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Podgòrecki Prize
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International Working Group for Comparative Studies of Legal Professions Meetings
Legal Profession Group Meeting Bonn/Königswinter July 1-4, 2012
Sunday, July 1st Arrival From 6 p.m. Informal meeting at Haus Schlesien Possibility for dinner at own expense
Monday, July 2nd
07.00 – 09.00 Breakfast at Haus Schlesien (for all) Rübezahlstube
09.00 – 09.15 Welcome and organisational details
09.15 – 10.45 Plenary 1 Riesengebirge
Change in the legal profession – for better or worse?
Introduction and chair: Ulrike Schultz
1. International Aspects
Kath Hall: Lawyers as Global Elite
Don Fleming: Regulation of Practice by Foreign Lawyers in the APEC jurisdictions
Eyal Katvan: Overcrowding of the profession – the professional melting pot
2. News from Common Law Countries
Margaret Thornton: Recent Developments in the legal profession: The view from the Antipodes
Leslie Levin: The US legal Profession: Shockwaves from the economic crisis
10.45 – 11.15 Coffee Break Eichendorff Saal
11.15 – 13.00 Plenary 1 on change in the legal professions (continued)
Avrom Sherr: “The Legal Services Act, new regulation approaches and alternative business structures in England and Wales”.
Lisa Webley: The introduction of compulsory diversity monitoring in England and Wales
3. News from Civil Law Countries
Matthias Kilian: Update on Germany: Situation of young lawyers, effects of specialisation
Anne Boigeol: Current professional issues in France
Leny de Groot: News from the Netherlands
Jacek Kurczewski: Politicians against professionals or how to regulate the deregulation of legal services in Poland 13.00 – 14.00 lunch break, Eichendorff Saal the subgroup heads meet over lunch.
14.00 – 15.30 parallel sessions
Family, Policy and the Law Irmler Chair: Benoit Bastard, Mavis Maclean
Mavis Maclean: Family Courts without lawyers (England and Wales)
Rosemary Hunter: Fact finding hearings. Perceptions of lawyers and judges (England and Wales)
Benoit Bastard/David Delvaux/Fred Schonaers: No delay in the court – divorce in France and Belgium
Aurelie Filloud Chabaud/Helene Steinmetz/Emilie Biland: Dealing with mass litigation in France and Quebec – family judges work in a comparative perspective
Legal Education 1 Wohlau Chair: Anthony Bradney
Jessica Guth: Internationalization and Law degrees
Aleksandra Nyzinska: The ethics in legal education in the face of widening access of the legal professions in Poland
Huub Spoormans: Massification of legal education in the Netherlands
Cora Hisae Hagino: A critical approach to legal education in Portugal: University of Coimbra case study
15.30 – 15.00 Coffee Break Menzel
16.00 – 17.30 parallel sessions
Legal Education 2: Author meets reader Irmler
“Privatising the public university” the case of law (Margaret Thornton)
Introduction and chair: Fiona Cownie
Huub Spoormans / Avrom Sherr / Ulrike Schultz/Anja Rudek / Lynn Mather USA
Management in/and Justice 1: Wohlau Chair: Fred Schonaers
Mavis Maclean: Proposal for a family justice system in England and Wales
Pablo Ciocchini: Campaigning to eradicate court delay: power shifts and new governance in the criminal justice
Christophe Dubois: Prison governors or prison managers? NPM (re)shaping Belgian prison policy and organizations 18.00 – 19.45 parallel sessions
International Lawyering: Notaries and Patent Lawyers Chair: Don Fleming Irmler
Matthias Kilian: Liberalising the profession of notary
Gisela Shaw: Notaries in Europe – a British view
Ter Voort: Notarian ethics in difficult times
Lynn Mather: Patent Lawyers in the US
Alex Jettinghoff: IP-lawyers play the European patent system
Judiciary 1 Wohlau Chair: Anthony Bradney
Peter Mascini: Choosing between sentence types: judges’ classifications, verdicts and their intended and unintended consequences
Francesca Scamardella: Client’s voice in the lawyering process: cases of silence and reticence
Les Moran: English judges in the news
Ruth Herz: Judges Visual Culture – through the eyes of Juge Pierre Cavellat
Nancy Marder: Judging American television reality judges
Management in/and Justice 2 TBA Planning session: Transversal study topics - Discussion on the work in this new group
