1. Ghandhi Research Seminar Series 2024- 2025. Global Law at Reading (GLAR) is Reading’s research hub for public international law, EU law and human rights law, and it has a proud international reputation for research excellence in these areas. The Ghandhi Research Seminar Series was launched in 2015, named in honour of Professor Sandy Ghandhi, who taught at the School of Law from 1978 to 2013 and remains an emeritus professor at Reading. Anyone is welcome to attend these seminars, and attendance is free. Seminars as follows: 11 February, 13-13.00 – Professor Gregory Fox (Wayne State University), Civil War Peace Agreements: Inside or Outside International Law? – Palmer Building 107 or via Teams; 24 February, 12 – 13.00 -Dr Justina Uriburu (University of Manchester), Missing Pieces of Peace: A History of International Dispute Settlement – Palmer Building 106 or via Teams; 5 March, 11 – 12.00 – Katherine Reece-Thomas (City, University of London) The Commercial Activity Exception to State Immunity – Henley Business School G13 or via Teams; 19 March, 12 – 13.00 – Professor Nazila Ghanea (University of Oxford), Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Parsing out Religion from Politics in the Work of the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief – Palmer Building 103 or via Teams; and, 12 May 12-13.00 -Professor Frédéric Mégret (McGill University), What is International Human Rights Law For? – Palmer Building 111 or via Teams.
2. Call for Submissions: The American Society of International Law Interest Group on International Legal Theory. The American Society of International Law (ASIL) Interest Group on International Legal Theory has issued its annual call for submissions for its International Refugee Law Student Writing Prize. More details about the award criteria and submission process are available in the attached call for submissions. The winner will be recognized at the ASIL Annual Meeting in April 2025, as well as receiving a free one-year ASIL student membership, free admission to the ASIL Annual Meeting, assistance with travel expenses, and a credit to purchase books from Oxford University Press.
3. Call for Abstracts: Nordic Symposium on the Law of Armed Conflict. The Department of Operative and International Law at the Swedish Defence University and the Swedish Red Cross invite abstracts to the 1st Nordic Symposium on the Law of Armed Conflict. The Symposium will be held 8 – 9 May 2025 in Stockholm, Sweden. The abstracts for papers should be addressing one of three themes from a variety of perspectives: Conduct of hostilities; Protection; or, Compliance. Abstracts shall not exceed 750 words, be accompanied with a CV and sent with the subject line ‘Nordic LOAC symposium abstract’ no later than 1 March 2025 to zarah.abrahamsson {at} fhs(.)se . Read more about the Symposium and Call for Papers here.
4. Call for Papers: The Role of the Causal Inquiry for Finding Breaches of Human Rights Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights Workshop. Thie event is organised by Vladislava Stoyanova – Research output – Lund University and Mads Andenæs – Department of Private Law . For details, see The Role of the Causal Inquiry for Finding Breaches of Human Rights Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights | Faculty of Law.
5. Call for Papers: The International Law Association Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution in International Law. The ILA Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution in International Law has announced an open call for papers for a conference Shaping Appropriate ADR in International Law (Florence, 7 April 2025, in collaboration with the ILA Italian Branch and the Department of Law of the University of Florence). As 2025 begins, there is no shortage of international law disputes in areas ranging from geopolitics to boundaries, trade, investment or environment. Growing reluctance to accept binding dispute settlement in some areas of international law makes it all the more important to identify dispute settlement mechanisms that can be both acceptable to the parties and efficient. The conference will focus on appropriate ADR in public international law disputes in which at least one party is a State. The primary focus will be on non-adjudicatory and non-court processes and procedures in public international law, including but not limited to fact-finding, negotiation, mediation, conciliation, ombuds or transitional justice. The deadline is 5 February 2025. More information is available here.
6. Seminar & Book Launch: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights – Strategically Moving Forward. On Wednesday 29 January 2025, the Maastricht Centre for Human Rights will host a hybrid seminar and book launch titled “Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Strategically Moving Forward.” The seminar will reflect on how human rights institutions and mechanisms can contribute to a more equitable recovery after crises, focusing on the protection of socio-economic rights. Discussions will draw from two recent publications: Ingrid Westendorp (ed), Human Rights Strategies: Benefits and Drawbacks (Edward Elgar, 2024) and Andrea Broderick & Jennifer Sellin (eds), Socio-economic Rights, Inequalities and Vulnerability in Times of Crises: Building Back Better (Edward Elgar, 2024). The event will feature a keynote speech from Philip Alston and pay tribute to Fons Coomans for his contributions to the field. This full-day event will take place both online and at Maastricht University, Faculty of Law. Attendance is free, but places for in-person participation are limited. See here for registration and for more information about the full program.
7. Call for Papers: The Principle of Non-Intervention – Polish Review of International and European Law. The Polish Review of International and European Law is inviting submissions for an issue on the principle of non-intervention,one of the established and well-known principles of international law. Although the principle has been enshrined in several international instruments, including United Nations Charter and General Assembly resolution no 2625, its scope and content is defined only to a limited extent. The principle has been discussed in the last decade in many different contexts – protecting democratic election processes, evaluation of secondary sanctions, defending against economic coercion, fighting against corruption, instrumentalisation of migration or grating political asylum. As a result, the growing practice suggests the need to evaluate the interpretation and application of the principle of non-intervention. We invite you to submit an abstract of the manuscript (max. 400 words) to k.maslo {at} uksw.edu(.)pl no later than 15 January 2025. Include the following information: Author name(s) and affiliation(s). The abstract should also clearly indicate the timeliness of the topic and its suitability for this call. Deadline for submission of abstracts: 25 January 2025. Deadline for notification of acceptance of proposed contribution: 30 January 2025. Submission of full paper: 31 May 2025. Publication: July 2025.
8. Workshop: Research Methods in Fundamental Rights. The Centre for Fundamental Rights at the Hertie School has announced its 2025 Annual Workshop on Research Methods in Fundamental Rights, taking place from 16 – 18 June 2025 at the Hertie School, Berlin, Germany. The workshop is hosted by the Hertie School as a member of CIVICA – The European University of Social Sciences. More information here.
