2012/2013 PROGRAMME

SOCIO-LEGAL M.A. AT THE OÑATI INSTITUTE

23rd INTERNATIONAL MASTER’S PROGRAMME IN SOCIOLOGY OF LAW

2012/2013 PROGRAMME

Director: Angela Melville Coordinator: Susana Arrese Murguzur

University of the Basque Country representative: Joxerramon Bengoetxea

University of Milan representative: Letizia Mancini

Oñati, May 2012

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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 RULES 16

THE RESIDENCE 23

CONTENT OF THE COURSES, TEACHING STAFF 2012-2013 29

CALENDAR 31

TEACHING STAFF AND COURSES 33

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T THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR T H E SOCIOLOGY OF LAW

The International Institute for the Sociology of Law (IISJ) was founded in 1988 by the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee on the Sociology of Law, and the Basque Government. The IISJ has now become the

home of the international sociology of lsw community.

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 provides accommodation for students & visitors. The Residence is an elegant 18th century building also recently renovated,

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 and in Facebook.

The IISJ runs an international masters programme in sociology of law, hosts workshops and congresses, and the library is now recognised as having the best socio-legal collection in the world.

Antigua Universidad.Cloister.

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ABOUT OÑATI

O 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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O INTRODUCTION

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.

2011-2012 programme students with prof. Joxerramon Bengoetxea and Heike Jung.

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H LISTORY The 2012-2013 academic year will be the twenty-third 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. You can know more about them, and check the titles of their final Master’s thesis on our website, at "Former students of the Master's Programme". The best Master´s these each year are now published in the online Oñati Socio-Legal Series.

Students visiting Mondragon Corporation Center.

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 varied geographical & disciplinary backgrounds, study in a wonderful setting with many of the leading experts in the field. The students come from all over the world: in 2011-12 the 14 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 Sociolegal Studies (Sociology of Law). 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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Master’s students and Friendship programme participants.

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 still 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.

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A PPLICATION PROCEDURES Admision requirements 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 the following address:

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 / T: +34 943 78 30 64 - F: +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 Oñati (Gipuzkoa) Spain

Total tuition fees for the 2012/13 Master's Programme come to €3,000. The remaining €2,700 should be paid into the aforementioned account before the start of the programme in September. 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 €300.

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O RGANIZATION AND EXAMINATION RULES 2012-2013 International Master´s in the Sociology of Law

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 (Aprobado) 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.

Absences and late submission

Students are expected to attend the seminars and other sessions, submit coursework and participate in all courses. Students are also expected to attend classes on time, and course

teachers are entitled to impose a penalty for persistent late attendance. Any absence for any reason must be explained to the course teacher and the Scientific Director, preferably in advance (e.g. by email). A course teacher can penalise, including giving a Fail grade, any student who fails to attend or participate in a course. Students will be required to explain extended absences to the Scientific Director, and to provide evidence as to the reason for their absence (e.g. a medical certificate).

Assessments for each of the taught courses is due on the Saturday immediately following the conclusion of the course at 18:00 pm. Late submission may be penalised by the course teacher. Students who are absence from seminars or fail to submit assessment for good reason (e.g. illness) may be able to submit an alternative piece of assessment with the agreement of the Scientific Director.

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.

Mariana Kiefer Kruchin thesis defense by tele-conference.

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Students’ and Teachers’ Evaluation of the Programme

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.

Research Ethics

Research for the Master Thesis must comply with the ISA Code of Ethics (http://www.isa-sociology.org/about/isa_code_of_ethics.htm). Consideration of ethical issues must be included in the draft Outline of the thesis, and where relevant, should be discussed within the final version of the Masters Thesis.

Good Academic Practice and Plagiarism

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 Seminar

Students are required to attend a weekly seminar intended 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. The Masters Thesis Seminar will usually be conducted on a Wednesday afternoon, and counts for 4 credit. Students will be required to submit a 5000 word essay. The longer essay will allow students to more fully develop a research topic, and it will be important preparation for the Master’s Thesis. The essay will be submitted at the end of the first semester (no later than 15th February). Students will also be required to give a presentation of their proposal for their Masters Thesis research during the second semester. The final grade for the Masters Thesis Seminar will consist of: essay (5000 words, 50% of the final grade); seminar presentation & thesis proposal (1500 words) (30 minutes, 40%); and class participation (10%).

