ESIL Conference 2014 in Vienna: Call for Papers on International Law as a Generator of National Law
octubre 28, 2013
Gustav Klimt, Allee im Park vor Schloß Kammer 1912. Österreichische Galerie Belvedere
The call for papers or posters for the ESIL Vienna Conference on 4-6 September 2014 includes:
Agora 1: International Law as a Generator of National Law
International law has greatly expanded. Today, almost all spheres of life regulated by law are to some extent pre-determined by international law. Often international law even inspires national legislation that would otherwise possibly not exist at all. In some areas international law may substitute for domestic law. Global Law, Global Governance, Global Administrative Law and International Public Authority discourses debate whether international law or some modification of international law is likely to make domestic law superfluous in some areas or whether it may rather generate more domestic law. This agora is intended to focus on the role of international law in the domestic sphere. What are the quantitative and qualitative features of the influence of international law at the national level? Are the traditional concepts of incorporation/application still adequate? Are states still able to mediate and control the impact of international law? Is domestic social change through international legislation possible? Is it desirable?
The deadline for proposals for papers or posters is 15 January 2014.
ESIL Conference 2014 in Vienna: Call for Papers and Posters
octubre 27, 2013
Gustav Klimt, Kuss, 1907/1908 Österreichische Galerie Belvedere
The call for papers and posters for the ESIL Vienna Conference on 4-6 September 2014 has been published. The programme is magnificent and you can send proposals for papers or posters until 15 January 2014.
“INTERNATIONAL LAW AND …”
Boundaries of International Law and Bridges to Other Fields and DisciplinesInternational law has long been influenced by other fields of law and other disciplines and this conference will explore these influences and the way that they are intertwined. International law may regulate, mostly through treaties, other fields of law such as commercial, employment, family or environmental law; the use of international law is very different in each of these fields and international lawyers may be criminal lawyers, investment arbitrators or administrative law specialists while still considering themselves international lawyers. At the same time, international law needs to be understood in a broader context. The fluctuating content of international law – as a result of its decentralized norm-making process – and the various compliance and enforcement structures – due to the lack or weakness of centralized policing institutions – often require meta-legal reasoning when it comes to explaining the normative quality of international law and to understanding what the law is and why it should be followed. These trends have increased recently and threatened international law with fragmentation through over-specialization. In order to see the whole picture, international lawyers need to understand how international law is distinguished from and linked to other fields and disciplines.
The 2014 ESIL conference in Vienna will explore these interconnections and will also look at whether the boundaries of international law have been crossed, and in what ways. The title ‘International Law and …’ indicates that the focus is both on the interplay between international law and other fields of law and between international law and other disciplines.
The papers and posters will discuss international law and history, feminism, literature, films, sports, technology, et cetera.
Call for Papers: IGILT and University of Tartu
Call for Papers
«The Approaches of Liberal and Illiberal Governments to International Law: A Conference Marking 25 Years since the Collapse of Communist Regimes in Central and Eastern Europe»
The University of Tartu and the European Society of International Law’s Interest Group on International Legal Theory (IGILT) invite submissions that will examine whether liberal (and illiberal) ideas make a difference in the context of international law along three general themes.
The conference will take place on June 12-13, 2014 at the University of Tartu History Museum, featuring keynote talks by José E. Alvarez (NYU) and Gerry Simpson (Melbourne). Due to a generous grant from the European Research Council, successful applicants will receive full scholarships to cover flight and accommodation costs, on the condition that they develop their presentation into an article of publishable quality and that they are ESIL members. Approximately ten articles from the conference will be selected for publication in the 15th volume of the Baltic Yearbook of International Law, which will be edited by Lauri Mälksoo and Ineta Ziemele.
Un año más, la revista GoJIL convoca su concurso para ensayos escritos por estudiantes o jóvenes doctores. El tema del concurso 2013 es ‘Principles of International Criminal Law’ y las reglas para participar están disponibles aquí. ¡Suerte!
