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1. Utrecht University Law School  Summer Schools on International Law. This summer, Utrecht University Law School offers three Summer School courses on international law. Everyone is welcome to register for these Summer Schools. The Public International Law course will look at the role of international law in responding to today’s global challenges. In the Law of the Sea course, an introduction is provided to the law that regulates the oceans. And in the Law and Sustainability course, students will learn how issues of sustainability are dealt with in the legal order at the international, national and EU levels. The three courses are coordinated by Otto Spijkers. For more information you can contact him at o.spijkers {at} uu(.)nl.

2. University of Liverpool School of Law and Social Justice Workshop on Co-operation with the ECHR. The International Law and Human Rights Unit of the University of Liverpool School of Law and Social Justice is organising a two-day workshop on loyal co-operation with the system of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), and the means of reaction by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) when its judgments trigger discontent. Judges of the ECtHR, officials of the Council of Europe, young as well as established academics will discuss various aspects of interactions between states and the Strasbourg system of human rights protection. The programme is available here. A limited number of visitors can register here. 

3. Call for Papers: The Law of the Blue Economy – International and South Asian Perspectives. The South Asia International Economic Law Network (SAIELN) is pleased to announce a call for papers for its biennial conference on “The Law of the Blue Economy: International and South Asian Perspectives”. The network is a freestanding body associated with the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL) and other IEL groups. The conference shall take place on 27 – 28 July 2019 in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. We welcome proposals of panels, posters and papers on topics related to the conference theme. An abstract of no more than 500 words should be submitted no later than 15 May 2019. The results shall be announced by 20 May 2019. The shortlisted participants are expected to submit the final papers (6000 – 8000 words) by 15 July 2019. For more details and submission procedure, see here and here.  Read the rest of this entry…

1. Sanremo New Voices in International Humanitarian Law Essay Competition. The ICRC and the Sanremo International Institute for Humanitarian Law have just launched the second ‘Sanremo New Voices in International Humanitarian Law’ essay competition. Young scholars are invited to submit short essays on one of the following topics: ‘IHL and the challenges related to cyber warfare’; ‘Artificial intelligence in warfare’. The winner will be invited to present at the 2019 Sanremo Round Table, which will discuss IHL implications of new technology in warfare. Further details and criteria for submission are available here.

1. Call for Papers: Dialogues on International Law Conference. The 3rd Conference “Dialogues on International Law” will take place at Di Tella Law School (Buenos Aires) on 29 October 2019. The general theme of the conference will be “Change in International Law”. Di Tella Law School invites the submission of original papers in Spanish, Portuguese and English. The Conference seeks to bring together scholars in International Law and related disciplines, such as IR, History, Economics, and Philosophy, to examine contemporary issues concerning the international legal system, the international community, and particularly Latin America. The keynote lecture will be by Professor Anne Orford (Melbourne Law School), who will speak on: “Regional Orders and the Future of International Law: The End of Geography or a New Geopolitics?” For the full call for papers see here. 

2. New Addition to the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law. The Codification Division of the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs recently added the following lecture to the Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law (AVL) website: Mr. Juan José Ruda Santolaria on “Reflections on international organizations, fora or groups at the international level: the implications of international juridical personality” (in Spanish). The Audiovisual Library is also available as a podcast, which can be accessed through the preinstalled applications in Apple or Google devices, through Soundcloud or through the podcast application of your preference by searching “Audiovisual Library of International Law”. The UN Audiovisual Library of International Law provides high quality international law training and research materials to users around the world free of charge.

3. Call for  Submissions: University of Hamburg Faculty of Law. The University of Hamburg Faculty of Law has published a call for  submissions for young scholars to discuss their research (chapter of a doctoral thesis, post doc paper, other drafts or research ideas). The workshop will be held from 20 – 21 September 2019 in Hamburg.  Abstracts can be submitted to workshop-PIL {at} uni-hamburg(.)de. The deadline is 10 June 2019. For more on this, see here. 

1. New Addition to the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law. The Codification Division of the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs recently added the following lecture to the Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law (AVL) website: Mr. Luis Alfonso García-Corrochano Moyano on “Unilateral Acts of States” (in Spanish). The Audiovisual Library is also available as a podcast, which can be accessed through the preinstalled applications in Apple or Google devices, through Soundcloud or through the podcast application of your preference by searching “Audiovisual Library of International Law”. The UN Audiovisual Library of International Law provides high quality international law training and research materials to users around the world free of charge.

2. International Society for Military Law and the Law of War Seminar. The International Society for Military Law and the Law of War (ISMLLW) will organise its XII Seminar for Legal Advisors of the Armed Forces from 18 – 21 June 2019 in Geneva, Switzerland. This edition of the Seminar is co-organized with the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), with the support of the Swiss Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport (DDPS), the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) and the Swiss Group of the ISMLLW. The central theme of the Seminar is ‘The Law of Armed Non-State Actors 70 Years after the Geneva Conventions’. To mark this celebratory year of the Geneva Conventions, the Seminar will take place at Maison de la paix in Geneva and visits to the ‘Palais des Nations’ and the Museum of the International Committee of the Red Cross will be part of the programme. The Seminar is intended for military legal advisors holding the ranks of captain to colonel and civilian experts with comparable civilian rank. Registrations are open until 1 May 2019. For further information on programme and practical arrangements, see here.

