IISL Master Handbook 2013-2014

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2013/2014 PROGRAMME

http://www.iisj.es

MASTER OF ARTS DEGREE THE UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY IN COOPERATION WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF MILAN

SOCIO-LEGAL M.A. AT THE OÑATI INSTITUTE 24th INTERNATIONAL MASTER’S PROGRAMME IN SOCIOLOGY OF LAW 2013/2014 PROGRAMME Director: Angela Melville Coordinator: Susana Arrese Murguzur University of the Basque Country representative: Joxerramon Bengoetxea

Oñati, December 2012

TABLE OF CONTENTS

THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR T H E SOCIOLOGY OF LAW

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ABOUT OÑATI

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THE INTERNATIONAL MASTER’S PROGRAMME IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF LAW

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INTRODUCTION

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ORGANIZATION AND EXAMINATION RULES

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THE RESIDENCE

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CONTENT OF THE COURSES, TEACHING STAFF 2012-2013

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CALENDAR

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TEACHING STAFF AND COURSES

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THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR T H E SOCIOLOGY OF LAW The International Institute for the Sociology of Law (IISJ) was founded in 1988 by the Basque Government and the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee on the Sociology of Law. The IISJ has now become the home of the international sociology of law community.

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The Institute is located in the old University of Oñati dating from 1543, a magnificent example of Spanish Renaissance architecture. The building has been renovated to accommodate a documentation centre, library, administrative offices and meeting rooms. A short walk from

the University, the Palacio Antia provides accommodation for students and visitors. The residence is an elegant renovated 18th century building.

The IISJ runs an international masters programme in sociology of law. It also hosts workshops and congresses, provides research grants, facilitates the World Consortium of Law and Society Associations, produces several important publications, and the library is now recognised as having the best socio-legal collection in the world.

Updated information can be obtained from the Institute’s website (http://www.iisj.es) and the latest news is published also in the Institute’s newsletter, facebook and twitter.

Antigua Universidad. Cloister.

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ABOUT OÑATI ñati, a medieval town in the heart of the Basque Country with nearly 11,000 residents, is situated in a beautiful valley surrounded by mountains and forests.

It belongs to Gipuzkoa, one of the three provinces that make up the Autonomous Region of the Basque Country in Spain. The distance from Bilbao is 65 km; from San Sebastian, 75 km; from Vitoria, 45 km. The altitude is 236 m above sea-level. The Paris-Madrid railway line passes through Zumarraga, 15 km away.

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autumn. In summer, the average temperature ranges from 18 to 28 degrees celsius, and the nights are cool. There can be some snow in winter, and the highest of the mountains which surround the town (Aloña, 1232m) can be covered in snow for several months. The average temperatures in winter range between 4 and 12 degrees celsius.

The countryside around Oñati is beautiful, and has a number of features of cultural significance, such as the Oñati-Arrikrutz Karst, the Arantzazu Sanctuary, the mountain pastures of Urbia which lie at the heart of the Aizkorri-Aratz National Park.

The climate is Atlantic, mild in spring and

Urbia in the Aizkorri-Aratz National Park.

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The town centre has many buildings of architectural significance, some of which are classified as National Historic Monuments. Many different styles are represented: Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque. Examples of these different styles can be seen in the Bidaurreta Monastery, the San Miguel Parish Church, and the Town Hall.

San Miguel Parish Church. Cloister.

Visitors to the IISJ also have the opportunity to participate in traditional Basque culture.

We encourage students to arrive early for the Masters programme in order to experience the San Miguel festival. The festival involves four days of activities, including a tamborrada, dancing, concerts, pelota, strength competitions, cider tasting, and a traditional farmers and artesan market. Other festivals include the famous Corpus Christi Festival held in early June. There are also courses available for learning Spanish and Euskara, the Basque language. Further information on the town can be found at: http://www.oinati.org.

Antigua Universidad.

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THE INTERNATIONAL MASTER’S PROGRAMME IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF LAW

INTRODUCTION

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BJECTIVES

The goal of the programme is to expose students from different academic backgrounds and countries to the most important theories on sociology of law, contemporary debates, help them learn how to design and conduct original research on socio-legal topics, and provide them with the experience of actually carrying out a research project. The Master’s degree (60 ECTS) is awarded as an official Master of Arts degree of the University of the Basque Country in cooperation with the Università degli Studi di Milano.

The programme has two major components: intensive coursework units taught by visiting professors who are leading specialists on each topic (40 ECTS credits), and an individual research project under the tutorship of a specialist in socio-legal studies culminating in the writing of a dissertation (Master’s thesis) (20 ECTS credits).

It aims to increase the students’ knowledge and understanding of issues of law in society and their cultural, political and economic contexts, from a comparative and international perspective. The course also prepares students for independent research.

2012-2013 programme students with Prof. Joxerramon Bengoetxea and Heike Jung.

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ISTORY The 2013-2014 academic year will be the twentyfourth of the Master’s Programme.

The Master’s Programme is very widely recognised as an excellent qualification for entry to a PhD, and formally qualifies for credit under the PhD programmes of several European universities. Its scientific and pedagogical level has been judged by the Executive Committee of the International Sociological Association to meet internationally recognised standards. The MA awarded is formally a degree of the University of the Basque Country in cooperation with the University of Milan.

More than one hundred specialists in sociolegal studies have been members of the teaching staff. More than two hundred students from all over the world have successfully completed the programme and been awarded the degree, and many have become well-known experts in their field.

You can check the titles of previous Master’s thesis on our website, at “Former students of the Master's Programme.” The best Master’s theses each year are invited to be submitted to the Oñati Socio-Legal Series.

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LENGTH AND STRUCTURE OF THE PROGRAMME

The Master’s degree is a one year programme.

Coursework units take place in Oñati during the six-month period from the last week of September to the last week of March.

Teaching is in English.

From April to October students research, write and defend their dissertation under guidance from a supervisor. The supervisor may be picked from among the teachers of the Master’s programme, or may be another specialist in the topic, subject to the approval of the Director.

From April-September students have the option of staying in Oñati, visiting another university, or returning to their home university. Although dissertations are normally written in English, other languages may be considered.

A Master’s degree will be awarded to students who have obtained a passing grade in all the courses given during the academic year and who present and successfully defend their dissertation.

Students may also apply to participate in one or more of the specific courses offered without taking the whole degree.

They receive a certificate for the courses completed, and credits awarded may contribute to other degrees which recognise the ECTS system.

2012-2013 Students with Prof. Maggie Walter.

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DVANTAGES AND FUTURE OPPORTUNITIES

The Institute provides outstanding facilities and support for postgraduate sociolegal study which are unique in the world. A small and select group of students, from varied geographical & disciplinary backgrounds, study in a wonderful setting with leading experts in the field.

The students come from all over the world: in 2012-13 the 12 students came from 10 different countries. The programme is taught entirely in small groups, usually a maximum of 20.

The courses provide an unparalleled opportunity for close personal contacts with eminent scholars in socio-legal studies, who can introduce students to the leading work, as well as providing direct contacts to the main researchers and networks in their field. The Scientific Director also helps in the development of the dissertation, and provides continuity and further individual advice and supervision.

