AJIL Unbound Symposium: The Anthropology of International Law

AJIL Unbound has posted a symposium on "The Anthropology of International Law." The symposium includes an introduction by Annelise Riles and contributions by Rachel Sieder, Galit A. Sarfaty, Miia Halme-Tuomisaari, Mark Goodale, and Maria Sapignoli.

Call for Papers: Business and Human Rights (Early Career Scholars)

The IFIM Law School has issued a call for papers for early career scholars for a research colloquium on "Business and Human Rights," to take place virtually on October 23, 2021. The call is here.

Symposium: Darryl Robinson's Justice in Extreme Cases

The latest issue of the Temple International and Comparative Law Journal contains a symposium on Darryl Robinson's Justice in Extreme Cases: Criminal Law Theory Meets International Criminal Law. The table of contents is here.

Call for Papers: Crowdsourcing and the Decline of the Individual

The College of Law & Business and the journal Law & Ethics of Human Rights have issued a call for papers for an online symposium on "Crowdsourcing and the Decline of the Individual," to take place January 11-13, 2022. The call is here.

Symposium: Does the Exception Swallow the Rule?: The Compulsory Settlement of EEZ Fisheries Disputes under Part XV of UNCLOS

On August 26, 2021, the Goettingen Journal of International Law will host an online symposium on "Does the Exception Swallow the Rule?: The Compulsory Settlement of EEZ Fisheries Disputes under Part XV of UNCLOS." The program is here. Registration is here.

Call for Submissions: Managing Mixed Migration (Yale Journal of International Law)

The Yale Journal of International Law has issued a call for submissions for its volume 47 symposium on “Managing Mixed Migration.” The call is here.

AJIL Unbound Symposium: The Limitations of the Behavioral Turn in International Law

AJIL Unbound has posted a symposium on "The Limitations of the Behavioral Turn in International Law." The symposium includes an introduction by Eva van der Zee, Veronika Fikfak, and Daniel Peat and contributions by Emilie M. Hafner-Burton, Sungjoon Cho, Lauge Poulsen and Michael Waibel, Anne van Aaken, and Doron Teichman and Eyal Zamir.

AJIL Unbound Symposium: Anne van Aaken & Betül Simsek's "Rewarding in International Law"

AJIL Unbound has posted a symposium on Anne van Aaken & Betül Simsek's article "Rewarding in International Law." The symposium includes an introduction by Jeffrey L. Dunoff and contributions by Rachel Brewster, Cosette D. Creamer, Andrew Guzman and Kal Raustiala, Ian Johnstone, and Siobhán McInerney-Lankford.

Special Issue: Derecho Internacional Económico: Temas actuales en comercio, inversión y derecho transnacional

The latest issue of Derecho PUCP (no. 86, 2021) focuses on "Derecho Internacional Económico: Temas actuales en comercio, inversión y derecho transnacional." Contents include:

• Derecho Internacional Económico: Temas actuales en comercio, inversión y derecho transnacional
• Luciano Pezzano, El artículo XXI del GATT y la agresión: hacia una interpretación compatible con la unidad del orden jurídico internacional
• Natalia Gallardo-Salazar & Jaime Tijmes-IHL, La Alianza del Pacífico y el CPTPP: ¿alternativas para la solución de diferencias ante la OMC?
• Pablo Guillermo Peña Alegría, María Ángela Sasaki Otani, & Carlos Trinidad Alvarado, ¿Cómo enverdecer el derecho comunitario andino?: propuestas para insertar políticas de precios al carbono en un contexto de recuperación verde de la Comunidad Andina
• Christian Carbajal Valenzuela & Yolanda Mendoza Neyra, El arbitraje internacional de inversiones y la lucha internacional contra la corrupción
• Juan-Felipe Toro-Fernandez & Jaime Tijmes-IHL, Los capítulos de inversiones en la Alianza del Pacífico, el CPTPP y el T-MEC: convergencia sustantiva, divergencia procesal
• José Antonio Pejovés Macedo, Ventas marítimas y confluencia contractual
• Adriana Mae Molina Rivas, La necesidad de actualización y perfeccionamiento de la regulación de la insolvencia transfronteriza en Cuba

Special Issue: Fondo Monetario Internacional y derechos humanos (Update)

The latest issue of Revista Derechos en Acción (No. 18, Verano 2020-2021) focuses on "Fondo Monetario Internacional y derechos humanos." This issue is available open access here. The table of contents is here. The foreword and interviews from this special issues are now available in English here.

AJIL Unbound Symposium: Interstate Disputes Over Water Rights

AJIL Unbound has posted a symposium on "Interstate Disputes Over Water Rights." The symposium includes an introduction by Gabriel Eckstein and James Salzmane and contributions by Susanne Schmeier, Francesco Sindico, Salman M.A. Salman, Mara Tignino, Dinara R. Ziganshina, and Gabriel Eckstein.

Symposium: International law 'in the palm of our hand': reading between the lines of Brazilian International Law textbooks

A symposium on "International law 'in the palm of our hand': reading between the lines of Brazilian International Law textbooks" was recently published on the ILA Brazil blog International Law Agendas. An English-language introduction can be found here and a pdf compilation of the posts can be found here.

