Events and Announcements: October 19, 2014

Events

• On Thursday, November 13, 2014, the University of Georgia School of Law and the ASIL International Legal Theory Interest Group will convene a book workshop on “International Law as Behavior,” at Tillar House, 2223 Massachusetts Ave., NW, ASIL’s headquarters in Washington, DC.  Organized by Harlan Cohen (University of Georgia School of Law), the workshop will bring together scholars working at the cutting edge in a variety of different fields, including constructivist international relations theory, anthropology, behavioral law and economics, organizations theory, social psychology, and sociology to discuss how these approaches can best be applied to the study of international law, how these approaches can complement both each other and positivist and rationalist accounts, the opportunities and challenges of working across these fields, and the development of a common language and tools to study how international actors actually behave, how their rationality is bounded by psychology, how they operate as members of groups and recipients of culture, and how they write and follow organizational scripts.  Participants include Elena Baylis (University of Pittsburgh School of Law), Tomer Broude (Hebrew University Faculty of Law), Adam Chilton (University of Chicago School of Law), Sungjoon Cho (IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law), Martha Finnemore (George Washington University School of Law Elliott School of International Affairs), Jean Galbraith (University of Pennsylvania Law School), Derek Jinks (University of Texas School of Law), Ron Levi (University of Toronto Global Affairs and Sociology), Tim Meyer (University of Georgia School of Law), Galit Sarfaty (University of British Columbia Faculty of Law), and Kathryn Sikkink (Harvard Kennedy School).  A book based on presentations at the workshop will follow.  For more information and to register, please click here.
• The Minerva Center for Human Rights at Tel Aviv University is pleased to invite the public to the conference “Lessons for Transitional Justice in Israel-Palestine”, to be held on 16-17 November 2014 at Tel Aviv University. The conference builds on an academic collaboration between Israeli, Palestinian and South African students and researchers who participated last summer in an intensive two-week Transitional Justice Workshop at the University of Johannesburg. At the conference, international and local scholars will share perspectives on current theories and practices that can shed light on possible transitional justice processes for Israel/Palestine, and students will present papers based on their research during the workshop. Please find conference program here. For further information please contact minerva@tauex.tau.ac.il. 
• On 3 December 2014 the International Humanitarian and Criminal Law Platform, a research platform coordinated by the T.M.C. Asser Instituut, is hosting a conference:The Cyber Warfare Manual: A Detailed Assessment. This conference, organized in cooperation with the Netherlands Ministry of Defence, the Gerda Henkel Stiftung and the University of Amsterdam, will bring together top researchers and practitioners to critically discuss and assess the Manual, which is the result of a three-year effort by a distinguished group of international experts to examine how existing international law norms apply to this ‘new’ form of warfare. The conference will provide a general forum where the international legal community of The Hague and beyond can engage with people who were involved in the drafting of the Manual and others to discuss whether, and if so how, existing law can be applied to cyber threats.
• Letters Blogatory, along with the Center for Transnational Business and the Law at Georgetown University Law Center, will be hosting an event to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the conclusion of the Hague Service Convention. The event, to be held in Washington on February 19, 2015, will bring together practitioners, central authority representatives, and academics to discuss and celebrate the Convention’s legacy and to look ahead to its future. There will be plenty of time for meeting and greeting, too! Please do mark your calendars, and RSVP. More information can be found here.
• The Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions at the University of Haifa invites applications from researchers, graduate students (MA, Phd., Post-doc) and practitioners to take part in the Minerva Center’s research on cyber regulation, policy and theory during the 2014-2015 Academic Year. More information can be found here. The application deadline is 1 December 2014.
• The 11^th Annual Conference of the European Society of International Law will take place in Oslo, Norway from 10-12 September 2015. It is hosted by the PluriCourts Centre for the Study of the Legitimate Roles of the Judiciary in the Global Order, University of Oslo. The theme is: The Judicialization of International Law – A Mixed Blessing? More information can be found here.

Calls for papers

• The Oil, Gas, and Energy Law (OGEL) and Transnational Dispute Management (TDM) Journals invite submissions for a joint Special Issue on Renewable Energy Disputes. These disputes may involve issues of public international law, EU and US law (at the supranational, national and subnational levels), private law and contractual arrangements. The Special Issue will examine these types of disputes and analyses their backgrounds and the reasons why they arose. Papers should be submitted by 15 January 2015 to the editor of the special Professor Kim Talus (University of Eastern Finland).

Announcements

• The Geneva Academy is recruiting for two positions. For more information please click on the terms of Reference for Postdoctoral Researcher on the Right to Food and Food Sustainability and terms of Reference for Postdoctoral Researcher on the Right to Food, Gender Equality and Land Commercialization. Interested applicants are requested to apply by 3 November 2014.

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