Law in a Mirror

Le droit ne consiste-t-il qu’en règles écrites ? « Rendre justice », est-ce se contenter d’appliquer mécaniquement des solutions toutes faites à des situations toutes trouvées ? Peut-on ignorer ce que dissimulent les textes, lesquels sont parfois des prétextes, selon le contexte de leur utilisation, à savoir les Palais de Justice ?

Pierre Brunet, Professeur de droit public, Membre de l’Institut Universitaire de France (promotion 2009), Directeur du Centre de Théorie du Droit, Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défense.

THE MEANING OF PENALTY AND SANCTIONS
INTERNATIONAL SEMINARS (22-23 NOVEMBER 2011)

4 seminars of Prof. Mohamed SALAH, Université de Nouakchott, Mauritanie ; D. ONG, Reader, University of Essex, UK, Prof. J.-C. REMOTTI – CARBONELL, UAB, Barcelone, Spain; Prof. M., VAN DE KERCHOVE Facultés universitaires de Saint-Louis, Bruxelles, Belgium.
AND

TRANGRESSION
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE (24-25 NOVEMBER 2011)

Including the presentaions of Prof. J. ARLETTAZ, Université de Grenoble II, France ; Prof. L. AZOULAI, Institut Universitaire de Florence, Italy ; Prof. X. BIOY, Université de Toulouse I, France ; Prof. P. BRUNET, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défense, France ; Prof. J-Y, CHEROT, Université Paul Cézanne, Aix Marseille III, France ; Prof. GREWE, Université Robert Schuman, Strasbourg, France ; Prof. G. HAARSCHER, ULB, Bruxelles, Belgium ; Prof. S. LAGHMANI, Université de Tunis I, Tunisia ; Prof. Sh. LEADER, University of Essex, UK ; Dr MARRANI, Senior Lecturer, University of Essex, UK ; Prof. B. MELKEVIK, Université Laval-Québec, Quebec ; Prof. F. OST, Facultés universitaires de Saint-Louis, Bruxelles, Belgium ; Prof. M. PAILLET, Université du Sud Toulon-Var (USTV), France ; Prof. Ph., PEDROT, USTV, France; Prof. A. PHILIPPOPOULOS – MIHALOPOULOS, Professor of Law & Theory Co-Director of The Westminster International Law & Theory Centre, London, UK; Prof. J.-C. REMOTTI – CARBONELL, UAB, Barcelone, Spain ; M. M. REVERT, rapporteur public au tribunal administratif de Toulon, France ; Dr P. RICHARD, maître de conférences, USTV, France ; Prof. J. RIDEAU, Université de Nice, France et Dr S. PEREZ maître de conférences, Université de Nice, France ; Prof. N. ROULAND, université Paul Cézanne, Aix Marseille III, France ; Prof. D., ROUSSEAU Université de Paris I Sorbonne, France ; Dr J. RUFFIER -MERAY, docteur en droit, chargée de cours à l’USTV, France ; Prof. Mohamed SALAH, Université de Nouakchott, Mauritanie ; Prof. J.-J., SUEUR, USTV ; Dr S. TORCOL, maître de conférences,USTV, France ; Prof. A. VIALA, Université de Montpellier I, France; Prof. M., VAN DE KERCHOVE Facultés universitaires de Saint-Louis, Bruxelles, Belgium ; M. C. WIHTOL DE WENDEN, directeur de recherches, CNRS/Science po Paris, France.
CO-ORGANISED BY
THE CENTRE D’ETUDES ET DE RECHERCHES SUR LES CONTENTIEUX, CERC, FACULTE DE DROIT DE L’UNIVERSITE DU SUD TOULON VAR (FRANCE), THE SCHOOL OF LAW OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX (UK), AND THE CENTRE DE THEORIE ET D’ANALYSE DU DROIT, UFR DROIT, UPOND (FRANCE).

Venue: Faculté de Droit, Université du Sud Toulon Var (France).
Working languages: English, French and Spanish.
Accredited by the French Bar (Conseil National des Barreaux)
and the Bar Standards Board (accreditation 16 CPD).
Fees:
Practitioner/Praticiens € 200 / £ 200
Academic/Universitaire € 80 / £ 80
Student/Etudiant € 20 / £ 20

For details and full programme, please contact Gail Howell, External Law Programme, School of Law, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO4 3SQ.

Ph.:(0)1206 873484 Fax: (0)1206 873428, Email: ghowell@essex.ac.uk)
Organised by David Marrani, University of Essex and Pascal Richard, USTV.

