SOCIO-LEGAL M.A. AT THE OÑATI INSTITUTE

22nd INTERNATIONAL MASTER’S PROGRAMME IN SOCIOLOGY OF LAW

2011/2012 PROGRAMME

Director: Angela Melville Coordinator: Susana Arrese Murguzur

University of the Basque Country representative: Joxerramon Bengoetxea

University of Milan representative: Vincenzo Ferrari

Oñati, December 2010

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR T H E SOCIOLOGYOF LAW 5

ABOUT OÑATI 6

THE INTERNATIONAL MASTER’S PROGRAMME IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF LAW 9

INTRODUCTION 11

ORGANIZATION AND EXAMINATION 16

THE RESIDENCE 19

CONTENT OF THE COURSES, TEACHING STAFF 2011-2012 23

CALENDAR 25

TEACHING STAFF AND COURSES 27

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TTHE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR T H E SOCIOLOGY OF LAW

he International Institute for the Sociology of Law (IISL) was founded in 1988 by the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee on the Sociology of Law, and the Basque Government. It is associated with several

European and non-European universities as well as an international network of sociologists of law who benefit from its facilities for seminars, workshops and sabbaticals.

The Institute is located in the old University of Oñati building, dating from 1543, a magnificent

example of Spanish Renaissance architecture. The building has been renovated to accommodate a documentation centre, library, administrative offices and meeting rooms. A short walk from the University, the Palacio Antia, the Institute’s Residence, an elegant 18th century building also recently renovated, provides common rooms for social activities and accommodation for students, faculty and visitors.

Updated information can be obtained from the Institute’s website (http://www.iisj.es) and the latest news is published also in the Institute’s newsletter.

Antigua Universidad.Cloister.

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OABOUT OÑATI

ñati, a medieval town in the heart of the Basque Country (Euskadi) with approximately 11,000 residents, is situated in a beautiful valley surrounded by mountains and forests. It belongs to Gipuzkoa,

one of the three provinces or historic territories that make up the Autonomous Region of the Basque Country in Spain. The distance from Bilbao is 65 km; from San Sebastian, 75 km; from Vitoria, 45 km; from the Bay of Biscay, 40 km. The altitude is 236 m above sea-level. The Paris-Madrid railway line passes through Zumarraga, 15 km away.

The climate is Atlantic, mild in spring and autumn. In summer, the average temperature ranges from 18 to 28 degrees, and the nights are cool. In winter, it snows very little, although the highest of the mountains which surround the town (Aloña, 1232m) can be covered in snow for several months. The average temperatures in winter range between 4 and 12 degrees.

The countryside around Oñati is beautiful, and has a number of features of great interest and cultural significance, such as the Oñati-Arrikrutz Karst, located near the Arantzazu Sanctuary under the Aizkorri massif.

Aerial view of Oñati.

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The old town centre has many buildings of architectural significance, some of which are classified as National Historic Monuments. Many different styles are represented: Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque. Examples of these different styles can be seen in the Bidaurreta Monastery, the San Miguel Parish Church, the Town Hall and several other medieval buildings

For details on the history of Oñati and its University, see Montserrat FORNELLS ANGELATS, La Universidad de Oñati y el Renacimiento, San Sebastián, Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa, 1995 and the website: http://www.oinati.org.

San Miguel Parish Church. Cloister.

Oñati is well-equipped with sporting and cultural facilities. There is excellent hiking and other recreational activities in the surrounding countryside. There are also courses available for learning Spanish and Euskara, the Basque language.

 Antigua Universidad.

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THE INTERNATIONAL MASTER’S PROGRAMME

IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF LAW

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OINTRODUCTION

BJECTIVES The Master’s degree in Sociology of Law of the IISL is taught in English. The goal of the programme is to expose students from different academic backgrounds

and countries to the most important theories on sociology of law (socio-legal studies), to contemporary debates in selected pertinent topics, to help them learn how to design and conduct sustained, original research on socio-legal topics, and to provide them with the experience of actually carrying out such a project. The Master’s degree (60 ECTS) is awarded as a joint official Master of Arts degree of the Università degli Studi di Milano and of the University of the Basque Country.

The programme has two major components: intensive seminars taught by visiting professors who are leading specialists on each topic (40 ECTS credits), and an individual research project under the tutorship of a specialist in socio-legal studies culminating in the writing of a dissertation (Master’s thesis) (20 ECTS credits).

The course prepares students for independent scientific research and enlarges their capacity for practical problem solving. The programme aims to increase the students’ knowledge and understanding of issues of law in society and their cultural, political and economic contexts, from a comparative and international perspective.

The seminars of the Master’s programme are taught in English. However, students may do individual work in another language with the permission of the relevant professor.

2010-2011 programme students with prof. Angela Melville.

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H LISTORY The 2011-2012 academic year will be the twenty-second of the Oñati Master’s Programme.

The Oñati Master’s Programme is very widely

recognised as an excellent qualification for entry to a PhD, and formally qualifies for credit under the PhD programmes of several European universities. Its scientific and pedagogical level has been judged by the Executive Committee of the International Sociological Association to meet internationally recognised standards. The M.A. awarded is formally a degree of the University of the Basque Country and the University of Milan. More than one hundred specialists in socio-legal studies have been members of the teaching staff. More than two hundred students from all over the world have successfully completed the programme and been awarded the degree, and many have become well-known experts in their field. The titles of their final Master’s thesis are available on our website. The best Master’s these each year are now published in the online Oñati Socio-Legal Series (http://opo.iisj.net/).

Students with prof. Sharyn Roach Anleu.

ENGTH AND STRUCTURE OF THE PROGRAMME The Master's degree can be obtained in one academic year. Seminars take place in

Oñati during the six-month period from the last week of September to the last week of March. From April to October students research, write and defend their dissertation under tutorial guidance. The dissertation supervisor may be picked from among the teachers of the Master's programme, or may be another specialist in the topic (with their agreement), subject to the approval of the Director.

