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New EJIL: Live! Interview with Frédéric Mégret

Published on December 13, 2018        Author: 
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In this episode of EJIL: Live! the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal, Professor Joseph Weiler, speaks with Frédéric Mégret, Associate Professor and Dawson Scholar in the Faculty of Law at McGill University in Montreal, whose article “International Criminal Justice as a Peace Project”, appears in our 29:3 issue as part of a Symposium on “The Crime of Aggression before the International Criminal Court”.

Prof. Mégret argues in his article that the Kampala adoption of the crime of aggression needs to be understood as part of the long-term evolution of international criminal justice as a peace project. The conversation takes up the provocative proposition put forward in the article that the shift away from jus contra bellum considerations towards a primary focus on war crimes and crimes against humanity as the central theme of international criminal justice has diminished the urgency of preventing war itself. The interview was recorded at New York University.

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Announcements: University of Edinburgh Vacancy; CfP The Protection of Cultural Heritage and Municipal Law

Published on December 9, 2018        Author: 
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1. University of Edinburgh Lecturer in International Economic Law Vacancy. Applications are invited for one Lectureship at the Edinburgh Law School from candidates with demonstrable expertise in international economic law, ideally with additional expertise in international human rights law or international environmental law. Interviews are expected to be held in late January, with a start date in August 2019. The closing date for applications is 3 January 2019. For further information, see here. 

2. Call for Papers: The Protection of Cultural Heritage and Municipal Law. The American Society of International Law’s Cultural Heritage and the Arts Interest Group (CHAIG) and Fordham University School of Law’s Urban Law Center, in collaboration with the Quebec Society of International Law (SQDI), invite academics and graduate students to submit paper proposals for a works-in-progress workshop on “The Protection of Cultural Heritage and Municipal Law.” The workshop will be held at Fordham University’s School of Law, in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 5 April 2019. Paper proposals of no more than 500 words should be sent to sabrina.tremblay- huet {at} usherbrooke(.)ca before 30 December 2018. The authors of the selected proposals will be notified by 18 January 2019. Proposals from emerging scholars and graduate students are highly encouraged. Draft papers must be submitted no later than 18 March 2019. Please note that no funding is available to cover transportation and accommodation for participants. Attendance at the workshop is, however, free of charge, subject to prior registration. The full call for papers is here.

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Announcements: CfP Ethiopian Yearbook of International Law; University of Michigan Junior Scholars Conference; Implications of Brexit for Trade Relations; ASIL IOIG Workshop

Published on December 2, 2018        Author: 
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1. Call for Papers: The Ethiopian Yearbook of International Law. The Ethiopian Yearbook of International Law (EtYIL), which is motivated by the need to ‘rebalancing the narrative of international law’, was launched in 2015. The first volume, EtYIL 2016 was successfully published in 2017; building upon the successes of the first volume the second volume of EtYIL 2017 came out in 2018 covering topics ranging from African continental free trade area, foreign direct investment law, and contributions to UN peacekeeping from the global south. We are now finalising the third (2018) volume which will come out in early 2019, covering a range of cutting-edge international law issues of regional and global significance. We are pleased to invite interested scholars  to consider submitting long or short articles, current development pieces, case reports and book reviews for consideration for the fourth (2019) volume of the Yearbook (submission guidelines and other details available here). Submission deadline for this volume is 30 November 2019. We would like to hear your potential ideas and topics at ethiopianyearbook {at} gmail(.)com.
 
2. University of Michigan Law School 5th Annual Junior Scholars Conference. The University of Michigan Law School invites junior scholars to attend the 5th Annual Junior Scholars Conference, which will be held on 26 – 27 April 2019 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The conference provides junior scholars with a platform to present and discuss their work with peers, and to receive detailed feedback from senior members of the Michigan Law faculty. The Conference aims to promote fruitful collaboration between participants and to encourage their integration into a community of legal scholars. The Junior Scholars Conference is intended for academics in both law and related disciplines. Applications from postdoctoral researchers, lecturers, fellows, SJD/PhD candidates, and assistant professors (pre-tenure) who have not held an academic position for more than four years, are welcomed. Applications are due by 12 January 2019. Further information can be found at the Conference website.

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Announcements: African Yearbook of International Law; University of Liverpool School of Law and Social Justice Workshop; Westminster Law School Event on the Chagos Archipelago; CfP Workshop on The Paths of Change in International Law; CfP Art and International Courts; CIL 2 Year Post-Doctoral Fellowships

Published on November 25, 2018        Author: 
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1. African Yearbook of International Law (AYIL). The Editors of the African Yearbook of International Law are pleased to invite scholarly contributions for its Volume 23. The structure of Volume 23 will consist of the following: a special theme, general articles, notes and commentaries, book reviews and basic documents (mainly African Union resolutions and African Conventions), and a section on State practice on matters of international law. The special theme for Volume 23 will be on “African States and Investment Law and Arbitration – Challenges and Opportunities”. Manuscripts may be emailed to either fatsah.ouguergouz@gmail.com; adjovir {at} arcadia(.)edu or mob31 {at} cam.ac(.)uk. The Editors welcome papers covering all areas of public international law, including but not limited to the Special Theme, from both established and new scholars. For reference, the length of articles should normally not exceed forty double-spaced pages. Longer Articles will be accepted if the length is justified by the subject-matter. All articles must be submitted, in an electronic version (preferably in Word), to the Editors not later than 15 January 2019.
 
