Events The Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals will take place on 18 July 2014 in Geneva. The seminar, the program of which is found here, will focus on the dialogue between the International Law Commission and international courts and tribunals. Members of the ILC, experts and practitioners will take part. The event is open to all. Calls for Papers The Editorial...
Events BIICL is organising an event on 'Due Diligence: From Rhetoric to Practice' on Monday June 16, 2014 from 3.00-7.45pm. The event brings together expert speakers from a variety of backgrounds, including lawyers, academics, the private sector and non-governmental organisations. Their expertise will highlight the pertinent aspects of the UN Guiding Principles as a framework for all current approaches in this area as well...
Call for Papers The American Society of International Law has extended the deadline for submissions of scholarly paper proposals for the ASIL Research Forum to be held during the Society’s Midyear Meeting in Chicago November 6-8, 2014. Papers can be on any topic related to international and transnational law and should be unpublished. Interdisciplinary projects, empirical studies, and jointly authored papers are welcome. Interested paper-givers...
For those in the New York City area who may be interested, tomorrow (June 4th) I will be participating in a roundtable discussion with Ambassador Yuriy Sergeyev, Ukraine's Ambassador to the United Nations, concerning the crisis in Ukraine. Mark Meyer, Moldova's Honorary Consul in New York (and a member of the law firm Herzfeld & Rubin), will moderate the discussion. The...
Calls for Papers Following a successful conference organised by the Qatar University, College of Law and the Qatari Branch of the ILA on the Syrian Crisis and International Law they now plan for a special issue of the International Review of Law on the same theme. To this end, they are looking for contributions discussing: public international law, including collective security and...
Just a couple things to note this weekend: Call for Papers The American Society of International Law's Dispute Resolution Interest Group and the University of Colorado Law School are co-sponsoring a works-in-progress conference this August on international law and dispute resolution. Here is the Call for Papers. Announcements The British Institute of International and Comparative Law is looking to hire a research coordinator to work...
Events Sociological Inquires into International Law” (LSE, May 16-17, 2014) is a workshop with the aim of bringing contemporary international law scholarship into a closer conversation with a number of inspiring and theoretically rich literatures on law and markets deriving from traditions of thinking within sociology and anthropology. We are convinced that, particularly within the field of international economic law, a deeper...
Events The Inter-American Affairs Committee of the International Law Section, the International Dispute Resolution Committee of the International Law Section and the Inter-American Bar Association are sponsoring a DC Bar Lunchtime Conference on "Property Rights Protection in the Americas: the Non-Arbitration Options", this Tuesday May 6, from 12-2pm at WilmerHale in Washington DC. More information and registration is here. Call for Papers As...
AJIL Unbound, the new on-line companion to the American Journal of International Law, has begun to publish short essays this week for its on-line Agora, The End of Treaties? (see the original call for papers here). So far, they have posts up by Tim Meyer ('Collective Decision-making in International Governance') -- and Joel Trachtman ('Reports of the Death of Treaty...
Call for Proposals Call for Proposals: "Differentiated integration inside and outside the EU: taking stock and charting the future." Please send the proposals for the ECSA Conference of the Swiss, Austrian and German Branch to be held on 23/24 October 2014 at the University of Lausanne's IDHEAP within the Facultyo of Law, Criminal Sciences and Administration to conference@ecsaswiss.ch no later than June...
Call for Papers The European Society of International Law Interest Group on Peace and Security (ESIL IGPS) and the Research Project on Shared Responsibility in International Law (SHARES Project) organize a joint symposium to be held in conjunction with the 10th ESIL Anniversary Conference in Vienna, Austria, on September 3, 2014. The symposium is entitled “The Changing Nature of Peacekeeping and the Challenges for Jus...
Last Spring, Temple Law School was pleased to host a two day workshop on the scholarship of one of international law's true giants -- Martti Koskenniemi (simply put, I'm a big fan). Organized by my colleague, Jeff Dunoff, it was a great event with a wide-ranging conversation launching off Martti's works in international legal theory, international legal history, fragmentation, interdisciplinary scholarship,...
