Announcements: The Quest for ‘Lawful Seas’; CfP Military Law and Law of War Review; Ethiopia International Conference

1. Beyond the Grotian Era: The Quest for ‘Lawful Seas’. This talk discusses whether we are moving from Mare Liberum to Mare Legitimum and whether the ‘Freedom of the Seas’ should be confined to history. The event will take place at Westminster Law School on 11 March 2019, starting at 5.30pm. The guest speaker is Prof. Steven Haines (University of Greenwich), and the event is chaired by Dr. Marco Longobardo (University of Westminster). For more information, please see here. Attendance can be booked here. 

2. Call for Papers: Military Law and Law of War Review/Revue de droit militaire et de droit de la guerre (Vol. 58). The Military Law and the Law of War Review / Revue de Droit Militaire et de Droit de la Guerre is a journal specialised in matters of interest for both civilian and military legal advisors as well as legal scholars and academics. The Review is published under the auspices of the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War. It features original and challenging articles, case notes, commentaries of the latest legal developments, as well as book reviews. As a distinct trait, it accepts contributions in six languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Dutch. For its coming issue, the Review’s editorial board welcomes submissions from scholars and practitioners that come within the broader scope of the Review (including military law, law of armed conflict, law on the use of force, as well as international criminal law and human rights law (inasmuch as related to situations of armed conflict)). The deadline for submission is 14 April 2019. Submissions should be sent by e-mail to brussels {at} ismllw(.)org. Articles should normally not be longer than 15.000 words (footnotes included), although longer pieces may exceptionally be considered. Inquiries as to whether a possible submission comes within the scope of the Review can be sent to the abovementioned e-mail address.

3. School of Law, Wolaita Sodo University, Ethiopia International Conference. The School of Law, Wolaita Sodo University, Ethiopia is organising a 2 day international conference on 11 – 12 April 2019 entitled “Collective Security, Militarism or Humanitarianism: Decoding Interventionism in Africa”. The conference aims to decode contemporary practice of interventionism through critical reflection and new insights. The full call for papers is available here.