During the period April-October students have the option of staying in Oñati, visiting another university, or returning to their home university.

A Master's degree will be awarded to those who get a passing grade in all the courses given during the academic year and who present and successfully defend their dissertation. Although dissertations are normally written in English, the use of other languages may be considered.

Students may also apply to participate in one or more of the specific courses offered without taking the whole degree. They receive a certificate for the courses completed, and credits awarded may contribute to other degrees which recognise the ECTS system.

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A DDVANTAGES AND FUTURE OPPORTUNITIES The Institute provides outstanding facilities and support for postgraduate socio-

legal study which are unique in the world. A small and select group of students, from a varied and cosmopolitan background, study in a wonderful setting with many of the leading experts in the field. The students come from all over the world: in 2010-11 the 16 students came from 12 different countries. The programme is taught entirely in small groups, usually a maximum of 20.

The courses provide an unparalleled opportunity for close personal contacts with eminent scholars in the socio-legal field, who can introduce students to the leading work, as well as providing direct contacts to the main researchers and networks, in their field. The Scientific Director conducts the Thesis Seminar, to help in the formulation and development of the dissertation research project, and provides continuity and further individual advice and supervision.

By producing a qualifying Master’s thesis, candidates will have completed a piece of research in a motivating and supportive environment, learning how to define and develop a research project, devising and applying appropriate methodological tools, and writing a well-grounded and original paper. Thus the master’s programme provides candidates with highly valuable training, helpful in any future research career, whether as an academic, professional, policy-maker or activist.

OCTORAL STUDIES PhD in Law and Society “Renato Treves” The Oñati Institute and the University of the Basque Country are members of the Renato Treves Doctoral Programme

together with the following universities: Università degli Studi di Milano, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Università degli Studi dell´´Insubria, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Università degli Studi di Urbino “Carlo Bo”, Universiteit Lunds, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Universiteit Antwerpen – UFSA, and the Centro nazionale di prevenzione e difesa sociale di Milano. Students who obtain the International Master in Sociology of Law can apply to register as doctoral candidates at Renato Treves network. CES- University of Coimbra The Centro de Estudos Sociais (CES) at the University of Coimbra recognises the International Master in Sociology of Law as a first step for their Doctoral programmes (agreement signed in June 2008). University of the Basque Country The University of the Basque Country offers a Doctoral Programme in Derecho y Sociedad. A student who has obtained the official Master’s at the Oñati Institute can register directly in the Programme as a doctoral candidate of the University of the Basque Country.

The Oñati M.A. also provides an excellent preparation for a Doctoral programme in a student’s home country, or anywhere in the world. The taught courses give a firm grounding both of skills acquired and contacts within the socio-legal community, and the Master’s dissertation often provides the basis for further topics to be researched at the Doctoral level. Many of the best Master’s theses are displayed and can be downloaded from the Institute’s website http://www.iisj.es and in the Oñati Socio-Legal Series.

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UPERVISION FOR THE MASTER’S PROGRAMME The programme is coordinated by the Scientific Director in cooperation with the Master's Programme

Committee. Members of the committee are distinguished scholars in the academic areas that constitute the educational programme of the Institute. Applicants will be selected for admission to the Master's by the Scientific Director, in consultation with the Master's Committee. The Institute reserves the right to admit only candidates who in its opinion are capable of satisfactorily following and completing the programme.

CHOLARSHIPS/ FELLOWSHIPS The IISL is able to make several grants to cover expenses related to tuition, board or lodging in

Oñati, through the Renato Treves Scholarships and the Neelan Tiruchelvam Fellowships. These grants can only be awarded to those applicants who otherwise could not afford to attend the Master’s course. An applicant who believes that he/she qualifies for a grant should describe in detail his/her personal and family financial condition and the efforts that he/she has made to secure financial

assistance in his/her home country. Tiruchelvam grants go to students from countries in category C of the list drawn up by the International Sociological Association (http://www.ucm.es/info/isa/table_c.htm). They can cover part or all of the tuition fees and of the cost of a shared room in the Institute’s Hall of Residence. Renato Treves grants go to any student who can demonstrate need: they may cover half the tuition fees and/or some of the cost of a shared room in the Institute’s Hall of Residence. Please note that even if you receive a grant you will need some financial resources of your own. The course is a full-time one, and it is not possible to do paid work during the programme to help finance the costs. The Institute cannot accept any responsibility for students who begin the course with insufficient resources. The Oñati Local Town Council also provides an annual grant of €1,700 to support a student from the town, admitted to the Master’s programme.

Mariana Kiefer Kruchin thesis defense by tele-conference.

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APPLICATION PROCEDURES Candidates must have a University degree in sociology, law, social sciences and/or in another discipline related to Sociology of Law.

Undergraduates in their final year may be admitted on the basis of their anticipated results, but they must already have been awarded their first degree diploma by the time the Master’s course begins.

Applicants must have a very good working knowledge of English, reading and writing as well as spoken. The ability to use social science literature published in other languages is useful.

With their application forms, candidates must send: (i) a copy of their passport or identity card; (ii) 4 passport-style photos; (iii) a curriculum vitae: this should state the approximate class standing in any higher degree qualification attained (e.g. top 5%, top 15%), and should include details of any dissertation or substantial written work, and the citation if published; (iv) a transcript of the credits or subjects taken in and showing satisfactory completion of the first degree; (v) a copy of a TOEFL diploma or other evidence of fluency in English. Furthermore, applicants must send two references written by their previous university teachers or other scholars. If the application is accepted, it will be necessary to send an officially legalized copy of the first degree diploma and its translation into Spanish by an official translator. Further information on what is required will be supplied.

