Upcoming Deadlines for Opportunities, Calls for Papers & Events (November 2022)

Calls for abstracts / papers / expressions of interest

The IEL Collective Mentoring and Professional Development Scheme, International Economic Law (IEL) (Deadline to fill out expression of interest form: 4 December 2022)

Symposium: Colonisation in, of and through Business & Human Rights, University of Tilburg & Working Group on Business and Human Rights of the Netherlands Network of Human Rights (NNHRR) (Deadline for abstracts: 10 December 2022)

South Asian University Conference on International Law and the SAARC Region in Times of Crisis,South Asian University (Deadline for abstracts: 12 December 2022)

Call for Papers: European Yearbook on Human Rights (Deadline for abstracts: 18 December 2022)

Call for Papers: Dystopian Visions of the Law – 8th General Conference, Università degli Studi di Palermo (Deadline for proposals: 20 December 2022)

Call for Papers: 7th Conference of the Global Business and Human Rights Scholars Association, The Human Rights and Business Institute of the University of Monterrey and the Global Business and Human Rights Scholars Association (20 December 2022)

The European Court of Human Rights Facing Populism and Authoritarianism: Time for System Change?, PluriCourts – Centre for the Study of the Legitimate Role of the Judiciary in the Global Order, University of Oslo (Deadline for abstracts: 26 December 2022)

University of Michigan Law School Junior Scholars Conference, The University of Michigan Law School (Deadline to apply: 9 January 2023)

Call for Papers: International Workshop Developing Robust and Sustainable Ocean Regimes for Uncertain Futures, Yong Pung How School of Law – Singapore Management University (Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2023)

Human Rights Essay Award – Topic 2023: Equality and Human Rights: Confronting Racial Discrimination, Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, American University, Washington College of Law (Deadline for submissions: 31 January 2023)

Reparations in International Law: A Critical Reflection, Netherlands Yearbook of International Law Volume 53 (2022), Asser Institute – Centre for International & European Law (Deadline for submissions: 31 March 2023)

Call for Papers: Hague Yearbook of International Law, The Hague Yearbook of International Law (Deadline for submissions: 1 May 2023)

Vacancies / fellowships / scholarships

Assistant/Associate Professor – Global Studies, School of Politics and Global Studies –Arizona State University (7 December 2022)

Assistant professor – Law and Society, University of Toronto, Canada (10 December 2022)

Associate Professor, Criminology, Law and Society, the University of California, Irvine (Next review date: 15 December 2022)

Director of the School of Conflict Management, Peacebuilding and Development, Kennesaw State University (19 December 2022)

Assistant Professor of Conflict Management, Kennesaw State University (5 January 2023)

Assistant Clinical Professor of Law/Clinical Professor of Law, Irvine School of Law, the University of California (Final review date: 28 February 2023)

Events

40th anniversary of the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea Conference, The Hellenic Branch of the International Law Association (30 November – 1 December 2022)

International Order & Justice Lecture Series, The Ghent Rolin-Jaequemyns International Law Institute (GRILI) and the Free University Brussels

The Practice of Interpretation in International Law, The TRICI-Law project and the Department of Transboundary Legal Studies of the University of Groningen (1-2 December 2022)

Justice for Atrocities: Dialogues and Encounters between Latin America and Europe, Westminster Law School (United Kingdom) and the University of Jyväskylä (Finland) (6-7 December 2022)

4th Annual Stockton Center Law of Armed Conflict Conference – Russia-Ukraine: Full-Spectrum Conflict and International Law, Stockton Center for International Law (13-15 December 2022)

The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World, Anu Bradford Discussion, University of York Faculty of Law and the Globalization and Law Network (GLAW-Net) at Maastricht University (15 December 2022)

CCCL Lecture Series: China and the Turn to the National Histories of International Law, Prof. Ingacio de La Rasilla, Wuhan University (16 December 2022)

Oceans, Justice & Human Rights Conference, 3 – 5 November 2022 (hybrid), LDRN / NMU Public Law / Warwick Law School / SARChI Chair in the Law of the Sea and Development in Africa / SA International Maritime Institute / Coastal and Marine Research Institute

On 3 – 5 November, LDRN partner institutions Nelson Mandela University Department of Public Law and Warwick University School of Law will host the Oceans, Justice and Human Rights Conference in a hybrid format – in conjunction with LDRN, as well as the SARChI Chair in the Law of the Sea and Development in Africa, the South African International Maritime Institute and the Coastal and Marine Research Institute. The physical event will take place at the NMU Ocean Sciences Campus in Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa.

