Attempts by national regulators to give their regulatory standards extra-territorial effect
beyond their own borders have become increasingly popular in fields as diverse as banking,
securities and derivatives regulation. The attractiveness of extra-territorial regulation for
policy-makers is obvious: in a world still reeling from the 2008 financial crisis, regulators can
export policy preferences unilaterally while preventing some of the most malicious forms of
regulatory arbitrage that can undermine their effectiveness.

The Société française pour le droit international has issued a call for papers for its 2015 annual conference, to be held May 28-30 at the Université de Strasbourg. The theme is "Le précédent en droit international." Here's the call:

LE PRECEDENT EN DROIT INTERNATIONAL

From its origins, and the interwoven debates and developments emerging from notions of jus gentium and the law of nature, international law has been viewed as a tool for justice. This conference sets out to explore whether it has achieved the aims of its early advocates, posing a number of broad, crosscutting themes:

Conceptual and Theoretical Frameworks of Justice

The reality of international law ‘in action’ largely depends on domestic legislators implementing and shaping norms originating at the international level: Domestic parliaments and other law-making bodies undoubtedly play a central role in determining whether or not the promises of international law can be fulfilled.

We are pleased to present the 8th Annual Conference of the  Toronto Group for the study of
International, Transnational and Comparative Law. The Toronto Group is a collaborative project
between graduate students at Osgoode Hall Law School and the University of Toronto Faculty of Law.