Ya está abierta la inscripción para las XXV Jornadas de la Asociación Española de Profesores de Derecho Internacional y Relaciones Internacionales, que este año se celebran en la Universitat Pompeu Fabra sobre el tema «La gobernanza del interés público global». El programa es muy interesante y, como siempre, cubre las perspectivas de derecho internacional público, derecho internacional privado y relaciones internacionales. Aquí se pueden inscribir. ¡Nos vemos en Barcelona!
LA GOBERNANZA DEL INTERÉS PÚBLICO GLOBAL
Barcelona, 19-20 de septiembre de 2013
El incremento cuantitativo y cualitativo de las relaciones internacionales generadas por los procesos políticos, económicos, socioculturales y medioambientales de la globalización contemporánea, y singularmente por la revolución de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación, ha generado nuevos retos cuya gestión requiere de mecanismos de gobernanza global. Junto a estas transformaciones puede constatarse asimismo la aparición de un espacio público global en el que se debaten estas necesidades y sus problemas.
Como consecuencia de estos cambios es posible hablar de la existencia del interés público global, que es cualitativamente diferente de los intereses de los Estados, que presupone la existencia de una comunidad global y que, en buena medida, deriva de la necesidad de proteger algunos bienes públicos globales, de hacer frente a problemas globales (violaciones de derechos humanos, cambio climático, etc.) o de regular algunos valores que se consideran universales (la vida, la integridad física, la dignidad humana, etc.).
La existencia de un espacio público internacional, que no es exclusivamente intergubernamental, en el que surge y opera el interés público global no es el resultado natural de la evolución de las relaciones internacionales, sino que se trata de una construcción social. Por ello, en estos momentos en los que la comunidad internacional, y en particular el mundo occidental, está sufriendo la crisis económica más grave desde la Gran Depresión de los años treinta del siglo XX y en los que el orden internacional está en un proceso de profunda transformación, parece recomendable hacer un esfuerzo intelectual por buscar posibles respuestas a los principales retos de la gobernanza global.
A partir de estas reflexiones, el objeto de las XXV Jornadas será el estudio del contenido, las normas, los procedimientos, las instituciones, las formas de gestión, etc. del interés público global en sus diversas manifestaciones y su incorporación a lo que se ha llamado la estructura comunitaria del Derecho internacional público. Es bien sabido que la misma regulación jurídica es un primer instrumento, necesario pero no suficiente, para la defensa del interés público. En este sentido, el objetivo sería explorar en qué medida los miembros de la AEPDIRI podemos contribuir al análisis del conjunto de preocupaciones, problemas y desafíos desde la perspectiva metodológica del Derecho internacional público, del Derecho internacional privado y de las Relaciones Internacionales.
El viernes 10 de mayo a las 12:00 horas tendremos el gusto de recibir al profesor Nico Krisch en el seminario de profesores de la Facultad de Derecho de la UAM. El profesor Krisch va a presentar (en inglés) su paper «From Consent to Consultation: The Shifting Architecture of International Law». Aquí pueden leer el paper y este es el abstract:
Because of its emphasis on state consent, classical international law is often seen as inadequate for solving problems of a global scale, especially when they involve global public goods. As these problems grow in importance, many commentators call for, and expect pressure towards, the inclusion of non-consensual elements in the international legal order. This article analyzes to what extent, and in what forms, we can empirically observe such a turn to non-consensualism. It develops expectations about the salience of different forms (collective, multilateral, unilateral; formal/informal; egalitarian/hierarchical) in responses to significant challenges of global public goods, and it uses three issue areas – antitrust, climate change regulation, and the control of terrorism financing – to investigate actual processes of change and their shape. It finds a certain, but limited, pressure on traditional international legal categories, such as multilateral treaty-making, the boundaries of institutional powers, and jurisdictional limits for unilateral action. More prominent is a turn to informal institutions and rules, often coupled with more exclusive, minilateral decision- making processes that allow for greater speed, flexibility and hierarchy in problem-solving. The limited role of consent in this order is compensated, in part, by the emergence of structures of representation and processes of consultation. In the resulting picture, international law retains much of its consensual character, but it is increasingly sidelined in favour of other sites of governance in which consent plays a much more limited role. These findings allow us to gain a better understanding of processes of change of international law and of its place in the broader normative order in global politics.
