1400 Thematic Session: Discrimination, Race, Ethnicity and Law
Antal Örkény, Eötvös Loránd University, HUNGARY
ChairGyorgy Csepeli, Eötvös Loránd University, HUNGARY
The Gypsy within UsDevon Carbado, University of California, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
Race, Law, and Citizenship: Black Civil Rights Responses to Japanese American InternmentCheryl Harris, University of California, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
The Changing Face(s) of Race in the United StatesDimitrina Petrova, European Roma Rights Center, HUNGARY
Laws and Movements against Discrimination: a Roma Rights PerspectiveIvan Szelenyi, Yale University, U.S.A.
Poverty and Ethnicity in Transitional Societies
1401 On the Meanings of Pain in Law and Legal Theory
Austin Sarat, Amherst College, U.S.A.
ChairJennifer L. Culbert, Amherst College, U.S.A.
Pain, Mercy, and Common SenseTimothy V. Kaufman-Osborn, Whitman College, U.S.A.
What is a Death Sentence?Shai Lavi, University of California, Berkeley, ISRAEL
Euthanasia and Social Pain in America, 1906-1960Austin Sarat, Amherst College, U.S.A.
Constructing Memories of Pain: Remembrance and Revenge in UNFORGIVENKarl Shoemaker, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
Praying for the Law: Modern Victim Impact Statements, Ancient Intercessio, and Pain
Susan Berk-Seligson, University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.
ChairSusan Berk-Seligson, University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.
The Elicitation of a Confession: Confession to Murder but Not to Attempted RapeBryna Bogoch, Bar Ilan University, ISRAEL
The Ones That Got Away: Analysis of the Language of Acquittals in the Israeli Supreme CourtClaire Hill, Northwestern University, U.S.A.
Linguistic Constraints on the Creation and Development of NormsSusan F. Hirsch, Wesleyan University, U.S.A.
Law Reform as Language Reform: Transforming Law and Gender in TanzaniaPeter Tiersma, Loyola Marymount University, U.S.A.
Discussant
John Hagan, American Bar Foundation, U.S.A.
ChairJames Meernik and Kimi Lynn King, University of North Texas, U.S.A.
Explaining Verdicts and Sentencing in the International War Crimes TribunalsVictor Bundi Mosoti, University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.
Of Despots and Debauchery: The Concept of Universal Jurisdiction in Human Rights Law in Africa After the Habre DebacleVerena Haan, Antigua Universidad, SPAIN
The ICTY: An Efficient Judicial Body?Ralf Rogowski, University of Warwick, ENGLAND
Discussant
David M. Trubek, University of Wisconsin, U.S.A.
Chair/DiscussantClaude Didry, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), FRANCE
Mobilizing or Not Mobilizing International Law in Favor of Employment: A Few Comparative InsightsJoel Handler, University of California, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
Social Citizenship and 'Active Labor Market' Policies in Western EuropeRobert Knegt, Universiteit van Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
Dismissal Protection in EuropeJerome Pelisse, Centre d’Etudes de L’Emploi—Latts, FRANCE
Negotiating the Law: An Examination of Work-Time Rules in France
Brad R. Roth, Wayne State University, U.S.A.
Chair/DiscussantMark Antaki, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
Humanity as TechniqueShalini Satkunanandan, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
Post-Cold War Constitutional Preambles and Approaches to Political FoundationSteven Wilf, University of Connecticut, U.S.A.
Towards a Revolutionary Model for American Rule of Law
Carl Baar, Brock University, CANADA
Chair/DiscussantAndrew Appleton, Washington State University, U.S.A.
France: The Ministry of Justice and Judicial AdministrationYoav Dotan, The Hebrew University, ISRAEL
Israel: Government Lawyers and Judicial ReviewR.B. Jain, University of Delhi, INDIA
India: Government LawyeringCarlo Rossetti, University of Parma, ITALY
Italy: A New Model of Adjudication and Legal Administration
John Griffiths, University of Groningen, THE NETHERLANDS
ChairMargaret P. Battin, University of Utah, U.S.A.
