Upcoming Events: April 15, 2012

This is our second installment of this new feature, last week’s announcements can be found here.

Calls for Papers

• McGill University, Faculty of Law, has issued a call for papers for its conference “Stateless Law? The Future of the Discipline” on September 27-28, 2012. Proposals are due on April 16, 2012. More information is here.
• The Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law (HiiL) & the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS) have issued a call for papers for the Conference on Collective Redress in the Cross-Border Context: Arbitration, Litigation, Settlement and Beyond on June 20-21, 2012 in Wassenaar, The Netherlands. The deadline for proposals is May 1, 2012.
• The Canadian Council on International Law/Conseil Canadien de Droit International is organizing its 41st Annual Conference entitled “SOS International Law: International Law in Times of Crisis” in November. The call for papers closes on May 5, 2012.
• The ASIL Private International Law Interest Group will meet in Durham, NC in October for a conference on “What is Private International Law?”. Proposals are due on May 15, 2012. The best paper by an author under 35 is eligible for the Private International Law Prize. Submissions are due on May 15, 2012 also.

Upcoming Conferences

• The Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) is organizing a conference on “Cross-border Class Actions: The European Way” in Brussels on April 27, 2012. Registrations close on April 20, 2012.
• Fordham Law School is organizing its Conference on International Arbitration and Mediation in London on April 26-27, 2012.
• The Max Planck Institute for Private and Comparative Private Law holds its Fourth Post-Doc Conference on Private European Law on May 7-8, 2012 in Hamburg.

Recent Events

The recent issue of the European Journal of Risk Regulation hosts a pioneering symposium devoted to one of the latest policy innovations currently experienced in the UK and the US: the fashionable, yet controversial, Nudge.