The programme for the conference is available below. Delegates are listed according to the session in which they appear. Clicking on the Session Title will take you to the abstracts (where available) for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation.

Final Conference Programme (v.2.1)

Wednesday 14th July

from 12.30pm
Registration

2.00pm
Welcome and Opening Words
Rob Fisher

2.15pm
Keynote Address
Pain, Interrogation, and the Body: State Violence and the Law of Torture
John Parry

3.30pm
Tea

4.00pm
Session 1: Atrocity, Terrorism, and Accountability
Chair: Thomas Platt

Kirsten Ainley
Responsibility for Atrocity: Individual Criminal Agency and the International Criminal Court

Elena Baylis
Suicidal Impunity

Douglas Sylvester
The Use of Ordinary Legal Process to do Justice to Extraordinary History and Actors

5.30pm
Wine Reception

7.00pm
Dinner

Thursday 15th July
9.00am
Session 2: Theorizing Crime and Punishment
Chair: Teri McMurtry-Chubb

Angeliki Kontou
Hegel on Crime, Evil and Punishment: Freedom and Reconciliation between ‘the Individual’ and ‘the Social’

Vince Luizzi
New Balance and the Scales of Justice

Slawomir Rzeszotko
Some Comments on the Prospects of an International Theory of Justice

10.30am
Coffee

11.00am
Session 3: Evil Compulsions: State Intervention and Public Consent
Chair: Bram Ieven

Kim Stevenson
Evil Counsels; Perspectives on Recent Legislative Initiatives

Shani D’Cruze
Protection, Harm and Social Evil: The Age of Consent since 1885

Judith Rowbotham
Legislating for Your Own Good – The ‘Evil’ Vaccination Acts and the Law

12.30pm
Lunch

2.00pm
Session 4: The Criminal State
Chair: M.H. Sam Jacobson

Ruth Miller
Authority, Evil, and Corruption: The Invention of Political Crime in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey

Sonja Tomovic
Evil, Law and State in the former Yugoslavia

Rui Zhu
Development as Stability: On Collective Apathy towards State-Generated Evils in Contemporary China

3.30pm
Tea

4.00pm
Session 5: Health Care and State Power
Chair: Fernando Purcell

Alban Burke
Mental Health Care During Apartheid in South Africa: An Illustration of How “Science” Can Be Abused

Dani Filc & Hadas Ziv
The Fiction of Sovereignty and the Denial of the Right to Health Care: Isreal’s Policy in the Occupied Territories’

Jonathon E. Lynch
Inflicting Pain on the Mentally Ill

5.30pm
Sessions End

Friday 16th July
9.00am
Session 6: Patriot(ic) Acts and U.S. Law
Chair: John Parry

M.H. Sam Jacobson
When Bad Faith Meets Machiavelli: Abuses of Administrative Power Under the Bush Administration

B. Lara Lee
Veiled Discourse: A Deadly Consciousness of Obedience to Authority

Ranetta Lawson Mack
Codifying “Evil” in Response to Evil

10.30am
Coffee

11.00am
Session 7: Human Rights and State Power
Chair: Kim Stevenson

Roberto Buonamano
Humanity and Inhumanity: State Power and the Force of Law in the Prescription of Juridical Norms

Tammy Lynn Castelein
”The Right to Have Rights”: Hannah Arendt’s Foundation of Human Rights

Joann Ross
China’s One Child Policy: Can It Be All Good or All Bad?

12.30pm
Lunch

2.00pm Concurrent Session
Session 8A: Blasphemy and Community
Chair: Rob Fisher

David Nash
Blasphemous Evils and Evil Blasphemies: The Historical Context of State Action Against Religious Dissidence

Darren Oldridge
Evil Beasts: The Criminal Trial of Animals in Mediaeval and Renaissance Europe

Session 8B: Conflict and Resolution
Chair: Judith Rowbotham

Kostas Gouliamos & Antonis Theocharous
From Objective Photography to Subjective Narrative? Understanding and Interpretation of Conflict, Violence and Terrorism through Photo Images

Arax-Marie Yildizian & Anoush Ehteshami
Ethnic Conflict in Cyprus and the Contact Hypothesis: An Empirical Investigation

3.00pm
Tea

3.30pm
Session 9: Power at the Margins: Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration
Chair: B. Lara Lee

Teri McMurtry-Chubb
The Codification of Racism

Fernando Purcell
”Too Many Foreigners For My Taste.” Law, Race and Ethnicity in early U.S. California, 1848-1851

Claudia Tazreiter
Security and the Use of State Violence: Justifications and Limits in the Treatment of Asylum Seekers

5.00pm
Sessions End

Saturday 17th July
9.00am
Session 10: Prison and Execution
Chair: David Nash

Jody Madeira
The Execution as Blood Sacrifice

Diana Medlicott
Hold Back the State and Keep the Lawyers Out: Restorative Justice Responses to Crime and Victimisation

Trisha Olson
The Thief on the Cross: The Problem of Pain in Punishment

10.30am
Coffee

11.00am
Session 11: Evil Processes
Chair: Slawomir Rzeszotko

Ruben Berrios
Bureaucratic Criminality

Istar Gozaydin-Savasir
Rape, Prostitution and Law in Turkey

Martin Hebert & Caroline Aubry
Linguistic Competence, Cultural Categories and Discrimination: Indigenous People before the Mexican Court System

12.30pm
Lunch

2.00pm
Session 12: Evil, Law, and Ethics
Chair: Roberto Buonamano

Bram Ieven
The Legitimate/the Just: Ethics and Law in Deconstruction

Ville Paivansalo
Plurality of Evils and Reasonable Liberalism

Thomas Platt
Appropriate Predication: The Other Problem of Evil

3.30pm
Tea

4.00pm
Development Meeting

4.30pm
Conference Close