Events and Announcements: 12 January 2025

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Call for Applications

ITLOS – Nippon Foundation Capacity Building and Training Programme 2025-2026: The ITLOS-Nippon Foundation Capacity-Building and Training Programme on Dispute Settlement under UNCLOS, July 2025 – March 2026, to be held at ITLOS (Hamburg, Germany), is welcoming applications until 6 March 2025. The programme is aimed at junior or mid-level government officials and researchers mainly from developing countries who are currently working on issues related to the law of the sea, maritime law, or dispute settlement. It provides participants with a unique opportunity to develop their legal skills and deepen their practical knowledge of dispute settlement in the law of the sea under UNCLOS. For more information see the flyer and website. For information in French, see here.

Calls for Papers

The Role of the Causal Inquiry for Finding Breaches of Human Rights Obligations under the ECHR: On 5 and 6 June 2025, Lund University is organising a workshop on the role of the causal inquiry for finding breaches of human rights obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). The objective of the workshop is to try to disentangle the different ways in which causation is relevant for establishing state responsibility under the European Convention on Human Rights. The objective is to gather a mix of scholars: scholars that have a more theoretical/analytical background, scholars that have a more ECHR case-law oriented research profile and scholars that have addressed causation in national settings (such as tort law). For details contact vladislava.Stoyanova@jur.lu.se or see here.

Law of Armed Conflict: The Department of Operative and International Law at the Swedish Defence University and the Swedish Red Cross invite abstracts to the 1st Nordic Symposium on the Law of Armed Conflict. The Symposium will be held on 8 and 9 May 2025 in Stockholm, Sweden. The abstracts for papers should be addressing one of three themes from a variety of perspectives: conduct of hostilities; protection; compliance. Abstracts shall not exceed 750 words, be accompanied with a CV and sent with the subject line ‘Nordic LOAC symposium abstract’ no later than 1 March 2025 to zarah.abrahamsson@fhs.se . You can read more about the Symposium and Call for Papers here.

Events

Seminar & Book Launch: On Wednesday, 29 January 2025, the Maastricht Centre for Human Rights will host a hybrid seminar and book launch titled “Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Strategically Moving Forward.” The seminar will reflect on how human rights institutions and mechanisms can contribute to a more equitable recovery after crises, focusing on the protection of socio-economic rights. Discussions will draw from two recent publications: Ingrid Westendorp (ed), Human Rights Strategies: Benefits and Drawbacks (Edward Elgar, 2024) and Andrea Broderick & Jennifer Sellin (eds), Socio-economic Rights, Inequalities and Vulnerability in Times of Crises: Building Back Better (Edward Elgar, 2024). The event will feature a keynote speech from Philip Alston and pay tribute to Fons Coomans for his contributions to the field. This full-day event will take place both online and at Maastricht University, Faculty of Law. Attendance is free, but places for in-person participation are limited. Click here for registration and for more information about the full program.

Ghandhi Research Seminar Series 2024-25: Global Law at Reading (GLAR) is one of the leading groups of expert staff researching and teaching global law at any university in the UK. As Reading’s research hub for public international law, EU law and human rights law it has a proud international reputation for research excellence in these areas. The Ghandhi Research Seminar Series was launched in 2015. It is named in honour of Professor Sandy Ghandhi, who taught at the School of Law from 1978 to 2013 and remains an emeritus professor at Reading. The dates of seminars in the spring semester are as follows:

11 February, 1pm UK time, Professor Gregory Fox (Wayne State University), Civil War Peace Agreements: Inside or Outside International Law?, Palmer Building 107 or via Teams; 24 February, 12pm UK, Dr Justina Uriburu (University of Manchester), Missing Pieces of Peace: A History of International Dispute Settlement, Palmer Building 106 or via Teams ; 5 March, 11am UK, Katherine Reece-Thomas (City, University of London), The Commercial Activity Exception to State Immunity, Henley Business School G13 or via Teams; 19 March, 12pm UK, Professor Nazila Ghanea (University of Oxford), Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Parsing out Religion from Politics in the Work of the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, Palmer Building 103 or viaTeams; 12 May, 12pm UK, Professor Frédéric Mégret (McGill University), What is International Human Rights Law For?, Palmer Building 111 or via Teams.