Events and Announcements: 12 January 2020

Events

• The Center for International Law in the Middle East (CILME) at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School is pleased to announce its inaugural workshop on the topic of ‘Product Labeling, Territorial Disputes, and International Trade After the ECJ’s Psagot Ruling’, which will be held from 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. on Friday, 17 January 2020 at 3301 Fairfax Drive, Hazel Hall, Room 332, Arlington, Virginia. (Refreshments will be offered at 8:30 a.m.) Former Ambassador to the EU Stuart Eizenstat will provide opening remarks. Speakers will include Professor Brenda Shaffer, Olga Kanevskaia, Professor Steve Charnovitz, and Professor Juscelino Colares. Please RSVP to Erielle Davidson (edavid7[at]gmu[dot]edu) no later than 14 January 2020.

Call for Papers

• The University of Ljubljana Faculty of Law is pleased to announce the Fourth Contemporary Challenges of International Environmental Law Conference, which will be held on 20-21 April 2020 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The conference is an opportunity for interdisciplinary debate among scholars, scientists and practitioners from various disciplines addressing issues of environmental protection. The conference is open to a broad spectrum of topics with the intention to spark new scientific collaborations among diverse fields. Abstracts for papers and posters must be no longer that 350 words in length and should be submitted by Wednesday, 15 January 2020 through email to CCIEL[at]pf[dot]uni-lj[dot]si. For more information on the call, go here. 

• The Annual Junior Faculty Forum for International Law is delighted to announce its yearly call for applications for the Ninth Forum, which will be held at the Renmin University of China in Beijing from 29-30 June 2020. Designed as an annual feature of the international law calendar, the Forum is aimed at bringing together junior faculty working in the field of international law in order that their work can be presented before an audience of peers and experts and then discussed by established and senior scholars in international law and related fields. The Forum will be convened by Dino Kritsiotis (Univ. of Nottingham – Law), Sarah M.H. Nouwen (Univ. of Cambridge/European Univ. Institute), and J.H.H. Weiler (New York Univ. – Law), together with guest conveners Han Liyu and Zhu Jingwen (both of Renmin Law School). The deadline for applications is 7 February 2020. As with previous years, selected presentations from the Forum will be invited to appear in the European Journal of International Law.

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