By producing a Master’s dissertation, candidates will have completed a piece of research in a motivating and supportive environment, learning how to define and develop a research project, devising and applying appropriate methodological tools, and writing a wellgrounded paper. Thus the master’s programme provides candidates with highly valuable training, helpful in any future research career, whether as an academic, professional, policy-maker or activist.

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OCTORAL STUDIES PhD in Law and Society “Renato Treves”

The IISL and the University of the Basque Country are members of the Renato Treves Doctoral Programme together with the following universities: Università degli Studi di Milano, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Università degli Studi dell´´Insubria, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Università degli Studi di Urbino “Carlo Bo”, Universiteit Lunds, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Universiteit Antwerpen – UFSA, and the Centro nazionale di prevenzione e difesa sociale di Milano. Students who obtain the MA can apply to register as doctoral candidates in the Renato Treves network.

CES- University of Coimbra The Centro de Estudos Sociais (CES) at the University of Coimbra recognises the MA as a first step for their Doctoral programmes.

University of the Basque Country The University of the Basque Country offers a Doctoral Programme (research itinerary) in Sociology of Law. A student who has obtained the official Master’s at the Oñati Institute with an average grade 8/10 or higher can register directly in the Programme as a doctoral candidate of the University of the Basque Country.

The MA also provides an excellent preparation for a Doctoral programme in a student’s home country, or anywhere in the world. The taught courses provide a firm grounding both of skills and contacts within the socio-legal community, and the dissertation often provides the basis for further topics to be researched at the Doctoral level.

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CHOLARSHIPS/ FELLOWSHIPS

The IISL is able to make a limited number of grants to support students who would otherwise not be able to afford to attend the Master’s programme.

Grants can cover part or all of the tuition fees and the cost of a shared room in the Institute’s Residence. Grants include the Renato Treves Scholarships, the Neelan Tiruchelvam Fellowships, and a scholarship for local candidates provided by the Oñati Town Hall.

An applicant who believes that they qualify for a grant should describe in detail their personal and family financial circumstances and efforts that they have made to secure financial assistance.

Tiruchelvam grants are awarded to students from countries in category C as defined by the International Sociological Association (http://www.ucm.es/info/isa/table_c.htm) Renato Treves grants go to any student who can demonstrate need. Renato Treves may cover half the tuition fees and/or some of the cost of a shared room in the Institute’s Hall of Residence.

Please note that even if you receive a grant you still will need some financial resources of your own. The course is a full-time one, and it is not possible to do paid work during the programme to help finance the costs. The Institute cannot accept any responsibility for students who begin the course with insufficient resources.

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PPLICATION PROCEDURES Admision requirements

Candidates must have a good degree in sociology, law, social sciences and/or in another discipline related to sociology of law. Undergraduates in their final year may be admitted on the basis of their anticipated results, but they must already have been awarded their first degree diploma by the time the Master’s course begins.

Applicants must have a very good working knowledge of both written and spoken.

With their application forms, candidates must send: (i) a copy of their passport or identity card; (ii) 4 passport-style photos; (iii) a curriculum vitae: this should state the approximate class standing in any higher degree qualification attained (e.g. top 5%, top 15%), and should include details of any dissertation or substantial written work, and the citation if published; (iv) a transcript of the credits or subjects taken in and showing satisfactory completion of the first degree; (v) a copy of a TOEFL diploma or other evidence of fluency in English. Further, applicants must send two references written by their previous university teachers or other scholars. If the application is accepted, it will be necessary to send an officially legalized copy of the first degree diploma and its translation into Spanish by an official translator. Further information on what is required will be supplied.

Master’s Committee also select applications for admission to the Masters programme.

The Institute reserves the right to admit only candidates who in its opinion are capable of satisfactorily following and completing the programme.

Further information can be obtained from the following address: Susana Arrese Murguzur Coordinator of the Master's Programme International Institute for the Sociology of Law Avenida de la Universidad, 8 / Apdo. 28 20560 OÑATI / Gipuzkoa / Spain / T: +34 943 783 064−F: +34 943 783 147 E: susana@iisj.es - W: http://www.iisj.es The total tuition fee for the 2013/14 Master's Programme is €3,000. Within one month of the date of notification of acceptance onto the Master's programme, a €300 deposit is required. This amount will be deducted from the total tuition fees and is payable either by Visa or Master card, a cheque in euros drawn on a Spanish bank or by bank transfer to the following bank account:

Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria Oñati (Gipuzkoa) Spain International Bank Account Number IBAN ES84 0182 0326 1000 1052 9952 Bank Identification Code BBVAESMMXXX Oñati (Gipuzkoa) Spain The remaining €2,700 should be paid into the same account before the start of the programme in September. The deposit will not be returned if, for any reason, the candidate does not take part in the Master's Programme.

The tuition fee for participation in single courses is €300.

Master’s students and Friendship programme participants.

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RGANIZATION AND EXAMINATION RULES 2013-2014 International Master´s in the Sociology of Law

The degree is conferred on the basis of course credits, a Master’s thesis and the defence of the thesis. Candidates must obtain at least a Pass mark in every component in order to be awarded the degree.

A candidate must normally pass all the taught courses before being allowed to proceed to writing the thesis. In exceptional cases, the Scientific Director may allow a candidate to proceed to writing the thesis if a course has been missed or failed, but the candidate must complete the missing course credit(s) the following year in order to be awarded the degree. A candidate may retake a Failed component of the programme the following year, unless they are excluded from the programme by a decision of the competent authority, however they must pay the fees for the component to be retaken. The grades for one or more courses may be withheld by the Institute, so that the candidate may not be able to graduate, if the student has not fulfilled his/her financial obligations to the Institute or to the UPV/EHU. Courses The taught part of the programme consists of 12 different two-week courses with a total of 36 ECTS credits, plus the Thesis Seminar which counts for 4 credits. One ECTS credit is considered equivalent to 25 hours of coursework including supervisions, seminars, readings, discussions and preparation of papers and exams. Coursework units are usually taught between 09.00 and 11.00 each day, but this may vary.

classes on time, and course teachers are entitled to impose a penalty for persistent late attendance. Any absence for any reason must be explained to the course teacher and the Scientific Director, preferably in advance (e.g. by email). A course teacher can penalise, including giving a Fail grade, any student who fails to attend or participate in a course.

Students will be required to explain extended absences to the Scientific Director, and to provide evidence as to the reason for their absence (e.g. a medical certificate).

Assessments for each coursework unit is due on the Saturday immediately following the conclusion of the course at 18:00 pm. Late submission may be penalised by the course teacher. Students who are absence from class or fail to submit assessment for good reason (e.g. illness) may be able to submit an alternative piece of assessment with the agreement of the course teacher and Scientific Director.

Certificate Students who obtain credits for some or all required courses, but whose Master’s thesis is not submitted or not approved, will be certified to have completed the coursework component of the programme with the relevant number of ECTS obtained. Students who fail one or more courses may at the end of the teaching period may ask for a certificate for those courses that they have successfully passed and those ECTS they have accumulated.

Absences and late submission Students are expected to attend all classes, submit coursework and participate in all courses. Students are also expected to attend 16

Mariana Kiefer Kruchin thesis defense by tele-conference.

Students’ and Teachers’ Evaluation of the Programme At the end of their course, lecturers will be asked to give an overall assessment of the programme and of each student. Students will be asked to provide an anonymous evaluation of lecturers and an evaluation of the programme as a whole. The Master Committee of the IISL will analyse these evaluations and recommend appropriate improvements.

