Events and Announcements: December 21, 2014

Events

• For many years, the Frankfurt Investment Law Workshop – jointly organized by Rainer Hofmann (University of Frankfurt), Stephan Schill (Max Planck Institute Heidelberg), and Christian J. Tams (University of Glasgow) – has been a forum for the discussion of conceptual issues of international investment law. The next workshop, to be held March 13-14, 2015, will explore the role of history in the interpretation and application of international investment law. It will cover a wide range of issues, from debates about investment law’s imperial origins to the drafting history of the World Bank’s ICSID Convention. The program is available here. As in previous years, the workshop will bring together academics and practitioners and provide them with a forum for open and frank exchanges. To register, please contact Sabine Schimpf, Merton Centre for European Integration and International Economic Order, University of Frankfurt (S.Schimpf@jur.uni-frankfurt.de) by February 28, 2015.

Calls for Papers

• A call for papers has been issued for the International Criminal Justice Stream at the Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference which takes place at the University of Warwick from March 31 – April 2, 2015. Submissions are invited on all areas of substantive international criminal justice, whether on theory, policy or practice. Empirical work would also be welcomed. Both individual papers and panel submissions (of three related papers) can be submitted for consideration. Postgraduate students are also encouraged to submit abstracts. Abstracts may only be submitted via the Easy Chair system, must be no longer than 300 words, include your title, name and institutional affiliation and your email address for correspondence. Successful papers will be published in a symposium; details of which will be available shortly. For an informal discussion please email the convenor, Anna Marie Brennan at Anna.Marie.Brennan@liverpool.ac.uk. The deadline for the submissions is Monday January 19, 2015.
• The Graduate Institute in Geneva is convening a conference entitled ‘International Law and Time’ to take place in Geneva, Switzerland, from June 12–13, 2015, to explore the phenomena of time and change in international law. Abstracts are due by February 15, 2015. More information is here.

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