Master´s Thesis

Each student will present to the Scientific Director by the agreed date (normally not later than 15th February 2013) 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 short proposal, 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 1st March 2013 at the latest. Once approved, the main responsibility for advice to the student on the thesis passes to the supervisor. The student

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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, potential ethical issues, 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 2013; 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 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 2013. 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 2013, 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 27th September. The written defence should be succinct, and

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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 27th 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.

Grading of Courses and Master´s Theses

Grades for courses are given a numerical mark out of 10. The grading bands are illustrated in the table below. While we do not apply a grading curve, there is a broad expectation that grades will fall within the following range: top 10% (A), next 25% (B), next 30% (C), next 25% (D).

IISL Grading Scheme

Numerical grade

IISJ description

Criteria ECTS equivalent

9.6-10 Eximia cum laude

Excellent, outstanding, of publishable quality A top 10%

8.6-9.5 Magna cum laude

Very Good, only minor limitations or errors B next 25%

7-8.5 Cum laude Good, above average standard, some limitations or errors C next 30%

5-6.9 Approbatur Satisfactory, generally sound, a number of limitations or errors D next 25%

0-4.9 Fail Inadequate research, significant limitations and errors Fail

IISL Library.

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T HESIS Thesis Supervision and Examination

The IISL’s International Master’s in Sociology of Law consists of 2 components. First,

students attend intensive taught courses from the end of September until late March. Each taught course lasts for 2 weeks, and students must complete 14 courses. Second, students must submit a 15,000 word research thesis at the beginning of September. The following guidelines provide information concerning the Masters Thesis. There are separate guidelines concerning the taught component of the programme.

The thesis

The thesis contributes one-third of the credits for the degree. It is also separately graded, and the grade for the thesis is stated on the certificate of the degree. The thesis should be of the style and substance of a substantial journal article. It has a maximum word length of 15,000 words including footnotes and bibliography, but excluding appendices, and overlength work will penalised. 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 if supervision and examination can be arranged can be arranged.

Thesis Supervision

Each student is appointed an individual supervisor. For the most part, supervisors will be teachers on the Masters Programme, although students wishing to conduct research on a topic that falls outside the taught courses may be appointed an external supervisor. It is possible for students to have co-supervisors. Students may consult teachers for advice about their thesis topic, and may also request

a course teacher to act as supervisor for the thesis. We kindly ask that you accept such a request, and confirm supervision in writing to the Institute.

Supervision entails helping students select a suitable topic, suggesting readings and other sources, discussing the theoretical approach and methodology, supervising the student’s literature review, reading and commenting on drafts, and approving the final draft for submission. Students are asked to keep in regular contact with the supervisor, usually by email/Skype, and to agree a timetable for the various stages, which should allow enough time for the supervisor to comment on drafts.

Supervisors are not asked to examine the thesis, however, we do ask that produce a short report (one page maximum) once the thesis is submitted. The report should include the supervisor’s views on the quality of the thesis (the marking criteria is given below), as well as any issues that the supervisor feels the examiners should take into consideration, eg problems collecting data.

The coursework component of the course is complete by the end of March, and the main period for researching and writing of the thesis is from April to the end of August. However, students are encouraged to start the conceptionalisation of their research early. To facilitate this, students are required to produce a provisional thesis title and short outline (approx. 1000 words), due 17th February. The outline is not assessed, however students will receive detailed comments from the Scientific Director.

In addition, students are required to produce a longer proposal, due 23rd March. The longer proposal provides a brief background to the topic, explains the aims of the research, proposed methodology, identifies potential ethical issues and explains how they will be addressed. The longer proposal will become the basis of the thesis, and will be sent to supervisors for comment.

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In compensation for supervision of a thesis, the Institute offers one week´s free accomodation in a study-bedroom in the Residencia, at a time of your choice (subject to availability).

Important dates for supervision (2013)

February 17th Provisional thesis title and short outline

March 23rd Outline of the thesis

August 30th Final draft sent to supervisor

September 13th Final version of the thesis

September 27th Last date for thesis defence

Thesis seminar programme

In addition to individual supervision, students attend a Thesis Seminar Programme. The course consists of a weekly two hour seminar and one-on-one meetings with the Scientific Director, and is intended to guide students through the process of research. The course covers topics on clarifying aims, searching for literature, writing a research proposal, good academic practice, and conducting ethical research.

The course is assessed. Assessment consists of three components: a long essay on a subject of the student’s choice (50%, due January 19th); oral presentation of research proposals (40%, due February 23rd to 15th March); class participation (10%). The long essay is intended to bridge the gap between the shorter pieces of assessment that are typical of the taught courses and the Masters Thesis. The oral presentations provide students with opportunity to discuss their proposals with their peers, and to receive feedback prior to the finalisation of the Outline of the Thesis.

