Posted on April 17, 2012 by Gentian Zyberi
With thanks to Tamara Takacs for bringing this to my attention! ‘Human rights and EU crisis management operations: a duty to respect and to protect?’ Workshop organised by the T.M.C. Asser Instituut and the Centre for the Law of EU External Relations (CLEER) in cooperation with the Netherlands Defense Academy on 25 May 2012 at the T.M.C. Asser [...]
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Posted on March 22, 2012 by Dominik Zimmermann
The 3rd edition of Venice School of Human Rights will take place from 28 June till 7 July 2012. The goal of the Venice School is to allow its participants to be updated on the state of the art debate on human rights issues and to stimulate a reflection on the actual challenges faced by [...]
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Posted on March 22, 2012 by Dominik Zimmermann
The Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law is pleased to announce that at its upcoming conference – “Agents of Change: The Individual as a Participant in the Legal Process” – on 19 and 20 May 2012 there will now be two keynote addresses by: JUDGE ANTONIO AUGUSTO CANCADO TRINDADE and PROFESSOR JAMES CRAWFORD SC [...]
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Posted on March 13, 2012 by Dominik Zimmermann
Our readers might be interested to learn about the European Master’s Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation (E.MA). The E.MA is an intensive one-year master’s programme aimed at educating professionals in human rights, democracy, peace and development. The programme offers an action- and policy-oriented approach to learning which combines interdisciplinary perspectives with skills building activities. [...]
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Posted on March 9, 2012 by Dominik Zimmermann
Venice Academy of Human Rights The Venice Academy of Human Rights will take place from 9-18 July 2012. The theme of this year’s Academy is “The Limits of Human Rights” (http://www.eiuc.org/veniceacademy/). Online registration is open until 1 May 2012. Faculty of the Venice Academy 2012 Professor Philip Alston, NYU Professor Seyla Benhabib, Yale Professor Martti [...]
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Posted on February 7, 2012 by Dominik Zimmermann
The Goettingen Journal of International Law (GoJIL) in cooperation with the Institute of International and European Law, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, and the Minerva Center for Human Rights, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is pleased to announce its international symposium on Precursors to International Constitutionalism: The Development of the German Constitutional Approach to International Law March 9-10 2012, [...]
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Posted on January 18, 2012 by innomawire
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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Posted on January 5, 2012 by Dominik Zimmermann
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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Posted on January 5, 2012 by Dominik Zimmermann
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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Posted on November 29, 2011 by Gentian Zyberi
Introduction The ICTY Global Legacy Conference took place in The Hague on 15 and 16 November. It brought together over 350 leading academics, international judges and practitioners, state representatives and members of civil society (see ICTY press release here). The event was nicely organized by the outgoing President Robinson and his team with the financial [...]
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Posted on July 1, 2011 by Dominik Zimmermann
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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Posted on May 28, 2011 by Dominik Zimmermann
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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Posted on April 21, 2011 by Gentian Zyberi
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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Posted on September 15, 2010 by Dominik Zimmermann
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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Posted on June 7, 2010 by asenier
[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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Posted on May 18, 2010 by Dominik Zimmermann
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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Posted on May 18, 2010 by Dominik Zimmermann
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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Posted on April 20, 2010 by Dominik Zimmermann
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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Posted on April 17, 2010 by innomawire
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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Posted on April 13, 2010 by James Harrison
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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Posted on March 12, 2010 by Dominik Zimmermann
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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Posted on January 27, 2010 by Dominik Zimmermann
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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Posted on January 25, 2010 by jenniferdeehalbert
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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Posted on January 10, 2010 by Ole W. Pedersen
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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