PAVIA 7-8 July 2022 - FOOD LAW AND RIGHT TO FOOD

 

The Academy is supporting the Congress on Food Law and the Right to Food organised by IACL Vice-President Giuseppe Franco Ferrari in Pavia on July 7-8 2022.

L’Académie soutient le Congrès sur le droit alimentaire et le droit à l’alimentation organisé par le vice-président de l’AIDC Giuseppe Franco Ferrari à Pavie les 7 et 8 juillet 2022.

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Whither the West? International Law in Europe and the United States

 Whither the West?International Law in Europe and the United States

Chiara Giorgetti, University of Richmond 
Guglielmo Verdirame, King's College London 

On a variety of international legal matters, relations between the US and European countries are evolving and even diverging. In an ever-changing world, understanding the reasons for this increasing dichotomy is fundamental and has a profound impact on our understanding of world dynamics and globalization and, ultimately, on our awareness of where the West is going. This interdisciplinary volume proposes new frameworks to understand the differences in approach to international law in the US and Europe. To explain the theoretical and historical underpinnings of the diverging views, the expert essays present new research and develop innovative conclusions. They assess and explore issues such as the idea of sovereignty, constitutional law, the use of force, treaty law and international adjudication. Leading authorities in different disciplines including law and political science, the contributors engage in a new dialogue and develop a new discourse on inter-Atlantic views.

Introduction: W[h]ither the west? The divided west and the shifting grounds of international law; Part I. The Idea of International Law in the Divided West: 1. International lawyers and legal forms transatlantic denials; 2. Are we (Americans) all international legal realists now?; 3. Are liberal internationalists still liberal?; 4. The new, new sovereigntism or how the European union became disenchanted with international law and defiantly protective of its domestic legal order; Part II. Specific Areas in International Law: Whither the West?: 5. Authority and dialogue state and official immunity in domestic and international courts; 6. Treaty conditions and constitutions walls, windows, or doors; 7. International courts and tribunals in the USA and in Europe the increasingly divided west; 8. Unravelling a paradox of shared responsibility the disconnection between substantive and adjudicate law; 9. Divergent views on the content and relevance of the jus ad Bellum in Europe and the United States? The case of the US-Led military coalition against ‘Islamic state'.

New Publications at Oxford University Press

New Publications at Oxford University Press

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Commercial Law

Cryptoassets
Legal, Regulatory, and Monetary Perspectives
First Edition
Edited by Chris Brummer

A Guide to the IBA Rules on the Taking of Evidence in International Arbitration
Roman Khodykin and Carol Mulcahy
Consultant Editor Nicholas Fletcher QC

International Copyright
Principles, Law, and Practice
Paul Goldstein and P. Bernt Hugenholtz

Constitutional and Comparative Law/ National Legal Systems

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The Law, Politics, and Limits of Section 4 of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment
Brian C. Kalt

The Wisconsin State Constitution
Second Edition
Steve Miller and Jack Stark

EU Law

The EU Citizenship Directive: A Commentary
Second Edition
Elspeth Guild, Steve Peers, and Jonathan Tomkin

Law and Society/ Legal History/ Jurisprudence

Between Truth and Power
The Legal Constructions of Informational Capitalism
Julie E. Cohen

A History of American Law
Fourth Edition
Lawrence M. Friedman


International Law

The Battle for International Law
South-North Perspectives on the Decolonization Era
Edited by Jochen von Bernstorff and Philipp Dann

The Rise of China and International Law
Taking Chinese Exceptionalism Seriously
Congyan Cai

How International Law Works in Times of Crisis
Edited by George Ulrich and Ineta Ziemele

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Comparative International Law

Comparative International Law

Edited by Anthea Roberts, Paul B. Stephan, Pierre-Hugues Verdier, and Mila Versteeg

• Explains that international law is not a monolith but can encompass on-going contestation, in which states set forth competing interpretations
Maps and explains the cross-country differences in international legal norms in various fields of international law and their application and interpretation in different geographic regions
Organized into three broad thematic sections of conceptual matters, domestic institutions and comparative international law, and comparing approaches across issue-areas
Chapters authored by contributors who include top international law and comparative law scholars all from diverse backgrounds, experience, and perspectives
(Subjects: international law; comparative law)