The conference will provide an opportunity for interdisciplinary discussions about the relationship between the oceans, justice and human rights, and will cover a wide range of issues related to ocean governance, including sustainability, development, climate change, the human rights of people living in close proximity to the ocean and impacted upon by environmental violations, and climate and environmental justice.

Keynote addresses

Prof. David Boyd, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment (3 November)

Prof Erik Franckx, Chair of the International and European Law Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (4 November)

The conference will otherwise be comprised of  90-minute sessions combining presentations and panel discussions on 3 – 4 November, followed by a stakeholder/community engagement session on Saturday 5 November.

We hope many members of the LDRN community will be able to join us for this exciting event, whether in person or online!

Further programme details

To join online via Zoom:

3 November

4 November

5 November

Meeting ID: 449 307 2424

Passcode: Justice

 

LDRN partner University of Antwerp Law & Development Research Group launches resource page on the duty to cooperate in international law

In light of the UN Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development (EMRTD)’s ongoing study on the duty to cooperate in international law, the University of Antwerp Law & Development Research Group – an LDRN partner institution – has launched a resource page which highlights key documents and recent research on this theme. Prof. Dr. Koen De Feyter, spokesperson of the University of Antwerp Law & Development Research Group and a member of the LDRN steering committee, is one of the five independent experts elected to the EMRTD by the UN Human Rights Council.

Visit the resource page on the duty to cooperate in international law.

Besides links to relevant official documents (including of the EMRTD) and open-access academic publications, the site also includes the following new material and resources on the duty to cooperate in international law:

        • Case studies on the duty to cooperate in the context of foreign investment in mining in Peru (Victor Saco, Law School of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru) and in agriculture in Ethiopia (Tefera Addis, University of Antwerp Law & Development Research Group).
        • Bibliographies on the duty to cooperate (Deborah Casalin & Giulia Contes, University of Antwerp Law & Development Research Group).

The site also includes a link where readers can send their suggestions for further resources to include or highlight.

Visit the resource page on the duty to cooperate in international law.

The University of Antwerp Law & Development Research Group thanks student assistant Giulia.

Upcoming Deadlines for Opportunities, Calls for Papers & Events

Calls for abstracts / papers / expressions of interest

International Law in Times of Crisis, International Law Blog (Deadline for abstracts: 30 October 2022)

7th Gary B. Born Essay Competition on International Arbitration 2022, Centre for Advanced Research and Training in Arbitration Law & Indian Journal of Arbitration Law, National Law University, Jodhpur (essay deadline: 30 October 2022)

Making International Law Relevant – Promises and Challenges for India, The Jindal Forum for International and Economic Laws (Deadline for abstracts: 12 November 2022)

Second Doctoral Seminar in the fields of International Criminal Law, International Human Rights Law and International Humanitarian Law, The International Siracusa International Institute (Deadline for submissions: 21 November 2022)

Legitimate International Authority and Institutional Diversity Workshop, Maynooth University in association with PluriCourts University of Oslo and University of Graz Institute of Philosophy (Deadline for abstracts: 25 November 2022)

Yearbook of International Disaster Law Issue No.5 (2022) (Deadline for abstracts: 30 November 2022)

The IEL Collective Mentoring and Professional Development Scheme, International Economic Law (IEL) (Deadline to fill out expression of interest form: 4 December 2022)

The European Court of Human Rights Facing Populism and Authoritarianism: Time for System Change?, PluriCourts – Centre for the Study of the Legitimate Role of the Judiciary in the Global Order, University of Oslo (Deadline for abstracts: 26 December 2022)

Human Rights Essay Award – Topic 2023: Equality and Human Rights: Confronting Racial Discrimination, Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, American University, Washington College of Law (Deadline for submissions: 31 January 2023)

Reparations in International Law: A Critical Reflection, Netherlands Yearbook of International Law Volume 53 (2022), Asser Institute – Centre for International & European Law (Deadline for submissions: 31 March 2023)

Vacancies / fellowships / scholarships

Assistant Professor Positions in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Northeastern University (Review begins 1 November 2022)

Applications for Visiting Scholars Program, Center for the Study of Law and Society, UC Berkeley (18 November 2022)

