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- Bob Dylan and Legal Opinions
- Calll For Papers: International Conference on Law, Language, and Discourse
- Canadian Initiative in Law, Culture, and Humanities: Call For Papers
- The Role of Labor Songs In Labor Movements
| Posted: 23 May 2011 08:17 AM PDT Alex B. Long, University of Tennessee College of Law, has published The Freewheelin' Judiciary: A Bob Dylan Anthology. Here is the abstract. This paper, presented as part of a symposium on Bob Dylan and the Law at the Fordham University School of Law, explores the ways in which judges have used the lyrics of Bob Dylan in their opinions.Download the paper from SSRN at the link   |
| Calll For Papers: International Conference on Law, Language, and Discourse Posted: 23 May 2011 08:14 AM PDT The First International Conference on Law, Language and Discourse Multiculturalism, Diversity and Dynamicity City University of Hong Kong with The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong, 20-21 August, 2011 The First International Conference on Law, Language and Discourse invites theoretical studies, applicational cases, and relevant work-in-progress papers on the key issues in Law, Language and Discourse. The theme of the conference "Multiculturalism, Diversity and Dynamicity" promotes research of, and welcomes participation from, researchers of different cultural and language backgrounds from different disciplines and across jurisdictions. The LLD Conference invites papers on all aspects of law, language and discourse, including, but not limited to: 1. Legislative language 2. Courtroom language 3. Language in the proceeding of investigation (including police interrogation, cover investigation, conversation in prison, etc.) 4. Legal translation & court interpretation 5. Education and training on LLP (Language for Legal Purposes) 6. Language evidence as a system 7. Discourse analysis of legal texts 8. Legal terminology 9. Legal discourse and information retrieval 10. Language planning and Language rights The conference will be held on 20-21 August 2011, just before the 16th World Congress of Applied Linguistics (AILA2011) (23-28 August 2011, Beijing) and the International Conference on Law, Translation and Culture (28-29 August 2011, Beijing). Post-conference indexed (CPCI-SSH) proceedings will be published. Confirmed invited speakers Vijay Bhatia, City University of Hong Kong Le Cheng, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Winnie Cheng, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Malcolm Coulthard, Aston University Diana Eades, University of New England Michael Halliday, University of Sydney Craig Hoffman, Georgetown University Kyo Kageura, The University of Tokyo Gilbert Mo, Department of Justice of Hong Kong Lijin Sha, China University of Political Science and Law King Kui Sin, City University of Hong Kong Benjamin T'sou, Hong Kong Institute of Education Anne Wagner, Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale Jonathan Webster, City University of Hong Kong Weiping Wu, Chinese University of Hong Kong Important dates Abstract deadline: 15 June 2011 (500-800 words to LLDmall@cityu.edu.hk) [Download the abstract sample.] Notification of acceptance: 30 June 2011 Registration Method of payment is described here. Before 15 July 2011: US$120.00 After 15 July 2011: US$200.00 Method of payment Please send a bank draft via air mail payable to City University of Hong Kong to International Conference on Law, Language and Discourse C/O Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Hong Kong. Please also put your name on the back of the bank draft. |
Link: http://ctl.cityu.edu.hk/Portal_root/2011/lddmall/ (to be updated)
Canadian Initiative in Law, Culture, and Humanities: Call For Papers
Posted: 23 May 2011 08:04 AM PDT
From Diana Young, an announcement:
The Canadian Initiative in Law Culture and the Humanities is inviting proposals for its biennial conference in October. The call for papers is attached, and can also be found on line here. Any inquiries should be directed to
CILCH@carleton.ca,
Canadian Initiative in Law, Culture, and Humanities
Carleton University
C473 Loeb Building
1125 Colonel By Drive
Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6
Canada
Dis/Locating Law
Biennial Conference of the
Canadian Initiative in Law, Culture and Humanities
Ottawa, Canada
October 20-22, 2011
CALL FOR PAPERS
Dislocation is a phenomenon of space, place and time. To dislocate something is to upset, complicate, or displace it. It involves getting things out of place, out of order, and out of time, or to question if things are indeed in their 'right' place and time. Dislocating, then, can be disorienting; it can dislodge comfortable assumptions, and it can unsettle, perhaps even painfully, what has gone before. Dislocation invites different perspectives, produces new cartographies, disrupts teleologies. This conference will feature papers and presentations which unsettle the place of law in relation to political, ethical, social, cultural or symbolic orders.
The Canadian Initiative in Law, Culture and Humanities (CILCH) invites you to participate in its 2011 conference on the theme of dis/locating law. The conference is interdisciplinary, drawing together scholars whose research addresses the intersections among culture, the humanities and law, including but not limited to studies of law and literature, law and film/television, cultural practices of regulation, mediation and law, intersections of cultural theory and the legal, alternative visions of legally coded practices, and so on.
This year's theme is intentionally broad in order to provide an open-ended focus for exploration. The conference is hosted with the goals of stimulating conversations among diverse scholars with shared interests, of continuing to foster the growing community of law, culture and humanities scholars in Canada, and of contributing to a global network of scholarship in these areas.
If you are interested in giving a paper, hosting a roundtable, or offering another form of presentation (either almost finished works or works in progress), please submit a proposal to CILCH @carleton.ca, as follows:
- title of proposed paper/presentation
- 200 word biography of presenter(s)
- contact information for presenter(s)
- an abstract outlining the paper/presentation of a maximum of 300 words
- detail on any technical requirements (data projector, sound system, etc.)
We very much look forward to receiving your proposal and to yet another productive and thought-provoking CILCH gathering.
The deadline for submission is June 15, 2011.
The Role of Labor Songs In Labor Movements
Posted: 23 May 2011 08:02 AM PDT
Raymond A. Franklin has published The Contemporary Roles of Labor Songs in the St. John's Legal Studies Research Paper series. Here is the abstract.
Music has played a critical role for workers throughout the history of the labor movement. Music gives an opportunity to rebel. It gives an opportunity to argue policy. It gives an opportunity to be heard. Songs written in protest, or in furtherance of a cause, give a sense of historical and political climate of a particular era. This article, "The Contemporary Roles of Labor Songs" draws attention to three especially important periods in the shaping of labor history, the 1930s, 1960s and 1980s, highlighting the representative impact a particular song - "Which Side Are You On?," "Salt of the Earth," and "There is Power in a Union" - had in each of these decades.Download the paper from SSRN at the link.
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