Events and Announcements: September 13, 2015

Announcements

• A special issue of the Nordic Journal of International Law, which Triestino Martinello has co-edited with Dr. Paolo Lobba, has just been released. The topic is ‘The Cross-fertilisation Rhetoric in Question: Use and Abuse of the European Court’s Jurisprudence by International Criminal Tribunals’ and it includes contributions from Sergey Vasiliev, Julia Geneuss, Ulf Linderfalk, Elena Maculan, Michelle Farrell, and Harmen van der Wilt. Please find the editorial for the special issue here. You can view the full table of contents here.
• The Transnational Dispute Management Journal has published a special issue on the Yukos Arbitration. You can find more information and links to the articles here.
• In the course of the academic year 2015-16, the Ghent law faculty will organize the ‘International Order & Justice Lecture Series’, i.e., a series of public lectures by eight established international law experts. Confirmed speakers are: Professor Olivier Corten (October), Judge Antônio Cançado Trinade (November), Prof. Klaus Kress (December), Prof. Martti Koskenniemi (February), Dr. Marko Milanovic (March), Prof. Kevin Jon Heller (March), Sir Michael Wood (April) and Prof. Robert Kolb (May). The lecture series is organized with the financial support of the Belgian Society for International Law and the ILA Belgium. The lectures are open for all to attend free of charge, yet prior registration is required (either for a single lecture, or for the entire series). Further information (i.e. dates, venue, registration) can be found here.

Calls for Papers/Abstracts:

• 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 upcoming issue’s focus section is centred around the “Islamic State”; abstracts may be submitted until 18 October 2015. For more detailed information, please see the Call for Papers or the Journal’s website.
• PluriCourts, Center of Excellence for the Study of the Legitimacy of International Courts and Tribunals at the University of Oslo, will host the 14th Annual Colloquium of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law, 20-25 June 2016. The theme of the Colloquium is “The Environment in Court – Environmental protection in national and international courts, tribunals, and compliance mechanisms”. The theme of the Colloquium is “The Environment in Court – Environmental protection in national and international courts, tribunals, and compliance mechanisms”. This broad topic seeks to address procedural and substantive aspects of environmental adjudication, both in national, regional and international courts, tribunals as well as non-compliance mechanisms of multilateral environmental treaties. In the context of the Sustainable Developments Goals (SDGs), Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration as well as the Aarhus Convention, the idea of strengthening of an environmental rule of law through access to justice has gathered considerable momentum. For more information, click here. Abstracts should be submitted by 15 January 2016 online at iucnael2016@jus.uio.no. Abstracts will be reviewed on a rolling basis, as received, with a final decision to be provided by 15 March 2016. After acceptance of the abstract, full papers must be handed in by 30 April 2016. The Academy will publish an edited and peer-reviewed collection of selected papers following the colloquium. Contact: Professor Dr. Christina Voigt, University of Oslo, PluriCourts coordinator, environmental law (christina.voigt@jus.uio.no).
• The Centre for Research in International Law (CRIL), a student-run body at National Law Institute University – Bhopal (NLIU) and the official Bhopal Chapter of the International Law Students Association (ILSA), is now accepting submissions for the NLIU e-Journal of International Law. The NLIU e-Journal of International Law is a bi-annual online journal which publishes scholarly articles in the field of international law. It seeks to secure collaboration between students, research scholars and professionals interested in international law, from all over the world. For the 1st edition, the theme of which is Public International Law, submissions are invited for genuine, original and unpublished manuscripts in the form of articles, essays or judgment analyses. The deadline for the submissions is 1st November 2015.” The formal call for papers can be found here. For additional information, you could also visit the website here.

Events

• On 1-2 October 2015, the University of Luxembourg, in cooperation with the T.M.C. Asser Instituut and with the support of the Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg, will be hosting a conference on ‘the European Union as an Actor in International Economic Law’.
  Bringing together international lawyers and EU external relations lawyers, the conference will discuss recent developments concerning EU external action in the field of international economic law, concentrating on a number of important issues raised in recent practice and case law whose resolution does not appear to be in the offing. Panels will consider the division of competences between the EU and the Member States in the field of international economic relations; the inclusion of dispute settlement mechanisms in free trade agreements concluded by the EU; and the distribution of international responsibility between the EU and its Member States; as well as the relation between FTAs and the regulatory powers of the Member States in sensitive fields such as environmental protection, public health and labour law. Confirmed speakers include Prof. Nanette Neuwahl (Montréal and College of Europe), Dr Andrea Ott (Maastricht), Dr Jan Willem van Rossem (Utrecht), Prof. Eleftheria Neframi (Luxembourg), Prof. Enzo Cannizzaro (Rome La Sapienza), Dr Andrés Delgado Casteleiro (Durham), Prof. Paolo Palchetti (Macerata) and Dr Wybe Douma (Asser Instituut). Further details and information on how to register are found here.
• The University of Pennsylvania is hosting an event entitled: “Iran’s Nuclear Chess: After the Deal” on September 17, 2015 from 4-6:30 p.m. Speakers include General (ret) James “Hoss” Cartwright, the Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), and the former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Dr. Haleh Esfandiari, Public Policy Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center, and the Founding Director of the Center’s Middle East Program; Prof. David S. Jonas, Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University Law Center and George Washington University Law School, and the former General Counsel of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); and Dr. Robert Litwak Vice President for Scholars and Director of International Security Studies at the Woodrow Wilson Center, and the Former Director for Nonproliferation at the National Security Council. More information can be found here.
• On 21st September 2015 the University of Central Lancashire Institute for International and Comparative Law organises a One-Day Conference International Criminal Trials: Historical Paradigms and Contemporary Dimensions. This conference show cases a series of investigations into the role of international criminal courts. The themes to be addressed include many topics that are at the cutting edge of contemporary discussions within international criminal law that could be usefully further developed to widen both the scope and rationale of this academic subject, not least by developing additional contextual and institutional dimensions. These range from the importance of regional and institutional responses to hybrid wars and piracy, to the recovery and identification of underlying historical paradigms underpinning different interpretive agendas within transnational criminal law. The speakers include Dr Melanie Klinkner, Bournemouth University; Professor James Sweeney, Lancaster University; and Dr Paul Behrens, University of Edinburgh. Please see the programme and more information here.

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