Events and Announcements: September 3, 2016

Event

• The Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions at the University of Haifa is hosting a “Young Researchers Workshop on Terrorism and Belligerency” between September 7-19. Though this event is by invitation only, you can contact the organizer at bmichel@geo.haifa.ac.il; additionally, information about the streaming of the event can be found on the Minerva RLEC YouTube channel will be available on the event website and the Minerva RLEC Facebook page.

Calls for Papers

• The Wisconsin International Law Journal announces its Annual Symposium March 31, 2017, University of Wisconsin Law School with the theme of: “Regional Human Rights Systems in Crisis.” For this event, they have issued this call for papers. WILJ invites submission of abstracts of not more than 500 words from legal scholars and practitioners in the fields of regional human rights and international law. The submission deadline is September 15, 2016, and applicants will be notified by October 10, 2016.
• Call for Papers: Cognitive Sociology, Culture, and International Law. iCourts, Centre of Excellence for International Courts, University of Copenhagen, 28-29 April 2017. The third workshop on the sociology of international law aims to break open the study of interactions between various cognitive processes and the formation, interpretation and implementation of international law. More information can be found here.
• The Cambridge International Law Journal (CILJ) is a double-blind, peer-reviewed journal run by members of the postgraduate community at the Cambridge University Law Faculty. The CILJ is the successor journal to the Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law (www.cjicl.org.uk) and is now published by Edward Elgar Publishing. The Editorial Board is pleased to invite submissions for its sixth volume. General call for submissions – International law The Board welcomes long articles, short articles, case notes and book reviews that engage with current themes in international law and EU law. All submissions are subject to double-blind peer review by our Editorial Board. In addition, all long articles are sent to our Academic Review Board, which consists of distinguished international law scholars and practitioners. The deadline for submissions is 28th October 2016 at 11.59 p.m. Submissions received by this date will be considered for publication in Volume 6, Issue 1, to be published in Spring 2017. Further submission information The Journal accepts the following types of manuscript:

  1. Long Articles between 6,000 and 10,000 words but not exceeding 12,000 words including footnotes;
  2. Short Articles not exceeding 6,000 words including footnotes;
  3. Case Notes, including substantive analysis, not exceeding 3000 words including footnotes; and
  4. Book Reviews not exceeding 2500 words including footnotes.
  Please list the word count of the text and the footnotes on your manuscript. All copies must be submitted in Word (.doc) or (.docx) format and must conform to our style guidelines, which are available at the following links: OSCOLA Fourth edition; OSCOLA: Citing International Law Sources. To submit, please follow this link. Please ensure that your manuscript does not contain any reference to your personal or professional identity. For further information, please email us at editors@cilj.co.uk

Announcements

• The Centre for War Studies (CWS) at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense is currently advertising a post as Assistant Professor with starting date 1 November 2016 or soon thereafter. CWS is an interdisciplinary research centre rooted in the Departments of Political Science, Law and Cultural Studies. The successful applicant will be skilled at organizing policy and public outreach activities, including workshops, partner networks and various communication platforms. The teaching load will include contributions to the interdisciplinary master degree in “International Security and Law”. The successful candidate can be trained either in international law or international relations, but should research issues of relevance to both communities. This position has been created to advance both interdisciplinary research collaboration and outreach, and if after three years the initiative proves successful, the Departments of Political Science and Law will fund a tenured position, budgets allowing. For more information and the application form see the official job advert. The deadline for applications is 15 September 2016.
• 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 Emmanuel Decaux on “Les défis juridiques de la Convention internationale pour la protection de toutes les personnes contre les disparitions forcées” and Mr. Olufemi Elias on “An Introduction to the Law of the International Civil Service”, “The Chemical Weapons Convention, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and Non-State Actors”.
• The ICRC has recently issued its quarterly bibliography. For older issues, comments, unsubscribing and feedback, please contact library@icrc.org  We take this opportunity to inform you that the annual version for the year 2015 will soon be out (paper and ebook).
  If you wish to receive a paper copy either for yourself or for your institution’s library, we will be glad to send you one free of charge. Please send an email to library@icrc.org with the following subject: IHL bibliography 2015 – order.
• The European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC) is proud to launch the first MOOC of the Global Campus Open Learning Series. With contributions by academic and experts from all the regions of the world, the Global Campus massive online courses provide open access to highly qualified learning on topical human rights concerns. The Series opens on 12 September 2016 with a MOOC on “Disability as a human rights issue: global and national perspectives”.
  Enrolment to our GC MOOC is FREE and available on Canvas.net until 14 October 2016
  Course dates: 12 September-24 October 2016
  Duration: 6 weeks – Commitment: 5 hours/week
  Requirements: participation in 4 weekly discussions and completion of 2 quizzes
  Course type: instructor-led
  Credentials: certificate of participation

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