Legal Pluralism - Kunming, China

The Commission on Legal Pluralism holds its next conference, Legal Pluralist Perspectives on Humanity, Development and Cultural Diversity, July 15-23, 2008, in Kunming, China.

Islamic Finance - Cambridge, MA

Harvard Law School - Islamic Legal Studies Program - Islamic Finance Project hosts the Eighth Harvard University Forum on Islamic Finance, “Innovation and Authenticity,” April 19-20, 2008, in Cambridge, MA. The call for papers deadline for abstracts was Sept. 1.

Islamic Legal Studies - Cambridge, MA

Harvard’s Islamic Legal Studies Program hosts the second Law of Waqf Conference May 16-18, 2008. The call for papers deadline is September 30, 2007.

Thanks: Identity Unknown.

Comparative Legal Systems - Athens, the Hague, Brussels, Istanbul

The Australian Institute of Comparative Legal Systems has four conferences coming up in 2008:

• Athens Conference - The Legal System of Greece - April 14-18, 2008
• The Hague Conference - The International Legal System - April 21-25, 208
• The Brussels Conference - The European Union Legal System - September 15-19, 2008
• The Istanbul Conference - The Legal System of Turkey - September 22-26, 2008

August 30, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops

Brooklyn

Steven Dean (Brooklyn Law), The Incomplete Global Market for Tax Information

George Washington

Beate Gsell (Augsburg Law Faculty), Product Liability & Damage to the Product Itself: A Comparison Between Germany and the U.S.

Indiana-Indianapolis

Gerald Magliocca (Indiana-Indianapolis Law)

Iowa

Chris Guthrie (Vanderbilt Law), Inside the Trial Judge’s Mind

Globalizing Secured Credit Law: Current Problems, New Directions

Globalizing Secured Credit Law:  Current Problems, New Directions, at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, California on November 9-10, 2007.

Corporate Governance - Copenhagen

Copenhagen Conference on Control Enhancing Mechanisms in Corporate Governance, September 18, 2007.

The Centre for Economic and Business Research, the European Corporate Governance Institute, and the Copenhagen Business School are organising a free all-day conference on 18 September 2007 to take stock of the issues of surrounding control enhancing mechanisms and their economic impact at the European level and in international comparison. The conference will use the European Commission’s recently published study as basis for the discussion.

Gender, Family - Brighton, UK

Sussex Law School hosts Gender, Family Responsibility and Legal Change Conference 2008 (”An international, interdisciplinary conference), July 10-12, 2008, at Sussex Downs (near Brighton).

Paper proposals will be reviewed in four batches: those received by Sept. 30, 2007, those by Oct. 31, 2007, those by Dec. 31, 2007, and those by April 30, 2008.

Law & Democracy in S. Korea, Taiwan - Madison

“Law & Democratization in S. Korea and Taiwan” hosted by Professor John Ohnesorge (jkohnessorge [a] wisc.edu) of the University of Wisconsin Law School and sponsored by Wisconsin’s Global Legal Studies Initiative and, October 19-20, 2007. Contact Sumudu Atapattu (saatapattu [at] wisc.edu) for details.

South Asian Legal Issues - Madison

South Asian Legal Studies - Pre-Conference Workshop, October 11, 2007, Madison, Wisconsin.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s South Asian Legal Studies Working Group hosts a one-day intensive workshop at the start of the 36th Annual South Asia conference (October 11-14, 2007). The pre-conference will be held at the University of Wisconsin Law School in Madison, WI.

Latin American Competition Law - Sao Paolo

Latin American Competiton Policy Conference, March 21, 2008, Sao Paolo, Brazil. The conference is sponsored by: Fundação Getulio Vargas Law School, Latin American and Caribbean Economics Association, Latin America and Caribbean Law and Economics Association, and University of Missouri - Columbia School of Law.

Call for papers deadline for abstracts is Sept. 5, 2007

IALL in Mumbai

The International Association of Law Libraries offers its 26th Annual Course on International Law Librarianship, Global Challenges & the Indian Legal System, Dec. 1-5, 2007, Mumbai, India.

China Financial Markets - Hong Kong

The Asian Wall Street Journal and O’Melveny and Myers present the 6th Annual China Financial Markets Conference, Nov. 13, in Hong Kong.

Thanks: China Law Blog.

Human Rights - Jerusalem

Constitutional Rights and International Human Rights: Separate But Equal?, Nov. 18-19, 2007, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.

Procedural Law - Brazil

The International Association of Procedural Law (IAPL) - XIIIth World Congress on Procedural Law will be in Salvador/Bahia, Brazil, Sept. 16-20, 2007.

Comparative Law and Culture

Annual Meeting of the American Society of Comparative Law at Cornell University Law School in Ithaca, New York on November 8-10, 2007.

A workshop on Chinese, Japanese, and Korean legal research is being offered in conjunction with the annual meeting (but you don’t have to register for one to attend the other). The presenters are Rob Britt and Bill McCloy from the East Asian Law Department at the Gallagher Law Library, University of Washington School of Law.