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Best Practice for Workshopping Projected Edited Collections (Books, Symposia) in 10 Not So Easy Steps – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

November 13, 2024 by admin

On my way out? It appears, you might be thinking, to be a very long and winding way, and I cannot even promise that this is the last instalment…. Still, for what it is worth, here is another of my ‘dos and don’ts’ advice on topics addressed to early career scholars on their way in, and in this case, most decidedly, the advice may profit advanced scholars and even those like me who are on their way out.

Eons ago I inveighed against edited books, or rather, unedited books (see vol. 27:3). When invited to contribute to such volumes, my advice was: proceed with caution, avoid if at all possible.

Here are a few snippets, which can be entitled ‘Worst Practice’:

Whose Legal Duty to Aid? – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

November 12, 2024 by admin

On 4 November, Israel officially informed the United Nations of its decision to cut ties with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) following the passage of two bills opposing UNRWA’s activities on Israeli territory. The new laws also designate UNRWA as a terrorist organisation and strip its staff of legal immunity. As many commentators (e.g. Eirik Bjorge), including state officials, have criticised, those bills seriously threaten the operational viability of UNRWA in the occupied Palestinian territory.

Reflections on Palestine’s Intervention Request in South Africa v Israel – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

November 11, 2024 by admin

In December 2023, South Africa instituted proceedings against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Genocide Convention). To date, ten third-party interventions have been submitted in the case. Eight states—Bolivia, Chile, Turkey, Spain, Mexico, Libya, Colombia, and the Maldives—have filed declarations of intervention under Article 63 of the ICJ Statute as state parties to the Genocide Convention. Nicaragua has requested permission to intervene under Article 62, asserting a legal interest which may be affected by the ICJ’s decision. Palestine, having acceded to the Genocide Convention in April 2014, has sought to intervene under both articles. As both Articles 62 and 63 provide for interventions by ‘states’, Palestine’s requests (particularly under Article 62), may raise the question of whether it qualifies as a ‘state’ for the purposes of the ICJ Statute—as an antecendent determination for the acceptance of its intervention requests.

CfP Netherlands Yearbook of International Law; Climate Change and Migration Webinar; EHRAC Animated Film; Business and Human Rights Workshop; AI Knut Ipsen Lecture – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

November 11, 2024 by admin

1. Call for Papers: Netherlands Yearbook of International Law. The Netherlands Yearbook of International Law is inviting submissions for Volume 55 – ‘The manifold forms of contemporary international legal scholarship’. The volume editors invite contributions that address the interplay between substance and form in contemporary modes of international legal work, for example the recording of podcasts, the use of X or blogposts – which may in turn be juxtaposed with more ‘traditional’ outputs such as books or articles. The full call for papers can be found here. Authors may submit an abstract of no more than 400 words by 25 November 2024. Authors of selected abstracts will be informed by 8 December and will then be invited to send a first full draft of no more than 10,000 words including footnotes by 24 March 2025. All emails and files should be sent to nyil {at} asser(.)nl.

2. ICON-S Interest Group on Climate Change and Migration Webinar on The Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union. ICON-S Interest Group on Climate Change and Migration are hosting a webinar “The Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union: Balancing Climate Mobility, Sovereignty, and Cultural Preservation” The event will take place on Tuesday 19 November 2024 at 10am London/11am CET/9pm Sydney/11pm Wellington and offer a discussion examining the world’s first bilateral agreement on climate mobility. This webinar will explore the Falepili Union’s implications for international law, cultural preservation, and Pacific geopolitics. The event will be held via Zoom. Register here.

CfP BIICL-SLS Soft Law in International Law Workshop; CfP Strasbourg Observers Symposium; CfP Freedom of the Seas and Freedom of the Individual; CfP European Yearbook on Human Rights – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

November 10, 2024 by admin

1. Call for Papers: BIICL-SLS International Law Section Workshop. The British Institute of International & Comparative Law and the International Law section of the Society of Legal Scholars are hosting a one-day hybrid workshop taking place in central London on 26 March 2025 under the title ‘Soft Law in International Law’. The organizers, Dr Jean-Pierre Gauci, Georgia Greville, Dr Saeed Bagheri and Dr Solon Solomon, invite abstracts to be submitted by 16 December 2024 to biicl-sls-workshop {at} biicl(.)org together with a short 150-word bio. Decisions will be communicated by 24 January 2025. More information on the workshop can be found here.

2. Call for Papers: Strasbourg Observers 15th Anniversary Symposium. Founded in April 2010, the Strasbourg Observers Blog is soon celebrating its 15th Anniversary. At this occasion, they are organizing a symposium in Ghent (Belgium) for which they invite abstracts (and panel proposals) that analyse and reflect on important developments in the ECtHR case law and/or scholarship over these past 15 years. They are particularly interested in abstracts that focus on the Court’s ways of reasoning across various thematic areas as well as in abstracts that take a step outside of the Court’s case law and delve into questions about how it operates as an institution. They also welcome abstracts discussing novel approaches and methods (both quantitative and qualitative) in ECtHR scholarship. Abstracts of around 300 words should be sent to strasbourgobservers {at} gmail(.)com by 2 December 2024 with the indivudal’s name, affiliation and a short bio. Submissions for a collection of abstracts as a complete panel proposal should indicate the panel convenor and panel title on top of the information requested for individual abstract submission. Find more information here.