Further information can be obtained from :

Susana Arrese Murguzur Coordinator of the Master's Programme International Institute for the Sociology of Law Avenida de la Universidad, 8 / Apartado 28 20560 OÑATI / Gipuzkoa / Spain / Tel: +34 943 78 30 64 Fax: 34 943 78 31 47 E: susana@iisj.es W: http://www.iisj.es

Within one month of the date of notification of acceptance onto the Master's programme, a €300 deposit is required. This amount will be deducted from the total tuition fees and is payable either by Visa or Master card, a cheque in euros drawn on a Spanish bank or by bank transfer to the following bank account:

Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria Oñati (Gipuzkoa) Spain

International Bank Account Number IBAN ES84 0182 0326 1000 1052 9952 Bank Identification Code BBVAESMMXXX

Total tuition fees for the 2011/12 Programme are €2,000. The remaining €1,700 should be paid into the aforementioned account before the start of the programme. The deposit will not be returned if, for any reason, the candidate does not take part in the Master's Programme. Tuition fees for participation in single courses are €100 per week.

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ORGANIZATION AND EXAMINATION The degree is conferred on the basis of course credits, a Master’s thesis and the defence of the thesis.

Candidates must obtain at least a Pass mark (Approbado) in every component in order to be awarded the degree. Any component for which a candidate receives a Fail may be retaken in the following year, unless the candidate is excluded from the programme by a decision of the competent authority. A candidate must normally pass all the taught courses before being allowed to proceed to writing the thesis. In exceptional cases, the Scientific Director may allow a candidate to proceed to writing the thesis if a course has been missed or failed, but the candidate must complete the missing course credit(s) the following year in order to be awarded the degree. The grades for one or more courses may be withheld by the Institute, so that the candidate may not be able to graduate, if the student has not fulfilled his/her financial obligations to the Institute or to the UPV/EHU.

Courses

The taught part of the programme consists of 12 different two-week courses with a total of 36 ECTS credits, plus the Thesis Seminar which counts for 4 credits. One ECTS credit is considered equivalent to 25 hours of coursework including supervisions, seminars, readings, discussions and preparation of papers and exams. Seminars are usually held between 09.00 and 11.00 each day, but this may vary. Students are expected to attend the seminars and other sessions, submit coursework and participate in all courses. Any absence for any reason must be explained to the course teacher and the Master’s Coordinator, preferably in advance (e.g. by email). A course teacher can give a Fail grade to any student who fails to attend

or participate in a course.

Certificate

Students who obtain credits for some or all required courses, but whose Master’s thesis is not submitted or not approved, will be certified to have completed the course work of the programme with the relevant number of ECTS obtained. Students who fail one or more courses may at the end of the teaching period ask for a certificate for those courses that they have successfully passed and those ECTS they have accumulated.

Students’ and Teachers’ Evaluation

At the end of their course, lecturers will be asked to give an overall assessment of the programme and of each student. Students will be asked to provide an anonymous evaluation of lecturers and an evaluation of the programme as a whole at the end of the course. The Master/Student committee of the IISL and the academic committee for the Master’s will analyse these evaluations and recommend appropriate improvements.

Misbehaviour

The Scientific Director deals with cases of students’ misbehaviour that occur outside the classroom, and serious misbehaviour in class. He/she can decide on an appropriate sanction. This may – in severe cases and after consultation with the students’ representatives – include requiring a student to move out of the Residence or expelling the student from the Masters’ programme. Misbehaviour in class is dealt with by the teacher. The teacher should inform the Master’s Coordinator of any absence which has not been notified by the student. If the student repeatedly misses class without reasonable justification, and in severe cases of misbehaviour in class, the teacher shall report this to the Scientific Director, who may expel a student from the course, fail the student, or apply another appropriate sanction.

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Ethics, Good Academic Practice, and Plagiarism

Research for the Master thesis must comply with the ISA Code of Ethics (http://www.isa-sociology.org/about/isa_code_of_ethics.htm). All written work submitted must comply with normal standards of good academic practice, especially as regards use and citation of sources. All sources must be properly cited, and any quotations must be clearly marked as such. Failure to mark quotations or cite sources may be treated as plagiarism (passing off the work of another as one´s own). Sanctions for bad academic practice or plagiarism include deduction of marks, failing the course, or expulsion from the Master’s. A teacher or examiner who identifies or suspects bad academic practice or plagiarism should report the matter to the Scientific Director, who may investigate by any means considered appropriate. If a prima facie case is found, the student will be notified of the details and given an opportunity to explain; the student may be accompanied by a friend or adviser. The decision on the mark to be awarded or penalty will be taken by the Scientific Director, and reported to the Board of Examiners.

Master’s Thesis

Candidates work with the Scientific Director and in the Thesis Seminar to identify a suitable topic for a thesis, develop and refine it, determine their theoretical perspective and empirical or other methodology, and conduct a literature review. Each student will present to the Scientific Director by the agreed date (normally not later than 17th February 2012) a provisional title and a short outline for his/her Thesis. It should be sufficiently elaborated to serve as a basis for discussion in the thesis seminar. A final title for the Thesis, with an explanation of the research project and general outline of the thesis, must be submitted in time for approval by the Scientific Director by 23rd March 2012 at the latest. Once approved, the main responsibility for advice to the student on the thesis passes

to the supervisor. The student must submit a progress report at the beginning of June to the Master’s Coordinator and the Scientific Director, with a copy also to the supervisor, explaining what work has been completed and what remains to be done on the thesis, and the timetable for completion.

