Fordham Law Review

There is a new journal on our library list, it is the Fordham Law Review. "The Fordham Law Review is a scholarly journal serving the legal profession and the public by discussing current legal issues".

STALS

The Sant'Anna Legal Studies (STALS) is a project of the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, of the University of Pisa, Italy (SSSUP), and the link is the following http://stals.sssup.it. There you can find some papers, lectures, and seminars. Moreover, you can find some posts at their forum, in which you must register to post comments. With the registration you will also be added to the STALS newsletter service.

Finally, there is an upcoming SSSUP Summer event in Constitutional law: Multiculturalismo e diritti: accomodating diversity, that is organized by the University of Siena and the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa.

Justice Michael Kirby on The Australian Constitution and International Human Rights Law

Following there is an invitation received from an e-mail list of Oxford JDG:

"Just a quick note to mark in your diaries if you are in Oxford over the summer vacation. Justice Michael Kirby AC CMG, a Justice of the High Court of Australia, will be speaking at Rhodes House on Friday 18 July 2008 on: The Australian Constitution and International Human Rights Law. Justice KIrby is presently the longest-serving judicial officer in Australia. He will reach the mandatory retirement age in March 2009. Accordingly, this is likely to be his last visit to Oxford as a sitting judge of Australia's highest court. The speech will take place at 5pm, with light refreshments to follow. Further details will be announced closer to the date.The speech is open to all, so please forward this email on to interested groups. For catering purposes, I would be grateful if you could email me <travers.mcleod@balliol.ox.ac.uk> to let me know if you are intending to come".

Issues of Isegoría

Almost all the issues of the journal Isegoría are now available at the Internet, since de first number in 1990 until the last in 1999 and the issues of 2006 and 2007. They have published some papers of authors like Garzón Valdés, Rawls, Habermas, Apel, Dussel, Kymlicka, Elías Díaz, Saramago, Alexy and Atienza. The link to the journal is available at our library.

Panoptica Call for Papers on Procedural Law

It is already available the call for papers of Panoptica. Here it is:

"The next issue of Panóptica will be on Procedural Law: theory and practice, within the following themes: civil procedural law, penal procedural law, constitutional procedural law, international procedural law, labor procedural law, tax procedural law, arbitration procedural law and comparative procedural law.

People interested in giving papers should send their contributions (in Portuguese, Spanish, English, French or Italian) accompanied by a short abstract (in the language of the paper and in English), by 1st October 2008. Papers may focus on the themes of the issue.

The authors, who prefer sending papers (in Spanish or English) to translate into Portuguese, should send their original papers in Microsoft word format or in PDF-file printable, by 1st September 2008. Papers may focus on the themes of the issue.

The papers could be: articles (max 30 A4 pages); notes (max 10 A4 pages); book reviews (max 5 A4 pages); analysis of jurisprudence (max 20 A4 pages); analysis of laws (max 20 A4 pages).

Please address the paper submissions (and additional inquiries) to: revista@panoptica.org; or to julio@panoptica.org ; or to bruno@panoptica.org

The e-journal has free access at: www.panoptica.org"

Jeffrey Hall on Dworkin's theory influence on the Jurisprudence of German Federal Constitutional Court

It is recommended the paper of Jeffrey B. Hall published at German Law Journal on the influence of the professor's Dworkin theory on the jurisprudence of the Bundesverfassungsgericht (German Federal Constitutional Court).

Here is the link: www.germanlawjournal.com/pdf/Vol09No06/PDF_Vol_09_No_06_771-798_Articles_Hall.pdf

Martinico on influences on the Legal Reasoning of the European Court of Justice

The journal "Boletín Mexicano de Derecho Comparado" has published a paper of Giuseppe Martinico on "Comparative Legal Studies and European Integration. Looking at the Origins of the Debate". This blog recommends it. Here is the abstract:

"The goal of this paper is to analyse the influence of American comparative lawyer's on the language of the European integration. As recent research in the legal field has demonstrated, European studies 'should pay more attention on the legal discourse that sustains the conceptions of law and legal politics underlaying European law' (H. Schepel-R. Wesseling 1997). In the writing of Europe, in fact, a very important role was played by legal scholars, especially by the American ones, who contributed in providing a common vocabulary to the language of European integration".

Here is the link: http://www.juridicas.unam.mx/publica/librev/rev/boletin/cont/122/art/art9.pdf

Alexy's book in Portuguese

It is recommended the first translation into Portuguese of the book written by professor Robert Alexy. It is edited by Malheiros Editores and it costs R$90.00.