Events and Announcements: 24 July 2022

Call for Papers

Call for Submissions – Trade, Law and Development: The Board of Editors of Trade, Law and Development is pleased to invite original, unpublished manuscripts for publication in the Winter ’22 Issue of the Journal (Vol. 14, No. 2) in the form of ‘Articles’, ‘Notes’, ‘Comments’ and ‘Book Reviews’. Founded in 2009, the philosophy of Trade, Law and Development has been to generate and sustain a constructive and democratic debate on emergent issues in world trade, international economic law, cross-border investment, and development, among other inter-related aspects of international law, and to serve as a forum for the discussion and distribution of ideas. Towards these ends, we have published works by noted scholars such as WTO DDG Yonov F. Agah, Dr. Prof. Ernst Ulrich Petersmann, Prof. Steve Charnovitz, Prof. Petros Mavroidis, Prof. Mitsuo Matsuhita, Prof. Raj Bhala, Prof. Joel Trachtman, Gabrielle Marceau, Simon Lester, Prof. Bryan Mercurio, 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 and the 10th best journal in the field of world trade for seven consecutive years by Washington and Lee University, School of Law. Manuscripts received by August 15, 2022, pertaining to any area within the purview of international economic law will be reviewed for publication in the Winter ’22 issue. Manuscripts may be submitted via e-mail. For further information about the Journal, please click here. For submission guidelines, please click here. In case of any queries, please feel free to contact us at: editors[at]tradelawdevelopment[dot]com.

Call for Abstracts – Human Rights and Democracy: The Ph.D. School in “Human Rights: Evolution, Protection, and Limits” of the University of Palermo is excited to announce that a workshop on the topic “Human Rights and Democracy” will be held in Palermo (Italy) from the 12th to the 14th of December 2022. The workshop aims to provide an opportunity for young researchers in different but related fields of research to meet and interact, and allow members of the civil society to share their experience those fields. Ph.D. students and researchers who obtained their Ph.D. in the last 5 years, as well as Master’s students or people who got their Master’s degree within the same period, are invited to submit an abstract of no more than 500 words (including title and five keywords) in order to take part as speakers. More information are available in the found here.

Call for Abstracts – “Beyond State Consent to International Jurisdiction”: The State Consent to International Jurisdiction (SCIJ) project, funded by the Research Council of Norway and conducted at PluriCourts (University of Oslo) is issuing a Call for Abstracts for its closing conference entitled “Beyond State Consent to International Jurisdiction”. This conference has been tentatively scheduled for 29-30 September and will be held entirely online.

Topics will include:

• consent to jurisdiction as compared to applicable law
• interpretation methods
• unique aspects of specific courts or legal systems that may facilitate or impede consent
• redesigning consent in the context of international law reform

The Organising Committee (consisting of Prof. dr. Freya Baetens, Dr Emma Brandon and Dr Nicola Strain) welcomes abstracts from academics as well as practitioners, including staff of adjudicatory institutions and international organisations. Papers should present innovative ideas, be unpublished at the moment of presentation, and be at an advanced stage of completion. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 25 August 2022. For more information and submission of abstracts and bios, please visit here.

Call for Papers – Caribbean Law Review: The Caribbean Law Review plans to publish a special issue on “Unhealthy Food, Alcohol, Tobacco and the Law” in the Spring/Summer of 2023. We are seeking articles of between 6,000 – 8,000 words or shorter commentaries that analyze, from a legal perspective, the regulation of unhealthy food, alcohol, and tobacco. Contributions that focus on requirements for packaging and labelling, restrictions on marketing and advertisement, the regulation of school environments and/or establishment of smoke-free spaces, the regulation of corporate social responsibility, the relationship between food, alcohol, and tobacco and the environment, and lessons learned from COVID-19 on the relationship between food, alcohol, and tobacco regulation and the law will be prioritized. Note, however, that contributions may focus on any relevant area of law, including, but not limited to, international human rights law, other legal human rights frameworks, regional law, constitutional law, administrative law, consumer law, intellectual property law, corporate law, tax law, trade law, anti-trust law, and environmental law. While this special issue targets the Caribbean region, we welcome comparative contributions that review the progress (or lack thereof) in other regions that experience similar challenges. The deadline for abstracts is 15 August 2022. For more information please click here.

Jobs

State Silence is recruiting 2 PhD candidates and 1 Research Assistant: State Silence, the exciting research project led by Dr. Danae Azaria, Associate Professor at UCL Faculty of Laws, funded the European Research Council (ERC), is recruiting 1 Research Assistant, and up to 2 PhD candidates (full three year scholarships) in public international law focusing on State Silence. This project involves ground-breaking research in relation to a general international law subject and is of enormous interest to States, international law scholars and practitioners. Those recruited will be working as part of an outstanding research team and will be engaged in all research activities of State Silence, and will be part of academic life at UCL Laws. The deadline for applications is September 4, 2022. For more information and to apply for the PhD scholarships, click here . For more information and to apply for the Research Assistant Position, click here.

Podcasts

Hablemos de Derecho Internacional (HDI) – The International Legal Podcast (Spanish): HDI recently added the following episodes in Spanish:

• #83: Dr. Ricardo Arredondo – Conflicto en Ucrania – Una Perspectiva Jurídica
• #82: Dr. Mauricio Meschoulam – La Construcción de la Paz
• #81: Prof. Carlos Espósito – La Corte Internacional de Justicia y los Derechos Humanos
• #80: Dr. Meza Rivas – Los sistemas de armas autónomas letales
• #79: Ana Srovin Coralli – Búsqueda y Participación en los casos de Desaparición Forzada
•  #78: Prof. David Bosco – Proyecto Poseidón: La Gobernanza de los Océanos
• #77: Dra. Alejandra Torres Camprubí – El naufragio de la estatalidad: los impactos del aumento del nivel del mar en la condición de Estado 

The podcast is available on the main platforms: Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or through other podcast applications by searching “Hablemos de Derecho Internacional”. Updated information about the guests and episodes can be found on the website www.hablemosdi.com, or on HDI’s social media accounts: LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and Youtube.

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