The Freie Universität Berlin and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) are organising the workshop "Law Schools Without Borders? The Case of Transatlantic Cooperation in Law Education". The workshop will focus on cooperative law programs.
The call for participation can be found here.
This summer course is organised by the Summer University in cooperation with Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York and Hamline
University School of Law, Minnesota.
Location: Central European University (CEU), Budapest, Hungary
Course page: www.sun.ceu.hu/mediation
Detailed course description: http://www.sun.ceu.hu/02-courses/course-sites/mediation/index-mediation.php
Target group: junior and mid-career faculty and doctoral candidates at law schools or faculties of social science, psychology or public administration, as well as U.S. law students.
The language of instruction: English
Tuition fee: EUR 500. Financial aid is available.
Application deadline: February 14, 2008 (for scholarship places), May 30, 2008 (for fee-paying applications)
Online application: https://online.ceu.hu/osun/osun (attachments to be sent via regular mail).
For further information queries can be directed to the SUN office by email (summeru@ceu.hu), via skype (ceu-sun) or telephone (00-36-1-327-3811).
Public Interest Law Institute (PILI) and the Center for Foreign Law Programs of the Jagiellonian University Faculty of Law are organizing a Conference, titled “The Need for a New Law School” in Cracow in June 19-21, 2008. You are invited to participate at the conference by submitting papers on the topics of the conference. Here you can find the call for papers.
Location: Central European University (CEU), Budapest, Hungary
Course page: www.sun.ceu.hu/teaching-law
Detailed course description: http://www.sun.ceu.hu/02-courses/course-sites/teaching_law/detailed.php
Course Directors:
Edwin Rekosh, Public Interest Law Institute, Budapest, Hungary
Lusine Hovhannisian, Public Interest Law Institute, New York, US
Course Faculty:
Philip Genty, Columbia University School of Law, New York, US
Peter Rosenblum , Columbia University School of Law, New York, US
Target group: Junior law faculty, with 1-2 years of teaching experience; basic knowledge of international human rights law and commitment to educational reform
The language of instruction: English
Tuition fee: 250 Euro a week. Financial aid is available.
Application deadline: February 14, 2008 (for scholarship places), April 30, 2008 (for fee-paying applications)
Online application: https://online.ceu.hu/osun/osun (attachments to be sent via regular mail).
For further information queries can be directed to the SUN office by email (summeru@ceu.hu), via skype (ceu-sun) or telephone (00-36-1-327-3811).
Location: Jean Monnet building of the European Commission in Luxembourg
The European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) regularly announces open competitions for positions within the EU institutions. They are highly competitive, which makes thorough preparation essential. With this course, EIPA offers comprehensive training on how to prepare for the written and oral tests. The focus will be on topical issues, such as the latest developments in certain EU policies, recent changes in the EU institutional design and the future of the EU. The training will also provide tips and tricks on how to pass the verbal and numerical reasoning tests, write a good essay and pass the oral examination.
This summer school is designed mainly, but not exclusively, for those applying for positions within the EU institutions at Administrator level (“AD grades”). The training may also be of interest to those applying for other grades or those who simply wish to update their knowledge of EU affairs and obtain a comprehensive overview.
Location: Central European University (CEU), Budapest, Hungary
Course page: www.sun.ceu.hu/total-law
This advanced course is about the practice of European Union Law. Participants receive hands-on insider analysis about the functioning of the European Union. The program is designed to combine seminars on different subjects as well as workshops supporting the topics addressed in these seminars or some aspects thereof. The 2008 course gives a special focus on the Reform treaty and its consequences for each topic covered during the course.
Course Directors: Marie Pierre Granger, CEU, Legal Studies, Hungary
Imola Streho, European Court of Justice, Luxembourg
Joseph Weiler, New York University, Jean Monnet Center, USA
Target group: law students near completion of their law degree, law graduates
and legal professionals, who are seeking further credentials and experience in
the field. It may be particularly appealing to government officials and those
aiming at a career in national, international and/or European civil service, and
those who wish to apply for jobs in the field of European Union law.
The language of instruction: English
Tuition fee: 750 Euro
Application deadline: March 31, 2008
Online application: https://online.ceu.hu/osun/osun (attachments to be sent via regular mail).
For further information queries can be directed to the SUN office by email (summeru@ceu.hu), via skype (ceu-sun) or telephone (00-36-1-327-3811).
Durham University hosts a comparative conference on contract law in financial transactions.
The conference is supported by a Marie Curie Research Grant within the European Union’s 7th Research Framework and is the first of a series of events dedicated to analysing concepts aimed at protecting the vulnerable in financial transactions. The theme of the conference will be Conceptualising Unconscionability in Europe; and will explore concepts of unconscionability in contract law, as an expression of contractual unfairness in the context of financial transactions contracts.
More information can be found here.
For further information, or to submit a proposal, please contact James Devenney (j.p.devenney@durham.ac.uk) Lorna Fox (Lorna.Fox@Durham.ac.uk) and Mel Kenny (Mel.Kenny@Durham.ac.uk).
Harvard and Stanford Law Schools wish to announce plans for an international junior faculty conference. The two sponsoring schools will act as hosts in alternate years. The first conference will be held at Stanford, California, on October 16-19, 2008. The purpose of the conference is to stimulate the international exchange of ideas and research among members of the legal academy, to encourage and further the work of younger scholars in the international community, and to surmount barriers between scholars of different traditions and cultures, in the interests of the development of legal scholarship on a transnational basis.
The sponsoring schools invite any junior scholar to submit an abstract of a paper for the conference. The paper may be on any legally relevant subject, and may utilize any legally relevant approach, quantitative or qualitative, sociological, anthropological, historical, or economic, on the role and function of law and legal systems in the modern world, or in the past. The papers for this initial year should be in English. Any scholar whose home institution is outside the United States and who has held an academic position for less than seven years, as of 2008, or whose last degree was earned less than ten years earlier than 2008, is invited to submit an abstract of no more than five pages that lays out the major argument of the paper he/she would submit, states what method the scholar will pursue to advance that argument, and indicates the paper’s potential contribution to scholarship. On the basis of these abstracts, the sponsoring schools will invite the submission of full papers. The papers will be reviewed by an international committee of senior legal scholars, representing many different countries and many different styles and approaches. Approximately ten of the papers will be selected for presentation at the conference. Each paper will have two commentators, drawn from the international committee of scholars. The sponsoring schools will cover expenses of travel, including airfare, lodging, and food, for each participant.
The deadline for the submission of abstracts is January 4, 2008 and of final papers is May 23, 2008. One copy of each abstract should be sent to:
Professor Lawrence M. Friedman ( lmf@stanford.edu)
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305 USA
A second copy of each abstract should be sent to:
Professor William P. Alford ( alford@law.harvard.edu )
Harvard Law School
Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
It is preferable to submit papers by email. Questions should be directed to either Professor Friedman or Professor Alford.