Last fall, I was very pleased that, in conjunction with the publication of my book – The Oxford Guide to Treaties, Opinio Juris was able to host an interesting (and I hope useful) discussion of the current state of international law on treaty reservations, including some prominent reactions to the ILC’s recent Guide to Reservations by Harold Koh, Marko Milanovic, David Stewart and Ed Swaine.

For those who are interested in the subject, I’m pleased to see that EJIL is preparing to publish a volume dedicated to the ILC’s reservations work, and, even better, that EJIL Talk! is making drafts of these papers publicly available while the editorial process is on-going.  Here’s how Marko describes it:

I am happy to announce that the EJIL will be publishing a symposium on the International Law Commission’s Guide to Practice on Reservations to Treaties.  The symposium was edited by Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos and myself, and features contributions from Alain Pellet, Michael Wood, Daniel Mueller, and Ineta Ziemele and Lasma Liede. It will most likely be coming out in issue 3 of this year’s volume of the Journal, but because of the symposium’s topicality we have decided to post the unedited drafts online in the meantime, as part of NYU’s Jean Monnet Working Papers Series.  Comments are of course welcome, and we will likely be hosting a further discussion on the symposium on the blog once the final papers come out in the Journal.

For a summary of each of the contributions, see the rest of Marko’s post here.   You can get copies of the current papers themselves here.

 Calls for Papers

• After a successful first edition of Young Researchers Conference on Law, “Hëna e Plotë” Bedër University and University of Tirana are organizing the second edition of the series, Current Issues and Trends in International Law. Several topics will be covered and abstracts are due February 20, 2013.
• The conference Global Challenges in Public Private Partnerships: Cross-sectoral and Cross-disciplinary Solutions? will be held November 6-7, 2013. Conference hosts include the Department of Transport and Regional Economics, the Law Faculty of the University of Antwerp, and the Antwerp Management School. Abstracts are due February 28, 2013.
• The Institute for Global Law and Policy  at Harvard Law School is accepting submissions for conference papers and panel discussions to the conference NewDirections in Global Thought: IGLP at Five. The conference will be held June 3-4, 2013 and the deadline is March 1, 2013. Those wishing to present works at the conference should submit a 250-word abstract of the paper. Those with panel ideas should submit a 500-word description of the topic along with the names and emails of all potential panelists. More information can be found here. 
  
• The New Professionals Interest Group of the American Society of International Law and the Younger Comparativists Committee of the American Society of Comparative Law have issued a call for papers for a junior scholars workshop on How Can International and Comparative Law Scholars Benefit from Each Other’s Perspectives? The call can be found here. Proposals are due by March 1, 2013.
• The University of Wisconsin Global Legal Studies Center and the South Asia Legal Studies Working Group invite panel proposals relating to any aspect of the  study of law and South Asia for the South Asia Legal Studies Pre-Conference. The Pre-Conference will take place Oct. 17, 2013. Deadline for proposal submission is March 1, 2013.
• The Société française pour le droit international has issued a call for papers for its annual conference, to take place in Rouen, May 30-June 1, 2013. The theme is Internet et le droit international. The call can be found here. Abstracts are due March 18, 2013.
• The Asian Society of International Law has issued a call for papers for its 4th Biennial Conference, Asia and International Law in the Twenty-First Century: New Horizons, which will be hosted by the Indian Society of International Law in New Delhi, from November 14-16, 2013. More information can be found here. The deadline for abstract submission is April 15, 2013.
• The European Central Bank and the Banque de France are hosting a conference entitled Retail Payments at a Crossroads: Economics, Strategies, and Future Policies on October 21-22, 2013. More information on the call be found here. The deadline for paper submission is May 15, 2013.
• The Genocide Research Group at Newcastle and Northumbria Universities invites contributions to a one-day workshop which it will host on November 8, 2013. Topics concerning the legal and political discourses surrounding genocide (justification, legitimacy, illegitimacy, condemnation, silence, response of the international community) are encouraged. Abstract submission deadline is June 1, 2013.

