Upcoming Events: November 18, 2012

Upcoming Events

• On January 18-19, 2012, the Sheffield Centre for International and European Law is organizing a workshop entitled “Doing Law Beyond the State: Research Methodologies in Comparative, EU and Public and Private International Law”. The program and registration are online.

Calls for Papers

• The seventh annual International Graduate Legal Research Conference will be held on April 8-9, 2013 at King’s College London. Abstracts of maximum 300 words should be submitted online by December 17, 2012.
• The Editorial Board of the Cork Online Law Review is currently seeking submissions for the 12th Edition which is due to be published online and in hard copy on the 7th March 2013 by guest of honour, Chief Justice Susan Denham. All submissions should be on a legal topic, and be between 3000-9000 words. Submissions are also welcome in Irish, French and German. Book reviews and case notes will also be considered. There is a medal for the overall best submission, with an accompanying cash prize of €300. There is also a medal for best non-English submission. The closing date for submissions is December 7, 2012. All interested parties should submit their articles and enquiries to John Casey, Editor-in-Chief (editor@corkonlinelawreview.com)
• The New Zealand Yearbook for International Law is calling for papers for its 10th volume. The Editors seek short notes and commentaries (3000-7000 words, including footnotes) as well as longer in-depth articles (8000-15000 words, including footnotes) on any issue of public international law. The Editors are particularly interested in receiving submissions that are relevant to New Zealand, Australasia, the Pacific, the Southern Ocean and Antarctica. Submissions should be sent in Word format, and following the NZ Law Style Guide by May 1, 2013.
• Trinity College, Dublin, is calling for abstracts for its Fifth Annual Law Students Colloquium on February 16, 2013. Abstracts need to be submitted online by December 6, 2012.
• The Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP) at Harvard Law School will convene its first biannual international conference on New Directions in Global Thought. Submissions for papers and panel discussions are due online by March 1, 2013.
• The Center on Global Legal Transformation, in collaboration with Professor Olivier De Schutter (University of Leuven, Belgium and Visiting Professor, Columbia Law School; UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food), will hold a conference on “Governing Access to Scarce, Essential Resources” in New York on June 20-21, 2013. It is calling for proposals by junior researchers on how to govern scarce, yet essential, resources. Memos should be between 5 and 10 single spaced pages and must be submitted by email to the project coordinator, Claire Debucquois, at cd2636@columbia.edu by January 15, 2013.

Journal Announcements

The Goettingen Journal of International Law has released its latest issue, compiling eleven  articles about the precursors to international constitutionalism, especially the development of the German constitutional approach.

Last week’s announcements can be found here. If you are organizing a conference or other event and would like to see the call for papers or the program announced on Opinio Juris, please contact us.