How the Debate Over Physician-Assisted Suicide Could Get WorseFreddy Mortier, Ghent University, BELGIUM, and Luc Deliens, Free University Brussels, BELGIUM
Implications of the Results of Recent End-Of-Life Studies in Belgium for the Prospects of Legal ControlCristiano Vezzoni, University of Groningen, THE NETHERLANDS
Comparative Study of the Legal Status and Social Practice of Advance DirectivesAlbert Klijn, Ministery of Justice, THE NETHERLANDS
Discussant
Alfons Bora, University of Bielefeld, GERMANY
ChairAstrid Epp, University of Bielefeld, GERMANY
Cultures of Regulation: GM Food in Germany and the United StatesMerle Jacob, Chalmers University of Technology, SWEDEN
Regulating Risk in the Knowledge SocietyInger-Johanne Sand, EUI, ITALY, and University of Oslo, NORWAY
A Socio-Legal View on the Legal Regulation of Risk, Scientific Knowledge, and Precaution
1410
Local and Global Perspectives
on Financial Regulation
Toni Williams, York University, CANADA
ChairGulnara A. Kalikova, Chadbourne & Parke LLP, KYRGYZ REPUBLIC
Development of the Foreign Investment Law: Model of the Central Asian CountriesErik Larson, University of Minnesota, U.S.A.
Isomorphism on the Books, Divergence in Action: The Implementation of Securities Industry Regulations in Fiji and GhanaD. Gordon Smith, Lewis and Clark Law School, U.S.A., and Annaleena Parhankangas, Helsinki University of Technology, FINLAND.
Culture and Convergence in Financial Contracting: An International Comparative Study of Venture Capital ContractsToni Williams and Iain Ramsay, York University, CANADA
Micro-Credit in Canada: Legal Transplants and Financial Imports
Peter H. Huang, University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Discussant
1412 Reconstructions of Property Rights
Hendrik Hartog, Princeton University, U.S.A.
Chair/DiscussantMarc R. Poirier, Seton Hall University and Case Western Reserve University, U.S.A.
The Virtue of Vagueness in the Takings DoctrineLouise Halper, Washington & Lee University, U.S.A.
James I, Eugene Debs, and the Superfund Act of 1980: Reconstructing Property Rights
Adam Czarnota, University of New South Wales, AUSTRALIA
Chair/DiscussantRasma Karklins, University of Illinois, Chicago, U.S.A.
Typology of Post-Communist CorruptionKarin van Marle, University of Pretoria, SOUTH AFRICA
Transition and the Ideal of Justice: Formalist or Utopian?
Dan Hunter, University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Chair/DiscussantThomas Koenig, Northeastern University, U.S.A., and Michael Rustad, Suffolk University, U.S.A.
Tort Law in CyberspaceAlisa W. C. Kuan, City University of Hong Kong, PR OF CHINA
Data Privacy and the InternetSteven Hetcher, Vanderbilt University, U.S.A.
The Changing Social Meaning of Internet Privacy NormsTerence Palfrey, Leeds Metropolitan University, ENGLAND
Critical Information Infrastructure Governance: The Security Imperative and Its Implications for E-Commerce
Marina Kurkchiyan, University of Oxford, ENGLAND
Chair/DiscussantOlga Bychkova, European University at St. Petersburg, RUSSIA
Formal Framework of the Policy of Market Reforms and Its Implementation in Post-Soviet Russia: Case Study of Reforms in Telecommunications DomainEeva Paakkonen, University of Helsinki, FINLAND
An Ukrainian Village Adapting to the New Ideas of the Modern Western WorldClifford F. Zinnes, Harvard University, U.S.A.
The Shadow Economy in Transition Countries: Friend or Foe? A Policy PerspectiveKevin Davis and Michael J. Trebilcock, University of Toronto, CANADA
Explaining Varying Commitments to Legality in Developing Countries
Nahum Chandler, Johns Hopkins University, U.S.A.
Chair/DiscussantMarianne Constable, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
The Unspeakable: Law at the Limits of LanguageRichard Perry, University of California, Irvine, U.S.A.
Ca parle? How Silence Performs in the Law of EvidenceCatherine Lane West-Newman, University of Auckland, NEW ZEALAND
Anger, Ethnicity, and the Politics of Legislative Prohibitions on Hate Speech in Aotearoa New Zealand
1417 Remembering June Starr
Sally Merry, Wellesley College, U.S.A.
Co-chairBarbara Yngvesson, Hampshire College, U.S.A.
Co-chairRichard Abel, University of California, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
ParticipantLawrence Friedman, Stanford University, U.S.A.
ParticipantRobert Kidder, Temple University, U.S.A.
ParticipantWilliam O'Barr, Duke University, U.S.A.
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