For more information: https://blogs.sun.ac.za/law/files/2024/03/Human-Rights_Constitutional-Accountability-Conference_Concept-Note_Call-for-Papers.pdf
Author: Editor
IN MEMORIAM: PROF KOEN DE FEYTER – ON BEHALF OF THE LAW AND DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH NETWORK
It is with deep sadness that the Law and Development Research Network (the LDRN) mark the passing of Koen De Feyter on 20 September. Koen was a professor of international law and dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Antwerp, where he completed his doctorate. He was previously attached to the Human Rights Centre of the University of Maastricht, the Institute of Development Policy of the University of Antwerp and served as the Academic Coordinator of the European Master in Human Rights and Democratisation (Venice, Italy). He is a former Chair of Amnesty International Belgium (1998-1999).
Koen was an expert in human rights and North-South relations, socio-legal research in non-Western countries such as Bolivia, China, DRC, India, Palestine, and law and development generally. He worked with the UN Human Rights Council on the recognition of a right to development. He was a driving force in the establishment of the LDRN. Koen was also the LDRN’s informal chair until mid-September 2024. His contribution to the establishment of a global approach to law and development and an infused global justice agenda into law and development was significant. His work will continue to inspire the Network’s research and practice.
Koen’s output was substantial. His publications include World Development Law (2001), Human Rights and Social Justice in the Age of the Market (2005), Out of the Ashes: Reparation for Victims of Gross Violations of Human Rights (2006, co-ed.), Economic Globalisation and Human Rights (2007, co-ed.), The Right to Development : a treaty and its discontents (2016), and the Encyclopaedia of Law and Development (2021, co-ed.) Koen was instrumental in ensuring the involvement of scholars from across the globe is the compilation of the Encyclopaedia, a work which involved many of the Network’s partners as co-editors and co-authors. This collaborative approach epitomises Koen – as a person and as a scholar. He also published numerous articles in journals such as the Loyola University of New Orleans Human Rights Review, the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights and the Africa Legal Aid Quarterly.
The Network (the LDRN) extends its deepest condolences to Koen’s family. He was a remarkable individual and scholar who inspired and guided many across the globe. Koen’s influence will endure through his body of work and the lasting impact he made on the students, researchers, and the colleagues he engaged with throughout his career. We will miss you, Koen, and will ensure that your legacy is reflected in the Network’s work in the future.
To ensure that everyone who knew Koen has the opportunity to attend the funeral taking place this Friday, 27 September, at 15:00 CET, a livestream will be provided, which you can access via this link: https://storycatchers.live/uitvaart-koen-de-feyter/. This link may be shared with others within your network who knew Koen.
Please note that the University of Antwerp has made available a Condolences Registry that his colleagues, students and friends from all over the world could sign to be delivered to Koen’s family.
Conference: Human Rights Beyond Territory and State
Conference: Human Rights Beyond Territory and State (27 – 29 May 2024), Brussels (BE)
This interdisciplinary conference examines cutting-edge issues regarding the human rights responsibilities of states and other actors (such as corporations, financial institutions, international organisations and other non-state actors) – beyond or independent of states’ territorial boundaries – in the areas of climate change, migration, and natural resource extraction. This conference is organised by a network of expert researchers who have been exploring for many years questions such as “What kind of relationship creates a human rights duty?” Who can have a human rights duty?” and “How are human rights responsibilities divided between actors?”.
This is the closing conference of the scientific research network “Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations in Practice” (https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/projects/etos-in-practice/), aiming on the one hand to share and critically examine the latest answers to these questions, and on the other, to identify the current most relevant conceptual and legal needs on the ground and in practice, in holding states (and others) accountable across borders.
What to Expect:
Our goal is to bring together a diverse group of participants from academia, civil society and advocacy groups to map the current state-of-the-art but primarily to identify key issues on which we need to work to pave the way forward for human rights accountability beyond territorial boundaries and state-centrism. We envisage a mixed conference, with opening and closing sessions that target a broader and non-specialist audience (also web-streamed), and a closed nuclear conference in between with experts from different backgrounds.
More information is available on the official web-page of the Conference: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-groups/law-and-development/news-and-events/hr-beyond-territory-and-state/
Register for the conference:
We kindly invite individuals from various backgrounds and types of expertise — academia, legal practice, public policy, civil society, advocacy— to join us. Whether you specialise in these areas or have other direct experiences, your perspective is invaluable.