Misbehaviour The Scientific Director deals with cases of students’ misbehaviour that occur outside the classroom and serious misbehaviour in class.

They can decide on an appropriate sanction.

In severe cases this may require a student to move out of the Residence or expelling the student from the Masters’ programme.

Research Ethics Research for the Master Thesis must comply with the ISA Code of Ethics (http://www.isasociology.org/about/isa_code_of_ethics.htm).

Consideration of ethical issues must be included in the Thesis Proposal, and where relevant, should be discussed within the final version of the Masters Thesis.

Good Academic Practice and Plagiarism All written work submitted must comply with normal standards of good academic practice, especially as regards use and citation of sources. All sources must be properly cited, and any quotations must be clearly marked. Failure to cite sources correctly may be treated as plagiarism (passing off the work of another as one´s own).

Sanctions for poor academic practice or plagiarism include deduction of marks, failing the course, or expulsion from the programme. A teacher or examiner who identifies or suspects poor academic practice or plagiarism should report the matter to the Scientific Director, who may investigate by any means considered appropriate. If a prima facie case is found, the student will be notified of the details and given an

opportunity to explain; the student may be accompanied by a friend or adviser. The decision on the mark to be awarded or penalty will be taken by the Scientific Director, and reported to the Board of Examiners.

Master’s Thesis Seminar Students are required to attend a weekly seminar intended to identify a suitable topic for a thesis, develop and refine it, determine their theoretical perspective and empirical or other methodology, and conduct a literature review. The Masters Thesis Seminar will usually be conducted on a Wednesday afternoon, and counts for 4 credit. Students will be required to submit a 5000 word essay.

The longer essay will allow students to more fully develop a research topic, and it will be important preparation for the Master’s Thesis.

Each student will also present to the Scientific Director a provisional title and a short outline for their thesis. Students will then be required to give a presentation of their proposed research for their thesis.

Finally, students need to hand in a written proposal at the end of the coursework programme. The proposal will include the thesis’ aim, background, proposed methodology and methods, discussion of any ethical issues, and the proposed timetable.

The proposal is also sent to the student’s supervisor.

Master´s Thesis Once approved, the main responsibility for advice to the student on the thesis passes to the supervisor. With the help and approval of the Scientific Director each student should select a suitable supervisor, who could be one of the course teachers, or another specialist on the topic chosen. The person nominated must confirm in writing to the Institute their willingness and availability to supervise.

Students should keep in contact with the supervisor during the whole period of research and writing. The supervisor should read and comment on draft chapters or sections, according to an agreed timetable.

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If the student decides not to follow any of the advice given by the supervisor they should explain the reasons to the supervisor.

Students must also send two progress reports both to their supervisor and the Scientific Director: one at the end of June, and the other at the end of July.

The student must send the supervisor a final draft of the whole thesis no later than 30th August 2014; the supervisor should send comments on this draft within one week of its receipt, and must approve the final draft for submission. The thesis should be of the style and substance of a substantial journal article.

The length is a maximum of 15,000 words, including substantial text in footnotes and bibliography, but excluding appendices. The Scientific Director may approve a higher word limit if the candidate presents good reasons, for example related to the recognition of the degree in their own country. Penalties may be applied for exceeding the word limit.

The thesis should normally be written in English. The use of other languages may be approved by the Scientific Director if supervision and examination can be arranged.

The thesis should be typed, must include a full alphabetical list of all references.

The final version of the thesis must be submitted to the Institute no later than 08:30 on 12th September 2014. If the thesis is not submitted by the deadline for a valid and unforeseeable reason, the student may, with the approval of the Institute, submit the thesis by a new approved deadline, for examination in the following year. If a thesis is not submitted by the deadline it may not be marked in time for the student to graduate until the following year. This may entail the student registering again for the course and payment of an additional fee to the UPV/EHU in respect of the thesis module.

Examination of Master´s Theses An external examiner is appointed to each thesis, and it is possible for examiners to mark more than one thesis. In order to 18

maintain consistency, the Scientific Director usually examines every thesis.

The examination process is in two stages: 1. Each examiner evaluates the thesis, gives comments, and sets questions for the student to address in a defence. A provisional grade is given, although this will not be sent to the student. The examiner’s comments will be sent to the student by the Institute, usually within one week of the submission of the thesis, and at the latest by noon on 18th September.

2. The student then has the opportunity to defend the thesis. The defence is usually done in writing, although an oral defence can be requested. The defence should answer the specific questions posed, and not simply restate the arguments. The written defence must be received by the Institute within one week of the date that the comments were sent to the student, and at the latest by noon on 26th September. After reading the defence, the examiners assign a definitive grade. The provisional grade may be raised but not reduced as a result of reading the written defence.

Students who wish to do an oral defence. If the request for an oral defence must make a specific request before 1st May 2014. It may not be possible to arrange an oral defence if the request is made after this date. The oral defence may be by teleconference.

Arrangements for an oral defence will be made individually with the student, but must take place at the latest by 26th September. In addition to the thesis examiners, other examiners in the programme with an expertise in the topic, including the supervisor, may participate in the oral defence.

The examiners should try to agree a joint grade, or the average of the two may be awarded. In the case of a significant divergence, the supervisor’s may be taken into account, and/or the thesis may be sent to a third person for examination.

The thesis is evaluated on the following criterion: Choice of Topic and Approach: How appropriate is the topic for a sociology of law programme? Were the methodological and theoretical approaches appropriate?

Scholarly Techniques: Are the structure and expression effective and appropriate? Does the thesis read well? Does the thesis deploy an appropriate range of both primary and secondary sources? Are the sources properly cited and referenced? If the thesis presents an original piece of empirical work, how well is this organised and presented?

put forward cogent and convincing? Do they take account of the main relevant work on the chosen topic, and show a good grasp of them?

Does the thesis advance an effective critique of existing work or an alternative perspective?

IISL Grading Scheme Grades for courses and the Master’s Theses are given a numerical mark out of 10. The grading bands are illustrated in the table below. While we do not apply a grading curve, there is a broad expectation that grades will fall within the following range: top 10% (A), next 25% (B), next 30% (C), next 25% (D).

Substance: Are the arguments and analyses Numerical grade

IISJ description

9.6-10

Eximia cum laude

8.6-9.5

Magna cum laude

7-8.5

Cum laude

5-6.9

Approbatur

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Fail

Criteria Excellent, outstanding, of publishable quality Very Good, only minor limitations or errors Good, above average standard, some limitations or errors Satisfactory, generally sound, a number of limitations or errors Inadequate research, significant limitations and errors

ECTS equivalent A top 10% B next 25% C next 30% D next 25% Fail

Important dates for the thesis February 14th

Provisional thesis title and short outline

March 23rd

Thesis proposal

June

1st progress report

July

2nd progress report

August 30th

Final draft sent to supervisor

September 12th

Final version of the thesis

September 26th

Last date for thesis defence

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THE RESIDENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE SOCIOLOGY OF LAW

THE RESIDENCE tudents are generally lodged in the IISL Residencia Antia in Oñati. The Residence was generously made available by the town of Oñati for our use. It is a historic building dating from the 18th Century, so it is very important that we take good care of it. There is no porter, so residents must take some responsibility for security and dealing with service emergencies. Also, since residents must live there all together, they need to agree to and respect some basic norms.

