Announcements: Regional Approaches to International Law Conference; Call for Editors Irish Yearbook of International Law; University of Edinburgh Global Law Conference; Evidence as Politics in Human Rights Courts Conference; CfP Works-in-Progress Conference; Conflict & International Law Training Course; SAIL Blog; CfA AILA Conference on International Law; CfP Climate Apartheid Conference; Digital Constitutionalism Academy; CfA Revisiting the ECHR; CfP Human Rights and the Crises of Global Order; International Protection of Socio-Economic Rights Book Launch; CfP State Responsibility in Crisis; CfA Doctoral Workshop

1. Regional Approaches to International Law: What Role in a Dividing World?  – Conference. This conference will take place on 26 – 28 August 2026, at the Federal University of Minas Gerais Law School in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, co-organized by the Brazilian Branch of the International Law Association (ILA-Brasil), the African Society of International Law (AfSIL) and the Latin American Society of International Law (SLADI). The event seeks to bring together scholars, practitioners, and students to reflect on the role of regional perspectives in shaping international law at a moment of fragmentation, contestation, and realignment. By situating the debate in the Global South, the Conference aims to interrogate how regions articulate, contest, or reinforce the universality of international law, and how regional practices may contribute to or challenge the cohesion of the international legal order. Submissions of abstracts are invited on the subject until 15 December 2025. Abstracts should be sent to rail.brazil2026 {at} gmail(.)com, should be no longer than 500 words, and should be accompanied by a short resume of no more than 2 pages. Selected papers will be notified by 15 January 2026.  The full call for papers can be accessed here.

2. Call for Editor(s)-in-Chief: Irish Yearbook of International Law. The editors of the Irish Yearbook of International Law are inviting 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 by 15 January 2026 to james.gallen {at} dcu(.)ie; rcollins {at} qub.ac(.)uk; brid.nighrainne {at} mu(.)ie.  Combined expressions of interest are welcomed, as well as expressions of interest from individuals. In the latter case, they may propose the role be shared.

3. University of Edinburgh Global Law Conference. University of Edinburgh Centre for International and Global Law and University of Edinburgh International Law Reading Group are jointly organising a Global Law Conference, taking place on 30 April – 1 May 2026 in person at the University of Edinburgh. The committee is now collecting abstracts to present at the 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. Abstracts to be submitted by 31 January 2026. Selected presenters will be notified by 20 February 2026. Further information and the application form can be found here. Questions should be sent to ilrg {at} ed.ac(.)uk.

4. Call for Papers: What Truth? Evidence as Politics in Human Rights Courts Conference. This conference will take place from 7 – 9 September 2026 in Tarragona, Spain. Focusing on truth and truth-seeking, and hosted by the DISSECT research project (ERC), it will reflect upon the broader ramifications underlying questions of evidence. Should the pursuit of factual truth be considered an essential function of human rights adjudication? Which approaches to truth-seeking can be found? How do jurisprudential tools — evidentiary concepts, rules or principles — facilitate the establishment of the true facts of cases? What role do extra-legal factors play in the evidentiary processes studied? How do various understandings of truth interact and compete in actual proceedings? Does our post-truth era of ‘unknowers’ and epistemic distrust lend increased saliency to the above questions? The call for papers can be found here and the deadline for abstract submissions is 22 December 2025.

5. Call for Papers: Works-in-Progress Conference. The International Courts and Tribunals Interest Group (ICTIG) of the American Society of International Law (ASIL), in collaboration with the Faculty of Law (Common Law Section) of University of Ottawa and Neuberger-Jesin Chair of International Conflict Resolution, have announced a call for papers for the Works-in-Progress Conference on 19 February 2026 at the University of Ottawa. Both early career and more experienced scholars and practitioners are encouraged to submit their work-in-progress on any topic related to international courts and tribunals. Abstracts of max 500 words should be sent to Vladyslav Lanovoy (vlanovoy {at} uottawa(.)ca) and Philipp Kotlaba (p.kotlaba {at} icj-cij(.)org), ICTIG’s co-chairs, by 10 December 2025. Selected full papers to be submitted by 30 January 2026. Upon request, funding may be provided to assist with the participants’ travel and accommodation costs.

6. Conflict & International law Field-Based Training Course. PUC Rio de Janeiro is running a field-based training course on Conflict & International law. Classes will be held in English and Portuguese and will consist of a mix of lectures, interactive exercises and skills-based activities. Subjects covered include: contemporary challenges to human rights and humanitarian protection, protecting human rights in the Inter-American system, business and human rights, humanitarian principles and crisis response,  migration and human rights, trade, labour and human rights, protection of health care personnel during humanitarian crises, truth commissions and international justice, restorative and transformative justice, the humanitarian crisis in Sudan, and humanitarian advocacy. Register here.

