Events and Announcements: March 13, 2016

Calls for Papers

• The Utrecht Journal of International and European Law is issuing a Call for Papers on ‘General Issues’ within International and European law. The Board of Editors invites submissions addressing any aspect of International and/or European law. All types of manuscripts, from socio-legal to legal technical to comparative, will be considered for publication. The Board of Editors will select articles based on quality of research and writing, diversity and relevance of topic. The novelty of the academic contribution is also an essential requirement. Prospective articles should be submitted online and should conform to the journal style guide on our website. Utrecht Journal has a word limit of 15,000 words including footnotes. For further information, or for consultation on a potential submission, you can email the Editor-in-Chief at utrechtjournal@urios.org. Deadline for submissions is 18 April 2016.
• The Journal of International Peace and Organisation (“Die Friedens-Warte”) is calling for papers for its upcoming issue of volume 91 (2016). The Journal adapts an interdisciplinary approach to all matters relating to peace research, with international law and political science as lead disciplines. All submissions are assessed through double-blind peer review by two experts in the field. The topic of the upcoming issue’s focus section is ‘Flight and Refuge’. Abstracts may be submitted until 24 April 2016. For more detailed information, please see the Call for Papers or the Journal’s website.
• It is with great pleasure that the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War and Exeter Law School invite subject matter experts to submit their proposals for presenting a paper at the conference: “The International Law of Military Operations: Mapping the Field” from 21–23 June 2016, Exeter, United Kingdom. Proposals addressing the following topics are particularly welcome: the concept, meaning and scope of the international law of military operations;the place of the international law of military operations within the system of public international law as a potential lex specialis regime; the relevance and impact of particular branches of public international law—such as the law of the sea, air law, the law of international responsibility, international human rights law, the law of State jurisdiction and immunity—on the conduct of overseas military operations and vice versa; the legal framework of information and influence operations, both during and outside of armed conflict; current legal developments and legal challenges facing the conduct of overseas military operations, such as the emergence of hybrid threats; training needs in the area of the international law of military operations and how best to address them. Please submit proposals for papers by 8 April 2016 to opslaw-conference@exeter.ac.uk. Proposals should contain the name and contact details of the applicant, the title of the paper to be presented and an abstract not exceeding 600 words. Applicants should also attach a brief CV.
• The SMU Dedman School of Law’s Tsai Center for Law, Science, and Innovation invites junior scholar submissions of 10,000 – 25,000 words for a workshop on the legal, policy, and ethical aspects of emerging military technology to be held in Dallas, Texas May 27-28.  Junior scholars will receive detailed commentary on their work from established scholars, including Professors R.E. Burnett of National Defense University, Eric Talbot Jensen of BYU Law, Tim McCormack of Melbourne Law School/US Navy War College and Sean Watts of Creighton Law.  For more information, please see the Tsai Center Call for Papers.
• The Editorial Board of the EtYIL, a peer-reviewed academic journal, is pleased to make a call for papers for the 2017 Edition of the Yearbook. The deadline for article submissions is November 30, 2016. If you have ideas, abstracts or a work in progress that you would like to share with the editorial team please get in touch at ethiopianyearbook@gmail.com. For more information about the EtYIL and for submission guidelines please consult the Springer website here.

Announcements

• The Codification Division of the UN Office of Legal Affairs recently added new lectures to the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law website, which provides high quality international law training and research materials to users around the world free of charge. The latest lectures were given by Professor Piet Eeckhout on “The European Union and International Law” and by Dr. Philippa Webb on “The Law of State Immunity: Overview, Specific Aspects and Future Prospects”.

Events

• The School of Law of the University of Buenos Aires holds a colloquium entitled “Emotions & International Law” in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 25-26 August 2016. The event is organized by the Permanent Seminar on the Theory and History of International Law and the DECyT Research Project “The feelings in the history of ius gentium”, under the direction of Prof. Emiliano J. Buis. Registration for the conference is now open. For more information please visit the colloquium website or email emocionesDI@gmail.com or ebuis@derecho.uba.ar. The colloquium is intended to create an opportunity to reflect and debate the conceptual discussion on feelings such as hatred, resentment, compassion, nostalgia, fear, empathy/sympathy, jealously, shame, humiliation, affectation/love, among others, which are considered as possible keys of interpreting international law on a broad sense, involving States and non-State actors, as well as the generation of rules regulating them.
• ALMA – Association for the Promotion of International Humanitarian Law and the Radzyner Law School of the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) would like to invite you to a upcoming session of the Joint International Humanitarian Law Forum. The session will be held on Wednesday, March 30, 2016, 18:30,  in room C110, Arazi-Ofer Building, IDC Campus, Kanfei Nesharim St., Herzliya, Israel. In this session we will focus on: Autonomous Systems and Autonomous Weapons. Dr. Eliav Lieblich, Assistant Professor in the Radzyner Law School, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya (IDC) will discuss his article (Written with Eyal Benvenisti): “Robot Warfare and the Problem of Bound Discretion.” Dr. Liran Antebi, Research Fellow at the The Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) will discuss: “Autonomous systems- will destroy mankind, or save us from ourselves?” Following the presentation, there will be an open round-table discussion. Please note that the session will be conducted in Hebrew. The meeting is free and open to the public. If you wish to attend the meetings of the Joint IHL Forum please register in advance via forum@alma-ihl.org.

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