Examination of Master´s Theses

An external examiner is appointed to each thesis, and it is possible for examiners to mark more than one thesis. In order to

maintain consistency, the Scientific Director also examines every thesis.

The examination process is in two stages:

1. Each examiner evaluates the thesis, gives comments, and sets questions for the student to address in a defence. A provisional grade is given, although this will not be sent to the student.

2. The student then has the opportunity to defend the thesis. The defence is usually done in writing, although an oral defence can be requested. The defence should answer the specific questions posed, and not simply restate the arguments. After reading the defence, the examiners assign a definitive grade. The provisional grade may be raised but not reduced as a result of reading the written defence.

The examiners should try to agree a joint grade, or the average of the two may be awarded. In the case of a significant divergence, the supervisor is asked to comment, and/or the thesis may be sent to a third person for examination.

The thesis is evaluated on the following criterion:

Choice of Topic and Approach: How appropriate is the topic for a sociology of law programme? Were the methodological and theoretical approaches appropriate?

Scholarly Techniques: Are the structure and expression effective and appropriate? Does the thesis read well? Does the thesis deploy an appropriate range of both primary and secondary sources? Are the sources properly cited and referenced? If the thesis presents an original piece of empirical work, how well is this organised and presented?

Substance: Are the arguments and analyses put forward cogent and convincing? Do they take account of the main relevant work on the chosen topic, and show a good grasp of them? Does the thesis advance an effective critique of existing work or an alternative perspective?

THE RESIDENCE OF

THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE SOCIOLOGY OF LAW

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THE RESIDENCE

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S tudents are generally lodged in the IISL Residencia Antia in Oñati. The Residence was generously made available by the town of Oñati for our use. It is a historic building dating from the 18th Century,

so it is very important that we take good care of it. There is no porter, so residents must take some responsibility for security and dealing with service emergencies. Also, since residents must live there all together, they need to agree to and respect some basic norms.

The Residence has 22 ensuite rooms, as well as a TV room, computer room, communal kitchen, dining and other rooms, and washing and drying facilities. Staying in the Residence is subject to payment, including a deposit, and compliance with the house rules.

As the Residence does not have a receptionist, you will be provided with a code to enter the building. In the lobby you will find a folder with your name. The folder contains your room key, the Master’s programme, as well as information about Oñati.

Payment

Students can opt to have a single or to share a room. In circumstances where a student paying for a shared room, the Institute can organise two students to occupy the room. Students cannot occupy a single room unless they have paid the single room rate.

The price* per person in a single room is 409 euros per month and the price per person sharing a double room is 243 euros per month.

Price for the stay in

September and in April (for Master’s Students)

Per day Per week

Single Room 20 € 103 €

Shared Room / per person 13 € 71 €

* These prices may change in 2013. From October to March, those staying at the Residence will pay the whole month.

Those students who want to stay at the Residence for some days after the end of the programme (27th March 2013) in order to work at the library should inform the Administration before the March 1st.

Room bills must be paid by the fifth of each month. If payment is not made on time, the Institute will assume that the room is no longer desired and the occupant will be expected to move out immediately. Payment should be made at the IISL Administration.

Residence charges cover the provision of sheets, blankets, pillows and towels, which are changed and the bedroom cleaned once a week. On that day rooms must be vacated and tidy before 10:00 a.m.

Deposit

At the beginning of the academic year, each student will have to pay one month's rent as a deposit (even those who have received grants). Some or all of this deposit may be withheld at the end of the student’s stay to cover damage or breakages, or additional cleaning costs. Please note, that it is therefore not possible to count the deposit against the rent of the last month.

Security

Please ensure all outside doors are closed unless they are in use. This includes the doors from the dining room to the balcony, which must be locked at night. There have been break-ins in the past through these doors.

Additional Visitors

Occupants who have rooms to themselves may wish to share the room with someone who is not a IISJ student. They should inform the administration at least one week beforehand. They need to fill in a form, and the amount to be paid by the visitor will be decided by the administration office. Visitors must be approved, and they must also pay for the use of the Residence.

Visitors will stay in the rooms designated by the administration. Students will remain in the same rooms they had occupied before the arrival of the visitors.

Other Common Rooms

All rooms may be used for work, leisure and receiving visitors. Since the Residence belongs to the City Council, residents are asked to keep it in good condition at all times. Please: − do not leave your books, glasses or

other belongings strewn around in the common rooms;

− only eat in the dining room. Cleanliness is extremely important for the upkeep of the Residence and for your own wellbeing;

− do not place hot or wet utensils, cups or glasses directly on woodwork.

