Announcements: CfP New Security Challenges – Organized Crime and Urban Conflict in the Americas; CEILA Annual Lecture; UNIJURIS Conference

1. Call for Papers: “New Security Challenges: Organized Crime and Urban Conflict in the Americas”. Universidad del Pacifico Law School announces a Call for Papers for its conference “New Security Challenges: Organized Crime and Urban Conflict in the Americas” to take place 24 – 26 October, in Lima, Peru. The conference will explore the human rights challenges posed by militarization of responses against organized crime and seek to offer concrete steps and policy options for Latin American governments. Details for the event can be found here. The full call for papers is available here. The deadline for submitting abstracts is 15 May 2018.

2. CEILA Annual Lecture. On Wednesday 28 March 2018 (18.00-19.30), the Centre for European and International Legal Affairs (CEILA) Annual Lecture will be delivered by Professor Tulio Treves and is entitled “The EU and the Law of the Sea – An Assessment”. The lecture will be chaired by Professor Malgosia Fitzmaruice (Queen Mary University of London).  The event is free but there is a registration requirement. For more information, see here. 

3. UNIJURIS Conference 18 June 2018. Since 2013, a research project has been run at Utrecht University on ‘unilateral jurisdiction and global values’ (UNIJURIS), headed by Prof. Cedric Ryngaert. The project will present its results at a conference in Utrecht on 18 June 2018. The project has systematically mapped and critically analysed assertions of state (and EU) jurisdiction with an extraterritorial dimension, from a public international law perspective. The project has examined jurisdictional assertions in a considerable number of issue areas, in particular fisheries, marine pollution, business and human rights, climate change, anti-corruption, data protection, and cybercrime. The eight researchers involved in the project will present their findings, after which academic experts and practitioners will comment.  See here for more information on the project. To attend, please register by emailing Secretariaat.IER {at} uu(.)nl. The conference takes place from 8:30-17:10 at Pauzhuize, Kromme Niewegracht 49, 3512 HE Utrecht. For the full programme, please visit the event site here.