Events and Announcements: August 18, 2013

Announcements

• A prize has been established by the Society of International Economic Law and Cambridge University Press for the best essay submitted on any topic in any field of international economic law. The competition is open to all current undergraduate and graduate students of any university or other tertiary education institution, and those who have graduated from a university or other tertiary education institution no earlier than five years before the submission deadline (i.e., those who graduated prior to 30 September 2008 are not eligible for the 2013 Prize). The prize consists of £200, as well as £300 of Cambridge University Press book vouchers and a three year subscription to the World Trade Review. The winning essay will be submitted to the World Trade Review for publication, and the prize winner will be invited to present the winning entry at the 2014 SIEL Conference at the World Trade Institute, Bern.The deadline for submission is 30 September 2013. For more information, click here. 

Event

• The American Bar Association Section of International Law will host a one-day International Legal Education Summit in London, England on Saturday, October 29, 2013. Registration will be FREE but space is limited.  (Please register ONLY if you are sure you can go.)  The International Legal Education Summit is designed to foster innovative exchanges and networking.  There will be special programming for students and new lawyers, small group information and innovation exchanges for educators and lawyers, and plenary session roundtables on the changing aspects of international legal practice and the future of international legal education. Programs will be held at the University of Law in Moorgate (City of London). Download information about the London Education Summit 2013. The registration link is included in the flier.

Call for Papers

• A call for papers has been issued for a conference on Constitutionalisation and Fragmentation of International Law Revisited November 18-19, 2013, at the Institute of Law Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, in Warsaw. The call can be found here.

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