1. Diversity on the International Bench Public Lecture Series on Women’s Voices. The SNF-funded project “Diversity on the International Bench: Building Legitimacy for International Courts and Tribunals”, led by Professors Neus Torbisco-Casals and Andrew Clapham (Graduate Institute), has launched a monthly public lecture series on “Women’s Voices in the International Judiciary”. The series aims to reflect on the lack of diversity in the international judiciary — especially gender diversity. The lectures will run from March 2021 until Spring 2022. The fourth lecture will feature Catherine Marchi-Uhel, the first head of the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism for Syria established by the UN General Assembly on 21 December 2016. Everyone is welcome to register here.
2. Munich Advanced Course in International Law Summer School. The Munich Advanced Course in International Law (MACIL) is a summer school held at Ludwig Maximilian University Munich (Germany) and dedicated to questions of international law. Its next session, entitled “Coping with Natural Disasters, Climate Change and Pandemics: The Role of International Law”, will take place from 19 – 23 July 2021 as online-course. Seminars will focus on the legal framework provided by international law and how it can contribute to preventing, mitigating and solving the arising problems during global catastrophes and humanitarian challenges. Students of international law, young academics and practitioners are warmly invited to apply. Deadline for applications is 1 June 2021.
3. Summer Seminar on ‘Transnational Law: New, Old, or Borrowed?’ The Erik Castrén Institute loan database on International Law and Human Rights is organising its annual summer seminar this year online from 23 – 27 August 2021. The 32nd summer seminar on ‘Transnational Law: New, Old, or Borrowed?’ is open to students, researchers and professionals. The programme contains lectures by Nehal Bhuta (University of Edinburgh), Mariolina Eliantonio (University of Maastricht), Poul Kjaer (Copenhagen Business School), Karen Knop (University of Toronto), Jan Klabbers, Martti Koskenniemi and Päivi Leino-Sandberg (University of Helsinki) as well as Mikael Rask Madsen (Univerity of Copenhagen). For programme and registration details see the Helsinki summer seminar blog.
4. Online U.S.-German Summer Law School in International and Comparative Law. The Faculty of Law at Justus-Liebig-University Giessen organizes in cooperation with Marquette University and University of Wisconsin (USA) the Summer Law School for the thirteenth time, which in 2021 will be held online. The lectures of which the participants can choose two will be: International Economic Law & Business Transactions; Business Ethics and Human Rights Law; Comparative Constitutional Law; International Intellectual Property Law (Monday to Thursday, 90min/course). In addition to that there is a weekly yoga class and an optional German language course. Various social events are offered to the participants on Fridays. Program Date: 17 July – 14 August 2021. More Information can be found online.