Events and Announcements: 9 July 2023

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Calls for Papers

Call for Contributions ICCA 2024 Hong Kong Congress: ICCA is inviting expressions of interest from potential speakers for its next Congress taking place in Hong Kong (5 – 8 May 2024). The theme of the Congress is “International Arbitration: A Human Endeavour”. The Programme Committee for is seeking expressions of interest on the following sub-themes:

(i) The Human Impact and Influence on Arbitration (e.g. the impact of the advocate, arbitrator, witness, expert, mediator);

(ii) The Human Experience and Interaction in Arbitration (e.g. culture, semantics, heuristics, connections, civility, ethics);

(iii) The Human Condition (e.g. wellbeing, human fallibility); (iv) Wider Community (e.g. sociology, origins and conceptions of dispute resolution, localization/ regionalism, sustainability);

(iv) Costs and Economics (e.g. human and financial resourcing, market opportunities and barriers, value, pricing);

(v) An AI Endeavour (e.g. developments in AI and technology affecting arbitration).

Contributions to the conference are expected to be published later in an edited volume. Interested applicants are requested to submit their CV and a 300-word abstract of the potential contributions no later than 17 July 2023. The full call and form for submissions can be found in the ICCA website here.

Special Edition 2023-2024: The Environment and Human Rights: The Harvard Human Rights Journal is accepting submissions for its special issue on The Environment and Human Rights in the form of articles, essays, and case/policy commentaries. For more information, click here.