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23 Mar Weekday News Wrap: Friday, March 23, 2012
The International Court of Justice issued two press releases about upcoming hearings in both the Frontier Dispute (Burkina Faso/Niger), scheduled for October 8-17, 2012; and the Maritime Dispute (Peru v. Chile), scheduled for December 3-14, 2012. Reuters reports a three-way scramble for the upcoming World Bank presidential elections, with American economist Jeffrey Sachs registered as a candidate. African finance ministers have backed Nigerian, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for the post, and officials have just confirmed her candidacy as well. Though his name has been pushed by Brazil, Colombia does not see former...14 Oct Upcoming Events: October 14, 2012
Upcoming Events On December 7, 2012, the T.M.C. Asser Instituut, in cooperation with the International Humanitarian and Criminal Law Platform, will organize a conference entitled Prosecutor, Watchdog, Diplomat, Manager: The Multiple Roles of the International Prosecutor. Registration can be done here. Calls for Papers The Human Rights Centre in Practice and the Institute of Advanced Study at the University of Warwick have issued a call for papers for a workshop on Strategies for realising social economic rights in practice: Multi-disciplinary experiences from early career researchers. The call for papers is...16 Dec Events and Announcements: December 16, 2012
...Society on the Law of Armed Conflict is calling for submissions for the Francis Lieber Prize. Both monographs and articles (including chapters in books of essays) are eligible for consideration, as the prize is awarded to the best submission in each of these two categories. Criteria: Any work in the English language published during 2012 or whose publication is imminent at the time of submission may be nominated for this prize. The re-submission of works which have already been considered for this prize is not allowed. Entries may address such...04 Nov Upcoming Events: November 4, 2012
...entitled: 35 Years of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: Theory and Practice, Present and Future. Abstracts are due to be submitted by November 15, 2012. The University of Catania, Italy, is organizing the 10th Young International Lawyer Research Forum on January 24-25, 2013 themed “A Lackland Law? Territory, Effectiveness and Jurisdiction in International and European Law.” The deadline for the submission of abstracts is November 24, 2012. The 9th Global Administative Law Seminar will take place in Viterbo, Italy, on June 13-14, 2013, on the theme of Inter-Institutional Relations...08 Jul Upcoming Events: July 8, 2012
Conferences & events On Wednesday July 11, the Brookings Institution is organizing Translating Human Rights into Practice: A Conversation on the United Nations Human Rights Council in the Saul/Zilkha Rooms, 1775 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington, DC. For more information and registration, please click here. On July 18, the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at American University, Washington College of Law, is organizing a webinar on the human rights implications of key decisions by the US Supreme Court in its 2012 term. To register your interest, please RSVP here....21 Oct Upcoming Events: October 21, 2012
On November 1, 2012 at 4pm, the Columbia Law School Center for Constitutional Governance and the American Society of International Law are organizing a Panel Discussion on International Law and the South China Sea. Speakers are Henry S. Bensurto, Sir Daniel Bethlehem, KCMG QC, Harold Hongju Koh and Coalter G. Lathrop. Professor Bernard Oxman will moderate. On December 4-5, 2012, Human Rights First will organize its inaugural Human Rights Conference: American Ideals. Universal Values, to mark the 64th anniversary of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights. The conference will take...29 Mar Follow-up to NYU JILP Symposium on LGBT Asylum and Refugee Law
...School of Law; & Mathew Schutzer, NYU School of Law, J.D. candidate 2012 ~ I. Connie Oxford is Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the State University of New York, Plattsburgh. Her publications include Queer Asylum: U.S. Policies and Responses to Sexual Orientation and Transgendered Persecution in Shifting Control: Gender and Migration Policy, 1917-2010. Marlou Schrover and Deidre Moloney (eds.) Amsterdam, Netherlands: Amsterdam University Press. Professor Ryan Goodman argues that James C. Hathaway and Jason Pobjoy “place great faith in international human rights and anti-discrimination law...