1. Call for Papers: Oxford Workshop in Honour of Sir Frank Berman. The Oxford University Faculty of Law, the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law & Armed Conflict, All Souls College, and Wadham College will host a workshop on 17 June 2025 to honour Sir Frank Berman KCMG KC’s long personal and professional association with Oxford, including his time as Visiting Professor of International Law and Honorary Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford. Applications are invited from early career researchers, including doctoral students, on the theme – Treaty Regimes in International Law. Topics may include the functioning, control, and governance of particular treaty regimes, the activities of dispute settlement or monitoring bodies, and assemblies or conferences of State parties. They are particularly interested in examining how well the general law of treaties copes with the interactions or conflicts between different treaty regimes, as well as between treaty regimes and general international law. Abstracts of no more than 400 words together with a short resumé should be submitted by 10 March 2025 to elac.events {at} bsg.ox.ac(.)uk (please indicate ‘Berman workshop abstract’ in the subject line). If selected, participants will then be asked to circulate a draft of the paper, which can still be rough/in progress, by 23 May 2025. They are able to provide some financial assistance to selected participants on the basis of need.
2. ILaW Gendered Peace Through International Law Talk. On 19 Feb 2025, 5.30pm, in London, International Law at Westminster (ILaW) are hosting a talk with Dr Louise Arimatsu and Professor Christine Chinkin on their book Gendered Peace through International Law (Hart 2024). The talk, moderated by Dr Marco Longobardo, will explore the main findings of their open access book, discussing what a gendered peace might look like and its impact on international law. More info and free registration are available here.
3. Call for Papers: Cooperation or Domination – International Organisations as Imperial Designs. The Center for Global Public Law (CGPL) at Koç University is hosting a Workshop in Istanbul on 4 July 2025. The workshop will focus on the intersection between international organisations and imperialism, capitalism and race exploring whether and how these institutions have served as instruments of domination under the guise of cooperation. Each paper will be assigned a discussant who will provide detailed feedback, fostering an in-depth discussion and critique of the presented work. Discussants include Catherine Brölmann (University of Amsterdam), Jean d’Aspremont (Sciences Po, University of Manchester), Lys Kulamadayil (Geneva Graduate Institute), and Fuad Zarbiyev (Geneva Graduate Institute). Scholars at all stages of their careers are invited to submit abstracts. Limited funding is available. Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be sent by 23 March. See here for more information.
4. Call for Papers: Sixth Workshop on Sociological Inquiries into International Law. The Sixth Workshop on Sociological Inquiries into International Law will be held at Utrecht University on 13–14 November 2025. This edition’s theme is centred around ‘polarization’. Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted by 31 March. More information can be found here.
5. The Thicker Notions of Human Rights Accountabilities Conference. This conference revisits the questions of what qualifies as a human rights violation, who holds human rights duties and how to actually deliver human rights accountability in the context of pressing and complex challenges. It will be hosted by the Future Proofing Human Rights research project in Brussels, Belgium from 19 – 21 November 2025. They are inviting contributions that seek to reconstruct the notion of human rights accountability, divided across five themes: Change, Knowing, Duties, Harm, and Remedy. Contributions from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, including but not limited to law, socio-legal perspectives, criminology, and political science are welcomed. Abstracts should be submitted by 20 April 2025. For full details, please see the full conference call here.
6. GMU Academy on Seabed Governance. From 1 – 6 March 2025. Gujarat Maritime University, India is organising the GMU Academy on Seabed Governance in online mode. Sessions will be taken by Ocean Law experts from across the world. The brochure of the event can be accessed here. There will be several seats reserved for the participants from outside India, and their registration fees will be waived.
7. Call for Papers: Reconstructing International Criminal Justice as it Unfolds. The European Society of International Law’s Interest Group on International Criminal Justice is organizing a workshop on “Reconstructing International Criminal Justice as it Unfolds,” to take place in Berlin on Thursday, 11 September 2025, immediately prior to the ESIL 2025 Annual Conference. The call for papers is here. The deadline for submissions is 1 April 2025.
8. The Universality of International Law and its Discontent: Guest Lecture by Dr Işıl Aral and Prof Jean d’Aspremont. This Lecture, hosted by the University of Liverpool, will take place on Tuesday 11 March, 5pm – 502 Buildng, Flex2/Zoom. For more information and to register, see here.
9. Innovative Ways to Counter Terrorism Conference: The Role of Transitional Justice. On 27 March 2025, the T.M.C. Asser Instituut & the Senator George J Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, Queen’s University Belfast will host in The Hague a one-day conference on “Innovative Ways to Counter Terrorism: The Role of Transitional Justice”. Focusing on the examples of Northern Ireland and Colombia, the conference aims to analyse what and how transitional justice mechanisms can contribute to reducing the terrorist threat in the long term, fostering national security as well as transforming victims and survivors into active actors of counter-terrorism, and promoting reconciliation. For more information and registration see here.