Symposium: Transnational Legal Discourse on Race and Empire

The latest issue of the UCLA Law Review (Vol. 67, no. 6, April 2021) focuses on "Transnational Legal Discourse on Race and Empire." Contents include:

• Transnational Legal Discourse on Race and Empire
• E. Tendayi Achiume & Aslı Bâli, Race and Empire: Legal Theory Within, Through, and Across National Borders
• E. Tendayi Achiume & Devon W. Carbado, Critical Race Theory Meets Third World Approaches to International Law
• Adelle Blackett with Alice Duquesnoy, Slavery Is Not a Metaphor: U.S. Prison Labor and Racial Subordination Through the Lens of the ILO’s Abolition of Forced Labor Convention
• Justin Desautels-Stein, A Prolegomenon to the Study of Racial Ideology in the Era of International Human Rights
• Katherine Fallah & Ntina Tzouvala, Deploying Race, Employing Force: ‘African Mercenaries’ and the 2011 NATO Intervention in Libya
• James Thuo Gathii, Writing Race and Identity in a Global Context: What CRT and TWAIL Can Learn From Each Other
• Christopher Gevers, “Unwhitening the World”: Rethinking Race and International Law
• Darryl Li, Genres of Universalism: Reading Race Into International Law, With Help From Sylvia Wynter
• Sherally Munshi, Unsettling the Border
• Vasuki Nesiah, An Un-American Story of the American Empire: Small Places, From the Mississippi to the Indian Ocean
• Aziz Rana, Keynote Speech, UCLA Law Review Symposium 2020: Law and Empire in the American Century
• John Reynolds, Emergency and Migration, Race and the Nation
• Wadie E. Said, The Destabilizing Effect of Terrorism in the International Human Rights Regime
• Matiangai Sirleaf, Racial Valuation of Diseases
• Chantal Thomas, Race as a Technology of Global Economic Governance

Special Issue: Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons in Africa

The latest issue of the Journal of African Law (Vol. 65, Supp. 1, May 2021) focuses on "Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons in Africa." Contents include:

• Special Issue: Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons in Africa
• Romola Adeola, Lutz Oette, Olivia Lwabukuna, & Frans Viljoen, Introduction: Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons in Africa
• Sara Palacios-Arapiles, Unfolding Africa's Impact on the Development of International Refugee Law
• Fatima Khan & Cecile Sackeyfio, Situating the Global Compact on Refugees in Africa: Will it Make a Difference to the Lives of Refugees “Languishing in Camps”?
• Francis M Deng & Romola Adeola, The Normative Influence of the UN Guiding Principles on the Kampala Convention in the Protection of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa
• Olivia Lwabukuna, The Responsibility to Protect Internally Displaced Persons in Africa
• Romola Adeola, The Kampala Convention and the Protection of Persons Internally Displaced by Harmful Practices in Africa
• Romola Adeola & Benyam D Mezmur, The Protection of Internally Displaced Children in Africa: A Doctrinal Analysis of Article 23(4) of the African Children's Charter
• Romola Adeola, Frans Viljoen, & Trésor Makunya Muhindo, A Commentary on the African Commission's General Comment on the Right to Freedom of Movement and Residence under Article 12(1) of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights
• Gideon Muchiri Kaungu, Reflections on the Role of Ubuntu as an Antidote to Afro-Phobia

Symposium: Reparations under International Law for Enslavement of African Persons in the Americas and the Caribbean

On May 20-21, 2021, the University of the West Indies and the American Society of International Law will hold a symposium on "Reparations under International Law for Enslavement of African Persons in the Americas and the Caribbean." Program and registration are here.

Call for Papers: International Investment Law & New Technologies

A call for papers has been issued for a colloquium on "International Investment Law & New Technologies" to be hosted by the Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC) on December 9-10, 2021. The colloquium is jointly organized by TILEC, the Athens Public International Law Center of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and Hamad Bin Khalifa University College of Law. The call is here. The deadline is May 28, 2021.

Symposium: Trade Rules and State Intervention in the Economy in the Covid Era

On May 11, 2021, the Department of Legal Studies at Bocconi University will hold an online symposium on "Trade Rules and State Intervention in the Economy in the Covid Era." Details and the program are here.

AJIL Unbound Symposium: Mollengarden & Zamir's "The Monetary Gold Principle: Back to Basics"

AJIL Unbound has posted a symposium on Zachary Mollengarden & Noam Zamir's article "The Monetary Gold Principle: Back to Basics." The symposium includes an introduction by Dapo Akande and contributions by Juliette McIntyre, Pierre d'Argent, Martins Paparinskis, Florencia Montal, and Beatrice I. Bonafé.

Event: EU Pact on Migration and Asylum: Conversation with European Commission Vice President Schinas

On April 22, 2021, the British Institute of International and Comparative Law will host online "EU Pact on Migration and Asylum: Conversation with European Commission Vice President Schinas." This event is co-sponsored by the War Crimes Research Group in the Department of War Studies and the Society, Culture and Law Research Theme in the School of Security Studies, King's College London. Detaisl and registration are here.

Book Launch: Lustig's Veiled Power: International Law and the Private Corporation 1886-1981

On April 20, 2021, at 9:00am EST, the New York University School of Law's Institute for International Law and Justice will host a book launch for Doreen Lustig's Veiled Power: International Law and the Private Corporation 1886-1981. Participants will include Benedict Kingsbury, B.S Chimni, Megan Donaldson, Martti Koskenniemi, and Glenda Sluga. Registration is here.