The next International Conference of the Commission on Legal Pluralism will take place in Syracuse (New York, USA) on August 9-11, 2017. The conference is organised in collaboration with the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. The conference theme is: Citizenship, Legal Pluralism and Governance in the Age of Globalization. Please have a look here for an overview of accepted panels. The call for papers can be found here. You can submit your paper proposal until January 31, 2017. Prior to the conference, from 4-7 August, a course will be organized for young scholars on the main theories, themes and methodologies of legal pluralism. More information on the course can be found here. To get an impression of the previous conference and course, you can already have a look at the information provided below.
In particular, readers of our journal could be interested in the following Panel:
The Role of Law in the Ideal Model of the Sustainable Eco-village or City
Panel Coordinator: James S. Krueger ( jskrueger2(at)wisc.edu )
Much has been written about the design elements of a sustainable eco-village or city. It is often assumed that the current model of positivist state law will suffice for the purposes of planning and achieving sustainability and community. This panel examines alternative models of law that might better facilitate the ideal eco-village or city. Such models might be derived from legal pluralism case studies, or from indigenous law and land tenure, or from new versions of property rights like Community Land Trusts, or from some other source. The panel invites both utopian and practical thinking – about the challenge of community in an era of globalization and urbanization, about multiple citizenship identities and conflicting duties of citizenship(s), and about overlapping land and resource rights.
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