Events

• The Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at American University College of Law is sponsoring the Program of Advanced Studies on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, which runs from May 28^th to June 14^th 2013. The program offers 19 courses taught by more than 39 prominent scholars in the field of human rights, in both English and Spanish. The program welcomes more than 170 participants from more than 40 countries with differing backgrounds and levels of experience for an intensive three weeks in Washington, D.C. Additionally, the Academy hosts special events, such as panels, a film series, and site visits to international organizations. Access more information here.

Announcements

• Oil, Gas and Energy Law has published its first issue of 2013 on Nuclear Law and Policy.
• The GlobalTrust Project at Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law, directed byProfessor Eyal Benvenisti, invites candidates interested in exploring themes related to this project, to apply for: One post-doctoral fellowship ($25,000 per one year), two doctoral fellowships ($20,000 per year, up to three years) and two visiting fellowships ($1,500 per month, between 3-6 months). Application deadline (for the academic year of 2013-2014): 1 April, 2013.

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 Calls for Papers

• The 21st Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law (‘ANZSIL’) will take place from Thursday, 4 July 2013 to Saturday, 6 July 2013 at The Australian National University, Canberra with the theme of “Accountability and International Law” The conference will be hosted by the Centre for International and Public Law, ANU College of Law. The Conference Organizing Committee now invites proposals for papers to be presented at the Conference. Call for Papers – Deadline 14 February 2013. More information can be found here (.pdf). Additionally, a Post-Graduate Research Students Seminar will be held Wednesday 3 July 2013. Abstracts are due 14 February 2013 as well. That information can be found here (.docx).
• The Australian Human Rights Centre, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia in collaboration with the Fondazione Lelio e Lisli Basso ISSOCO, Rome, Italy has issued a call for papers for an expert seminar on Peoples’ Tribunals and International Law. The seminar will be held on 27-28 September 2013 in Rome. The seminar will bring together 10-12 scholars or other experts from different disciplines to examine a number of general themes about the nature and impact of peoples’ tribunals over the last half century, and to critically examine the operation of a number of specific tribunals. Papers are invited from scholars working in any relevant discipline, including law, political science, history, anthropology, sociology and other disciplines. Paper proposals should address a specific theme or a particular tribunal. More information can be found here. One-page proposals and CVs are due by March 11, 2013.
• The McCoubrey Centre for International Law at the University of Hull is hosting a two-day conference for research students and early career scholars on 4-5 July 2013. The theme of the conference is “Beyond Responsibility to Protect: Towards Responsible Use of International Law?” (.docx) July 4-5, 2013, at the McCoubrey Centre for International Law, University of Hull. Panels will be chaired by leading academics, who will also act as discussants. Interested participants should provide an abstract of no more than 500 words by the 18^th of March. More information can be found here.
• Alternate Routes, a journal of critical social research, requests papers on the environment and prospects for social change. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: ongoing theoretical debates; increasing ocean acidity; species decline; rising carbon emissions; more intense natural disasters; deforestation; desertification; resources extraction; poverty; environmental migration and displacement; “overpopulation”; economy and ecology; the weakening of international and national environmental laws and protections; alternative technologies (e.g. solar, tidal, wind, biofuels); food and water security; lobbying efforts by oil and multi-national companies to counter climate science; alternatives to (neoliberal) capitalism; social justice activism and the prospects for change. Deadline: May 31, 2013.
• The Common Law Review seeks submissions concerning European Union Law. Potential topics include (but are not limited to) the following: judicial dialogue between the ECJ and national courts; defining the competences in the EU; principles of conferral, subsidiarity, and proportionality; the ECJ as an arbiter of inter-state disputes; and the selection and appointment of judges to the CJEU. Additional topics can be found at the European Union Law link above. The deadline for submission is October 2, 2013.

