Milton Heumann, Rutgers University, U.S.A.
ChairR. Daniel Kelemen, Rutgers University, U.S.A.
The Globalization of American LawPatrick Schmidt, University of Oxford, ENGLAND
American Securities Law in a Global Market: Challenges and Implications for LawyersRobert A. Kagan, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
Discussant
Richard K. Sherwin, New York Law School, U.S.A.
ChairNeal Feigenson, Quinnipiac University, U.S.A.
Seeing and Believing: Visual Rhetorics in Science and LawStefan Machura and Stefan C. Ulbrich, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, GERMANY
How the Public Sees the Law: The Influence of MediaRichard K. Sherwin, New York Law School, U.S.A.
Law in Popular CultureChristina Spiesel, Quinnipiac University and Yale University, U.S.A.
Out of Time
Christian Boulanger, Free University of Berlin, GERMANY
ChairJohn Brigham, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, U.S.A.
Unusual Punishment: The Federal Death Penalty in New EnglandDavid F. Greenberg, Valerie West, and Karen Snedker, New York University, U.S.A.
Siting the Death PenaltyJoseph L. Hoffmann, Indiana University, U.S.A.
The Confounding of Procedure and Substance: The Liebman Study and the Future of the Death Penalty in the United StatesEvi Girling, Keele University, ENGLAND
Discussant
Mark Drumbl, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, U.S.A.
ChairJoao Paulo Dias, Centro de Estudo Sociais, PORTUGAL
Judicial Organization and Internal Control: The Cases of the High Council of Judges and the High Council of Public Prosecutors in PortugalAgata A. Fijalkowski, Europa-Universitat Viadrina, GERMANY
Polish Court Reform in the Post-Communist PeriodNevenka Ivanovska, American Bar Association and CEELI Macedonia, MACEDONIA
Judical Independence in MacedoniaEli Salzberger and Arye Rattner, University of Haifa, ISRAEL
Temporary Appointments and Judicial Independence: Theoretical Analysis and Empirical Findings from the Supreme Court of IsraelAnita Soboleva, Open Society Institute, Russia, RUSSIA
Bringing Justice to Perfection: Current Situation with the Court Reform in Russia
Clark Freshman, University of Miami, U.S.A.
Chair/DiscussantOsvaldo Agripino de Castro, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, BRAZIL
A Comparative Analysis of the ADR in U.S. and Brazil and Their Impact on Social DevelopmentMaría Inés Bergoglio, Centro de Invest Juridicas y Sociales-Universidad, ARGENTINA
Strategies to Manage Legal Conflicts: The Place of ADR in Discourses and PracticesBetty Morgan, Elon University, U.S.A.
The United Nations “Vienna Declaration”: First Steps for a Restorative Justice Initiative or an Agenda for Abdication?
Lief H. Carter, Colorado College, U.S.A.
Chair
Lief H. Carter, Colorado College, U.S.A.
Reconstructing Impartiality after Bush v. GoreHerbert M. Kritzer, University of Wisconsin, U.S.A.
Into the Electoral Waters: The Impact of Bush v. Gore on Public Perceptions and Knowledge of the Supreme CourtNancy Maveety, Tulane University, U.S.A.
A Consolidating Democracy Views the U.S. Supreme Court: Estonian Reaction to Bush v. Gore
Charles R. Epp, University of Kansas, U.S.A
Discussant.
Stephen Macedo, Princeton University, U.S.A.
Chair/DiscussantMichal Alberstein, Bar-Ilan University, ISRAEL
A Jurisprudence of Dispute Resolution: An Inquiry from an Israeli PerspectiveRobert Fine, University of Warwick, ENGLAND
Nuremberg: The Coming of Age of Cosmopolitan Law?Philip Selznick, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
Rights in Their Place
Stephan Landsman, DePaul University, U.S.A.
ChairSamuel R. Gross, University of Michigan, U.S.A.
The Distorting Effect of Capital PunishmentJohn Jackson, Queen’s University, ENGLAND
The Effect of the Operation of Diplock Trials on the Criminal Process in Northern IrelandStephan Landsman, DePaul University, U.S.A.
Holocaust-Related Charges and the Distortion of the Criminal ProcessLawrence M. Friedman, Stanford University, U.S.A.
Discussant
Bryant Garth, American Bar Foundation, U.S.A.
ChairNicolas Guilhot, European University Institute, ITALY
Professional Crusaders: The Making of the Democracy ExpertA. Javier Izquierdo, U. Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, SPAIN
Americanization in the Market for International Economic RegulationKarim Medjad, Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, FRANCE
The Fate of Socially-Owned Enterprises in the Former Yugoslav Republics: A Comparative AnalysisBryant Garth, American Bar Foundation, U.S.A., and Yves Dezalay, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme/C.N.R.S., FRANCE
Convergence by Confrontation: The Paradox of Symbolic HegemonyJanine Wedel, University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.