Spring 2016 International Law Colloquium

The annual International Law Colloquium sponsored by St. John's Center for International and Comparative Law brings leading scholars to campus to present their works to students and faculty. This year, we're pleased to welcome: Dinah Shelton (2/8), George Washington University, If you Break it, do you own it? Legal Consequences of Environmental Harm from Military Activities   Susan Franck (2/22), Washington and Lee University, Inside the Arbitral Mind   Catherine Powell (3/7), Fordham University, How Women Could Transform the World, If Only We Would Let Them: Inclusive Security and Gender Performance   Carlos Vazquez (4/6), Georgetown Law Center, The 4th Restatement and the Doctrine of Self-Executing Treaties   Ruti Teitel (4/11), New York Law School, Transitional Justice and the Peace Process in Colombia   Molly Land (4/25), University of Connecticut, Human Rights and Intermediary Liability All presentations take place from 4:30-6:30 p.m. in room 3-01H at St. John's Law. If you would like to attend one or more of our April 2016 colloquia, please contact Professor Peggy McGuinness at mcguinnm@stjohns.edu.    law.stjohns.edu Contact: St. John's University School of Law, 8000 Utopia Parkway, Queens, NY 11439

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT: International Law as a Mechanism for Justice

International Law Association British Branch Spring Conference
International Law as a Mechanism for Justice
Location: University of Essex, Colchester Campus.
Dates: Friday 29 and Saturday 30 May 2015.

Click here for further information.

JOURNAL ANNOUNCEMENT: New Issue of The African Journal of International and Comparative Law

A new issue of the African Journal of International and Comparative Law, Volume: 22, Number: 3 (Oct 2014) has just been published, please click here for the table of content.

We suggest the following articles:

 Towards an International Piracy Tribunal: Curing the Legal Limbo of 

  Captured Pirates 

  James D. Fry 

  African Journal of International and Comparative Law, Vol. 22, No. 3: 

  341-368. 

  http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/ajicl.2014.0098?ai=ru&ui=12qd&af=T 

 Identifying Beneficiaries of the UN Indigenous Peoples’ Partnership 

  (UNIPP): The Case for the Indigenes of Nigeria's Delta Region 

  Rhuks Temitope Ako and Olubayo Oluduro 

  African Journal of International and Comparative Law, Vol. 22, No. 3: 

  369-398. 

  http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/ajicl.2014.0099?ai=ru&ui=12qd&af=T 

  When Poverty Is Not a Sin: An Assessment of the Human Rights Council's 

  Guiding Principles on Poverty and Human Rights 

  Ebenezer Durojaye 

  African Journal of International and Comparative Law, Vol. 22, No. 3: 

  468-491. 

  http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/ajicl.2014.0103?ai=ru&ui=12qd&af=T 

 Some Reflections on Two Decades of Human Rights Protection in South Africa: Lessons and Challenges 

  John C. Mubangizi 

  African Journal of International and Comparative Law, Vol. 22, No. 3: 

  512-531. 

  http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/ajicl.2014.0105?ai=ru&ui=12qd&af=T 

CONFERENCE: 2014 ABA Moscow Dispute Resolution Conference

 

The ABA’s sixth annual Conference on the Resolution of CIS-Related Business Disputes — A “MUST ATTEND” conference  for Litigators, Corporate Counsel,  Arbitration Practitioners, Judges, Academics, Business Executives and Policy-Makers!

Where: Radisson Royal Hotel Moscow 2/1 bid 1 Kutuzovskiy prospekt Moscow 121248 Russian Federation

Date:  September 19, 2014

Time: 8:00 AM - 10:00 PM AT

Topics will include:

•The Merger of the Supreme Commercial (Arbitrazh) Court and Supreme Court of General Jurisdiction:  Implications for the Administration of Justice, the Resolution of Commercial Disputes and International Arbitration in Russia

•Making CIS-Related Disputes “Stick” in Non-CIS Courts:  Addressing Personal Jurisdiction and Forum Non Conveniens

•Lawyer Ethics in Dispute Resolution: A Cross-Border Analysis of What You Can and Cannot Do

•The New Russian IP Court: Taking Stock One Year On

•Corporate Disputes in a CIS Context:  Managing Conflicts Between Successive Generations of Shareholders

•In-House Counsel Perspectives on the Resolution of CIS-Related Disputes 

Program and details here http://ambar.org/moscow2014

 

JOURNAL: Global Jurist - Special issue: Law and Boundaries

The special issue focused on Law and Boundaries of the Journal Global Jurist, now available online.