Events

• NYU’s Center for Transnational Litigation and Commercial Law will host a conference on “Forum Shopping in the International Commercial Arbitration Context” from 28 February to 2 March 2013.
• The American Branch of the International Law Association will hold an “International Law Weekend West” on March 2, 2013 at the University of Denver with the theme: “International Law and Human Security in the 21st Century” More information can be found here.
• From March 13-16, 2013, the German Society of International Law will host its 33rd bi-annual at the University of Lucerne in Switzerland. The conference will focus on the “Hybridisation of legal systems” on the one hand and “Immunity”. More information is found in German here.

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 Calls for Papers

• The American Branch of the International Law Association and the International Law Students Association (ILSA) have called for submissions for the International Law Weekend 2013 to be held in New York City on October 24-26. The overall theme is Internationalization of Law and Legal Practice, and its aim is to examine how and why an appreciation and knowledge of international law is an increasingly relevant and important professional tool for virtually every lawyer. Proposal should be submitted here on or before March 15, 2013.
• The International Journal of Transitional Justice invites submissions for its 2013 Special Issue titled ‘The role of international criminal justice in transitional justice,’ to be guest edited by Naomi Roht-Arriaza, Professor of Law at the University of California, Hastings College of Law. Submissions are due by March 1, 2013. More information is here.
• PhD Training School on Contemporary Challenges to International Criminal Law will be held at the Institute of International Relations in Prague, on 14-16 March 2013. The PhD Training School is organised within COST Action 1003: “International Law Between Constitutionalisation and Fragmentation: the role of law in the post-national constellation”. Applications should be e-mailed to Dr. Veronika Bílková by February 8, 2013. More information is here.
• The Irish Law Journal, a hybrid peer-reviewed student-edited journal, is now accepting submissions on Irish and international law for its second edition. If you have a paper that is exclusively tied to an American audience, then it will be of little interest to ILJ. But if you have an article touching on comparative law, public or private international law, or any other topic (including legal history) that may interest an Irish, European, or transnational audience, then it will be actively considered. The deadline for submissions is March 1. Submissions should be no more then 25,000 words in length.

Events

• On February 22, 2013, the Southern Illinois University Law Journal is organizing a symposium on Guantanamo Bay: What’s Next?. Registration is here.
• On March 2, 2013 the International Legal Studies Program (ILSP) at Denver Law will host the Western Regional Conference of the American Branch of the International Law Association (ABILA). This year’s title is “International Law and Human Security in the 21st Century”. More information is here.
• On March 14-15, 2013, The Amsterdam Center for International Law will host a seminar entitled: Interfaces between International and National Legal Orders: An International Rule of Law Perspective. You can find the provisional program and the list of participants here.
• The early-bird discount for the 107th Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law on April 3-6, 2013, in Washington, DC, has been extended until February 15, 2013. The theme is International Law in a Multipolar World. The program and registration are here.

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Calls for Papers

• The International Law Discussion Group of the University of Edinburgh is launching a call for papers for its biennial spring Doctoral Symposium to take place on June 17-18, 2013 on Regime Interactions. Abstracts are due by March 1, 2013. More information can be found here.
• The quarterly journal, Transnational Legal Theory, is soliciting submissions for a Symposium on William Twining’s Montesquieu Lecture on “Globalisation and Legal Scholarship”, available as pdf here. TLT will publish responses to and engagements with Professor Twining’s inspiring lecture in its Summer 2013 issue. Submissions can take the form of essays, review articles or small scholarly papers, but should in no case exceed the length of 5.000 – 6.000 words, including footnotes. The journal is anonymously peer-reviewed. Interested contributors are invited to send a working title and short abstract to Peer Zumbansen at Osgoode Hall Law School or to TLT by 28 February 2013 in order to allow for the drafting of a provisional table of contents for the symposium issue. All final submissions are due by 15 April 2013.

Special Issue

Transnational Dispute Management has published its special issue on Aligning Human Rights and Investment Protection. Excerpts can be found here.

Anti-Corruption Prize

The University of British Columbia’s Faculty of Law at Allard Hall has launched one of the world’s largest prizes dedicated to the international fight against corruption and protecting human rights.

