The Law & Economics Center at George Mason University School of Law will host two events during the fall of 2016 on The Economics and Law of Public Pension Reform.
We believe the looming public pension crisis poses a considerable threat to states’ fiscal soundness and public welfare that can be better addressed by promoting scholarly research on the subject and disseminating the results of that research to the appropriate audiences.
The Scuola Superiore Sant’ Anna and the Institute of Law, Politics and Sustainability are accepting proposals for the International AgLaw Colloquium on Agri-Food and Environmental Regulatory Agenda in Regional Trade Agreements: Legal Implications and Trends on October 20-21, 2016.
Loyola University Chicago School of Law is organizing its Seventh Annual Constitutional Law Colloquium on November 4 and 5, 2016.
Titles and abstracts of papers should be submitted electronically by clicking here no later than June 20, 2016.
CALL FOR PAPERS The International Law of Military Operations: Mapping the Field 21–23 June 2016, Exeter, United Kingdom http://www.opslaw.co.uk/conference Conference Theme Military deployments in the territory of other States are subject to a diverse range of rules under international law. In recent years, it has become increasingly common to refer to these rules as ‘operations law’ or the ‘international law of military operations’. Despite the growing popularity of the term, its meaning and utility remain uncertain.
Call for Papers – The 2016 AHRI Human Rights Research Conference The Association of Human Rights Institutes (AHRI) calls for the submission of proposals for papers to be presented at the general AHRI Human Rights Research Conference to be held at the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) in Utrecht, the Netherlands, on 2-3 September 2016: 50 Years of the Two UN Human Rights Covenants: Legacies and Prospects 2016 will mark a half century since the adoption of the two foundational human rights treaties, the ICCPR and ICESCR.
Call for Nominations: Harold Berman Prize for Excellence in Law &
Religion Scholarship
Starting this year, the AALS Section on Law & Religion will award the
"Harold Berman Prize" to recognize scholarly excellence by an
untenured professor at an AALS Member School.
The Prize will be given to the author of an article, published between
July 15, 2015 and July 15, 2016, which has made an outstanding
scholarly contribution to the field of law and religion.
INTRAlaw (International and Transnational Tendencies in Law) is organising an academic workshop on29–30 September 2016 on the theme of Interaction between human rights: 50 years of the Covenants.
The Animal Law & Policy Program at Harvard Law School is pleased to announce a call for abstracts for the The Animal Welfare Act at Fifty Conference on September 22, 2016 – September 25, 2016. The conference will bring experts together to assess the first fifty years of the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) and consider recommendations for the future.
WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
Regulating the Energy Transition:
Issues at the Intersection of Energy and Environmental Law
All Souls College, University of Oxford, 30 June-1 July 2016
Background
In the face of climate change and severe energy poverty, our energy systems find themselves
at a critical point of transition. Legal frameworks at the international, domestic and regional
levels have an important but as yet under-examined role to play in this process.
Background