With the help and approval of the Scientific Director each student should select a suitable supervisor, who could be one of the course teachers, or another specialist on the topic chosen, with the approval of the Scientific Director. The person nominated must confirm in writing to the Institute their willingness and availability to provide supervision, especially during the final stages of writing the thesis. Students should keep in contact with the supervisor during the whole period of research and writing. They are required to submit to the supervisor by an agreed deadline a draft Outline of the thesis with section or chapter headings, a statement of the topic, perspective and methodology, and of the main relevant sources identified by the literature review. The supervisor should read and comment on draft chapters or sections, according to an agreed timetable. If the student decides not to follow any of the advice given by the supervisor s/he should explain the reasons to the supervisor. The student must send the supervisor a final draft of the whole thesis no later than 30th August 2012; the supervisor should send comments on this draft within one week of its receipt, and must approve the final draft for submission. The thesis should be of the style and substance of a substantial journal article. The length should be 10-15,000 words, including footnotes and bibliography, but excluding Appendices. The Scientific Director may approve a higher word limit if the candidate presents good reasons, for example related to the recognition of the degree in their own country.

The thesis should normally be written in English. The use of other languages may be approved by the Scientific Director if supervision and examining by persons versed in this language can be arranged. The thesis

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should be typed, must include a Bibliography with a full alphabetical list of all references, and must not exceed the word limit. Penalties may be applied for exceeding the word limit.

The final version of the thesis must be submitted to the Institute no later than 08.30 on 13th September 2012. If the thesis is not submitted by the deadline for a valid and unforeseeable reason, the student may, with the approval of the Institute, submit the thesis by a new approved deadline, for examination in the following year. If a thesis is not submitted by the deadline it may not be marked in time for the student to graduate until the following year. This may entail the student registering again for the course and payment of an additional fee to the UPV/EHU in respect of the thesis module.

Examination and Defence of the Master’s Thesis

The Thesis is examined by an external examiner appointed by the Institute, and the Scientific Director, or a person appointed by him/her. The comments of the supervisor may also be taken into account, especially in the case of a disagreement between the examiners. The defence of the thesis is normally in writing, unless the student specifically requests an oral defence.

Such requests must be submitted in good time for an oral defence to be arranged. If the request is not made before 1st May 2012, it may not be possible to arrange. The oral defence may be by tele-conference.

The written comments of the examiner and the Scientific Director will be sent to the student by the Institute, usually within one week of the submission of the thesis, and at the latest by noon on 19th September. If the student wishes to submit a written defence of the thesis, it must be received by the Institute within one week of the date that the comments were sent to the student, and at the latest by noon on 26th September. The written defence should be succinct, and should address the questions put and issues raised by the examiners. The student will not benefit by, and may be penalised for, excessive length and/or failing to focus on the points raised by the examiners. Arrangements for an oral defence, if requested, will be made individually with the student, but must take place at the latest by 26th September. In addition to the thesis examiners, other examiners in the programme with an expertise in the topic, including the supervisor, may participate in the oral defence.

IISL Library.

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THE RESIDENCE

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ATHE RESIDENCE

short walk from the Institute, our Residence, the Palacio Antia, an elegant 18th century building made available by the town of Oñati, offers comfortable accommodation for students, faculty and

visitors.

In addition to spacious study/bedrooms and two apartments (for the Scientific Director and the Lecturers), the building has a number of common rooms and recreational facilities (fully equipped kitchen, dining room, TV-

DVD, sitting room, billiards room, washing and drying rooms, etc). There is a bank of computers with access to the internet, as well as wireless internet access in the entire building.

The Residence creates an atmosphere in which students, visiting researchers and Fellows, and the distinguished faculty teaching at the Institute can interact informally.

In addition, residents also enjoy free access to the town’s cultural and sports centres, including an indoor swimming pool.

Students and visitors may choose either single or shared rooms.

Current prices*

Shared room Single room Per month / per person Master’s Students € 243.00 € 409.00 Per week / per person Master’s Students € 71.00 € 103.00 Per day / per person Master’s Students € 13.00 € 20.00 Per month / per person Visiting Scholars € 273.00 € 409.00 Per day / per person Visiting Scholars € 20.00 € 27.00

* These prices my change in 2011.

The Palacio Antia, Residence of the IISL. 

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CONTENT OF THE COURSES, TEACHING STAFF

2011-2012

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CALENDAR CALENDAR ECTS TITLE OF THE COURSE

26-30 Sep. 2011 Induction Week Rhetoric, Communication, Negotiation Ulrike Schultz – Fern Universität

3-14 Oct. 2011 3 Lawyers, Empire and Globalization Yves Dezalay - CNRS Mikael Madsen – University of Copenhagen

17-28 Oct. 2011 3 Anthropology of Law & Legal Pluralism André Hoekema, University of Amsterdam

31 Oct.-11 Nov. 2011 3 Socio-Legal Approaches to Rights: The Multicultural Constitution Daniel Bonilla, Universidad de los Andes

14-25 Nov. 2011 3 Law in Global Governance Igor Filibi & Noé Cornago, Universidad del País Vasco

28 Nov.-9 Dec. 2011 3 Theories & Approaches to the Sociology of Law Marina Kurkchiyan, Oxford University

12-23 Dec. 2011 3 Socio-Legal Research Theory and Practice: Quantitative Methods Larry Barnett, Widener University

9-21 Jan. 2012 3 Socio-Legal Research Theory and Practice: Qualitative Methods Pietro Saitta, University of Messina

23 Jan.-3 Feb. 2012 3 Comparative Legal Culture Joxerramon Bengoetxea – Universidad del País Vasco

6-17 Feb. 2012 3 International and European Media Regulation Lucia Bellucci – University of Milan

20 Feb.-2 Mar. 2012 3 Dispute Settlement & Adjudication Luigi Cominelli, University of Milan Bernard Hubeau, Antwerp University

5-16 Mar. 2012 3 Comparative & International Criminology Susanne Karstedt, Leeds University

