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2025, Yale JL & Human.

Grossman: Langdell Upside-Down 4. See, e.g., GRANT GILMORE, THE AGES OF AMERICAN LAW 42 (1977) ("Langdell ... has long been taken as a symbol of the new age [from the Civil War to World War II]."). 5. Thomas C. Grey, Langdell's Orthodoxy, 45 U. PITT. L. REV. 1 (1983). A search of the LEXIS "Law Reviews and Journals" database resulted in 306 articles citing to this article (LEXIS search con-

2025, Socio-Legal Review

This article presents a detailed survey of the sites of
emergence and development of socio-legal research in Pakistan,
locating it on a historical arc extending from the decolonisation
era to contemporary times, and organically tracing its trajectory
through contextual shifts in knowledge production more broadly.
As such, the article takes a reflexive approach to identifying and
classifying the socio-legal that eschews pre-existing benchmarks of
what constitutes the field globally. In so doing, it makes the central
argument that the meaning and evolution of “socio” in socio-legal
is contingent on social and historical context. The article begins
with a broad Pakistan-India comparison that foregrounds the
salience of context in the production of socio-legal knowledge in
Pakistan, exploring in particular the extent to which the norms and
constraints around history-writing have impacted the integration
and potentialities of humanistic methods in socio-legal work.
It then traverses the early landscape of political science research
on public law in Pakistan, connecting these “antecedents” to
the subsequent rise and growth of the socio-legal in the legal
academy. Finally, drawing on a thick analysis of the emerging
trends in the understanding of the “socio” in contemporary
scholarship, the article proposes a four-way conceptualisation of
“interdisciplinarity” as an aid to understanding the state of the
field today and the scope for future research. The core challenge
for socio-legal scholars in Pakistan and the broader South Asian
region, the article concludes, is to intentionally develop the field
beyond elite and state-centred themes.

2025, Refugee Survey Quarterly

The role of emotion in asylum processes is one that has gained attention in recent years. This article situates itself as a response to this emerging body of literature by shedding new light on how emotions shaped the asylum appeals of a group of former unaccompanied minors in England through the application of the new concept of "empathy gap." Five socio-legal themes are used to structure the analysis: (i) age disputes, (ii) credibility, (iii) affective ties, (iv) right to voice, and (v) precarious legal status. It is the first article to explore in depth what happens during the asylum appeals process for former unaccompanied minors in Britain and the first to consider how questions of emotion affect their lived experiences of, and the process of, legal proceedings. The article has wider implications for how social processes and relations and informal processes, in particular emotions, influence formal legal proceedings leading to potential for unfair outcomes. The article finds that, to avoid empathy-enhanced reasoning becoming yet another variable leading to inconsistency in the judicial process, systematic training and monitoring are required. These findings carry implications far beyond the immediate context of UK asylum tribunals by offering empirically informed insights for theory and practice regarding the role of emotion in judicial proceedings, and therefore have enduring relevance.

2025, 区域史研究 Regional Studies

2025, Populism, Popular Sovereignty, and Public Reason

The concept of the dual state has recently been revisited by various scholars to shed light on the operation of state mechanism in current autocratic regimes. From Fraenkel's perspective, the idea of dual state presumes a two-winged state mechanism, which is based on the coexistence of 'normative' and 'prerogative' states. Besides the classical model on the legal regime of the Third Reich, it seems that it has become an excellent tool for the sustainability of current autocratic and populist polities. This paper will draw attention to the similarities on the political and legal anatomies of current cases and the German case of the 1930s. In doing so, it will place an emphasis on the changing character of contemporary prerogative states which are more subtle and complex, and therefore could be more hazardous for democratic ideals than their historical counterparts.

2025, Professional Liquidation in the Context of Autocratic Legalism: Lawyers, Class, and Status in Turkey, 2002-?

The relationship between law and autocratization is usually discussed with reference to the judiciary and how a powerful executive can encroach on the domain of the judicial branch. In this article, I suggest that the legal profession also needs to be brought into the discussion on autocratic legalism. Taking Turkey as my case, I put forward two main arguments: first, that, in national contexts where the legal profession is perceived to be originally and organically tied to the state-the "ancien regime" that aspiring autocrats try to dismantle-autocratic legalism involves efforts to overtake not only the judiciary but also such legal professional institutions as bar associations and their umbrella organizations and, second, that legal autocratization is made possible not only through such conscious/targeted attacks but also through processes and policies that are intended for other goals. In Turkey, the neoliberalization of legal education through a populist discourse and the consequent massive increase in the lawyer population has created heterogeneity and multiple fault lines within the profession. Such dynamics have created not only apathy, particularly on the part of young(er) lawyers, but also a weakening of the profession as a whole, preparing the groundwork for the more intentional attacks of the autocratic government. The result, I argue, is "professional liquidation."

2025, Journal of Geography, Politics and Society

Large-scale housing, land and property (HLP) restitution efforts for war-displaced populations face ongoing limitations in three key areas: legal frameworks, financing, and technology. These limitations have led to critical problems in managing population return, reconstruction and political and economic recovery; with particular concern on the emergence of exploitive agendas and social unrest. Ukraine's unfortunate war however presents the opportunity to examine significant advances in mitigating these limitations. Drawing on fieldwork in Ukraine and the author's experience in 23 war-affected countries, the article describes, 1) the socio-legal context and legislative timing of Ukraine's new Compensation Law; 2) the sources, monetization of HLP claims and remedies involved in financing restitution programmes; and 3) the restitution processing speed and social inclusion possible with Ukraine's approach to use of technology.

