The University of Tulsa College of Law’s 14th Annual John W. Hager Distinguished Lecture will feature Catharine A. MacKinnon speaking on “Trafficking, Prostitution and Inequality,” Thursday, March 4, 2010.
The next day, March 5, the Tulsa Law Review presents its Legal Scholarship Symposium, “The Scholarship of Catharine MacKinnon.” mw
The Orville H. Shell Bernstein, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School hosts the Robert L. Bernstein International Human Rights Fellowship Symposium, The Future of Development: Human Rights and International Aid Beyond the Economic Crisis, April 8-9, 2010. mw
The UCLA American Indian Studies Center — in conjunction with the Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs at UCLA School of Law and the UCLA Tribal Learning Community and Educational Exchange — presents “Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in the International Human Rights Framework — A Comfortable Fit?” Friday, January 22, 2010. mw
The West Virginia Law Review announces a call for articles and invites scholars, practitioners, and researchers to submit contributions for its upcoming issue focusing on health care. This issue will include articles from the Law Review’s Lecture Series, “Beyond Politics: A Discussion of Health Care in America,” a thoughtful discourse on the social disparities in access and outcomes engrained in our current health care system. For this issue, we are particularly interested in scholarship discussing the following topics:
• Health care reform;
• Health care access and outcome disparities, especially as they affect women and children, racial minorities, and the rural poor;
• Health care as a human right;
Articles will be selected by our Articles Selection Team and the Editor-in-Chief based on scholarly merit, originality, relevancy, and writing style. Articles should be thoroughly researched and contain appropriate footnotes in bluebook format. Please submit articles electronically to wvlrev [at] mail.wvu.edu by June 30, 2010. Any questions regarding the call for articles or article submissions generally should be sent to wvlrev [at] mail.wvu.edu. mw
The International AIDS Society holds the XVIII International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2010) (”Rights Here, Right Now) in Vienna July 18-23, 2010. Details about the Policy, Law, Human Rights and Political Science track are here.
Abstracts are due Feb. 10, 2010. (There is a window for “late breaker” abstract submission April 20 - May 20, 2010.) mw
The Netherlands Society of International Law (NVIR) will host the 2010 meeting of the International Law Association, De Iure Humanitatis: Peace, Justice and International Law, Aug. 15-20, 2010. mw
The British Institute of International and Comparative Law’s Annual Conference 2010 will be Energy and Its Impacts on the International Legal System, June 11, 2010. Sessions include
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Reminder: the early-bird registration deadline for the Commonwealth Regional Law Conference (Ajuna, Nigeria) is Dec. 31, 2009. For more information, see earlier post. mw
Yale Law School presents Developing Food Law April 16-17, 2010.
Food policy implicates a broad range of pressing humanitarian, public health, and environmental challenges. These challenges include, among many others: ending hunger, promoting rural economic development, protecting the safety of the food supply, reversing the obesity and diabetes epidemics, and averting catastrophic climate change. Addressing any and all of these challenges requires the development of healthy, sustainable, and equitable food systems. The aim of Developing Food Law is to help participants bring about patterns of food production that honor the universal right to food, the health and well-being of communities, and the preciousness of natural resources. The conference will bring together leading policymakers, scholars, activists, students, and farmers to discuss strategies for achieving food systems guided by those values.
Developing Food Law will explore two distinct “tracks” for reform through two concurrently-run series of panels. The U.S Track will focus on interconnections among U.S. agricultural policy, public health, and the environment, while considering avenues for pushing food law in healthier and more sustainable directions. The International Track will examine reform strategies, both on local levels and in transnational fora, aimed at ensuring food access in the developing world. The conference keynote, issue lunches, and a concluding conversation will bring these two “tracks” together to reflect on common themes, such as the impact of technological innovation and the importance of a systemic approach to reform.
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The Journal of Transnational Law and Contemporary Problems (TLCP) is pleased to announce this year’s annual international law symposium, entitled A Critical Juncture: Human Rights and U.S. Standing in the World Under the Obama Administration. The symposium will take place on March 5, 2010, at the University of Iowa College of Law. mw
The International Committee for the Red Cross and Santa Clara Law’s Center for Global Law & Policy present an International Humanitarian Law Workshop Jan. 5-8, 2010.
The application deadline for this free workshop was Nov. 9, 2009. mw
The American Society of International Law’s 104th Annual Meeting, International Law in a Time of Change, will take place March 24-27, 2010, in Washington, DC.
