NOVA School of Law at the Lisbon 2022 Global Meeting on Law & Society
From 13 to 16 July 2022
Lisbon will be the stage of another Global Meeting on Law and Society, which will gather around 4500 participants, distributed by 710 in-person sessions and 250 virtual sessions, among which will be professors and researchers from NOVA School of Law/CEDIS.
This scientific meeting – one of the most ambitious events held so far in the area of socio-legal studies at international level – is organized by the North-American Law and Society Association, in partnership with academic associations from all over the world, namely the Research Committee on Sociology of Law of the International Sociological Association, the Thematic Section of Sociology of Law and Justice of the Portuguese Sociological Association and similar associations from Africa, Asia, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Japan, New Zealand and United Kingdom.
This will be the seventh Global Conference, which has been held approximately every five years, since 1991, but the first truly global one, as it will be organized in collaboration with academic associations from all corners of the globe, in an unprecedented collaborative effort.
The local organization of the event is ensured by two research centres of ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (CIES-Iscte and DINÂMIA’CET) and by a Local Arrangements Committee (LAC), which gathers representatives of the socio-legal area from Portugal, Spain, France and the United Kingdom (CES – Centro de Estudos Sociais; CEDIS – Centro de I&D sobre Direito e Sociedade; CICS. NOVA – Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences; Oñati International Institute of Legal Sociology; Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Paris-Saclay; Nottingham Trent University).
The event takes as its theme «Rage, Reckoning, & Remedy» and aims to put into debate the extreme inequalities that mark our time and that the Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated, as well as the links between these inequalities and the predatory relationship that has been established between humanity and the environment
Global Meeting Sessions
Below you will find the programme of sessions* with the participation of NOVA School of Law/CEDIS’ professors and researchers. All the sessions are held at ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa.
*Although registration is required to attend the Conference, LAC sessions will be open to the NOVA School of Law/Cedis community, with no requirement of registration, as a result of the partnership between LAC and NOVA School/Cedis. You are all very welcome!
13th July 2022
8:15 AM – 10:00 AM
Aula Autónoma, AA 2.25
«Open House: Project on Autocratic Legalism (PAL)»
Session Type: Roundtable
Roundtable Participant: Dee Smythe* (CEDIS Researcher)
*Co-chair of the conference Program Committee, together with Michele Goodwin and Pierre Guibentif
Description:
In 2019, scholars from the Global South, inspired by Kim Scheppele’s 2019 LSA Presidential Address on “constitutional assassinations”, began discussing collaboration on the uses of law by autocrats to consolidate power and resistances to such moves. They labeled their initiative the Project on Autocratic Legalism (PAL). This event will share information about PAL’s history and plans with the LSA community.
8:15 AM – 10:00 AM
Building II C4.02
«Politics, Postcolonialism and International Law»
Session Type: Paper Session
Session Chair: Veronica Corcodel (Assistant Professor at NOVA School of Law and CEDIS Researcher)
Description:
This panel engages with colonialism’s rootedness in international law and continuities in postcolonialism’s international institutions.
8:15 AM – 10:00 AM
«Community Control over Police and Police Investigation of Subjugated Population and Elusive Crimes»
Session Type: Paper Session
Session Chair: Laura Íñigo Álvarez (CEDIS Researcher/Post-Doctoral Researcher at NOVA School of Law)
Description:
There are many efforts to improve police-community relationships through various programs involving communities themselves. One of these efforts is Police Oversight Commissions. Another example is mandates for police officers to live in the community they live. How are these efforts conducted? What benefits have they produced? On the other hand, police can be required to investigate crimes extremely difficult for them. One example is investigation of crimes committed by ethnic minorities that have been strongly subjugated by the state. How can police investigate crimes in such communities that have deep mistruct against police? Another example is various forms of economic crimes. Are police equipped with tools to investigate such crimes? This session consists of four paper which respectively analyze these issue in four countries.
