Events and Announcements: October 26, 2014

Events

• ALMA and the Radzyner School of Law of the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) invite you to the opening session of the Joint International Humanitarian Law Forum for the 2014-2015 Academic year. The session will be held on Wednesday, October 29, 2014, 18:30, in the meeting room of the Communication school (room C228, Arazi-Ofer Building, 3nd floor) at the IDC. In this session they will host the distinguished Prof. Malcolm Shaw, Emeritus Sir Robert Jennings Professor of International Law, School of Law, University of Leicester. Prof. Shaw will discuss the topic of: Combatant Immunity for State Forces in Non-International Armed Conflicts. Following the presentation, there will be an open round table discussion. Please note that the session will be conducted in English. The meeting is free and open to the public. If you wish to attend the meeting please register in advance via forum@alma-ihl.org.
• On Thursday, October 30, from 4:00 to 5.30 p.m., GW Law will hold an event on Professor Chiara Giorgetti’s new book titled Litigating International Investment Disputes:  A Practitioner’s Guide (Brill/Nijhoff 2014).  The session will feature book contributors who will address topics such as selecting the arbitrator, representing the State, the award, and relationship of counsel/parties to the secretariat.  In addition to Prof. Giorgetti, panelists will include John Crook of GW Law, Eloise Obadia of Derains & Gharavi PLLC, and Jeremy Sharpe of the U.S. Department of State, Office of the Legal Adviser; the discussion will be moderated by Stanimir Alexandrov of Sidley Austin LLP.  The events will be held at GW Law, 2000 H Street, N.W., with the panel in the Jacob Burns Moot Court Room (Lerner 101), and a reception thereafter in the Dee Kelly Lounge.  All are invited.  No rsvp is needed. More information about the book here.

Call for papers

• The 4th Conference of the Postgraduate and Early Professionals/Academics Network of the Society of International Economic Law (PEPA/SIEL) offers graduate students and early professionals/academics studying or working in the field of IEL an opportunity to present and discuss their research and to network with senior people in the field. The upcoming conference will take place on April 16-17, 2015 in Milan, Italy. If you wish to apply, or if you have any questions, write to: pepa2015conference@gmail.com. The call for papers is here.
• The deadline for submitting proposals for the 21st Annual Forum of Young Legal Historians (AYLH 2015, Tel-Aviv, March 1-3, 2015) is November 1. The Call for Papers and further information on the Forum are and will be available on the AYLH website.

Announcements

• The International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC) is pleased to announce the launch of the “First Annual International and Comparative Disaster Law Essay Contest”.   The contest is co-sponsored by the IFRC, the American Society of international Law (ASIL) and the “International Disaster Law Project” of the Universities of Bologna, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Roma Tre and Uninettuno (also associated with the Italian Red Cross Cross), with support from the International Institute of Humanitarian Law. They are looking for entries from graduate or undergraduate students (regardless of major/concentration) with a deadline of January 30, 2015.  Among the top prizes are sponsored participation in next year’s week-long “International Disaster Law Course” in Sanremo and a year membership in ASIL and waiver of fees for attendance of the 2015 Annual meeting on April. Note that all submissions must be in English and must address international or comparative legal issues for disasters linked to natural hazards. They are also looking for qualified persons willing to serve as readers/scorers of some of the contest submissions. The reading would take place in the first 2-3 weeks of February. If anyone is willing and available, he/she should write to disaster.law@ifrc.org and include his/her CV. The web link for the contest is here.

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