Upcoming Events: October 28, 2012

Upcoming Events

• The University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law will host a symposium entitled: Mass Torts in a Shrinking World, November 2, 2012. You can find the program here.
• On November 2-3, 2012 at Duke University School of Law, the Private International Law Interest Group of the American Society of International Law will host a conference on What Is Private International Law?
• ALMA and the Radzyner School of Law of the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) would like to invite you to the next session of the Joint International Humanitarian Law Forum. The session will be held November 7, 2012, at the IDC. Dr. Ziv Bohrer will present his new paper (co-authored with Prof. Mark Osiel): Proportionality in Military Force at War’s Multiple Levels: Averting Civilian Casualties vs. Safeguarding Soldiers.
• On November 15-17, 2012, the Asociación Argentina de Derecho Internacional will host the XXIV Congreso Argentino de Derecho Internacional in Rosario. The program can be found here.
• On November 29-20, the European State Aid Law Institute will host its Autumn Workshop and Conference on European State Aid Law in Copenhagen, Denmark.
• The University of Liverpool will host the first Critical Approaches to International Criminal Law Conference, December 6-8, 2012 at the International Slavery Museum and Jurys Inn in Liverpool. An excerpt about the conference: “the debate [will shift] towards the complicities and limitations in the contemporary understanding of ICL. We aim to question some of the assumptions which inform the field and which may cause injustice, conflict, exclusion and bias.” The draft program can be found here.

Calls for Papers

• The Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana, presents an international conference, Responsibility to Protect in Theory and Practice, April 11-12, 2013. The call for papers is here. Abstracts for papers or poster presentations are due Oct. 31, 2012.
• On June 6-7, 2013, the Department of Culture Studies at Tilburg University will convene a two-day international conference on research and teaching in the field of law and popular culture. The call for papers can be found here. Papers on any aspect of the relationship between law and popular culture are welcome. Abstracts are due by December 1, 2012.
• Merkourious, the Utrecht Journal of International and European Law, has issued a call for papers on Gender in International and European Law. Topics may include, but are not limited to international and/or European human rights law issues such as non-discrimination, employment, corporate social responsibility, health, family life, children’s right, hate speech, terrorism and the process to strengthen the treaty body system, as well as other areas of international law such as peacekeeping, international humanitarian law, environmental law, women and development, indigenous law, refugee and migration law, legal ethics, and international customary law. Abstracts should be submitted by February 13, 2013 and submissions by March 13, 2013.
• Trade, Law and Development has issued a call for submissions for its next special issue, India and the World Economic Order. Submissions can be written as ‘Articles’, ‘Notes’, ‘Comments’ and/or ‘Book Reviews’. Submissions can deal with any aspect of India’s role or policies in the world economic system. Manuscripts may be submitted via email, ExpressO, or the TL&D website. The last date for submissions is February 15, 2013.
• The Journal of Philosophy of International Law has issued a call for papers. The Journal welcomes submissions of articles and reviews for consideration with a view to publication. The normal word length for article contributions is between 4000-8000 words. The normal word length for reviews/commentaries should be 1000 to 1500 words. Submissions (except reviews/commentaries) should include a short abstract of not more than 60 words.

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.