Hay plazo hasta el 1 de mayo para presentar propuestas para esta interesante conferencia sobre interpretación en el derecho internacional. Aquí está el ‘call for papers’:
Interpretation in International Law
University of Cambridge
August 27, 2013
CALL FOR PAPERS
The relevance of interpretation to the academic study and professional practice of international law is inescapable. Yet interpretation in international law has not traditionally been examined as a distinct field. Given that international law is constituted, in practical terms, by acts of interpretation, there is a need for greater methodological awareness of interpretive theory and practice in international law.
The ‘Interpretation in International Law’ conference at the University of Cambridge in August 2013 aims to attract submissions focusing on the divergent processes of interpretation that exist in international law, whether these be differentiated linguistically, culturally, politically or socially. Submissions will be encouraged that deal with the interpretation process per se, as well as the place of interpretive process within the larger scheme of international law (such as divergent interpretations of concrete provisions, or the impact of interpretation on the sources of international law). The conference welcomes submissions from both philosophical and practical perspectives ensuring exposure of ideas and concepts that may otherwise have been confined to their own sub-fields.
The following speakers will give keynote presentations:
- Sir David Baragwanath (President, Special Tribunal for Lebanon)
- Professor Andrea Bianchi (The Graduate Institute, Geneva)
- Dr Ingo Venzke (University of Amsterdam)
A wide variety of proposals are welcomed. Proposed panels include:
- Interpretation and Legal Doctrine: this panel will highlight the doctrinal exposition of particular contested legal standards – for example, “fair and equitable treatment” and “cruel and unusual punishment” – as well as the methodologies behind such expositions in a range of international and regional courts and tribunals.
- Interpretation and the Sources of International Law: this panel will focus on how interpretive practice interacts with, and institutes hierarchies amongst, the sources of international law. Where can the line be drawn between “dynamic” and “progressive” interpretive practice and law-making? Submissions dealing with treaty interpretation and the place of interpretation in the formation of custom are encouraged.
- Interpretation and the Interpreters: this panel will examine how disparate interpretations of international law are granted the imprimatur by functionally specialized interpretive communities who use international law as a professional vocabulary (for example, judges, diplomats, legal advisers, arbitrators and regulators). To what extent is the interpretation of international law a competition for “semantic authority” (Ingo Venzke)?
- Interpretation and the International Legal Order: this panel will consider the extent to which one’s interpretive posture depends on the vision of the international legal order that one advocates, such as constitutionalism or global administrative law. How are particular values, such as dignity and comity, foregrounded or neglected in the interpretive process? Do interpretive practices have the potential to bridge conceptual divides between public and private international law?
- Interpretation and Cultural Contingency: James Crawford has recently stated that international lawyers must possess a “technique of plurilingual interpretation”. This panel will provide a forum for the exposition of culturally distinct interpretive practices, as well as a consideration of the benefits and drawbacks of divergent interpretations stemming from cultural differences.
- Interpretation and Indeterminacy: this panel focuses on interpretation in light of the critical challenge to international law. How is interpretive practice affected by the allegation that apolitical rules are impossible and that values used to justify such rules are subjective? Given the fragmentation of international law, is an interpretive lingua franca attainable or is interpretive pluralism inevitable?
Abstract submissions must be between 300-500 words in length and should be accompanied by a short resume. Please submit your documents to cambridgeinterpretation@gmail.com. Any queries may be directed to the conference conveners, Daniel Peat (dcp31@cam.ac.uk) and Matthew Windsor (mrw48@cam.ac.uk).
The closing date for submissions is 1 May 2013. We will notify successful applicants by late May 2013, who must submit their papers by early August 2013. Conference papers should be between 6,000 and 10,000 words. Selected submissions will be considered for publication in an edited volume on the conference theme.
Call for papers
Deadline 15 April 2013
The European Society of International Law (ESIL) Interest Group on Business and Human Rights is calling for papers for its panel on 23 May 2013 at the 5th ESIL Research Forum, Amsterdam. Following the overarching theme of the Research Forum, International Law as a Profession, we invite papers addressing contemporary issues in the field of business and human rights which consider practical challenges in this context. Papers may consider (but are not limited to) the following perspectives:
– Advocacy: how can the business and human rights agenda be promoted through lobbying for or against regulation? How does the process of evidence gathering with regard to the lack of corporate compliance with human rights take place? How do practitioners engage with state and non-state actors to move the agenda forward?