3. Ghent University Vacancy. Ghent University is hiring a new (junior or senior) professor to strengthen the Ghent Rolin Jaequemyns International Law Institute and the Department of European, Public and International Law as of 1 October 2019. Candidates should hold a PhD degree and have at least two years of postdoctoral experience on 1 October 2019. In addition, candidates must have a proven track record of conducting research on law of the sea. Applications are due by 23 April. Further information on the vacancy is available here.  Read the rest of this entry…

1. New Addition to the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law. The Codification Division of the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs recently added the following lecture to the Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law (AVL) website: Mr. Alejandro Chehtman on “Extraterritorial criminal jurisdiction” (in Spanish). The Audiovisual Library is also available as a podcast, which can be accessed through the preinstalled applications in Apple or Google devices, through Soundcloud or through the podcast application of your preference by searching “Audiovisual Library of International Law. The UN Audiovisual Library of International Law provides high quality international law training and research materials to users around the world free of charge.

2. Summer School on EU Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy. Odysseus Academic Network for Legal Studies on Immigration and Asylum in Europe (Institut d’Etudes Européennes- Université libre de Bruxelles) is hosting the 19th edition of the Summer School on EU Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy  in Brussels from 1 – 12 July 2019. This programme is designed to provide participants with a comprehensive understanding of EU immigration and asylum policies from a legal perspective. Participants in the Summer School include academics, EU and Member States officials, PhD and graduate students, representatives of NGOs and international organizations, lawyers, judges. The deadline for registration is 15 May 2019. For more information about the Summer School, please visit our Summer School website, in French or in English. The Odysseus Network has also launched a crowdfunding campaign in order to be able to finance the participation of 10 refugees to the 2019 Summer School.  A doctoral seminar, with four grants available is also organized during the 2019 Summer School. More information is available here.

3. GoJIL: Call for Submissions for Special Issue on “Protection of the Environment in Relation to Armed Conflict – Beyond the ILC. The International Law Commission included the topic “Protection of the Environment in Relation to Armed Conflict” in 2011 on its future program of work. It is now in the stage of finalizing the project by drafting principles that address the phases of pre-conflict, during conflict, and post-conflict in light of different fields of international law, in particular looking into the laws of armed conflict, human rights law and international environmental law. This GoJIL special issue attempts to consolidate the legal protection of the environment during the three phases of armed conflict by the laws of armed conflict, human rights law and international environmental law. Contributions should address one (or several) of the three conflict phases with regard to environmental protection. Deadline for the submission of abstracts is 1 June 2019. All articles must be submitted no later than 1 August 2019. Selected contributions will then be published in Issue 1 of Vol. 10 in 2020. The full GoJIL call for papers can be found here.  Read the rest of this entry…

1. Call for Presentations: Rectifying the Protection Gap for ‘Climate Refugees’: Where next? Following on from the 2016 UN Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, many States have adopted two UN General Assembly Compacts, one on migrants and the other on refugees. At the same time the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Task Force on Displacement reported its findings to the 24^th Conference of the Parties at Katowice. This workshop aims to assess the outcomes of the Global Compacts and the Task Force, to identify their contributions to ongoing attempts to construct better protection mechanisms for those forced to move as a result of the effects of climate change, and to discuss ways of ensuring that these texts are translated into concrete developments in global policy and governance. The workshop will take place on 6 June 2019 at the University of London. Please send an abstract of no more than 500 words to Simon Behrman (simon.behrman {at} rhul.ac(.)uk ) and Avidan Kent (avidan.kent {at} uea.ac(.)uk) by Friday 6 April 2019.

1. Munich Advanced Course in International Law. The Munich Advanced Course in International Law (MACIL) is a summer school held at Ludwig Maximilian University Munich (Germany) and dedicated to questions of international law. Its next session, entitled “International law without territory? – Governing spaces, resources and people beyond the confines of state territory”, will take place in late July/early August 2019. Seminars will explore the continuing importance of the concept of territory in various areas of the international legal order (e.g. climate change, investment law, refugee law, the law of the sea). The MACIL faculty will include Roland Bank (UNHCR), James Harrison (Edinburgh), Uta Kohl (Southampton), Irmgard Marboe (Vienna), Carlo Santulli (Paris II), Christian Tams (Glasgow), Christina Voigt (Oslo), and Christian Walter (Munich). Students of international law, young academics and practitioners are warmly invited to apply. Deadline for applications is 1 April (early birds) or 1 May 2019.