Table of contents:

- The Law and Boundaries Project: Creating a Space for Dialogue and Innovative Thinking (by Corcodel, Veronica / Dogot, Delphine / Ferrando, Tomaso / Isailović, Ivana)

- The Public–Private Distinction, Autonomy and Free Movement: Unpacking the Assumptions (By Mataija, Mislav)

- Framing the Boundaries of European Human Rights Law (by Öztaş, Can)

- Cynicism and Guilt in International Law after Rwanda (by Russi Luigi)

- Living on the Edge of Queer Theory and Canada’s Uncanny Pluralism: Queer Religious Bodies as Constitutional Strangers (by Blanc, Nicolas)

- Ulpien D.1.1.1.2 et la distinction ius publicum – ius privatum (by Paturet, Arnaud)

CONFERENCE: Borders and Boundaries in Transitional Justice

Oxford Transitional Justice Research is holding its biennial summer conference on Friday 27 June, 2014 at the Law Faculty, University of Oxford.  OTJR welcomes papers falling within the theme ‘Borders and Boundaries in Transitional Justice.’

 

The past few years have seen a growing interest in cross-border issues in the study and practice of transitional justice.  For instance, the Operation Condor trial that began last year in a domestic court in Buenos Aires, Argentina, addresses transnational atrocities perpetrated in six countries in South America, and in the process raises questions about the design and validity of domestic amnesties in respect of extraterritorial wrongdoing.  In Europe, states have pursued domestic trials for international crimes committed abroad, such as genocide, or have opted to extradite suspects back to the country where the crimes occurred, highlighting a shift to the domestic application of international criminal law.  In the US, the Supreme Court’s decision in Kiobel has affected one important avenue of accountability for extraterritorial wrongdoing.

 

At the same time, traditional boundaries in the theory and practice of transitional justice are being redrawn, creating new dynamics of inclusion and exclusion.  In Liberia, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission sought to engage the state’s diaspora community, prompting questions about who is included in transitional justice processes.  Regional bodies, including the African Union and European Union, have started to play a more prominent role in determining states’ responses to past wrongs, challenging the boundaries of decision-making in transitional justice.  These developments also raise broader conceptual questions about the relationship between national, regional, and international ideas and practices of justice and accountability. 

The conference will explore how these and other borders and boundaries inform and affect transitional justice.  Within this theme, potential topics might include, but are not limited to:

• How extraterritorial atrocities are addressed in, or excluded from, transitional justice;
• The role of refugee, diaspora, and/or foreign communities in transitional justice;
• Nationalism and pan-nationalism after gross human rights abuses;
• The interaction between domestic transitional justice processes and foreign, regional, or international courts, for example in the application of the principles of complementarity and ne bis in idem; and
• The interplay between domestic and international conceptions of justice and accountability.

 To propose a paper, please send an abstract of no more than 500 words to the OTJR Convenor, Miles Jackson –   miles.jackson@law.ox.ac.uk This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. – by 21 April, 2014.  Abstracts should include your name, contact details, any institutional affiliation, and the title of the presentation.  Applications from scholars of all disciplines and doctoral and early-career researchers are welcomed.

 

Conference page is here.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Procedural Fairness in International Courts and Tribunals

The Surrey International Law Centre of the School of Law of the University of Surrey with the support of the Institute of Advanced Studies, the McCoubrey Centre of the University of Hull and the British Institute of International and Comparative Law ('BIICL') will host a two-day workshop on the identification of core standards of procedural fairness before international courts and tribunals 19 - 20 September 2014. A topical and timely subject for study, the question of procedural fairness entails the identification of fundamental principles inherent to the judicial and arbitral processes. Whilst the manifestation of such core standards of fairness will necessarily diverge according to the particular forum, the workshop aims to identify their essence with reference to the procedural issues arising in practice.

The aim of this workshop is to bring academics and practitioners together to initiate ground-breaking research into this novel topic. The workshop employs a comparative approach whereby participants will analyse the procedures and practices of various international courts and tribunals. It aims to identify patterns of commonality and divergence in the core standards of procedural fairness of international courts and to develop a holistic understanding of the nature of procedural fairness and the challenges to its realisation in the international judicial system.