The $100,000 prize will be awarded every two years to an individual, movement or organization that has shown exceptional courage and leadership in combating corruption, especially through promoting transparency, accountability and the rule of law.

Nominations for the inaugural prize are now open at www.allardprize.org, and will remain so until the deadline of February 20, 2013. The selection process will occur in the spring of 2013, and the inaugural prize is scheduled to be awarded in September 2013.

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Upcoming Events

• The tenth edition of the Young International Lawyers Research Forum will be held on January 24-25, 2013, at the University of Catania with the theme of A Lackland Law? Territory, Effectiveness and Jurisdiction in International and European Law” / “Un Diritto Senza Terra? Funzioni e Limiti del Principio Di Territorialità nel Diritto Internazionale e Dell’unione Europea. The program is available here.
• The Santa Clara Journal of International Law will host its 2013 symposium February 1-2, 2013 with the theme of The Law and Politics of Foreign Investment. See the program here.
• Lexxion, a legal publisher, hosts Regulating the State’s Business: Public Procurement, Concessions and Public Private Partnerships on March 12-13, 2013. The conference will provide a comprehensive insight and update on latest developments and changes being introduced with the new EU procurement directives.
• The 107th Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law will take place April 3-6, 2013, in Washington, DC. The theme is International Law in a Multipolar World. The program is not yet online, but you can register here.
• The European State Aid Law Institute (EStALI) hosts New Rules on SGEI, Infrastructure Funding and Special Sectors: Hospitals, Social Security Schemes and Social Housing April 4-6, 2013.
• The Summer Academy in Global Food Law & Policy will take place July 22-26, 2013 in Granada, Spain.

Calls for Papers

• The Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC) organizes a two-day Workshop on Economic Governance and Organizations at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, on June 6-7, 2013. The aim is to assemble scholars from law, economics, and management studying organizations that mitigate economic governance problems. Submissions of theoretical, empirical, and experimental work, as well as case studies are welcome. The deadline for submissions is February 1, 2013.
• The Forced Migration Review invites submissions for a special issue on Detention and Deportation. Submissions are due April 15, 2013. See the call here.
• The German Yearbook of International Law is Germany’s oldest yearbook in the field of public international law. The GYIL is published annually by the Walther Schücking Institute for International Law at the University of Kiel and contains contributions on topics addressing all aspects of public international law. The ‘General Articles’ section of the GYIL is open to submissions from the entire academic community and is independently peer-reviewed by a board of renowned experts.

Additional Announcements

• ILSA has announced a call for proposals for the 2014 Jessup Competition problem. Proposals must be submitted by March 9, 2013.
• The Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law is pleased to announce the
  opening of the application period for the Program of Advanced Studies on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law that will be offered from May 28 to July 15 of 2013. This Program offers 19 courses in English and Spanish lectured by over 39 scholars of relevance in the field of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and gathers more than 170 participants from more than 40 different countries and with different levels of professional experience The Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law provides through this Program the unique opportunity to learn and interact with judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC), the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Special Rapporteurs of United Nations, members of the Inter-American Commission and Court on Human Rights, recognized members of NGOs and professors from all over the world. The Program is offered in three categories which include the modality of Certificate of Attendance, ABA Credits for students currently studying in a U.S. law school and finally, the Diploma Course that is offered to a select group of 35 law professionals who fulfill the admission requirements. The application form for this program is available here.

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[Peter Margulies is a Professor of Law at the Roger Williams University School of Law focusing on the balance of liberty, equality and security in counter-terrorism, and author of Law's Detour: Justice Displaced in the Bush Administration (NYU Press 2010).]

The days of Donald Rumsfeld chiding “Old Europe” are gone, but targeted killing has renewed debate on counter-terrorism strategies between the US and Europe.  Boundaries of the Battlefield, a symposium sponsored last week by The Hague’s Asser Institute and coordinated by Asser researcher and Opinio Juris contributor Jessica Dorsey, offered an opportunity to explore those differences and find common ground.  The symposium, co-sponsored by the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism, IHCL Platform, Konrad Adenauer Foundation, City of The Hague, and the Dutch Foreign Ministry, was especially valuable against the backdrop of former UK Legal Adviser Daniel Bethlehem’s new AJIL piece (see Ashley’s discussion here) on self-defense against non-state actors.  This first post will flag the debate at the conference on targeted killing and what Ken Anderson has called “naked self-defense.” A second post will analyze another issue that has roiled relations between the US and its allies: the clash between the law of armed conflict (LOAC) and international human rights law (IHRL).

