Events and Announcements: December 13, 2015

Announcements

• The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Freie Universität Berlin are accepting applications for the third round of Doctoral and Post-Doctoral fellowships in the fully-funded 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 doctoral applications is January 31^st, 2016. Applications for the post-doctoral fellowship will run from January 11^th-February 21^st, 2016. For further information, and to apply, please visit  www.hr-up.net.
• iCourts, Centre of Excellence for International Courts, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen seeks applications for fully funded PhD scholarships. Applications are due 28 January 2016. Successful candidates will begin as early as 1 July 2016. The PhD fellowship has a duration of three (3) years.
• The Goettingen Journal of International Law has recently pre-published an article by Prof. Peter H. Sand & Prof. Jonathan B. Wiener. The article was a submission to GoJIL’s Call for Papers on the Protection of the Atmosphere. Their contribution assesses the prospects and limitations of the initial ILC reports and debates on the topic in 2014 and 2015, and potential avenues for progress in the years to come. It can be accessed at www.gojil.eu.
• The board of editors is glad to announce that the University of Bologna Law Review is born! The University of Bologna Law Review is a student-run law journal published by the Department of Legal Studies of the University of Bologna, which boasts an almost millennial history as the oldest university of the Western World. In the wake of the glorious anglo-saxon tradition of student-run reviews – many of which have become renowned journals, recognized as a reference for academics in their fields of specialization – the University of Bologna Law Review is one of the very few student-run journals in Italy, and aims at establishing itself as a leading publication in its category. To this end, the Editorial Team opted for a double-blind peer-review system so as to assure the undisputed scientific soundness of the manuscripts, and strengthened it by setting up an Advisory Board who comprises both up-and-coming young scholars and highly-esteemed professors holding positions in prestigious universities all around the world. The University of Bologna Law Review is sponsored by Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP.

Calls for Papers

• The University of Bologna Law Review welcomes articles, case notes and book reviews for its first issue on the following topics: trust law; international business and commercial litigation; commercial and investment arbitration; tax law; investment law; competition law; monetary law. All these subjects can be tackled with a comparative, an European or an international approach. However, manuscripts on other subjects can certainly be submitted. The first issue will be published in June 2016. The deadline for submitting manuscripts is May 1st, 2016 at 11:59 pm (GMT+1). Submission must be in English and maximum 25,000 words in length, including footnotes. The University of Bologna Law Review follows the Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (20th ed.), providing you with the necessary support if needed. Further information is available here.
• The Cambridge Student Law Journal is a blind reviewed, student-run legal journal run in association with Cambridge University Law Society and Slaughter & May. The Journal will be publishing its inaugural volume in the first half of 2016. The aim is to publish articles on a variety of legal topics written by students at all levels as well as early career researchers. We hope that the Journal will contribute to legal scholarship and stimulate academic debate. The Editorial Board welcomes long articles, short articles, and case comments on all aspects of law, legal history, and legal theory. Long articles should not exceed 12,000 words and case comments should ideally be between 1,000 words and 5,000 words. The board is particularly interested in articles from our international colleagues. Articles are to be submitted for consideration to journal@camlawsoc.com on or before Friday, January 15th, 2016.

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