Events and Announcements, June 8, 2014

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 Papers can be on any topic related to international and transnational law and should be unpublished.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 should submit an abstract (no more than 1000 words in length) summarizing the scholarly paper to be presented at the Forum. Review of the abstracts will be blind.  Proposals should be submitted online by June 15, 2014. To submit a proposal, or for more information, please click here. 

Event

• ALMA and the Radzyner School of Law of the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) have announced the next session of the Joint International Humanitarian Law Forum. The session will be held on June 18, 2014, 18:30. The speakers and topics are:
  Yahli Shereshevsky, PhD candidate, Hebrew University: “Serdar Mohammed v. Ministry of Defence and the battle over the laws of war.” and Ido Kilovaty, PhD candidate, Georgetown University: “Cyber Warfare and Jus ad Bellum: Does Economic Cyber Coercion Violate Article 2(4) of the UN Charter?” For more information, click here.

Announcement

• Vacancies for: Book Review Editor, an Assistant Editor, and two Editorial Assistants for the journal Transnational Environmental Law (TEL) is a peer-reviewed international journal dedicated to the development of new ideas on law’s contribution to environmental governance in a global context. TEL is published by Cambridge University Press, and appears twice annually. For further information about the journal, including its full mission and scope, see: http://journals.cambridge.org/TEL A Book Review Editor. For more information, click here.

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