Upcoming Events: October 7, 2012

Upcoming Events

• On October 11, 2012, the American Society of International Law is organizing a panel on Developing your Faculty Credentials: An International Law Perspective at Tillar House in Washington DC. More information, and free registration, can be found here.
• On October 25, 2012, the NYU Journal of International Law and Politics is organizing the eighteenth annual Herbert Rubin And Justice Rose Luttan Rubin International Law Symposium, entitled Tug of War: The Tension between Regulation and International Cooperation. The symposium will examine how U.S. courts balance our regulatory interest against the need for international cooperation in the context of transnational litigation. A tentative agenda can be found here, and you can register here.

Calls for Papers

• The University of Amsterdam’s Center for International Law has issued a call for papers for a two-day seminar on Interfaces between International and National Legal Orders: An International Rule of Law Perspective, taking place March 14-15, 2013. Proposals of 500 words or fewer are due by November 1, 2012.
• The Polish Yearbook of International Law is seeking articles for its next volume, to be published in June 2013. Submissions should not exceed 15,000 words (including footnotes). Authors must include an abstract not exceeding 250 words. The deadline for submissions is January 31, 2013. Manuscripts are assessed on a rolling basis. Requests for expedited review will be considered in case of a pending acceptance for publication from another journal. More detailed information, including the PYIL style sheet is available here.
• The 2^nd Conference of the Postgraduate and Early Professionals/Academics Network of the Society of International Economic Law (PEPA/SIEL) will take place in Göttingen (Germany) on January 25-26, 2013. Postgraduate (Masters/PhD) students and early career academics studying or working in the field of international economic law are invited to submit a 400 words abstract and their CV to pepa2013conference@gmail.com by October 31, 2012. Successful applicants will be notified by November 30, 2012; after which they are expected to submit a conference paper (no more than 4000 words) by December 31, 2012. At the conference, one or more senior practitioner or academic will comment on each paper, followed by a general discussion. Registration closes on December 7, 2012, and needs to be done online. As a participant the 1^st PEPA/SIEL conference, I strongly recommend anyone working in the field of international economic law to consider submitting an abstract for an invaluable opportunity to discuss and test your ideas!
• Postgraduate students with an interest in human rights are invited to submit abstracts for the Human Rights Research Students’ Conference organized by the Human Rights Consortium at the School of Advanced Studies, University of London, on November 20, 2012. Abstracts of up to 300-350 words should be e-mailed to HRC@sas.ac.uk by October 26, 2012.

Last week’s announcements can be found here. If you are organizing a conference or other event and would like to see the call for papers or the program announced on Opinio Juris, please contact us.