2025

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2025, Bianet

This article examines how political prisoners in Turkey are systematically excluded through penal execution policies. Focusing on so-called “selective amnesty” practices under the AKP government, it explores how legal frameworks and prison administration practices violate the principle of equality. The article argues that a genuine peace process must begin with egalitarian penal reform and freedom for political prisoners.

2025, Direito Público

En este artículo analizamos la dinámica del cambio interno de ideas legales en los poderes judiciales. A partir del análisis de la transformación en materia de ideas de derechos humanos que tuvo lugar en el Poder Judicial Federal mexicano entre 2009 y 2018 observamos la importancia de la dinámica del cambio interno para comprender cómo se institucionalizó esta innovación. Proponemos un marco analítico que complementa a otros, enfocados en la región, que enfatizan los detonantes externos del cambio o la importancia del liderazgo judicial individual. El marco analítico construido toma en cuenta el tiempo – dimensión clave en el estudio de los cambios –, e integra dos perspectivas que lo problematizan y que usan otras investigaciones sobre los poderes judiciales: a) la teoría de la difusión, que modeliza al cambio como proceso comunicativo, y b) la aproximación a las dinámicas institucionales desarrolladas por el neoinstituiconalismo histórico que problematiza al cambio desde la distri...

2025, Cahiers d'Anthropologie du Droit

Selon l’expression bambara Maa ka maaya ka ca a yere kono, « les personnes de la personne sont multiples dans la personne ». Ce proverbe nous semble triplement pertinent pour introduire cette réflexion sur une approche pluraliste du... more

2025, Cahiers d’Anthropologie du Droit

Comment et ou commencer la narration d’un itinéraire, qui bien qu’encore à ses débuts a néanmoins déjà occupé la majeure partie de ma vie et qui petit à petit révèle de plus en plus clairement ses lignes de force qui sont liées à des approches anthropologiques du Droit, mais s’inscrivent plus largement dans une « quête » vers l’interculturalité ?

2025, Ixtus

Cuando uno se interesa en los debates relativos a los derechos del hombre y la diversidad de las culturas, percibimos que los seres humanos, o por menos los que participan en estos debates, parecen apreciar mucho los "ismos": universalismo, relativismo, particularismo, fundamentalismo, pluralismo, multiculturalismo... Con frecuencia estos diversos "ismos" se oponen entre sí, la oposición más común es la que hay entre universalismo y relativismo. ¿Qué hacer?

2025, Workshop “Anthropology of Law”, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, September 20 - 22, 2001

Anthropology of Law is facing the major challenge to move from the “edges of Law” (des Confins du Droit to make reference to the title of Norbert Rouland’s book on an anthropological approach to Law) to the core of Law, to the core of legal theory, which for the moment remains almost exclusively monocultural, and to open it up from within. There seems to be a possible meeting point as the aim of legal theory is to give a complete understanding of Law, from a point of view which aims to be universal (because rational) but is in fact Western, whereas at least French legal anthropology in the continuity of Michel Alliots’ work is seeking for a general “non-ethnocentric”, or intercultural, science of Law, which in its turn is in continuity with the anthropological aim formulated by Claude Lévi-Strauss to understand Man in all its generality through the diversity of his/her manifestations, thus introducing the comparative and intercultural elements. Both approaches have a universalizing aim and Law as the object of understanding - that is where they can meet - but the latter does not postulate universality a priori, as a consequence of rational deduction, but reconstructs it through an additive logic which builds on the diversity of observed situations. In the contemporary situation, it seems that the first position is less and less tenable and the second emerges as the only really credible alternative. And it should be taken further and deepened.

2025, Anuario de Historia del Derecho Español

SPECKMAN GUERRA, Elisa, Penalistas españoles y ciencias penales en el México de mediados del siglo xx, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México-Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid-Dykinson, Ciudad de... more

2025, Bianet

This article examines the expansion and transformation of Turkey's prison system under the rule of the AKP government, with a particular focus on the emergence of large-scale “campus prisons.” It analyzes the political logic behind mass incarceration, the spread of solitary confinement practices, and the construction of high-security facilities. Framing imprisonment as a tool of social control and political repression, the article situates recent prison policies within the broader dynamics of authoritarianism and criminalization in contemporary Turkey.

2025, Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence

This paper argues that community land trusts (CLTs) can be part of a liberal housing policy from both an economic and a legal point of view. In this, I depart from the defense of community land trusts based on the so-called 'decommodification' of housing. First, from an economic point of view, CLTs are a comparatively better option than other traditional policies, such as rent control, once the political complexity of housing policies is considered. Second, fostering autonomy and the capacity for self-authorship requires that individuals be able to choose from a diverse set of valuable institutional designs; CLTs correspond to that ideal and bring a unique nuance to the existing options within common-interest communities. Additionally, I look at the somewhat recent legal innovations that brought CLTs to Canada and continental Europe to show that the institutional flexibility of CLTs allows them to support different visions of self-realization through ownership.

