Author Archives: A. N. Honniball

The City University of London will host a book discussion, entitled, Humanity at Sea: Maritime Migration and the Foundations of International Law, on the 27 July 2016, in room AG21, City University London – College Building (London, UK). The event is free, but registration is required.

Form more information see here. Information on the book to be discussed can be found here.

The Centre for East Asian Studies Groningen (CAESG), University of Groningen, in cooperation with SIB-Groningen, and the study association Vintres, will hold a guest lecture by Mr. Gou Haibo (Consular and Legal Officer in the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China to the Kingdom of the Netherlands) entitled, Dispute Settlement in the South China Sea: Beijing, Manila, The Hague. The lecture will be held on the 13 June, 20:00-21:30 in the Academy Building (Groningen, The Netherlands).

For more information, see here.

The Univeristy of Hasselt will host a guest lecture by Prof. dr. Alexander Vylegzhanin (Head of International Law Department, Moscow State Institute of International Relations), entitled Oil and gas development in the Arctic – International law and Russian policy. The event will be on 26 May 2016, at 4:00pm, in the Oude Gevangenis, Universiteit Hasselt. The event will be in English.

For more information see this flyer, and for registration (in dutch) see here.

UCILS, of Utrecht University, will host a guest lecture by Dr Efthymios Papastavridis, entitled, EU and NATO efforts to combat smuggling of migrants in the Mediterranean and the international law of the sea. The lecture will take place 15.00-17.00, 19 May 2016, in the Toonpeterszaal, Achter Sint Pieter 200, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

For more information, see here.

The Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law (Swansea University), in cooperation with the Center for Energy, Law, and Business of University of Texas Law School, will hold a symposium entitled, Lex Petrolea – Reality or Myth?, on the 21 June 2016 at Etc. Venues, London, United Kingdom.

For more information see here, this flyer and registration.

The Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies shall host a panel debate entitled, China and International Adjudication, on Tuesday 12 April 2016, from 9:00-11:00 at the College De Valk, Leuven. This shall include a discussion on the South China Sea dispute, and China’s ‘non-participatory involvement’.

For more information, and registration, see here.

The Hague Institute for Global Justice, in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, and the Observer Research Foundation (New Delhi), and with support from Leiden University College The Hague, will host a public expert panel discussion entitled, ‘From “Mare Liberum”  to “Mare Justum”?’. The event will be held on 31 March 2016, 16:00 – 17:30, at The Hague Institute for Global Justice, Den Haag (The Netherlands).

For more information, and it register, see here.

The final conference of Marsafenet, Maritime Safety and Security: Future Perspectives, will be held from the 10 – 11 March 2016 at the National Research Council of Italy, Rome.

For more information and registration, please see the flyer.

The 77th Biennial Conference of the International Law Association, International Law and State Practice, Is there a North-South Divide?, will be hosted by the South African Branch of the International Law Association between 7-11 August 2016 at the Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa. The provisional programme includes a number of talks of interest to the law of the sea.

For further information please see here.

Utrecht University in collaboration with the Exterritory art project has announced an interdisciplinary 2 day conference entitled, Representations of the (Extra)Territorial: Theoretical and Visual Perspectives, to be held from 22-23 April 2016 at Utrecht University. The conference will consist of four panels, addressing respectively virtual reality, the environment, human rights, and general conceptual shifts in understandings of territoriality. Of particular interest to oceans governance see panel II.

For more information on the conference see the programme here. For more information on the Exterritory art project, see here.

The Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals (Brill/Nijhoff) will host a seminar entitled ‘Developing International Law at the Bar – A Growing Competition Among International Courts and Tribunals‘ on the 5th November 2015, from 3:00-5:30pm at The House of the New York City Bar Association, New York (USA). The thematic approaches discussed will include the law of the sea. Attendance is free, register online.

For more information, see here.

The 2015 International Law Weekend, entitled Global Problems, Legal Solutions: Challenges for Contemporary International Lawyers, will be held at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York at 42 West 44th Street (November 5th), and at the Fordham Law School, Lincoln Center (November 6-7, 2015). A number of panels are focused on the law of the sea, ‘Towards a New Implementing Agreement Under UNCLOS on Marine Biodiversity in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction’; ‘Arctic Ocean Stewardship’ and ‘Rising Seas, Baselines Issues: The Work of the International Law Association Baselines and Sea Level Rise Committee’.

Please consult the draft program. More information and registration can be found here.

A seminar entitled Arctic Shipping and Safety – Legal Challenges and Opportunities, will be held by the Royal Danish Naval Academy in Copenhagen (Denmark) from 6 – 7 October 2015. Note attendance fees are applicable; students (DKK 150) professionals (DKK 350). For more information see here.

Danish Maritime Days is an annual event within Denmark, which this year will be held from the 5-6 October with a number of events of interest for those concerned with maritime regulation. The focus for events is the Copenhagen region and an overview can be found here.

The Long-Distance Advisory Council (LDAC) shall host a high-level workshop entitled ‘CFP: The External Dimension as a Driver for Change: Sustainable Fisheries & Regional Cooperation‘ in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, from 16-17th September 2015.

For more information see their website here, and registration here.

Celebrating the 50 year anniversary of the T.M.C. Asser Instituut, and the establishment in 2015 of the Antonio Cassese Initiative Foundation in the Netherlands, the Asser Instituut (The Hague) shall host; Asser 50 years – Public International Law Symposium “International Legal Aspects of Countering Piracy”. The event will taker place on the 15 October, 2015, from 09.00 – 17.15 hrs (followed by a reception).

More information can be found here, along with registration here.

The University of Greenwich will host The Chagos Litigation: A Socio-Legal Dialogue Conference, on the 29th June 2015. The schedule and reservation information can be found here. Places are allocated on a first-come-first-served basis.

Those interested in attending, may also wish to attend the Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context New Book Series: The Chagos Islanders and International Law. The book discussion will be hosted by Queen Mary University (London), on the 27th May 2015. More information here.

The T.M.C. Asser Instituut will host a lecture entitled, Oil and Gas in the Marine Arctic: the Rights and Responsibilities of States and Peoples, by Prof. Rachael Lorna Johnstone, University of Akureyri, Iceland on the 26 May, 2015 at 15:00-17:00.

More information, and registration details may be found on the website here, and flyer here.