Program :

Working with Legal Pluralism  in the Francophone & Anglophone Pacific Islands

25 September 2014 Seminar Room 1.04 Coombs Extension Australian National University

8:30	Coffee
9:00	Opening and welcome by Dean Veronica Taylor and French Embassy Head of Culture, Education, Science and Technology Eric Soulier
9:15	Miranda Forsyth: Setting the Scene: A Typology of Legal Pluralism / Vers une typologie du pluralisme juridique
9:45	Sinclair Dinnen: Engaging Locally: Community Policing Innovations in Bougainville & Solomon Islands / Discuter le pluralisme: les innovations communautaires en matière de police
10:15	Morning tea
10:45	Michael Goddard: The Trajectory of Pluralism in the Evolution of Papua New Guinea's Village Courts / Les transformations du pluralisme dans l'évolution des cours de justices des villages de Papouasie‐Nouvelle-Guinée
11:15	Siobhan McDonnell: Legal pluralism in land dealings (Vanuatu); moving beyond the romanticism of chiefs / Le pluralisme juridique et les affaires de terres: au-delà d'une vision romantique des chefs
11:45	General discussion on the morning papers
12:00	Lunch on site
1:00	Introduction by Serge Tcherkezoff.
1:05	Patrice Godin and Jone Passa: New Caledonia: Custom, Law, Society: A sociological and anthropological point of view / Coutume, Droit, Société: un point de vue socio‐ anthropologique
1:45	Round table discussion, introduction by Patrice Godin and Jone Passa: New Caledonian Citizenship: Discussions in progress /La citoyenneté calédonienne, discussions en cours
2:15	Melissa Nayral: The ‘Conseil municipal’ (local council) of Ouvea (New Caledonia): The Emergence of an autonomous political arena / Le Conseil Municipal d’Ouvea: vers un champ politique autonome
2:45	Afternoon tea
3:15	Allison Lotti: The customary law in Wallis and Futuna, between tradition and modernity / Le droit coutumier à Wallis et Futuna, entre tradition et modernité
3:45	Tamatoa Bambridge: Legal pluralism in French Polynesia: contemporary determinants / Le pluralisme juridique en Polynésie française: quelques déterminants contemporains
4:15	General discussion on the afternoon papers, facilitated by Salmah Eva-Lina Lawrence
4:45	Keebet von Benda-Beckmann: Summation and Closing

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