2. International Disaster Law Course. The 6^th Edition of the International Disaster Law Course is now open for applications. The Course is organized jointly by the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the International Institute of Humanitarian Law of Sanremo, the International Disaster Law Project and in cooperation with the Italian Red Cross and the EU Jean Monnet Module on “International and European Disaster Law” Roma Tre University. Confirmed speakers include Eduardo Valencia-Ospina (Member of the ILC and former Special Rapporteur on the Protection of Persons in the Event of Disasters), Prof. Walter Kälin (Envoy to the Chair, Platform on Disaster Displacement, Former Representative of the UN Secretary-General on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons) along with other high-level speakers from academia and distinguished experts from key stakeholders such as the IFRC, International Organisation for Migration, and World Health Organisation. The Course will take place in Sanremo (IT) from 17 – 21 June 2019. More information and the application form are available here.

3. Summer Academy on the Continental Shelf 2019. The Summer Academy on the Continental Shelf (SACS) will be held from 1 – 7 September 2019 under the auspices of the University of the Faroe Islands and the African Institute of International Law. SACS 2019 will be held in Arusha, Tanzania and will be limited to 32 attendees with particular interest for scientific and legal aspects relating to the continental shelf. SACS welcomes participants from a broad geographical representation with various professional and academic backgrounds. It will be tutored by judges of international courts and tribunals, members of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf and international practitioners with lengthy experiences in continental shelf matters. The deadline for submitting an application for admission is 1 June 2019. For more information see online. Read the rest of this entry…

1. Call for Papers: The Contribution of the Legal Services of the European Institutions to European Union Law. The Research Field ‘Legal History of the European Union’ of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History (MPIeR) issues a call for papers for the upcoming 2019 conference on the contribution of the Legal Services of the European institutions to European Union law. The conference will focus on the historical trajectories of the Legal Services via key figures, the doctrinal developments achieved by each institution, and their cooperation with academics and legal practitioners. The conference will be held on 18 – 19  June at the MPIeR in Frankfurt/Main. For further information please see the announcement and the call for papers on the website of the MPIeR.

2. Call for Papers: International Law’s Invisible Frames – Social Cognition and Knowledge Production in International Legal Processes. This workshop will address two closely related strands of analysis in recent international legal theory: social cognition and knowledge production. Applicants may employ theoretical tools borrowed from other disciplines (including philosophy, sociology, social psychology, political science etc.). They are particularly encouraged to analyse when and how socio-cognitive and knowledge production processes are relevant to law-making, interpretation, and implementation of international law. The workshop will take place on 4 – 5 December 2019 at the International Law Forum, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Law Faculty (Mount Scopus Campus). Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be sent by 15 May 2019. Decisions regarding inclusion in the workshop program will be sent by 15 June 2019. For more information about the workshop’s theme and call for papers, please see here. 

3. The ICJ Advisory Opinion on the Chagos Islands. The British Institute of International and Comparative Law, along with Westminster Law School, are hosting this event on 18 March 2019 from 17.30 (registration from 17.00). The event will discuss the most recent decision of the International Court of Justice, whereby the Court delivered its Advisory Opinion on the Legal Consequences of the Separation of the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius in 1965. For further information, see here. To register, see here.  Read the rest of this entry…

1. New Addition to the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law. The Codification Division of the Office of Legal Affairs recently added the following lectures to the Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law (AVL) website: Mr. Michael Scharf on “Accelerated Formation of Customary International Law” and Ms. Elizabeth Salmón on the “Inter-American Human Rights System” (in Spanish). The AVL has also launched a new resources page for the 2019 edition of the Inter-American Human Rights Moot Court Competition organized by the Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law of American University Washington College of Law. The UN Audiovisual Library of International Law provides high quality international law training and research materials to users around the world free of charge.

2. Call for Papers: 3^rd Annual Postgraduate Conference in International Law and Human Rights. The International Law and Human Rights Unit, part of the School of Law and Social Justice at the University of Liverpool, welcomes paper, poster and ‘soapbox’ proposals for its 3^rd Annual Postgraduate Conference in International Law and Human Rights. The conference will take place on 17 – 18 June 2019. The theme of the conference is: ‘Hope in International Law and Human Rights’. The conference theme should be broadly conceived, and we encourage proposals from any postgraduate student specialising in international law, human rights or related subjects. Abstracts of no more than 300 words can be sent to ilhrucon {at} liverpool.ac(.)uk, along with a short biography (100 words). The deadline for submissions is 1 April 2019. Please click here for more information about the conference theme and call for papers.

3. 20th Summer School on the International Criminal Court. The 20th Summer School on the International Criminal Court takes place from 24 – 28 June 2019 at the Irish Centre for Human Rights at the National University of Ireland Galway. This is the premier summer school specialising on the International Criminal Court, in which delegates participate in a series of intensive lectures by leading academics and professionals working at the Court. The organisers are pleased to announce that a number of scholarships are available, covering both the registration fee and accommodation. The closing date for scholarship applications is 1 March 2019. Details on how to apply are available here.  Registration for the ICC Summer School will open in late February with an early bird registration fee of €400 is available for delegates who register before 1 April 2019. The closing date for registrations is 1 June 2019. Read the rest of this entry…