International Seminar May 25th, 2009, 14:30, CES Seminar Room Within the Doctoral Programmes “Law, Justice and Citizenship in the 21st Century” and “Postcolonialisms and Global citizenship”, as well as the activities of the Studies on State, Law and Administration Research Group (NEEDA), of the Centre for Social Studies.. 14.30: Intervention/Presentation of the Chair, Boaventura de Sousa Santos 14.45: Richard Mohr – “The legitimation of suffering” 15.15: Break 15.30: Commentary 16.20: Debate with the audience 17.00: Response – Richard Mohr 17.15: Final commentaries by Boaventura de Sousa Santos Professor Richard Mohr is Co-Director of the Legal Intersections Research Centre and Director of the Post-Graduate Programmes at the School of Law, University of Wollongong, Australia. Also, he is Chief-Editor of the Journal Law Text Culture. His main research interests are: judicial semiotics, power and authority forms of constitution, relations between law and material objects, and application of discursive theories to decision making processes. Besides these issues, he also develops research in the field of assessment of quality of justice and courts and justice administration. Some published works: Mohr, R. (2008), “Flesh and the person”, in Australian Feminist Law Journal, 29, pp. 31-52. Acessível em http://works.bepress.com/rmohr/2/. Mohr, R. (2007), “Identity crisis: judgement and the hollow legal subject”, in Law Text Culture, 11, pp. 106-128. Acessível em http://works.bepress.com/rmohr/7/. Mohr, R.; Contini, F. (2007), “Judicial evaluation in context: principles, practices and promise in nine European countries”, in Journal of Legal Studies, 1(2). Acessível em http://works.bepress.com/rmohr/14/. Mohr, R. (2005), “Enduring signs and obscure meanings: contested coats of arms in Australian jurisdictions”, in A. Wagner, T. Summerfield, F. Benevides (eds.) Contemporary issues of the Semiotics of Law, Oxford, pp. 180-195. Acessível em http://works.bepress.com/rmohr/3/. |