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The Residence has 22 ensuite rooms, as well as a TV room, computer room, communal kitchen, dining and other rooms, and washing and drying facilities. Staying in the Residence is subject to payment, including a deposit, and compliance with the house rules.

As the Residence does not have a receptionist, you will be provided with a code to enter the building. In the lobby you will find a folder with your name. The folder contains your room key, the Master’s programme, as well as information about Oñati.

Price for the stay in September and in April (for Master’s Students)*

Single Room

Per day

Per week

21 €

105 €

Shared Room / 14 € 73 € per person * These prices may change in 2014.

From October to March, those staying at the Residence will pay the whole month.

Those students who want to stay at the Residence for some days after the end of the programme (28th March 2014) in order to work at the library should inform the Administration before the March 1st.

Room bills must be paid by the fifth of each month. If payment is not made on time, the Institute will assume that the room is no longer desired and the occupant will be expected to move out immediately. Payment should be made at the IISL Administration.

Residence charges cover the provision of sheets, blankets, pillows and towels, which are changed and the bedroom cleaned once a week. On that day rooms must be vacated and tidy before 10:00 a.m.

Payment

Deposit

Students can opt to have a single or to share a room. In circumstances where a student paying for a shared room, the Institute can organise two students to occupy the room.

Students cannot occupy a single room unless they have paid the single room rate.

At the beginning of the academic year, each student will have to pay one month’s rent as a deposit (even those who have received grants). Some or all of this deposit may be withheld at the end of the student’s stay to cover damage or breakages, or additional cleaning costs. Please note, that it is therefore not possible to count the deposit against the rent of the last month.

The price* per person in a single room is 417 euros per month and the price per person sharing a double room is 248 euros per month.

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Security Please ensure all outside doors are closed unless they are in use. This includes the doors from the dining room to the balcony, which must be locked at night. There have been break-ins in the past through these doors.

Additional visitors Occupants who have rooms to themselves may wish to share the room with someone who is not a IISJ student. They should inform the administration at least one week beforehand. They need to fill in a form, and the amount to be paid by the visitor will be decided by the administration office. Visitors must be approved, and they must also pay for the use of the Residence.

Visitors will stay in the rooms designated by the administration. Students will remain in the same rooms they had occupied before the arrival of the visitors.

Other common rooms All rooms may be used for work, leisure and receiving visitors. Since the Residence belongs to the City Council, residents are asked to keep it in good condition at all times. Please: −

do not leave your books, glasses or other belongings strewn around in the common rooms; − only eat in the dining room. Cleanliness is extremely important for the upkeep of the Residence and for your own wellbeing; − do not place hot or wet utensils, cups or glasses directly on woodwork.

The Residence also has washing machines for you to do your laundry. Please keep it tidy, for instance, recycle used detergent boxes.

Noise can be a problem in the Residence, especially at night; as it travels easily especially through the floors. Any noisy activities, e.g. playing pool, should cease at 11:00 p.m. Late night parties should only be 24

organised with the agreement of other residents.

Central heating The central heating is switched on as soon as the weather starts to get cold. There are no thermostats, so comfortable temperatures in the common areas and bedrooms depend on turning radiators down or off. The attic is not heated in winter for security reasons, but is usually warm from the general house heating.

Kitchen No meals are provided, but residents can use the shared kitchen, including refrigerators.

Several restaurants offer a 3 course menu in the middle of the day for about 11€ (evening meals are more expensive), and several bars/cafés have snacks (pintxos). Students also have access to the student restaurant in the Business School of the Mondragon University, which is 200 m from the IISL and is open during the day.

The kitchen should be cleaned after each time it is used. Garbage should be recycled in the bins provided in the streets. We suggest that the class organise a weekly timetable for cleaning the kitchen, taking out the garbage, and possibly cooking.

Environment, energy and safety Please switch off lights in rooms which are not in use, i.e. bedrooms, common rooms, toilets. Some of the lights are linked to exhaust systems, which break down if left on for long periods.

No smoking is allowed in the Residence.

There are smoke alarms which will trigger a fire alarm if smoke is detected. The control panel for the fire alarm is in the small room by the downstairs corridor (on the right with your back to the main door).

For outside phone calls, lift the receiver, dial ‘0’ followed by the telephone number. For international phone calls you must dial ‘0’ to obtain the external line + ‘00’ wait for a long tone + the country code + phone number.

The hot water and central heating system boilers are located on the ground floor. A minimum of two residents should volunteer to learn how these systems can be restarted in case they go out.

Telephone bills for each room will be provided at the end of each month and must be paid by the fifth of the following month.

Where a room is occupied by two students, students need to allocate charges between them, but one payment must be made to the Institute (the bills show the date and numbers called).

Telephone calls For internal calls simply lift the receiver and dial the number (from 101 to 132).

External calls may be received directly in the rooms if the person who is calling presses the room number (three figures) while the music is playing.

You can make national as well as international calls from your room telephone.

Maintenance problems If you have any maintenance problems, please contact the Administrative Director, José Antonio Goyenaga during office hours or complete the pink sheet you will find in your room.

The Palacio Antia, Residence of the IISL.

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CONTENT OF THE COURSES, TEACHING STAFF 2013-2014

CALENDAR CALENDAR

ECTS

23-27 Sept. 2013

TITLE OF THE COURSE Rhetoric, Communication, Negotiation Ulrike Schultz – Fern Universität Comparative Legal Culture Joxerramon Bengoetxea, University of the Basque Country Socio-Legal Research Theory and Practice: Quantitative Methods Herbert Kritzer, University of Minnesota Theories and Approaches to the Sociology of Law Alfonso Morales, University of Wisconsin International Criminology: Violence, Culture and Legal Justice Stephen Tomsen, University of Western Sydney Socio-Legal Research Theory and Practice: Qualitative Methods Maggie Walter, University of Tasmania Law, Governance and Development in Asia Andrew James Harding, National University of Singapore Professional Actors of the Legal System: Judges, Lawyers and Scholars Rogelio Pérez Perdomo, Universidad Metropolitana, Caracas Law and Anthropology Martin Ramstedt, Max Plank Institute for Social Anthropology Sociolegal perspectives on housing law Caroline Hunter, York University, UK

1-11 Oct. 2013

3

14-25 Oct. 2013

3

28 Oct.-8 Nov. 2013

3

11-22 Nov. 2013

3

25 Nov.-5 Dec. 2013

3

9-20 Dec.2013

3

7-17 Jan. 2014

3

20-31 Jan. 2014

3

3-14 Feb. 2014

3

17-28 Feb. 2014

3

Human Rights and Cultural Relativism Nkoli Aniekwu, University of Benin

3-14 March 2014

3

Socio-Legal Perspectives on Litigation Lynn Mather, State University of New York

17-28 March 2014

3

Gender, Law and Everyday Lives Anne Griffiths, Edinburgh University

Oct. 2013 - March 2014

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Thesis Seminar & Tutorials Oñati IISL Scientific Director and Visiting Fellows

April-September 2014

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Research Project & Master´s Thesis

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TEACHING STAFF AND COURSES Ulrike SCHULTZ

Aims of the course

Ulrike Schultz, qualified as a lawyer, is a Senior Academic at FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany (the German distanceteaching university).

