CALL FOR PAPERS: Annual Conference of the Law, Literature and the Humanities Association of Australasia (Canberra, 5-8 December 2013)

What: Annual Conference of the Law, Literature and the Humanities Association of Australasia
Where: The Australian National University Canberra, Australia 
When: 5-8 December 2013 
Deadline: 31 May 2013 

The annual conference of the Association invites scholarly and creative research from academics and graduate students working at the crossroads of law, justice, and culture, whether based in legal theory or in disciplines such as literature, art, film, music, history, continental philosophy, anthropology, psychoanalysis, visual culture, or cultural studies. Contributions may take a variety of forms from traditional academic papers to poster presentations, video, or other genres or media.

Contributors should provide a title and an abstract of 200 words or less, no later than 31 May 2013, by email sent to coast@law.anu.edu.au . Please include your name and the word Interpellations in the subject line

For more information on this year’s program, including on-line registration:

➢    check the web site 
http://law.anu.edu.au/conferences/interpellations

➢    or contact the Convenor: Desmond.Manderson@anu.edu.au. 

LAW & THE HUMANITIES 2013: Course Schedule

1) 6-7-8 March: Prof. David Skeel “Introduction: Law and the Humanities"

2) 13-14-15 March: Prof. Paolo Napoli "Law and Philosophy"

3) 20-21-22 March: Dr. Stefania Gialdroni: "Law and Architecture" & Visit to the Court of Cassation in Rome

4) 27-28-29 March: Dr. Kaius Tuori “Law and Anthropology”

5) 3-4-5 April: Dr. Stefania Gialdroni: "Law and Literature" & "Law and Cinema"

6) 10-11 April: Prof. Emanuele Conte: "Law and History"

7-8) 12-17-18-19-24 April: Prof. Desmond Manderson: “Law and the Visual”

9) 2-3-8 May: Power point students

10) 9-10 May: Prof. Giorgio Resta & M° Enrico M. Polimanti: “Law and Music”

11) 15-16-17 May: Prof. Lorna Hutson "Law and Literature"

12) 20 May: Final Exam

Dinner Law & Humanities 2012

Law and Architecture is developing!

Look at these very recent publications!
Linda Mulchay, Legal Architecture. Justice, Due Process and the Place of Law, Abingdon, 2011.

http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415575393/

Legal Architecture addresses how the environment of the trial can be seen as a physical expression of our relationship with ideals of justice. It provides an alternative account of the trial, which charts the troubled history of notions of due process and participation. In contrast to visions of judicial space as neutral, Linda Mulcahy argues that understanding the factors that determine the internal design of the courthouse and courtroom are crucial to a broader and more nuanced understanding of the trial. Partitioning of the courtroom into zones and the restriction of movement within it are the result of turf wars about who can legitimately participate in the legal arena and call the judiciary to account. The gradual containment of the public, the increasing amount of space allocated to advocates, and the creation of dedicated space for journalists and the jury, all have complex histories that deserve attention. But these issues are not only of historical significance. Across jurisdictions, questions are now being asked about the internal configurations of the courthouse and courtroom, and whether standard designs meet the needs of modern participatory democracies: including questions about the presence and design of the modern dock; the ways in which new technologies threaten to change the dynamics of the trial and lead to the dematerialization of our primary site of adversarial practice; and the extent to which courthouses are designed in ways which realise their professed status as public spaces. This fascinating and original reflection on legal architecture will be of interest to socio-legal or critical scholars working in the field of legal geography, legal history, criminology, legal systems, legal method, evidence, human rights and architecture.

Francesco De Angelis, Spaces of Justice in the Roman World, Leiden/Boston, 2010

http://www.brill.nl/spaces-justice-roman-world

Despite the crucial role played by both law and architecture in Roman culture, the Romans never developed a type of building that was specifically and exclusively reserved for the administration of justice: courthouses did not exist in Roman antiquity. The present volume addresses this paradox by investigating the spatial settings of Roman judicial practices from a variety of perspectives. Scholars of law, topography, architecture, political history, and literature concur in putting Roman judicature back into its concrete physical context, exploring how the exercise of law interacted with the environment in which it took place, and how the spaces that arose from this interaction were perceived by the ancients themselves. The result is a fresh view on a key aspect of Roman culture.

Law and History: Ricostruire il passato per costruire il futuro. Storia e memoria nel prisma del diritto

Dear students,
maybe you will be interested in this great event, which will take place in our University on the 31st of May (2:30 pm) and on the 1st of June 2012 (9:30 am).

Ricostruire il passato per costruire il futuro: storia e memoria nel prisma del diritto

Giovedì 31 Maggio (ore 14.30) e venerdì 1 Giugno (ore 9.30) 2012
Facoltà di Giurisprudenza, Aula del Consiglio
via Ostiense 159 Roma

Il convegno Ricostruire il passato per costruire il futuro: storia e memoria nel prisma del diritto è una iniziativa realizzata con il contributo della Fondazione “Centro di Iniziativa Giuridica Piero Calamandrei” e del Ministero dei Beni Culturali nell’ambito del PRIN-Progetto di ricerca di interesse nazionale “Le ferite della storia e il diritto riparatore” ed è promosso da: Università Roma Tre, Università di Bari Aldo Moro, Università di Napoli Federico II, Università del Salento.

