1. Colonial Legacies in Public Law: Histories, Theories, Pitfalls and Potentials Masterclass. The next Max Planck Masterclass with Professor Philipp Dann is now open for applications (deadline 17 April). The Masterclass on “Colonial Legacies in Public Law: Histories, Theories, Pitfalls and Potentials” will take place on 17-20 June 2024 at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany. More information can be found here.
2. Annual T.M.C. Asser Lecture : Connection in a Divided World – Rethinking ‘Community’ in International Law. Professor Fleur Johns, an expert on international law and on the role of automation and digital technology in global legal relations, will deliver the 9th Annual T.M.C. Asser Lecture on 25 April 2024 in the Peace Palace in The Hague. She will explore the concept of ‘community’ in today’s international law, especially in the context of humanitarianism. As technology has radically changed the ways in which we connect, communicate, share values with each other, exercise power, and engage in conflict, the concept of ‘community’ in international law is once more in contention. For more information, see here.
3. Call for Papers: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Conference. The Common vnpay database Good Foundation in partnership with The Jersey Law Commission is hosting a conference in St. Helier, Jersey, on 12 July 2024 focusing on economic, social and cultural rights. CGF, in particular, is interested in advancing discussions on minority rights and ESCR. More information can be found here.
4. International Investment Contracts: Concept, Features, Contexts Workshop. On 6 December 2024, the Inland Norway University will organise a workshop, ‘International Investment Contracts: Concept, Features, Contexts’ in Lillehammer. The workshop aims to gather scholars and practitioners interested in exploring – theoretically, doctrinally, empirically, comparatively, critically, and otherwise – the nature of international investment contracts in different contexts and its implications for elaborating transnational standards. The deadline for submitting abstracts is 30 March 2024. Contact person is Yuliya Chernykh, yuliya.chernykh {at} inn(.)no. Further details are available here.
5. Call for Papers: Double Standards and International Law. This event will take place on 15-16 July 2024, organised by Berlin-Potsdam Research Group on the International Rule of Law: Rise or Decline? and Harvard Law School’s Program on International Law and Armed Conflict. Double standards are ubiquitous within the study and practice of international law. Examples abound as states speak abstractly about the need for accountability and their commitment to international law but in practice act inconsistently, for example, in applying human rights standards, combatting transnational and international crimes, or making and enforcing the rules that govern trade and development. This workshop seeks to foster debate about how double standards are expressed within international law and enhance understanding of how evidence of double standards impacts perceptions and practice. The call is available here.