Former Head of the Law Faculty's Teaching and Learning Unit specialised in media work; teaching gender and law at the law faculty; communication trainer for lawyers and the judiciary. She has set up and organised several further education programmes, such as Law Related Education, Women and Law, Legal Skills Training, and Virtual International Gender Studies. Board member of the German Sektion für Rechtssoziologie, of the RCSL and of the IISL in Onati. Chair of the RCSL Working Group on Legal Professions. Head of the "Women/Gender in the Legal Profession" Group.

Member of the International Advisory Board of the International Journal of the Legal Profession, co-editor of the German Handbook for Equal Opportunities Work, editor of (hand-)books on Women and Law, Images of Women, Women and the Demographic Change, Women´s Rights in Europe, Women in the World´s Legal Professions, Gender and Judging (together with Gisela Shaw) etc.

This course does not contribute to the overall assessment of the Masters programme. Nevertheless, it is an important component of the programme.

Rhetoric, Communication, Negotiation The design of the course is to give students practical experience in rhetoric, self presentation, communication including negotiation and mediation.

The course offers findings from communication theory, communication psychology, (personnel) management studies and sociology of law.

The aims are: - to get acquainted right from the beginning of the master course - to learn about self perception, social perception and perception of the other - to enhance presentation skills - to get an insight into the basic principles of communication drawing on various theoretical concepts, - to train communication skills - to learn and practice techniques of negotiation - to try out counselling skills and conversation techniques needed in mediation The course will also make students reflect about difficulties - strongholds, problems – advantages of different methods of conflict solution.

Joxerramon BENGOETXEA PhD, University of Edinburgh.Professor of Law, University of the Basque Country where he coordinates the PH D programme in Sociology of Law and teaches in three official Master programmes. He has been Scientific Director of the Oñati Institute (200507), Director of the network ELAP-The Economics of Lifelong Learning (2004-05); Legal Secretary at the European Court of Justice (1993-1998 and 2002-2003), and Deputy Minister for Employment, Labour and Social Security at the Basque Autonomous Government (1998-2001).

Publications include The Legal Reasoning of the European Court of Justice (1993), Zuzenbideaz Teoria Kritiko Trinkoa (1993), La 31

Europa Peter Pan. El constitucionalismo europeo en la encrucijada (2005), he has coedited three issues of the OSLS, and published over 150 articles or book chapters on issues of legal reasoning and legal theory, substantive EC law and constitutional law of the EU, the issue of regionalism and governance in the EU, comparative law, legal pluralism, multiculturalism and legal culture, political philosophy (theory of soverreignty, nationalism and European integration).

Comparative Legal Culture The purpose of this course is to introduce basic notions about law, legal thinking, the legal order and its sources, the legal professions and legal cultures. Some of the major debates in Comparative law will be dealt with - comparability, adaptation, transplants, influences, convergence, transitions. At the end of the intensive, one-week course each student should be able to make a presentation about their own legal culture.

1. Introduction: legal culture, legal positivism and the state 2. The issue of Pluralism and Law; and Pluralism in Law 3. Multiculturalism and Law 4. Diffusion of Law: diffusion, transplants, comparative law 5. Transnational Law and legal cultures 6. Rights and Legal Culture 7. The Judiciary and Judicial decisionmaking: an intercultural comparison 8. The cultures of control and risk 9. Europe and the EU as a laboratory for comparative legal cultures

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Herbert KRITZER Herbert M. Kritzer (Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1974; B.A. Haverford College 1969) is the Marvin J. Sonosky Chair of Law and Public Policy at the University of Minnesota Law School.

Prior to coming to the University of Minnesota he was Professor of Political Science and Law at University of Wisconsin-Madison. From 2003 to 2007 he served as editor of Law & Society Review. He is the author or coauthor of five books and more than 100 articles or book chapter, most of which report empirical research on law-related topics. His most recent book is Risks, Reputations, and Rewards: Contingency Fee Legal Practice in the United States (Stanford University Press, 2004). He is the coeditor of the Oxford Handbook of Empirical Legal Research (Oxford University Press 2010). He is currently completed a book on judicial elections in the American states.

Socio-Legal Research Theory and Practice: Quantitative Methods The course will provide an introduction to collection and analysis of quantitative data for use in social science research on law-related phenomena. Class time will be split approximately equally between (1) research design and data collection, and (2) data analysis and interpretation. The core text will be Lawless, Robbennolt, and Ulen, Empirical Methods in Law; that text will be supplemented with research articles illustrating particular methods. Students will be required to complete some relatively short exercises in research design and analysis, with the final project consisting of a design for a research project on a question or topic of the student's choice.

Alfonso MORALES

Stephen TOMSEN

Alfonso Morales (PhD Sociology Northwestern) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

He is originally from rural New Mexico with roots in family farming, there and in west Texas. He is a research, advocate, and a practitioner/ consultant on food systems and public markets. He has been invited to speak on these topics nationally and internationally.

He is a scholar of entrepreneurship, economic development, and law and society. He uses empirical research on these topics to investigate the relationship between reasoned behavior and social organization. His scholarship includes three edited books and more than 30 articles and book chapters; recently he organized a conference and coedited a book about Mexican American entrepreneurship. His publications are found in Spanish and English and have appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, Journal of Planning Education and Research, Economic Development Quarterly, the Law and Society Review, and other journals. He is on the board of EDCO a nonprofit that develops for-profit businesses in economically distressed areas.

Health Resources and Services Administration, the Ford Foundation, the American Bar Foundation, and other agencies have supported his research. He co-hosts (with Gregg Kettles) openair.org, a webpage on street vendors and public markets. He consults regularly with business and government on public markets.

Professor Stephen Tomsen is a criminologist and sociologist of law with a chair in criminology at the University of Western Sydney. He has decades of teaching and research experience and international reputation for his work on violence (including homicides), hate crime and law, access to justice, crime and culture, masculinities, sexualities, and social movements. Previous appointments have included visiting fellowships in the United States (University of Washington, Seattle) and Western Europe (Leiden University, Keele University and Birkbeck College, London). Publications on law, crime and violence include: Violence, Prejudice and Sexuality (2009, Routledge Press); Crime, Criminal Justice and Masculinities: A Reader (2008, Ashgate Press) and Lawyers in Conflict: Australian Lawyers and Legal Aid (2006, Federation Press).

Theories and Approaches to the Sociology of Law This course is a sociological examination of law as a mechanism of social regulation, the release of societal energies, and as a field of knowledge. Its focus is on contemporary theory, in particular pragmatism and its contributions to the Sociology of Law.

International Criminology: Violence, Culture and Legal Justice Widespread violence is a pervasive feature of human societies. The 20th century was characterised by ‘total war’, rebellions, genocides and the mass suffering induced by authoritarian states. In recent decades, a new wave of racial, ethnic and religious violence and terrorism has been linked to rapid patterns of globalisation and conflicts over group and national identities. Specific knowledge about violence and considerations about its real extent, causes and cultural meanings remain uncertain. Yet there is recent evidence that international treaties and global justice agencies (including the International Criminal Court) may be linked to a general decline in violence, and that there is a significant role for legal and quasi-legal bodies for acknowledging injury, punishing previously ‘deniable’ violence and promoting reconciliation and restorative justice.

