The 14th Annual Conference of the European Society of International Law will be held in Manchester, United Kingdom, under the auspices of the Manchester International Law Centre (MILC). The conference begins on Thursday 13 September and ends on Saturday 15 September 2018.

The theme of the conference

International law and universality

The themes of the agorae

Paper proposals for inclusion in one of the 12 agorae should relate to one of the following eight themes. The order of the following themes is without prejudice to the number of agorae on each theme as well as the order in which they will be scheduled at the conference.

Theme 1 - The ‘Particular’ vs the ‘Universal’ in International Law

Theme 2 - Universality and regimes

Theme 3 - Universality and adjudication

Theme 4 - A European tradition of Universality?

Theme 5 - Universality and the teaching of international law

Theme 6 - Universality and the working languages of international law

Theme 7 - Critique and resistance to Universality

Theme 8 - Universality over time

Submit a proposal

Proposals must be sent to esilconference2018@manchester.ac.uk.

Timeline

• Deadline for submission of abstracts – 31 January 2018
• Deadline for submission of full papers – 15 July 2018
• The conference begins on Thursday 13 September and ends on Saturday 15 September 2018
• Deadline for submission of final papers (to be included in the ESIL SSRN series and/ or a future conference publication) – 1 November 2018

Successful applicants will be informed no later than 31 March 2018.

ESIL conference 2018 – Call for Papers (PDF)