10:15 AM – 12:00 PM
Virtual 02
«Panel 1: Intimate Adult Relationships in All Its Forms: Marriage, Civil Union, Nonmarriage»
Session Type: Paper Session
Paper Title: «Marriage Apostates: Why Heterosexuals Seek Same-Sex Registered Partnerships»
Author: Nausica Palazzo (Assistant Professor at NOVA School of Law and CEDIS Researcher )
Description:
Legal responses to committed adult relationships differ, and scholars from various disciplines are studying different approaches to recognizing persons in nonmarital relationships, including polyamorous arrangements and other communities of choice. This panel brings together a variety of perspectives from different countries on the role of legal recognition for committed adult relationships unfolding outside of marriage.
10:15 AM – 12:00 PM
Aud. B2.03 – Ferreira de Almeida (Building II)
«Artificial intelligence & law: biased and discriminatory algorithms»
Session Type: Local Arrangement Committee Panel Roundtable
Roundtable Participant: Miguel de Azevedo Moura (Assistant Professor at NOVA School of Law and CEDIS Researcher)
LAC Convener and Coordinator: Patrícia André*(Guest Professor at NOVA School of Law and CEDIS Researcher)
*Member of the Local Arrangements Committee (LAC); Programmer of the LAC Film Program)
Description:
Algorithmic decision making is now truly widespread among several sensitive contexts of everyday life, and it raises difficult and important questions from a socio-legal perspective that need to be discussed in a transdisciplinary fashion to be properly tackled. In this session, we shall intertwin different perspectives on the subject – technical, ethical, and legal – providing a far-reaching overview of different legal areas such as criminal and civil justice, data protection, and competition law. In this way, we also intend to contribute to the overall reflection proposed by the 2022 theme of the meeting since algorithmic discrimination may be seen as just one other form of perpetuating injustice and inequality.
12:45 PM – 2:30 PM
Building II C3.02
«Unsettling Apologies (Part 1): The Context and Politics of Un/forgiving»
Session Type: Paper Session
Session Chair: Dee Smythe* (CEDIS Researcher)
*Co-chair of the conference Program Committee, together with Michele Goodwin and Pierre Guibentif
Description:
In this time of unprecedented rage and reckoning around historical injustices of violent oppression and dispossession, what, if any, is the role and value of the apology? Drawing on essays from South Africa in a forthcoming edited volume, this is the first of two panels on apology. The panels seek to unpack some of these meanings and their relationship to histories, politics and laws that regulate, punish and remediate harm. In theorising turns to – and away from – the apology, the papers in the first part explore the politics of the apology in context, focusing on injurious relations of power; reparative shame; white denials of racial injustice; vernacular dispute management forums in rural settings; and land dispossession and restitution.
2:45 PM – 4:30 PM
Aud. B2.03 – Ferreira de Almeida (Buiding II)
«Portugal’s unfulfilled right of access to caselaw»
Session Type: Local Arrangement Committee Panel & NOVA School of Law/CEDIS Roundtable
Session Chair: Margarida Lima Rego (Associate Professor with Aggregation and Vice Dean at NOVA School of Law and CEDIS Researcher)
Roundtable Participant: Higina Castelo (Court of Appeal Judge at Tribunal da Relação de Lisboa and CEDIS Researcher)
Roundtable Participant: Patrícia André* (Guest Professor at NOVA School of Law and CEDIS Researcher)
*Member of the Local Arrangements Committee (LAC); Programmer of the LAC Film Program
LAC Convener and Coordinator: Patrícia André
Description:
Session on the topic of the lack of compliance with the constitutional mandate of access to caselaw in Portugal and its implications, namely, for the development of the legal system itself (by internal operators), for academic research (legal, socio-legal, historical, etc.), for research-based public policies, for technological advances in the justice system administration (e.g. based on artificial intelligence), and also for the dissemination of legal information through journalism as one important gatekeeper of transparency and accountability for the judicial system.