19-30 Mar. 2012 3 Law & Economic Regulation David Campbell, University of Durham Sol Picciotto, Lancaster University

Oct. 2011-Mar. 2012 4 Thesis Seminar & Tutorials Oñati IISL Scientific Director and Visiting Fellows

Apr.-Sep. 2012 20 Research Project & Master’s Thesis

TOTAL CREDITS 60

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TEACHING STAFF AND COURSES Yves DEZALAY

Directeur de recherches at the C.N.R.S. (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) in Paris, senior researcher of the Centre de Sociologie Européenne founded by Pierre Bourdieu. Affiliated scholar of the

American Bar Foundation. Main research focus the internationalization of the legal field in relation with other professional fields of expertise, working mainly with Bryant Garth. Together they have written or edited six books, including Dealing in virtue: International Commercial Arbitration and the Emergence of an International Legal Order (1996), The Internationalization of Palace Wars : Lawyers, Economists and the Contest for Latin American States (2002) and Asian Legal Revivals: Lawyers-Compradors and Colonial Strategies in the Reshaping of Asian States (2010).

Mikael Rask MADSEN Professor of European Law and Integration at the Faculty of Law, and Director of the Centre for the Study in Legal Culture at the University of Copenhagen. Law degree from the University of Copenhagen

(1998), MA Sociology of Law (IISL 1997), DEA Sociology (1999) and Docteur en sociologie (2005) EHESS, Paris. His research has focused on the internationalisation and globalisation of law and legal practices, including large-scale projects concerned with 1) Analysing the rise of human rights as a new form of legal knowledge in Europe following WWII; and 2) Developing a reflexive sociology of the internationalisation of law, with publications in leading international journals in France and the US. Recent publications include: La genèse de l’Europe des droits de l’homme (2010).

Lawyers, Empire and Globalization Lawyers serve as brokers for social, economic, and political interests linked to both processes of Empire building and globalization, while mainstream research tends to argue that lawyers simply convert those interests into legal arguments, we assert that they are not neutral in these processes. Lawyers construct their own entrepreneurial space by combining different kinds of assets. In addition to representing concrete social, economic, and political interests, lawyers invest in more symbolic assets associated with knowledge and virtue. Lawyers may serve as state architects, seeking typically to moderate the power of those they serve, but they also serve as diplomats or brokers between different states, including colonizing and colonized states or competing hegemonic powers on the world stage, and between entities such as church and state. The course aims to conceptualize the link between law, lawyers and State-building, understand how law and empire are connected, analyze the major imperial modes of production (for example European and US), and examine the importance of legal actors in processes of globalization.

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Ulrike SCHULTZ Qualified as a lawyer, is a Senior Academic at the FernUniversität Hagen, Germany, (the German distance-teaching university) Former Head of the Law Faculty's Teaching and Learning Unit

specialised in media work; teaching gender and law in the law faculty; communication trainer for lawyers and the judiciary. She has organised further education programmes, such as Law Related Education, Women and Law, Legal Skills Training, and Virtual International Gender studies. Board member of the German Sektion für Rechtssoziologie, of the RCSL and of the IISL in Onati. Head of the RCSL Working Group on Legal Professions and of the Group on "Women/Gender in the Legal Profession", current projects "Gender and Judging", “Gender and Judicial Education” and “Women in Global Practices: Large Law Firms and Perspectives on Gender”. Member of the International Advisory Board of the International Journal of the Legal Profession, co-editor of the German Handbook for Equal Opportunities Work, editor of handbooks on Women and Law, Images of Women, Women and the Demographic Change, Women´s Rights in Europe, Women in the World´s Legal Professions (together with Gisela Shaw) etc.

Rhetoric, Communication, Negotiation The course is designed to stimulate the group building process in the induction week. It gives a theory based, but practice oriented, interactive introduction into the relevant aspects of communication with practical applications in negotiation and mediation, and exercises in rhetoric and self presentation including as methods video-feedback and role plays.

André HOEKEMA André Hoekema studied law as well as sociology in Utrecht, got his Ph.D. in Amsterdam, and since 1978 has been a full professor in the Universiteit van Amsterdam, now holding a chair in Legal Pluralism.

His recent work especially concerns problems of multi-ethnic states, particularly the legal position of indigenous peoples and of minority communities. At home he studies multicultural tendencies in family law and other legal fields, abroad he addresses legal pluralism and its place within development policies, concentrating on matters like land and territorial rights, legal reform, and ways to “pluralize” the state and its legal order, mostly in Latin American and some African countries. He calls himself a legal anthropologist, a discipline which first and foremost is oriented to empirical observation and analysis which by the way can be very useful to engaged lawyers. Recent publications include co-edited books Legalising Land Rights; Local Practices, State Responses and Tenure Security in Africa, Asia and Latin America, 2009; Legal Practice and Cultural Diversity, 2009; The Challenge of Diversity, Indigenous peoples Multicultural interlegality and Reform of the State in Latin America 2000; and an article; “Multicultural conflicts and national judges: a general approach”, Law, Social Justice and Global Development 2008/2. Anthropology of Law & Legal Pluralism The course will cover old and new forms of empirical, real life legal pluralism, as well as ways in which such pluralism occasionally has been recognized by official, state law, producing a legal phenomenon: formal legal pluralism. This latter pluralism implies collective, or “group” rights for distinct communities or peoples, like indigenous peoples. Attention will be paid to the ways in which the relations between state law and

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“local law” are regulated by so called internal conflict rules and how these rules (if put into practice) affect the local life of the distinct communities and even sometimes frustrate their recognition. Particularly in the field of land rights we meet a striking plurality of local, unofficial, and official ways of regulation. Research will be presented to illustrate this plurality and to discuss the complex interaction between local and national regulatory regimes. In European countries judges, public administrators and school teachers sometimes take cultural differences into account when confronted with claims based on legal sensibilities of people belonging to immigrant communities. Examples will be presented partly drawing on official court cases but also on studies of the practice of e.g. child protection agencies. Whatever the official position of local (non state) legal institutions, as a matter of fact elements of official law and aspects of non state law mutually affect each other. This is called interlegality. Case studies will be presented to study ways and conditions of this interaction. Daniel BONILLA

Associate Professor, Universidad de los Andes School of Law, Bogotá, Colombia. Law degree, Universidad de los Andes (1994), LL.M. (1998), and J.S.D.

