Events and Announcements: May 11, 2014

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 and more informed engagement with a range of sociological and social theoretic modes of thinking is necessary for intellectual renewal. For details, please visit the workshop site. If you would like to attend the workshop (and due to the limited available seats), please contact  Gosia Brown (G.M.Brown@lse.ac.uk)  in advance.
• On May 22, from 14:00-15:00, Bergen Resource Centre for International Development will arrange a book bath for Maja Janmyr and her new book Protecting Civilians in Refugee Camps.
• The United States Institute of Peace is offering a course on International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights as part of its highly regarded Academy for International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding.  The Academy provides practitioner-oriented education, training, and resources via facilities at USIP’s Washington headquarters, mobile training in conflict zones abroad, and online distance education and training. This course on IHL and HR runs June 17-19, 2014 and will focus on key questions: Why do we have these bodies of law? How do they apply? What is the practical impact of human rights and humanitarian law in conflict-affected states? How do these two bodies of law interact? How are human rights and international humanitarian law relevant to practitioner’s work in the field? The three-day course will be delivered through a variety of methodologies that seek to maximize the learning experience, with an emphasis on problem-based learning. Additional course and registration information is available here.

Calls for Papers

• As noted previously, the research project Architecture of Postnational Rulemaking at the University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Law, is seeking paper proposals for a workshop on “Transnational Standards in the Domestic Legal Order: Authority and Legitimacy,” to be held on October 24, 2014. The keynote speaker will be Professor Nico Krisch, Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals. Full details here (pdf). The deadline is 18 May 2014.
• The AALS has announced a call for papers on International Human Rights New Voices Panel for the AALS Annual Meeting taking place January 2-5, 2015, in Washington, D.C. The deadline to submit a paper is September 15, 2014. More information can be found here.
• Call for papers, Armenian Yearbook of International Law In January 2014 members of the International and Comparative Law Center of Armenia (one of the flagman research academic institutions on IPL/IHL in Armenia) has presented the first issue of the Armenian Yearbook of International and Comparative Law. ICLaw Center has recently published the call for papers. Deadline for submissions: 30 June 2014
• Maastricht University has announced a call for papers for the conference on Denialism and Human Rights, taking place 22 and 23 January 2015. The deadline for the call is 1 August 2014.
• A call for papers has been announced for the bilingual Colloque Doctoral 2015: The European Union and International Law/L’Union européenne et le droit international 17-18 April 2015 at the University of Fribourg. More information can be found here.  
• Imagining the Future: Conceptions of Risk and the Regulation of Uncertainty in International Law – Institute for Legal Studies, Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, 17 – 19 October, 2014. Increasingly, international legal arrangements imagine future worlds, or create space for experts to articulate how the future can be conceptualized and managed. With the increased specialization of international law, a series of functional regimes and sub-regimes has emerged, each with their own imageries, vocabularies, expert-knowledge and rules to translate our hopes and fears for the future into action in the present. At issue in the development of these regimes are not just competing predictions of the future based on what we know about what has happened in the past and what we know is happening in the present. Rather, these regimes seek to deal with futures about which we know very little or nothing at all; futures that are inherently uncertain and even potentially catastrophic; futures for which we need to find ways to identify, conceptualise, manage and regulate risks the existence of which we can possibly only speculate about. In short, international law is increasingly becoming the preserve of HG Wells’ ‘professors of foresight’. The central theme of this workshop is how the future is imagined, articulated and managed across functional fields in international law. The deadline for abstract proposals is 1 June 2014. More information on this project and contact details can be found here.

Announcements

• The International Committee of the Red Cross has published its quarterly Bibliography. You can subscribe to receive the bibliography by e-mailing library@icrc.org.
• An International Conference will be held at the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law on Sovereignty as Trusteeship for Humanity Historical Antecedents – and their Impact on International Law from 15-17 June 2014. More information here.
• The Changing Nature of Customary International Law: Methods of Interpreting the Concept of Custom in International Criminal Tribunals has been published by Routledge.
• The IHL competition “Youth for Peace” is the biggest regional event of the kind in Eastern Europe. It is a truly unique event bringing on the annual basis the students from all over the world (not limiting to the East region only), e.g., in the past teams from Brazil, Kenya, Cuba, India, Singapore, China, Romania, the Netherlands, the USA and from all over the Eastern Europe and Central Asia  took part.  It is not a moot court as such, but rather the role play competition in the best traditions of the Pictet Competition.  Deadline: 1 June 2014 Open to: team should consist of two-three students (2-3) under the age of 31 who have not participated in the Competition before. Dates and venue: September 30th –October 4th, 2014, Minsk, Belarus. Registration form here.

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