In maniera crescente si assiste negli ultimi anni ad un processo di “giuridificazione” della storia, intesa sia come eventi ritenuti memorabili, sia come attività di ricerca su di essi.
Nel primo convegno di questo PRIN l’attenzione era stata focalizzata sui modi attraverso i quali il diritto viene invocato ed applicato per riparare le ferite, individuali e collettive, arrecate da vicende storiche. In questo incontro conclusivo l’obiettivo è quello di rafforzare il dialogo inter-disciplinare muovendo dalla storia del diritto verso un “diritto della storia”.
Sotto questo aspetto dallo studio del passato emergono importanti lezioni per il giurista che non intenda essere solo spettatore nell’antico, e attualissimo, dibattito sull’uso pubblico della storia.

Programma:
Giovedì 31 maggio
Ore 14.30 - Introduzione: La giuridificazione della storia
Giorgio Resta, Vincenzo Zeno-Zencovich
Ore 15 - L’accesso alle informazioni
Paola Carucci- “I custodi della memoria: la disciplina degli archivi e la ricerca storica”
Miguel Gotor- “La storia sotto chiave: il segreto di stato e il terrorismo”
Discussant: Emanuele Conte
Ore 16.30 - I limiti alla libertà dello storico
Bernard Beignier- “I diritti della personalità”
Olivier Cayla- “La verità”
Discussant: Giuseppe Tucci
Ore 18 - Lo storico in tribunale
Paolo Pezzino- “Lo storico come consulente”
Antonino Intelisano- “Giustizia e storia: metodologie a confronto”
Discussant: Cristina Vano

Venerdì 1 giugno
Ore 9.30 - Gli usi pubblici della storia
Filippo Focardi- “Rielaborare il passato. Usi pubblici della storia e della memoria in Italia dopo la prima Repubblica”
Mario Morcellini- “La costruzione mediatica dei processi “storici”
Antoon De Baets- “History of the censorship of history, 1945 – present”
Luigi Nuzzo- “Memoria del passato e costruzione delle tradizioni: il caso del derecho indiano”
Discussants: Umberto Breccia, Raffaele De Giorgi
ore 12 - Conclusioni
Aldo Mazzacane- “Dalla storia del diritto al diritto della storia”
Stefano Rodotà- “Un diritto alla verità?”

Per inscrizioni inviare una mail a mcolangelo@uniroma3.it

Relazioni, materiali, link e bibliografia del PRIN sono sul sito
https://www.sites.google.com/site/storiaediritto/home
Per informazioni:
Margherita Colangelo
tel. 06 57332504 mcolangelo@uniroma3.it
https://www.sites.google.com/site/storiaediritto/home

http://www.giur.uniroma3.it/?q=node/15074 

Exam on June 1st 2012: timetable

Dear all,

I would like to inform you that prof. Conte decided to start the exams on June 1st 2012 at 8:30 am, in order to be able to examine you all. 26 students registred and they will be interviewed according to the following timetable (the exam will be short and quite informal! We have to start with the letter M):

8:30-10:30

1. Maciariello Lorenzo
2. Masini Lavinia
3. Micarelli Serena
4. Mieli Andrea David
5. Mieli Micol
6. Norzi Carlo Alberto
7. Passeri Leoni Luca
8. Pedata Martina
9. Pizzari Lucia
10. Rheinbay Florian Markus

14:00-16:00

11. Scioli Aessandro
12. Sebastiani Martina
13. Stefanini Beatrice
14. Veroheven Clement
15. Woeste Carolin
16. Yang Qingya
17. Andres Matthias
18. Bussoletti Ludovica
19. Cencelli Chiara
20. Cesario Elena
21. Cordeschi Ilaria

16:15-17:15

22. Droege Rudolf
23. Fanelli Lorenzo
24. Ferrauti Chiara
25. Gaudino Benedetto Loris
26. Koch Kai

About the final exam

Dear all,
just to be sure you have understood how the exam works: there will be a question about each topic or, if you prefer, a question related to each speaker. That means that there will be several questions on law and literature: on the movement in general (Skeel) on Dante (Steinberg) on Legal humanism (Decock), etc. I am sure you will find your favourite topics among the questions. I have prepared 13 questions and you have to choose your favourite 2.
No vocabularies or notes admitted!
See you tomorrow

LAW AND MUSIC: THE PICTURES

Dear all, I finally publish some pictures of our last 2 classes on Law and Music, taught by Prof. Giorgio Resta and M° Enrico Maria Polimanti. In one picture (the last one) you can see also Francesco Giammusso, the composer whose music was performed by M° Polimanti. Two pictures were taken by your collegue Elena Forzano.