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Furthermore, criminologists and social and legal scholars stress that an uneven decline in direct violence is the result of the ambiguous ‘civilizing process’ that Elias argued had first emerged in early modern Europe. Seminar topics in this course will include the global patterns and forms of violence; individual versus societal and historical explanations; biology, evolution and culture; gender, race and inequality; hatred, genocide, collective identity and psychoanalysis; the role of states and law in countering and condoning interpersonal and collective violence; debates about victimhood and the cultural symbols of violence and its memorialisation.

- Course content - Definition, scope, patterns and forms of violence - Collective violence and warfare - Nature and evolutionary explanation - Social structure: history, culture and the psychosocial - Gendered violence - Violence, race and rebellion - Violence and criminal law - Victimhood and memory - Memorialising violence - Law, truth and international justice

Maggie WALTER Maggie Walter (PHD) is an Associate Professor in the School of Sociology and Social Work at the University of Tasmania, Australia, where she teaches and researches in the areas of social research methods, family, indigeneity and race relations. Her books include the best selling Australian text; Social Research Methods (Ed. 2006:2010) and Social Inequality in Australia: Discourses, Realities and Futures (coauthored with D. Habibis, 2008). Maggie, a descendant of the trawlwoolway people of north-eastern Tasmania, also teaches and writes on methodologies, annually coconvening (with A. Moreton-Robinson) a Masterclass on Indigenous Research 34

Methodologies. Her socio-legal related research includes a study gauging the effectiveness of juries in combating public misconceptions of crime rates and a study of workers' compensation claimants' interaction with workplace injury legislation.

Socio-Legal Research Theory and Practice: Qualitative Methods Socio-legal research gathers, analyses and interprets data relating to the law and legal systems. To teach you how socio-legal research can be, and is, deployed, this course contains two modules. The first covers the basic of social research (of which socio-legal research is a subset) and provides you with key skills for understanding, critically evaluating, interpreting, designing, and developing rigorous and ethical research practice. The second module teaches you how to select and apply a range of contemporary qualitative skills and research methods within your own research. These include: qualitative sampling; the interviewing process; in-depth and narrative interviewing; focus groups: content analysi; Indigenous methodologies; ethnographic research; and qualitative analysis and result presentation. Both modules use case studies to contextualise and provide examples of how socio-legal research operates in the field and demonstrate the many different method and methodological options available for conducting valid qualitative socio-legal research.

Andrew James HARDING Professor Harding is a leading scholar in the fields of Asian legal studies and comparative constitutional law. He commenced his academic career at NUS before moving to SOAS, University of London, where he became Head of School and Director of the Centre for South East Asian Studies. He joins NUS from the University of Victoria, BC Canada, where he was Professor of AsiaPacific Legal Relations and Director of the

Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives.

Professor Harding has worked extensively on constitutional law in Malaysia and Thailand, and has made extensive contributions to scholarship in comparative law, and law and development, having published nine books as author or editor. He is co-founding-editor of Hart Publishing's book series 'Constitutional Systems of the World', a major resource for constitutional law in context, and has coauthored the book on Thailand in that series (2011). His book on Malaysia in the same series is in press.

Representative Publications 1. The Constitution of Malaysia: A Contextual Analysis (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2012, forthcoming) 2. With P. Leyland, The Constitutional System of Thailand : A Contextual Analysis (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2011) 3. With C. Carter (ed), Special Economic Zones in Asian Market Economies (Routledge, London, 2010) 4. With P. Leyland (ed), Constitutional Courts: A Comparative Study (Wildy, Simmonds and Hill, London, 2010) 5. With P. Nicholson (ed) New Courts in Asia (London, Routledge, 2009) 6. With H.P. Lee (ed), Constitutional Landmarks in Malaysia: the First 50 Years, 1957-2007 (Kuala Lumpur, Malayan Law Journal/ LexisNexis, 2007)

Law, Governance and Development in Asia Asia's experience of law and development has been and continues to be instructive. While development has occurred without too much in the way of law and governance reforms, all Asian states are now facing demands, not least from their own citizens, for law reform and better governance. 'New Asian constitutionalism' has since the late 1980s replaced 'the Asian developmental state' as a guiding paradigm. At the same time Asia is still in many ways resistant to Western notions of law and governance. Issues of law and governance are now therefore critical for the developing, developed, transitional, and

post-conflict states of Asia. They are also intensely debated across Asia. The spread of and constitutional, representative government and human rights, based on the rule of law, seems both possible and urgently necessary.

Should Asian states follow a colonial constitution orbuild constitutions embracing contemporary Western 'good-governance' principles? How can they deal effectively with corruption and abuse of power, and establish political stability and the rule of law? Will they find their own solutions? Will these be useful paradigms for the rest of the developing world?

This course examines these issues on a broad comparative canvas, using case studies drawn from Asian, and especially from SE Asian states.

Rogelio PÉREZ-PERDOMO Studies of law at Universidad Central de Venezuela (1959-64), philosophy and sociology of law at Paris (1964-66) and Harvard (1971-72).

L1M (Harvard, 1972) and Dr. Ciencias/Derecho (SJD), Universidad Central de Venezuela, 1976.

Professor of law and former dean, Universidad Metropolitana, Caracas. Frequent Visiting Professor at Stanford Law School since 1998.

Professor at Universidad Central de Venezuela (1967-1988) and Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración (1988-1998).

Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex (1977), Visiting Professor at University of the Basque Country (1991-1992), CIDE and Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas of UNAM, Mexico (2010). Florida International University College of Law, 2012.

Academic Director of Stanford Program for International Legal Studies (1999-2001), Scientific Director of Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law (1991-92).

President of the Research Committee on Sociology of Law, International Sociological Association (1992-1995).

International Scholarship Prize. Law and Society Association. 2011. Premio a la Investigación y 35

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Universidad Metropolitana, 2005-2006.

Many academic publications. The most recent books are Justicia e injusticias en Venezuela (Academia de la Historia and Universidad Metropolitana, 2011) and Law in many societies (co-editors: Lawrence Friedman and Manuel Gómez, Stanford University Press, 2011). Present research lines: legal scholarship and legal culture.

Professional Actors of the Legal System: Judges, Lawyers and Scholars The countries of Southwestern Europe and Latin America can be considered the core of the civil law tradition. Their connection with Roman and canon law is clear and even the language, religion and other cultural traits are shared or very close. Historically, they have had strong ties among themselves. This course proposes to analyze what we know about the changes in the legal culture and legal actors in this vast cultural area and uses the instruments of law and society for this analysis.

Comparative law scholars have given much importance to the concept of legal tradition and the continuity and commonality of some traits in the ever changing life of the legal systems. Law and society scholars have advanced the concept of legal culture, which is considered an expression of society and is associated with social change. Globalization, which is the manifestation of social change in contemporary society, has strong manifestations in the cultural area and most likely in the legal culture. This course will analyze whether the idea of legal tradition is still important for understanding the legal systems and its relation to society and history, and if the analysis of legal traditions and legal cultures are really compatible. The analysis will emphasize the professional legal culture and the changes and permanence in the legal education and professions.

Martin RAMSTEDT Dr. Ramstedt is senior researcher at the Department of Law and Anthropology, at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Social Anthropology, in Halle/Saale, Germany.