2. International Law and Human Rights Unit of the University of Liverpool School of Law and Social Justice Workshop. 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 and the means of reaction by the European Court of Human Rights when its judgments trigger discontent. The conference is open to both established and early-career scholars and practitioners, including PhD students. Interested participants should provide an abstract of no more than 500 words by 20 December 2018. The call for papers is available online here.  

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Announcements: CfP CCSI Yearbook on International Investment Law and Policy; CfP ASIL IOIG Workshop; CfP ILA-ASIL Asia-Pacific Research Forum; CfP It Takes Two to Tango

Published on November 18, 2018        Author: 
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1. Call for Papers: CCSI Yearbook on International Investment Law and Policy. The Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI) is pleased to announce a call for papers for the edition of the Yearbook on International Investment Law and Policy covering 2018. The Yearbook is published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in hardcopy, as an ebook, and as part of OUP’s Investment Claims online service. The Yearbook monitors current developments in international investment law and policy. Beginning with the 2017 edition, Part One will include short pieces providing succinct overviews of recent developments and trends in international investment treaties and treaty policy; investor-state dispute settlement; institutional developments; and developments relevant to particular regions or countries. Part Two continues to include detailed analyses or short think pieces on central thematic issues in the contemporary discussions on international investment law and policy. All papers must be original texts and are subject to double-blind peer review. Original contributions to be considered for publication in the Yearbook are accepted on a rolling basis until 1 February 2019; please send submissions to Lisa Sachs (lsachs1 {at} law.columbia(.)edu). Further information can be found on CCSI’s website.
 
2. Call for Papers: ASIL IOIG Workshop. The International Organizations Interest Group (IOIG) of the American Society of International Law (ASIL) welcomes abstract submissions for its biennial work-in-progress workshop, to be held on Friday 15 March 2019 at Seton Hall School of Law in Newark, NJ. Please submit your abstract of an unpublished paper in the field of international organizations by 1 December 2018 at ioig {at} asil(.)org. 
 
3. Call for Papers: 2019 ILA-ASIL Asia-Pacific Research Forum, Taipei . The Chinese (Taiwan) Society of International Law will hold the ILA-ASIL Asia-Pacific Research Forum on 17 – 18 May 2019 at Howard Civil Service International House in Taipei, Taiwan, ROC. The theme of the Research Forum is “International Law and Emerging Powers: New Policy Challenges in the Asia-Pacific.” The Research Forum will feature two keynote speakers: Dr Christopher Ward SC, President of the ILA and Justice Chang-fa Lo of the ROC Constitutional Court. Paper proposals must be submitted to ila {at} nccu.edu(.)tw. Selected papers will be published in the Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs. The call for paper is available at the Research Forum website. Members of the organizing committee include Professors Chun-i Chen, Weixia Gu, Pasha Hsieh, Nigel Li, Torsten Stein, Lisa Toohey and Pei-Lun Tsai. The deadline for submissions is 10 December 2018. 

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EJIL Call for Papers: International Law and Democracy Revisited – The EJIL 30th Anniversary Symposium

Published on November 17, 2018        Author: 
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EJIL was founded in 1989, coinciding with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the attendant excitement encapsulated by that well-known optimistic/hubristic End of History phraseology, with predictions of liberal democracy to become regnant in the world and a New International Legal Order to replace the old First World-Second World-Third World distinctions.

Thirty years later the state of democracy, whether liberal or social or any other variant, seems to be far from sanguine.

Here is but a partial list of the challenges to democracy in the contemporary world:

  • The advent of so-called ‘illiberal democracies’
  • The crisis and breakdown of trust within established democracies
  • The reality or otherwise of states with ‘formal democracy’ often reduced to little more than elections, more or less free
  • The accountability and rule of law concerns, famously termed GAL concerns, which transnational governance regimes raise as indispensable features of democracy
  • The persistent ‘democracy deficit’ or ‘political deficit’ of the European Union and similar Organizations
  • The emergence of the global ‘data economy’ with mega platforms calling into question basic assumptions about territory and jurisdiction and calling into question the ability of democratic regimes to reign in such platforms increasingly questioned
  • The impact of both financial markets and international monetary bodies on the internal margin of manoeuvre and democratic choices of economic management
  • Democracy and global inequality: The relationship between counter-democratic ideologies, legal reforms and political processes at the domestic and global levels and social and economic processes such as the shrinking middle class and the lasting ramifications of the 2008 economic crisis.