– Litigation: how may practitioners take a corporation to court? What are the legal and procedural obstacles in different jurisdictions? What is the future of US litigation after Kiobel? What are the European alternatives?
– Policy and law making: how may international rules in this context be drafted and passed through national and international institutions? Papers considering this dimension may specifically refer to the national implementation and action plans and processes for the Ruggie framework which are currently taking place in various countries.
Please submit a 300 words abstract proposal (Word or pdf format) via email to Dr. Olga Martin-Ortega (O.Martin-Ortega@greenwich.ac.uk) by 15 April 2013. Candidates are requested to include their name and affiliation in the email but not in the abstract itself.
In order to participate in the Interest Group panel speakers need to be members of ESIL. The membership can be formalised once their abstract has been accepted.
Information on the ESIL Interest Group on Business and Human Rights in available here: http://igbusinessandhumanrights.wordpress.com/
Information on the 5th ESIL Research Forum is available here: http://www.esil2013.nl/
La Revista de Derecho Económico Internacional del ITAM y la Representación en México de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO, por sus siglas en inglés) han publicado una convocatoria para enviar artículos en español y portugués sobre derecho económico internacional y seguridad alimentaria. El premio consistirá en US$ 1.000, US$ 500 y US$ 300 para el primero, segundo y tercer lugar, respectivamente. Asimismo, los ganadores recibirán un reconocimiento escrito por parte de la FAO.
Las personas interesadas deben enviar sus manuscritos inéditos a más tardar el lunes 18 de Marzo de 2013 al correo dei@itam.mx. Aquí está la información de los términos de la convocatoria. ¡Buena suerte!
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Si eres estudiante de doctorado en derecho o ciencias políticas y te especializas en derecho penal internacional quizá puedas tener una excelente oportunidad de presentar y discutir tus ideas en la próxima reunión de la escuela de doctorado que se celebrará en el Instituto de Relaciones Internacionales de la hermosa ciudad de Praga. Aquí está el call for papers.
CALL FOR PAPERS
PhD Training School on International Criminal Justice
To be held at the Institute of International Relations in Prague, on 14-16 March 2013.
The PhD Training School is organised within COST Action 1003: “International Law Between Constitutionalisation and Fragmentation: the role of law in the post-national constellation”. The School will consist of two Panels, one focusing on Politics of International Criminal Justice, the other on Contemporary Challenges to International Criminal Law.
PhD candidates in law, political science or international relations are encouraged to apply. Applications should contain: name, institution, contact details (e-mail), title of the PhD thesis/project, title of the paper, and abstract of the paper (maximally 300 words).
Participants are expected to meet their expenses. Candidates coming from countries that participate in COST Action 1003 can apply for funding up to a maximum of 500 Euro (note that PhD candidates get a flat rate, not a specific reimbursement). Candidates who would like to be considered for a scholarship need to indicate this in the application and to justify their request.
Applications should be sent by e-mail to Dr. Veronika Bílková (bilkova@iir.cz) by 31 January 2013. Successful applicants will be notified by 10 February 2013. Participation is subject to submission of a paper (maximally 2500 words) prior to the conference, by 28 February 2013 at the latest.
