Events and Announcements: 22 June 2025

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Announcement

New additions to the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law (AVL): The Codification Division of the Office of Legal Affairs recently added new materials to the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law: two lectures in English and French on “The Role of the Office of Public Counsel for Victims in the Framework of the Rome Stature of the International Criminal Court” by Ms. Paolina Massidda, Principal Counsel of the Office of Public Counsel for Victims (OPCV) at the International Criminal Court; two lectures in English and French on “The Prevention Principle in International Environmental Law” by Ms. Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli, Reader in Environmental Law at The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London; and a lecture in English on “Joint Interpretative Agreements in International Law” by Mr. Fuad Zarbiyev, Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.

The Audiovisual Library of International Law is also available as an audio podcast on Apple, SoundCloud.

Call for Submissions

Symposium – Crisis as Catalyst: In honor of International Law Weekend 2025’s theme of ‘Crisis as Catalyst,’ ABILA is hosting its next blogging symposium with the International Humanitarian Law Committee. Crisis as Catalyst in International Humanitarian Law lends itself to many blog themes. These may include, but are not limited to:

• International Criminal Court sanctions
  
• Enforcement of Leahy Laws and the “ensure respect” obligation of the Geneva Conventions
  
• Challenges to the implementation of principles of distinction and proportionality in modern warfare
  
• Enhancing accountability through the new Ljubljana/The Hague Convention on Mutual Legal Assistance

To participate, kindly submit a 200-word abstract and a brief biography to Freya Doughty-Wagner at media@ila-americanbranch.org by 27 June 27 2025. Abstracts and biographies may be in Word or PDF format. Please include the phrase ‘blog symposium’ in the email’s subject line. Abstracts must address the ILW 2025 theme from an international humanitarian law perspective. See further details here.

Conference – Post Hegemonic International Law?: The Association of Young International Law Scholars (AjV), the German Society of International Law (DGIR), and the University of Zurich invite early career researchers to submit paper proposals for a conference exploring the question: Are we facing a post-hegemonic international law? If so, what new imaginaries and frameworks emerge to conceptualize this shift? The event will foster interdisciplinary dialogue among legal scholars, historians, political scientists, and practitioners on the future of international law and its contemporary challenges.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: the effects of armed conflict on human rights and humanitarian law, environmental and climate justice, global trade and economic law, digital technologies and data governance, refugee and migration law, international criminal law, and the evolving roles of international courts. We welcome submissions (max. 400 words) from early career researchers, particularly those from underrepresented groups in academia, by 1 July 2025 via this link. Selected participants will be notified by mid-July, and final papers (max. 5,000 words) are due by 1 November 2025. Please direct any inquiries to conference@ajv-germany.de.