Prior to this engagement, he worked as European Science Foundation research fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies in Leiden, the Netherlands, as researcher at the Meertens Institute, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Science institute for Du tch ethnology in Amsterdam, and as senior researcher in the Project Group “Legal Pluralism” at the MPI in Halle. Hehas taught on different aspects of the interplay between religio-ethnic identity politics and legal pluralism in a globalizing world as guest lecturer at the universities of Münster, Leiden, Nijmegen, Amsterdam, Halle and London. His research interests cover the following interrelated topics: religio-ethnic identity politics and multiple citizenship, local ramifications of the indigenous peoples movement, collective ownership and the juridification of heritage, state recognition of religion and ethnicity and the increase of legal pluralism, the translation of legal categories into different socio-legal spaces. The socio-political contexts, in which these topics are embedded, are mostly situated in Indonesia and Southeast Asia at large as well as, to a much lesser extent, in Europe and India. Dr. Ramstedt has published widely on the intersection of the anthropologies of law, politics, and religion. Among his recent publications are two edited volumes and a special issue of a peer-reviewed international journal: Religion in Disputes co-edited with Franz and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann as well as Bertram Turner (Palgrave Macmillan 2013), Law and Religio-Ethnic Identity in Post-New Order Indonesia co-edited with Fadjar I. Thufail (Asian Ethnicity 13/4, special issue, Routledge 2012), and Decentralization and Regional Autonomy in Indonesia: Implementation and Challenges co-edited with Coen J.G. Holtzappel (ISEAS 2009).

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Law and Anthropology Parallel to the progressing globalization and concomitant deregulation of national marketsthere has been agrowing judicialization or juridification of different social spheres almost everywhere around the globe. Theseprocesses have changed the concept, functionand status of law in contemporary societies. This change has in turn given boost to the joint enterprise of the sociology and the anthropology of lawand their objectives to gauge the transformation of societies through the lens of lawand, conversely, the transformation of law through the lens of certain socio-political and socioeconomic dynamics.In this course, we will take disputes as diagnostic events for, or entry points into, salient socio-legal developments and debates,such as what is lost and what is gained in the translation or transplantation of legal norms, concepts, institutions and procedures into different socio-legal spaces, andthe socio-political significance of increased legal pluralism caused by growing normative and institutional recognition of religion, ethnicity and indigenous custom. We will discuss cases of project law, cultural defense, and changing property regimes as well as instances of multiple citizenship and the prioritization of individual over collective human rights, and vice versa.

Sessions 1. Introduction and Overview 2. Processes of Juridification in the Globalizing World 3. Juridification as Re-embedding: Cases from Different Non-Western Societies 4. Common Historical and Conceptual Foundations of the Sociology and Anthropology of Law 5. Ethnographies of Legal Institutions and Procedures 6. Transplantation of Legal Norms, Concepts, Institutions and Procedures into Different Socio-legal Spaces: Project Law and Changing Development Agendas 7. Transnationalization of Human Rights and Islamic Fatwas: Chances and Challenges

8. Legal Pluralism and StateRecognition of Religion, Ethnicity and Indigenous Custom 9. Cases of Cultural Defense in Western Societies.

Literature On Processes of Juridification in the Globalizing World − Gunther Teubner (ed.), 1987. Juridification of Social Spheres: A Comparative Analysis in the Areas of Labor, Corporate, Antitrust and Social Welfare Law. Berlin and New York: de Gruyter. − Javier Couso, Alexandra Huneeus and Rachel Sieder (eds.), 2010. Cultures of Legality: Judicialization and Political Activism in Latin America. Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society). − Julia Eckert, Brian Donahoe, Christian Strümpell and Zerrin Özlem Biner (eds.), 2012. Law against the State: Ethnographic Forays into Law’s Transformations.

Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press. − Christian Joerges, and Josef Falke (eds.), Karl Polanyi, Globalisation and the Potential of Law in Transnational Markets.

Oxford and Portland: Hart Publishing. − Martin Ramstedt, 2012. Processes of Disembedding and Displacement: Anomie and the Juridification of Religio-Ethnic Identity in Post-New Order Bali. In Asian Ethnicity 13/4: 1-17. London and New York: Routledge.

On the Common Historical and Conceptual Foundations of the Sociology and Anthropology of Law − Mathieu Deflem, 2008. Sociology of Law: Visions of a Scholarly Tradition.

Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press. − Fernanda Pirie, 2013. The Anthropology of Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press (Clarendon Law Series). − Alain Pottage, and Martha Mundy (eds.), 2004. Law, Anthropology, and the Constitution of the Social: Making Persons

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and Things. Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society). − Bruno Latour. (2002) 2004. La Fabrique du Droit: Une Ethnographie du Conseil d’État. Paris: La Découverte / Poche. − David M. Engel, and Frank W. Munger, 2003. Rights of Inclusion: Law and Identity in the Life Stories of Americans with Disabilities. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press.

On the Transplantation of Legal Norms, Concepts, Institutions and Procedures into Different Socio-legal Spaces − Galit A. Sarfaty 2012. Values in Translation: Human Rights and the Culture of the World Bank. Stanford: Stanford University Press. − Tania Murray Li, 2009. The Law of the Project: Government and ‘Good Governance’ at the World Bank in Indonesia. In Rules of Law and Laws of Ruling: On the Governance of Law, edited

by Franz von Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von Benda-Beckmann and Julia Eckert, 237-256. Farnhem and Burlington Ashgate. − Markus Weilenmann, 2009. Project Law – a Power Instrument of Development Agencies: A Case from Burundi. In The Power of Law in a Transnational World: Anthropological Enquiries, edited by Franz von Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von Benda-Beckmann and Anne Griffiths, 156-175. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books. − Upendra Baxi, 2009. The Globalization of Fatwas amidst the Terror Wars against Pluralism. In The Power of Law in a Transnational World: Anthropological Enquiries, edited by Franz von BendaBeckmann, Keebet von Benda-Beckmann and Anne Griffiths, 96-114. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books.

On Legal Pluralism and State Recognition of Religion, Ethnicityand Indigenous Custom − Brian Z. Tamanaha, Caroline Sage and Michael Woolcock (eds.), 2012. Legal 38

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Pluralism and Development: Scholars and Practitioners in Dialogue. Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press.

Franz and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann, Martin Ramstedt and Bertram Turner (eds.), 2013. Religion in Disputes. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Ronald Niezen, 2003. The Origins of Indigenism: Human Rights and the Politics of Identity. Berkeley et al.: University of California Press.

Christine F. Black, 2011. The Land is the Source of the Law: A Dialogic Encounter with Indigenous Jurisprudence. London and New York: Routledge.

Marie-Claire Foblets, and Alison Dundes Renteln (eds.), 2009. Multicultural Jurisprudence: Comparative Perspectives on the Cultural Defense. Oxford and Portland: Hart Publishing (Oñati International Series in Law and Society).

Caroline HUNTER Caroline Hunter is Professor of Law at the University of York. After working in housing advice, she trained as a barrister and developed a specialist practice in housing and local government. She moved into academia in 1990 and, prior to moving to York Law School, worked at the University of Nottingham, Sheffield Hallam University and the University of Manchester. Her teaching has been with both law students and undergraduate and postgraduate students of housing policy and management. Over the last 20 years she has worked on a wide range of empirical studies looking at the interaction of law and policy and practice. Funding for these has been from major government and charitable funders.

