Venue: Zoom platform online - EET (Helsinki) time zone
11.00-11.30 Opening the conference
11.45 – 13.15 Parallel Sessions I
13.15 – 16.00 Lunch and break
16.00 – 17.30 Parallel Sessions II
17:45-19:00 Keynote 1 and final discussion: Professor Nadia E. Brown
Venue: Zoom platform online - EET (Helsinki) time zone
10.00 – 11.30 Parallel Sessions III
11.30 – 11.45 Coffee break
11.45 – 13.15 Parallel Sessions IV
13.15 – 16.00 Lunch and break
16.00 – 17.30 Parallel Sessions V
17.30 – 17.45 Coffee break
17.45 – 19.00 Keynote 2 and final discussion: Professor Brenda Cossman
Professor and Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki
Professor and Director, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki
Professor of Russian Law, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki
Organizational challenges of the jury trials in small towns in Russia
The Crime Control, Luhmann's Systems Theory and Practices of Coping with Jury Reform
Appellate practice of regional courts as a source of criminal justice standards in a jury trial
Chair/Discussant: Alexander Kondakov (UCD, Dublin, Ireland)
Women on Boards of Directors: Legal Aspects in Finland and Russia
The status of cryptocurrencies in bankruptcy
Chair/Discussant: Dmitrii Kurnosov (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Women's Rights under the Small House Policy in Hong Kong
Transnational Legal Feminism: origins, cornerstones, trajectories
Legal Pluralism at the Borderlands: British Muslim Women at the cusp of claiming?
Chair/Discussant: Marianna Muravyeva (University of Helsinki, Finland)
‚Indemnities’ à la Russe: to the issue of transferability of legal borrowings
Transplanting RIA in Thailand: The investigation on The legal Culture of Method
Interference of normative systems and deontic cognates: How do courts (mis)interpret borrowing from one normative system to another
Chair/Discussant: Jeffrey Kahn (SMU Dedman School of Law, Dallas, USA)
Professor of Government and Chair of the Women's and Gender Studies Program, Georgetown University, USA
Black Women's Appearance is Political
How do the politics of appearance shape Black women’s political ambitions, opportunities, and access to political office in the United States? In this talk, I will explore the ways that Black women contemporary political elites manage and assess their personal aesthetics in light of White supremacy, racism and sexism. The talk is derived from analysis in Sister Style: The Politics of Appearance for Black Women Elites (co-authored by Danielle Lemi and published by Oxford University Press in 2021).
Chair: Katja Kahlina (University of Helsinki, Finland)
The language of investigative cases of political crimes in the Russian Empire
Language of Commercial Courts’ Decisions In Russia: Regional Difference
Can Publicity Change the Behavior of Law?
Plural security: using urban security infrastructure in Russian small cities
Securitization of Elections - State Backlash against the Democratic Entitlement
Public councils in Russia: legal regulation and actual functioning
Chair/Discussant: Thomas Kruessmann (New Vision University, Tbilisi, Georgia)
Russian Foreign Policy and the International Law in 1990s versus 2000s: Using, Misusing, or Creating a New Norm?
Bankers in Russia: Membership of a Particular Social Group in the Refugee Convention
On Legal Diversity & Plural Understanding of Law in Increasing Authoritarianism
Chair/Dusacussant: Markku Kangaspuro (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Assessing the asylum claims of trans and gender non-conforming claimants
A recording of the talk is available (video only accessible through this link).
Future-Proofing the Nation: Victims and Villains in Marriages of Convenience in Irish Law and Policy
“Access to a Right to Have Rights”? Between Safe Third Countries and the EU
Chair/Discussant: Caress Schenk (Nazarbayev University, Nur-Sultan city, Kazakhstan)
Migration and Legal Informality in Russia and Turkey
Order in the Bazaar: The Transformation of Nonstate Law in Afghanistan’s Market
You must be counted to count
Legal Consultations in Mosques in Central and North-Western Russia: between civic activism and bureaucracy
Chair: Anna-Liisa Heusala (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Discussant: Egor Lazarev (Yale University, USA)
Teaching for (Non-)Compliance: A Study of the ECHRisation of Legal Education in Russia
The Anti-Deference Device: Article 18 of the European Convention on Human Rights
The Governance of Anti-Corruption on the Polar Silk Road
Chair/Discussant: Marianna Muravyeva (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Goodman-Schipper Chair and Professor of Law at the University of Toronto, Canada
The New Sex Wars: Sexual Harm in the #MeToo Era
#MeToo’s stunning explosion on social media in October 2017 radically changed—and amplified—conversations about sexual violence as it revealed how widespread the issue is and toppled prominent celebrities and politicians. But, as the movement spread, a conflict emerged among feminist supporters and detractors about how punishment should be doled out and how justice should be served. My book The New Sex Wars reveals that these clashes are nothing new. Delving into the contentious debates from the ’70s and ‘80s, I trace the striking echoes in the feminist divisions of this earlier period. In exploring the history of past conflicts—the resistance to finding common ground, the media’s pleasure in portraying the debates as polarized cat fights, the simplification of viewpoints as pro- and anti-sex—she shows how they have come to shape the #MeToo era. From the 1970s to now, I examine the tensions between the need for recognition and protection under the law, and the colossal and ongoing failure of that law to redress historic injustice. By circumventing law altogether, #MeToo has led us to question whether justice can be served outside of the courtroom. I argue for a different way forward—one based on reparative models that focus on shared desired outcomes and the willingness to understand the other side.
Chair: Pia Letto-Vanamo (University of Helsinki, Finland)