RC09 - Comparative Judicial Studies

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

The latest issue of RC09's Newsletter, "The Docket" is now available. Issue 45 (April 2011)

The programme committee for RC09's interim meeting (James Kelly, Charles Anthony Smith, and Diana Kapiszewski) that will be held at the University of California-Irvine in July 2011 are pleased to release the programme for Conference Program RC09 Irvine 2011

RC09's 2011 Interim Meeting will be held at the University of California-Irvine, July 21-23, 2011. The theme of this meeting is "The Judicialization of Politics from International and Comparative Perspectives" and is hosted by Professor Charles Anthony Smith and Professor Diana Kapiszewski of the Department of Political Science.

A proposal with a 200 word abstract for RC09 at University of California-Irvine will be accepted until November 15, 2010.

The Project

A common legal framework and a convergent judicial culture represent one of the pillars on which the European integration process has been pivoting since its very beginning. Today, more than ever, the understanding and the maintenance of the tempo and the direction of the integration need to rely on a common language with which Europeans and European policy makers develop a dialogue across domestic and cultural differences.

Menu for Justice is the first European project that takes seriously the issue of how young generations should be trained in law and legal matters and how the prospective experts of law and courts should be provided of new skills and competences to effectively face the challenges of a common judicial space. By devoting three years of common work among fifty partners in Europe, the project aims at assessing principal shortcomings of legal education, developing an innovative curriculum studiorum in judicial studies, and offering the EU and the public basic guidelines to monitor the way legal and judicial training are changing in the EU, all over the cycles of education (from undergraduate to graduate, PhD programs and vocational learning).

Please visit Menu for Justice at https://www.academic-projects.eu/menuforjustice/default.aspx

Issue 44 (February 2010) of "The Docket" is now available at Issue 44 (February 2010)

The Executive Committee welcomes the newest member, Daniela Piana, from the University of Bologna. Daniela’s appointment was confirmed during the recent RC09 Business Meeting at IPSA 2009 in Santiago, Chile.

The Research Committee for Comparative Judicial Studies (RC09) is one of 49 active research committees of the International Political Science Association. Our purpose is to promote scholarly work on law, courts, and judicial processes from a comparative perspective. Ultimately, we seek to bring the study of the various dimensions of judicial systems within the mainstream of comparative political research. RC09 encourages comparative research on judicial systems and the participation of scholars in our program regardless of the disciplinary origins and commitments of those who do the research.