Events and Announcements: December 14, 2014

Events

• The International Humanitarian and Criminal Law Platform of the T.M.C. Asser Instituut and the Kalshoven-Gieskes Forum on International Humanitarian Law of the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies of Leiden University cordially invite you to attend the launch of the book: ‘Nuclear Weapons Under International Law’  taking place Wednesday, 17 December in The Hague. Please find more information here.

Calls for Papers

• The McCoubrey Centre for International Law of the University of Hull Law School is hosting on 2 & 3 July 2015 its 2nd conference for research students and early career scholars. The conference’s title is “Making International Custom More Tangible”, and the keynote speech will be given by Sir Michael Wood, the Special Rapporteur of the International Law Commission on the Formation and Evidence of Customary International Law. The principal aims of the McCoubrey Centre Conference are to promote wider debate on the issues being addressed by the ILC, to stimulate research on customary law by younger academics, and to contribute to a wider understanding of the foundations and function of customary international law in the 21^st century. All panels will be chaired by leading academics, who will be invited to comment on the papers. Selected papers will appear in a volume edited by the McCoubrey Centre for International Law. Interested participants should provide an abstract of no more than 500 words by 15 February 2015. Abstracts shall be uploaded on the conference’s webpage. Speakers will be informed of acceptance of their papers by 6 March 2015.

Announcements

• The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has launched its Online Training Centre, a collection of e-learning modules on international humanitarian law and other areas of the ICRC’s work. These online training courses are available to anyone as self-paced courses, free of charge. For more information, please visit the website here.
• As we have announced previously, the ICRC also has recently launched the online version of the casebook, How Does Law Protect in War. This new online reference platform in IHL features:
  • Regular updates with new case studies on contemporary armed conflicts
  • An comprehensive IHL outline composed of 14 different themes
  • More than 350 case studies covering past and contemporary armed conflicts
  • More than 20 model IHL courses and pedagogical resources for IHL lecturers
  • More than 300 terms and notions referenced in the online index “A to Z”
  • Full online navigation between theory and practice through internal links and search engine

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