Assistant professor – Law and Society, University of Toronto, Canada (10 December 2022)

Associate Professor, Criminology, Law and Society, the University of California, Irvine (Next review date: 15 December 2022)

Assistant Clinical Professor of Law/Clinical Professor of Law, Irvine School of Law, the University of California (Final review date: 28 February 2023)

Upcoming Academic Opportunities, Calls & Online Events: October & Later Deadlines

Calls for abstracts / papers / chapters / book proposals
 
Call for Participation – FRI Gender Law Conference, In-corpore: what the law does to our bodies, University of Neuchatel (abstract deadline: 14 October 2022)
 

7th Gary B. Born Essay Competition on International Arbitration 2022, Centre for Advanced Research and Training in Arbitration Law & Indian Journal of Arbitration Law, National Law University, Jodhpur (essay deadline: 30 October 2022)

Vacancies / fellowships / scholarships
 

Assistant Professor in Criminology and Criminal Justice (2 Positions), The Criminology and Criminal Justice Department at the University of Rhode Island (First and second considerations 1 and 15 October 2022)  

Associate to Full Professor, The Department of Criminology, Law and Society (CLS) at the University of California, Irvine (Next review date: 17 October 2022. Final review date: 31 December 2022)

Assistant professor – Law and Society, University of Toronto, Canada (10 December 2022)

Applications for Visiting Scholars Program, Center for the Study of Law and Society, UC Berkeley (18 November 2022)

Assistant Clinical Professor of Law/Clinical Professor of Law, Irvine School of Law, the University of California (Final review date: 28 February 2023)

Assistant or Associate Professor, The School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany – State University of New York (Until filled)

Online events
 

Business and human rights: from national practice to international binding standards, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (12 October 2022)

The International Criminal Court 2002-2022: A Court in Practice, Nuremberg Forum 2022 (13-15 October 2022)

Upcoming academic opportunities: May & later deadlines

Calls for abstracts / papers / chapters / book proposals
 
 
Making the Multilateral Investment Court Beneficial for Sub-Saharan Africa, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, 24 – 25 November 2022 (abstract deadline: 27 May 2022) 
 

The Law and Political Economy of Business and Human Rights: A Turn to Root Causes?, Erasmus School of Law Rotterdam, The Netherlands (hybrid), 10 – 11 November 2022 (abstract deadline: 17 June 2022) 

Jurisprudence of the Future: Science Fiction and the Legal Imaginary, Alex Green, Mitchell Travis and Kieran Tranter (eds), Routledge TechNomos series (abstract deadline: 19 August 2022) 
 
Revista Internacional de Derechos Humanos (English), Universidad Austral (rolling deadline)
 
Routledge Law, Language & Communication series, Anne Wagner & Vijay Kumar Batia (eds) (rolling deadline)
 
 
Vacancies / fellowships / scholarships
 
Two post-doctoral fellowships – census questions on race and ethnicity, Institute for the Study of “Race” & Social Justice, Division for Equity and Inclusion, University of New Mexico, USA (deadline: 1 June 2022) 
 
Assistant professorship – Criminal law / criminology, Tilburg University Law School, The Netherlands (deadline: 15 June 2022) 
 
Assistant professorship – Global Challenges in the Anthropocene, Tilburg University Law School, The Netherlands (deadline: 15 June 2022) 
 
Assistant professorship – Jurisprudence, Tilburg University Law School, The Netherlands (deadline: 15 June 2022) 
 
Assistant professorship – Public administration / governance, Tilburg University Law School, The Netherlands (deadline: 15 June 2022) 
 
Assistant professorship – Public international law, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (deadline: 18 June 2022) 
 
Postdoctoral position – ENERGIZE: Re-Shaping International Investment Law for the Green Transition, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (deadline: 24 June 2022) 
 
2022-2023 Global South Visiting Scholar In-Residence Program, Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (deadline: 30 June 2022) 
 
 
 
Online events
Workshop: Building a transnational research agenda on biodiversity litigation, University of Antwerp Law & Development Research Group (online), 3 June 2022 (registration required)
 
Winter School: Bayesian reasoning for process tracing, comparative case studies, and qualitative research, FGV EAESP Sao Paulo (online), 11 – 15 July 2022 (registration deadline: 30 June 2022)

