Cybersecurity Should Underpin Asia’s Smart Cities – Go Health Pro

Cybersecurity Should Underpin Asia’s Smart Cities – Go Health Pro

Civic leaders around the world are looking to automate the infrastructures that make their cities run in a drive to reduce costs and cope with rising populations. From transit networks and utilities, through to refuse collection and streetlighting, making services “smart” by connecting devices to the Internet is appealing to those managing cities and large … Read more

Ecommerce start-up Meesho taps India’s second cities – Go Health Pro

Ecommerce start-up Meesho taps India’s second cities – Go Health Pro

A decade ago, Vidit Aatrey and Sanjeev Barnwal quit their salaried careers and began a tour of family-run stores in the southern Indian city of Bengaluru, attempting to work out why the country’s legion of small shopkeepers did not sell their cheap clothes and goods online. It was a challenge that would inspire the Delhi … Read more

CfP In the Name of National Security – The Fragility of Human Rights; Leiden-Edinburgh Global Law Summer School; United Nations Anti-Racism Mechanisms Regarding Reparations Event; International Law Weekend; EU and International Law in Times of Trump II; CfP Reconstructing Peace; CfP Conference in International Law and Human Rights; CfEL IL on the Battlefield; 2025 CLEER Summer School; CfP Edinburgh Student Law Review; CfP Asian Cities and the International Legal Order; Cambridge International Law Journal Conference; Masterclass Conflict & Security Law; Max Planck Masterclass – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

CfP In the Name of National Security – The Fragility of Human Rights; Leiden-Edinburgh Global Law Summer School; United Nations Anti-Racism Mechanisms Regarding Reparations Event; International Law Weekend; EU and International Law in Times of Trump II; CfP Reconstructing Peace; CfP Conference in International Law and Human Rights; CfEL IL on the Battlefield; 2025 CLEER Summer School; CfP Edinburgh Student Law Review; CfP Asian Cities and the International Legal Order; Cambridge International Law Journal Conference; Masterclass Conflict & Security Law; Max Planck Masterclass – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

1. Call for Papers: In the Name of National Security – The Fragility of Human Rights. The Centre for Public Law at the University of Cambridge and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid will co-host a workshop In the Name of National Security: The Fragility of Human Rights at the Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales in Madrid on 3 July 2025. Keynotes will be presented by Professor Iain Cameron and Professor Ana María Salinas de Frías. The workshop is held in conjunction with the European Human Rights Law Review and it is intended that a selection of papers from the workshop will be included in a Special Issue of the journal in 2026. Additional support for the event is generously provided by the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, Confinanciado por la Unión Europea. The organisers welcome abstracts on any topic within the theme. To propose a paper, submit an abstract of 250-500 words by 25 April 2025 using this form. Full papers are to be submitted by 26 June 2025, one week in advance of the workshop. Papers may be between 5,000 and 10,000 words (inclusive of footnotes). Direct any queries you might have about this event to either Professor Susana Sánchez Ferro (UAM) or Dr Kirsty Hughes (Cambridge). Grant PID2021-123563NB-I00, funded by MICIU/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033 and by “ERDF/EU”

2. Leiden-Edinburgh Global Law Summer School: Public Interest Dispute Resolution and Advocacy. The Summer Course on Global Law, offered jointly by Leiden and Edinburgh Law Schools, focuses this year on the theme of Public Interest Dispute Resolution and Advocacy. It offers research-based education on public interest litigation as a core feature of global legal practice. Coordinated by Letizia Lo Giacco (Leiden) and Gail Lythgoe (Edinburgh), there are modules on Transnational Food Governance: Markets, Movements, and Regulations, Global Security Governance, and Climate Change Litigation: Views from the Practice. More information is available here. Registration is now open.

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How can cities improve conditions for childhood development? – Go Health Pro

How can cities improve conditions for childhood development? – Go Health Pro

The conditions a child grows up in have lasting impacts on their health, well-being and life outcomes. Katie Beck and Marie Kaune share new findings on what cities say are the biggest challenges they face in creating child-friendly environments. Where a child grows up has a profound impact on their formative experiences and early childhood … Read more

A new measure of quality of life explains why people like living in bigger cities – Go Health Pro

A new measure of quality of life explains why people like living in bigger cities – Go Health Pro

People like to live in certain places, even when higher wages are on offer elsewhere. Gabriel Ahlfeldt, Fabian Bald, Duncan Roth and Tobias Seidel show that once you take into account people’s preferences, large cities offer a higher quality of life than previously thought. More than 50 per cent of the world’s population lives in … Read more