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The Residence also has washing machines for you to do your laundry. Please keep it tidy, for instance, recycle used detergent boxes.

Noise can be a problem in the Residence, especially at night; as it travels easily especially through the floors. Any noisy activities, e.g. playing pool, should cease at 11.00 pm. Late night parties should only be

organised with the agreement of other residents.

Central Heating

The central heating is switched on as soon as the weather starts to get cold. There are no thermostats, so comfortable temperatures in the common areas and bedrooms depend on turning radiators down or off. The attic is not heated in winter for security reasons, but is usually warm from the general house heating.

Kitchen

No meals are provided, but residents can use the shared kitchen, including refrigerators. Several restaurants offer a 3 course menu in the middle of the day for about 11€ (evening meals are more expensive), and several bars/cafés have snacks (pintxos). Students also have access to the student restaurant in the Business School of the Mondragon University, which is 200 m from the IISL and is open during the day.

The kitchen should be cleaned after each time it is used. Garbage should be recycled in the bins provided in the streets. We suggest that the class organise a weekly timetable for cleaning the kitchen, taking out the garbage, and possibly cooking.

Environment, energy and safety

Please switch off lights in rooms which are not in use, i.e. bedrooms, common rooms, toilets. Some of the lights are linked to exhaust systems, which break down if left on for long periods.

No smoking is allowed in the Residence.

There are smoke alarms which will trigger a fire alarm if smoke is detected. The control panel for the fire alarm is in the small room by the downstairs corridor (on the right with your back to the main door).

The hot water and central heating system boilers are located on the ground floor. A minimum of two residents should volunteer to learn how these systems can be restarted in case they go out.

Telephone calls

For internal calls simply lift the receiver and dial the number (from 101 to 132).

External calls may be received directly in the rooms if the person who is calling presses the room number (three figures) while the music is playing.

You can make national as well as

international calls from your room telephone. For outside phone calls, lift the receiver, dial ‘0’ followed by the telephone number. For international phone calls you must dial ‘0’ to obtain the external line + ‘00’ wait for a long tone + the country code + phone number.

Telephone bills for each room will be provided at the end of each month and must be paid by the fifth of the following month. Where a room is occupied by two students, students need to allocate charges between them, but one payment must be made to the Institute (the bills show the date and numbers called).

Maintenance problems

If you have any maintenance problems, please contact the Administrative Director, José Antonio Goyenaga during office hours or complete the pink sheet you will find in your room.

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The Palacio Antia, Residence of the IISL. 

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CONTENT OF THE COURSES, TEACHING STAFF

2012-2013

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CALENDAR CALENDAR ECTS TITLE OF THE COURSE

24-28 Sept. 2012 Rhetoric, Communication, Negotiation Ulrike Schultz – Fern Universität

1-12 October 2012 3 Comparative Legal Culture Joxerramon Bengoetxea, Universidad del País Vasco

15-26 October 2012 3 Theories & Approaches to the Sociology of Law Angela Melville, University of the Basque Country

29 Oct.-9 Nov. 2012 3 Law and Anthropology André Hoekema, University of Amsterdam

12-23 Nov. 2012 3 Socio-Legal Research Theory and Practice: Qualitative Methods Maggie Walter, University of Tasmania

26 Nov.-7 Dec. 2012 3 International Criminology: Globalisation, Crime and Justice Susanne Karstedt, Leeds University

10-21 Decemb.’12 3 Socio-Legal Research Theory and Practice: Quantitative Methods Larry Barnett, Widener University

7-18 January 2013 3 Socio-Legal Approaches to Rights: The Multicultural Constitution Daniel Bonilla, Universidad de los Andes

21 Jan.-1 Febr. 2013 3 International and European Media Regulation Lucia Bellucci, Università di Milano

4-15 February 2013 3 Studies in Civil Justice Ted Wright, University of Newcastle, Australia

18 Febr.-1 March’13 3 Sociolegal perspectives on housing law Caroline Hunter, York University, UK

4-15 March 2013 3 Professional Actors of the Legal System: Judges, Lawyers and Scholars Rogelio Pérez Perdomo, University of Stanford

18-27 March 2013 3 Gender, Racialization and Law: Sexual Regulation Deborah Brock, York University, Canada

Oct. 2012-March 2013 4 Thesis Seminar & Tutorials Oñati IISL Scientific Director and Visiting Fellows

April-September 2013 20 Research Project & Master´s Thesis

TOTAL CREDITS 60

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TEACHING STAFF AND COURSES Ulrike SCHULTZ

Ulrike Schultz, qualified as a lawyer, is a Senior Academic at the FernUniversität in 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 at the law faculty; communication trainer for lawyers and the judiciary. She has set up and organised several 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. Chair of the RCSL Working Group on Legal Professions,  Head of the "Women/Gender in the Legal Profession" Group. 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 (hand-)books on Women and Law, Images of Women, Women and the Demographic Change, Women´s Rights in Europe; Women in the World´s Legal Professions, Gender and Judging (together with Gisela Shaw) etc.