Her main research interests relate to housing and other urban regeneration issues, and the role of law in implementing and hindering the policy process. She has written extensively on housing and homelessness law both for an academic and a practitioner audience.

Socio-Legal Perspectives on Housing Law Socio-legal Perspectives on Housing Law As Lorna Fox puts it in her book.

Conceptualising Home: Theories, Laws and Policies: "Home is a complex and multidimensional interest, which includes financial, practical, social phychological, cultural, politico-economic and emotional interests to its occupiers." This course will examine how the law interacts with these other factors to protect rights in the home. It will begin by looking at the meaning of home in both sociology and law. It will then consider how occupiers are protected against losing their home from those with other interests in it, e.g. banks and landlords, and the role of the judiciary in making decisions as to whether or not the home is lost. The course will then turn to regulation of housing by the state. What can and does the state regulate and why? This will consider its role in controlling the conduct of mortgage companies and landlords, together with regulation of standards of housing. Those without a home must not be forgotten.

Homelessness is an important social issue and the reasons why people become homeless and the governance of homelessness will be examined. The course will conclude by asking the question: Is it possible to talk about a right to housing either in international or national law?

Nkolika Ijeoma ANIEKWU Nkolika Ijeoma Aniekwu Ph.D, is an Associate Professor of Law at the Department of Public Law, Faculty of Law, University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria . She teaches Legal Method, Reproductive Health Law and Advanced Research Methods at undergraduate and post graduate levels. Her over thirty (30) publications include journal articles, works in progress, conference papers and text books on

customary law, health law, legal research methodologies, international human rights, and post colonial feminist theories. Her book Legal Methodology and Research in Nigeria (2001) was described by Professor Susanne Karstedt of the School of Law, University of Leeds, U.K. as ‘a classic text in empirical and legal research methods.' Her more recent text, Reproductive Health Law: A Jurisprudential Analysis of Gender Specific Human Rights for the African Region (2011) has received wide national and international recognition, and has been described by Jane Krishnadas Ph.D of the School of Law, Keele University, Staffordshire, U.K. as ‘one of the best books on the subject to have come out of the African sub region.' Nkolika Aniekwu is a national award winner of the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) Doctoral Theses Award Scheme for the best Doctoral theses in Law within the Nigerian Universities System from 2009 till date. Most of her research works have focused on the linkages of regional municipalities with universal institutions, and the ways national legal systems negotiate human rights protection in different cultural, political and social environments. She is the current editor of the forthcoming NIALS Journal of Health Law and Policy at the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Lagos, Nigeria.

Human rights and Cultural Relativism The course on Human Rights and Cultural Relativism explores human rights instruments, ideologies and case laws. It is a study of international provisions on rights and duties, and their relativity with cultural and customary norms in regional systems, using the African region as a typical example. The discussions and case studies reveal key issues for critical jurisprudential examination and socio-legal analysis of rights, duties, culture and universalism.

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Lynn MATHER Lynn Mather is a Professor of Law and Political Science at SUNY Buffalo Law School. From 20022008, she was director of the Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy, an interdisciplinary research center on law and legal institutions. Before moving to Buffalo, Mather held the Nelson A. Rockefeller Chair in Government at Dartmouth College. Her scholarship has addressed the transformation of disputes and the role of lawyers in litigation in different areas of law. Her recent books include Lawyers in Practice: Ethical Decision Making in Context (2012, with Leslie Levin), Private Lawyers and the Public Interest: The Evolving Role of Pro Bono in the Legal Profession (2009, with Robert Granfield), and Divorce Lawyers at Work: Varieties of Professionalism in Practice (2001, with Craig McEwen and Richard Maiman), which received the C. Herman Pritchett Award from the American Political Science Association for the best book in the field of law and courts. Her earlier books include Empirical Theories About Courts (1983) and Plea Bargaining or Trial? The Process of Criminal-Case Disposition (1979). Mather teaches courses in Legal Profession, Statutory Interpretation, Courts and Social Change, and Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives on Litigation. She has been President of the Law and Society Association, chair of the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association, and a member of the Research

Committee of the Association for American Law Schools. She has also been a visiting scholar at UCLA School of Law, the London School of Economics, and the Brookings Institution

Socio-Legal Perspectives on Litigation Who uses courts to resolve disputes? For what kinds of problems? And how does this vary by country? This course examines the politics, culture, sociology and economics of filing claims in court, as well as the processes and outcome of litigation in various countries. We explore the actors and institutions of the legal process through the lens of empirical and theoretical scholarship on litigation.

Topics we will explore include access to courts, the selection of disputes for litigation, negotiation and settlement, juries, trial court judges, specialized courts, the decision to appeal, political trials, and empirical trends in litigation

Anne GRIFFITHS Anne Griffiths is Professor of Anthropology of Law at the School of Law, University of Edinburgh.

Her research focuses on anthropology of law, comparative and family law, African law, gender, culture and rights. In pursuit of these interests Anne has carried out fieldwork in Botswana, southern Africa in the 1980s and more recently, in Scotland in the 1990s on 'The Child's Voice in Legal Proceedings.'

Anne's work has explored the study of law through an anthropological perspective based on ethnography grounded in detailed field studies.

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This perspective highlights people’s understandings, experiences and use of law in everyday life. Her analysis focuses on social persons perspectives on law, providing a counterpoint to textual and doctrinal analyses of law promoted by formal models and challenges conventional legal theory by extending the scope of what constitutes a legitimate focus for legal inquiry. By drawing together the threads of ‘public’ and ‘private’ dimensions of social life Anne Griffiths' work has not only contributed to feminist scholarship on law but as well to broader debates in the social sciences concerning the relationship between power, law, and discourse that govern people’s lives. Her aim is to stress the importance law has in interdisciplinary shaping of transnational issues, such as human rights, whether relating to women and gender, or in relation to children. Thus it urges the centrality of law in its own rights, and not simply as an aspect of political or economic life, while exploring law as a dimension of political, economic, and cultural organisation and as well the legitimation of power through political and economic processes.

Her research has emphasised the specific, concrete, lived-experiences that inform people’s lives. This standpoint

critically examines questions about law’s legitimacy and authority from the perspective of social actors who are often marginalized in mainstream legal discourse, stressing their views of law, the circumstances under which they do or do not have access to legal forums, and the conditions under which individuals find themselves silenced or unable to negotiate with others in daily life.

Gender, Law and Everyday Lives The course explores the construction of gender and the role that it plays in shaping women’s and men’s social identities and their experiences of the everyday world in which they live. Drawing on materials from the North and the South it examines the varying effects of gender in shaping people’s lives as part of the politics of power in western, colonial and postcolonial worlds. It will explore the impact of international human rights and transnational law at a local level as people go about their daily lives. Some of the areas highlighted for discussion include families and social relations, notions of care and belonging, the economic dimensions of work and labour, informal justice and alternative dispute resolution and aspects of inter personal and institutional violence.

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HERRI ADMINISTRAZIO ETA JUSTIZIA SAILA DEPARTAMENTO DE ADMINISTRACIÓN PÚBLICA Y JUSTICIA