Join us in taking stock and identifying the new steps for Human Rights beyond borders of territory and state.
In-person registration is due by the 15th of May, 2024.
In case of questions: giulia.contes@uantwerpen.be
Upcoming Deadlines for Opportunities, Calls for Papers & Events (September 2023)
Calls for Abstracts / Papers / Expressions of Interest
Call for Papers: Law & Related Disciplines, LawFoyer International Journal of Doctrinal Legal Research (LIJDLR) (deadline to submit: 5 November 2023)
Call for Book Chapter Proposals: Belonging Denied: Citizenship Revocation and Statelessness as Human Rights Deprivation, edited by Salvador Santino F. Regilme, Jr. – Associate Professor of International Relations, Leiden University (deadline to submit abstracts: 15 December 2023)
Call for Papers: Special Issue: The evolving role of international judicial advisory opinions, Guest Editors: Dr. Kathryn Allinson and Beril Sogut, International Community Law Review (deadline to submit abstracts: December 2023)
Call for Blogs, Society for Constitutional Law and Human Rights (on a rolling basis until December 2023)
Vacancies / Fellowships / Scholarships
CERES PhD Programme for 2023-24, Research School for International Development (CERES)
Open Call for Applications: Mobility Program in Human Rights (Sept 2022 – Aug 2024), The Institute for Human Rights at Åbo Akademi University (ÅAU), Finland (Deadline: 7 November 2023)
Call for Applications: post-graduate certificate programme on “Sustainable Development and Global Justice” (SUSTJUSTICE) 12 Feb – 10 May 2024, the Law and Development Research Group at the Faculty of Law at the University of Antwerp (Deadline to apply: 23 December 2023)
Events
Workshop on Protest Movements and International Law, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (2-3 November 2023)
Conference: Law and Development Post the Pandemic, The Law and Development Institute and the Centre for Asian Legal Studies, National University of Singapore (NUS) (8-9 December 2023)
SAVE THE DATE! LDRN 7th General Conference at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil – July 2025
LDRN 7th General Conference at the Faculty of Law of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil – July 2025
We are thrilled to announce that the next LDRn General Conference will be hosted by LDRN partner the Faculty of Law at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil, in July 2025.
We are grateful to our hosts and look forward to the first LDRN conference in South America.
Further details will follow on our website and on the LDRN Twitter account. In the meantime, we cordially invite you to save the date!
Upcoming Deadlines for Opportunities, Calls for Papers & Events (July 2023)
Calls for Abstracts / Papers / Expressions of Interest
Call for Papers: Global Constitutionalism and Supranational Adjudicative Bodies: Global South Experiences vis-à-vis Hegemony, The Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo (Deadline to submit abstracts: 21 August 2023)
Call for Papers: Current Issues in Armed Conflicts Conference, The Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights and the Conflict and Crisis Hub at the University of Essex (Deadline to submit abstracts: 25 August 2023)
Call for Contributions: Victims & Transnational Justice – Participation, Mobilisation, Resistance, Ghent University (Deadline to submit abstracts: 15 September 2023)
The 4th Young Legal Researchers Conference 2023: The role of law in shaping resilient and sustainable societies, Faculty of Law at the University of Hasselt (Deadline to submit abstracts: 24 September 2023)
Vacancies / Fellowships / Scholarships
Post-Doctoral Researcher, Department of Sociology and Criminology – School of Society, Politics and Ethics at University College Cork (10 August 2023)
Post-Doctoral Researcher, School of Law, University College Cork (12 September 2023)
Events
Workshop on Protest Movements and International Law, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (2-3 November 2023)
LDRN Members Publications
Recent LDRn Member Publications
Kirandeep Kaur, Ben Grama, Nairita Roy Chaudhuri, Maria Jose Recalde-Vela, Ethics and Epistemic Injustice in the Global South: A Response to Hopman’s Human Rights Exceptionalism as Justification for Covert Research, Journal of Human Rights Practice, 03 May 2023.
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This regular feature on the website of the Law & Development Research Network (LDRn) primarily aims to highlight the recent publications of our members.
Other recent publications of interest to our readers, e.g. special journal issues or symposia on law & development, may also be included.
If you are an LDRn member and would like to have your recent publication included in the next round-up, please send references and links to the editor and/or tag LDRn on Twitter when you announce it there!