Si quieren mandar preguntas para el seminario, escríbanlas en los comentarios y, si cabe y nos da tiempo, las plantearemos en la discusión con el profesor Krisch.
El viernes, en realidad, la afición del derecho internacional tiene programa doble en la Faculta de Derecho de la UAM, porque a las 10:30 horas, en el marco de la Maestría en Gobernanza y Derechos Humanos, imparte una conferencia Luis López Guerra, magistrado del Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos, sobre “Derechos Humanos e identidad nacional en la jurisprudencia del TEDH”.
Foto: es una toma que hice de la famosa Plaza de España en Santo Domingo, con el Alcázar de Don Diego de Colón al fondo, el punto de partida de una de las principales arquitecturas del derecho internacional.
Entrevista a Bruno Simma
enero 20, 2013
Ya está disponible en la red la entrevista de la profesora Christina Voigt (Universidad de Oslo, Noruega) al antiguo Juez de la Corte Internacional de Justicia Bruno Simma. La entrevista se encuadra dentro de las conferencias de la ESIL (ESIL Lectures series), que comenzaron el año pasado con Daniel Goldhagen, David Kennedy y Armin von Bogdandy. La entrevista es excelente y sirve como un recorrido por los grandes temas recientes de la jurisprudencia de la Corte Internacional de Justicia. Es un poco larga, pero muy recomendable. La próxima conferencia ESIL es el miércoles próximo en La Sorbonna, París, y estará a cargo de la profesora Ann Orford (Universidad de Melbourne), que hablará sobre ‘Histories of International Law and Empire’.
REEI: nuevo número
diciembre 21, 2012
Se ha publicado el último número de la REEI (número 24, 2012), con artículos sobre justicia transicional, la Corte Penal Internacional, las inmunidades de ejecución de los Estados, el Protocolo Facultativo del Pacto Internacional de Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales, y mucho más. Otro buen trabajo del equipo editorial.
Adios a IntLawGrrls
diciembre 18, 2012
El blog IntLawGrrls dice adios. Es cierto que las autoras seguirán escribiendo en otros espacios, pero voy a echar de menos a esas poderosas voces femeninas de derecho internacional juntas en un blog con tanta personalidad.
Y sí, este color rosa es un homenaje. ¡Gracias y buena suerte a todas!
Worlds Apart? Comparing the Approaches of the European Court of Justice and the EU Legislature to International Law
septiembre 10, 2012
Abstract:
This paper examines and compares the approaches taken by the European Court of Justice and the EU legislature towards international law. Although the Court and legislature are tasked with different roles, such a comparison is warranted, especially since many of the complex legal problems facing the EU regarding international law in recent years have arisen in part due to a growing divergence between the two approaches. We begin by looking at the EU Treaties. Although little guidance is given on how international law is to be applied within the EU legal order, the Treaties are not entirely silent. Numerous references to international law and multilateralism, especially those included post-Lisbon, guide the Court and the legislature, helping to minimise inconsistencies between their approaches. We examine the Court’s approach to international law, which, especially in the light of recent case law, is much less ‘open’ than it is often portrayed. It stands in some contrast to that of the legislature, which shows greater willingness to take into account international law. We argue that the Court’s more guarded approach, often motivated by a desire to preserve the autonomy of EU law, is largely unwarranted. Rather, the Court should enter into a more open dialogue with international law, helping the EU to “contribute […] to the strict observance and the development of international law”, as prescribed by Article 3(5) TEU.
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