Newsletter 53, 19-12-2017

Check in browser - Consulte esta página

Merry Christmas! IISL-IISJ, Oñati
SOCIO-LEGAL MASTER WORKSHOPS RESIDENCE GRANTS VISITING SCHOLARS LIBRARY PUBLICATIONS SOCIO-LEGAL NETWORK
Oñati-IISL eNewsletter - eBoletín del IISJ-Oñati. Number 53, December 2017  
Our Scientific Director

Prof. Vincenzo Ferrari, in KuwaitVincenzo Ferrari, the Scientific Director of the IISL, was a guest at the Graduation Ceremony at Kuwait International Law School (Doha, Kuwait). In the photograph, with members of the Advisory Board.

 
Call for workshops 2019

2018 workshop calendar
The workshop programme for next year is already closed. Check the full programme [+info]

Calendario workshops 2018
El programa de workshops del año que viene ya está cerrado. Consúltalo
[+info]

Call for 2019 workshops - Total logistical and planning support!

We invite applications to hold workshops at its facilities in 2019. The Institute provides modern, full-equipped meeting rooms of various sizes, excellent accommodations in its Residence, arrangements at local restaurants at very reasonable prices, free bus service from/to the nearest airport and train station, total logistical and planning support. [+info]
For further information: malen@iisj.es
Deadline: 9 February 2018.

Propuestas de workshops 2019 - ¡Total ayuda logística y de organización!

Os invitamos a presentar propuestas para celebrar reuniones utilizando las instalaciones de Oñati durante el año 2019. El Instituto dispone de varias salas de reuniones modernas y bien equipadas de varios tamaños, excelente alojamiento en su Residencia, contactos con restaurantes locales a precios razonables, servicio de bus gratis desde, o al más próximo, aeropuerto o estación ferroviaria, total ayuda logística y de organización. [+info] Para más información, escribir a: malen@iisj.es
Fecha límite: 9 de febrero de 2018.

Call for 2018 workshops - IISL IISJ
Call for 2018 workshops - IISL IISJ
Call for 2018 workshops - IISL IISJ
International Master's in the Sociology of Law

Programa máster 2018/19 2018-2019 - 29th Master Programme. Few places available!

One-year programme (60 ECTS) taught entirely in English. Accredited by the UPV/EHU (University of the Basque Country).

Deadline for applications: 28 February 2018.

13 two- week courses + Master's Thesis Research Project

[Courses & teachers] [Leaflet] [Poster] [Application form]

Remember you can also attend single courses of the programme.

Further information: susana@iisj.es

 

The Master students attended a talk about Catalonia.This year's students visited the library of Deusto University.

Later that day, they attended a talk organized by EhuGune about Catalonia. Speakers were María Eugenia Rodríguez Palop, Zelai Nikolas, Pedro Ibarra and Joxerramon Bengoetxea.

students at the IV European  Encounters in Bilbao.

Finally, they participated in the IV European Encounters in Bilbao: Refugees in Europe, organized by Globernance.

 

 

Latest publications

Oñati Socio-Legal Series

Vol 7, No 4 (2017): “Too Few Judges?” Regulating the Number of Judges in Society

September 2017 - Issue edited by Eyal Katvan (Center of Law & Business, Ramat-Gan, Israel), Ulrike Schultz (FernUniversität, Hagen, Germany), Avrom Sherr (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London, UK) and Boaz Shnoor (Center of Law & Business, Ramat-Gan, Israel).

Avrom Sherr: Introduction [+PDF]

Methodology, Data and Numbers: Too Few/Many/Much Judges

Marco Fabri: Methodological Issues in the Comparative Analysis of the Number of Judges, Administrative Personnel, and Court Performance Collected by the Commission for the Efficiency of Justice of the Council of Europe. [+PDF]

Matthew Kleiman, Cynthia G. Lee, Brian J. Ostrom, Richard Y. Schauffler: Case Weighting as a Common Yardstick: A Comparative Review of Current Uses and Future Directions. [+PDF]

Eli Wald: Judging Judges: A Study of U.S. Federal District Court Judges in the 10th Circuit. [+PDF]

Anne Wallace, Sharyn Roach Anleu, Kathy Mack: Judicial Work and AV Use: Perceptions from Australian Courts. [+PDF]

Shortage of Diversity – Gender, Ethnicity and Class

Avner Levin, Asher Alkoby: Shouldn't the Bench be a Mirror? The Diversity of the
Canadian Judiciary. [+PDF]

Livia Holden: Women Judges and Women’s Rights in Pakistan. [+PDF]

Hugh Corder: Judicial Capacity in a Transforming Legal System. [+PDF]

Reasons and Consequences

Bruce Green: The Price of Judicial Economy in the US. [+PDF]

Limor Zer-Gutman: The Effects of the Shortage of Judges in Israel. [+PDF]

Boaz Shnoor, Eyal Katvan: Court’s Precious Time: Transparency, Honor and Judicial Scarce Resources. [+PDF]

Managing and Solutions

Brian Opeskin: The Supply of Judicial Labour: Optimising a Scarce Resource in Australia. [+PDF]

Helena Whalen-Bridge: Court Backlogs: Balancing Efficiency and Justice in Singapore. [+PDF]

Vol 7, No 5 (2017): El Reto de la Profundización Democrática en Europa: Avances Institucionales en Democracia Directa

December 2017 - Issue edited by Víctor M. Cuesta (University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) and Miguel Presno (University of Oviedo).