14th July 2022
8:15 AM – 10:00 AM
«Incorporating Rights: Strategies to Advance Corporate Accountability»
Session Type: Author Meets Reader (AMR) Session
Reader: Claire Bright (Associate Professor at NOVA School of Law and CEDIS Researcher)
Description:
Incorporating Rights considers market-based strategies to bring business practices into alignment with the responsibility to respect human rights. It explores how corporate social responsibility initiatives could close a global governance gap that currently places human rights at risk. It examines corporate codes of conduct, sustainability reporting, shareholder activism, and multi-stakeholder initiatives as the building blocks of a set of baseline standards for better business practices to strengthen the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and recent recognition of a human right to a clean and healthy environment. Readers will take stock of current and emerging efforts to advance accountability and leverage leadership including a global treaty to regulate business and promote respect for human rights.
8:15 AM – 10:00 AM
«Panel 4: Inter-legal and Holistic Approaches to Family Law»
Session Type: Paper Session
Session Discussant: Nausica Palazzo (Assistant Professor at NOVA School of Law and CEDIS Researcher)
Description:
As the field of comparative family law develops its identity, it addresses a variety of different issues, providing a comparative lens on law within, and between, countries. This panel explores a series of different issues, ranging from cross-border guardianship, to domestic abuse, to Guatemalan family and immigration law, to parenthood across more than two persons, to the meaning of marriage – and divorce. In so doing, it combines more traditional family law analysis with an analysis of other fields of law, spanning immigration law, private international law, and law and religion.
10:15 AM – 12:00 PM
«Autocratic legalism in Brazil»
Session Type: Paper Session
Session Discussant: Dee Smythe* (CEDIS Researcher)
*Co-chair of the conference Program Committee, together with Michele Goodwin and Pierre Guibentif
Description:
In 2019, scholars from the Global South, inspired by Kim Scheppele’s 2019 LSA Presidential Address on “constitutional assassinations”, began discussing collaboration on the uses of law by autocrats to consolidate power and resistances to such moves. They labeled their initiative the Project on Autocratic Legalism (PAL). In 2020, some of those scholars submitted a successful proposal for an IRC on Autocratic Legalism in Brazil, India, and South Africa. This initiative, dubbed PAL-BISA, brought together a broad team of researchers and an Expert Advisory Committee. In 2021, PAL-BISA was selected as the inaugural topical laboratory of LSA’s global collaborative program (GCP). This session shares findings from PAL-BISA studies on Brazil while putting those findings into a BISA comparative perspective.
10:15 AM – 12:00 PM
«Constitutionalism(s): from liberal to digital – 200 years of Portuguese constitutionalism»
Session Type: Local Arrangement Committee Roundtable
Session Chair: President of the Constitutional Court, João Caupers, Full Professor at NOVA School of Law, Retired.
Roundtable Participant: Cristina Nogueira Silva* (Associate Professor and Vice-President of the Scientific Council at NOVA School of Law and CEDIS Researcher)
*Coordinator of the Sessions presented by LAC & NOVA School of Law/CEDIS and of the two Tribute Sessions to António Manuel Hespanha.
Description:
200 years ago (1822), a constitutional monarchy was born in Portugal, replaced by a constitutional republic in 1910. Constitutionalism emerged in the context of the nation-state as a means to structure and limit political power and to guarantee fundamental freedoms and rights within a sovereign community. Constitutionalism progressed along with political, as well as economic and social change. Today, constitutionalism is challenged by an array of dynamic forces that range from globalisation to digitalisation. Following Teubner (2004), one might ask, “how is constitutional theory to respond to the challenge arising from current major trends, digitisation, privatisation and globalisation?” “The point today is to discipline quite different social dynamics.” By viewing constitutionalism as both beyond and within the state, societal constitutionalism (Golia, Teubner, 2021) may help envisioning responses to constitutional challenges in the 21th century, notably in the transnational economy and in the digital sphere.
