Events and Announcements: 15 October 2023

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Calls for Papers

Call for Abstracts: Seminar on ‘The Challenges of International Law-Making for the Use of Information and Communication Technologies’: Essex Law School is pleased to invite scholars, practitioners, and experts in the field of international law to submit abstracts (400 words max) for the upcoming seminar on “The Challenges of International Law-Making for the Use of Information and Communication Technologies”. The seminar will be held — with the financial support of the Modern Law Review — at the University of Essex on Tuesday 12 December 2023, and it will offer a platform for in-depth discussions on the critical issues surrounding the governance of information and communication technologies in the contemporary world. The deadline to submit abstracts (via e-mail to antonio.coco@essex.ac.uk) is Tuesday 31 October at 23:59, London time. The organizers will provide funding for travel and accommodation expenses to the selected participants. Early-career researchers are particularly encouraged to apply. After the seminar, authors will have the opportunity to submit full-length papers to the Modern Law Review for peer review. More information is available here.

Call for Papers: Writing Workshop for Early Career Scholars from the Global South: The Journal of Environmental Law is proudly teaming up with the Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law (APCEL) to jointly organise a writing workshop in Singapore for early career scholars from the Global South. The purpose of this workshop is to create opportunities for early career scholars working at higher education institutions in the Global South to receive feedback on their scholarship, exchange ideas with other scholars, and to learn more about navigating the academic requirements of journals, and academic publishing more generally.

The workshop will take place on the 6th and 7th of May 2024 in Singapore. Workshop participants will receive full funding that will cover accommodation (3 nights) and air travel by economy class. Please email your CV, a brief statement setting out your reasons for applying to this workshop (no more than 500 words), and your draft paper (no more than 10,000 words including footnotes) to lawapcel@nus.edu.sg by 5 January 2024. Applicants will be informed by late January 2024 about the outcome of their papers. For more information, click here.