Events and Announcements: 2 November 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 Exception Clauses in International Trade Law, by Petros C. Mavroidis, Edwin B. Parker Professor of Law at Columbia Law School; and one lecture in English, entitled The Singapore Convention on Mediation, by Natalie Y. Morris-Sharma, Senior State Counsel in Singapore’s Attorney-General’s Chambers.

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

Seminar Materials Now Available – The Right to Strike under International Law: On 16 October 2025, the Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security at York University hosted an international seminar examining whether the right to strike is protected under ILO Convention No. 87 — the question currently before the International Court of Justice.The panel brought together leading international labour law experts: Steven Barret, Paapa Danquah, Tonia Novitz, Janice Bellace, Silvana Sciarra, chaired by Valerio De Stefano.

We are pleased to share the seminar resources publicly, including:
• A written recap of the discussion
• The full video recording
• Edited transcripts of the presentations and Q&A
• A French translation of the recap

All materials are available here.

Calls for Papers

Workshop – ‘Business, armed conflict and international law’ at Utrecht University: This workshop aims to study the involvement of businesses in armed conflict, broadly defined, from different perspectives. In particular, the workshop invites reflections on the limits of the law and the structural constraints of the relevant legal frameworks, fostering dialogue and points of contact among sub-fields of international law and across methodological perspectives. Both theoretical and more practice-oriented contributions are welcome, and so are specific case studies. Interested scholars should send a 300-word abstract and a short bio to Alessandra Spadaro (a.spadaro@uu.nl) and Laura Íñigo Álvarez (laura.inigo@novalaw.unl.pt) by Friday 28 November 2025. More information can be found here.

European Yearbook on Human Rights: The European Yearbook on Human Rights (EYHR) invites submissions for its 2026 edition on topical developments in the field of human rights in Europe and beyond. 2026 marks the anniversaries of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). We will take the opportunity to take a step back and explore how the European human rights system, anchored in the Council of Europe, the EU and the OSCE, has interacted and has been shaped and influenced by the international and other regional human rights systems. The European human rights system has long been regarded as a global leader in human rights protection. However, it has also faced criticism for lagging behind or failing to adequately address emerging human rights issues. This call for papers seeks to critically examine the interconnections, synergies, and divergences between the international, regional and the European human rights systems. We are particularly interested in contributions that

• Reflect on the legacy and relevance of the ICCPR and ICESCR in shaping European human rights law and practice.
• Analyze areas where the European human rights system has demonstrated leadership and innovation, serving as a model for other regions or the international system.
• Identify areas where the European system has fallen short and could benefit from lessons learned from the international or other regional human rights systems.

Authors will be invited to submit full contributions based on an abstract (max 500 words) that should be send by 5 December 2025. Abstracts should be submitted with a short bio to lisa.heschl@uni-graz.at. The deadline for submitting the full papers is end of March 2026. For further information or questions, email lisa.heschl@uni-graz.at.