In the second half of the 20th century, discourses about the requirement for States to comply with standards of democratic governance have acquired prominence in international thought and practice. Such discourses came to be nurtured by a dramatic wave of writings in the 1990s and 2000s. It is commonly said that such a turn in international legal scholarship was triggered by, inter alia, the 1992 seminal article The Emerging Right to Democratic Governance of Thomas Franck in the American Journal of International Law.

The Polar Cooperation Research Centre (PCRC) is proud to announce its third international symposium to be held on 7–9 December 2017. The PCRC’s distinct research approach to the Arctic is aimed at establishing and strengthening the international legal and institutional framework so as to bring stability and foreseeability in the future of the Arctic. Increasingly, the challenges faced in the Arctic can no longer be addressed or tackled only within the Arctic both geographically and functionally.

EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW PRAGUE-NOTTINGHAM SYMPOSIUM: NON-UN SANCTIONS AND INTERNATIONAL LAW 5 May 2017: Institute of International Relations, Prague 10 November 2017: Nottingham International Law and Security Centre, University of Nottingham CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE NOTTINGHAM EVENT: EFFECTIVENESS, IMPACT AND MONITORING OF NON-UN SANCTIONS

The Manchester International Law Centre (MILC) Workshop on Democratic Governance

Gender on the International Bench

Currently women judges make up on average 17% of international courts and tribunals, demonstrating significant disparity regarding the participation of women on the bench across different international legal regimes. Such lack of representativeness can affect the legitimacy of the international dispute settlement process and its outcomes.