12:45 PM – 2:30 PM
Aud. B2.03 – Ferreira de Almeida (Buiding II)
«Bridging Legal Theory and Socio-Legal Studies in the Iberian context»
Session Type: Local Arrangement Committee Panel Roundtable
LAC Convener and Coordinator & Session Chair: Patrícia André* (Guest Professor at NOVA School of Law and CEDIS Researcher)
*Member of the Local Arrangements Committee (LAC); Programmer of the LAC Film Program.
Description:
To describe and provide explanations about the law, its contents and the legal phenomenon in general is a goal shared by many legal theorists and socio-legal scholars. Yet, fruitful conversations and conjoint undertakes between researchers and theorists from both disciplines are still scarce. With this session, we intend to provide an opportunity to stimulate debate between researchers and scholars within the Iberian context and encourage the advancement of both fields in Portugal, where these epistemic communities are still underdeveloped.
12:45 PM – 2:30 PM
Building II C4.06
«Refocusing Reconciliation: On questions of reconciliation, truth and reckoning»
Session Type: Paper Session
Session Chair: Jeremy Sarkin (Guest Principal Researcher at NOVA School of Law | CEDIS)
Description:
This panel critically revisits discourses and practices of truth, reparations and reconciliation.
15th July 2022
10:15 AM – 12:00 PM
Ala Autónoma, AA 3.30
«Socioeconomic Rights and Sustainability»
Session Type: Paper Session
Paper title: «Modern slavery in global supply chains: normative initiatives at the European level»
Authors: Laura Íñigo Álvarez (CEDIS Researcher/Post-Doctoral Researcher at NOVA School of Law) and Claire Bright (Associate Professor at NOVA School of Law and CEDIS Researcher)
Description:
Linkages between human rights and the environment are increasingly recognized and legitimized through law and policy, most notably in the SDGs, but also in other institutional, legal, and political realms. Under what conditions do human rights offer pathways to alter our destructive relationships with the natural world and each other? Can rights energize efforts stymied by inertia, unyielding power dynamics, or systemic barriers to change? Or are human rights susceptible to the same blind spots and power plays as any other policy? What can we learn about alternatives by examining instances where human rights violations and environmental damage intersect? This panel seeks to explore evidence from around the world regarding the role and utility of human rights as mechanisms of social transformation vis-à-vis environmental challenges.
10:15 AM – 12:00 PM
Sedas Nunes, 1E.08
«Right to Research and Education in the Post-COVID Era – Copyright Perspectives from a Global View – Panel 1»
Session Type: Paper Session
Paper Title: «Between Frictions and Missed Opportunities: Teaching and Research Copyright Exceptions in Italy»
Authors: Giulia Priora (Assistant Professor at NOVA School of Law and CEDIS Researcher) and Rossana Ducato
Description:
Linkages between human rights and the environment are increasingly recognized and legitimized through law and policy, most notably in the SDGs, but also in other institutional, legal, and political realms. Under what conditions do human rights offer pathways to alter our destructive relationships with the natural world and each other? Can rights energize efforts stymied by inertia, unyielding power dynamics, or systemic barriers to change? Or are human rights susceptible to the same blind spots and power plays as any other policy? What can we learn about alternatives by examining instances where human rights violations and environmental damage intersect? This panel seeks to explore evidence from around the world regarding the role and utility of human rights as mechanisms of social transformation vis-à-vis environmental challenges.
10:15 AM – 12:00 PM
Aud. B2.03 – Ferreira de Almeida (Buiding II)
«Public Law facing the pandemic: the Portuguese context»
Session featured by LAC & CIDP
LAC Convener and Coordinator: Patrícia André* (Guest Professor at NOVA School of Law and CEDIS Researcher)
*Member of the Local Arrangements Committee (LAC); Programmer of the LAC Film Program
12:45 PM – 2:30 PM
Sedas Nunes, Auditório 4
«Mapping the Pasts and Futures of Law and Society Scholarship in Africa»
Session Type: Roundtable
Roundtable Participant: Dee Smythe* (CEDIS Researcher)
*Co-chair of the conference Program Committee, together with Michele Goodwin and Pierre Guibentif
Description:
There exists a vast range of scholarship on law & society in Africa. This notwithstanding, much of that scholarship can be charged with reproducing centuries old tropes of a dark “Africa” marked by underdevelopment, poverty, violence & disease. Largely underrepresented, often inaccessible & lacking visibility is scholarship that engages or seeks to understand the everyday construction, location & use of law in African societies, in ways that that do not exoticise or continue to build on irredeemable colonially conceived notions of Africa.
