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Australia
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RegNet is a large research group within the College of Asia and Pacific. It is also a network of institutions, practitioners and academics involved in exploring and understanding critical domains of regulation. Members of the network differ in their approaches to regulation but their work is interconnected. The key motivation driving RegNet is to advance current understanding and approaches to issues such as human security, policing, environment, cyber crime, illicit organisations and markets, intellectual property and the governance of knowledge, development, peacebuilding, human rights, international law, micro foundations of democratic governance, health and occupational health and safety through a regulatory framework that develops evidence-based theory, policy and practice.
Denmark
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The objective of CRS - Centre for Studies in Legal Culture is to promote interdisciplinary cutting-edge research on the relationship between law and culture. Taking as its point of departure the double assumption that law is a cultural phenomenon and that its impact is, to a great extent, culturally and socially determined, the Centre seeks to develop and support research within a wide variety of subjects related to legal culture.
Germany
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The Postdoctoral Fellow Program Legal Cultures: Confrontations Beyond Comparison has been conceived as a central element of the Berlin research network Law in Context, funded by the City of Berlin since October 2009 and based at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. The research network Law in Context aims to enhance, from a genuinely legal perspective, a re-contextualization of the law among its neighboring disciplines – the humanities and the cultural and social sciences. It will create a space of reflection and communication in which fundamental and salient questions of the law and its context(s) can be re-negotiated and re-connected with jurisprudence and legal methodology. Within the research network, the postdoctoral fellow program is crucial for the modification of research questions in transregional constellations
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The Section for the Sociology of Law (Sektion Rechtssoziologie) is one of the currently 34 sections in the German Sociological Association (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie, or DGS), which bring together sociologists in their special field of inquiry and teaching. The Section aims at promoting teaching and research in the field of sociology of law, both in the Faculties of Law and Social Sciences. Anyone who is interested in the sociology of law is welcome to subscribe as a member.
Global
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Le comité de recherche “études socio-juridiques / sociologie du droit” (CR03) se conçoit comme un espace d’échange intellectuel entre chercheurs francophones s’intéressant à l’approche sociologique des phénomènes juridiques.
Les vocations plus spécifiques du CR03 sont, d’une part, l’intensification des échanges entre chercheurs européens et canadiens (en complément aux activités des autres réseaux francophones), l’approfondissement des questions socio-juridiques dans lesquelles la langue joue un rôle déterminant (en complément aux activités des autres réseaux internationaux). Par ailleurs, avec ces priorités en vue, le CR03 entend contribuer activement à la politique générale d’ouverture aux autres langues latines, promue par le Bureau de l’AISLF. -
The Commission on Folk Law and Legal Pluralism was established in 1978 by the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES), and affiliated with the International Association of Legal Science (IALS), on the initiative of professor G. van den Steenhoven, of the Institute of Folk Law, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The Commission's four major current activities are: the issue of a Newsletter (thrice every two years); the organisation of international symposia; the initiation and encouragement of Regional Working Groups in different parts of the world; and the organization and delivery of courses and summer schools in legal pluralism.
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The International Sociological Association’s Research Committee on the Sociology of Law and the Government of the Basque Country established the International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Oñati, Gipuzkoa, Spain in 1988. From the outset, the Institute created academic links and collaborative relations with various European and non-European universities by providing facilities for seminars, workshops, visiting scholars and library research. The Institute has as a result grown into an important base for the global network of scholars who work on law and social science issues.
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The RCSL was initially conceived as a forum, largely informal, for specialists from all over the world to compare and exchange ideas. A Board was constituted in 1968. Formal by-Iaws were adopted in 1973. Regular elections have been organized every fourth year since 1974. The RCSL has also held regular annual meetings since 1964 (except in 1967). Every four years it meets during the congress of the ISA. It has held also several joint meetings with the Law and Society Association. Since the late sixties, it has established various permanent working groups as a means to promote its research activity more vigorously. Its membership has grown from about two dozen scholars in 1962 to more than 450 in 2002. On December 23, 1988, the RCSL signed an agreement with the government of the Basque Country, giving birth to the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law.
Italy
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l'Associazione di studi su diritto e società è stata formalmente fondata il 16 dicembre 2002, con atto del notaio Piergaetano Marchetti di Milano, e ha tenuto la sua prima assemblea nel marzo 2003 a Roma.
L'Associazione di studi su diritto e società si propone di diffondere la conoscenza e l'applicazione delle teorie e dei metodi della sociologia del diritto nello studio delle istituzioni:- promuovendo studi e ricerche di sociologia del diritto
- organizzando o patrocinando incontri scientifici
- mantenendo rapporti costanti con ogni altra istituzione, associazione od organizzazione che, nell'ambito universitario o in ogni altro ambito, persegua finalità analoghe o comunque rilevanti per la vita associativa
- assumendo ogni altra iniziativa indirizzata al conseguimento di questi scopi
Sweden
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Sociology of Law at Lund University is developing a specific focus on norms. The study of norms is a certain field of knowledge and norms are the core object in Sociology of Law.
At Sociology of Law we have about 25 teachers and researchers – from which about 15 are PhD-students. On the undergraduate level we have about 400 student in our different courses every year (A-, B-, C- and D-levels).
United States of America
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The American Bar Foundation is an organization dedicated to advancing justice through rigorous research on the law, legal practices, and the law's impact on our society.
The American Bar Foundation is the nation's leading research institute for the empirical study of law. An independent, nonprofit organization for more than fifty years, ABF seeks to advance the understanding and improvement of law through research projects of unmatched scale and quality on the most pressing issues facing the legal system in the United States and the world.
The Foundation is committed to broad dissemination of research findings to the organized bar, scholars, and the general public. The results are published in a wide range of forums, including leading academic journals, law reviews, and academic and commercial presses.
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The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy is an endowed, internationally recognized institute that advances interdisciplinary research on law, legal institutions, and social policy. More than 130 UB faculty members from 17 academic departments participate in Baldy Center research, conferences, working groups, and publications. The center maintains cooperative ties to other interdisciplinary research centers and co-sponsors a network of socio-legal scholars in the Great Lakes Region. The Baldy Center also hosts distinguished scholars from around the world as visitors, speakers and conference participants.
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The Law and Society Association, founded in 1964, is a group of scholars from many fields and countries, interested in the place of law in social, political, economic and cultural life.
Members bring training in law, sociology, political science, psychology, anthropology, economics, and history as well as in other related areas to the study of sociolegal phenomena.
Among its activities, the Association publishes the Law & Society Review, sponsors annual conferences and educational workshops, and fosters the development of academic programs in law and society around the world. For students and new scholars, the Association encourages participation in its workshops and mentorship program.
