Events and Announcements: 12 October 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 the following materials to the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law: one lecture in English on Fair and Equitable Treatment, by Jeremy Sharpe, Professor and Member of the United Nations Register of Damage (UnRoD); one lecture in English, entitled Introduction to International Disaster Law, by Kirsten Bookmiller, Professor at Millersville University; and a three-part lecture in English on The Human Right to Food, by Marsha Echols, Director of the World Food Law Institute and Professor of Law at Howard University.

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

Call for Expressions of Interest

Commentary on the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons. The editors of a proposed article-by-article commentary on the CCW – Prof Rain Liivoja, Dr Lauren Sanders and Penny Saultry – are looking to identify additional colleagues who may wish to contribute to the commentary. 

If you are interested, please contact the editors at info@apils.org by 31 October. In the email, please indicate clearly which article(s) of the Convention and/or the Protocols you would propose to work on. Please include or attach a biographical note that outlines your expertise, especially in relation to the CCW and/or other conventional arms control treaties, and a list of your relevant publications.

Oxford University Press has expressed interest in the commentary and will consider a full proposal once the contributor list is complete. The exact timeline will be settled in consultation with the contributors. More details on the project are available here.

Call for Submissions

Call for Submissions – Cyber Law Toolkit: The Cyber Law Toolkit, the award-winning online resource on international law and cyber activities, is inviting submissions for its next general update, scheduled for September 2026. Authors of selected scenarios will receive an honorarium of €1,000. The Toolkit features a growing collection of hypothetical scenarios, each describing cyber incidents inspired by real-world examples and accompanied by detailed legal analysis. It has been expressly cited in a number of State national positions on international law in cyberspace and has become a key reference point for governments, militaries, international organizations, and academics worldwide. To remain current and relevant, the Toolkit is regularly updated. The project team now welcomes proposals for new scenarios to be included in the 2026 update. Proposals of no more than 500 words should describe a hypothetical cyber incident (or series of incidents), identify the international law issues raised, and include references to relevant sources. Proposals are due by 14 November 2025. For further details, please see the full call for submissions.

Events

International Seminar on The Right to Strike under International Law: On 8 October 2025, the International Court of Justice closed the public hearings for its advisory opinion on the “Right to Strike under ILO Convention No. 87.” This case will have major implications for international and domestic labour law, as well as the regulation of the right to strike, worldwide. 

In the wake of these hearings, the Jack and Mae Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security invites you to join an international seminar on 16 October at 3:00 p.m. CET / 9:00 a.m. ET. The event will feature leading scholars and experts on the right to strike under international law, including lawyers directly involved in the case.

The seminar will be held online. Registration is free and available at this link.

BUL Law Talks Series: BUL is inaugurating for the year its BUL Law Talks series on the junction inter alia between international and domestic law and featuring the BUL law academics as well as external speakers. The first circle of the talks till December is held every Tuesday at 16.00 at the Beldam room, at the BUL Eastern Gateway/Reception building. For more information, you can contact the series convenor, Solon Solomon, at solon.solomon@brunel.ac.uk. You can register for free here.