4th Global Conference (2010)

4th Global Conference

Friday 12th March – Sunday 14th March 2010
Salzburg, Austria

The programme for the conference is available below. Delegates are listed according to the session in which they appear. Clicking on the Session Title will take you to the abstracts (where available) for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation.

Final Conference Programme

Friday 12th March 2010
from 12.30
Registration

13.30
Welcome and Opening Words
Bob Brecher

14.00
Session 1: State Violence, Imperialism and International Justice Theory
Chair: Ben Livings

Constraining or Perpetuating State Violence through International Rule of Law
Philip Nichols

“De Unico Modo”: The Radical Evangelism of Bartolomé de Las Casas
Owen Staley

15:30
Coffee

16:00
Session 2: State Violence, Imperialism, and International Justice: Theory: Practice
Chair: Tommi Ralli

The Khmer Rouge Trials: The Compromises of Prosecuting Past Evil
Pádraig McAuliffe

A Political Non-People, a Distorted History, an Imagined Idenity: The Golan Druze in Israeli Education Under-International Human Rights Law
Michelle Strucke

17:30 Notices and Announcements
Wine Reception (with delegates from the Violence project)

Saturday 13 March 2010
09:00
Session 3: Agamben, Evil, Law
Chair: Los Watkins

Unseen Cases of Law: Abortion and Politics of the Body in “4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days”
Cosmin Sebastian Cercel

“The Sentence is the Goal”: Agamben’s Notion of Law
Carlo Salzani

Racing the SUPERUNKNOWN: Obama, Apocalypse Law, and the State of Exception
Darryl Smith

10:30
Coffee

11:00
Session 4: Crime and Justice
Chair: Pádraig McAuliffe

Does the Refined Adversary System Refine the Gender Discrimination? Rape Trial and its Courtroom Culture in Taiwan
Chih-Chieh (Carol) Lin

Inequal Distribution of Justice: Legitimacy of Violence and Juvenile Delinquents’ Struggles Against It in the Court Files
Bengü Kurtege Sefer

12:30
Lunch

14:00
Session 5: Violence and Consent
Chair: Cosmin Sebastian Cercel

A Christian Anarchist Critique of Violence: From Turning the Other Cheek to a Rejection of the State
Alexandre Christoyannopoulos

The Faces of Violence in Paul Ricoeur: Three Fundamental Dimensions
Silvia Cristina Gabriel

The State’s Dominion: Physical Violence and Consent
Stephen King

15:30
Coffee

16:00
Session 6: Open Session

No papers scheduled – this session provides a break in the proceedings so that you can engage in informal discussions with other delegates in a comfortable location and/or while enjoying Salzburg.

Sunday 14 March 2010
09:00
Session 7: Law, Morality, Justice
Chair: Carlo Salzani

Re-establishing the Tie between Law, Morality and Political Power: Modern Legal-Rationalism as the Alternative to Legal-Positivism and Legal-Realism
Mehmet Ruhi Demiray

The Consent Solution to Punishment and the Explicit Denial Objection
Miroslav Imbrisevic

Private Law in the Service of Distributive Aims: Three Classic Positions
Tommi Ralli

10:30
Coffee

11:00
Session 8: Public and Private Authority
Chair: Philip Nichols

Human Resources Assessment and Digging Up Dirt: Getting Around the Libel Laws
Fletcher Lee

Control Orders and the Threat of Terrorism in the UK
Los Watkins

12:30
Lunch

14:00
Session 9: The Margins of Law
Chair: Fletcher Lee

Discontent and Civil Disobedience in an Unjust State: A Casrt Study of tribal Protests in India
Nithya Anand & Nishant Gokhale

A Right to Kill?
Ben Livings

Developments in the Criminal Law in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Abolition of the Death Penalty and Justifications for Punishment
George Novisi Vukor-Quarshie

15:30
Tea

16.00
Development Meeting

17:00
Conference Close