"Legal Culture and the Judicialization of Politics in Latin America", an interdisciplinary workshop for faculty and graduate students, will take place Friday and Saturday, November 17-18, 2006, at the University of Wisconsin Law School’s Lubar Commons (Room 7200).

The event will run from 10 a.m. to 6:15 p.m. Friday, and from 8:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Saturday. Faculty, students, and other interested members of the community are welcome to attend one or all of the sessions. There is no admission fee.

Organizers of the event are: Javier Couso, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile, and 2006 Visiting Tinker Professor, University of Wisconsin Law School; Alexandra Huneeus, Stanford University 2006-07, and University of Wisconsin Law School faculty starting in 2007; and Pablo Rueda, University of California, Berkeley. Panelists include distinguished international scholars and UW faculty.

Joint sponsors of the workshop are: the Global Legal Studies Initiative, the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE), the Wisconsin Project on Governance and Regulation (WISGAR), the Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program (LACIS), and the Institute for Legal Studies at the University of Wisconsin Law School in conjunction with the Law and Society Association Program on International Research Collaboration (PIRC).

Program, abstracts, and information about participants are posted at

http://www.law.wisc.edu/ils/cousoworkshopnov06.htm .

Submitted by on November 20, 2006

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