Events and Announcements: August 17, 2014

Calls for Papers

• A reminder: 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.
• The Australian International Law Journal, published by the International Law Association (Australian Branch), calls for papers of between 6,000 -12,000 words on topics of public or private international law.  Casenotes (2,000-3,000 words) and Book Reviews (1,000 words) within the area of public or private international law are also welcomed.
• A call for papers: OGEL special on “Laws Regulating the Polish Energy Sector Transition.” This special will be focusing on laws regulating the Polish energy sector and the transition that is currently taking place. Guest editors for the special are Michal Domagala (Assistant professor in John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin) and Piotr Pszczel (Head of Energy Task at the Kawalko&Godlewski law firm, Warsaw, Poland). Deadline: papers should be submitted by the end of September 2014 to the editors
• Another call: OGEL Special Issue on “Emerging Issues in Polar Energy Law and Governance.” The Polar areas provide special challenges, opportunities and restrictions regarding the development of energy resources, particularly oil and gas. The potential for enormous untapped energy reserves and the international law challenges of maritime boundaries borders and competing claims of sovereignty will make the Arctic region home to one of the most compelling sets of international legal issues in the 21st Century. The renegotiation of the Madrid Protocol in the Antarctic, which currently prevents mining in the Antarctic regions, combined with similar issues of competing claims of sovereignty, and the overarching Antarctic Treaty Framework means that potential energy resource development Antarctic region will become increasingly controversial and prominent. The guest editor for this special issue is Dr Tina Hunter (Director of the Centre for International Minerals and Energy Law Centre at the University of Queensland, Australia, and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland). Deadline: A one-page proposal should be submitted by 15 November 2014. Final papers should be submitted by 15 March 2015.

Announcements

• A symposium on environment and international law has recently been published in the Leiden Journal of International Law (volume 27, issue 3). Entitled ‘Locating Nature’, this group of articles explores the discipline’s relationship with the natural environment. While international lawyers have focused on crafting solutions to environmental problems, less attention is paid to the disciplinary role in fostering harmful and unsustainable behavioral patterns. Environmental issues are usually relegated to the specialized field of international environmental law. This symposium explores instead the role of nature in the general discipline, arguing that the natural environment is a determinative factor in shaping international law, and assumptions about nature lie at the heart of disciplinary concepts such as sovereignty, development, economy, property, and human rights.
• The Fourth Annual Junior Faculty Forum for International Law has been launched by the Forum’s founding co-convenors (Dino Kritsiotis – Nottingham; Anne Orford – Melbourne; J.H.H. Weiler – Florence). The Fourth Forum will take place in Florence, Italy, in June 2015, and the call for applications is here. Please note: the closing deadline for applications is December 15.

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