The targeted killing debate started with law on the initiation of hostilities, aka the jus ad bellum.  In Daniel Webster’s 1841 Caroline formulation, the use of force in self-defense requires an imminent threat.  A number of conference participants, supporting the position taken by Bethlehem, favored a broad view of imminence.  I argued that the agility and clandestine nature of terrorist groups precluded waiting until the precise moment before an expected attack.  Rather, responses to violent non-state actors may appropriately trade off imminence and probability, intervening at an earlier stage to address what Chris Slobogin has called the…

Calls for Papers

• Applications are due this week on January 15 for a workshop on European and transnational rulemaking in Amsterdam between July 1-5, 2013. More information can be found here.
• The Committee of Non-State Actors of the International Law Association (ILA), The Institute
  for Transborder Studies (ITS) at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, the Leuven Centre for
  Global Governance Studies, Oxford Brookes University, in collaboration with the ILA-
  Canada, the Flemish Scientific Research Fund (FWO, ‘the network’), and the Canadian Bar Association – British Columbia Branch invite papers on the responsibilities of non-state actors in international law for a conference in Vancouver on 27-28 June 2013. A paper abstract should be submitted by 10 February 2013. The organizers will get back to the author by 28 February 2013. Draft papers (5000 – 6000 words) should be submitted by 1 June 2013. More information, including contact details for the submission of the abstracts, is available here.
• The Customs and International Trade Bar Association (CITBA) and Brooklyn Law School
  (BLS) are calling for submissions by students enrolled as a JD or LL.M student in a US law school, interested in customs or international trade law, for the Fifteenth Annual Andrew P. Vance Memorial Writing Competition.  Winning papers will be considered for publication in the Brooklyn Journal of International Law and cash prizes of $500 and $1000 are awarded to the top two papers. Details on the paper requirements and the judging criteria can be found here.

Upcoming Events

• On January 10-11, 2013, The T.M.C. Asser Instituut and the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism – The Hague, in cooperation with the International Humanitarian and Criminal Law Platform, the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, the Municipality of The Hague and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, will host a symposium entitled The Boundaries of the Battlefield: A Critical Look at the Legal Paradigms and Rules in Countering Terrorism with the aim of discussing the contours of various approaches states take against non-state actors with the goal of countering terrorism. Specifically, the two-day symposium will address issues related to uses of force and how these may affect and define the geographic and temporal scope and limitations of the laws of armed conflict in relation to counterterrorism. Besides this main theme, which operates within the armed conflict paradigm, this conference will also discuss and assess the law-enforcement paradigm. For more information, please see the event website. The conference program can be found here (.pdf) and you can register here.
• Also on January 10, 2013, The American Bar Association Section of International Law will host, in cosponsorship with the American Society of International Law and the George Washington University School of Law, a special webcast with the Office of the Legal Adviser. You can attend the program in person at George Washington University Law School or from the convenience of your desk, by webcast or teleconference. Registration costs $15. Law students may sign up for the webcast for free.
• The International Courts and Tribunals Interest Group (ICTIG) of the American Society of International Law welcomes ASIL’s 2009 Manley O. Hudson Medalist, for Leading Figures in International Dispute Resolution Series: A Conversation with Judge Charles N. Brower on January 17, 2013. Brower will discuss his practice at the bar during 30 years in the fields of public international law and international dispute resolution.
• The Institute for Globalization and International Regulation at Maastricht University will host Treatment Equal or No-Less Favourable of Citizens in a Globalising World: The National Treatment Principle in a EU and International Context on January 31-February 1, 2013.
• On February 22, 2013, the Southwestern Journal of International Law will host a symposium on The Future of Children in International Law. The program can be found here.