(2005), Yale Law School. Director of the Public Interest Law Group of Universidad de los Andes. Recent publications include Democracia Participativa, Justicia Colectiva y Medio

Ambiente, and La Constitución Multicultural. Socio-Legal Approaches to Rights: The Multicultural Constitution The course will relate the work of contemporary political theorists on multiculturalism to the work of the Colombian Constitutional Court on intercultural relations, as well as to the recent constitutional processes that ended with the new Constitutions of Ecuador and Bolivia. Colombia’s constitutional norms on cultural diversity are among the most progressive in Latin America, so to study the Colombian case is to study the way in which many legal experts and politicians believe that Latin American cultural minorities should be accommodated. Similarly, to understand adequately the dynamics of multiculturalism in contemporary Latin America, we have to comprehend how intercultural relations are regulated in Ecuador’s and Bolivia’s new Political Charters. The course will also compare the experiences of Colombia, Bolivia and Ecuador with those of liberal democracies in the Global North, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. The course will evaluate if political theorists have adequately confronted the problem of radical difference and jurists have found a conceptually coherent framework within which to work out conflicting demands that emerge in culturally diverse liberal democracies. It will use a critical analysis of political theory to derive a set of theoretical tools with which first to organize and appraise the Constitution and judicial opinions, and then to point the way forward to a genuinely multicultural constitutionalism.

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Igor FILIBI Assistant professor of International Relations in the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), PhD in Political Sciences and Sociology (UPV/EHU 2004). He has been a

researcher in the EUROREG Project (funded by the European Commission), and director of an international research project on transnational constitutionalism and its link with the emergence of a global civil society, involving the UPV/EHU and several Argentinian, Peruvian, Italian and Spanish universities. Publications include co-edited books La gobernanza global como desafío democrático: conceptos y perspectivas (2009), El constitucionalismo transnacional (2009).

Noé CORNAGO Associate Professor of International Relations at the UPV/EHU, director of the Master´s in International

Decentralized Cooperation: Peace and Development. He has

widely published on diplomacy, multilateralism, development cooperation, and the international relations of constituent units. He has held visiting positions at Ohio State University and University of Idaho in United States; Université Laval in Quebec, Canada; Institute for Political Studies/Sciences Po Bordeaux in France; and the Free University of Colombia. He has promoted a number of decentralized partnerships with various UN institutions.

States, Markets, Societies and Global Governance This course aims to provide a systematic and critical introduction to the ongoing debate about the role of law in global governance. It begins with a preliminary discussion about what can be called global problems, which by their very nature and scope seem to justify a complex transition from the conventional understanding of international politics and law, tailored to Nation-States, towards a new architecture of global governance. In that new context, new public and private actors compete, through a wide variety of formal and informal processes, giving form to a new plural, and increasingly fragmented, regulatory landscape. The course will also analyze how a new interplay between State, market and societal forces is shaping these new global regulatory processes, and will discuss critically its main functional and normative challenges.

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Marina KURKCHIYAN Fellow of Wolfson College, she is a sociologist specialising in comparative legal cultures, the post-communist transition, and the impact of development issues on

the rule of law. She has degrees in physics and mathematics from Yerevan State University, and a PhD in sociology from the Lithuanian Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Law in Vilnius; she did post-doctoral work at the London School of Economics. She has conducted research in many European and Central Asian countries, with particular emphasis on Russia and the roles of law, mediation and informal practices in resolving conflicts. Since 2007 she has been working on “Legal Cultures in Transition: The Impact of European Integration”, a large-scale international project, analysing the extent to which legal cultures in Europe are adjusting to each other as integration proceeds. Recent publications include “Russian Legal Culture: An Analysis of Adaptive Response to an Institutional transplantation”, Law & Social Inquiry 2009; “Perception of Law and Social Order: A Cross-National Comparison of Collective Legal Consciousness”, Wisconsin International L. J. 2010; (co-edited with Denis J. Galligan) Law and Informal Practices: The Post-Communist Experience (2003). Theories & Approaches to the Sociology of Law The course will outline the various general approaches to the nature of law in the mainstream social sciences, particularly those of sociology, social theory and jurisprudence. Having established the overall context, the discussion will move on to the analysis of the specific ways in which the different interpretations of law within the separate

disciplines are expressed in the various competing approaches to socio-legal research and commentary. The course will then move on to the survey of the field of socio-legal studies, describing the issues covered, the achievements made, and the problems encountered. The survey will draw on the classic literature of the field so that students can become familiar with it. In the process, the links between the theoretical and the empirical will be explored at length, and methodologies available for socio-legal studies will be explained, illustrated and critiqued. The final two sessions will deal with the relationship between the academic approach to law and the demands of policy-making. To bring that subject to life, the course will focus on the processes of economic, political and social development in the second and third worlds. The discussion will include an exploration of the ways in which theory and the real world interact when confronted by major practical problems.

Larry BARNETT Professor of law at Widener University School of Law in Delaware, he specializes in social science and law as well as in securities law. Professor Barnett was

the founder of the demography journal Population Research and Policy Review, and served as editor-in-chief for its first eleven volumes. He is the author of a forthcoming book titled The Place of Law: The Role and Limits of Law in Society (2011). His previous books include Legal Construct, Social Concept: A Macrosociological Perspective on Law (hardback 1993; paperback 2010) and a casebook Mutual Funds and Federal Regulation: Readings on the Investment Company Act and the Investment Advisers Act.

