Announcements: CEILA Lecture; CEILA Book Symposium; CfS UCL Journal of Law and Jurisprudence; Conference on ‘Law and Memory in Established Democracies’; Towards Utopia – Rethinking International Law Workshop; Conference on the Right for the State to Regulate in International Law

1. CEILA Lecture on The Use (and Misuse) of European Human Rights Law in Investor-State Arbitration. The annual lecture of the  Centre for European and International Legal Affairs (CEILA) at QMUL is being given by Prof José Alvarez (New York University Law School) and is entitled  “The use (and misuse) of European Human Rights Law in Investor-State Arbitration”.  Professor  Max Scherer (QMUL) will be chairing and Professor Zachary Douglas QC (Graduate Institute Geneva) is the discussant. The lecture is on 28 March 2017 (6.30-8pm) and will be followed by a drinks reception (8-9pm). See here for more details and to book a place.

3. Call for Submission, UCL Journal of Law and Jurisprudence. The Editorial Board of the UCL Journal of Law and Jurisprudence is pleased to call for submissions for the second issue of 2017 on the theme of ‘Crisis and the Law’. The Editorial Board welcomes submissions that engage with this general theme. It is broadly conceived, covering a range of political, economic, social, environmental and cultural issues, and leaves scope for any area of law or jurisprudence (domestic, regional or international) that is deemed to be crisis-related. Submissions could be theoretical, doctrinal or aimed at practice. Concretely, the Journal seeks to publish pieces that either articulate the concept of crisis within the law or how the law deals with current crises. We accept articles of between 8,000-12,000 words, case notes of 6,000-8,000 words and book reviews of 1,000-2,000 words. All submissions must comply with OSCOLA. The deadline for submissions is 14th April 2017. Manuscripts must be uploaded via the submissions section.

4. Conference on ‘Law and Memory in Established Democracies’. Memory Laws in European and Comparative Perspective (MELA) and Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) are hosting a conference on ‘Law and Memory in Established Democracies’ at the University of Bologna on 24 March 2017. See here for the programme of the conference.

5. Towards Utopia – Rethinking International Law Workshop. The Walther Schücking Institute for International Law at the University of Kiel is organising a two-day workshop entitled “Towards Utopia – Rethinking International Law”. It is aimed primarily at young international lawyers (PhD students or post-docs) and aims to explore progressive, unconventional thinking, new ways of approaching and using international law, and different visions for the “law of the future”. The workshop will be loosely structured around the utopian work of Professor Philip Allott, who has kindly agreed to join our discussion. Abstracts of around 750 words should be submitted to utopia {at} wsi.uni-kiel(.)de by 8 May 2017. The full Call for Papers is available here.

6. Certain Issues Concerning the Right for the State to Regulate in International Law Conference. The International law and international organisations, the International economic law and the International administration Masters’ second degree (Panthéon-Sorbonne University) are hosting a conference entitled “Certain Issues Concerning the Right for the State to Regulate in International Law” on 22 March 2017 from 2pm to 6pm. See here for further information.