Rhetoric, Communication, Negotiation The design of the course is to give students practical experience in rhetoric, self presentation, communication including negotiation and mediation. The course offers findings from communication theory, communication psychology, (personnel) management studies and sociology of law.

Aims of the course This course does not  contribute to the overall assessment of the Masters programme. Nevertheless, it is an important component of the programme.

The aims are: - to get acquainted right from the beginning

of the master course - to learn about self perception, social

perception and perception of the other - to enhance presentation skills - to get an insight into the basic principles of

communication drawing on various theoretical concepts,

- to train communication skills - to learn and practice techniques of

negotiation - to try out counselling skills and conversation

techniques needed in mediation The course will also make students reflect about difficulties – strongholds, problems – advantages of different methods of conflict solution.

Joxerramon BENGOETXEA PhD, University of Edinburgh.Professor of Law, University of the Basque Country where he coordinates the PH D 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),

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Zuzenbideaz Teoria Kritiko Trinkoa (1993) and La Europa Peter Pan. 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 soverreignty,nationalism and European integration).

Comparative Legal Culture The purpose of this course is to introduce basic notions about law, legal thinking, the legal order and its sources, the legal professions and legal cultures. Some of the major debates in Comparative law will be dealt with - comparability, adaptation, transplants, influences, convergence, transitions. At the end of the intensive, one-week course each student should be able to make a presentation about their own legal culture. 1. Introduction to Legal Cultures Try to indentify what experiences you've had with the law, with the courts, and lawyers. 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 2. Understanding a Foreign Legal Culture Experiences: think of how difficult it seems to understand other legal cultures and other laws 3. Elements of a Legal Culture Which would you say are the main elements of your legal culture and to what extent do they depend on or do they transcend the existing laws? 4. Social Systems of Order and Regulation How is order maintained in society and what influence does this have on the dominant legal culture? 5. Varieties of Legal Cultures 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.

Angela MELVILLE Angela Melville is the current Scientific Director of the International Institute for Sociology of Law, and is also a Senior Lecturer in the Law School, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia. Her teaching

focuses on socio-legal research methods, sociology of law, and child law. Her main research interests include the provision of the legal services, sociology of the legal profession, compensation law, family and child law, and socio-legal research methods. Her most recent research has involved examining the experiences of clinical negligence claimants (Nuffield Foundation, Scottish Executive), professional negligence claims against solicitors (Scottish Legal Complaints Commission) and the structure of the Faculty of Advocates, Scotland. Angela has held previous posts at the School of Law, University of Manchester, and was a Senior Research Associate at the Newcastle Centre for Family Studies, University of Newcastle upon Tyne. She was also the Deputy Director at the Justice Policy Research Centre, University of Newcastle, Australia and worked as a researcher with the Justice Research Centre, Sydney. She holds a PhD from the University of Newcastle, Australia, in sociology and anthropology.

Theories & Approaches to the Sociology of Law This course investigations the operation of law as a social institution. It examines the main bodies of social thought, including functionalist, critical, poststructural, and feminist theories which attempt to explain the relationship between law and society.

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Course Content 1. Introduction: Social foundations of law 2. Law and social cohesion: Emile

Durkheim 3. A conflict perspective of law: Marxist

approaches 4. Law, social change and rationalisation:

Max Weber 5. Contrasting functionalism and conflict

perspectives: Adler vs Chambliss 6. Law and communicative action: Jurgen

Habermas 7. The juridical field: Pierre Bourdieu 8. Law and governmentality: Michel

Foucault 9. Feminism and the law: Carol Smart

André HOEKEMA André Hoekema studied law as well as sociology in The Netherlands (Utrecht) and got his Ph.D. in Amsterdam. From 1978 onwards he had a full professorship in Sociology of Law in the law faculty of the

Universiteit van Amsterdam, and now holds a chair in Legal Pluralism. The last 15 years or so he is paying special attention to 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 and philosophies, 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: Janine M. Ubink, André J. Hoekema, Willem J. Assies (eds.), Legalising Land Rights; Local Practices,

