Events and Announcements: October 5, 2014

Events

• International Criminal Court Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda will keynote “Children & International Justice,” a conference to be held on Tuesday, October 28, 2014, at the University of Georgia School of Law in Athens, home institution of the Prosecutor’s Special Adviser on Children in & affected by Armed Conflict, Professor Diane Marie Amann. Taking part will be experts from academia and the practice; from UNICEF and the Office of the Special Representative to the U.N. Secretary-General for Children & Armed Conflict; and from NGOs like Human Rights Watch, the International Center for Transitional Justice, the International Committee of the Red Cross, No Peace Without Justice, Protect Education in Insecurity & Conflict, Save the Children, and The Carter Center. Papers will be published in the Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law. Additional sponsors include the Dean Rusk Center for International Law & Policy, the Georgia Law Project on Armed Conflict & Children, the African Studies Institute of the University of Georgia, the Planethood Foundation, and the American Society of International Law-Southeast. Details and registration can be found here.
• On Monday October 20, 2014, the University of Luxembourg will host a symposium, jointly organised with the UNHCR, on the protection of persons fleeing situations of armed violence. The event will consider the issue of assessing claims for international protection for persons fleeing armed conflict or other situations of violence: using Article 2A of the 1951 Geneva Convention or Article 15 of the EU Qualification Directive? Particular attention will be paid to the new UNHCR guidelines on the subject. Participants will include Pascale Moreau (UNHCR), Advocate General Eleanor Sharpston (CJEU), Judge Lars Bay Larsson (ECJ), Judge Ledi Bianku (ECHR), Alice Edwards (UNHCR), Prof. James Sweeney (Lancaster University), Blanche Tax (UNHCR), Serge Bodart (ULB), Prof. Matthew Happold (University of Luxembourg), and Philippa Candler (UNHCR). Further details of the programme can be found here. The event will take place in English and French with simultaneous translation. Attendance at the symposium is free but registration is required and can be done online here.
• You are invited to the INTRAlaw opening seminar to celebrate the establishment of the research centre INTRAlaw (International and Transnational Tendencies in Law) within the Department of Law at Aarhus University. The centre will provide the framework for coordinating the research activities of a number of senior staff members at the Department of Law in 2014-2018. The formal opening of INTRAlaw is accompanied by the inauguration lecture of Professor Edward Canuel who has been appointed honorary professor of law at Aarhus University. The seminar takes place on October 24, 2014, at Aarhus University Conference Centre – Fredrik Nielsens vej 2-4, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark. The deadline for registration is October 17, 2014. To register, please send an email to Tinna Meyer. The full programme of the seminar can be found here.

Calls for papers

• The Utrecht Journal of International and European Law has extended the deadline for its call for papers on ‘Privacy under International and European Law’ to November 14, 2014. Relevant issues may have broader implications, including: the responsibility of private actors under international law; privacy as a human right; the conflict between State interests and individual rights; the internet and territorial limits; data protection; diverging national approaches to the protection of privacy and the rise of The Board of Editors will select articles based on quality of research and writing, diversity and relevance of topic. The novelty of the academic contribution is also an essential requirement. Prospective articles should be submitted online via the website and should conform to the journal style guide. Utrecht Journal has a word limit of 15,000 words including footnotes. For further information please consult the website or email the editors at utrechtjournal [at] urios [dot] org.
• From April 8-11, 2015, the American Society of International Law will convene its 109th Annual Meeting. The aim of the 2015 Annual Meeting is to promote a rigorous discussion on the question of how international law is “adapting to a rapidly changing world.” Next year, as in the past, the Planning Committee for the Annual Meeting would like to include at least one “New Voices” session that will provide a platform for junior scholars and practitioners to present their works-in-progress. ASIL invites submissions from non-tenured scholars and junior practitioners on any topic of international law. Any authors who submitted a paper abstract in the first call for papers and session proposals do not need to submit again; those abstracts remain under consideration. Abstracts should be well developed and reflect advanced progress on a paper that will be presented at the Meeting.  Final papers will be due by March 30, 2015. Send your abstract to asilannualmeeting@asil.org by no later than Thursday, October 30, 2014, with the subject line “New Voices Proposal.”  Please send the abstract as a Microsoft Word attachment, including your name and contact information (email address & affiliation).  Abstracts should be no longer than 1000 words.  Selected authors will be notified by the end of November. Please direct any questions to the co-chairs of the ASIL New Professionals Interest Group at asilnpig@gmail.com.
• A conference on The European Union and the Arctic will bring together academics and practitioners from relevant disciplines such as international law, international relations, political science and marine biology, NGOs, representatives from EU institutions and international organizations to discuss the EU’s potential contribution to enhance Arctic governance. A roadmap for increasing the effectiveness of the EU’s action in the Arctic will be drawn at the end of the conference. This conference is timely as the Council of the European Union recently (Council conclusions on developing a European Union Policy towards the Arctic Region, May 24, 2014) requested the European Commission and the High Representative to present proposals for the further development of an integrated and coherent Arctic Policy by December 2015. Abstracts of no more than 400 words should be emailed to Dr. Nengye Liu (n.x.liu@dundee.ac.uk) by January 15 , 2015. All abstracts will be peer-reviewed. Selected speakers will be notified by January 31, 2015. More information is here.

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