Law at the End of the Day

Larry Catá Backer's comments on current issues in transnational law and policy. These essays focus on the constitution of regulatory communities (political, economic, and religious) as they manage their constituencies and the conflicts between them. The context is globalization. This is an academic field-free zone: expect to travel "without documents" through the sometimes strongly guarded boundaries of international relations, constitutional, international, comparative, and corporate law.

Wednesday, June 26, 2024

CfP International Journal for the Semiotics of Law Special Issue--"Public Vices, Poor Laws, and the Deterioration of Character"

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I am delighted to pass along this Call for Papers" for a special issue of the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law. Edited by Amalia Amaya Navarro (Edinburgh University) and Tomasz Widłak (University of Gdańsk), the Special Issue theme is "Public Vices, Poor Laws, and the Deterioration of Character" posits a quite intriguing inversion:

Virtue jurisprudence is interested in exploring the relationship between legislation's aims and promoting good character traits. On the other hand, this Special Issue delves into “vice jurisprudence”, examining how laws crafted with malevolent intent can pollute law and legal language and corrupt public and private morality. We invite scholars to explore the characteristics and impacts of such laws, questioning their validity and the resulting civic vices they may foster. By adopting a virtue-oriented perspective, this issue seeks to illuminate whether malicious legislation contradicts the essence of law and its systemic properties, considering the influence of lawmakers’ character on the legal process. We welcome papers that critically engage with these themes and propose innovative frameworks for understanding and addressing the morality of law through the lens of vice. Join us in this crucial exploration to redefine the boundaries between virtuous and vicious legislation and its implications for legal systems.

Deadlines:
Abstracts of 300 words by 15 February 2025
After selection, final papers (no more than 15,000 words) should be submitted by 31 October 2025

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At the end of the day, law?

. . . . Emperors and kings

Are but obeyed in their several provinces,

Nor can they raise the wind or rend the clouds;

But his domain that exceeds in this

Stretcheth as far as doth the mind of man.

A sound magician is a mighty god.

* * *

Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight,

And burned is Apollo's laurel bough,

That sometimes grew within this learned man.

Faustus is gone; regard his hellish fall,

Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise

Only to wonder at unlawful things,

Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits

To practise more than heavenly power permits.

Christopher Marlowe, "Dr. Faustus" (before 1593)

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Globalization Law and Policy Series from Ashgate Publishing

About the Series:

Globalization: Law and Policy will include an integrated body
of scholarship that critically addresses key issues and theoretical debates in comparative and transnational law. Volumes in the series will focus on the consequential effects of globalization, including emerging frameworks and processes for the internationalization, legal harmonization, juridification and democratization of law among increasingly connected political, economic, religious, cultural, ethnic and other functionally differentiated governance communities. This series is intended as a resource for scholars, students, policy makers and civil society actors, and will include a balance of theoretical and policy studies in single-authored volumes and collections of original essays.

An interview with the Series Editor

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