Events and Announcements: 1 June 2025

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Calls for Papers

Symposium – The Adjudication of Climate Change: The Canadian Yearbook of International Law (CYIL) is soliciting papers (in English or French) for a symposium on “The Adjudication of Climate Change”. Prospective authors are invited to submit an abstract of up to 500 words by 15 July 2025 to the following email address: cyil-editor@uottawa.ca. Those selected will be invited to present their paper at the Young Scholars’ Workshop to be held at the University of Ottawa on 12 November 2025, where they will receive constructive feedback from senior scholars and practitioners. Authors will then submit their articles for consideration by the Canadian Yearbook of International Law. Subject to favourable peer-review, articles submitted as part of the symposium will appear in Volume 63 of the Yearbook in 2026. See here for more information.

Seminar – Developments in the Law of State Immunity: The Research Group for Human Rights and International Law at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway will host a one-day seminar on 20 November 2025 in Tromsø on Developments in the Law of State Immunity. The seminar will explore the evolving landscape of state immunity, including both immunity of the state and its property, and the immunity of state officials—whether personal (ratione personae) or functional (ratione materiae). Recent developments such as the ICC arrest warrants for sitting heads of state, the ILC’s ongoing work on immunity, and debates surrounding the confiscation of Russian state assets will serve as focal points for discussion. The organizers welcome paper proposals addressing these and related issues. Selected papers will be published in a special issue of the Nordic Journal of International Law.

Abstracts (max 500 words) and a short CV should be submitted to Gaiane Nuridzhanian (gaiane.nuridzhanian@uit.no) by 1 August 2025.

Early Career Conference – Humanitarian Disarmament: On 11 and 12 September 2025, the Asser Institute in The Hague will host a conference for young scholars on Humanitarian Disarmament. The organizers have issued a call for papers open to researchers working on international humanitarian law, international arms control and related topics, who are currently enrolled in a PhD program or who obtained their PhD no more than three years ago. Limited bursaries are available to presenting participants. To apply, authors must submit an abstract (150-200 words) by 17 July 2025 to t.coventry@asser.nl. For registration, please also email Thea Coventry. Further information is available here.

Workshop – The Law and Political Economy of 21st-Century Authoritarianism: The Australian Progressive Legal Studies collective invites paper proposals for its annual 2025 workshop on ‘The Law and Political Economy of 21st-Century Authoritarianism’ to be held at the University of Queensland, Brisbane on 8 and 9 December 2025.  
Democratic self-government and freedoms are under attack around the world. The rise of 21st-century authoritarian rule is global in scale. It has been unfolding across a variety of national contexts – affecting both the Global North and the Global South, ‘new’ and ‘old’ democracies as well as non-democratic states – as well as the international order itself, where even superficial legal commitments to sovereign equality are being abandoned in favour of openly despotic forms of international rule. The rise of authoritarianism raises urgent intellectual and political questions for those trying to think about law and political economy from a progressive perspective. We need to understand the roots of our current predicament and devise effective political strategies and legal tactics for moving toward a more democratic and ecologically viable political and economic order. We invite submissions from across disciplines (law, political theory, international relations, philosophy, political economy) and jurisdictions that focus on the law and political economy of contemporary authoritarian rule. We are keen to receive abstracts not only from academics but also from practicing lawyers and progressives who have engaged with law as part of their political work and advocacy. 

Abstracts of no more than 300 words and a short bio of no more than 150 words should be submitted to Ntina Tzouvala (n.tzouvala@unsw.edu.au) by 11 July 2025.

Events

London International Boundary Conference: King’s College London (Department of Geography) and Volterra Fietta are co-hosting the 7th edition of The London International Boundary Conference (“LIBC“). The LIBC will take place on 12 and 13 June 2025 at King’s College London. The Conference brings together delegates and speakers from all over the world. It will provide a unique, multidisciplinary perspective on the complexities of international boundary and sovereignty disputes. Attendees will have the opportunity to explore current issues on boundary delimitation and exchange insights on potential solutions, through a series of lectures, panels seminars and interactive question and answer sessions. More Information, including on how to apply for speaking engagements on the LIBC panels, can be found here and here.

India and Pakistan on the Brink of War: Solon Solomon (BUL School of Law, Brunel University of London) and Saeed Bagheri (University of Reading School of Law) invite you as co-convenors of the SLS International Law section to the Central London 30/6 event titled ‘India and Pakistan on the brink of war: A view on the latest tensions from a geopolitical and international law perspective’ with Marion Messmer from Chatham House and Tsvetelina van Benthem from the University of Oxford as speakers. The event takes place on 30 June 2025. You can register here.