Events and Announcements: 16 February 2025

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Calls for Papers

Call for Papers – Reconstructing International Criminal Justice as It Unfolds: The European Society of International Law’s Interest Group on International Criminal Justice is organizing a workshop on “Reconstructing International Criminal Justice as It Unfolds,” to take place in Berlin on Thursday, 11 September 2025, immediately before the ESIL 2025 Annual Conference. The call for papers is here. The deadline for submissions is 1 April 2025.

Call for Abstracts – Thicker Notion of Human Rights Accountabilities: The Thicker Notions of Human Rights Accountabilities Conference revisits the questions of what qualifies as a human rights violation, who holds human rights duties, and how to deliver human rights accountability in the context of pressing and complex challenges.  It will be hosted by the Future Proofing Human Rights research project in Brussels, Belgium from 19-21 November 2025. The organisers are inviting contributions that seek to reconstruct the notion of human rights accountability, divided across five themes: Change, Knowing, Duties, Harm, and Remedy. They welcome contributions from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, including but not limited to law, socio-legal perspectives, criminology, and political science. Abstracts should be submitted by 20 April 2025. For full details, please see the full conference call here.

Call for Papers – Cooperation or Domination: International Organisations as Imperial Designs: The Center for Global Public Law (CGPL) at Koç University is pleased to announce a Workshop to be held in Istanbul on 4 July 2025. The workshop will focus on the intersection between international organisations and imperialism, capitalism and race exploring whether and how these institutions have served as instruments of domination under the guise of cooperation. Each paper will be assigned a discussant who will provide detailed feedback, fostering an in-depth discussion and critique of the presented work. Discussants include Catherine Brölmann (University of Amsterdam), Jean d’Aspremont (Sciences Po, University of Manchester), Lys Kulamadayil (Geneva Graduate Institute), and Fuad Zarbiyev (Geneva Graduate Institute). Scholars at all stages of their careers are invited to submit abstracts. Limited funding is available. Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be sent by 23 March. Here is the link for the call for papers.

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Doctoral Workshop – Sustainability & Public Law: The Sustainability & Public Law PhDs of the Onderzoekcentrum voor Staat & Recht (SteR) (Research Centre for State and Law) want to welcome all PhD candidates in Law and/or Sustainability to attend the Doctoral Workshop on Sustainability & Public Law taking place on 7 April 2025. The Doctoral Workshop will consist of four panels in which PhD candidates, who responded to the call for applications, will present their research. After presenting their research there will be ample opportunity to discuss the various legal approaches to sustainability and public law.

Would you like to attend the Doctoral Workshop in person or online? You can sign up via this form.   

Conference – Innovative Ways to Counter Terrorism: The Role of Transitional Justice: On 27 March 2025, the T.M.C. Asser Instituut & the Senator George J Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, Queen’s University Belfast will host in The Hague a one-day conference on “Innovative Ways to Counter Terrorism: The Role of Transitional Justice”. Focusing on the examples of Northern Ireland and Colombia, the conference aims to analyse what and how transitional justice mechanisms can contribute to reducing the terrorist threat in the long term, fostering national security as well as transforming victims and survivors into active actors of counter-terrorism, and promoting reconciliation. For more information and registration see here.

Book Launch – Gendered Peace through International Law: On 19 February 2025, 5.30pm, in London, join International Law at Westminster (ILaW) for a talk with Dr Louise Arimatsu and Professor Christine Chinkin on their book Gendered Peace through International Law (Hart 2024). The talk, moderated by Dr Marco Longobardo, will explore the main findings of their open access book, discussing what a gendered peace might look like and its impact on international law. More info and free registration are available here.