Transactorship in U.S.-Russian Relations: Representational Fraud and Personality-Based Law
Richard O. Lempert, University of Michigan, U.S.A.
Chair/DiscussantSophia Gatowski, Shirley A. Dobbin, National Council of Juvenile & Family Court Judges, U.S.A., and James T. Richardson, University of Nevada, Reno, U.S.A.
The Impact of Daubert and Its Progeny on the Admissibility of Battered Woman Syndrome EvidenceSarah E. Igo, Princeton University, U.S.A.
Dangerous Knowledge: Social Data and State Regulation in the Twentieth-Century United StatesGail Kellough, York University, CANADA, and Scot Wortley, University of Toronto, CANADA
Quiet Discretion: Risk, Moral Assessment, and the Application of Bail ConditionsF. Schoenaers, University of Liege and Institut d’Etudes Pol. de Paris, BELGIUM
The Itineraries of the Files Managed by a Belgian Labour Court: Between Legal Procedures and Empirical Reality, Analyses of Complex Ways
Stephan Parmentier, Catholic University of Leuven, BELGIUM
ChairMaria Luisa Bartolomei, Lund University, SWEDEN
Universal Jurisdiction Versus National Sovereignty: Implementing Human Rights in a Global World—The Case of Argentina and ChileJorge Cauti De la Cruz, Peru Ombudsman, PERU
Anti-Discriminatory Strategies by Ombudspersons in Latin AmericaStephan Parmentier, Catholic University of Leuven, BELGIUM
Anti-Racist Strategies in the Low Countries: A First AssessmentKoen Van Aeken, University of Antwerp, BELGIUM
A General Framework for Evaluating Laws and Policies
Susan F. Hirsch, Wesleyan University, U.S.A.
ChairJohn M. Conley, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, U.S.A.
The Cheyenne Way and the Case MethodSusan Coutin, California State University, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
Gender, Power, and Disputing: The Legacy of Jane Collier’s Zinacanteco WorkWilliam M. O’Barr, Duke University, U.S.A.
Falling Out of a Coconut Tree and Into HistoryRebecca R. French, University of Colorado, U.S.A.
Discussant
Niels F. van Manen, University of Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
ChairAndré J. Hoekema, University of Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
ParticipantLiesbeth A. Huppes-Cluysenaer, University of Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
Participant
Sherene Razack, University of Toronto, CANADA
ChairSheila D. Gill, University of Toronto, CANADA
Racial Containment, Colonial Memory, and the Threat of Ignoble SavagesHijin Park, University of Toronto, CANADA
East Asian Women, Gendered Racism, and the Violence of RepresentationSherene Razack, University of Toronto, CANADA
Violent Peacekeepers: Race, Masculinities, and GeographyLeslie Thielen-Wilson, University of Toronto, CANADA
Mnemonic Vices: How Legal Discourses on Indian Residential Schools Fuel Collective White Forgetting
Anne Griffiths, Edinburgh University, SCOTLAND
ChairAnne Griffiths, Edinburgh University, SCOTLAND
Working With Children: Human Rights and Legal Practice in ScotlandRandy F. Kandel, City University of New York, U.S.A.
“Promiscuity” Personhood and PINS: Maturing Human RightsRebecca Kandel, California Institute for the Arts, U.S.A.
Deportation, Political Asylum, Gang Kinship, and Gang Peace-Making: The Los Angeles-El Salvador ExperienceDavid M. Rosen, Fairleigh Dickinson University, U.S.A.
Child Soldiers: Legal, Humanitarian, and Cultural Models of the Culpability of Children
Patricia White, National Science Foundation, U.S.A.
Chair/DiscussantLeonard G. Buckle and Suzann R. Thomas-Buckle, Northeastern University, U.S.A.
Criminalization of Adolescents’ Possession of Tobacco: Externalities of Regulation Run AmokLinn Freiwald, Northern Illinois University, U.S.A.
A Child in the House of LawJeffrey J. Shook, University of Michigan, U.S.A.
Juvenile Court Decision Making: A Comparative Study of Law and PracticeDavid McCallum, Victoria University, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
The Children’s Court: Sentencing Policies and Psy-Knowledge
Jean Braucher, University of Arizona, U.S.A.
Chair/DiscussantCharles Booth, University of Hong Kong, PR OF CHINA
Hong Kong’s New Bankruptcy Law: Is It Working?Nick Huls, Nadja Jungmann, Erasmus University, THE NETHERLANDS, and Bert Niemeyer, Justice Department, THE NETHERLANDS
Effects of the New Dutch Bankruptcy LawRosalind Mason, University of Southern Queensland, AUSTRALIA, and John Duns, Monash University, AUSTRALIA
Developments in Consumer Bankruptcy in AustraliaXian-Chu Zhang, University of Hong Kong, PR OF CHINA
Consumer Bankruptcy: Urgency and Difficulties in ChinaJacob Ziegel, University of Toronto, CANADA
The Canadian Qualified Fresh Start: A Middle Ground for Consumer Bankruptcy