Essex Centre for Comparative and European Law (EXCCEL) launch 17 March

Subject to approvals, the new Centre will be launched at 32 Smith Square – RSVP only
Place: Europe House, 32 Smith Square, London
Description: The Essex Centre for Comparative and European Law is a centre for excellence in European legal research which has been established with the aid of the Knowledge Transfer Innovation Fund. It is a virtual web-based centre which also provides funding for researcher mobility, especially to Brussels. The University of Essex Chancellor and Head of Law School will make short introductions with regard to Essex Law School history and progress in researching European law, to be followed by an introduction to the Centre by its Director.
Host: Jonathan Scheele, UK Representative of the European Commission
Speakers: Lord Philips of Sudbury, Chancellor of the University of Essex, and Professor Jane Wright, Head of the School of Law and Pro-Vice-Chancellor Elect
Chair: Dr Chris Marsden (Director, EXCCEL)

For those interested … View David Marrani research on my SSRN Author page:

Congrès, colloques et conférences en droit comparé

Critical Legal Conference 2009
Genealogies:
Excavating Legal Modernity
University of Leicester
September 11-13, 2009

Virtual Worlds, Virtual Law?

According to Agamben, Dispositif or apparatus, are for Foucault: 1) heterogeneous ensembles that include virtually each thing, discursive or not, the apparatus being itself a network established between those elements; 2) the apparatus has a strategic and concrete function and is always in a relation of power and 3), the apparatus results from the crossing of relation of power and knowledge. Contemporary societies are inert bodies crossed by massive process of de-subjectivisation without a real (re)subjectivistaion as response to this process. In virtual worlds, everything seems to have moved towards a pure de-subjectivisation.

In a computer generated environment they partially create, ‘users’ that inhabit ‘avatars’ are actors who have become spectators of their own fate and interact in a new ‘chaotic’ social environmental, where the relations are not inter-subjective anymore, where one may consider the complete passage to the symbolic alongside a complete absence of this symbolic. Therefore, we may question whether or not virtual worlds are apparatus and how relations created within the virtual worlds but also between the virtual worlds and the ‘real world’ become regulated.

We are facing a complete new drama that is a full ‘play’ with no mise en scene (or is there one?). Virtual worlds question the social relation/link, the traditional embodied/disembodied dichotomy, the very concept of person. They challenge the symbolic aspect of the law, particularly of its visual side. Therefore, are they a ‘post-post modern’ development or simply another web game with (or without) ‘rules’? What does this mean for the legal development? Does it concern simply the ‘bridge’ between the ‘real world’ and the ‘virtual worlds’ or does it create something new or different?

The convenors of this stream cordially invite novel papers in and around this area. Please send your name, affiliation, title of your paper and an abstract of no more than 250 words by Friday, 26 June 2009 directly to the stream convenors.

Audrey Guinchard
abguin@essex.ac.uk

David Marrani
dmarrani@essex.ac.uk

Download conference poster (pdf).

Constitutional Change in France and the UK
27 June 2009
Maison Francaise Oxford

This one-day conference will address the recent constitutional change in both countries.

Theme 1: Adapting Old Ideas: The Nation-State, sovereignty and its accessories; The problem of support (Legitimacy, the political system, Bi partisan,…); The question of the central state and its peripheries (Form of state, unitary, decentralisation, devolution, Jacobinism); Modifications/revisions of the Constitution (frequency, substantial issues) .

Theme 2: Considering New Demands: Citizens, rights and the future; Accountability, control and transparency; The rule of law, Human Rights and l’Etat de droit; a republic, no monarch; a democracy, one monarch: (issues about the head of state); applying the constitution. Constitutions and the judiciary

The conference is targeted at legal academics, students and legal practitioners.

Chairs:
Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, Senior Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
G. Canivet, Membre du Conseil Constitutionnel

Speakers:
Professor P. Brunet, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense
Professor V. Bogdanor, University of Oxford
A. O’ Neill, QC
W. Roddick, QC
Professor F. Rueda, Université de Toulouse 1
Professor D. Oliver, UCL
D. Marrani, University of Essex
Dr P Richard, Université du Sud Toulon Var
Professor P. Leyland, London Metropolitan
Professor J. Packer, University of Essex
Dr J. Arlettaz, Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis
Me N. Lenoir, former French minister of European affairs, former member of the Conseil Constitutionnel (tbc)

Accredited with CPD by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (5.5 hours)
(Bar Standards Board pending)

Please register your interest in attending this event by contacting Gail Chapman
Email:gchap@essex.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0) 1206 873484 Fax: +44 (0) 1206 873428