Announcements and Events

Opportunities at the University of Copenhagen

The Faculty of Law at the University of Copenhagen is seeking applicants for a new professorship and a new fellowship.

Post-doctoral Fellowship: Europe and New Global Challenges (EuroChallenge) — This 3-year postdoctoral fellowship is hosted by the iCourts Centre of Excellence in the Faculty of Law. “EuroChallenge” is a major new interdisciplinary project, financed by the University´s 2016 strategic funding initiative. It addresses key questions about the place of Europe in the context of a rapidly and radically changing global order. The project is a collaborative venture, involving three faculties (Social Science, Law and Humanities). It is organized into three work packages. One postdoctoral fellow will be recruited to each of the work packages. The advertisement is here.

Professorship in International Law with Specific Focus on International Courts — The University of Copenhagen is seeking to hire a Professor in International Law, with a specific focus on international courts. The professor will be affiliated with iCourts – The Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre of Excellence for International Courts, which is a research center at the Faculty of Law. The advertisement is here.

Conference — Beyond Responsibility to Protect: Towards Responsible Use of International Law?

The McCoubrey Centre for International Law at the University of Hull (UK) is hosting a two-day conference on the 4th and 5th July 2013 on the subject of the responsibility to protect (R2P). With 40 papers from academics from around the world, together with a key note speech by Professor André Nollkaemper of the University of Amsterdam, who is also Director of the SHARES Research Project on Shared Responsibility in International Law, the conference seeks to make a significant contribution to the understanding of this important area of international law. Registration to attend the conference is now open. Attendance costs £10, and pre-registration is required. For further information or to register to attend please e-mail mcil {at} hull.ac(.)uk. The full conference programme is available online here.