Events and Announcements, May 22, 2016

Event

• The Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law of Swansea University will organise a joint one-day seminar on the subject of Lex Petrolea with the Center for Energy, Law, and Business of University of Texas Law School on 21 June 2016 in London. For the flyer see here. For further information click here.

Calls for Papers

• The Editors of the Melbourne Journal of International Law (‘MJIL’), Australia’s premier generalist international law journal, are now inviting submissions for volume 17(2) by July 1, 2016. This issue will have a special focus on the legal implications of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and space will also be available for articles on other issues of international law. Submissions and inquiries should be directed to law-mjil@unimelb.edu.au. For more information, please visit the website here.
• ASIL’s International Economic Law Interest Group has announced a call for papers ahead of its biennial conference September 30, 2016-October 1, 2016 taking place at Georgetown University Law Center. The overall theme is: “Making International Economic Law Work: Integrating Disciplines and Broadening Policy Choices,” and the deadline for paper proposal submissions is June 24, 2016. Please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words and please indicate when you anticipate completion of the paper and whether the paper has been accepted for publication or has been published. If applicable, please indicate place of (anticipated) publication and date. Please also provide a CV or resume, your current affiliation and whether you are a member of the IEcLIG. Abstracts will be peer-reviewed and decisions will be issued on August 1, 2016. More information can be found here.

Announcement

• The second annual “International and comparative disaster law essay contest” is now launched. This contest is co-sponsored by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), the American Society of International Law Disaster Law Interest Group (ASIL DLIG), the International Disaster Law Project (IDL) of the Universities of Bologna, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Roma Tre and Uninettuno.The contest is open only to students enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate degree program at any university (anywhere in the world) at the time of submission. Essays may examine any issue related to law and disasters due to natural hazards, but must do so either from a comparative or an international law perspective, or both. Comparative essays should examine laws or legal issues from no less than three countries. The winner of the contest will receive: A monetary prize in the amount of CHF 500. A free annual membership in the American Society of International Law and waiver of fees for attendance of the ASIL annual meeting in April 2017. The winner will also have his or her paper published as a “Working Paper” of the IFRC’s Disaster Law Programme. They will retain copyright of their papers and may subsequently publish them elsewhere, according to the terms of the Working Papers series. A message announcing the name of the winner and runners up of the contest will be sent to all members of the ASIL DLIG, as well as to the co-sponsors and made public on the ASIL website. The deadline for submissions is 31 August 2016.

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