Announcements: New Episode of EJIL:Live!; Event on TTIP (London); Fellowships on Int’l Rule of Law (Berlin); CfP on European Law; CfP for Conference on Public Law and Uncertainty (NY)

1.  A new episode of EJIL: Live!, the Journal’s official podcast, is now available online. In this episode EJIL’s Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Joseph Weiler interviews Oisin Suttle of the University of Sheffield. They engage in an in-depth discussion of Suttle’s article, “Equality in Global Commerce: Towards a Political Theory of International Economic Law”, which appears in Vol. 25, Issue 4. The interview was recorded at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.

2.  The International Law Programme at Chatham House and Herbert Smith Freehills LLP are co-hosting an event on 4 March 2015  – ‘TTIP: Shaping the Future of Investor−State Dispute Settlement?’. This event will bring together voices from a broad range of stakeholders including UK government, industry and civil society. The expert panel will explore whether the proposed ISDS in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership can strike an adequate balance between investment protection and safeguarding the right to regulate in the public interest.The event will take place from 18:00 to 19:30 at Chatham House in St James’s Square, London. Attendance is free but prior registration is required. For further details and to register see here.

3.  The Research Group “The International Rule of Law – Rise or Decline?“ in­vites applications for three 12-24 months Fellowships in International Law or International Relations from 1 October 2015. The Group (Krieger, Nolte, Zim­mermann (IL), Jachtenfuchs, Liese, Zürn (IR)) examines the role of interna­tional law in a changing global order. Develop­ments in recent years give rise to the ques­tion whether the move towards an international rule of law, which seems to continue in some areas, has lost momentum in others. The Re­search Group addresses these questions from a legal and a political science perspective. The working language of the group is English. Fellows will work at Humboldt University Berlin. A monthly sti­pend of EUR 2500,00 plus one round­trip is attached to the position from which all costs will have to be cove­red. The Fellowships are designed for applicants worldwide with a doctorate in international law or in international relations. The proposed projects should re­late to the Group’s area of research. Applicants must have completed their PhD by 31 August 2015 and should not have pur­sued more than 3 years of postdoctoral research. Candidates from outside Europe are particularly en­cou­raged to apply. Applicants should submit, apart from their CV and a list of pub­lications, a description of current research and of a project to be pursued du­ring the first year of the Fellowship (no more than 1000 words), a summary of the candidate’s doctoral thesis, and two letters of recommendation. The dead­line for application is 31 March 2015. Please send your application in PDF format to intlaw {at} rewi.hu-berlin(.)de.

4.  The Irish Society for European Law recently re-launched the Irish Journal of European Law as an e-journal. The Journal – which is blind peer-reviewed – is now issuing a call for original papers for its 2015 volume. The Journal, which has been published since 1992, is a leading international journal on European law edited by Irish scholars and practitioners. The 2014 volume is now available on the Society’s website at https://www.isel.ie/journal. Long articles (indicative length 8,000 – 12,000 words) and shorter articles (3,000-4,000 words), and analyses of any length of recent developments are invited.  While submissions on Irish-European legal issues are of special interest, the Journal welcomes submissions on all areas of European law. In addition to the more traditional form of academic article, comment and opinion pieces on European-Irish affairs with a legal dimension, are also welcomed. Submissions are to be sent to ijel.submissions {at} gmail(.)com by Friday 15^th May 2015 in WORD format, size 12 font, single-spaced. The referencing style guide is OSCOLA Ireland, which is available online.

5.  ICON-S 2015 Conference in New York City, July 1-3, 2015—Call for Papers & Panels—Public Law in an Uncertain World.  I-CONnect is pleased to announce the Call for Papers & Panels below for the 2015 Conference of ICON-S: the International Society of Public Law. ICON-S, a new international learned society now entering its second year, is guided by a Pro Term Executive Committee featuring many of the world’s leading scholars in the field of public law. This edition of the ICON-S Conference will be held in New York City, on July 1-3, 2015, at the New York University School of Law. The conference will feature plenary and concurrent panels. Scholars–both senior and junior, including graduate students, as well as practitioners–are invited to submit papers and/or fully-formed panels for the conference. ICON-S invites submissions for papers and fully-formed panels for its 2015 Conference on “Public Law in an Uncertain World”. For more details or to submit a proposal, see here.