Upcoming Deadlines for Opportunities, Calls for Papers & Events (June 2023)
Calls for Abstracts / Papers / Expressions of Interest
Call for Papers: Critical Legal Conference 2023, Durham Law School (Deadline for submitting abstracts: 30 June 2023)
Call for Abstracts: Symposium on ‘Russia, Imperialism, and International Law’, The Walther Schücking Institute for International Law at the University of Kiel (Deadline to submit abstracts: 3 July 2023)
Call for Papers on International Criminal Jurisdiction, Journal of International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (3-4) 2023 (Deadline for submissions: 15 July 2023)
Call for Papers: Global Constitutionalism and Supranational Adjudicative Bodies: Global South Experiences vis-à-vis Hegemony, The Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo (Deadline to submit abstracts: 21 August 2023)
Vacancies / Fellowships / Scholarships
Project Officer, the International Nuremberg Principles Academy (20 June 2023)
Call for Applications: 5 (5-year) PhD positions, Erasmus School of Law in the department Law & Markets (21 June 2023)
6-month program of support and training for human rights defenders, Marianne Initiative for Human Rights Defenders (6 July 2023)
Events
Conference: The crime of apartheid in South Africa and beyond, University of Nottingham (22 – 23 June 2023)
2023 Summer School Course ‘Human Rights & Persons Deprived of Liberty’, The ERC-IMPACTUM team, the Programme for Studies on Human Rights in Context, the Human Rights Centre, Ghent University, and the Global Campus on Human Rights (27 – 30 June 2023)
Symposium ‘intersecting water, environmental justice and human rights’,
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) (6 July 2023)
Human Rights and Procedure: Perspectives of International Law, Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law (6 – 7 July 2023)
Workshop on Protest Movements and International Law, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (2-3 November 2023)
Upcoming Deadlines for Opportunities, Calls for Papers & Events (May 2023)
Calls for Abstracts / Papers / Expressions of Interest
Call for Submissions: Joint Convening of the Social Practice of Human Rights 2023 & 6th International Conference on the Right to Development, the University of Dayton Human Rights Center, in collaboration with the Centre for Human Rights of the Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, and the Free State Centre for Human Rights of the Faculty of Law, University of the Free State (Deadline for submissions: 8 May 2023)
Call for Authors, Intersectional Rewrites: European Court of Human Rights Judgments Reimagined, The Intersectional Rewrites Project (Deadline for expressions of interest: 31 May 2023)
Call for Papers, the Arab Yearbook of Public & Private International Law
Vacancies / Fellowships / Scholarships
PhD Researcher in International and European Law, Amsterdam Law School (Closing date: 15 May 2023)
Lecturer in International Law, the University of Manchester Law School (Closing date: 1 June 2023)
Events
Germany’s Debt Got Cancelled – Why Not the Global South’s?, Degrowth in Action and Debt for Climate International (3 May 2023)
The Many Faces of Activist Research Webinar Series 2023, The South West Doctoral Training Partnership (1 April – 10 May 2023)
Beyond Growth 2023 Conference at the European Parliament (15 – 17 May 2023)
PhD Workshop: Methodologies for socio-technical approaches to legal research, Asser Institute (23 May 2023)
Launch Event for Volume 25 of the Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law, Max Planck Foundation (24 May 2023)
SDG 16 as a Compass for Navigating Intersecting Crises, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the International Development Law Organization and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Italy (30 May – 1 June 2023)
Summer School on International Criminal Court 2023, University of Galway (19 – 23 June 2023)
2023 Summer School Course ‘Human Rights & Persons Deprived of Liberty’, The ERC-IMPACTUM team, the Programme for Studies on Human Rights in Context, the Human Rights Centre, Ghent University, and the Global Campus on Human Rights (27 – 30 June 2023)
Workshop on Protest Movements and International Law, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (2-3 November 2023)
LDRN Members Publications
Recent LDRn Member Publications
Cornelia Klocker & Deborah Casalin, Discriminatory practices in armed conflict contexts: exploring (parallel) proceedings under the European Convention on Human Rights and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, The International Journal of Human Rights, March 2023.
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This regular feature on the website of the Law & Development Research Network (LDRn) primarily aims to highlight the recent publications of our members.
Other recent publications of interest to our readers, e.g. special journal issues or symposia on law & development, may also be included.
If you are an LDRn member and would like to have your recent publication included in the next round-up, please send references and links to the editor and/or tag LDRn on Twitter when you announce it there!