State Responses and Tenure Security in Africa, Asia and Latin America, Leiden University press, 2009; Ralph Grillo, R. Ballard, A.Ferrari, A.J. Hoekema, M. Maussen & P.Shaw (eds), Legal practice and cultural diversity, Farnham UK, Ashsgate, 2009; A.J. Hoekema, (guest editor) (2005), Multicultural interlegality, Special issue of the Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law N0. 51, 2005 (ed. in chief Gordon R. Woodman), Lit Verlag, Berlin; André J. Hoekema,(2008), Multicultural conflicts and national judges: a general approach, In Law, Social Justice and Global Development (LGD), special issue on Legal Pluralism within the Nation State (edited by Fauzia Shariff), 2008/2 This is an electronic journal. See http://www.go.warwick.ac.uk/elj/lgd/2008_2/hoekema; Assies, Willem, Gemma van der Haar, André Hoekema (eds.) (2000), The challenge of Diversity, Indigenous peoples and reform of the state in Latin America, Amsterdam. Rozenberg Publ, 2000; Law Faculty, P.O.Box 1030, 1000 BA Amsterdam, The Netherlands Phone 31 20 5253970 or 31 20 5253905 (secr.) Mail: a.j.hoekema@uva.nl

Law & Anthropology After discussing general aspects of legal anthropology, the course will deal with old and new forms of de facto (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 in the hands of distinct communities or peoples, like indigenous peoples. Attention will be paid to the ways in which the relations between state law and “local law” are regulated by so called internal conflict rules and how these rules (if put into practice) affect local life of the distinct communities and even sometimes frustrates the 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.

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In European countries judges, public administrators and school masters sometimes take cultural differences into account when confronted with claims based on legal sensibilities from people belonging to of 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 local non state mutually affect each other. This is called interlegality. Case studies will be presented to study ways and conditions of this interaction.

Maggie WALTER Maggie Walter (PHD) is an Associate Professor in the School of Sociology and Social Work at the University of Tasmania, Australia, where she teaches and researches in the areas of social research methods,

family, Indigeneity and race relations. Her books include the best selling Australian text; Social Research Methods (Ed. 2006:2010) and Social Inequality in Australia: Discourses, Realities and Futures (co-authored with D. Habibis 2008). Maggie, a descendant of the trawlwoolway people of north-eastern Tasmania, also teaches and writes on methodologies, annually co-convening (with A. Moreton-Robinson) a Masterclass on Indigenous Research Methodologies. Her socio-legal related research includes a study gauging the effectiveness of juries in combating public misconceptions of crime rates and a study of workers' compensation claimants' interaction with workplace injury legislation

Socio-Legal Research Theory and Practice: Qualitative Methods Socio-legal research gathers, analyses and interprets data relating to the law and legal

systems. To teach you how socio-legal research can be, and is, deployed, this course contains two modules. The first covers the basic of social research (of which socio-legal research is a subset) and provides you with key skills for understanding, critically evaluating, interpreting, designing, and developing rigorous and ethical research practice. The second module teaches you how to select and apply a range of contemporary qualitative skills and research methods within your own research. These include: qualitative sampling; the interviewing process; in-depth and narrative interviewing; focus groups: content analysi; Indigenous methodologies; ethnographic research; and qualitative analysis and result presentation. Both modules use case studies to contextualise and provide examples of how socio-legal research operates in the field and demonstrate the many different method and methodological options available for conducting valid qualitative socio-legal research.

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. Presently she is preparing a project on the prevention of genocide and mass atrocities, and on extremely violent societies.

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International Criminology: Globalisation, Crime and Justice This course will introduce students to one of the most recents and exciting fields in crime and justice research. Crime and justice are becoming globalised, however they are simultaneously rooted in local traditions. The transnational flows of illegal goods and services, trafficking in drugs, human beings and arms are recognized as major, threats to the international community. Globalization has come with a proliferation of international criminal justice and legal instruments to combat transnational crime, and simultaneously deepened the "security and justice gap" between the Global North and South. Globalization has engendered as much universality as variety in crime and justice accross the globe. The course will introduce students to the field of global crime and justice and unpack the relationship between globalization, crime and justice. As globalization brings differences to the fore, we need new comparative perspectives; as it increases illegal and legal flows of goods, services and humans, we need new perspectives and instruments of analysis. Theories from the South confront and question established criminological thinking in the North. Students will be introduced to comparative perspectives in crime and justice research: We will find explanations, why some countries have higher crime rates than others, and why there are huge differences in criminal justice, including capital punishment. Students will analyse in which ways crime and justice problems in their countries are linked to globalization and its impact. They will analyse different types of transnational crimes like human trafficking, or transnational white collar crime and corruption. We will analyse international instruments in fighting and preventing such crimes, the role of NGOs and of international criminal justice and its institutions. The international group of students will provide a unique learning environment for comparative and global perspectives on crime and justice.