12:45 PM – 2:30 PM
Aula Autónoma, AA 2.28
«Legal Pluralism in Portuguese Empire»
Session Type: Roundtable
Session Chair: Cristina Nogueira Silva* (Associate Professor and Vice-President of the Scientific Council at NOVA School of Law and CEDIS Researcher)
*Coordinator of the Sessions presented by LAC & NOVA School of Law/CEDIS and of the two Tribute Sessions to António Manuel Hespanha.
Roundtable Participant: João Figueiredo (Assistant Researcher at NOVA School of Law | CEDIS)
Roundtable Participant: Luís Cabral de Oliveira (Professor at the Department of Legal Sciences, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria and CEDIS Researcher)
Roundtable Participant: Anabela Brízido (Teaching Assistant and PhD Candidate at NOVA School of Law and CEDIS Researcher)
Description:
This roundtable aims to discuss concepts and issues raised by the research project “Legal Pluralism in the Portuguese Empire (18th-19th centuries)”; namely, the concept of “legal pluralism”, contrasting it with others that have been advanced in the literature, such as “interlegality” or “multinormativity”. We’ll also discuss the modalities of this pluralism in different territories and periods to establish a possible chronology for legal pluralism in the Portuguese Empire. Finally, based on the knowledge that the participants have on other imperial experiences, it will also be discussed how these experiences communicated and, from this reflection, think about the place of the Portuguese experience in the global history of European Empires.
2:45 PM – 4:30 PM
Building II C5.08
«Empirical Portraits of Debtors and their Legal Proceedings»
Session Type: Paper Session
Paper Title: «Pre-insolvency mechanisms in Portugal: an empirical analysis of their main procedural features»
Author: João Pedro Pinto-Ferreira (Guest Professor at NOVA School of Law and CEDIS Researcher)
Description:
This in-person panel brings together researchers who have used empirical methods to better understand debtors and the ways they navigate legal proceedings. Three presentations will explore different aspect of Portuguese legal proceeding: how the corporate pre-insolvency process compares with the new pre-insolvency process for individuals, why the pre-insolvency process for individuals is not being used more, and how the length of the discharge period impacts the goals of personal insolvency law. Other presentations will look at how workers in the social and health sectors in the Netherlands are collaborating to support individuals overcome debt and health problems and how childcare expenses may be partially responsible for women in the United States of America deriving less of a benefit from bankruptcy than men.
4:45 PM – 6:30 PM
Virtual 01
«Polícia – Prisões, lugares de discriminação»
Session Type: Paper Session
Session Chair: Laura Íñigo Álvarez (CEDIS Researcher/Post-Doctoral Researcher at NOVA School of Law)
Description:
Apresentação e discussão de artigos relacionados com a Polícia, os Serviços Prisionais e a discriminação.
4:45 PM – 6:30 PM
Aud. B2.03 – Ferreira de Almeida (Building II)
«Towards the 50th anniversary of the April 25th Revolution»
Session featured by LAC with support from Provedor de Justiça
Chair: Maria Lúcia Amaral (Full Professor NOVA School of Law)
LAC Convener and Coordinator: Patrícia André* (Guest Professor at NOVA School of Law and CEDIS Researcher)
*Member of the Local Arrangements Committee (LAC); Programmer of the LAC Film Program
16th July 2022
10:15 AM – 12:00 PM
«African Penalities: Historical Trends and Contemporary Tensions»
Session Type: Paper Session
Session Discussant: Dee Smythe* (CEDIS Researcher)
*Co-chair of the conference Program Committee, together with Michele Goodwin and Pierre Guibentif
Description:
This panel analyses recent developments in the study of African penality, highlighting trends in penal ideas and institutions from the late nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. It offers insights into wider questions on the relationship between punishment, colonialism, decolonization, and the global circulation of penal techniques. The panelists draw on a variety of disciplines and methods to analyze African developments on their own terms and in relation to broader narratives of punishment and penality.
