Call for Papers - 2013 EGPA Annual Conference
Call for Papers - 2013 EGPA Annual Conference
Call for Papers - 2013 EGPA Annual Conference
You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles
YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.
www.iias-iisa.org<br />
www.iias-iisa.org/egpa<br />
InternatIonal InstItute<br />
of admInIstratIve scIences<br />
rue defacqz, 1, box 11<br />
B-1000 Brussels, Belgium<br />
tel : +32 2 536 08 80<br />
fax : +32 2 537 97 02<br />
e-mail :info@iias-iisa.org<br />
european group<br />
<strong>for</strong> puBlIc admInIstratIon<br />
egpa-geap@iias-iisa.org<br />
<strong>Call</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Papers</strong><br />
Improving Administrative Sciences Worldwide<br />
<strong>2013</strong> <strong>EGPA</strong> <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Conference</strong><br />
11-13 September - Edinburgh, Scotland<br />
Permanent Study Group XVIII :<br />
Justice and Court Administration<br />
The <strong>2013</strong> <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Conference</strong> of the European Group <strong>for</strong> Public Administration will be held<br />
in Edinburgh, Scotland from 11 to 13 September <strong>2013</strong>.<br />
Aim of the Permanent Study Group 18 on Justice and Court Administration<br />
The study group offers an international and multidisciplinary plat<strong>for</strong>m to discuss justice<br />
administration policies, justice administration projects related to the functioning of courts<br />
and public prosecution agencies, and to other organizations and institutions in the justice<br />
field.<br />
The study group wants to create a plat<strong>for</strong>m, where experiences practices of organisation<br />
development, policy development and policy implementation and research into the functioning<br />
of institutions and organisations in the justice field can be exchanged and discussed. For<br />
researchers it should help them to develop research projects and <strong>for</strong> persons working in the<br />
justice field the study group is an opportunity to be in<strong>for</strong>med on the latest developments<br />
in research in their field and to influence the development of research. The scope of all this<br />
is to build bridges between national perspectives and to build a transnational professional<br />
community in the EU and beyond, involving both academics and practitioners. The ultimate<br />
aim is to explore common ground <strong>for</strong> cooperation and exchange in Europe in the justice field<br />
amongst policymakers, managers and academics.<br />
More in<strong>for</strong>mation about the Permanent Study Group XVIII on Justice and Court Administration<br />
can be found on the Website of <strong>EGPA</strong>:<br />
http://www.iias-iisa.org/egpa/e/study groups/justice/Pages/default.aspx<br />
The results of the activities of the Permanent Study Group XVIII on Justice and Court<br />
Administration at the last <strong>EGPA</strong> <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Conference</strong> 2012 in Bergen (Norway) are<br />
documented: http://egpa-conference2012.org/list-of-papers/psg-xviii-justice-andcourt-administration/.<br />
Some of the papers are published in the International Journal <strong>for</strong><br />
Court Administration (IJCA): http://www.iaca.ws/ijca-publications.html<br />
The study group is co-chaired by:<br />
• Prof. dr Philip Langbroek, University of Utrecht (the Netherlands)<br />
• Prof. Dr. Andreas Lienhard, University of Bern (Switzerland)<br />
• Mag. Daniel Kettiger, University of Bern (Switzerland)<br />
• Dr. Marco Fabri, Research Institute on Judicial System, National Research Council (Italy)<br />
For more in<strong>for</strong>mation you can reach the Permanent Study Group XVIII on Justice and Court<br />
Administration by e-mail: egpa@kpm.unibe.ch.<br />
<strong>Call</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Papers</strong> 1
www.iias-iisa.org/egpa<br />
InternatIonal InstItute<br />
of admInIstratIve scIences<br />
rue defacqz, 1, box 11<br />
B-1000 Brussels, Belgium<br />
tel : +32 2 536 08 80<br />
fax : +32 2 537 97 02<br />
e-mail :info@iias-iisa.org<br />
european group<br />
<strong>for</strong> puBlIc admInIstratIon<br />
egpa-geap@iias-iisa.org<br />
<strong>Call</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Papers</strong><br />
Improving Administrative Sciences Worldwide<br />
The <strong>EGPA</strong> <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Conference</strong> <strong>2013</strong><br />
The Permanent Study Group XVIII on Justice and Court Administration plans 6 sessions of<br />
about half a day. More In<strong>for</strong>mation on the <strong>EGPA</strong> <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Conference</strong> <strong>2013</strong> you can get here:<br />
http://www.egpa-conference-<strong>2013</strong>.org/<br />
3Subjects <strong>for</strong> papers (scope)<br />
This year we would like to gather papers in three different areas :<br />
• Justice and court administration in general<br />
• Special session 1: Caseload and caseload management<br />
• Special session 2: Courts in the age of in<strong>for</strong>mation<br />