Calls for Papers

• The Chinese (Taiwan) Society of International Law, in partnership with the ASIL Law in the Pacific Rim Region Interest Group, will hold the ILA-ASIL Asia-Pacific Research Forum on May 15-16, 2013 in Taipei, Taiwan, ROC. The title of the Research Forum is “International Law and Dispute Resolution: Challenges in the Asia Pacific.” The organizing committee welcomes proposals on any topic relating to international law with a focus on the Asia Pacific. Paper proposals must be submitted electronically by January 20, 2013 to ila [at] nccu [dot] edu [dot] tw. For additional information, please refer to the Research Forum website.
• The University of The Gambia Law Faculty will publish its first Student Law Review in September 2013. Submissions from students, academics and law professionals are welcomed. This is a call for papers with a human rights focus. 300-word abstracts are due no later than 12.00 noon January 20 2013. The final article will be 5,000 words including footnotes (OSCOLA) and will need to be submitted by 1 May 2013. With questions and to submit abstracts, please contact Fiona Batt (F [dot] Batt [at] utg [dot] edu [dot] gm).
• The School of Law, Queen Mary University of London presents the 4th Annual Queen Mary Postgraduate Legal Research Conference: Reinvigorating Legal Thought in Times of Change June 6, 2013. Abstracts are due Feb. 6, 2013.
• The Ninth Cornell Law School Inter-University Graduate Student Conference welcomes submissions. The conference will be hosted by the graduate students at Cornell University Law School in Ithaca, New York on Friday, April 12 and Saturday, April 13, 2013. The program will consist of several  panels throughout the day featuring 3-4 panelists each. Each panelist will provide a ten to fifteen minute presentation of his or her paper topic after which there will be input from the other panelists and conference attendees. Abstract submissions should be received by January 18, 2013. Click for the call for papers.

Additional Announcements

• The Berlin-based Postdoctoral Program Rechtskulturen: Confrontations beyond Comparison invites scholars to apply for seven postdoctoral fellowships for the academic year 2013/2014. “Fellowships begin on 1 October, 2013 and will end on 31 July, 2014. Postdoctoral fellows will receive a monthly stipend of € 2,500 plus supplements depending on their personal situation. Organizational support regarding visa, insurances, housing, etc. will be provided.” Applications will be accepted Jan. 10-24, 2013. Please find the call for applications here.
• A special issue of the Review of European Community & International Environmental Law is now available, for a limited time, free online. Entitled All Hands on Deck: Mobilizing Climate Change Action Beyond the UNFCCC, this special issue contains 6 articles by prominent legal scholars and practitioners. Attention is drawn to the potential of other international institutions to complement the UNFCCC in its efforts to scale up climate change mitigation ambition under the Durban Platform. The contributions to the issue examine a variety of venues, including other multilateral environmental institutions, human rights mechanisms, international trade talks, and small groupings of like-minded countries, and explore how actions under these institutions could contribute to the UNFCCC’s objectives.

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Upcoming Events

• The next session of the Joint International Humanitarian Law Forum takes place on January 7, 2013 at the IDC Radzyner School of Law. Adv. Sigall Horovitz will give a talk entitled “Think Different – Why Israel Should Join the ICC Rome Statute” – a discussion following the UN General Assembly resolution to recognize Palestine as a non-member State observer, and Adv. Ido Rosenzweig will talk on “Pillar of Defense & IHL – targeted killings, military objectives, proportionality etc.” – a discussion about the questions related to the Israeli and Palestinian conducts during the recent November conflict. More information can be found here.

Calls for Papers

• Submissions are requested for the 2013 International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Student Writing Competition, co-organized by the American University Washington College of Law Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and the American Society of International Law’s Lieber Society. Submissions are due by January 31, 2013. More information is available here.