The full program is not available yet, but session topics will include:
* The Road Forward from Copenhagen: Climate Change Policy in the 21st Century
* International Environmental Justice
* The Future of Development
* Coordination and Conflict in International Financial Regulation
* China on the World Stage
* Extraterritoriality: Bagram and Beyond
* Detention and Interrogation Policy in the Obama Administration
* Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Modern Challenges to Use of Force Law
* Advancing Women’s Rights Internationally
* Corruption and Human Rights
* New Thinking on Social and Economic Rights
* Bottom Up Strategies for Survival and Resistance: Examples from Latin America and Elsewhere
* ICSID in the 21st Century
* New Technologies and New Possibilities for Civil Society
* Participation in International Lawmaking Processes: Implications for International Law Judicial Decisionmaking and Transnational Norm Creation
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The Center for Reproductive Rights and Columbia Law School announce a two-year fellowship (CRR-CLS Fellowship) “designed to prepare recent law school graduates for legal academic careers, with a focus on reproductive health and human and human rights. Fellows will be affiliated with the Center and the Law School and will participate in the intellectual life of both programs.” The application deadline for the current cycle is Feb. 1, 2010. mw
Calls for papers from AALS sections for the January 2010 meeting are listed here. Most of the deadlines have passed, but there are a few still open. Here they are, arranged in order by deadline:
The British Institute of International and Comparative Law, in partnership with British Red Cross, presents “a series of lectures and seminars to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the adoption of the four Geneva Conventions of 1949. Since that date, these treaties have provided invaluable protection and assistance to victims of armed conflicts world-wide; they are also commonly considered to be the cornerstone of modern international humanitarian law.” The topics and dates are:
The Commonwealth Regional Law Conference 2010 will take place in Abuja, Nigeria, April 8-11.
This conference is the first CLA regional meeting and follows a decision taken by the Council in 2008 to organise an event to focus on a specific region in the year in which no Commonwealth Law Conference is due to take place. The theme of the conference is ‘The 21st Century Lawyer: Present Challenges & Future Skills’ and the two programme streams will focus on ‘Human Rights & the Rule of Law’ and ‘Corporate & Commercial Law’ with an emphasis on issues of importance within the host country and wider region. The sessions will offer practical training which will provide and further develop the legal skills of those attending, in addition to providing the usual networking opportunities and exciting social programme. It is anticipated that the regional conference will primarily be attended by lawyers from the host jurisdiction and the immediate neighbouring countries.
Hamas, the Gaza War, and Accountability under International Law:
The Konrad Adenauer Stiftung and the Global Law Forum at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, supported by the Legacy Heritage Fund Ltd., will hold a special conference on 18 June 2009 to critically examine international humanitarian law and laws of terrorism and genocide, and their applicability to Hamas and its supporters. The conference aims to produce practical proposals on how to establish legal accountability for Hamas and other non-state actors that systematically violate international law.
The University of Washington School of Law presents Three Degrees: The Law of Climate Change and Human Rights Conference May 28-29, 2009. The Climate Project is a partner.
The Law of Climate Change and Human Rights Conference will bring legal practitioners and scholars from a range of disciplines together with an international body of relief organizations and peoples impacted most heavily by climate change, to discuss the application of human rights law to the impending climate crisis. Numerous scholars have suggested that human rights law may provide the most adequate and responsible remedy for climate-related impacts, and this conference will create an international forum to thoroughly test the available remedies, raise the legal issues associated with these remedies, and collaborate over necessary advancements in the law.Through the lens of a fictitious disaster scenario, The Law of Climate Change and Human Rights Conference will offer an opportunity for creative problem-solving and collaboration for lawyers engaged in the historically separate fields of environmental, human rights, refugee, and public health law, and scholars from fields as diverse as philosophy and geography. Panels will address topics such as the forced migration of climate refugees, the disproportionate impacts of climate change on the world’s poor, the national security implications of climate change, as well as reforms to the governance structure overseeing climate mitigation.
American University Washington College of Law hosts the Fourteenth Annual LatCrit (Latina and Latino Critical Legal Theory, Inc.) Conference on October 1-4, 2009. The theme of this year’s conference is Outsiders Inside: Critical Outside Theory and Praxis in the Policymaking of the New American Regime. The Seventh Annual Junior Faculty Development Workshop, sponsored jointly with the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT), will take place concurrently with the conference.
The LatCrit XIV Host Committee invites the submission of proposals for panels and papers propounding prescriptive critiques of discrete areas of law, policy and regulation of specific relevance to outsider communities, including (but by no means limited to) economic justice, international and comparative law, criminal law and the death penalty, civil rights and constitutional law (including gender and LGBT equality, reproductive and disability rights), immigration, political and electoral (dis)enfranchisement, communications policy and intellectual property, healthcare, education, employment, tax policy, and the environment.
Please submit panel and paper proposals through the online process at the LatCrit website no later than April 27, 2009. For full information and submission protocols, please refer to the call for papers and panels.
Thanks to Professor Ezra Rosser of Poverty Law Prof Blog for this information.
The Irish Centre for Human Rights (National University of Ireland, Galway) runs annually two Summer Schools; one on the International Criminal Court and one that focuses on the rights of Minorities and Indigenous peoples. Both courses offer five days of intensive lectures delivered by specialists in the fields and a series of social events, providing a fruitful environment for knowledge, debate, stimulation and social interaction.This year the summer schools are being run back-to-back in order to provide participants with the opportunity to attend both summer schools.
Registration deadline is April 30th 2009, so make sure you register now in order to secure your place!!!
For all information, details and registration, please visit the Summer Schools’ websites:
Minority Rights, Indigenous People and Human Rights Law Summer School, June 15-20 2009 (*check in 14 June, check out 20 June). Questions and Queries: s.megy1 [at] nuigalway.ie
International Criminal Court Summer School, June 21-26 2009 (*check in on 21 June, check out 27 June), Questions and Queries: iccsummercourse [at] hotmail.com
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