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April
1)
Experts Roundtable on Crimes Against Humanity Project
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Monday, April 13 2009 - 15 2009
Washington University School of Law
Saint Louis , MO USA
Sponsored by the American Society of International Law,
this experts roundtable will convene as part of Washington
University Law's Whitney R Harris World Law Institute
two-year, landmark project to study the international
law regarding crimes against humanity and to draft a
multilateral treaty condemning and prohibiting such
crimes.
2) American Bar Association, Section of International Law- 2009 Spring Meeting
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Tuesday, April 14 2009 / 12:00 PM - Saturday, April
18 2009 / 12:00 PM
The Fairmont Washington, DC
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WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND THE 2009 SPRING MEETING? It's
the ABA International's most important event for international
lawyers to be held April 14-18 in Washington, DC. The
meeting will bring you more than 80 world-class, substantive,
3 full days of programming in 8 program tracks covering
all practice areas of international law and the opportunity
to network during a number special events! Registrants
will have the opportunity to earn up to 24 Continuing
Legal Education (CLE) credits (also including Ethics)
by attending the three full days of programming! WHO
WILL BE THERE? Over 1,200 participants from over 50
countries of the world?s
leading international lawyers (including both in-house
and outside counsel), academicians, government officials
from around the world and members of ABA International.
We invite you to take advantage of the special LOW!
Registration rates for individual & group attendees,
government/academics/NGOs pay just $95!,
Full-time law student registration rate for 3 days pay
just $75! and a SPECIAL $75
discount on Ticketed Events for young lawyers &
full-time law students! REGISTER TODAY!! We look forward
to seeing you at the 2009 Spring Meeting!
Contact Information
Jenny Abreu
intlaw@staff.abanet.org
202-662-1660
3) Conflict in the Caucasus: Implications for International Order
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Wednesday, April 15 2009 / 9:00am
University of Reading (UK)
Leading academics, with expertise in diverse fields
of International Law and International Relations, will
present papers on issues arising from the recent Russia-Georgia
dispute over South Ossetia. Topics include: the use
of force, forced migration, human rights, self-determination
and the role of international institutions and courts.
The School of Law at the University of Reading will
host this one-day conference, which is co-sponsored
by the Centre for Transnational Law and Justice at the
University of Windsor, Canada.
Speakers: Bill Bowring (Birkbeck) Sandy Ghandhi (Reading)
James Green (Reading) Robert McCorquodale (BIICL) Anneke
Smit (Windsor) Christoph Stefes (Colorado) Christopher
Waters (Windsor) Dominik Zaum (Reading) The conference
is to take place in Foxhill House at the University
of Reading on Wednesday 15th April 2009, from 9am to
4pm, with lunch and refreshments to be provided.
Contact Information
Prof. Christopher Waters
cwaters@uwindsor.ca
(519) 253-3000 (ext 4233)
May
4)
ILDC
Colloquium: Unity or Fragmentation of International
Law - The Role of International and National Tribunals
May 14-15, 2009
Oslo,
This Conference will focus on the contribution that international and domestic tribunals have made and may make to the unity or fragmentation of international law. It will address this theme in the following four sessions: (a) methods of interpretation by international tribunals, (b) jurisdictional overlaps between international tribunals and compliance mechanisms, (c) dialogue or conflict between international tribunals and national courts, and (d) interpretation and application of international law in national courts.
June
5) Summer School on International Criminal Law
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Monday, June 22 2009 - Friday, July 03 2009 /
The Hague (The Netherlands)
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The Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies is
proud to announce its seventh Summer School on International
Criminal Law, to be held in The Hague from 22 June until
3 July 2009. In light of its location and the quality
of its contributors and participants, this School offers
a unique opportunity to gain expertise in International
Criminal Law. Every year, specialised and interactive
lectures and seminars are given by leading professionals
from the ICC and the ICTY as well as influential and
well-known scholars (the past years, the School invited,
among others, Professors Eric David, William Schabas
et Cherif Bassiouni, as well
as Judges Sang-Hyun Song and Navanethem Pillay). Known
as ‘the City of Peace and Justice,’ the
Hague is the host city of several international institutions
with a key role in the development of international
criminal law (visits will be organized to the ICJ, the
ICC and the ICTY). The Summer School welcomes about
sixty participants from all over the world. One of the
main purposes of the School is to bring together members
of English and French speaking communities to engage
in interactive discussions on the prospects and challenges
of international criminal justice.
Contact Information
Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, Lange
Voorhout 44, 2514EG The Hague
grotiuscentre@campusdenhaag.com
6) 48th
Leiden-London Conference: COURTING EUROPA
June 27, 2009
London,
The theme is "Positive Reflections on Preliminary References to the European Court of Justice." Sponsored by the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL) and the Europa Instituut of the University of Leiden.
July
7) Australian &
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Thursday, July 02 2009 / 09:00 AM - Saturday, July 04
2009 / 09:00 AM
Wellington, New Zealand
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This year's ANZSIL Conference will bring together leading
scholars and practitioners of international law, to
debate the theory and practice of multilateralism, and
its future. The Conference theme will be developed in
five streams: (1) Peace: can the UN's global project
for peace and human rights be renewed? (2) Biosphere:
Governance of the oceans, the global commons and climate-can
international law hope to provide responses to the world's
most complex challenges? (3) Dispute resolution: What
is needed to make dispute settlement across the Public/
Private International Law divide work better? (4) Crime
and reconciliation: Prosecuting international crimes
in post-conflict societies (5) Economy: The adequacy
of the international financial and trading systems in
market melt-down. Scholars wishing to present a paper
proposal should e-mail a one-page resume and abstract
to law-events@vuw.ac.nz by 2 March 2009 for consideration
by the Organising Committee.
Contact Information
Kelley McMenamin
law-events@vuw.ac.nz
+64 4 463 6327
August
8) General Biennial Conference of the Asian Society of International Law
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Saturday, August 01 2009 / 10:00 AM - Sunday, August
02 2009 / 6:30 PM
Tokyo, Japan
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The Asian Society of International Law, upon hosting
its Second Biennial General Conference in Tokyo, will
take up the issue of Asia's relationship with the international
legal order under the main theme of "International
Law in a Multi-polar and Multi-civilizational World
- Asian Perspectives, Challenges and Contributions."
At the Conference, learned, experienced, aspiring international
law scholars and practitioners from around the world
will learn from each other, exchange views critically,
and disseminate the results all over the world. The
Organizing Committee sincerely hopes to see many people
participate in the Conference so that it can be an opportunity
to understand the law and reality of the global community,
challenge its dominant premises and understandings,
and make constructive proposals for the international
legal order in a multi-polar and multi-civilizational
world.
Contact
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info@asiansil-tokyo2009.com
+81 45 339 3623