Larry BARNETT Larry Barnett is professor of law at Widener University School of Law in Delaware, specializing 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 the book 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.

Socio-Legal Research Theory and Practice: Quantitative Methods The course will provide an introduction to quantitative data and their use in social science research on law-relevant issues. In particular, the course will deal 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. Reading assignments in the course will include studies that have employed quantitative data on issues pertinent to law. 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 applies the principles of research design required for an accurate assessment of the effect(s) of law. In the latter project, the principles learned from one study in the reading assignments will be used to redesign another study in the reading assignments.

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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. Yet, the course will not focus only in Latin America. In the course, we will compare the experiences of Colombia, Bolivia and Ecuador with those of liberal democracies in the Global North, like the United States and Canada. In sum, 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. Lucia BELLUCCI

Lucia Bellucci is an Assistant Professor at the University of Milan, Law School. She is a Visiting Professor at the University of Montréal, Law School (CRDP) and has been Visiting

Researcher at the Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies. She holds a PhD in Sociology of Law from the University of Milan as well as a PhD in Law from the University of Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne (mention: très honorable avec félicitations du jury à l’unanimité). In addition she holds a postgraduate degree in Economics and Management of Cultural Industries from Bocconi University-SDA and an undergraduate degree in law from the University of Bologna (magna cum laude). She has researched and published on Media Law in Context (European, international and comparative), and Law and Anthropology. Her publications on media include: Droit, cinéma et société: enjeux européens et internationaux (chapter, forthcoming); Film Support in the EU: the Uteca Case and the Future Challenges for the ‘Main Characters’ (chapter); 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

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http://www.diversitystudy.eu; ‘National Support for Film Production in the EU’, European Law Journal, 2/2010, pp. 211-232; Cinema e aiuti di Stato nell’integrazione europea. Un diritto promozionale in Italia e in Francia (2006), Giuffrè, Milano, pp. 369. 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. Its purpose is to investigate international and European media regulations using an approach of law in context. The course explores 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. The course focuses primarily on cinema and television, meant in the broadest sense that the recent technological developments may imply. The course will outline the broad picture of media regulation. It will underline that part of it was adopted as the result of international relations and negotiations, which have been developed within the frame of the World Trade Organization (WTO). In addition, it will highlight how some emerging economies of the Asian and American continents have now become crucial parties to media negotiations. In this shifting global framework, the EU is just one player among others, although very important; as a result, it must strengthen its unity through the European integration process and, at the same time, build its international role.

Ted WRIGHT Is the Dean and Professor of Law at the University of Newcastle Law School in Australia. His previous positions include Director of the Justice Research Centre, Law & Justice Foundation of New South Wales, Director of Policy

(Civil and Administrative Law), Queensland Justice & Attorney General's Department, and Commissioner, Law Reform Commission of Victoria. He has been conducting empirical research relating to civil justice since 1984, on topics such as civil procedure and case management, litigant satisfaction with dispute resolution, legal aid, accident compensation, litigation trends and tort law reform. His current research is primarily concerned with the codification of contract law and has led him into conducting experimental studies of the utility of different rule forms and, most lately, cognitive models of legal decision making. He graduated in Psychology from the University of Toronto, and studied law at Dalhousie University and the University of Cambridge.

Course: Studies in Civil Justice This course will examine a number of selected empirical studies, all broadly concerned with civil justice, both substantive and procedural. Its aim is to explore the contribution (and potential contribution) of social science research methods to a number of significant policy issues surrounding topics such as access to justice, cost and delay, legal services, trends in litigation, alternative dispute resolution and, even, substantive law reform. The course will proceed from a brief, comparative overview of the nature and purposes of the civil process. It will introduce students to the wide range of methodological approaches necessitated by the scope of our subject matter, both conventional and controversial (eg experimental designs).

