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…