Events and Announcements: September 27, 2015

Announcements

• Queen’s University Belfast has announced a position for a Lecturer in Human Rights Law. The closing date on applications is 5 October 2015. See the vacancy here.

Calls for Papers/Abstracts:

• The American Society of International Law’s Lieber Society Announces a call for papers for the 2016 Richard R. Baxter Military Writing Prize. Persons submitting papers need not be ASIL members and can be citizens of any country but must be an active member of a state’s regular or reserve armed forces. Papers may address any aspect of international humanitarian law/law of armed conflict. Papers must be written in english and may not exceed 35 pages single spaced or 70 pages double spaced with 12 point font and 1inch/2.5 cm margins.  For more information, please contact Professor Chris Jenks at cjenks@smu.edu. 
• Averting the Battle?: Conflict Prevention and State-to-State arbitration in the context of International Investments. This call for papers of the Conflict Resolution Quarterly (CRQ) is designed to encourage a scholarly discussion on the advantages and obstacles associated to the use of both conflict prevention mechanisms and State-to-State dispute arbitration in the context of international investments. All articles should include a 100-word abstract, reflect an understanding of previous discussions in the literature on the chosen question (a literature review), and range from 2500 to 7500 words in length. CRQ uses a double-blind peer review process to assure fair and equal access to all authors. The deadline for submissions is January 15th 2016. More information can be found here.  Additional questions can be submitted to the guest editors:  Katia Fach Gómez, Professor, Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain), katiafachgomez@gmail.com, and Manuel A. Gómez, Professor, Florida International University, magomez@fiu.edu.
• The Board of Editors of Trade, Law and Development [TL&D] is pleased to invite original, unpublished manuscripts for publication in the Summer ‘16 Special Issue of the Journal on Trade & Public Health (Vol. 8, No. 1). The manuscripts may be in the form of Articles, Notes, Comments, and Book Reviews. All manuscripts received by March 15, 2016, pertaining to any area within the purview of international economic law, will be reviewed by the editorial board for publication in the Summer ‘16 issue. TL&D aims to generate and sustain a democratic debate on emerging issues in international economic law, with a special focus on the developing world. Towards these ends, we have published works by noted scholars such as Prof. Petros Mavroidis, Prof. Mitsuo Matsuhita, Prof. Raj Bhala, Prof. Joel Trachtman, Gabrielle Marceau, Simon Lester, Prof. Bryan Mercurio, Prof. E.U. Petersmann and Prof. M. Sornarajah among others. TL&D also has the distinction of being ranked the best journal in India across all fields of law for three consecutive years and the 10th best trade journal worldwide by Washington and Lee University, School of Law [The Washington & Lee Rankings are considered to be the most comprehensive in this regard]. For more information, please go through the submission guidelines available here or write to us at editors@tradelawdevelopment.com.
• Utrecht Journal of International and European Law is issuing a Call for Papers for its upcoming Special Issue (82nd edition) on ‘Intellectual Property in International and European Law’. With technological advancement and innovative practices occurring ever more frequently, individuals and undertakings often turn to intellectual property law to protect their ideas and seek remedies where appropriate (e.g. the recentApple v Samsung design dispute). Recent developments in intellectual property are now a regular feature in popular media and a much-discussed topic amongst the general public. As such, the Utrecht Journal will be dedicating its 2016 Special Issue to ‘Intellectual Property in International and European Law. The Board of Editors invites submissions addressing legal issues relating to intellectual property law from an international or European law perspective. Prospective articles should be submitted online via the Journal’s 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 our website or email the Editor-in-Chief at utrechtjournal@urios.org.

Events

• PluriCourts – Center of excellence at the University of Oslo, organizes a symposium on The Present and Future Role of Investment Treaty Arbitration in Adjudicating Environmental Disputes (Oslo, November 5-6, 2015). Much of the discourse and analysis on this topic has focused on issues of fragmentation, conflict, and the balancing of obligations between legal regimes. But can international investment law and (inter)national environmental law be supportive and mutually complementary? The symposium will focus on investment treaty arbitration from a forward-looking perspective: how can future practice might be shaped or reformed in a way that can both promote environmental sustainability and protect responsible and legitimate foreign investments. Registration for the symposium is now open.

• The Centre of Excellence for International Courts (iCourts) is holding an interdisciplinary workshop on “Trust, Social Capital and Networks: A Different Perspective on International Courts”. The workshop, which will take place in February 4 and 5^th 2016 at the Faculty of Law of the University of Copenhagen (Denmark), aims to provide participants with the opportunity to think through and develop a new research agenda on social capital, networks and trust to be applied to understand International Courts and legal regimes. The workshop will be open to new participants PhD researchers, junior and senior scholars from international institutions working on this topic with an empirical approach. Further details about the call might be found here. The proposals should be submitted by the 15th of October to Juan A. Mayoral – juan.mayoral@jur.ku.dk

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