Events and announcements: January 18, 2014

Calls for applications

• The 11th Annual Conference of the European Society of International Law will take place in Oslo, Norway, from September 10-12, 2015.  The conference will be hosted by the PluriCourts Center on the Legitimate Roles on the Judiciary in the Global Order, University of Oslo. Entitled “The Judicialization of International Law – A Mixed Blessing?”, the conference will address the international law aspects of the increased judicialization from an interdisciplinary perspective. The conference will feature plenary sessions with invited speakers, and a number of agorae with speakers selected on the basis of a call for papers and agora proposals. The event will also offer poster sessions for early career scholars following a call for posters.  The deadline for the submission of abstracts and proposals is January 31, 2015. More information is available here.
• The fourth Max Planck Masterclass in International Law will take place at the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg, Germany, from May 4-6, 2015. Professor Emmanuelle Tourme-Jouannet (Sciences Po, Paris)  will hold the class on the topic of “Global Justice and the Purpose of International Law”. During those three days, participants will discuss with Professor Tourme-Jouannet aspects of her work, including “What is a Fair international Society?” (2013) and “The Liberal-Welfarist Law of Nations” (2012). For more information see the call for participants.
• Koç University Law School, Boston College Law School and the International Society of Public Law invite submissions for a full-day workshop on unamendable constitutional provisions, to be held on the campus of Koç University Law School in Istanbul on Tuesday, June 9, 2015. Submissions are invited from scholars of all ranks, including doctoral students on any subject related to unamendability, including both formal and informal forms. The convenors intend to publish the papers in an edited book or in a special issu e of a law journal. Interested scholars should email an abstract by March 15, 2015 to judy.yi@bc.edu on the understanding that the abstract will form the basis of the pre-workshop draft to be submitted by May 15, 2015. Scholars should identify their submission with the following subject line: “Koç University—Abstract Submission—Unamendability.” More information is available here.
• The Graduate Institute is looking to hire promising scholars at the rank of Assistant Professor in INTERNATIONAL LAW with a specialisation in one of the following fields: International Economic Law / Protection of Human Dignity / International Environmental Law / Transnational Law. For more information, candidates are encouraged to consult the Institute’s website.
• The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Freie Universität Berlin are now accepting applications for the second round of Doctoral and Post-Doctoral fellowships in the joint 3-year interdisciplinary Doctoral Program “Human Rights under Pressure – Ethics, Law and Politics” (HR-UP), funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Einstein Foundation Berlin. HR-UP offers young researchers a unique opportunity to conduct cutting-edge research on the most pressing contemporary challenges for human rights, including issues arising from crises and emergencies, globalization and diversity. Doctoral researchers admitted to the program will receive competitive fellowships and mobility funds for research terms at the partner university. They will be jointly supervised by senior researchers from Germany and Israel, and participate in both jointly and locally held courses, including a two-week introductory intensive course in Jerusalem, joint interdisciplinary colloquia, research ‘master-classes’, and three annual summer schools in Berlin. The program also includes two post-doctoral positions (one in each university). The deadline for applications is January 27th, 2015. For further information, and to apply, please visit  www.hr-up.net.
• The Peace and Justice Initiative (PJI) is pleased to announce its call for applications for a funded fellowship for projects designed to enhance the implementation of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and/or internships in international criminal law. It is envisioned that the fellowship recipient will undertake an internship or visiting professional position at one of the international courts/tribunals in The Hague or undertake a project related to the promotion or enhancement of international criminal law in domestic jurisdictions. The fellowship will run for a duration of 6 months and will involve funding sufficient for the successful applicant to carry out their internship or project. Further information about the fellowship can be found here and is subject to conditions. An application form can be accessed here. Applications are to be received via email by 28 February 2015 at info@peaceandjusticeinitiative.org.

Announcements

• TDM Journal has published a new issue on Dispute Resolution from a Corporate Perspective. This TDM special edited by Kai-Uwe Karl (General Electric), Abhijit Mukhopadhyay (Hinduja Group) and Heba Hazzaa (Cairo University) brings the corporate voice to the debate about reforming alternative dispute resolution and effective conflict management.

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