The Perelman Centre for Legal Philosophy of the Free University of Brussels (ULB) is pleased to invite you to the public lectures that will be delivered by Professor Mireille Delmas-Marty as part of her course « L’Europe, laboratoire de la mondialisation ».

Thursday, 28th May 2009 at the Palace of Academies, 1 rue Ducale - Brussels.

11h: “Renouveler le formalisme juridique”

14h: “Inventer la gouvernance avec et par-delà des États”

For anyone interested, you can send a mail to Arnaud VAN WAEYENBERGE (arnaudvw@gmail.com).

UCD School of Law Doctoral Scholarship

Closing Date: Friday May 8 2009

The School of Law is pleased to offer one doctoral scholarship in Law from 2009-2013.
The scholarship is available to candidates commencing their doctoral studies in the School of Law for the first time in September 2009 on a full-time basis on either the PhD in Law Programme or the PhD in European Law and Governance Programme provided by the School of Law in conjunction with the School of Politics and International Relations. The scholarship is tenable for a maximum of four years, renewable each year subject to satisfactory progress.
The scholarship will provide tuition fees at the EU rate and a yearly stipend of €8,000.
The scholarship is open to Irish, EU and International applicants. Any offer to an international applicant is conditional on the applicant demonstrating at the time of accepting the offer that s/he has sufficient funds to cover both the difference between the EU and international tuition fees and to supplement the living allowance to cover the cost of living in Dublin. Information for international students contemplating a period of study at UCD is available at http://www.ucd.ie/international/pdf_files/handbook0809.pdf

How to apply
Please complete an on-line University Postgraduate application available at http://www.ucd.ie/apply/ by the deadline. Please also send a covering letter explaining:
• Why you wish to undertake a PhD
• Why you wish to undertake a PhD at UCD School of Law
This letter should be no more than 2 sides of A4 single-spaced and can be sent either as an email attachment to niamh.mccabe@ucd.ie or in hard copy to Ms. Niamh McCabe, Graduate Programme Manager, School of Law, UCD, Roebuck Castle, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.

If you have any queries please contact Ms. McCabe at the above email address.
Late applications will not be accepted.
All applicants will be notified of the outcome of the decision of the scholarship committee. No correspondence will be entered into about the committee’s decision.

The UCD PhD Programme in Law
PhD students join the 30 full-time academics with leading national and international reputations as a fully integrated part of the vibrant research community in UCD School of Law. Candidates also enjoy the benefits of a structured PhD programme with a three-person supervisory panel, sophisticated skills training, research bursaries, and dedicated office and common room space. PhD students in the School present and publish their work nationally and internationally and organise a successful annual conference, leaving them with theses of publishable quality. On completion, our doctoral graduates have gone on to secure academic posts in Irish and international institutions.

The UCD PhD Programme in European Law and Governance
Candidates in this programme develop multidisciplinary expertise on the law and politics of European governance, with substantive and research skills training through the School of Law and the School of Politics and International Relations. Candidates have a supervisory panel of three staff with a minimum of one from each School, and register to the School where their primary supervisor is located. They also become Fellows of the internationally renowned Dublin European Institute, Ireland’s leading research centre on European integration and governance. Graduates are well-positioned to pursue careers in law, policy analysis and academia.

Call for applications : European Master in Human Rights and Democratisation

International and Pluridisciplinary Advanced Master Programme carried out jointly by 41 European Universities.

All information and application forms available online at : http://www.emahumanrights.org

The deadline for application is : March 20, 2009

Edited by Peter Goodrich, Florian Hoffmann, MichelRosenfeld and Cornelia Vismann.

Amongst the last generation of continental philosophers Derrida stands out as the most jurisprudential of thinkers. His early work on literary texts was already focused on laws of genre, on being before the law, and upon the legality of speech acts. His later work on the violent foundations of authority and on the force of law further propelled deconstruction into legal studies. This volume traces the path of Derrida’s original and provocative legal insights and also maps the geographical and jurisdictional passages of his ideas.

The Perelman Lecture is delivered annually by a distinguished speaker whose contributions to legal philosophy, jurisprudence or to justice and the rule of law are internationally recognized.

The Perelman Lecture is organized by the Perelman Centre for Legal Philosophy, in memory of its founder Chaïm Perelman. It is sponsored by the Perelman Foundation and the Law Faculty of the Free University of Brussels (U.L.B.).

The Perelman Lecturers :