Recent years have seen a blossoming of scholarship on the philosophical concept of human rights, and the related notion of human rights law, with contributions from authors as diverse as Allen Buchanan, Charles Beitz, Costas Douzinas, James Griffin, and Gunther Teubner. The objective of this roundtable is to consider the distinctive offering from systems theory to the debate, including the closed systems theory of autopoiesis and open theory of complexity.
The year 2018 marks the 20th anniversary of the Rome Statute that led to the establishment of the International Criminal Court in 2002. Although initially carried into existence on a wave of humanitarian enthusiasm, the ICC has been highly controversial more or less from the beginning. One of the key battlegrounds in this longstanding dispute over the Court’s legitimacy has been the issue of deterrence. The conjecture that a properly structured and functioning ICC would be able to deter mass atrocities has always figured prominently among the Court’s proponents.
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- Abstract or Draft Submission Deadline: September 1, 2018 (rolling decisions)
- Deadline to Serve as Dedicated Commentator: September 15, 2018
- Contact: Jonas Anderson, janderson@wcl.american.edu
- Expected Size: 6–9 participants
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- Abstract or Draft Submission Deadline: September 1, 2018 (rolling decisions)
- Deadline to Serve as Dedicated Commentator: September 15, 2018
- Contact: Christine Haight Farley, cfarley@wcl.american.edu
- Expected Size: 10 papers
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The European Research Council Project "Transnational Private-Public Arbitration as Global Regulatory Governance: Exploring The Lex Mercatoria Publica" at the Amsterdam Center of International Law has issued a call for papers for a workshop on "Engaging with Domestic Law in International Adjudication: Factfinding or Transnational Law-Making?" to take place February 27-March 1, 2019, at the University of Amsterdam.
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International Planning, Law and Property Rights Conference
18 Feb 2019 - 23 Feb 2019, College Station, Texas
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Global Corporate Governance Colloquium (GCGC)
7 - 8 June 2019, Center for Financial Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Deadline for submissions: 14 September 2018 (at midnight CET)
The Global Corporate Governance Colloquia (GCGC) is a global initiative to bring together the best research in law, economics and finance relating to corporate governance at a yearly conference held at 12 leading universities in the Americas, Asia and Europe. The 12 hosting institutions are:
Registration is now open for the Central States Law Schools Association 2018 Scholarship Conference, which will be held on Friday, October 12 and Saturday, October 13 at the Texas A&M University School of Law in Fort Worth, Texas. We invite law faculty from across the country to submit proposals to present papers or works in progress.
Call for Papers: The Opioid Crisis and the Practice of Law
The South Carolina Law Review will host its 2019 Symposium on Friday, February 8, 2019, at the University of South Carolina School of Law. The symposium will specifically examine the implications of the opioid epidemic on the practice of healthcare and tort law, as well as legislative and law enforcement efforts in response to this national crisis.