10:15 AM – 12:00 PM
«Border control and the Covid-19 syndemic: Looking at immigration detention in Europe»
Session Type: Paper Session
Paper Title: «Challenging the narrative of Portugal as a migrant welcoming country: immigration detention and the shadows of migrants’ legalisation at times of Covid-19»
Authors: Francesca Esposito e Emellin de Oliveira (Guest Lecturer at the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria; PhD Candidate at NOVA School of Law and CEDIS Researcher)
Description:
This session looks at what happened to irregularised migrants and people in detention centres during the Covid-19 syndemic in different countries in Europe (Italy, Portugal, Sweden and Danmark and Northern Ireland). We asks to what extent these new practices of racialised containment may be maintained, expanded and exported in the near future, and crucially what does the ‘exceptional’ nature of these practices tell us about the ‘ordinary’ mechanisms at play in these cruel institutions? Overall, what emerges across the different national contexts is a situation of abandonment, neglect and abuse on the part of state authorities and private corporate actors who collaborate with them, as well as a selective functioning of the detention system which ultimately reproduces a racialized and gendered hierarchy of ‘detention deservingness
10:15 AM – 12:00 PM
Aud. B2.03 – Ferreira de Almeida (Building II)
«Public Law facing the pandemic: a comparative approach»
Session featured by LAC & CIDP
LAC Convener and Coordinator: Patrícia André* (Guest Professor at NOVA School of Law and CEDIS Researcher)
*Member of the Local Arrangements Committee (LAC); Programmer of the LAC Film Program
12:45 PM — 2:30 PM
Aud. B2.03 – Ferreira de Almeida (Building II)
«Judging the subalternized: between the past and present»
Session Type: Local Arrangement Committee Panel & NOVA School of Law/CEDIS in association with RESISTANCE
Session Chair: Cristina Nogueira da Silva* (Associate Professor and Vice-President of the Scientific Council at NOVA School of Law and CEDIS Researcher)
*Coordinator of the Sessions presented by LAC & NOVA School of Law/CEDIS and of the two Tribute Sessions to António Manuel Hespanha.
Roundtable Participant: Soraya Nour Sckell (Associate Professor at NOVA School of Law and CEDIS Researcher)
Roundtable Participant: Armando Marques Guedes (Full Professor and CEDIS Director at NOVA School of Law and CEDIS Researcher)
LAC Convener and Coordinator: Patrícia André* (Guest Professor at NOVA School of Law and CEDIS Researcher)
*Member of the Local Arrangements Committee (LAC); Programmer of the LAC Film Program
Description:
This session is based on historical research into the use of law and the courts by subalternized groups (slaves, freedmen, indigenous people and women), in order to discuss the hypothesis of a law of the underlings of today: drawing from concrete examples of historical subalternized and their conceptualization, we suggest updating the notion and category of underlings that are judged by today’s courts and squeezed into the legal system, identifying who fills the category today and what type of law is reserved for them.
2:45 PM – 4:30 PM
Grande Auditório (Building II)
«Tribute to António Manuel Hespanha: on Empire»
Session Type: Local Arrangement Committee Panel
Session Chair: Cristina Nogueira da Silva* (Associate Professor and Vice-President of the Scientific Council at NOVA School of Law and CEDIS Researcher)
*Coordinator of the Sessions presented by LAC & NOVA School of Law/CEDIS and of the two Tribute Sessions to António Manuel Hespanha.
