Announcements: Conference on EU Accession to ECHR & Free Movement of Students (Leiden & London); Event on Human Bondage (London); Conference on Palestine Mandate & Int’l Law (Jerusalem); Conference on the Work of the ILC (Paris); Conference on Transnational Law & Social Justice (London)

1.  54th Annual London-Leiden Meeting: EU Accession to the ECHR and Free Movement of Students. One-day Conference, 27 June 2015. Confirmed speakers: Professor Johan Callewaert, European Court of Human Rights; Denis Crowley, Head of the Policy and Interinstitutional Coordination Unit in the Directorate General for Education and Culture, European Commission; Professor Sionaidh Douglas-Scott, Professor of European and Human Rights Law, University of Oxford; Professor Sir David Edward KCMG QC, Vice President, BIICL and former Judge at the Court of Justice of the EU; Judge Nicholas Forwood QC, General Court of the European Union; Professor Laurence Gormley, Professor of European Law, University of Groningen; President of the European Law Faculties Association; Judge Paul Mahoney, European Court of Human Rights; Jacqueline Minor, Head of Representation in the UK, European Commission. Session Chairs: Alison McDonnell, Europa Institute, University of Leiden; Mark Powell, Executive Partner, White & Case (Brussels). Download the Programme. Download the Event Flyer.

2.  The International Law Programme at Chatham House will be hosting a meeting, ‘Of Human Bondage: Combating Human Trafficking and People Smuggling’,  with Parosha Chandran (1 Pump Court) and Aidan McQuade (Anti-Slavery International) on Friday 10 July 2015, 17:30 to 19:00, at Chatham House in St James’s Square, London. This event is held in association with Doughty Street Chambers and will be followed by a drinks reception. Register here.

3. An international conference on the Palestine Mandate and International Law: Legalities and Legacies: The Past, Present, and Future of the Palestine Mandate in International Law. The conference, convened by The Faculty of Law of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Columbia Law School, will be held in Jerusalem on 21-22 June 2015, in Jerusalem. Here is the full program.

4.  On 22 June 2015,  University Paris 8 Research Centre “Forces du droit” organizes a one-day conference entitled “Forms of International Law – Insight into the Outcomes of the Work of the International Law Commission”. The conference, which will take place at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs Conference Centre (27, rue de la Convention – 75015 Paris), intends to address the evolution of formal outcomes given to ILC legal products, from treaties to soft law instruments. Academics, experts of the Commission’s work but also practitioners – such as legal advisers from diplomatic services and members of international courts and tribunals – will gather to address this phenomenon, discuss its causes and potential consequences as to the current development of international law. The Conference will include, among its speakers and chairs, the President of the ICJ, Judge Ronny Abraham, ICJ Judge Giogio Gaja, the Legal Counsel of the United Nations, Mr. De Serpa Soares, the Legal Counsel of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development, Mr. François Alabrune, and several prominent figures in the field of international law. More information and details for registration can be found here. Contact: Prof. Pierre Bodeau-Livinec (bodeaulivinec {at} gmail(.)com)

 5.  The programme for the conference on Transnational Law and Social Justice, which is hosted by the London School of Economics on 26-27 June 2015, is available here.  The event features roundtable discussions and thematic panels exploring the methodological challenges raised by the study of transnational law and its distributional effects.  The focus is more specifically on the normative dimensions of family, marketplace, workplace and migration regulations.  Registration for the event is free, but places are limited.  Registration for the event should be done through the conference website.