Opening Remarks

• Andrea Ballestero
  Rice University
• Z. Umut Türem
  Boğaziçi University

Panel 1 Translation through dense semiotic ranges

• Jothie Rajah
  American Bar Foundation

  Bedeviled Rule of Law: Translating Law’s Authority in a Post-9/11 World

• Andrea Ballestero
  Rice University

  What is in 3%? Calculation as the Chronotope of Human Rights in Translation

• Yasmine Chahed
  London School of Economics

  Translation at the intersections of law and accounting

Roundtable 1- Difference as the precondition of translation?

Difference of many sorts instantiates the need for a process of translation whereby the law comes into being. This panel will explore the types of differences that translation presumes and the ways in which such difference might be troubled, or not, in the contemporary. How is the process of translation deemed necessary in the first place? What regulatory problematic does translation resolve? And, does regulatory translation make sense at all in a world that many scholars deem as increasingly standardized.

• Philip Liste
  University of Hamburg
• Peer Zumbansen
  York University
• Ann Janette Rosga
  Transpositions Consulting, California

Panel 2 Law, Economies and Markets translating each ohter

• Alfred Aman
  Indiana University

  Translating Markets into Law and Law into Markets: What is Lost and Found in Translation

• Kregg Hetherington
  Concordia University

  Regular Soybeans: Ontological Politics in the Rise of a Mega Crop

• Z. Umut Türem
  Boğaziçi University

  Competition in Translation: Informing the Self and Political Economy

Roundtable 2 – The translation of value(s) through norms

This roundtable explores processes where translation of value(s) is explicitly address. How does the law activate the desire for values in translation? How is value circumscribed, on the first place, so that it can be translated? Here, value takes different forms from such as patentable entities, constitutional orders, environmental protection.

• Laura Foster
  Indiana University
• Iza Hussin
  University of Chicago
• Katharina Mangold
  Goethe University
• Şahin Ardıyok
  ACTECON Consulting

Panel 3 Assembling scales of law and regulation through translation

• Iza Hussin
  University of Chicago

  Circulations of Law: Indian Ocean Networks and Trajectories of the Muslim State

• Philip Liste
  University of Hamburg

  The Spatial Knowledge of Transnational Human Rights Litigation

• Katharina Mangold
  Goethe University

  The Persistence of National Peculiarities: Translating Representative Environmental Action from Transnational into German Law

Roundtable 3 Topologies and Topographies of Translation

The law continues to think of itself largely as a geography-based project. Tying jurisdiction partially to space, legal problematics emerge when conventional jurisdictions, such as municipalities and even states, can no longer stabilize legal problems for their “resolution.” This roundtable will explore translation as a means to stabilize/disrupt space as a foundational legal principle. How does taking translation, as an epistemic practice seriously, transform the notion of space that the law relies upon? And, to what effect?

• Andrea Ballestero
  Rice University
• Alfred Aman
  Indiana University
• Jothie Rajah
  American Bar Foundation
• Tuna Kuyucu
  Boğaziçi University

Panel 4 The foreign and the native as fields for translation

• Laura Foster
  Indiana University

  Techniques of Refraction: Scientific Regulatory Translations
at the Limits of Patent Law and Benefit Sharing in Southern Africa

• Ann Janette Rosga
  Transpositions Consulting, California

  Semantic Disappointment: Why the Incommensurability of a Cultural Study of Law and the Practice of Human Rights Advocacy Needn’t Actually Be Disappointing

• Peer Zumbansen
  York University

  Sociological Jurisprudence 2.0: Updating Law’s Interdisciplinarity

Roundtable 4 Disciplinary practices of translation

How do we come to understand the ontological politics of different modalities of translation while taking seriously the disciplinary tools and instruments on which practitioners rely? How do specific disciplines, in the sense of regimented modalities of thought, open or foreclose regulatory regimes? This roundtable examines the politics of knowledge forms as experienced by practitioners working from diverse social locations. It juxtaposes techniques of regulatory translation and highlights the diversity and multiplicity of those techniques to ponder whether and how can we remain attentive to the peculiar implications of each of those techniques.

• Yasmine Chahed
  London School of Economics
• Kregg Hetherington
  Concordia University
• Umut Turem
  Boğaziçi University
• Yavuz Mavioğlu
  ADMD Law Office

Open discussion: common threads and critical reflection on translation as a concept to think with.

• Alfred Aman Jr.

  Logistics about Special Issue of the Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

Concluding Remarks

• Alfred Aman Jr.
  Maurer School of Law, Indiana University
• Andrea Ballestero
  Rice University
• Z. Umut Türem
  Boğaziçi University