2025, Archiv für Rechts und Sozialphilosophie, Beiheft 90

Although starting from a very specific Indian experience, the aim of this article is to draw more general insights on the issue of legal pluralism and its challenges. The pluralist approach advocated here does not keep any room open for dichotomical constructions such as universalism / relativism. Also, according to this approach rejection of legal centralism does not entail a choice between the acceptance of either official legalities such as those stemming from international human rights' discourse, the state, the federal government, or of “unofficial legalities” stemming from traditions, customs etc. Instead it will be argued that all situations must be approached as « in-betweens » where different worldviews, logics and practices meet and interact and where it is paramount to move from a logic of the exclusion of contraries to a logic of complementarity of differences.

2025, Contribution to the Thirteenth Congress of the Commission on Folk Law and Legal Pluralism, 7-10 April 2002, Chiang Mai, Thailand.

At the core of the failures of the current approaches towards women’s rights, lies their connection to the formal legal system, which aims at getting hold of the monopoly of social regulation. The different social actors (communities,... more

2025

Si beaucoup d’auteurs en essayant de définir les concepts tels que « gouvernance », « développement durable », « société civile », relèvent leur caractère polysémique et flou, peu d’entre eux questionnent la pertinence même de ces... more

2025, Revue Interdisciplinaire d'Études Juridiques

La pyramide ne semble plus pourvoir un modèle explicatif satisfaisant pour décrire et comprendre la réalité juridique occidentale contemporaine. Mais qu’apporte un changement paradigmatique vers le réseau, visant à rendre compte de l'émergence de l'enchevêtrement de hiérarchies, de phénomènes de bouclage, de boucles étranges, de complexité - qui est accentuée actuellement plus particulièrement à travers les processus de construction européenne -, de l'érosion constante de la loi, de la fragmentation croissante du règlement, de l'importance croissante des décisions de justice dans la création de droit et d’une tendance de plus en plus affirmée à l'autorégulation des personnes privées, qu’apporte-t’il dans des contextes non-occidentaux ou par rapport à des approches plus anthropologiques du Droit ? Parlons-nous bien de la même chose lorsque nous parlons de « réseaux » et de « pyramides » dans ces divers contextes ? A priori, l'exportation partout dans le monde des modèles juridiques occidentaux peut créer l’illusion de l’universalité de la problématique de la pyramide et du réseau. Or, si cette impression est justifiée dans une certaine mesure, de nombreuses contributions montrent que, s'il y a bien partout des « pyramides étatiques », la pertinence de les repenser à travers les lunettes du « réseau » est liée à des facteurs différents de ceux qui ont pu être dégagés dans le cadre européen : d’abord le fait que, dans de nombreux contextes non-occidentaux, l'État est investi par divers réseaux de manière très visible. Puis, l'État n'a souvent pas la position prédominante qu'il est supposé avoir : il ne surplombe pas un espace social homogène sur lequel il projetterait sa pyramide normative, mais doit partager sa revendication de légitimité avec d'autres légitimités locales concurrentes. Souvent il n'apparaît que comme l'un des multiples réseaux juridiques, ou des multiples pyramides d’ailleurs, d'une situation de pluralisme juridique.

2025, Revue Interdisciplinaire d'Études Juridiques

Les pratiques alternatives du droit, comme nous l’enseigne l’expérience de Juristes-Solidarités, semblent avoir en commun qu’elles visent toutes de provoquer et de contribuer de manière plus ou moins délibérée à « un changement d’attitude des plus démunis par rapport à la loi afin que ces derniers passent d’une attitude légaliste passive (l’individu considéré et se considérant comme incompétent subit le droit élaboré en dehors de lui) à une attitude légitimiste active (la personne apprend à connaître le droit, le rapporte à son quotidien, l’utilise, participe à son évolution : elle se l’approprie). » Il est peut-être utile ici de rappeler que les « démunis » sont, si l’on prend une perspective globale, non pas l’exception mais plutôt la règle dans notre monde contemporain. Réfléchir aux pratiques alternatives du Droit ne nous emmène donc pas simplement à la « périphérie de nos systèmes juridiques » mais plutôt au cœur du mystère de la reproduction de nos vies en société, ce qui outre des implications théoriques a aussi des implications politiques importantes par rapport aux choix des « projets de société » pour ce vingt-et-unième siècle.

2025, Saberes, tecnologías y derecho en América Latina : perspectivas desde los estudios de ciencia, tecnología y sociedad

El interés por las implicaciones jurídicas de los avances tecnocientíficos, así como por la incidencia del derecho en la ciencia y la tecnología, ha ido en aumento entre juristas, científicos, ingenieros y otros profesionales. Esta obra contribuye a dichas discusiones a partir de conceptos y preguntas de los estudios sociales de la ciencia y la tecnología. Saberes, tecnologías y derecho en América Latina compila trabajos sobre Colombia, Chile y Argentina que analizan la imbricación de distintas tecnologías y conocimientos expertos en temas de alcance regional, como el litigio en derechos humanos, la justicia transicional, la guerra contra las drogas, la seguridad ciudadana, la regulación de internet y la crisis medioambiental. Los capítulos abordan disputas por la autoridad jurídica y científica en cortes, notarías y agencias administrativas, las relaciones entre tecnología y poder en el marco de políticas públicas y procesos de regulación legal, y el papel de las ciencias y tecnologías en las transiciones políticas y movilizaciones sociales.