7. SAIL Blog. The new blog SAIL (Simplified Approach to International Law) delivers  2-minute explainers on the international law behind today’s news headlines. Delivered in plain language, it aims to help students, journalists, and professionals quickly grasp the law behind the news. Subscribe here.

8. Call for Abstracts: AILA Conference on International Law 2026. The Armenian International Law Association (AILA) is inviting scholars, practitioners, and students to submit abstracts for the Inaugural AILA Conference on International Law. The theme is Rethinking International Law: Knowledge, Action, Reflection. It will take place on 14 February 2026 in Yerevan, Armenia. A separate student panel will be organized during the event to promote the participation of students and newly graduated lawyers. Deadline: 15 December 2025. Submit abstracts and additional documents to conference {at} aila(.)am.

9. Call for Papers: Climate Apartheid: Law, Economy, Culture Conference. The “Climate Apartheid: Law, Economy, Culture” project at the Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University, is inviting papers for its conference on the same topic on 24 – 25 March 2026. Despite the proliferation of the concept’s use since it was first coined in 2007 by Archbishop Desmond Tutu to raise alarm about uneven patterns of climate change adaptation, it remains unclear how the term “climate apartheid” is and ought to be precisely comprehended and utilized, for whom the concept is available, how it is distinguishable from other concepts including ‘climate justice’, and what opportunities or barriers it creates. In this conference the organisers aim to take an interdisciplinary approach to understand how climate apartheid is, has been, and could be used. Abstracts of up to 500 words are due by 16 January. More details and a submission form are available here.

10. Digital Constitutionalism Academy: Digital Regulation and Governance – The Role of Public Law and Private Law. The 6th edition of the Digital Constitutionalism Academy will be a two day event that will be held between 9 – 10 April 2026 in Florence, Italy and will focus on the topic of “Digital Regulation and Governance: The Role of Public Law and Private Law.”  The first day of the event will be devoted to a conference where scholars, policymakers, and experts will reflect on the boundaries between public and private law in digital regulation. On the second day, participants will join the Training School, where through interactive sessions the participants will deepen the understanding of the role and the boundaries of public and private law in digital regulation. It will also provide the opportunity to engage with leading experts in digital regulation and governance. The application period ends on 30 January 2026. For more information, details about the application process and fees, see here. Questions should be sent to Giovanni De Gregorio (gdegregorio {at} ucp(.)pt) and Erik Longo (erik.longo {at} unifi(.)it).

11. Call for Abstracts: Revisiting the ECHR – A Closer Look at Calls for Change. What started as an open letter in May 2025 has culminated in an increasingly articulate call by a large group of European leaders to revisit and reform the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR). This conference will take place on 22 May 2026 at the University of Leuven (Belgium). Conveners: Leuven Centre for Public Law – Human Rights Research Group. Keynote speaker: Prof. Başak Çalı (Oxford University). Authors of selected abstracts will be invited to develop these into full papers for publication in either an edited volume or a special issue. Abstracts (max. 500 words) should be submitted to both koen.lemmens {at} kuleuven(.)be and eva.sevrin {at} kuleuven(.)be by 17 January 2026. Selected participants will be notified by 29 January 2026. 

12. Call for Papers: Human Rights and the Crises of Global Order. The Nordic Journal of Human Rights is inviting 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. The journal takes a multi-disciplinary approach to human rights as legal, political, and social practice. They publish scholarship analysing the past, present and future of human rights from a variety of theoretical and methodological viewpoints. Read about how to submit a manuscript here. See the full call for papers here.

13. International Protection of Socio-Economic Rights Book Launch. The Centre for European Law and Internationalisation (CELI) is launching the monograph of their former PhD student Dr Aristi Volou: International Protection of Socio-Economic Rights: An Interactional Approach (Routledge 2025). The launch will take place on 4 December 2025, 13.15-15.00 pm (GMT)  in hybrid format: University of Leicester, Leicester Law School – Room TBC or online on MS Teams via this link (Meeting ID: 343 471 198 301 Passcode: 8Nt9vx3T).

14. Call for Papers: Workshop on State Responsibility in Crisis. The closing date  for this call for papers is 20 December 2025. See the full call here.

15. Call for Applications: Doctoral Workshop. The deadline to apply for the second round of doctoral workshop to be run by Radboud University’s Sustainability and Public Law PhDs (the Netherlands), and the Law and Transformation Programme at the Joachim Herz Doctoral School of Law, Leuphana University of Lüneburg (Germany) is 30 November 2025. The workshop is on 11 March 2026. For more information see here. Apply here.