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Announcements: CfP The Legacy of the League of Nations Conference

Published on November 11, 2018        Author: 
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Call for Papers: The Legacy of the League of Nations Conference. We invite proposals of early career researchers for papers to the conference on ‘The Legacy of the League of Nations’ to be held at Leicester Law School on 31 January 2019.  The aim of the conference is to critically assess the legacy of the League of Nations and the role of its successor, the United Nations, as a driving force for the development of international law. Deadline for submissions is 30 November 2018. Abstracts of 500 words should be sent via email to  Dr Rossana Deplano (rossana.deplano {at} le.ac(.)uk). Abstracts must include the institutional affiliation of the author. For more information, please check our website.

 

 

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New Issue of EJIL (Vol. 29 (2018) No. 3) Published

Published on November 9, 2018        Author: 
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The latest issue of the European Journal of International Law (Vol. 29, No. 3) is out today. As usual, the table of contents of the new issue is available at EJIL’s own website, where readers can access those articles that are freely available without subscription. The free access article in this issue is Frédéric Mégret’s International Criminal Justice as a Peace Project. EJIL subscribers have full access to the latest issue of the journal at EJIL’s Oxford University Press site. Apart from articles published in the last 12 months, EJIL articles are freely available on the EJIL website.

 

 

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EJIL Vol. 29 (2018) No. 3: In This Issue

Published on November 7, 2018        Author: 
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This issue of the European Journal of International Law features prominently the theme of ‘Perpetrators and Victims of War’.

We open the issue with a series of articles focusing on International Criminal Law. Sofia Stolk starts off by shedding light on the construction of an ‘ideal perpetrator’ – a ‘sophisticated beast’ in international criminal law trials – to allow both accountability and condemnation. A complementary perspective is put forward by Christine Schwöbel-Patel, who analyses the social, political and legal construction of the ‘ideal victim’. Following, Line Gissel scrutinizes Africa’s support for the International Criminal Court (ICC) between 1993-2003. Alexandra Adams concludes this section with an examination of the legacy of the International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda and their contributions to the intricate definition of rape.

In the next section, we feature the penultimate instalment of our Symposium on International Law and the First World War, focusing in this issue on the end of the War. Randall Lesaffer retraces the development of aggression as a concept of international law, showing that a long history of thought on use of force law preceded the Versailles Peace Treaty. Markus M. Payk analyses the Paris Peace Settlement after the Great War, examining the impact that notions of law, justice and legality had on the negotiations leading to the Settlement in the Allies’ quest to establish the ‘reign of law’.

Roaming Charges features a photograph of the stunning relief found in Wroclaw by the local sculptor Eugeniusz Get Stankiewicz: ‘The Crucifixion – Do It Yourself’. We are all perpetrators is one lesson one may take from this work of art. Read the rest of this entry…

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New Issue of EJIL (Vol. 29 (2018) No. 3) Out This Week

Published on November 7, 2018        Author: 
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The latest issue of the European Journal of International Law will be published this week. Over the coming days, we will have a series of editorial posts by Joseph Weiler, Editor in Chief of EJIL. These posts will appear in the Editorial of the new issue. 

Here is the Table of Contents for this new issue:

Editorial

Editorial: Publish and Perish: A Plea to Deans, Faculty Chairpersons, University Authorities; In this Issue

Perpetrators and Victims of War

Articles

Sofia Stolk, A sophisticated beast? On the construction of an ‘ideal’ perpetrator in the opening statements of international criminal trials

Christine Schwöbel-Patel, The ‘Ideal Victim of International Criminal Law

Line Gissel, A Different Kind of Court: Africa’s Support for the International Criminal Court, 1993-2003

Alexandra Adams, The Legacy of the International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda and its Contribution to the Definition of Rape

Symposium: International Law and the First World War

International Law and the End of War

Randall Lesaffer, Aggression before Versailles

Markus M. Payk, ‘What We Seek is the Reign of Law’: The Legalism of the Paris Peace Settlement after the Great War

 Roaming Charges

The Crucifixion – Do It Yourself

 Symposium: The Crime of Aggression before the International Criminal Court

Dapo Akande and Antonios Tzanakopoulos, The Crime of Aggression before the International Criminal Court: Introduction to the Symposium

Frédéric Mégret, International Criminal Justice as a Peace Project

Tom Dannenbaum, The Criminalization of Aggression and Soldiers’ Rights

 

Tom Ruys, Criminalizing Aggression: How the Future of the Law on the Use of Force Rests in the Hands of the ICC

Marieke de Hoon, The Crime of Aggression’s Show Trial Catch-22

Dapo Akande and Antonios Tzanakopoulos, Treaty Law and ICC Jurisdiction Over the Crime of Aggression

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