Proposals are invited on topics relating to the aforementioned themes in addition to specific aspects of international judicial procedure. In addition, the workshop welcomes contributions on the theoretical question of the implications that fairness in international procedural law may have for general international law, such as its systemic traits, the 'humanisation' of international procedure and the responsibility of international courts and tribunals for failure to meet standards of fairness.

This call is directed to academics at all career stages who wish to bring fresh perspectives to the workshop with established scholars and practitioners.

Submissions: Interested parties should submit an abstract of maximum 500 words by the 1st of April 2014 at:http://ocs.som.surrey.ac.uk/index.php/SILC/SILC2014. Speakers will be informed of acceptance by the 1st of May, 2014 and will be expected to submit a paper by the 1st of August, 2014. Participants will be expected to pay a fee and to cover their travel and accommodation, details of which will be announced in due course.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Women in War and at War

The University of Warwick has issued a call for papers.

18th - 19th September 2014 / University of Warwick

Call for papers

Women's roles in war are complex and varied and are not limited to that of victims. During the Arab Spring, women took to the streets protesting against oppressive regimes in North Africa and the Middle East. We are also witnessing a significant rise in female political activism during conflict: many women increasingly find Internet, blogs and social media a useful tool to fight oppression, advocate change but also to report from war zones. Many women actively participate in combat, in regular armed forces but also as guerillas and, freedom fighters. They are also compelled to fight as girl child soldiers.

Sexual violence against women remains an alarming and disturbing feature of modern armed conflicts. This is despite the fact that International Humanitarian Law (IHL) prohibits rape and other forms of sexual violence in war and despite the major advances in International Criminal Law (ICL) in the punishment of gender crimes. Over the past two years, some further steps and initiatives have been taken at national and international level to address this problem.  For instance, in June 2013 the United Nations Security Council issued Resolution 2106 on sexual violence in conflict, calling (once again) for the prevention of sexual violence during conflicts. In April 2012, the UK Foreign Secretary, William Hague, launched the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative, which resulted in adopting a G8 Declaration on Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict and endorsing the Declaration of Commitment to End Sexual Violence in Conflict, which has been signed by 70% of UN Member States.

What impact have these measures had? Will they make a real difference? Have they had any impact on the way that armed conflict is conducted? How much can the law actually achieve? What do recent conflicts tell us about the contemporary representations of women in and at war?

This conference builds on the 2012 Women in War and at War conference held at Aberystwyth University and is designed to focus in particular on recent developments in relation to women and war.

Keynote speaker: Prof. Christine Chinkin, London School of Economics


The University of Warwick invites proposals for papers in the following or related areas:

 -          Women and the conflict in Syria

-          Women, the Arab Spring and the aftermath

-          International Humanitarian Law: effectiveness and challenges

-          International Criminal Law and the prosecution of gender-related crimes

-          Representations of women in and at war

-          Women, war and the media

-          Women in post-conflict settings

-          Gender and conflict.

 Abstracts of max. 250 words should be submitted by 15 February 2014 to womeninatwar@gmail.com. Authors of selected abstracts will be informed by mid-March 2014.

CONFERENCE: Contested Collisions (Bremen - 10-12 January 2014)

CONFERENCE: Contested Collisions (Bremen - 10-12 January 2014), will discuss the fragmentation of world law .... http://t.co/F46qQwJB5a
— ComparativeLaw (@JurisDiversitas) January 1, 2014

PAPER: Governance Polycentrism: Hierarchy and Order Without Government in Business and Human Rights Regulation

Post by JURIS Diversitas.

SCHOLARSHIP: The Hague Academy of International Law Summer Courses

The Hague Academy of International Law has issued a call for applicants for summer courses of international law and scholarship as well.

A merit-based scholarship program allows approximately 20% of participants to the Summer Courses to receive financial assistance from public and private funding sources. The Secretary-General, in the name of the Curatorium, selects scholarship recipients.

 Period:

• Public International Law: 7 - 25 July 2014

• Private International Law: 28 July - 15 August 2014 

Registration for the 2014 Summer Courses starts December 1st, 2013.