2025, Jueces sin estado: La justicia colombiana en zonas de conflicto armado

El capitulo contextualiza las regiones de Putumayo, Urabá y Sur de Bolívar, en donde se hizo el trabajo empirico con los jueces.

2025, Saberes, tecnologías y derecho en América Latina: perspectivas desde los estudios de ciencia, tecnología y sociedad

The chapter provides an overview of key strands of analysis in science and technology studies about the law, the judicial system, and legal mobilization. El capitulo sintetiza algunas de las principales líneas de análisis en la... more

2025, Normas de papel: la cultura del incumplimiento de reglas

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the cultural dimensions of rule-breaking in Latin America through two main strategies: conducting empirical investigations into rule-breakers and categorizing six distinct types of... more

2025, Bulletin de liaison du Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Juridique de Paris

Cet article contribue à relever le défi que nous lance Étienne Le Roy dans la première approche de la plate-forme scientifique du colloque “Quels projets de société pour les Africains du XXIe siècle ?”, et qui consiste à “relancer une réflexion sur les choix de politiques juridiques en se coupant des présupposés développementalistes qui ont foisonné et en tenant compte de la double contrainte d’une inscription dans les rapports internationaux (mondialisation oblige) et de la préservation d’une identité nationale originale apparaissant comme une condition de pérennité du pacte social et politique pour les nations africaines en voie de stabilisation” et en portant tout particulièrement notre attention sur la dimension juridique de ces politiques qui “n’est presque jamais prise en considération, l’idée largement répandue mais fausse étant que le Droit n’est que le reflet de choix économiques.” Ainsi, nous aborderons de front la question des politiques juridiques en Afrique à l’âge de la globalisation tout en étant conscient de l’insuffisance des approches qui peuvent être développées en quelques pages sur un sujet aussi vaste, d’autant plus que nous semblons invité à véritablement repenser non seulement les réponses à la problématique des politiques juridiques adaptées aux exigences de la “contemporanéité africaine”, mais nos questionnements même.

2025, Trends in social cohesion

How are we to approach living together in harmony in our increasingly multicultural European societies? How are we to recognise all citizens equally while acknowledging their diversity? These questions arise more particularly in the spheres of public policy and access to social services. No political, legislative or institutional reform can take place except in the broader framework of intercultural dialogue. At the same time, that framework must be the principal tool to which all institutional and voluntary-sector players as well as citizens must become accustomed.

2025, Interculture

Governance has become a buzz word. Many authors criticize its lack of scientific precision. But still, it has become a reference for contemporary attempts to rethink questions related to responsible reorganization of our living together on global and local levels. Although it is not completely buried, governance has deeply eroded the centrality of the notions of Rule of Law and human rights which were still central in the 1990s. One witnesses a recomposition of the contemporary legal-political landscapes which gives accrued place to all actors of society, redefined from simple citizens to stakeholders of the collective "projets de société". Representative democracy is becoming participative. Indeed, governance‘s central creed is participation. All stake holders should be participating in a collective elaboration of their living together. One leaves behind the labour division of classical government between those who govern and those who are governed and the institutional pyramidal organization. One enters into more network-like, interdependent, dialogical approaches. Could governance be an open door towards intercultural dialogue in shaping our living together?

2025, Revue Interdisciplinaire d'Études Juridiques

L’ouvrage que va découvrir le lecteur est le fruit d’une dynamique collective qui s’est étirée sur presque deux ans et dont les co- organisateurs étaient le Séminaire Interdisciplinaire d’Études Juridiques des Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis à Bruxelles et le Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Juridique de l’Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, auxquels s’est jointe aussi l’Association Juristes-Solidarités, une association travaillant sur les pratiques alternatives du droit et basée à Paris. L’enjeu était de réunir des chercheurs, aussi bien « jeunes » que chevronnés, théoriciens du droit et anthropologues du Droit[1], et des praticiens afin de réfléchir ensemble au « mystère » qu’est le Droit. Le point de départ était donné par les réflexions de François Ost et de Michel van de Kerchove sur un changement de paradigme juridique, de la pyramide au réseau. Il a été enrichi et remis en perspective par des approches plus interculturelles et anthropologiques. La dynamique a pris la forme d’un séminaire itinérant entre Bruxelles et Paris. Outre le travail collectif par internet et quelques rencontres plus informelles, trois journées d’étude ont été organisées, la première à Bruxelles en mai 2001, la deuxième à Paris en septembre 2001 et la dernière de nouveau à Bruxelles en février 2002. La recherche s’est illustrée par une ouverture croissante où les participants initiaux ont vu de nouveaux arrivants, venus d’autres institutions et même d’autres pays et continents, gonfler leurs rangs. Les textes réunis ici sont le fruit de ces rencontres.