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Caroline HUNTER Caroline Hunter is Professor of Law at the University of York. After working in housing advice, she trained as a barrister and developed a specialist practice in housing and local government. She moved

into academia in 1990 and, prior to moving to York Law School, worked at the University of Nottingham, Sheffield Hallam University and the University of Manchester. Her teaching has been with both law students and undergraduate and postgraduate students of housing policy and management. Over the last 20 years she has worked on a wide range of empirical studies looking at the interaction of law and policy and practice. Funding for these has been from major government and charitable funders. Her main research interests relate to housing and other urban regeneration issues, and the role of law in implementing and hindering the policy process. She has written extensively on housing and homelessness law both for an academic and a practitioner audience.

Socio-Legal Perspectives on Housing Law Socio-legal Perspectives on Housing Law As Lorna Fox puts it in her book Conceptualising Home: Theories, Laws and Policies: "Home is a complex and multi-dimensional interest, which includes financial, practical, social phychological, cultural, politico-economic and emotional interests to its occupiers." This course will examine how the law interacts with these other factors to protect rights in the home. It will begin by looking at the meaning of home in both sociology and law. It will then consider how occupiers are protected against losing their home from those with other interests in it, e.g. banks and landlords, and the role of the judiciary in making decisions as to whether or not the home is lost. The course will then turn to regulation of housing

by the state. What can and does the state regulate and why? This will consider its role in controlling the conduct of mortgage companies and landlords, together with regulation of standards of housing. Those without a home must not be forgotten. Homelessness is an important social issue and the reasons why people become homeless and the governance of homelessness will be examined. The course will conclude by asking the question: Is it possible to talk about a right to housing either in international or national law?

Rogelio PEREZ-PERDOMO Studied law at the Universidad Central de Venezuela (1959-64), philosophy and sociology of law at Paris (1964-66) and Harvard (1971-72). Holds a LLM degree (Harvard, 1972) and PhD in Ciencias/Derecho

(Universidad Central de Venezuela, 1976). Professor of law and former dean, Universidad Metropolitana, Caracas. Frequent Visiting Professor at Stanford Law School since 1998. Professor at Universidad Central de Venezuela (1967-1988) and Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración (1988-1998). Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex (1977). Visiting Professor at University of the Basque Country (1991-1992), CIDE and Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas of UNAM, Mexico (2010). Florida International University College of Law, 2012. Academic Director of Stanford Program for International Legal Studies (1999-2001), Scientific Director of Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law (1992-93). President of the Research Committee on Sociology of Law, International Sociological Association (1992-1995). International Scholarship Prize. Law and Society Association. 2011. Premio a la Investigación y Creación Intelectual. Universidad Metropolitana, 2005-2006.

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Many academic publications. The most recent books are Justicia e injusticias en Venezuela (Academia de la Historia and Universidad Metropolitana, 2011) and Law in many societies (co-editors: Lawrence Friedman and Manuel Gómez, Stanford University Press, 2011). Present research lines: legal scholarship and legal culture. Professional Actors of the Legal System: Judges, Lawyers and Scholars The countries of Southwestern Europe and Latin America can be considered the core of the civil law tradition. Their connection with Roman and canon law is clear and even the language, religion and other cultural traits are shared or very close. Historically, they have had strong ties among themselves. This course proposes to analyze what we know about the changes in the legal culture and legal actors in this vast cultural area and uses the instruments of law and society for this analysis. Comparative law scholars have given much importance to the concept of legal tradition and the continuity and commonality of some traits in the ever changing life of the legal systems. Law and society scholars have advanced the concept of legal culture, which is considered an expression of society and is associated with social change. Globalization, which is the manifestation of social change in contemporary society, has strong manifestations in the cultural area and most likely in the legal culture. This course will analyze whether the idea of legal tradition is still important for understanding the legal systems and its relation to society and history, and if the analysis of legal

traditions and legal cultures are really compatible. The analysis will emphasize the professional legal culture and the changes and permanence in the legal education and professions.

Deborah BROCK Deborah Brock is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, York University. Her research and teaching address social, moral, and sexual regulation.

Her publications include Power and Everyday Practices (co-edited with Rebecca Raby and Mark Thomas) Nelson, 2012; Making Work, Making Trouble: The Social Regulation of Sexual Labour University of Toronto Press, 2009, 1998; and Making Normal: Social Regulation in Canada Nelson, 2003. Gender, Racialization and Law: Sexual Regulation Sexual regulation is found in socio-legal relations, truth regimes, and normalizing discourses. It is pervasive throughout social processes, including those that, on the surface, appear quite removed from sexuality. This course examines how sexual regulation is constituted through state activity, the production of "expert" knowledges, the activities of social movements, and transnational politics. We will discuss two main approaches to sexual regulation, the first centering on state formation and law, and the second approach building on Michel Foucault's notion of governmentality.