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Socio-Legal Research Theory and Practice: Quantitative Methods An introduction to quantitative data and their use in social science studies of law-relevant issues. The course will deal in particular with quantitative data from two sources: (i) data obtained from surveys of samples drawn from populations and (ii) data compiled by government and quasi-government agencies. In addition to reading assigned materials, students will complete two projects: (i) a project in which each student will be part of a team that designs a hypothetical sample survey on a law-related topic chosen by the team; and (ii) an individual paper that critiques and offers alternatives to the design of a study in the reading assignments. In the latter project, the student may consider such matters as (i) quantitative indicators that could have been used for each of the independent variables that were included in the study; (ii) additional independent variables that should have been included in the study and quantitative indicators that could have been used for each of them; (iii) limitations that exist in the quantitative indicators that were used or that might have been used, and (iv) possible flaws in the procedures employed to gather data on the dependent variable and on the indicator of each independent variable in the study. Pietro SAITTA

Pietro Saitta obtained his Ph.D. from Urbino University (1973), and is senior lecturer in sociology at the University of Messina (Italy). He has has been research fellow at

CUNY Graduate Center and adjunct professor at Columbia University (New

York), and has worked with WHO and Italian institutions on risk perceptions and environmental abuses in Sicily, Sardinia and Tuscany. Since 2000 he has studied immigration (with a particular focus on Maghreb and Roma communities in Italy), labour markets, prostitution, urban development and environment, family and social politics. He is mostly interested in qualitative methods, ethnography, and constructivist paradigms, and with the strategies of lay actors and the interplays in everyday life. His most recent publications incude Il petrolio e la paura. Popolazioni, spazio e altra economia nelle aree a rischio siciliane (Oil and Fear. Population, Space and Alternative Economy in the Sicilian Areas at Risk) 2010, and “Immigrant Roma in Sicily: The role of the informal economy in producing social advancement” Romani Studies 2010, 20: 17–45. Socio-Legal Research Theory and Practice: Qualitative Methods An introduction to techniques and research styles deployed for investigating social phenomena, using examples from classic studies in the field of law and society, and aiming to provide practical knowledge for conducting empirical research, as well as providing an outlook on the main epistemological principles underlying qualitative approaches to social research. The first part will deal with theories and epistemological approaches, based on classic studies in the field of deviance, urban relationships, and informal economies; the second will focus on practical aspects of empirical research, in particular, in-depth interviews, focus groups, participant observation, cognitive interviews and pre-tests, and a discussion of computer-assisted data analysis.

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Joxerramon BENGOETXEA PhD, University of Edinburgh. Professor of Law, University of the Basque Country where he coordinates the PhD programme in Sociology of Law and teaches in three official Master

programmes. He has been Scientific Director of the Oñati Institute (2005-07), Director of the network ELAP-The Economics of Lifelong Learning (2004-05); Legal Secretary at the European Court of Justice (1993-1998 and 2002-2003), and Deputy Minister for Employment, Labour and Social Security at the Basque Autonomous Government (1998-2001). Publications include The Legal Reasoning of the European Court of Justice (1993), Zuzenbideaz Teoria Kritiko Trinkoa (1993) and La Europa Peter Pan (2005). El constitucionalismo europeo en la encrucijada (2005), and over 100 articles or book chapters on issues of legal reasoning and legal theory, substantive EC law and constitutional law of the EU, the issue of regionalism and governance in the EU, comparative law and legal culture, political philosophy (theory of sovereignty, nationalism and European integration). Comparative Legal Culture Introduction to basic notions about law, legal thinking, the legal order and its sources, the legal professions and legal cultures. Major debates in Comparative law: comparability, adaptation, transplants, influences, convergence, transitions. The concept of law, the idea of a legal culture. Tradition, culture, family. Major legal families in the world. Comparative law, pluralism and anthropology. Basque legal culture. Understanding a foreign legal culture. Elements of a legal culture. Social

systems of order and regulation. How is order maintained in society and what influence does this have on the dominant legal culture? Varieties of legal culture. Presentation and discussion of our own legal cultures; each student will apply the notions discussed in the course to introduce the specific features of their own culture.

Lucia BELLUCCI Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Law and Legal Anthropology at the University of Milan Law School. She graduated in law from Bologna, holds a postgraduate degree in

Economics and Management of Cultural Industries from Bocconi, a PhD in Sociology of Law from Milan as well as a PhD in Law from Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne (mention: très honorable avec félicitations du jury) and has been Visiting Researcher at the Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies. She has researched and published on Media Law in Context (European, international and comparative), and Law and Anthropology. Her publications on media include: Film Support in the EU: the Uteca Case and the Future Challenges for the ‘Main Characters’ (chapter, forthcoming); Droit, cinéma et société: enjeux européens et internationaux (chapter, forthcoming); a jointly authored Study Paper on The WTO System and the implementation of the UNESCO Convention: two case studies (contribution to a Study for the European Parliament) (2010), available at http://www.diversitystudy.eu; ‘National Support for Film Production in the EU’, European Law Journal, 2/2010; Cinema e aiuti di Stato nell’integrazione europea. Un diritto promozionale in Italia e in Francia, Giuffrè, Milano 2006.