2025, UK Constitutional Law Association Blog

This post examines the judicial behaviour of the UK’s top court, specifically, how the judges who hear a case affect the outcome. It utilises the author’s research on the behind-the-scenes proceedings in the Pinochet case (1998-99) to address this question. Drawing largely on the author’s interviews with the Law Lords, carried out during and shortly after the case, it stresses the role of the judges’ personal values, ideologies and emotions, the culture and supervision of the court, and the interplay between law and politics in shaping the outcome of cases. It is argued that these findings have significant consequences for the ways in which we think about judicial authority, independence, bias, and accountability – that is, of what judges and courts should and can be. The post concludes that it is pertinent to ask whether the UK’s Supreme Court (which succeeded the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords as the UK’s final court of appeal) has responded sufficiently to the problems that arose in the Pinochet case? This material in this post is elaborated by the author in: “The Hidden Histories of the Pinochet Case”, Journal of Law and Society (2024) 51, 4, 459–490; “Meet the JLS author: The Hidden Histories of the Pinochet Case”. Blog post. Journal of Law and Society, January 20, 2025; and “Hidden Histories of the Pinochet Case” (Audio Recording of Lecture Delivered at the University of Cambridge, 3 December 2024) https://tinyurl.com/4mm8fabr

2025, Legal Pluralism in India, Special Issue of the Indian Socio-Legal Journal, Vol. XXXI

This special issue on the legal pluralism in India is an attempt to catch this encouraging shift in the scholarship. The contributions included in the volume, by no means exhaustive, yet represent a broad range of issues and challenges for the Indian socio-legal scholarship. Considering the nature of the contributions, this volume can be divided into three main waves. The first wave of contributions deals with legal pluralism in the context of natural resources’ management and is thus also closely related to the question of sustainable and participatory development. The second wave of texts is concerned with family law and what we could term more specifically women’s rights. The last papers deal with the question of legal pluralism on the level of the political and legal ordering of the Indian state.

2025, Indian Socio-Legal Journal

“At this stage of the growth and acceptance of the concept of legal pluralism, an aspiration can be expressed that increasing awareness of its utility will ultimately serve the purpose of enriching our general understanding of law and of the relationship between law and society in all legal systems, having a colonial past or not » ? What could be the use to challenge, an approach in terms of legal pluralism, which indeed serves the purpose to raise the awareness of the legal community (scholars and practitioners) to the complexities of the law and society relationships ? And to point thus to our praxis in trying to understand and put into perspective Law in action ?

2025, Forum pour une nouvelle gouvernance mondiale

Notre monde change. Les représentations que nous en avons changent. Nos manières d’interagir avec lui changent. Depuis l’aube de ce nouveau millénaire, un concept devient de plus en plus central : la gouvernance. Il se décline du niveau... more

2025, Droits de l'homme et dialogue interculturel - 2ème édition revue et augmentée, 587 p.

« Ne sois pas une dépouille porteuse d'un nom, Ne sois pas un réservoir de projets Ne prends pas d'affaires en charge, Ne sois pas un maître de savoir. Incarne totalement l'infini et ébats-toi dans le sans-trace. Va au bout de ce qui t'es... more

2025, in Christoph Eberhard (dir.), La quête anthropologique du droit : Autour de la démarche d'Etienne Le Roy

Étienne Le Roy est picard. Il le rappelle souvent, et non seulement de manière personnelle, mais aussi dans son travail scientifique, pour poser son topos, le lieu d'où il parle, d'où il construitsesanalyses,d’oùilentre en dialogue avec autrui. Comme il le rappelle lui-même, « Le chercheur en sciences sociales travaille à partir et en fonction de certaines intuitions qui sont le produit de sa personnalité, de son expérience, de son histoire de vie, mais aussi des questions qui traversent une société en chacun de nous à un moment donné. » (Le Roy 2003 : 393). La « picardité »d’ÉtienneLeRoyest peut-êtrel’une des clefs permettant d'éclairer son cheminement tout en constituant en même temps une limite à son éclairage. Car, comme il ne manque pas de le rappeler : les Picards sont pudiques, réservés et un peu secrets.
Faisons donc quelques détours pour saisir sa démarche et éclairer son positionnement. J'aimerais commencer par une anecdote, qui en dit long et qui je l'espère sera révélatrice. Étienne Le Roy n'a-t-il pas lui-même enseigné tout au long de sa carrière que ce qui était important n'étaient pas tellement les textes mais les pratiques qui permettent si l'on s'y attarde de dévoiler des logiques et visions du monde sous-jacentes ? Et si l'on peut
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facilement se reporter à ses textes , il semble approprié d'inscrire ici ses
travaux dans sa démarche globale qui ne saurait se résumer à son importante « production intellectuelle ». Ainsi l'introduction à ces mélanges sera aussi en quelque sorte une mise en œuvre de sa démarche qui sera enrichie, éclairée par les contributions ici réunies et sur lesquelles je reviendrai.

