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EUI Conference on Appellate Review and Rule of Law In International Trade and Investment Law
Tommorow, 20 January 2022, the Department of Law of the European University Institute organizes a Conference on Appellate Review and Rule of Law In International Trade and Investment Law. The event will take place in a hybrid format that may be attended online via zoom or offline in person at the Badia Fiesolana-Refettorio.
The organzizers characterise the purpose of the Conference as follows:
“Do regulatory competition, geopolitical rivalries, climate change, regionalism and plurilateral agreements risk undermining the UN and WTO legal orders and sustainable development objectives? How should the EU respond? This conference aims to create an interactive and targeted discussion on these intricate questions, with presentations by esteemed scholars in international economic law and policy
Why is it that the EU promotes judicialization and appellate review in trade and investment relations while the US government has unilaterally disrupted the appellate review system of the Word Trade Organization and seeks to limit judicial remedies in trade and investment agreements? Is appellate review necessary for protecting rule of law, sustainable development and prevention of trade, investment and climate conflicts? Answers to these questions are influenced by the prevailing conceptions of international economic law. Commercial law conceptions and Anglo-Saxon neo-liberalism often prioritize private autonomy and business-driven arbitration and market regulation. Authoritarian governments tend to prioritize state sovereignty and intergovernmental dispute settlements. European ordo-liberalism emphasizes the need for embedding economic markets into multilevel human and constitutional rights and judicial remedies.
This conference aims to create an interactive and targeted discussion on these intricate questions, with presentations by esteemed scholars in international economic law and policy. The International Economic Law and Policy Working Group is therefore delighted to invite you to join this discussion on Thursday, 20th January 2022 at 14.30 (CET).
Speakers:
Professor Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann, European University Institute,
Professor Fabrizio Marrella, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice,
Dr Maria Laura Marceddu, European University Institute, and
Professor Bernard Hoekman, European University Institute”
This event is open to all. Please register via thefollowing link by Wednesday, 19th January 2022, indicating whether you would like to attend the event in person or online. The Zoom link as well as the participants allowed to attend the event in person will be shared with registered participants prior to the event.”
For the programme and further information on the EUI Conference please consult the attached programme as well as the event’s website.
Save the Date: German Conference for Young Scholars in Private International Law 2023
Following successful conferences in Bonn, Würzburg and Hamburg, please save the date for the 4th German-speaking Conference for Young Scholars in Private International Law, which will take place on 23 and 24 February 2023 at Sigmund Freud University in Vienna.
The theme of the conference will be
Deference to the foreign – empty phrase or guiding principle of private international law?
The organisors explain: “As part of the legal system, rules of private international law are bound by the principles of their national jurisdiction, but they also open up the national system to foreign rules. Is the claim of deference to the foreign merely an empty phrase or, at best, a working hypothesis, or can it serve as a meaningful guiding principle of private international law? Are there tendencies within or across specific areas of private international law to move away from deference to, and towards a general suspicion against, the foreign? To what extent does (mutual) trust become the basis of deference to the foreign in the process of internationalisation and Europeanisation? What, if any, is the relationship between deference to the foreign and the methods of private international law?
We would like to explore these and many other related questions at the 4th German-speaking Conference for Young Scholars in Private International Law. We are inviting contributions from all areas of private international law, including but not limited to contract and tort law, company law, family and succession law as well as international procedural law, international arbitration and uniform law. The written contributions will be published in an edited conference volume. The conference will be held in German, but English presentations are also welcome. The call for papers will be released in spring 2022 and we expect the submission of abstracts until late summer 2022.
We cordially invite all interested scholars to save the date of the conference. Please feel free to contact us with any questions (ipr@sfu.ac.at). Further information on the conference is available at https://tinyurl.com/YoungPIL.
Andreas Engel, Florian Heindler, Katharina Kaesling, Ben Köhler,
Martina Melcher, Bettina Rentsch, Susanna Roßbach, Johannes Ungerer.”
For the German text of the note, please consult the attached pdf: Save-the-date-IPR-2023_DE
Lancaster University Law Conference: Call for Abstracts
LANCASTER UNIVERSITY LAW CONFERENCE
Lancaster University, U.K.
3rd June 2022
CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES TO LAW AND CRIMINOLOGY
Call for Abstracts
After the grand success of our three annual international conferences in 2019, 2020 and 2021 we are happy to announce that we will be organizing this year’s annual international conference (virtual) on the broad theme ‘Contemporary Challenges to Law and Criminology’.
It is believed that law acts as a powerful tool for social change. In today’s world, most aspects of human behaviour are regulated by legal rules and principles. From policies affecting the poor to regulating economic and political agendas between powerful nations, law plays an important role in shaping the future for coming generations.
In addition, contemporary criminological issues question some of today’s most pressing social issues, from interpersonal violence, drugs misuse, to crimes against the environment. An unprecedented rise in exclusionary and punitive state policies and practices has produced high levels of contemporary issues in both law and criminology.
In the context of changing socio-political scenarios around the world, there is a need to reevaluate our understanding of applicability of legal rules that can bring about real change and provide opportunity for the betterment of everyone. The question of how to apply ‘law’ is now once again open for debate and we intend to discuss it from broad perspectives.
Lancaster University Law School invites proposals for individual contributions under the broad theme of ‘Contemporary Challenges to Law and Criminology’. The Conference invites academics, Masters, PhD students, early career researchers and practitioners for a one-day virtual conference.
Suggested topics under the theme ‘Contemporary Challenges to Law and Criminology’ for the
conference include, but are not limited to:
Law and Ethics in Business, Finance and Banking
Digital Justice
Social justice and Equality
The Environment and Eco systems
Gender and Sexuality
Drugs Policy, Practice and Usage
Abstracts of no more than 300 words and a short bio of 50 words should be sent to lawpgrconference@lancaster.ac.uk by 31st March 2022.
Selected presenters will be notified by 15th April 2022.
For any queries please contact: lawpgrconference@lancaster.ac.uk or visit