The Goettingen Journal of International Law (GoJIL), founded in 2007, is currently seeking submissions for its 5^th International Law Essay Competition. GoJIL is an e-journal of legal scholarship focusing on International Law. It is the first student-run German International Law journal published exclusively in English. The journal is available online and free of charge. If you win, your article will be published online and accessible.

To participate in the GoJIL International Student Essay Competition 2012, follow the following guidelines:

• Topic: “The Interplay of International and National Law”

• Max. 3000 words

• Microsoft Word format

• Footnotes, rather than endnotes

• The deadline is 15 August 2012.

• For further details see the GoJIL website: www.gojil.eu

I am hoping to put together two panels on R2P and Conflict and Intervention in Africa, for next year’s ISA convention in San Francisco (3-6 April 2013 – http://www.isanet.org/annual_convention/)
and am looking for a couple of additional papers for each panel. If you
are interested in being part of the panel proposals, please e-mail me
ASAP (and no later than 21 May) with a title, abstract and affiliation. Continue reading →

The Research Project on Shared Responsibility in International Law (SHARES) invites expressions of interest for a SHARES Visiting Fellowship. Applications can be made by doctoral researchers, who are at least in the second year of their studies, post-doctoral researchers and senior researchers.SHARES Visiting Fellows will be offered the following facilities:

•  work space at the ACIL with a computer
• a University of Amsterdam email account
•  access to the University of Amsterdam Law School Library

Applications are accepted on a continuing basis and should include the following documentation:

• research proposal of max 1,000 words describing research questions, expected results, and the projected contribution to the SHARES Project
• curriculum vitae, including list of publications
• envisaged period and names of two referees
• statement of funding, in case a request for a stipend is made

The documentation should be sent to shares-fdr@uva.nl. For more information, please see our website (link) and/or contact Martine van Trigt at shares-fdr@uva.nl.

The project is proud to host its launch conference, "‘Jus – Post – Bellum’: Mapping the normative foundations", May 31 – June 1, 2012. It will be held at the Peace Palace. The first of several project seminars, this conference will seek to clarify the meaning and content of the concept (including, e.g., its relationship to and distinction from the field of transitional justice), including contemporary understandings and criticisms of the concept, and historical and modern approaches towards the definitions of key notions, such as "jus", "post" and "bellum".

The Goettingen Journal of International Law (GoJIL) in cooperation with the Institute of International and European Law, Georg-August-Universitt Goettingen, 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, Paulinerkirche, Goettingen, Germany

International constitutionalism is in the focus of contemporary international legal debate and practice, as evidenced by the recent Kadi-Jurisprudence of the European Courts and the burgeoning literature that employs constitutional as well as fragmentation terms with respect to modern international law — dealing with the pluralistic structure of modern international law, post-national law and constitutional pluralism. This seemingly new discourse is all-pervasive, with implications in international politics, law, trade and human rights.

However, this project maintains that this is not an entirely new discourse. Its precursors can be found in what could be considered to be a "German" constitutional approach towards International Public Law (Volkerrecht) that has been characterized by a strong constitutional understanding for centuries. While the roots of the discussion can be traced back to the Eighteenth Century, this has especially been the case in the Twentieth Century, as discernable in German and Austrian teachings, from the scholarship of Albert Verdross (with his 1926 ‘Verfassung der Volkerrechtsgemeinschaft’) to Bardo Fassbender’s contemporary analysis of the UN Charter as an international constitution.

The cooperation between the Minerva Center for Human Rights, Hebrew University Jerusalem, the Institute of International and European Law, Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen and the Goettingen Journal of International Law (GoJIL) investigates the historical development and gradual crystallization of a "German" constitutional approach in both theoretical and practical aspects. The project also fosters the current debate on modern international law with regard to constitutionalization and fragmentation trends. European constitutional thinking with respect to international law will play a role as well as current ideas of international constitutionalization in international organizations and tribunals, mainly the International Court of Justice, the European Court of Justice and the WTO.
 
Provisional Timetable
 
March 9 2012, 14:00
 
Panel 1: Origins: The development of national and international federalism
 
Panel 2: The Historical and Philosophical Background of International Constitutionalism II: Neo-Kantian Universalism and International Law
 
Dinner
 
March 10 2012, 9:00
 
Panel 3: Judicial Constitutionalism and its Limits
 
Panel 4: A fragmented Constitutionalism or a Pluralistic Postnational Order?
 
Conclusion and closing remarks
 
Lunch
 
Registration

Interested scholars and students are invited to attend the conference in the audience and to contribute to the discussions following the presentation of the papers.

Registration fee: 15,00 euros (scholars) / 10,00 euros (students)

(including conference-materials, coffee and snacks during the conference)
 
Deadline: February 20, 2012

To register for the conference, please send an email to conference@gojil.eu. Please indicate if you would like to join at your own charge for dinner and/or lunch. Note that there is only a limited number of seats!

Further information is available on conference.gojil.eu.

DEADLINE EXTENSION: FEBRUARY 29, 2012,

CALL FOR PAPERS: Second annual workshop:

Resisting the Path to Genocide: Groups
International conference at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, September 6-8, 2012

The interdisciplinary research cluster “Resisting the Path to Genocide” at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, addresses the fundamental question of what enables people to oppose or resist racist ideologies, state discrimination practices, or the active participation in mass atrocities in three steps, focusing consecutively on societies, groups, and individuals (for more details, visit college.usc.edu/2020-resistance). Continue reading →

Call for applications for visiting PhD students in the Centre for International Governance and Justice, ANU The Centre for International Governance and Justice (CIGJ), part of the Regulatory Institutions Network (RegNet) in the College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University in Canberra invites applications from PhD students enrolled at other universities to visit the Centre for up to two months in 2012.

Funding for visitor scholarships (up to $1500 per student, including the costs of travel and accommodation in Canberra) is available. Visiting students from overseas are responsible for obtaining and funding any necessary visas. Visiting students will have shared office space with a computer (if needed), printing and copying facilities, and borrowing privileges at ANU libraries. Continue reading →