The papers <strong>for</strong> all the sessions shall have a multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary approach<br />
to the subject dealt with. <strong>Papers</strong> may as well contain new theories or hypotheses resulting<br />
from projects, studies or surveys.<br />
Justice and court administration in general<br />
For this area you may submit papers on all subjects concerning the administration or the<br />
management of justice apart from those that are within the scope of the two other sessions:<br />
• Justice administration and politics (e.g. supervision and inspection in justice administration;<br />
independence, autonomy and accountability; justice systems as a policy domain; economic<br />
approaches to court administration; financial relations in justice administration; appointments<br />
and dismissal of judges and prosecutors; the relation between courts and politics).<br />
• Justice administration and society (e.g. social problem solving; access to justice;<br />
positioning courts in society; pre-trial proceedings and mediation; the role of courts<br />
in macro-economics; lay judges and public trust; the involvement of juries in judicial<br />
administration; internationalization of law and society and the organization of transnational<br />
judicial cooperation between national justice systems; ethics in justice administration.).<br />
• Justice chains (e.g. relation between partners in the justice chains: courts and the prosecutions<br />
office, youth protection agencies, prisons, advocates, baillifs, probation agencies,<br />
businesses, law schools; managing expert witnesses; leadership and coordination in<br />
chains with independent professionals; comparisons between courts and other professional<br />
organizations).<br />
• Management of courts in the justice system (organization development in courts; organization<br />
aims and targets in courts; In<strong>for</strong>mation technologies and case-flow management;<br />
courts, societal interactions and human resources management; required judicial skills as<br />
a function of juridical and societal needs; judicial specialization versus judges as ‘know all’<br />
and ‘can all’; cooperation between judges and court staff).<br />
Not included in this area are monodisciplinary papers on law matters, e.g. on the<br />
independence of judges or courts or on other subject in the fields of constitutional law.<br />
Special session 1: caseload and caseflow management<br />
To manage courts it is very important to know the workload that is caused by a certain<br />
type of case and to relate it with the available resources. There<strong>for</strong>e there is a strong need<br />
<strong>for</strong> caseload management to have an efficient and effective court functioning. This session<br />
calls <strong>for</strong> papers on caseload studies and caseload management, concerning theoretic and<br />
methodological (e.g. how to measure the weighted caseload) matters as well as reports on<br />
caseload studies or on the implementation of caseload management systems in courts.<br />
<strong>Call</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Papers</strong> 2
www.iias-iisa.org/egpa<br />
InternatIonal InstItute<br />
of admInIstratIve scIences<br />
rue defacqz, 1, box 11<br />
B-1000 Brussels, Belgium<br />
tel : +32 2 536 08 80<br />
fax : +32 2 537 97 02<br />
e-mail :info@iias-iisa.org<br />
european group<br />
<strong>for</strong> puBlIc admInIstratIon<br />
egpa-geap@iias-iisa.org<br />
<strong>Call</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Papers</strong><br />
Improving Administrative Sciences Worldwide<br />
Special session 2: courts in the age of in<strong>for</strong>mation<br />
We are living in the in<strong>for</strong>mation age. This session would like to focus on papers that deals<br />
with courts and the new challenges of the «in<strong>for</strong>mation society». <strong>Papers</strong> may focus on the<br />
exchange of in<strong>for</strong>mation within the judiciary, the in<strong>for</strong>mation of the public by courts, access<br />
to court in<strong>for</strong>mation (freedom of in<strong>for</strong>mation), privacy matters, communication concepts, etc.<br />
If you are not sure about the session in which your idea <strong>for</strong> a paper fits best, do not hesitate<br />
to get in contact with the study group: egpa@kpm.unibe.ch.<br />
Submission of papers and further schedule<br />
An abstract of the paper should be submitted the 15 May <strong>2013</strong>, at the latest, to the study<br />
group via the conference tool: http://www.egpa-conference-<strong>2013</strong>.org/. If the conference<br />
toll should not work, you may also submit the paper directly to the study group: egpa@kpm.<br />
unibe.ch.<br />
The further schedule is as follows:<br />
Selection and decision by the co-chairs: 1 June <strong>2013</strong><br />
Deadline <strong>for</strong> submission of the complete full paper: 5 August <strong>2013</strong><br />
In<strong>for</strong>mation about the timetable of the study group: 20 August <strong>2013</strong><br />
<strong>Call</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Papers</strong> 3