2025, in Ghislain Otis (dir.), Méthodologie du pluralisme juridique, Karthala

Les questions du pluralisme juridique ou normatif, voire d'une approche pluraliste de la juridicité, sont au coeur des démarches de l'anthropologie du Droit. Si elle n'en a pas le monopole, l'anthropologie du Droit leur donne néanmoins un... more

2025, in Richard Nobels & David Schiff (dir.), Law, Society and Community. Socio-Legal Essays in Honour of Roger Cotterrell, Ashgate

Contemporary legal theory – and more generally, contemporary social sciences – see a fragmentation in the production of knowledge. This is partly due to the fact of hyperspecialization of knowledge endeavours in current academia. Partly, it is due to the fact that new sources of knowledge make their entry into the academic field. There are many, but no generally accepted grand narratives on law and society to date. At the same time, maybe because of this very lacking of an overarching theory or system that would elicit consensus, one observes an increase in multi-, inter- or trans-disciplinary studies. These studies, although formally attached to different disciplinary streams (sociology, anthropology, law...), to a certain degree emancipate themselves from the stronghold of any of the disciplines they draw upon, thus inventing new ways of looking at the legal landscape. This does not mean that the solid anchoring that diverse disciplines provide becomes irrelevant. Nevertheless, it implies that disciplinary boundaries and affiliations should not obscure the researcher’s vision of a new unfolding horizon of meaning. ‘Intellectual advance in social studies now often occurs by ignoring disciplinary prerogatives, boundaries and distinctions’ notes Roger Cotterrell (2006: 6). ‘The need is not, however, to weaken the ties of sociolegal studies to academic sociology (...). It is to ensure that those inevitable ties in no way hamper imaginative enquiries across all available sources of social insight.’ (Cotterrell 2006: 6) Staying rooted while opening up to wider horizons, and thus also realizing through the dialogue with others the pluralism of one’s own rootedness, seems to be the current rising horizon, a pluralist and increasingly intercultural and dialogical horizon, which I approach in my work as a pluriverse. Pluralism, pragmatism, inter-approaches – be they interdisciplinary or intercultural – comparison, dialogue, analysis and imagination, perspective and prospective are part of this rising horizon of thought and action.

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Calendar Course Description: This course examines the complex and conflictual relations between women and revolutionary struggles and focuses on a number of theoretical and empirical issues relevant to the Middle East and North Africa context. Land Acknowledgement: I acknowledge that I am an educator living and teaching on Indigenous land; land that for thousands of years has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca and, most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit River. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and I am grateful to have the opportunity to teach and live on this land. I am committed to social justice for all peoples living on these lands. In this class we will make connections between past and present struggles for freedom, equality, and justice in the Middle East and Canada. It is my hope that alongside our exploration of the long history of resistance to colonialism, imperialism, state violence, and dispossession in the Middle East, we will learn more about the struggles for land, liberation, and justice "at home." Mural of Jina (Mahsa) Amini, Parliament & Gerrard East, Toronto Saskatoon's Riverside (2023) (Left): Honouring the children and survivors of Canada's residential school system (Right): Remembering Jina Amini and other victims of state violence in Iran

2025, DubrovnikNet

Povodom Međunarodnog dana žena, Dubrovačke knjižnice organizirale su, 6. ožujka 2025., u Znanstvenoj knjižnici predavanje doc. dr. sc. Mirze Hebiba pod naslovom „Između zakona i običaja: pravni položaj dubrovačkih udovica“.

2025, Anuario da Facultade de Dereito da …

La celebración del bicentenario de la promulgación del Code civil des Français (30 de ventoso del año XII de la Revolución, i. e. 21 de marzo de 1804) ha traído consigo la aparición de una cascada de publicaciones conmemorativas, tanto en Francia como fuera de ella, de muy desigual altura y dimensión 1 . Dentro este conjunto destaca esta voluminosa obra que aquí comentamos, que constituye -hasta cierto punto, mutatis mutandis-una suerte de réplica del famoso Livre du Centenaire (París 1904; reimpr. 1969) publicado a instancias de la Societé d'études législatives para conmemorar los primeros cien años de este influyente cuerpo legislativo, verdadera clef de voûte del ordenamiento jurídico francés contemporáneo 2 . En este caso, a diferencia de aquella obra, no se trata de una publicación oficial de la civilística francesa en homenaje (y crítica) del chef d'oeuvre del Derecho privado francés, sino que representa únicamente el

2025, The George Washington Law Review

The fault ... is not in our stars, [b]ut in ourselves [.]" William Shakespeare 1 the Thomas confirmation hearings and proposals to change the system for nominating and confirming Supreme Courtjustices. 5 This Essay argues that the existing process for the nomination and confirmation of Supreme Court justices is sound, but that it failed with respect to Justice Thomas because many of the decisionmakers did not strive to ensure the appointment of a justice with the appropriate professional credentials, integrity, judicial temperament and philosophy, and grounding in constitutional law. Political choices and differences rather than procedural defects explain any missteps injustice Thomas' nomination and confirmation. The outcome turned in large part on deep-seated divisions among the American people and their leaders over racial equality, the relevance of race and sexually related conduct to the evaluation of Supreme Court nominees, and the applicable burden of persuasion in the Senate's confirmation proceedings. These divisions crippled the confirmation hearings on justice Thomas, paralyzing much fruitful discussion in the Senate on his qualifications to be an associate justice, and culminating in the most closely divided vote ever in favor of the confirmation of a Supreme Court justice. 6 Part I identifies the common elements of those moments when the nomination and confirmation process has worked most effectively. At its best, the process has enabled the President and the Senate to push each other to consider seriously the nominee's professional accomplishments, judicial temperament and philosophy, intellectual integrity, and ability to bring ideological balance or diversity to the Court. At its worst, the process has failed to prevent the President, the Senate, or both, from caring primarily about the immediate political gains of an appointment, and thus from being indifferent or even consciously opposed to considering any of the factors truly relevant to selecting competent jurists. Part II criticizes President Bush, Justice Thomas, and many senators for their performances in the nomination and confirmation of Justice Thomas, and particularly for allowing Justice Thomas' race and background to tum the focus of the process away from the factors that appropriately identify those meriting a seat on the 5.

