Human Rights – A Drop of Liberation or Fig Leaf of Legitimation?

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 [...]

Accountability Now! – A Conference on the Goldstone Report

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 [...]

4th Biennial Conference of the ESIL

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 [...]

Climate Change Talks: Road to Copenhagen

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 [...]

International Law Association Conference 2010

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 [...]

104th annual meeting of the American Society of International Law

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 [...]

International Law Weekend 2009

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 [...]

Irish Centre for Human Rights – Summer Schools

[Below you will find an announcement for this year's summer schools organized by the Irish Centre for Human Rights. I can really recommend these summer schools. They gather a number of very interesting scholars and practitioners, are very well organized, and take place in the beautiful surrounding of the city of Galway. Thanks to Maria [...]

Piracy seminar at the Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law (University of Oslo)-in Norwegian

Sjørøvere i sjøretten (Sea Pirates in the law of the sea) on the 29th of April. The seminar is held in Norwegian/Danish: http://www.jus.uio.no/nifs/nifs/seminar/seminarer.html

Defining a broader material scope of protection: The emerging Law of Air Warfare

On 10 March 2009, Diakonia IHL Program, 4th International Humanitarian Law Session on Air warfare with Ove Bring, a Professor of International Humanitarian Law at the University of Stockholm. The discussion concerned the normative framework of rules applicable to air warfare, and contextualised specific rules to the case of the recent war on Gaza. The [...]

Symposium on “The Future of International Criminal Justice”

The Santa Clara Journal of International Law is organizing a symposium on the “Future of International Criminal Justice” between March 13 and March 14. The keynote speaker at the symposium is Professor M. Cherif Bassiouni, Professor of Law at DePaul University College of Law. The conference will feature four papers on the following topics: complementarity and the International [...]

New feature: the Conference Register

International Law Observer is proud to announce a new feature of the blog: the Conference Register. This register makes every effort to provide the readers with a coverage of the most important conferences and events on law and law-related issues worldwide. It is arranged in chronological order and contains reference to the original website (if [...]

Africa’s evolving Human Rights Architecture

This is a summary of a report produced by: Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT) after a two day seminar held from 28-29 June 2007 at Vineyard Hotel in Cape Town. The paper discusses the effectiveness of Africa’s human rights institutions. It specifically refers to an advisory group meeting held in South [...]

Conference on the role of supreme courts in an internationalizing world

The Hague Institute for the Internationalization of Law (HIIL) organizes a two-day conference on ‘The changing role of the highest courts in an internationalizing world’. The conference will take place on 23 and 24 October 2008 in the Peace Palace in The Hague, The Netherlands. The programme and additional information can be found on the [...]

Coastal State Regulation of Marine Shipping (Symposium, 30-31 October 2008, University of Tromsø, Norway

The programme for the conference is found at this link: http://uit.no/jus/7237/13

Conference: The Rule of Law and the Global War on Terrorism: Detainees, Interrogations, and Military Commissions

Thanks to Martin Wisneski for drawing my attention to this conference: The Rule of Law and the Global War on Terrorism: Detainees, Interrogations, and Military Commissions, November 13-14, 2008 Sponsored by the Washburn University School of Law Center for Law and Government and the Washburn Law Journal The United States Constitution was founded on the [...]

International Law Weekend 2008

Every year, the American branch of the International Law Association in cooperation with other organizations, organizes the so-called “International Law Weekend“. It is an event consisting of panels, receptions and the Branch’s annual meeting. This year’s event, which will take place on October 16-18, has the overall theme “The United States and International Law: Legal [...]

Arctic Sovereignty Symposium – Southwestern Law School, Oct. 3, 2008

Thanks to Austen Parrish for drawing our attention to the following event: On Friday, October 3, 2008, Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles, California is hosting a symposium on Arctic Sovereignty – titled Arctic Sovereignty: Cold Facts, Hot Issues. Drawing on Southwestern’s strong ties with Canada, this one-day symposium will bring together leading legal figures [...]

International conference on marine affairs and the Law of the Sea

In connection with its 50th anniversary, the Fridtjof Nansen Institute (FNI) will on 21-23 August 2008 organize an international conference on marine affairs and the Law of the Sea in Oslo, Norway. The conference is entitled “The World Ocean in Globalization: Challenges for Marine Regions”, and is to provide an independent and qualified forum for [...]

Conference on International Arbitration involving parties from the Arab World

The Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC)  is hosting a Conference on International Arbitration involving Parties from the Arab World The event will take place 23 October 2008, Stockholm, Sweden The Conference will deal with critical issues in international arbitration involving parties from the Arab World. Among the questions that will be [...]

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