20.00 dinner at Haus Schlesien depending on weather: Rübezahlstube
Tuesday, July 3rd
07.00 – 09.00 Breakfast at Haus Schlesien (for all) Rübezahlstube
09.00 – 10.45 parallel sessions Women/Gender in the Legal Profession 1 Irmler Session chair: Nancy Marder
Richard Collier: Fatherhood male lawyers and work/life balance in the legal profession: reframing laws “women problem”
Rita Maria Bartolomei: "Fighting gender violence and discrimination. The role of the Women Lawyers Associations in Italy, Tanzania and Zambia"
Anne Boigeol: French women lawyers beyond the glass ceiling
Gabriele Plickert: Effects of professional work on women lawyers' timing of family formation in German and U.S. Cities
Gisela Shaw: Unsung Heroines: Women Notaries in the GDR. A Retrospective after 20 years Legal Education 3 Wohlau Chair: Fiona Cownie
Avrom Sherr: LETR The legal education and training review in England and Wales
Anthony Bradney: Difficult Judgments: Performance Management and University Law Schools
Penny Kent/Maureen Spencer: University Sabbaticals and the Production of Pedagogic Space
Rosemary Auchmuty: Challenging the textbook: women’s different history of property law
10.45 – 11.15 Coffee Break Eichendorff Saal
11.15 – 13.00 Plenary 2 Riesengebirge
Gender and Careers in the Legal Academy
Introduction and Chair:
Ulrike Schultz/Anja Rudek/Ilka Peppmeier: De jure and de facto: Women in the legal academy in Germany. Outline of a research project
Fiona Cownie: Gender in the legal academy....what can history tell us?
Margaret Thornton: The legal academy in Australia, gender aspects
Malgorzata Fuszara: The legal academy in Poland, gender aspects
13.00 – 14.00 lunch break
14.00 – 15.30 parallel sessions
Legal Professional Values & Identities Irmler
Chair: Hillary Sommerlad
Mao Lin: the role of Chinese Public Lawyers in expropriation cases
Hillary Sommerlad: ‘Bleached out’ professionalism versus white macho masculinities, pathologies of black masculinities or black professionalism? How to succeed as a black male solicitor
Anna Krajewska: Law experts? The role of lawyers providing service to local governments in Poland
Lisa Webley: Diversity and the Legal Profession: The Importance of the ‘Right’ Academic Background
Rob Rosen: The Law: Business or One of the Professions?
Judiciary 2 Wohlau Chair: Anthony Bradney
Yedan Li: Court Mediation in China: Lessons from labor courts
Nienke Doornbos: The interdependence of judges and law clerks: institutional factors
Reyer Baas: Judicial dilemmas in asbestos litigation
Claire Archbold: What do we mean when we talk about justice for vulnerable people
15.00 – 16.00 Coffee break Menzel
16.00 departure for excursion by bus waiting in front of Haus Schlesien to Drachenfels, Schloss Drachenburg and Burgruine Heisterbach
20.00 dinner at Haus Schlesien depending on weather Eichendorff Saal or Sommerterrasse
Wednesday, July 4th
07.00 – 09.00 Breakfast at Haus Schlesien (for all) Rübezahlstube
08.45 – 10.15 parallel sessions
Ethics and Deviance 1: Author meets Reader Irmler
Lawyers in practice: ethical decision making in context (Lynn Mather/Leslie Levin)
Introduction and chair: Leny de Groot-van Leeuwen Comments by:
Kath Hall / Simon Rice / Avrom Sherr / Rob Rosen / Stefan Rutten
Women/Gender in the Legal Profession 2 Wohlau Chair: Anne Boigeol
Harriet Silius: Gender equality in Finland – model for legislation
Marion Röwekamp: “Women and the legal profession in Germany, 1895-1933”
Celine Bessiere/Muriel Mille: Gender and judging in French family courts
Ulrike Schultz: “I was visible and I was asked …” Women in Leading Positions of the Judiciary in Germany
10.15 – 10.30 Coffee Break MENZEL
10.30 – 12.00 session
Ethics and Deviance 2 Irmler Chair: Leny de Groot-van Leeuwen: Overview: state of project
Stefan Rutten/Bernard Hubeaud/Jean van Houtte: Belgian report on lawyer deviance and discipline
Leslie Levin: Can we predict lawyer deviance from US bar admissions data
Simon Rice: Australia: The legal ethics of lawyering for change
Alex Jettinghoff: Henry Stimson and international criminal law 12.00 – 12.30 Plenary: Planning of further work and next meeting
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