Víctor Cuesta López, Miguel Presno Linera: Introducción [+PDF]

Víctor Cuesta López: El referéndum europeo: la decisiva intervención de los soberanos nacionales en el proceso de integración. [+PDF]

Daniel López Rubio: El control de constitucionalidad de la ‘legislación popular'. [+PDF]

Jorge Urdánoz: Legislación electoral y posibilidades participativas. [+PDF]

Juan Ramón Rodríguez-Drincourt: Consideraciones sociojurídicas sobre participación ciudadana y 'democracia abierta': especial referencia a las nuevas perspectivas de profundización democrática en Canarias. [+PDF]

Enriqueta Expósito: La participación directa del ciudadano en el Parlamento. Una visión desde el ordenamiento constitucional español. [+PDF]

Miguel Ángel Gonzalo: Participación ciudadana y actividad parlamentaria. [+PDF]

Patricia García Majado: La configuración de la Iniciativa Legislativa Popular: resistencias y soluciones. [+PDF]

Reyes Pérez Alberdi: El modelo autonómico de democracia participativa: la situación a partir de la aprobación de los nuevos estatutos de autonomía. [+PDF]

Vicente Cabedo Mallol: Las dos generaciones de leyes autonómicas sobre la Iniciativa Legislativa Popular. El caso de la Comunitat Valenciana. [+PDF]

Neliana Rodean: La iniciativa ciudadana en el procedimiento legislativo italiano: de su ineficacia a las propuestas de reforma. [+PDF]

Francisco Soto Barrientos: Mecanismos de participación ciudadana en el proceso legislativo, los desafíos de su recepción en Chile. [+PDF]


Library and Documentation Centre

Some of the books that have been donated to the IISL's library.Thank you to all the donors who sent us their publications in October and November:

Anette Bringedal Houge, Emilio Santoro, Francisco Rafael Ostau de Lafont de León, Jiří Přibáň, Lawrence M. Friedman, Stefan Larsson, Fundación Iura Vasconiae (Iura Vasconiae Fundazioa).


[+Access the library catalogue] [+Visite el catálogo de la biblioteca]

New deadline for Lisbon - Se amplía el plazo para la conferencia de Lisboa

The RCSL-SDJ Lisbon Meeting 2018 "Law and Citizenship Beyond The States” will be held at ISCTE-IUL September 10-13 2018. The deadline for the submission of papers and session proposals has been extended to 15 January 2018.

Oñati Session in Lisbon – 10-13 September 2018

RCSL will organize its Annual Meeting in Lisbon, on the general theme “Law and Citizenship Beyond the States”.
The meeting is co-sponsored by the Sociology of Law and Justice Section of the Portuguese Sociological Association, and is organized by Dinâmia’CET, a research unit of the University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL), with the support of CES (Coimbra), CICS.NOVA (Braga, Lisbon), CIES (ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon), and CRIA (Lisbon, Braga).

Find out more on the RCSL website // Toda la información, en la web de la SDJ

Recent Visitors to the Institute / Han visitado el Instituto

You will find an unique atmosphere to research or write, with the best Library and Documentation Center [+] on Law and Society to make research.

Disfruta de un ambiente único para investigar o escribir, en la mejor Biblioteca y Centro de Documentación [+] sobre sociología jurídica para desarrollar tu investigación

Residence Grants / Becas de residencia

Emma Nyhan dio una charla sobre el estatus político de los beduinos.Emma Nyhan (European University Institute, Florencia, Italia): 03/10/2017 - 16/12/2017

Emma Nyhan eligió el IISJ para finalizar su investigación doctoral, Indigeneity, Law and Terrain: The Bedouin Citizens of Israel, tema que trató en una charla que ofreció en Oñati, al término de su estancia.

Visiting scholars / Investigadores visitantes

César Pérez-LizasuainCésar Pérez-Lizasuain (Universidad de Milán, Italia): 17/10/2017 - 18/11/2017

André Ferreira de Oliveira y Cristina Rego di OliveiraAndré Ferreira de Oliveira y Cristina Rego di Oliveira (Universidad de Coimbra, Portugal): 27/11/2017 - 01/12/2017

Riccardo Mazzola (Università degli Studi di Milano. Milán, Italia): 19/11/2017 - 26/11/2017


To unsubscribe, please send an e-mail to onati@iisj.es

Si quiere darse de baja de este servicio, por favor, envíe un correo a onati@iisj.es

IISL-Antigua Universidad s/n - Apdo.28 20560 Oñati - Gipuzkoa - Spain
Tel.(+34) 943 783064 / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IISJOnati / Twitter: @IISJOnati