Closing date for applications: March 1st, 0:00 hrs. The Hague time (GMT+1)

In general, scholarships are in the amount of 1150 Euros (from which the registration fee of 400 Euros will be deducted). Travel expenses will be partially reimbursed either by the relevant donor or by the Academy 

Applications for scholarships must relate to only one of the two periods. The Conditions of admission are the same as for full-fee applicants.

Candidates cannot register as paying participants and apply for a scholarship for the same session at the same time. In such cases only the scholarship application will be considered. It is however possible to apply for one session at the full fee (e.g. Public International Law) and to apply for a scholarship to attend the other session (e.g. Private International Law).

Applicants can be awarded a scholarship only once. If you already participated in any of our previous Summer Courses on the basis of a scholarship, you are now exclusively admissible at the full fee.

Details are here and here.

JOURNAL: Asian Journal of International Law

Cambridge University Press has announced the latest issue of the Asian Journal of International Law (AsianJIL). Now online without charge.
All articles and book reviews from this issue can be read until the 20th of November 2013.

AsianJIL publishes peer-reviewed scholarly articles and book reviews on public and private international law.

Articles are weelcomed that focus specifically on Asian issues as well as ones that bring one of the Asian perspectives to bear on issues of global concern.

Other papers welcomed by AsianJIL will be of more general interest to scholars, practitioners, and policymakers located in or working in Asia. How to submit here.

CALL FOR PAPERS: International Society of Family Law Regional Conference

Hart Publishing is pleased inform you about the International Society of Family Law regional conference that is taking place on the 2^nd – 3^rd January 2014 in Israel.

The conference marks the 30^th anniversary of the entry into force of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (in December 1983) and the publication of Dr. Rhona Schuz's book, The Hague Child Abduction Convention – A Critical Analysis which is due for publication by Hart Publishing in October 2013 (details below).

Information about submitting a paper for the conference is shown below and it is also available by clicking on the following link: http://www.hartpub.co.uk/ISFL_REGIONAL_CONFERENCE_ISRAEL.pdf

Location: Sha'arei Mishpat Law School, Hod Hasharon, Israel

BOOK: Schuz on The Hague Child Abduction Convention

Hart Publishing just announced the publication of Rhona Schuz's The Hague Child Abduction Convention: Critical Analysis:

The continuing steady flow of case law from the various Member States of The Hague Child Abduction Convention has resulted in the emergence of different approaches to the interpretation of key concepts in the Convention. In addition, over the years other global and regional legal instruments and the recommendations of the Special Commissions have had an impact on the implementation of the Convention.

This book brings together all these strands and provides an up-to-date, clear and highly readable discussion of the international operation of the Abduction Convention, together with in-depth critical academic analysis.

Particular emphasis is placed on analysing the interpretation of the Convention in light of the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Throughout the book, examples are brought from case law in many jurisdictions and reference is made to relevant legal and social science literature and empirical research.

This book will be essential reading for judges, practitioners, researchers, students, policy-makers and others who are seeking a critical and informed analysis of the latest developments in international abduction law and practice.

Publication Date: Oct 2013

CONGRESS: The XIXth International Congress of Comparative Law

 

International Academy of Comparative Law announced 19th International Congress of Comparative Law. The 19th International Congress of Comparative Law will take place in Vienna from 20 to 27 July 2014 on the Austrian National Committee’s invitation.

 

Registration is open.

Official page: http://www.iacl2014congress.com/home/

 

VACANCY: Three year professorship in international law with focus on international courts

The Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, is seeking applications for a three year appointment as professor of international law with focus on international courts and their impact on human rights. The position is to be filled as soon as possible.

The professor will be affiliated with iCourts - Danish National Research Foundation´s Centre of Excellence for International Courts, which is a research centre at the Faculty of Law. http://jura.ku.dk/icourts

The main responsibilities of the professor international law with focus on international courts and their impact on human rights are:

• Develop the area of international courts and human rights at an international level by combining theoretical and conceptual development with in depth practical knowledge about the field.
• Supervise PhD students on the basis of the above mentioned theoretical and practical skills.
• Support the establishment of international networks of theorists and practitioners within the area of international courts and human rights.
• Conduct teaching of students in international courts and human rights on the basis of theoretical and practical skills.

The professor shall also develop and maintain his or her teaching and pedagogic competencies. Other duties may be added according to Faculty regulations and the weighting of the different tasks may change over time.

How to apply: http://www.ku.dk/english/available_positions/vip/