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Introduction Creative control over one’s artistic endeavor is an important right that an artist strives to retain. In addition to creative control, artists seek to prevent the unlawful distribution of the creative product, insist on being acknowledged as the creator of the work, and aim to achieve adequate compensation for the creation. Through union organization, [...]
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In an earlier post here on International Law Observer, I drew our readers attention to the so-called “Principles on Responsible Sovereign Borrowing and Lending” (read more here). These Principles were drafted by an Expert Group and aimed to guide responsible sovereign lending and borrowing. In this context, UNCTAD, together with the University Autónoma of Madrid through [...]
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On March 8-9, 2012, The International Criminal Court Student Network will convene a conference on the ICC’s first case: The case of Thomas Lubanga Dyilo. This conference offers undergraduate, graduate and law students, and early professionals/academics (generally within five years of terminal degree) studying or working in the field of International Criminal Law an opportunity [...]
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CALL FOR PAPERS UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT AND UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID Madrid, 2 March 2012 UNCTAD’s Principles on Responsible Sovereign Borrowing and Lending Background of the conference: The causes and widespread negative effects of the global financial and economic crisis prompted UNCTAD to launch an initiative in 2009 to promote responsible [...]
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This year’s Venice Academy of Human Rights will take place in less than two months. The programme is dedicated to the topic “Human Rights and the Cosmopolitan Idea(l)” with lectures by professors Abdullahi A. An-Na’im, David Held, Yasuaki Onuma, Boaventura de Sousa Santos and Mary Robinson (Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights). A few [...]
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The American University, Washington DC, organizes the conference ‘The Obama Administration and Human Rights’ which shall take place on 28-29 April. You can find a lot of interesting information on the conference’s website at: https://american.edu/provost/human-rights/obama-conf/index.cfm The election of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States signaled the promise of change in foreign [...]
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On Thin Ice: International Law and Environmental Protection in a Melting Arctic Co-Sponsored with NYU Environmental Law Journal October 22, 2010 New York, NY The United States is one of eight nations with territory above the Arctic Circle, a distinction that meant relatively little until the last decade. But melting sea ice has thrust these [...]
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[The following is a guest post by Amy Senier.] Delegates from the States Parties to the Rome Statute are halfway through the International Criminal Court (“ICC”) Review Conference in Kampala, Uganda. As discussed elsewhere on this blog, the conference gives States Parties, non-governmental organizations, and representatives of the ICC itself an opportunity to reflect on [...]
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Symposium on the Methods of interpretation of international norms, Poitiers (France), 25 June 2010 For more information visit http://colloque-tini.conference.univ-poitiers.fr/ Thanks to Prof. Franck Latty for drawing my attention to this.
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The European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC) in Venice will host a distinct human rights program this summer: The inaugural session of the Venice Academy of Human Rights will take place from 12-17 July. Confirmed speakers include: Jochen Abr. Frowein, Former director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and [...]
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The Salzburg Law School on International Criminal Law, Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law (SLS) welcomes applications for its Twelfth Summer Session, under the title “Handling the results of the first Review Conference – Success and failures equally obliging to continue consolidating and amending international criminal law and its enforcement mechanisms”, Sunday 8 to Friday [...]
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Africa Legal Aid (ALFA) will be holding a one day conference in The Hague on 26 April 2010, titled “Al-Bashir Arrest Warrant: The World vs Africa or the African Union vs the People of Africa.” The aim is to explore the South/ North dimensions of the emerging regime of international criminal justice and discuss the views [...]
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The British Institute of International and Comparative Law is organising the fourteenth Investment Treaty Forum conference which will take place on Friday 7 May 2010 in London. The aim of the conference is to review and analyse important developments in recent cases on jurisdiction by international investment tribunals. A large number of prominent speakers from [...]
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The final programme of the Conference on “The Responsibility to Protect: From Principle to Practice” which will be held in Scandic Linköping Väst, Sweden from 8-12 June 2010 has now been published. Speakers include Francis Deng, Edward Luck, Ambassador Heraldo Munoz, Nicolas Michel, Larry May, Daphna Shraga and Paola Gaeta. The full programme is available [...]
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Annual Conference of the British Branch of the ILA COMPLIANCE Thursday 15 & Friday 16 April, 2010, Oxford Deadline for abstracts: Friday 12th February 2010 The Annual Conference of the British Branch of the International Law Association will be hosted this year by Oxford Brookes University on 15th and 16th April 2010. Please note that, [...]
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ESF-LiU Conference ’The Responsibility to Protect: from Principle to Practice’ The European Science Foundation and Linkoping University have organised a conference on the controversial Responsibility to Protect concept. The conference will take place in Linkoping, Sweden, from the 8th – 12th June 2010. The conference will examine the conceptual challenges which R2P poses and how policy concerns impact upon R2P’s [...]
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Newcastle Human Rights Research Group Symposium Announcement: Human Rights – A Drop of Liberation or Fig Leaf of Legitimation? Date: 23 January 2010, Newcastle Law School, Newcastle University, UK. Confirmed Speakers Professor David Kennedy, Harvard University – ‘The International Human Rights Movement: Still Part of the Problem?’ Professor Keith Ewing, Kings College London – ‘The [...]
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Accountability Now! A Symposium on Human Rights and International Justice Tuesday, 12th January 2010, 2-4pm Main Theater, Abu Dis Campus, Al-Quds University, Palestine On occasion of the one year anniversary of Israel’s 22-day-long offensive on the Gaza Strip, and the momentum towards accountability created by the report of the UN Fact-Finding Mission on Gaza Conflict [...]
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After the success of last year’s biennial meeting of the European Society of International Law in Heidelberg, Germany, the next event is being organized by the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge and will take place on 2-4 September 2010. The conference theme is: International Law 1989-2010: A Performance Appraisal. Here is a [...]
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The following is a guest post by Jennifer Kelleher, LLB Law with European Studies (German and History), LLM in Comparative and European Laws. Jennifer previously interned at the Office of the Co-Investigating Judges in Cambodia and is currently working with the International Council of Environmental Law on Arctic Law and Policy. Next month, 191 countries [...]
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Next years annual conference of the International Law Association will be hosted by the Netherlands Society for International Law, which at the same time celebrates its 100th anniversary. So far little information is available on the conference itself. The conference website merely circumscribes the overarching topic with ‘Peace, Justice and International Law’. Online registration will [...]
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The ASIL’s 104th Annual Meeting will be held March 24-27, 2010. The theme is ‘International Law in a Time of Change’ (am I the only one who sees some influence of Obamania in the topic?). The goal of the meeting is to ‘present a broad range of perspectives on the remaking of international law through new [...]
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The American Branch of the International Law Association will hold its annual International Law Weekend, in conjunction with its 88th Annual Meeting, in New York from October 22-24, 2009. Registration is free for students, members of the American Branch, and cosponsoring organizations (including the ABA Section of International Law and the American Society of International [...]
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