Announcements: CfP and Symposium on Investment Treaty Arbitration and Environment (Oslo); Reminder: Workshop on Public Int’l Law and EU Law (London); Conference on NSAs and Responsibility in Cyberspace (Sheffield); Seminar on Aftermath of the Financial Crisis (Oslo)

1.  The Present and Future Role of Investment Treaty Arbitration in Adjudicating Environmental Disputes (Oslo, 5-6 November 2015) – Call for Papers, Deadline: 15 July 2015. PluriCourts, Centre of Excellence at the University of Oslo, is organizing an international symposium entitled ‘The Present and Future Role of Investment Treaty Arbitration in Adjudicating Environmental Disputes’. The symposium will be hosted at the faculty of law of the University of Oslo on November 5 and 6, 2015. Symposium Theme: The symposium will focus on investment treaty arbitration from a forward-looking perspective on how future practice might be shaped or reformed in a way that can both promote environmental sustainability and protect responsible and legitimate foreign investments. Call for Papers: We invite scholars, practitioners and doctoral students to submit paper proposals for presentations on topics related to the symposium’s theme. The deadline for submission is July 15, 2015. For more information, please visit the website of the symposium.

2.  The final workshop of the Annual Seminar Series of the Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context (CLSGC): Constructive Links or Dangerous Liaisons? The Case of Public International Law and European Union Law will take place at Queen Mary Innovation Centre, Clark-Kennedy Lecture Theatre, on 25-26 June 2015. The workshop concludes the ‘Beyond Pluralism‘ project, building on the introductory round-table discussion held in October 2014 on general aspects of the EU-PIL interface and the ‘thematic dialogues’ on specific issue-areas that followed until March 2015. The event will gather top-rank contributors, coming from all over Europe, to consider findings and put them into perspective. The objective is to assess how best to articulate the link between the two regimes and possibly re-define their relationship offering a comprehensive account of their interaction, overcoming current limitations of monist, dualist and pluralist approaches. To register and for full programme details, please, visit here.

3.  Non-State Actors and Responsibility in Cyberspace: State Responsibility, Individual Criminal Responsibility and Questions of Evidence. Friday 18 September 2015 – Halifax Hall, University of Sheffield, Endcliffe Vale Road, Sheffield, S10 3ER. This conference brings together leading international experts to assess the effectiveness of international law in ensuring responsibility for the injurious cyber activities of non-state actors. In particular, this conference addresses three critical international legal questions: For further information and registration please visit the conference website here.

4.  A seminar on Finance, Ethics, and Society: Reflections in the Aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis will be held 15 June 2015 in Oslo. The seminar will analyze the relationships between market participants, regulators, and the wider public. The respective roles of self-regulation, international and domestic laws, and litigation and criminal prosecution will be debated. It will identify best practices as well as crucial areas that deserve more debate in the public arena and political reforms. Please contact mads.andenas {at} jus.uio(.)no or giuseppe.bianco {at} jus.uio(.)no for more information. The conference program is here.