LAC Convener and Coordinator: Patrícia André* (Guest Professor at NOVA School of Law and CEDIS Researcher)
*Member of the Local Arrangements Committee (LAC); Programmer of the LAC Film Program
Description:
António Manuel Hespanha (1945-2019) was an exceptional Portuguese scholar that left us too soon. At the LAC, we decided to celebrate the scholar but also the teacher, the researcher, the mentor, the colleague, and the friend that António Hespanha was to many in Portugal and abroad. We thus intend to recollect some of his main working subjects and approaches within legal history, legal theory, and socio-legal studies, highlighting, in line with the Meeting’s theme, his special contributions to colonial studies and the reconceptualization of the Portuguese empire. And we also want to remember and pay tribute to the special way in which he built his trajectory and helped pave the way for so many others.
4:45 PM – 6:30 PM
Grande Auditório (Building II)
«Tribute to António Manuel Hespanha: on Law and Legal History»
Session Type: Local Arrangement Committee Panel
Cristina Nogueira da Silva* (Associate Professor and Vice-President of the Scientific Council at NOVA School of Law and CEDIS Researcher)
*Coordinator of the Sessions presented by LAC & NOVA School of Law/CEDIS and of the two Tribute Sessions to António Manuel Hespanha.
LAC Convener and Coordinator: Patrícia André* (Guest Professor at NOVA School of Law and CEDIS Researcher)
*Member of the Local Arrangements Committee (LAC); Programmer of the LAC Film Program
Description:
António Manuel Hespanha (1945-2019) was an exceptional Portuguese scholar that left us too soon. At the LAC, we decided to celebrate the scholar but also the teacher, the researcher, the mentor, the colleague, and the friend that António Hespanha was to many in Portugal and abroad. We thus intend to recollect some of his main working subjects and approaches within legal history, legal theory, and socio-legal studies, highlighting, in line with the Meeting’s theme, his special contributions to colonial studies and the reconceptualization of the Portuguese empire. And we also want to remember and pay tribute to the special way in which he built his trajectory and helped pave the way for so many others.
4:45 PM – 6:30 PM
Sedas Nunes, Auditório JJ Laginha
«Projections/Interpellations: Visions of International Law and its Visions of Us»
Session Type: Paper Session
Paper title: «Legal Framings in Social Media: The Case of Search and Rescue in the Mediterranean»
Author: Veronica Corcodel (Assistant Professor at NOVA School of Law and CEDIS Researcher)
Description:
Visuals, visualisations and visions are part and parcel of the making and operation of the international legal order. This session explores the projects and interpellations resulting from these visions through a discussing of the relationship between visual stories and the construction of ‘human shields in international humanitarian law; the mobilisation of gendered tropes of mothers and criminals within the context of debates about ‘responsible’, ‘sustainable’, ‘good’ or ‘fair’ mining in an artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASM) in western Kenya; and the nuances traversing – the otherwise seen as nationalist and right-wing monolithic – Visegrad Group (V4) (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia). Session members also discuss the relationship between law and social media on search and rescue (SAR) operations in the Mediterranean; the interplay between hypervisibilisation and invisibilisation within the context of the Napier Barracks in the UK’s deterrence policies and its ill-treatment of migrants; and the alternative truths that emerge from El Salvador’s United Nations 1992-1993 Truth Commission (UN-TC) (the first truth commission created and managed by the UN after the end of the Cold War) and a tapestry’s account of the Sumpul River massacre created in the 1980s by a Salvadoran woman, as a representation of the first reported massacre of the civil war.
LAC Film Program
Programmer: Patrícia André
Session I – «As Armas e o Povo» + «A Caça Revoluções»
Friday, 15/07/2022; 5:00 PM
Session II – «Linha Vermelha»
Friday, 15/07/2022, 7:00 PM
Session III – «Fantasmas do Império»
Saturday, 16/07/2022; 4:45 PM
Session IV – «Natal 71» + «Cinza»
Saturday, 16/07/2022; 7:00 PM
All screenings at Fernando Lopes Movie Theater – Universidade Lusófona Campus.