Events and Announcements: 11 June 2023

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Calls for Papers

Groningen Journal of International Law: The Groningen Journal of International Law is now calling for open papers on any topic within the field of international law. The Editorial Board will carefully select articles based on the quality of research and writing, as well as the relevance of the topic. We will also review the articles for language and formatting. Accepted articles should be between 7,000 and 15,000 words (excluding footnotes). Authors can find more detailed information in the GroJIL author guidelines available here. The Editorial Board aims to review manuscripts within 30 days. To have your article considered for publication, please submit it by email to board@grojil.org. The submission deadline is August 1st, 2023.

Seminar: ‘Global Constitutionalism and Supranational Adjudicative Bodies: Global South Experiences vis-à-vis Hegemony’: The Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo is hosting a webinar/seminar on global constitutionalism, international adjudicative bodies, and hegemony on 16-17 November 2023.

We invite participants from different disciplines (including law, political science, and philosophy) to submit an abstract and a short bio by 21 August 2023. The abstract (maximum 300 words) and a short bio (one page) shall be sent to Dr. Natalia Torres-Zuniga n.t.zuniga@nchr.uio.no and Dr. Juan-Pablo Perez-Leon-Acevedo pe.le.ace@gmail.com.

To foster interaction/feedback during the seminar, we kindly ask those selected to share their drafts (maximum 6000 words) by 6 November 2023. We aim to publish select papers in a special issue of a peer-reviewed international journal and/or in an edited book. The event will be held mainly online (Zoom). Additionally, participants are welcome (self-funding) to attend the conference onsite (Oslo). For more information, click here.

Events

The Forthcoming ICJ Advisory Opinion and the Question of Palestine: On 14 June 2023 at 5 pm Jerusalem time (UTC+3), the Diakonia IHL Centre will host a webinar titled The Forthcoming ICJ Advisory Opinion and the Question of Palestine, featuring speakers Professor Susan Akram (Boston University), Dr Marco Longobardo (University of Westminster), and Dr Munir Nuseibah (Al-Quds University). To learn more and to register, please click here.

UN World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna 1993 – Strengthening Imperatives 30 Years After: The Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights and the Institute for Constitutional and Administrative Law of the University of Vienna have the pleasure to invite you to the international conference ‘UN World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna 1993 – Strengthening Imperatives 30 Years After’ which will take place from 27 to 29 September in Vienna.

The conference, which is organised in cooperation with several international and national research institutions, as well as various ministries, will provide participants with an interdisciplinary forum to reflect on past achievements, discuss current challenges, and give an outlook on future challenges in international human rights protection 30 years after the adoption of the Vienna Declaration on Human Rights and its Programme of Action. The conference is relevant for both academics and representatives of practice and civil society. The programme can be found on the conference homepage. Participation will be free of charge while registration is obligatory and can take place via the conference homepage.