Recent LDRN member publications

 
Donatella Alessandrini, Johanna del Pilar Cortes-Nieto, Luis Eslava & Anil Yilmaz Vastardis, The Dream of Formality: Racialisation Otherwise and International Economic Law, Journal of International Economic Law, 2022
 
Vincent Bellinkx, Deborah Casalin, Gamze Erdem Türkelli, Werner Scholtz & Wouter Vandenhole, Addressing Climate Change through International Human Rights Law: From (Extra)Territoriality to Common Concern of Humankind, Transnational Environmental Law, 2022
 
Danny Bradlow & Magalie Masamba, Three priorities Africa’s newbie on the World Bank board should focus on, The Conversation, 20 April 2022
 
Deborah Casalin, ‘Development-Oriented’ Durable Solutions: (Re-)Entry Point for a Human Rights-Based Approach?, Researching Internal Displacement, 25 April 2022
 
 
Cristiano d’Orsi & Gino J. Naldi, Climate-induced displacement in the Sahel: A question of classification, International Review of the Red Cross, 2022
 
Viljam Engström, Mikaela Heikkilä, Maija Mustaniemi-Laakso, Vulnerabilisation: Between mainstreaming and human rights overreach, Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, 2022
 
 
Giedre Jokubauskaite & Catherine Turner, Mediation and development-related conflict, International Institute for Environment & Development, 2022
 
Iagê Z. Miola, Gabriela de Oliveira Junqueira, Diogo R. Coutinho, Flávio M. Prol, Marcela Vecchione-Gonçalves, Tomaso Ferrando, Finanças Verdes no Brasil: Perspectivas Multidisciplinares Sobre o Financiamento da Transição Verde (Green Finance in Brazil: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Financing the Green Transition), Blucher Open Access, 2022
 
Salvador Santino F. Regilme Jr. & Irene Hadiprayitno (eds) Human Rights at Risk: Global Governance, American Power & the Future of Dignity, Rutgers University Press, 2022
 
 
Markus Marselinus Soge, Digital Supervision of Assimilated Inmates in the Covid-19 Pandemic Period, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Social Science, Humanity, and Public Health (ICOSHIP 2020)
 
Markus Marselinus Soge & Denny Nazaria Rifani, Implementation of National Instrument and Bangkok Rules During the Pandemic Period Through Hydroponics Skills Training by Bandung Women’s Penitentiary,  Proceedings of the 1st International Conference Of Education, Social And Humanities (INCESH 2021)
 
 
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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!

LDRN online affiliate event on national development banks (22 April) – registration open!

 

On 22 April (10h -12h CET), LDRN partner University of Antwerp Law & Development Research Group will co-host an LDRN online affiliate event on the role of national development banks in development finance, featuring a panel of experts including researchers from LDRN partner institutions Celine Tan (University of Warwick) and Daniel Bradlow (University of Pretoria), as well as LDRN member Daria Davitti (University of Lund). The event will be chaired by Gamze Erdem Türkelli (University of Antwerp Law & Development Research Group).

This discussion will mark the launch of the report “The Belgian Investment Company for Developing Countries (BIO) as a sustainable development actor“, authored by Tomaso Ferrando (UAntwerp), Giedre Jokubauskaite (UGlasgow), David Rossati (VU Amsterdam) & Koen De Feyter (UAntwerp).

Register here & join us for this debate!

 

Upcoming LDRN partner events (April/ April deadlines): Leiden VVI lecture / ISS Development Dialogues

Van Vollenhoven Institute lecture: “Difference and empire, or on the importance of thinking otherwise” by Dr. Luis Eslava (14 April, online)
 
The Van Vollenhoven Institute is excited to announce the final talk of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee’s 2021-2022 Lecture Series, Reconsidering the Socio-Legal Gaze by Dr. Luis Eslava. Dr. Eslava’s lecture, entitled “Difference and empire, or on the importance of thinking otherwise,” will focus broadly on law and development. The lecture will take place next Thursday, 14 April from 15:30 – 17:00 over Zoom.
 
Dr. Eslava is a Reader in International Law at University of Kent in the UK. A cutting-edge socio-legal scholar, his research has explored questions of law and everyday life in Colombia, decolonial histories of law, and the politics of international law.. Register for the lecture here.