Job Announcement

• Columbia Law School invites applications for a position at the Professor or Associate Professor Level. The individual will also serve as Director of the Human Rights Clinic and Faculty Co-Director of the Human Rights Institute, beginning on July 1, 2013. The incumbent will be responsible for teaching the Human Rights Clinic as well as serving as its Director. This will include developing clinical projects for experiential learning both in and outside of the classroom. As Faculty Co-Director of the Human Rights Institute, the individual will also be responsible for collaborating in developing the Institute’s programmatic work and strategic agenda, helping to supervise the Institute’s post-graduate human rights fellows on projects relating to the Institute and Clinic, and assisting with fundraising for projects being pursued by the Institute and Clinic. More information, and an online only application, is available here. Applications are due by January 31, 2013.

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Upcoming Events

• The ABA Section of International Law presents the 3rd Annual ”Live from L,” The Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State Thursday, January 10th, 2013 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM US Eastern Time entitled: “International Lawyering for the U.S. Government in an Era of Smart Power: Emerging Issues for the Next Four Years.” More information and registration can be found by clicking here.
• The Oxford Brookes Law School is organising a workshop entitled Fundamental Rights in Europe: A Matter for Two Courts on 18 January 2013. More information can be found here.
• The Adelaide Law School presents Personal Property Security Law: Local and Global Perspectives on February 20-21, 2013.
• On April 5, 2013, the American University Washington College of Law will host the Inaugural Cherry Blossom Symposium on Intellectual Property and Federal Policy: Universal Access in the Digital Environment. The symposium will explore intersections between intellectual property and Federal disability rights policy. Abstract deadline is January 31, 2013. Abstracts should be submitted here or emailed to sflynn [at] wcl [dot] american [dot] edu.
• The International Max Planck Research School for Competition and Innovation and the Center for Law & Economics at ETH Zurich host the Fourth Workshop for Junior Researchers on the Law and Economics of Intellectual Property and Competition Law on June 10-12, 2013.
• Sciences Po Toulouse and the Research Committee on Sociology of Law of the International Sociological Association (ISA/RCSL) are holding a conference on September 3-6, 2013. The theme of the conference is Sociology of Law and Political Action.

Announcements

• The American Bar Foundation (ABF) invites scholars to join the ABF’s intellectual community for the 2013-2014 academic year. National and international scholars on leave or sabbatical are encouraged to apply. More information can be found here.

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Upcoming Events

• The American Society of International Law’s Domestic Courts Interest Group is hosting its annual workshop December 10, 2012, at Duke University School of Law. More information can be found here.
• On December 18, at 5:30pm, the Center on the United States and Europe at Brookings will host the 9^th Annual Raymond Aron Lecture, a talk on “The Internationalization of Law” by Collège de France Professor Emeritus Mireille Delmas-Marty. Following Dr. Delmas-Marty’s remarks, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen G. Breyer will offer a response. Brookings President Strobe Talbott will provide introductory remarks and Brookings Senior Fellow and CUSE Director Fiona Hill will moderate the discussion. After the program, panelists will take audience questions.
• The 33rd meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationales Recht will take place at the Universität Luzern, March 14-16, 2013.

Calls for Papers

• The Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs (JLIA) announces a call for papers for an issue exploring the evolution and future of the field of international criminal justice on the tenth anniversary of the International Criminal Court. Papers should analyze topics at the intersection of law and international affairs, including the future of international criminal justice, the role of international criminal justice in international relations, the structural challenges facing the International Criminal Court and its ability to fulfill its mission in the coming decades, as well as other related topics. Submissions are due by January 28, 2013. More information can be found here.
• The  British Branch of the International Law Association has issued a call for papers its 2013 spring conference with the theme: The Changing Face of Global Governance: International Institutions in the International Legal Order at the University of Oxford, April 12-13, 2013. More information can be found here. Abstracts should be no longer than 500 words; they should be submitted by 15 January 2013 to ila2013oxford (at) gmail (dot) com.
• The University of Wisconsin will host the second conference of the Creation of International Law Network, in 2014 with the theme of Exploring the International Law Components of Peace. A call for abstracts has been made. More information can be found here.

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