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International and European Media Regulation The media are capable both of representing the society from which they emerge as well as making a powerful impact on shaping society’s behaviours and values. This course aims to develop a critical approach to media regulation, exploring the social, political, cultural, and, to some extent, economic contexts of international and European media law. Particularly, it examines the underlying conflicts and the main forms of dispute treatment. It focuses primarily on cinema and television, in the broadest sense implied by recent technological developments. Giving the broad picture of media regulation it will underline the part which was adopted as the result of international relations and negotiations in the World Trade Organization (WTO), and highlight how some emerging economies in Asia and Latin America have now become crucial parties to media negotiations, while the EU remains an important player, which must strengthen its unity through the while building its international role. Topics will include (i) cinema and television as ‘litigious lovers’, (ii) the challenges of technological developments in the digital age, (iii) international negotiations on audiovisual services; (iv) cultural diversity and the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, (v) State aid to cinematographic and other audiovisual works, (vi) media concentration as a threat to cultural pluralism and freedom of expression.

Susanne KARSTEDT Susanne Karstedt is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Leeds, School of Law, Centre for Criminal Justice Studies. Her research

and publications focus on cross-cultural

and cross national studies of crime and justice. Her themes for comparative research are violence; crimes of the respectable middle classes (comparison between Germany and Britain); corruption and crimes of the powerful; imprisonment and prison conditions. She is presently publishing a book on democracy, crime and justice. Other fields of research and writing are transitional justice and genocide and mass atrocities. She is preparing a project on the prevention of genocide and mass atrocities, and on extremely violent societies. Comparative & International Criminology This course will introduce students to one of the most recent and exciting fields in crime and justice research. Crime and justice are becoming globalised, however they are simultaneously rooted in local traditions. The course will cover two fields of inquiry: comparative perspectives, and transnational crime and international criminal justice. Students will be introduced to comparative perspectives in crime and justice research, including international data sets and comparative methods. We will consider why some countries have higher crime rates than others, how fear of crime differs between countries, and why there are huge differences in criminal justice, including capital punishment. The study of transnational crime comprises organised crime and corruption, trafficking, illegal markets, terrorism and genocide. We will analyse international instruments in fighting and preventing such crimes, the role of NGOs and of international criminal justice and its institutions.

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Luigi COMINELLI Luigi Cominelli is Lecturer in Sociology of Law and ADR Systems at the University of Milano Statale, and teaches Sociology of the Public Administration at the

Insubria University of Como (Law School). He received his J.D. (2000, cum laude) and his Ph.D. (2004, Sociology of law) from the University of Milano Statale. In 2004, he has been Visiting Fellow at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and at the University of Wollongong Law School (Australia). He has published a book and several articles and book chapters on ombudsmen, negotiation and dispute resolution. He is Vice-President of the Research Committee for the Sociology of Law and a member of the Governing Board of the IISL.

Bernard HUBEAU Full professor in Sociology and Sociology of Law in the Faculty of Law of the University of Antwerp since 2008, where he teaches Sociology and Sociology of Law, Urban Planning Law and Legal Aspects of

the Administration-Citizen Relation, as well as Legal Aspects of Social Work in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Antwerp, and Sociology of Law at the University of Brussels (Faculty of Law and Criminology). He is the former Ombudsman of the City of Antwerp (1996-1999) and of the Flemish Parliament (1999-2007). He was professor at the University of Utrecht (Netherlands) from 1991 to 1996 and Lecturer in a School for Architecture and a School of Police Studies. He is editor in chief of the Journal Juristenkrant and of the Review of Urban Planning Law, as well as president of a Social Housing Company and a member of the Bureau of Integrity of the city of Antwerp. His many publications include L’ombudsman en Belgique après une décennie (2002).

Dispute Settlement & Adjudication An introduction to theories and procedures of conflicts, disputes and their settlement. It will include (i) taxonomies of judges, arbitrators, mediators and administrators, (ii) methods of resolution: negotiation, mediation, arbitration, adjudication, (iii) multidisciplinary approaches including procedural justice studies, sociobiology and evolutionary analysis, fairness agressiveness and cooperation, and game theories, and (iv) emerging methods such as online resolution and conflict managements systems. Special attention will be given in the first week to Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), including the revival of informal justice, the risks of justice privatisation, and when and why adjudication fails. The second week will focus on Ombudsmen, including the historical background and evolution, functions and characteristics, level of organisation (local, regional, national, European, international) and sectors (private, public), examples and a workshop on specific complains, and a comparison of the Ombudsman with traditional adjudication.

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David CAMPBELL Professor of International Business Law, School of Law, University of Leeds. BSc(Econ) Cardiff University UK (1980), LLM, University of Michigan School of Law (1985), PhD University of Edinburgh (1985).

Main recent books: The Implicit Dimensions of Contract (with H Collins and J Wightman, eds, 2003), Remedies in Contract and Tort (with D Harris and R Halson, 2002), and an edited collection of the works of Ian Macneil: IR Macneil, The Relational Theory of Contract (2001). Main current research interests: remedies for non-performance of contractual obligations and in regulatory theory, and particularly in the development of a ‘non-Chicagoan’ law and economics of these subjects. Currently working on a book restating the relational theory of contract and a book on Coase’s critique of intervention.

Sol PICCIOTTO Sol Picciotto is emeritus professor of Lancaster University and has been Scientific Director of the IISL 2009-11. He went to university in Oxford and Chicago, has taught

at Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), Warwick and Lancaster (UK), and been a visiting fellow in Nagoya University and a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute. He has written widely on theories of state, law and economic regulation, and his most recent book is Regulating Global Corporate Capitalism (2011).

Law & Economic Regulation Beginning with a close reading of Ronald Coase’s seminal article on ‘The Problem of Social Cost’, this course will evaluate, from a socio-legal perspective, the current state of the theory of regulation. The central concepts of welfare economics and regulatory law which are used to justify state intervention in the economy, such as the externality, the social cost and the public good, will be considered. The shortcomings of `market-mimicking´or `market-friendly´ regulation will be considered , using examples such as carbon trading, financial market regulation and intellectual property rights.