Upcoming Events: September 16, 2012

Upcoming Events

• On October 1-2, 2012, Leiden University and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam will host the Second Annual Expert Seminar on Foreign Investment Law, entitled: Foreign investment in the energy sector: Balancing private and public interests at Leiden University in The Netherlands. Registration is free, but space is limited.
• Friday, October 12, 2012, St. John’s Law Review, St. John’s Center for International and Comparative Law and St. John’s Corporate and Securities Law Society are jointly hosting a law review symposium entitled: Revolution in the Regulation of Financial Advice: The U.S., the U.K. and Australia at St. John’s University Manhattan Campus. More information can be found here, and the link to registration is here.
• On November 2-3, 2012, the International Humanitarian Law Clinic at Emory University Law School and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) will convene the next Teaching International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Workshop in Atlanta. Information about the workshop and registration is available here. For additional information, please contact Laurie Blank, Director of the International Humanitarian Law Clinic, Emory Law School, at lblank@emory.edu.

Calls for Papers

• The deadline for the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL)/Cambridge University Press’ 2012 International Economic Law Essay competition is September 30, 2012. The SIEL and CUP award a prize for the best essay submitted on any topic in any field of international economic law. For clarification, essays with a focus on international commercial arbitration or EU law will not be considered for this Prize.
• The Graduate School of Government and European Studies will host a three-day conference from January 17-19, 2013, in Bled, Slovenia entitled the GLOTHRO Workshop on the Direct Human Rights Obligations of Corporations in International Law. The call for papers can be found here. Interested applicants should send a 200 word abstract and a CV in narrative form by October 30, 2012 to jernej.letnar@fds.si. Authors will be notified of acceptance by November 10, 2012. With questions, email jernej.letnar@fds.si.
• Transnational Legal Theory, a quarterly journal published by Hart Publishing, is now receiving submissions that engage with topics in transnational law, international law, transnational jurisprudence, conflict of laws, comparative legal studies, global governance and constitutionalism, and global administrative law. The Journal welcomes thoughtful and innovative scholarship, also from non-lawyers (as long as the submissions address and engage with themes of transnational legal theory) as well as book reviews and suggestions for review. Submissions should be made to tlteditorial@hartpub.co.uk. All submissions undergo anonymous peer review.