IISL Newsletter - July 2020

After two intense years serving as Scientific Director (SD) at the Oñati Institute for the Sociology of Law (IISL) for the 2018-2020 term, the time has come for me to write my farewell letter. The experience acquired during that time has served to confirm my previous impressions about the outstanding quality of the services that the IISL provides to socio-legal scholarship all over the world. But it also gave me new insights, and elements of judgement, about the strengths and weaknesses of this unique institution created in 1989, which soon gained a distinctive and lasting global reputation. As the rare and beautiful flower that the IISL is, it is also a particularly vulnerable institution in an increasingly cool-blooded context of austerity measures, fierce academic competition, digital technologies and restructuring of higher education all over the world.  [Read more]

International Master's Programme 2020-2021

• 21 Sep - 02 Oct 2020: Comparative Legal Culture.Bengoetxea, Joxerramon (University of the Basque Country), Nabaskues, Iker (University of the Basque Country)
• 05 Oct - 16 Oct 2020: Sociology of Law and the Economy. Picciotto, Sol (Lancaster University), Miola, Iagê Z. (Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP)
• 19 Oct - 30 Oct 2020: Legal Anthropology - An Introductory Guide to Legal Pluralism. Seidel, Katrin (Max Planck Institute in Halle)
• 02 Nov - 10 Nov 2020: Research design and quatitative approaches. Roach Anleu, Sharyn (Flinders University)
• 12 Nov - 20 Nov 2020: Qualitative approaches to research.Amietta, Santiago (Keele University), Melville, Angela (Flinders University)
• 23 Nov - 04 Dec 2020: Law, Power and Knowledge. Bonilla, Daniel (Universidad de los Andes)
• 07 Dec - 18 Dec 2020: Legal Activism and Social Movements. Morales, Myrta (Cruz Inter-American University of Puerto Rico)
• 04 Jan - 15 Jan 2021: Cultures of social control and victimhood: Criminal policy in times of the digital Panopticon. Varona, Gema (University of the Basque Country), Pelaez, Paula (Universidad de Córdoba)
• 18 Jan - 29 Jan 2021: Transitional Justice & Human Rights. Parmentier, Stephan (University of Leuven), Umaña, Camilo (Externado University Colombia)
• 01 Feb - 12 Feb 2021: Judicial independence and the protection of human rights. Lemke, Stefanie (University of Oxford)
• 15 Feb - 26 Feb 2021: Children's Rights Studies and Childhood Studies: a Critical Introduction. Cordero, Matias (Independent Researcher and Educator at Young Offenders' Institutions)
• 01 Mar - 12 Mar 2021: Gender and Law. Kondakov, Alexander (University College Dublin), Muravyeva, Marianna (University of Helsinki)
• 15 Mar - 26 Mar 2021: A Sociology of Constitutionalism. Přibáň, Jiří (Cardiff University)
• 01 Oct - 31 Mar 2020: Thesis Seminar and Tutorials. Ramstedt, Martin (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology)

Registration is open for Individual Master courses

As every year, the IISL is offering the opportunity to enrol for individual courses within its International Master's Programme in Sociology of Law, and to attend class by some of the most prominent researchers and professors in the world.

Please enroll filling in this webform.

Students of individual courses can opt for lodging at our Antixena residence. To learn more, click here.

Oñati Community

Oñati Community (OC) is the newest project/initiative in the Oñati Institute.

The project, which was launched informally in 2016, was incorporated into the range of activities of the International Institute for the Sociology of Law in 2017.

OC brings together the community of scholars, Master students, research visitors, workshop and Conference participants who take an active part and interest in the activities of the Institute and wish to be connected and networked for all kinds of academic success initiatives and social activities such as joint projects, social parallel gatherings around academic events, news about the Oñati Institute and the OC members, meeting OC members around the globe, organising future events or remembering past events. The OC also brings news about Oñati and the Basque Country and Basque culture.

Membership is open to all persons who are enthusiastic about the genuine Oñati experience and some degree of active involvement in the OC is expected from the members, and voluntary contribution to a small fund that can be used to support the OC activities and small but important financial help for students or Conference participations.

Please take a moment and visit http://onati.community now and add the address to your bookmarks!

OC has organised Live interviews available through Instagram and the Youtube Channel (May & June), with protagonists all over the world and Susana as interviewer.

These sessions were organised:

• Ihintza Palacin (Master’s student 2014-15)
• Johannes Feest (Scientific Director 1995-97 and Master’s professor)
• Camilo Umaña (Master’s Student and Professor 2020 and 2021)
• Annette Lansink (Visiting Scholar 2019 and 2020)

On June 11 OC celebrated its first International Day of the Oñati Community (Corpus Christi Day), with a Blog on Corpus Festivity and upload of photos by members of the OC. Click here to see more.

OC received specific donations to help this year students who stayed at the Residencia during the lockdown (400 € for food expenses) Students very much appreciated this, since they ran short of money being unable to return to the countries.

Manolo Calvo grant

A special Grant to honour Manuel (Manolo) Calvo will be given to a Master’s student. The OC will dedicate 600€ as a starting point; the aim would be to reach 1500 €for a grant to a Master student.

There are two ways to contribute:

1) Through the platform Stripe/Oñati Community (mentioning Manolo Calvo Grant)

2) Bank account of the Oñati Community: IBAN ES71 0182 0326 17 0201530312 (mentioning Manolo Calvo grant, Oñati Community, IISL)