Times: 2-6pm, December 5 (reception 5-6pm)
8am-5:30pm, December 6
Venue: Lubar Commons (7200 Law)
This workshop formed part of the Research Circle on "Role of Law in Developing and Transition Countries."
Roundtables were held on:
(a) Mobilization of law in Developing and Transition Countries;
(b) Legal continuity and
change;
(c) Legal pluralism, indigenous groups, legal cultures, colonialism and
empires;
(d) International law and norms; and
(e) Participation.
Participants: Jackie Dugard (South
Africa), Xin He (Hong Kong), Javier Couso (Chile), Margaret Woo
(Boston),
Rachel Ellett (Beloit College), Diana Kapiszewski (Berkeley),
Chadidscha Schuhmann (Giessen), Mark Massoud (Stanford), Druscilla
Scribner (UW- Oshkosh), Kathie Hendley (UW), Heinz Klug (UW), Alex
Huneeus (UW), Mara Loveman (UW) and Sumudu Atapattu (UW).
Sponsors:
Core readings:
Lauren Benton, Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes in World History, 1400-1900 (2002), chapter 1
Lauren Benton, Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes in World History, 1400-1900 (2002), Conclusion
Sally Engle Merry, Human Rights and Gender Violence: Translating International Law into Local Justice, Introduction
Sally Engle Merry, Human Rights and Gender Violence: Translating International Law into Local Justice, Chapter 4
Robert Sharlet, Stalinism and Soviet Legal Culture in Stalinism: Essays in Historical Interpretation, 155 (Robert C. Tucker ed., 1977).
Frank Munger, Constitutional Reform, Legal Consciousness, and Citizen Participation in Thailand, 40 Cornell Int'l L.J. 455 (2007)
Additional readings:
Antony Anghie, Finding the Peripheries: Sovereignty and Colonialism in Nineteenth-Century International Law, 40 Harv. Int'l L.J. 1 (1999)
Scott Cummings & Louise Trubek, Globalizing Public Interest Law (forthcoming)
Jackie Dugard, Court of First Instance? Towards a Pro-poor Jurisdiction for the South African Constitutional Court, 22 SAJHR (2006)
Jackie Dugard, Courts and the Poor in South Africa: A Critique of Systemic Judicial Failures to Advance Transformative Justice, submitted to SAJHR special edition on South African judiciary (2008)
Jackie Dugard, Rights, Regulation and Resistence: The Phiri Water Campaign, submitted to SAJHR special issue on Rights and Regulation (2008)
Yash Ghai, Human Rights and Social Development: Toward Democratization and Social Justice, Democracy, Governance and Human Rights, Program Paper No 5 (2001)
John Gillespie, Localizing Global Rules: Public Participation in Lawmaking in Vietnam, 33 Law & Soc. Inquiry 673 (2008)
Francine Hirsch, Soviets at Nuremberg: International Law, Propaganda and the Making of the Postwar Order, American Historical Review (June 2008)
Heinz Klug, Hybrid(ity) Rules: Creating Local Law in a Globalized World in Global Prescriptions: The Production, Exportation, and Importation of a New Legal Orthodoxy, 276 (Yves Dezalay & Bryant G. Garth eds.)
Mark Massoud, Myth Making and the Collision of Rights: Law and Development in Sudan (draft)
Jona Razzaque, Linking Human Rights, Development, and Environment: Experiences from Litigation in South Asia, 18 Fordham Envtl. Law. Rev. 587 (2007)
Margaret Woo & Mary Gallagher eds., Introduction, Civil Dispute Resolution in Contemporary China (forthcoming)
Margaret Woo, Shaping Citizenship: Chinese Family Law and Women, Yale J. Law and Feminism (2003)
Margaret Woo & Yaxin Wang, Civil Justice in China: An Empirical Study of Courts in Three Provinces
