Events and Announcements: March 29, 2015

Calls for Papers

• Opinio Juris’ own Peter Spiro will be the keynote speaker at the Skilled Migration Conference on Unravelling the Talent Tale: Skilled Migration Policies between National Images, Membership Bonds and Economic Priorities on September 15, 2015 at Sheffield University School of Law. The organizers are calling for paper considering a range of questions targeting the interrelation between attracting skilled migrants and redefining community boundaries and membership bonds. Abstracts of no more than 500 words are due by April 30, 2015. More information is available here.
• The Utrecht Journal of International and European Law is issuing a Call for Papers on ‘General Issues’ within International and European law. The Board of Editors invites submissions addressing any aspect of International and/or European law. All types of manuscripts, from socio-legal to legal technical to comparative, will be considered for publication. 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 (See here for full details). Utrecht Journal has a word limit of 15,000 words including footnotes. For further information please consult the website or e-mail. Deadline for submissions is April 30, 2015.
• On June 26, 2015, a conference will investigate the relationship between hybrid warfare and minority rights from three perspectives: 1. Protection of Minority Rights and Hybrid Warfare; 2. Freedom of Expression in the Media and Cyberspace; 3. Hybrid Warfare and the Threshold for Armed Attack and State Responsibility. The organizers welcome abstracts for papers of no more than one page from both established researchers and early career academics. Please send your proposals to Dr. James Summers. The deadline for abstracts is May 1, 2015. Further details can be found here.
• The Journal of International Peace and Organisation (“Die Friedens-Warte”) is calling for papers for its upcoming issue of volume 90 (2015). The Journal adapts an interdisciplinary approach to all matters relating to peace research, with international law and political science as lead disciplines. All submissions are assessed through double-blind peer review by two experts in the field. The topic of the upcoming issue’s focus section is ‘Intelligence! – Conflict and Conflict Avoidance through Information Gathering’. Abstracts may be submitted until 4 May 2015. For more detailed information, please see the Call for Papers here or the Journal’s website.
• The Journal on the Use of Force and International Law is now calling for submissions for the next issue 2(2). The deadline is June 30, 2015. More information can be found here.

Events

• The Centre for International and Public Law (CIPL), Brunel University London announces its annual guest lecture followed by an in-depth discussion, entitled “The Economic Crisis and The Failure of Human Rights”, to be held on Tuesday 21 April 2015, from 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm in the Moot Court, Elliott Jacques Building, Brunel Law School, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH. Guest Speaker: Professor Aoife Nolan (University of Nottingham); Chair: Professor Manisuli Sssenyonjo (Brunel University London). A reception will follow at 5.00 pm by serving free refreshment. More information is here.
• The Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana is organizing its second conference in a series of biannual international interdisciplinary scientific conferences entitled Responsibility to Protect in Theory and Practice Conference on April 23-24, 2015. The aim of the conference is to provide an opportunity for scholars and practitioners from around the word to engage in an interdisciplinary academic debate on the theoretical and practical implications of the concept of Responsibility to Protect (R2P). The program is set up to present both the theoretical issues related to the understanding of the concept, its implementation in crisis situations and its importance in relation to conflict prevention and rebuilding, as well as practical issues by presenting case studies of the crisis situations with the potential for R2P consideration.  Participants of the conference will receive also a book entitled Responsibility to Protect: Where Do We Stand Ten Years After? Forty presenters at the conference include distinguished internationally renowned experts from around the world, among them Jennifer Welsh, Ruth Wedgwood, Judge Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh, Vladimir Kotlyar, Aiden Hehir, James Pattison, Enzo, M. Le Fevre Cervini and William R. Pace. A special R2P Song by a Slovenian rap duo Murat&Jose will be performed live in English at the conference gala dinner. The keynote speaker at the conference gala dinner will be Professor Dr Danilo Türk, Former President of the Republic of Slovenia. For more information about the conference and to register, please visit the conference web page.
• The Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law is pleased to announce that the Program of Advanced Studies on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law is now accepting applications. The program will take place from May 26 to June 12, 2015. This Program offers 18 courses in English and Spanish lectured by over 39 scholars of relevance in the field of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and gathers more than 150 participants from more than 25 different countries and with different levels of professional experience. The Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law provides through this Program the unique opportunity to learn and interact with judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC), the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Special Rapporteurs of United Nations, members of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and professors from all over the world. The Program is offered in three categories which include the modality of Certificate of Attendance for lawyers, law students and HR professionals of any country, ABA Credits for U.S. students and finally, the Diploma Course that is offered to a select group of 35 law professionals who fulfill the admission requirements. The application form for this program will be available here. For more information please contact the  Academy.

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