Çani(Tirana University, Albania), Kristina Galstyan (European Regional Academy in Caucasus Law School, and Yerevan State University, Armenia), Vasil Kenkishvilli (Zurab Zhvania Georgian Institute of Public Affairs Law Programme; and Head of the Legal Department of Restructuring, “Georgian Railway” LLC, Georgia), Olha Melen (Head of Legal Unit of Charitable Foundation Environmental Public Advocacy Center “Еcopravo-Lviv”, Ukraine), Dejan Pavlovic (University of Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro), David Rottman (Editorial Board Member, Justice System Journal, United States of America), Mushfig Tahirov (Baku State University, Azerbaijan), Cheri Wilson (University of Minnesota, USA)

Selective Adaptation in International Trade and Human Rights. Pitman B. Potter (University of British Columbia, CANADA).  Study of cross-cultural normative exchange in international trade and human rights that tests empirically the Principal Investigator’s theory of “Selective Adaptation” (Potter, in Law & Social Inquiry, 2004).  Focuses on the relationship between formal acceptance of international standards in trade and human rights and behavioral/attitudinal assimilation of the norms underlying these international regimes.

Participants: Sarah Biddulph (University of Melbourne, Australia), Ljiljana Biukovic (UBC, Canada), Lesley Jacobs (York University, Canada), Yoshitaka Wada (Waseda University and Kyushu University, Japan), Akira Fujimoto (Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, Japan), He Weidong (Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, China), Yang Pengfei (Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, China), Pitman B. Potter (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Social Europe. Ralf Rogowski (University of Warwick, UK) and Marley S. Weiss (University of Maryland School of Law, USA).  Explores Social Europe under twin pressures of globalization and broadening European integration from several angles including: (1) collective representation and participation organs such as trade union confederations, trade unions, and works councils; (2) the state and the supranational governance scheme; (3) mobility of workers, plants and jobs, and the increasingly transitory nature of the employment relationship.

Participants: Joel Handler (UCLA, U.S.), Claire Kilpatrick (University of Cambridge, U.K.), Csilla Kollonay Lehoczky (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary), Ralf Rogowski (Warwick University, Germany), César F. Rosado Marzán (unaffiliated, Puerto Rico), Katherine Stone (UCLA, U.S.), András Tóth (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary), David M. Trubek (University of Wisconsin, Madison, U.S.), Louise Trubek (University of Wisconsin, Madison, U.S.), Marley Weiss (University of Maryland, U.S.)

*Transnational Transformations of the State. Chairs: Gregory Shaffer (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Law, USA) and Damien Chalmers (London School of Economics, UK).  Explores how supranational organisations and transnational networks create new relations between national administrations and promote interests and policy goals which were not possible to achieve before.  Focuses on transformations in three areas: (1) substantive tasks of the state, (2) relations and institutional structures within the state, (3) legitimacy claims and expectations within the state

Participants: Aseema Sinha (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA), Maira Rocha Machado (FGV, Sao Paulo, Brazil), Oren Perez (Bar-Ilan University, Israel), Sol Picciotto (Lancaster University, UK), Christine Harrington (NYU, USA), Allison Christians (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA), Michelle Ratton Sanchez (FGV, Brazil), Barbara Rosenberg (Competition Ministry, Brazil),           Gregory Shaffer (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Law, USA), Damien Chalmers (London School of Economics, UK), Heinz Klug (University of Wisconsin, USA)

Urban Social Control in Comparative Perspective. Chairs: Katherine Beckett (University of Washington, Seattle, USA) and Dario Melossi (University of Bologna, ITALY). A comparative analysis of recent developments in urban social control in a range of mid-size and large cities (Buenos Aires, Bogotá, London, Seattle, Venice and Bologna).  Focuses on five issues (1) Continuity and change in political conceptions of “disorder” and “security;” (2) Linkages between neoliberalism, social inequality, and the categories of behavior labeled “disorderly;” (3) The role of migration, race, ethnicity, and religious difference in expressions of concern about and responses to urban “disorder” and other threats to security; (4) The goals and effects of new social control measures (e.g. spatial segregation; deportation; incarceration; intensified surveillance; etc); and (5) The consequences of the new control measures for the criminal justice system and incarcerative institutions in particular.

Participants: Katherine Beckett (University of Washington in Seattle, USA), Kitty Calavita (University of California, Irvine, USA), Alessandro De Giorgi (University of Bologna, Italy), Angelina Godoy (University of Washington, Seattle, USA), Dario Melossi (Università di Bologna, Italy), Rossella Selmini (University of Macerata and Head of the Research Area of the Department for Development of Local Safety Policies and Local Police, Regional Government of Emilia - Romagna, Italy), Máximo Sozzo (Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina), Michael Welch (Rutgers University, USA)

*indicates IRCs funded in the first round