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23 Sep

Upcoming Events Fordham will organize a debate entitled Executive Power and Civil Liberties: Debating Obama’s Targeted Killing Program on September 24, 2012 at 6pm, between Martin S. Flaherty and Jack Goldsmith, and moderated by William M. Treanor. Registration is requested. The Florida Children and Youth Cabinet Human Trafficking Summit will be hosted in Tallahassee, Florida on September 24, 2012. The summit is bringing together...

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16 Sep

Upcoming Events On October 1-2, 2012, Leiden University and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam will host the Second Annual Expert Seminar on Foreign Investment Law, entitled: Foreign investment in the energy sector: Balancing private and public interests at Leiden University in The Netherlands. Registration is free, but space is limited. Friday, October 12, 2012, St. John's Law Review, St. John's Center for International and Comparative Law and St. John's...

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09 Sep

Upcoming Events The SHARES Research Project on Shared Responsibility in International Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Amsterdam has launched its SHARES Lecture Series on topics related to shared responsibility. The complete schedule of the lectures for 2012-2013 is available here. Fordham will organize a debate entitled Executive Power and Civil Liberties: Debating Obama's Targeted Killing Program...

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02 Sep

Calls for Papers The Southern Illinois University Law Journal is seeking scholarly legal articles from newer legal scholars for possible inclusion in a special Symposium issue, Guantanamo Bay: What Next?, on legal issues arising from the continued detention and trial of detainees at Guantanamo Bay. Full submissions (in Microsoft Word) should be in by November 19, 2012. The International Organizations Interest Group of the American Society of...

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26 Aug

Calls for Papers The Irish Yearbook of International Law has a call for papers for a special symposium issue regarding Climate Justice in International Law (Word document). Submission deadline is August 31, 2012. The University of Sydney is hosting a post-graduate conference on November 1-2, 2012 entitled Crossing Boundaries (Word document), open to post-grads in the Asia-Pacific region. Deadlines of abstract submission (no more...

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24 Aug

I hope this statement by Assange's legal team is just seeking leverage for negotiations, because I think their claim would be blown out of the water by the ICJ. It would be an international embarrassment for Ecuador. Actually, it would be a further international embarrassment for Ecuador, which is already beginning to seem a little ridiculous in its involvement in this...

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19 Aug

Call for Papers The African International Economic Law Network has issued a call for papers for its upcoming conference taking place in Johannesburg, South Africa, March 7-8, 2013: "Trade Governance: Integrating Africa into the World Economy Through International Economic Law." The call can be found here; anonymous abstracts of no more than 300 words are due by September 7, 2012. The International Review...

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12 Aug

Upcoming Events The Institute for Global Law and Policy is organizing its 4th Annual Workshop which will bring together 50-100 doctoral, post-doctoral scholars, and junior faculty in Doha, Qatar, from January 4-14, 2013. More information can be found here. Applications to participate should be submitted online by October 15, 2012. The event is intended to be cost-free for all selected participants. The ABA Section...

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05 Aug

Call for Papers The University of Liverpool is hosting a conference December 6-7, 2012, on Critical Approaches to International Criminal Law and is seeking abstract submissions of maximum 500 words before September 1, 2012. The University of Amsterdam's Center for International Law has issued a call for papers for a two-day seminar on Interfaces between International and National Legal Orders: An International Rule...

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29 Jul

Call for Papers Transnational Dispute Management's call for papers for a forthcoming (January 2013) special issue on Corruption and Arbitration closes on Tuesday July 31. Melbourne Law School has issued a call for papers for its Fifth Annual Melbourne Doctoral Forum on Legal Theory, taking place in Melbourne on December 6-8, 2012. Abstracts of max. 500 words and biographies of 100 words should be...

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22 Jul

Conferences & Events The University of Leiden will host a conference: International Humanitarian Assistance and International Law, January 24-25, 2013. The aim of the conference is to bring experts in the field of international humanitarian assistance together and to explore various fields of law relating to humanitarian assistance, like international humanitarian law, human rights law, international disaster response law, and other fields. The...

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