Créditos de la foto de Praga vista desde la Torre Petrín: Jorge Valenzuela A (Creative Commons)
Call for Papers: Triangulating Property Rights: Governing Access to Scarce, Essential Resources
noviembre 13, 2012
Triangulating Property Rights: Governing Access to Scarce, Essential Resources
Call for PapersThe Center on Global Legal Transformation at Columbia University in New York is launching a call for proposals by junior researchers on governing scarce, yet essential goods. Selected proposals shall be presented at panel sessions at a conference held in New York on 20-21 June 2013. The research project is coordinated by Prof. Katharina Pistor, the Director of the Center on Global Legal Transformation, and Prof. Olivier De Schutter, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food.A number of factors have led to dramatically increased pressure on land and the essential resources it harbors: population growth and a corresponding rise in demand for agricultural and other commodities; competing uses of land between different forms of agriculture, resource extraction, large-scale industrial projects and urban sprawl; environmental degradation from climate change and unsustainable practices; and trade and investment liberalization, among others. As a result, water, food and shelter are increasingly considered scarce and subjected to commercial pressures that make them inaccessible to many.Private property rights regimes have traditionally been considered the most effective institutional arrangement to allocate scarce goods and combat what has been termed the “tragedy of the commons” – the depletion of scarce common resources by actors who disregard the carrying capacity of the land and bear no costs for their actions. Individual property rights regimes lead to allocation of land to the highest bidder, who is presumed to put the land to its most efficient use. But conversion to private property regimes has also resulted in widespread displacement of small holders and indigenous people and the exclusion of many others from access to resources essential to their livelihoods.Two well-studied alternatives to private property rights are collective governance by local authorities and centralized control. However, neither fully addresses the problems of scarce, essential goods. Collective governance is limited by a community’s ability to manage collective action problems, but the governance issues we are facing are those of a heterogeneous world with high social mobility and rapidly changing social norms. Similarly, centralized control depends on the authority and wisdom of the central decision-maker, who may lack local knowledge and accountability. Political voice might address problems of accountability, but how to organize voice in a global world remains an open question.Proposals should suggest models for governing essential, scarce resources. They can be qualitative or quantitative; make use of empirical data and field research or suggest a new theoretical approach. They should address if and how the following three normative goals (the basis of the triangle to which the title refers) for managing scarce, essential goods can be realized:• equity (universal access to those resources that are essential for human life);
• efficiency (in managing scarce essential goods and minimizing waste); and
• sustainability (arrangements that do not unduly interfere with future productivity or availability of essentials).Memos should be between 5 and 10 single spaced pages and must be submitted by email to the project coordinator, Claire Debucquois, at cd2636@columbia.edu by 15 January, 2013. Any questions should be directed to the same address. Up to 10 submissions will be selected for presentation at the conference and possible inclusion in a subsequent book publication.
Colaboraciones para el Anuario Mexicano de Derecho Internacional
octubre 17, 2012
Está abierto el período de recepción de trabajos para el volumen XIV del Anuario Mexicano de Derecho Internacional. Una exposición detallada de los criterios editoriales del del Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas de la UNAM, que son complementarios de los criterios del propio Anuario, pueden consultarse en http://www.juridicas.unam.mx/publica/critedit/critedit.pdf.
Call for Papers: Anuario Colombiano de Derecho Internacional
septiembre 29, 2012
El Anuario Colombiano de Derecho Internacional (Colombian Yearbook of International Law – CYIL) hace un llamado para presentar propuestas para el volumen sexto hasta el 16 de noviembre de 2012. Se admiten manuscritos en castellano, inglés y francés sobre derecho internacional público y privado, derechos humanos, derecho humanitario internacional y derecho económico internacional. La información aquí y la dirección de correo es anuariocdi@gmail.com.
Call for Papers: 5th ESIL Research Forum on «International Law as a Profession»
septiembre 18, 2012
The society is delighted to announce that the 5th ESIL Research Forum will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on Thursday 23 – Saturday 25 May 2013, hosted by the Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL) of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and the Department of Transnational Legal Studies, VU University Amsterdam (VU). The theme of the Research Forum is ‘International Law as a Profession’ and the Forum will allow the professional community to gain new insights into how to address the new challenges facing international law in the globalized environment of the second decade of the 21st century.
Updated information about the event can be found at all times on the Research Forum website.
The Call for Papers and Panel Proposals is now open, and the deadline for submission of abstracts and panel proposals is Thursday 15 November 2012. All ESIL members are encouraged to submit abstracts and proposals for panels. Please forward this email to any colleagues who may also be interested.
Mañana se lanza la convocatoria para el Segundo foro para profesores jóvenes de derecho internacional público que se realizará en Nottingham en 2013. Toda la información relevante acerca del foro, la convocatoria y las fechas de presentación puede consultarse en www.annualjuniorfacultyforumil.org.
La primera edición de este foro se hizo en Nueva York este año. Organizado por Dino Kritsiotis (Nottingham), Anne Orford (Melbourne) y J.H.H. Weiler (NYU), la reunión juntó a un grupo de nueve jóvenes investigadores con respectivos comentaristas para una conferencia vibrante de dos días en las que primó la camaradería, la tremenda hospitaliad de los anfitriones, y el gran nivel de la discusión. Quizá por haber participado tengo un sesgo a favor de esta nueva empresa. En cualquier caso, es de esperar que la iniciativa se consolide ya que brinda una excelente oportunidad para la discusión y difusión de investigaciones en curso.
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