Events and Announcements: 11 May 2025

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Featured Announcement: BIICL Summer Schools 2025

This summer, the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL) is hosting two summer schools designed for individuals looking to deepen their legal expertise.

The first programme, Law and Technology, provides a comprehensive overview of the rapidly evolving area of technologies applied in the field of law. The second, Public International Law, offers an in-depth introduction to the application of international law in contemporary global affairs.

BIICL’s training programmes combine expert insights and practical experience and are delivered by a distinguished mix of leading academics and experienced practitioners. These courses offer outstanding opportunities for learning and professional networking, particularly for students and recent graduates.

The summer schools will take place at BIICL’s central London offices, located in the heart of the city’s vibrant and multicultural legal network. A limited number of scholarships are available, subject to eligibility criteria. To learn more, please visit the BIICL website.

Call for Applications

Call for Engaged Listeners – MELAW20 & MELP50 Anniversary Conference on Marine and Environmental Law: Retrospect and Prospects: The Marine & Environmental Law Program (MELP) of Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada is celebrating its 50^th anniversary this year. This year also marks the 20^th anniversary of the Marine & Environmental Law Institute (MELAW) of the Schulich School of Law. To celebrate and commemorate this milestone, MELAW is hosting a hybrid conference on Marine and Environmental Law: Retrospect and Prospects on 20-21 May 2025. The Conference will facilitate discussion on some of the most pressing legal issues on environmental law and law of the sea, while providing an opportunity to reflect on the origin story and journey of the MELP teaching specializations and MELAW as a research centre.

A call for engaged listeners has been issued, and the deadline for registration is 16 May 2025. For the conference program and further information, see the MELAW website.

Call for Papers

Pluriloguing with ourselves – Exploring non-dominant feminist grammars in global governance: Despite decades of rhetoric about “intersectionality” and “diversity,” global governance spaces remain dominated by Western, Anglophone, and White feminist perspectives—marginalising alternative feminist frameworks and actors. This interdisciplinary book project, convened by scholars from the University of Cambridge, SOAS, Geneva Graduate Institute, and Bahçeşehir University, challenges this exclusion by amplifying non-dominant (non-white, non-Anglophone, non-Western) feminist engagements with global governance frameworks. We invite abstracts (250 words) on themes including the coloniality of language and racialised gatekeeping in global governance, subaltern feminist critiques of liberalism, capitalism, and imperialism in global governanceAlternative epistemologies for global governance, and resistance strategies from the Global South. Abstracts should be submitted via this form. The deadline for submissions is 15 June 2025.

The project prioritises submissions from marginalised scholars, artists, and collectives. It includes a workshop (2–3 October 2025, University of Cambridge) and seeks to produce an open-access edited volume. Limited bursaries are available for Global South participants. For more information about the call, please access here. We welcome submissions in English, Portuguese, Spanish, and French. If you would like to submit in a language other than those, please contact pluriloguing.femlaw@gmail.com, and we will be happy to discuss how to accommodate this.

Event

Seminar – The Law and Policy of the EU External Environmental Action: We would like to cordially invite all those who take an interest to our expert seminar on the External Aspects of the EU Green Deal organised by the Department of International and European Law, Faculty of Law, Radboud University, and co-funded by Radboud Centre for Sustainability Challenges. It will take place at Radboud University (Nijmegen) on 12 and 13 June 2025. 
The seminar will explore emerging issues of the EU external environmental framework, address the nexus of trade, energy and the environment, share critical perspectives from the Global South and provide insights on the perception of the EU’s external environmental policy in neighbouring countries. 
Further information on the panels, seminar schedule, and registration can be found on our website.