Events and Announcements: 13 April 2025

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Call for Panel Proposals

International Law Weekend 2025: The American Branch of the International Law Association (ABILA) is pleased to invite panel proposals for International Law Weekend 2025 (ILW 2025)—the premier international law event of the fall season. ILW 2025 will take place on 23-25 October 2025 in New York City. The unifying theme for ILW 2025 is Crisis as Catalyst in International Law. The deadline is 20 April 2025. More information can be found here.

Call for Papers

Workshop – In the Name of National Security: The Fragility of Human Rights: The Centre for Public Law at the University of Cambridge and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid will co-host a workshop In the Name of National Security: The Fragility of Human Rights at the Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales in Madrid on 3 July 2025. The workshop is held in conjunction with the European Human Rights Law Review and it is intended that a selection of papers from the workshop will be included in a Special Issue of the journal in 2026. The organisers welcome abstracts on any topic within the theme. To propose a paper, submit an abstract of 250-500 words by 25 April 2025 using this form. Full papers are to be submitted by 26 June 2025, one week in advance of the workshop. For more information, see here.

Special Issue – AI and State Crime: The State Crime Journal invites proposals for a special issue on ‘AI and State Crime’. AI is now established as a prominent field of academic study, attracting attention from disciplines as diverse as computer science, international law, and sociology. It is only recently, however, that prominent real-world examples involving the use of AI in the commission of State crime have emerged. Perhaps the most high-profile examples have been the rapid adoption of AI technologies for the planning and perpetuation of hostilities. The use of AI in war is, however, only the tip of the iceberg. AI has been involved in practices of migration management and the commission and expansion of violence at the border, where it is used to target people on the move. Internally, AI technologies – including facial recognition, predictive policing and geo-fencing – have been implicated in the commission of State violence, miscarriages of justice, and the repression of racialized and minoritized communities.

This Special Issue critically explores case studies where AI has been or is being deployed in the commission of State crimes. We are hereby adopting a deliberately broad understanding of State crime, and welcome contributions across a range of different AI use cases. We welcome contributions from any relevant disciplines, or inter-disciplinary pieces. The submission deadline is 1 September 2025. More information can be found here.