Events and Announcements: 30 November 2025

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Call for Applications

Irish Yearbook of International Law: The editors of the Irish Yearbook of International Law welcome expressions of interest from persons interested in taking on the role of Editor(s) in Chief.

Since its foundation, the Yearbook has always had at least two Joint Editors-in-Chief, supported by an editorial board and advisory committee. The current Editors-in-Chief are James Gallen (DCU), Richard Collins (QUB) and Bríd Ní Ghráinne (Maynooth).

The primary responsibilities of the Editors-in-Chief are to liaise with the publisher (Hart Bloomsbury), generate and manage article submissions, oversee the commissioning and editing of correspondents’ reports, and to oversee generation and editing of book reviews. The Editors-in-Chief should have expertise in any area of Public or Private International Law and should have some connection with Ireland, for example, employment/ previous employment in Ireland and/or has received an educational qualification from an institution in Ireland. The IYIL is published once per year, and the new Editors-in-Chief should be in place to take the lead on the 2024 Yearbook (to be published in 2026). The outgoing Editors-in-Chief will provide transitional support.  

Expressions of interest in the form of a cover letter and CV should be sent to the outgoing editors by 15 January 2026 (james.gallen@dcu.ie; rcollins@qub.ac.uk; brid.nighrainne@mu.ie).  We welcome combined expressions of interest from persons proposing to act as Joint Editors-in-Chief, or expressions of interest from individuals. In the latter case, we may propose the role be shared between two or more persons who express an interest.

Calls for Papers

Human Rights and the Crises of Global Order: The Nordic Journal of Human Rights invites submissions of papers presenting innovative scholarship analysing the multiple challenges facing the international human rights project amid shifting global power relations in contemporary world politics and seeking to address issues such as: 

• How are international human rights institutions – and the actors within them – adapting to geopolitical and normative transformations? 
• How can we distinguish between the use and abuse of human rights claims in an increasingly plural global landscape? 
• How do human rights defenders and policymakers need to rethink strategies, concepts, and methodologies to confront the erosion of democracy, ongoing armed conflicts, or the evolving conditions for accountability and justice? 

 The journal takes a multi-disciplinary approach to human rights as legal, political, and social practice. We publish high-quality scholarship analysing the past, present and future of human rights from a variety of theoretical and methodological viewpoints. For more information, see here.

Climate Apartheid – Law, Economy, Culture: The “Climate Apartheid: Law, Economy, Culture” project at the Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University, invites papers for its conference on the same topic on 24-25 March 2026. The term ‘climate apartheid’ was first coined in 2007 by Archbishop Desmond Tutu to raise alarm about uneven patterns of climate change adaptation. In 2019, the concept gained more international attention when the Special Rapporteur Philip Alston warned the UN Human Rights Council that ‘climate apartheid’ was a ‘scenario’ in which the ‘wealthy pay to escape overheating, hunger and conflict, while the rest of the world is left to suffer.’ Since then, ‘climate apartheid’ has been invoked or implied in a range of contexts from academic analyses to climate and racial justice activism and concerning border enforcement and immigration policy, infrastructural development, the law, the development of emergent technologies, climate colonialism, responsibilities for loss and damage, climate adaptation, and climate-resilient urbanism. Despite the proliferation of the concept’s use, however, it remains unclear how it is and ought to be precisely comprehended and utilized, for whom the concept is available, how it can be distinguishable from other concepts including ‘climate justice’, and what opportunities or barriers it creates. In this conference we aim to take an interdisciplinary approach understand how climate apartheid is, has been, and could be used. Abstracts of up to 500 words are due 16 January; more details and a submission form are available here.

Global Law Conference: University of Edinburgh Centre for International and Global Law and University of Edinburgh International Law Reading Group is jointly organising a Global Law Conference, taking place on 30 April and 1 May 2026 in person at the University of Edinburgh. The committee is now collecting abstracts to present at this two day conference on one of its three panel streams, titled as (1)  Substance and boundaries [of global law], (2)  The empirical implications: global law in practice and (3) Situating global law in critical legal scholarship. Presenters will deliver a 15 minute individual presentation within a panel of 3 presenters, which will be followed by a 30 minute discussion and Q&A for the entire panel. Interested applicants should submit their abstract by 31 January 2026, and the conference committee will notify selected presenters by 20 February 2026. Further information about the conference as well as the application form could be found through this link. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate the contact ilrg@ed.ac.uk.

Supernatural Law – Regulating the Paranormal: Have you ever asked a judge to declare a house haunted? Would you sue a fortune-teller for mis-predicting your future? Should the law even allow these claims?

If you write about law, whether a believer or a sceptic, and you are keen to explore an uncharted area of research, you are invited to contribute to this unique edited volume on Supernatural Law: Regulating the Paranormal. Deadline: 13 January 2026. See the full call for chapters and submission guidelines here.

Events

Conference – Empowering Through Digital Technologies: The hybrid international conference “Empowering Through Digital Technologies” will take place on 9 December 2025, from 9:00 AM to 5:30 PM, at the Orchard Rendezvous Hotel, Singapore.  The conference will bring together world-leading researchers and practitioners to discuss 1) how international law can effectively regulate digital technologies, 2) ensuring inclusiveness in an increasingly digitalized world, 3) transforming digital technologies from disabling to empowering tools, and 4) best practices for designing and applying technologies to advance social, global, digital, and environmental justice, human rights, and sustainable development.The event will combine classic academic panels with interactive, solutions-oriented workshops. You can find full details and registration information here.

Max Planck Law Open House: Are you a passionate early career researcher in law or a related discipline looking for academic opportunities in an intellectually stimulating, challenging, and supportive environment? Then join our Max Planck Law Open House—an online information session plus Q&A—on 2 December 2025 at 15:30 CET. Registrations are welcome.

Max Planck Law is the network of nine Max Planck Institutes focusing on legal research, all located in Germany. We cover areas from anthropology of law to tax law and are dedicated to the advancement of knowledge, with a particular focus on comparative, interdisciplinary and transnational approaches.

As a PhD student or postdoc at Max Planck Law, you will benefit in many ways. To name just a few:

— No tuition fees; fully-funded positions for at least 3 years
— Opportunity to work with world-renowned experts
— Access to world-class facilities, including specialized libraries and databases
— Financial support for research-related expenses such as travel, conference fees, and publication costs
— Coaching and training for both personal and professional development
— Exchange programmes with top international law schools

See you soon at the Max Planck Law Open House!