 

Call for abstracts: ISS Development Dialogues (deadline: 17 April 2022) 

The call for abstracts for the 18th ISS Development Dialogues conference “Doing Development Differently” is open. The conference will take place on 17 – 18 October 2022. It is aimed at PhD candidates and will focus on four themes:

  • Theme 1: Politics of development: governance, institutions, and citizen participation
  • Theme 2: Researching development differently: transformative, participatory, collaborative, and digital research
  • Theme 3: Multi-disciplinary approaches to development
  • Theme 4: Decolonizing development: knowledge, ethics & accountability, and power relations.

Interested PhD candidates can fill in this online application and submit their abstracts by Sunday, April 17th, 2022.

See here for more info.

[Plazo extendido: 15 septiembre] Convocatoria para presentar candidaturas a convertirse en nuevas instituciones asociadas a LDRN

 

*Plazo extendido: 15 septiembre 2022*

La Red de Investigación sobre Derecho y Desarrollo (LDRN), actualmente integrada por más de 200 miembros individuales en todo el mundo y 17 instituciones académicas asociadas que trabajan en el ámbito del Derecho y el Desarrollo en Argentina, Bélgica, Brasil, Finlandia, India, Países Bajos, Sudáfrica y el Reino Unido, está ampliar su base de socios institucionales a alrededor de 25, a fin de apoyar y fortalecer su alcance y sus actividades globales.

La institución que presente su candidatura para asociarse, deberá tener al menos tres miembros del personal que se dediquen a la investigación en temas de Derecho y Desarrollo. A su vez, será necesario su compromiso de contribuir con las actividades auspiciadas por la LDRN, como por ejemplo: el congreso general o los eventos de formación para los investigadores que inician su carrera. Estas actividades, podrán ser realizadas de forma online, híbrida y/o presencial, según lo permitan las circunstancias. Una institución asociada puede consistir en un centro, un instituto, un grupo de investigación o, incluso, una facultad con la experiencia pertinente en Derecho y Desarrollo.

Por medio de la presente, se invita a los representantes de las instituciones interesadas a que envíen una expresión de interés. La misma deberá ser presentada en un máximo de 2 páginas vía mail a editor [at] lawdev.org, antes del 1 de mayo de 2022 e  indicando como asunto “LDRN partnership – expression of interest”.

La candidatura será evaluada conforme los siguientes criterios:

  1.  compromiso de la institución de contribuir activamente a las actividades de la LDRN: lo cual implicaría a modo de ejemplo, la organización de un congreso general o de una escuela de doctoral, o incluso de otras maneras, como tareas de apoyo en la organización de estos eventos a distancia; asumir funciones de organización como parte de la secretaría de la LDRN; la participación activa de miembros del profesorado y de estudiantes en las actividades de la LDRN; la inscripción a talleres de trabajo, seminarios y otras actividades de la LDRN.
  2. Mantener un equilibrio razonable en la red entre las instituciones asociadas pertenecientes al Sur y el Norte Globales (las instituciones que sean candidatas del Norte Global están invitadas a explicar sus vínculos con instituciones del Sur).
  3. Promover la representación de las instituciones de los países menos desarrollados.

A su vez, la misma deberá contener información general sobre la institución candidata, sus actividades de investigación en el campo del Derecho y el Desarrollo y al menos un miembro del personal que funcione como punto de contacto con la LDRN y garantice la participación de la institución.

Una vez concluido el plazo para presentar las expresiones de interés, el Comité Ejecutivo de la LDRN examinará las candidaturas recibidas y propondrá un conjunto de nuevas instituciones asociadas para que sean aprobadas por los socios ya existentes. Los candidatos serán informados del resultado a la mayor brevedad posible.

Ante cualquier duda o pregunta, puede dirigirse al Comité Ejecutivo a través del correo editor [at] lawdev.org

¡Aguardamos sus postulaciones! 

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La Red de Investigación sobre Derecho y Desarrollo (LDRN) pretende mejorar el conocimiento y la comprensión del rol del derecho, tanto nacional como internacional, en relación con el desarrollo y la gobernanza, tal y como se percibe a nivel global y local, por lo que se ocupa del funcionamiento social de los sistemas jurídicos principalmente en el contexto de los países del Sur Global. Los esfuerzos se encaminan a que la comunidad de la LDRN participe en debates fructíferos con diversas perspectivas, tanto ortodoxas como críticas. En definitiva, su función principal es comprender el rol del derecho en el desarrollo.