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2025, Journal of Law and Society

Although states are in certain circumstances legally obliged to arrest acting or former heads of state for crimes committed while they were in office, their governments often chose not to. The 1998 arrest in London of General Augusto Pinochet, Chile’s former dictator, by a Spanish magistrate on charges of egregious human rights crimes, and the 16-month battle to extradite him to Madrid was the first time that a former head of state had, while travelling abroad, been arrested on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity, and where a claim to immunity was rejected by a national court. Surprising almost everyone, this drama caught the world’s imagination. Never have the conduct and decisions of the UK’s Home Secretary, the Law Lords, and Amnesty International generated such international attention. The whole episode constituted the most intensive, high-profile litigation of its kind ever undertaken. Hugely controversial, it gave a massive fillip to human rights movements and galvanized victims, their loved ones, activists, and lawyers into action. Its cause célèbre status was magnified when Lord Hoffmann, who delivered the deciding vote when the case first came before the Law Lords, did not disclose in public his links with Amnesty International, an intervenor in these proceedings, thereby opening the way for the case to be reheard. Pinochet’s release on health grounds by Home Secretary Jack Straw, then rising from his wheelchair on landing in Santiago to wave at jubilant supporters, further magnified the notoriety of the case. Weaving together a variety of sources – including a unique set of interviews with key judges, lawyers and other actors involved conducted during or shortly after the case – this article provides what I believe to be the most comprehensive behind-the-scenes account to date of the legal proceedings in London. The story that emerges is full of coincidence and unpredictable decisions. It reveals much that is new about the law and politics of the case. It illuminates the role of personal views and judicial creativity in top courts, the impact of Realpolitik, the ways in which law operates in practice, and its promise and limitations. My hope is that the article will change the way we think about the Pinochet case.

2025, The Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice

Some Canadians view the concept of freedom in relation to government involvement differently, particularly when government presence is seen as oppressive or colonizing. While Indigenous communities in Canada may not always view the current governance structure as reflective of their own traditions, they recognize the necessity of using it to navigate challenges. Indigenous groups utilize section 15 to address inequalities that stem from historical colonialism, seeking to restore balance in a manner consistent with pre-colonial ideals. Prior to the repatriation of the constitution, attempts to address equity issues through the legal system were often met with limited success, prompting Indigenous women in Canada to take their gender equity concerns to the United Nations with respect to the Indian Act. Following the repatriation, section 15 has provided a platform for Indigenous peoples to address policies and laws that unfairly disadvantage certain groups in comparison to others, thereby promoting fair treatment from the government. This discussion aims to explore how Indigenous communities utilize Section 15 as a tool to address issues of unequal treatment and advocate for equity that aligns with traditional pre-colonial values.

2025, Direito e autoritarismo em democracias em construção (Brasil 2019-2022)

