Events and Announcements: 9 November 2025

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Announcement

ASIL International Criminal Law Scholarship Prize: Submissions are now being accepted for the 2025 American Society of International Law International Criminal Law Scholarship Prize. The deadline for submissions is January 15, 2026 at 5:00 p.m. EST. The winner will be announced and recognized at the ASIL Annual Meeting in April 2026. Please see this flyer for full details. 

For questions about the prize or submission process, please contact the ICLIG Co-Chairs Steve Koh (koh@bu.edu) or Ryan Liss (rliss@uwo.ca).

Call for Applications

Call for Engaged Listeners – Workshop on Armed Conflict and Climate Change: The Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law and the Humboldt University, Berlin, are organising the Sixth Authors’ Workshop of the Max Planck Trialogues on the Law of Peace and War, to take place on 12 and 13 March 2026 in Berlin. The workshop will explore the relationship between climate change and armed conflict and how to conceptualize it from a legal perspective. The organisers invite interested researchers, especially doctoral and early career researchers, to apply as “engaged listeners”. Engaged listeners will not give a talk but are expected to participate actively in the discussions and will be listed in the workshop’s programme. Please apply exclusively via our online application system with a CV and letter of motivation (max. 500 words) by 15 December 2025. More information can be found here.

Calls for Papers

Polish Review of International and European Law – The Impact of Climate Change on International Law in Light of Decisions of International Bodies: In recent years, international climate change law has evolved through a series of landmark decisions by international courts and bodies. Starting with the 2017 advisory opinion of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the 2022 views of the UN Human Rights Committee, this trend continued with the 2025 General Comment No. 27 of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on sustainable development and the environment.Particularly significant are recent judgments and advisory opinions: the European Court of Human Rights’ KlimaSeniorinnen judgment (April 2024), the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea advisory opinion on Climate Change and International Law (May 2024), the Inter-American Court of Human Rights opinion on Climate Emergency and Human Rights (May 2025), the International Court of Justice opinion on Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change (July 2025), and the ECtHR judgment in Greenpeace Nordic and Others (October 2025).

These developments invite reflection on how climate change influences international law—particularly regarding states’ obligations, treaty and customary law, and concepts such as jus cogens, erga omnes obligations, due diligence, lex specialis, and state responsibility. They also raise questions about the reach of climate change law into other branches of international law, including human rights, the law of the sea, international economic law, and the law of armed conflict.

Please submit an abstract (max. 400 words) to k.maslo@uksw.edu.pl by 25 November 2025. Include your name(s), affiliation(s), and indicate the timeliness and relevance of your proposed paper to this issue.

Yearbook on the Law of the Sea – Unilateralism, Fragmentation, and the Evolving Balance of Power in the Law of the Sea: The Associazione di Consulenza in Diritto del Mare (ASCOMARE) has announced a call for abstracts for Volume 5 of its Yearbook on the Law of the Sea (YLoS), a Scopus-indexed, peer-reviewed, and fully open-access publication devoted to advancing critical and interdisciplinary scholarship on ocean governance and the law of the sea.

The theme of this volume is “Unilateralism, Fragmentation, and the Evolving Balance of Power in the Law of the Sea.”In an era marked by growing geopolitical tension and environmental uncertainty, the issue seeks original contributions examining the shifting balance between multilateral cooperation and unilateral conduct, the fragmentation of maritime governance frameworks, and the resilience of the law of the sea in a changing international order.

ASCOMARE warmly encourages submissions from scholars and practitioners whose work challenges assumptions, pushes boundaries, and envisions the future of ocean law. Abstracts should be submitted by 31 December 2025. Full details of the call and submission guidelines are available here.

Cambridge International Law Journal – Reimagining International Law: The Cambridge International Law Journal (‘CILJ’) is pleased to invite submissions of abstracts to be considered for presentations at the 15th Annual Conference of the CILJ.  The Conference will take place at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, on 23 and 24 April 2026. 

The topic of the Conference is ‘Reimagining International Law: Critical, Regional, and Trans-Disciplinary Perspectives.’ Contributors are encouraged to consider how international law operates not in isolation but within social, political, and economic structures; how its institutions and doctrines reflect power dynamics; and how critical, regional, and trans-disciplinary modes of legal imagination might chart alternative, better futures. More information here.