Events and Announcements: July 27, 2019

Call for Papers

• The Juris En Conference on International Law 2020 (JECIL 2020) is an academic conference on the modernist approaches of International Law and its allied fields. This conference is being organized by Internationalism, a research organization dedicated to the innovative evolution of international law via academics, learning, and social entrepreneurship. We are in collaboration with ISAIL-Lucknow Institute for a Greater Europe. Check out our brochure for more information about the conference here. The Conference will run from 7-9 February 2020. For more information on the call for papers, goo here.
• The ASIL International Law in Domestic Courts Annual Workshop will take place on Friday, December 6, 2019 at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon. If you have a work-in-progress that you would like to present, please send an abstract (or more if you prefer) to interest group co-chairs Andrew Kent and Kristina Daugirdas (akent [at] law [dot] fordham [dot] edu, kdaugir [at] umich [dot] edu) by Friday, September 6, 2019. Five or six papers will be selected. Preference will be given to papers that focus on U.S. courts, but all proposals are welcome. Please note that those whose papers are selected will need to submit a complete draft by November 15, 2019 for circulation to the other workshop participants. Following the selection of papers, we will solicit volunteers to serve as commentators.
• The Institute for International Humanitarian Studies (CERIC, UMR DICE 7318, AMIDEX) of Aix-en-Provence Law School welcomes submissions for the forthcoming INSIDEworkshop entitle ‘States Compliance with International Human Rights Law: State-of-the-art, Improvement and Challenges’ to be held at Aix-en-Provence Law School on Thursday, 2 April 2020. The workshop is part of the INSIDE (International Socialization and Democracy Through International Law) Project and aims to address three major research questions: (1) why do States agree to ratify multilateral treaties and agreements in international human rights law; (2) why do States often agree to amend their conduct in accordance with their obligations under international human rights law; and (3) how to assess and to measure compliance by States with their treaty commitments in international human rights law? We welcome a wide variety of paper proposals in the field of compliance theories that fit within one of the workshop’s questions. Subject areas of interest for submission include, but are not limited to: Compliance Theories; Compliance in practice; Measurement of compliance with International Human Rights Law. Please submit 300-500 words abstract (in English or French), your CV and information regarding your current institutional affiliation(s) to insideworkshop2020 [at] gmail [dot] com before 20 September 2019. Selected proposals will be announced by the end of September 2019. Successful participants will be required to submit the paper they wish to present at the workshop (no more than 10,000 words) by 2 March 2020. Accepted papers will be considered for publication in the Quebec Journal of International Law (QJIL). We are pleased to announce that travel and accommodation expenses for the selected participants will be covered, subject to availability of funds. For more information go here.
• The Editorial Board of the Cambridge International Law Journal (CILJ) is pleased to invite submissions for its ninth volume (issues to be published in June and December 2020). The Board welcomes long articles, short articles, case notes and book reviews that engage with current themes in international law. All submissions are subject to double-blind peer review by the Journal’s Editorial Board. In addition, all long articles are sent to the Academic Review Board, which consists of distinguished international law scholars and practitioners. Submissions can be made at any time. Articles submitted by 30 September 2019 will be considered for Volume 9 Issue 1. Any articles submitted after this date will be considered for the following issues. For full submission instructions, go here. Submissions can be made for Volume 9 here. Alternatively, blog articles can be submitted here. Further information can be obtained from the Editors-in-Chief at editors [at] cilj [dot] co [dot] uk.

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