Desde a redemocratização, o Brasil conjuga a construção institucional de um Estado Democrático de Direito com a persistência de regras formais ou normas informais do período autoritário, reproduzidas e reinventadas na democracia. Essa tensão permanente encontra novos desafios no pe- ríodo de 2018 a 2022. A ascensão à Presidência de Jair Bolsonaro e de um congresso de perfil mais conservador, por meio de eleições relativamente livres e competitivas, trouxe desafios analíticos significativos à constru- ção institucional democrática brasileira. Se na campanha já se anunciava a oposição explícita do capitão reformado do Exército a valores essenciais à construção da democracia brasileira, como o respeito aos direitos huma- nos e a redução de desigualdades, seu governo foi marcado por práticas de erosão e desconstrução do pacto instituído pela Constituição Federal de 1988, por mais ambivalente que ele fosse.
Muito antes de a candidatura de Bolsonaro à presidência começar a se delinear como uma possibilidade real, países como Hungria, Índia, Polônia e Estados Unidos já enfrentavam fenômenos semelhantes. A partir de uma difusão de repertórios de ação entre governantes autoritários em diferentes países, acadêmicos do campo do Direito e das Ciências Sociais têm se de- dicado a identificar as ferramentas mobilizadas por esses governantes para concretizar seus objetivos de consolidação de poder e neutralização – com maior ou menor sucesso – dos entraves impostos pela atuação de institui- ções públicas e de movimentos de oposição.1
Dentre os estudos contemporâneos sobre o tema, destaca-se o traba- lho da socióloga Kim Scheppele. Em seu artigo “Autocratic Legalism”, ela delineia as táticas contemporâneas utilizadas por líderes carismáticos para garantir sua permanência no poder por meio da mobilização do Direito. No script dos autocratas legalistas, há o progressivo desmantelamento das constituições liberais como tática de consolidação autocrática. Parte funda- mental do repertório de ação de chefes de Estado como o húngaro Viktor Orbán é a mobilização do Direito e de expedientes jurídicos para alcançar fins autoritários e, simultaneamente, manter uma aparência de legalidade democrática, em um processo de corrosão interna das instituições e das práticas democráticas.
Partindo da literatura internacional sobre declínio democrático, os autores deste livro, em sua maioria alunos da graduação e do Mestrado e Doutorado Acadêmico da Escola de Direito de São Paulo da Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV DIREITO SP), indicam pontos de contato e de distanciamento do caso brasileiro com essa literatura internacional. Para tanto, apoiam-se nas contribuições desenvolvidas por outros pesquisado- res brasileiros, no âmbito do Projeto Estado de Direito e Legalismo Au- toritário. A primeira contribuição na qual se apoiam é a reflexão sobre o uso distinto do Direito pelo governo Bolsonaro (Vieira; Glezer; Barbosa, 2023), e a segunda é sobre a importância de legados históricos e a perma- nência de zonas de autoritarismo (Pimenta; Machado, 2023). Muitos dos textos se concentram na análise das expressões do infralegalismo autoritário de Bolsonaro em suas respectivas áreas de pesquisa. Eles identificam di- ferentes maneiras de mobilização desse método, que consiste em um uso abusivo da discricionariedade dada ao Poder Executivo, por meio de uma combinação de decretos, ações e omissões administrativas, incluindo atos para-institucionais (situados no plano da retórica, do uso de mídias sociais e de informações falsas) para promover o avanço do autoritarismo (Vieira; Glezer; Barbosa, 2023).
As reflexões apresentadas, no entanto, não se esgotam na identificação das ferramentas mobilizadas na operacionalização desse retrocesso, mas colocam questões sobre o próprio sentido e os impactos desse processo político no contexto de uma democracia em construção. Percebendo as inconsistências e incompletudes democráticas que precedem o bolsona- rismo, os desafios assumidos pelos pesquisadores consistem em identificar o que há de distinto nas alterações implementadas no período de 2019 a 2022. Em um esforço analítico nada trivial de separar o que é estrutural do que é conjuntural, os estudos ora apresentados buscam compreender de que maneira essas lacunas históricas condicionam as reações e os impactos políticos e institucionais das investidas autoritárias do presente.
Identificar, no Brasil, a existência de uma democracia em construção é reconhecer que esse é um processo tensionado e disputado, marcado por contradições internas e oscilações. Reconhecer a existência de um processo de desdemocratização não implica presumir que os avanços em direção à democracia ocorreram de forma linear ou harmônica nos anos preceden- tes. A convivência da democracia brasileira com fragilidades institucionais severas e disposições autoritárias – que se revelam, por exemplo, no campo da segurança pública, na violência estatal e não estatal contra grupos mi- noritários e na marginalização de parcelas imensas da população provocada pela persistência das desigualdades socioeconômicas – não é apenas o pano de fundo para a conjuntura autoritária, mas condição que efetivamente molda o resultado de suas intervenções. Nesse sentido, este livro apresenta aos leitores análises sobre continuidades e rupturas históricas, explorando como o governo Bolsonaro se relacionou com esse contexto e foi habilitado por ele.

2025, Victims & Offenders

Allegations of sexual assault against prominent politicians have led to highly partisan debates. Studies demonstrate that alongside gender, partisanship has become a powerful predictor of views on the #MeToo movement and sexual assault, but this empirical inquiry has not yet been assessed across the attitudes of rape myths among university students. The main research question in this study is, "To what extent is rape myth acceptance among university students a product of gender and political partisanship?" We surveyed around 1,000 university students and asked their level of agreement with two constructs of rape myths: that women are to blame for rape and that women lie about rape. Several findings stand out. First, Democratic and Republican men express statistically the same level of rape myth acceptance. Second, there exists a sizable partisan gap among women in levels of rape myth acceptance, with Democratic women conveying stronger disagreement with rape myths than Republican women. Third, the partisan gap in rape myth acceptance is driven by the difference between Democratic and Republican women, with Democratic women driving the gender gap.

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La victime et le témoin durant la dictature militaire au Brésil : une anthropologie de la mémoire Cynthia Sarti 1 D eux figures de la violence, le témoin et la victime, sont au centre de cette enquête. Son contexte est celui de la construction mémorielle de la dictature militaire au Brésil (1964Brésil ( -1985)). Comment l'une et l'autre de ces figures ont-elles été produites depuis le retour à la démocratie dans un processus mettant en jeu la mémoire de cette violence et la réparation qui peut en être attendue 2 ? Ma réflexion s'inscrit dans une recherche plus large, en cours, sur la souffrance et la violence 3 . Je cherche à y analyser les formes par lesquelles la société et les individus élaborent et expriment la souffrance liée à ces expériences et la façon dont ils ont été marqués par celles-ci. Dans le cadre de cet article, je me référerai à la torture ainsi qu'à la mort ou à la disparition de proches pendant la dictature militaire au Brésil en m'attachant au processus par lequel cette période a commencé à être traitée et discutée dans la société brésilienne comme une violence d'État. Il s'agit d'une recherche sur le travail de la mémoire, menée en analysant les parcours d'individus dans leur quête de compréhension de la violence vécue et dans leurs tentatives de réinscription de celle-ci dans leur existence et leur vie quotidienne.

2025

This document is a short guide on how to write a PhD thesis proposal for submission to an Australian law school. It is primarily intended for students coming from outside Australia (particularly from Indonesia). It is based on my experience in helping students from Asia apply for a PhD scholarship to study in Australia. Some of the advice may be specific to my institution (UNSW). It is also based on projects that are often more empirical and socio-legal.