RC09 - Comparative Judicial Studies

CALL FOR PAPERS

Democracy, Populism, and Judicial Power:  Where to from Here?

Conference co-organized by IPSA RC09 Comparative Judicial Studies

and

the Edward A. Clark Center for Australian & New Zealand Studies at The University of Texas at Austin

Hosted by

Monash University Prato Centre

Prato, Italy, 24-26 July 2019

The 2019 Interim Meeting of IPSA Research Committee 9 (Comparative Judicial Studies) will be hosted by the Monash University Prato Centre and co-organized with the Edward A. Clark Center for Australian & New Zealand Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

Paper and panel proposals for the 2019 Interim Meeting at the Monash University Prato Centre are now being accepted.  The meeting is open to all scholars interested in the study of law and courts from a comparative and national perspective, as well as those employing a case study methodology. Papers and panels devoted to the following topics (though not limited to) would be especially welcome: 

• Courts and the Politics of Immigration
• The European Legal Order and Brexit
• The Judicialization of Contentious Social and Moral Issues
• Mobilizing for Justice and Injustice
• Courts, Civil Liberties, and National Security before and after the War on Terror
• Assessing the Role of Courts in and after the Great Financial Crisis
• Reconciling the Tension between Judicial Independence and Political Accountability
• Indigenous Peoples and the Courts
• New Approaches to the study of Courts and Politics
• Understanding and Re-discovering the Importance of Subnational Courts
• Legal Reasoning and the Rule of Law
• Transnational and International Legal Institutions and Processes.
• Courts and Human Rights in Multinational, Federal, Devolved and Supra-national States
• The Courts and Democracy: Appropriate Roles and Boundaries in the 21^st Century
• Judicial Appointment and Security of Tenure
• Judicial Review in Authoritative Regimes, New Democracies, and Emerging Democracies

Proposals for papers should include contract details of the author(s), title, and a 250 word abstract.

Panel proposals must include:

• A minimum of three papers and a maximum of four
• Panel title and short description (250 words maximum)
• Individual paper titles
• Contact details for all paper-givers

The final deadline for the electronic submission of paper and panel proposals is 19 November  2018. Proposals should be submitted online at:

https://form.jotform.com/RC09/Prato

Notifications of acceptance will be emailed and a draft conference program will be posted on RC09’s website http://rc09.ipsa.org by 17 December 2018.

Organizing Committee:  James Kelly (Concordia University) james.kelly@concordia.ca and Rhonda Evans (The University of Texas at Austin) revans@austin.utexas.edu

RC09's 2017 interim meeting will be held at the Univeristy of California, Irvine, June 25-27.  The conference theme is "Comparative Judicial Studies at the Crossroads: Mapping New Research Agendas and Exploring New Paths." The conference announcement is available at Call for Papers 2017.

Paper and panel proposals for the 2017 Interim Meeting of the Research Committee on Comparative Judicial Studies (RC09) are now being accepted. The meeting is open to all scholars interested in the study of law and courts from a comparative and national perspective, as well as those employing a case study methodology. Papers and panels devoted to the following topics (though not limited to) would be especially welcome:

• Independence and Representation on High Courts.
• Courts, Power-sharing, and Consociational Democracy.
• The European Legal Order and Brexit.
• Judicial Appointment and Security of Tenure.
• Judicial Review in Authoritative Regimes, New Democracies, and Emerging Democracies.
• Rule of Law at the National and Sub-national Level.
• Judicial Institutions for Democracies:  The Role Justice-System Actors (Should) Play.
• Mobilizing for Justice.
• The Judicialization of Contentious Social and Moral Issues.
• Methodological Approaches to the Study of Judicial Institutions.
• The Role of Judicial Actors in the Protection of Rights.
• National Sovereignty and International Courts.
• Legal Reasoning and the Rule of Law.
• The Judicial Branch in Latin American Politics.

Please submit your proposal (500 word abstract) via email by January 19, 2017 to RC09 at the following email addresses: tonysmithuci@gmail.com and  james.kelly@concordia.

Notifications of acceptance will be emailed and a draft conference program will be posted on RC09’s website http://rc09.ipsa.org by February 19, 2017.

A new Executive has been approved for the 2014-2016 period for RC09:

Convenor

Charles Anthony Smith
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
University of California, Irvine
casmith@uci.edu

Secretary

James Kelly
Professor
Department of Political Science
Concordia University
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
james.kelly@concordia.ca

Executive Committee

Walter Carnota
University of Buenos Aires
Argentina

Rhonda Evans Case
University of Texas at Austin
USA

Mahmoud Hamad
Drake University (USA) and Cairo University (Egypt)

James Kelly
Concordia University
Canada

Lígia Mori Madeira
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Brazil

Alex Schwartz
Queen’s University Belfast
United Kingdom

Tony Smith
Univerisity of California, Irvine
USA

Michael Tolley
Northeastern University
USA

The 23rd World Congress of Political Science will be held in Montreal, Canada, July 19-24, 2014. RC09's call for submissions for closed panels during the 23rd World Congess is now available RC09 'Call for Papers' 23rd World Congress of Political Science

Call for Papers
2013 Meeting of RC09
Dublin, Ireland
July 22-24, 2013

Conference Theme
“The changing nature of judicial power in supranational, federal and domestic systems”

Dublin 2013 Call for Papers

Host: Adam McAuley, Dublin City University, Ireland
Convenor: Daniela Piana, University of Bologna
Treasurer: Tony Smith, University of California, United States

Paper and panel proposals for the 2013 Interim Meeting of the Research Committee on Comparative Judicial Studies are now being accepted. The meeting is open to all scholars interested in the study of law and courts from a comparative and national perspective. The theme of the 2013 meeting is “The changing nature of judicial power in supranational, federal and domestic systems.” Papers and panels devoted to the following topics (though not limited to) would be especially welcome:

• Supranational and International regimes
• Federalism and Human Rights
• Federalism and Immigration
• International Criminal Law
• Globalization and Economics
• The changing nature of judicial power
• Judicial Philosophies
• Fragmentation of Political Authority
• Supreme Courts and Domestic Politics
• Judicial Networks and Domestic Politics
•Legal Databases and Methodological considerations
• International Legal Moblization
• Diffusion and Borrowing of Legal Norms

Please submit your proposal (including title and 500 word abstract) via email by January 7, 2013, to Professor Tony Smith (casmith@uci.edu).
A draft conference program will be posted on RC09’s website http://rc09.ipsa.org by February 1, 2013.

RC09’s 2013 Interim Meeting will be hosted by Dr. Adam McAuley at Dublin City University.

The call for papers will be issued in September 2012 and a draft program will be posted on RC09’s website in January 2013.

RC09 (Comparative Judicial Studies) is pleased to announce the following appointments, effective July 1, 2012:

• Convenor: Dr. Daniela Piana, University of Bologna, Italy
  

• Treasurer: Dr. Anthony Smith, University of California, Irvine, US

The most recent of 'The Docket' - RC09's Newsletter is now available. Issue 46 (April 2012)

RC09 is pleased to announce that Tony Smith (Univeristy of California, Irvine) has joined the Executive Commitee, 2011-2012.