Category Archives: Calls

The Center for Enterprise Liability (CEVIA), Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen and the Frank Guarini Center, School of Law, New York University welcome proposals for papers/presentations at the International Conference on Maritime Actors and Climate Change, which will take place in Copenhagen, Denmark, on the 20th and 21st of June 2016. The conference is open to scholars from law and other social sciences with a research interest in maritime transport and climate change. The conference will include papers presented by invited participants (confirmed speakers include Prof. Richard Stewart, Prof. Daniel Bodansky, Prof. Yoshifumi Tanaka, Prof. Harro van Asselt and Prof. Katrina Wyman), as well as papers selected in the course of this call for papers. More information can be found here.

The Association Internationale du Droit de la Mer (AssIDMer) has created the “Prix Daniel Vignes” to reward the authors of the best articles devoted to a specific topic of international law of the sea. The regulation setting the conditions for the attribution of such prize can be found here. More information about the deadline and the amount of the monetary prize for this edition can be found here.

The K. G. Jebsen Centre for the Law of the Sea of the Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø just announced a symposium entitled ‘Innovating for Change in Global Fisheries Governance’. The symposium aims to address the following question: How can international law be used as an innovative mechanism for change in global fisheries governance? Early career scholars are in particular encouraged to participate. The deadline for abstracts submissions of abstracts is 30 April 2016. Further information is available here.

The Xiamen  University  South  China  Sea  Institute is holding the Sino-Latin  American  Symposium  on  the  Law  of  the Sea. The topic of this event is “Challenges  and  Opportunities  with  Development  and Utilization  of  Marine  Resources” with a special focus on the contributions  of  China  and  Latin  American  countries  to  the  modern international  law  of  the sea. The call for papers can be found here. The event is to happen in Xiamen,  China,  on November  5-­6,  2015. More information can be found here.

The International Maritime Organization (IMO), World Maritime University (WMU) and the Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment (PAME) working group of the Arctic Council have announced a call for papers for a joint International Conference on Safe and Sustainable Shipping in a Changing Arctic Environment (ShipArc 2015), to be held from 25 to 27 August 2015 at WMU in Malmö, Sweden. Papers under all themes will inform and enrich the conference discussions. The abstract submission deadline is 31 May 2015 and more information can be found here.

The University of Greenwich will host a one day conference entitled The Chagos Litigation: A Socio-Legal Dialogue, on the 29th June 2015 at the Queen Anne Building, Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, UK. The deadline for submission of abstracts, which should be 200-300 words, is the 17^th April 2015. Professor Philippe Sands QC will deliver the keynote speech.

More information can be found here.

The first 2015 edition of the Brazilian Journal of International Law (Revista de Direito Internacional) will be devoted to the Law of the Sea and Maritime Law. Following the interest of Brazil in the so-called “Blue Amazon”, this call for papers envisages a broad range of submissions that deal with these topics. The announcement can be found here (in Portuguese only) and the instructions for the online submissions can be found here (also in English). The deadline for the submission of articles is April 30.

The K.G. Jepsen Centre for the Law of the Sea at the Arctic University of Tromsø is hosting a workshop on Environmental Standards for Deep Seabed Mining in Tromsø, Norway on 6‐8 May 2015. In addition to two keynote speeches on invitation by the organizers the workshop calls for abstracts by researchers (including young scientists) with a background in law, political sciences or environmental economics. On the basis of the submitted abstracts the steering committee will invite six speakers to present their papers at the workshop. The submission deadline is 28 February 2015 and more information about the call may be consulted here.

The National Museum of the Royal Navy in Portsmouth will convene a conference entitled, Statesman and Seapower, 17 – 18 April 2015. The call for papers closes 28th November 2014.

More information, and submission procedures here.

The University of Dundee will organize the 2015 EU-Arctic Conference entitled “The European Union and the Arctic” on 29-30 May 2015. This conference will bring together academics and practitioners from relevant disciplines such as international law, international relations, political science and marine biology, NGOs, representatives from EU institutions and international organizations to discuss the EU’s potential contribution to enhance Arctic governance. A roadmap for increasing the effectiveness of the EU’s action in the Arctic will be drawn at the end of the conference. This conference is timely as the Council of the European Union recently (Council conclusions on developing a European Union Policy towards the Arctic Region, 24 May 2014) requested the European Commission and the High Representative to present proposals for the further development of an integrated and coherent Arctic Policy by December 2015. The call for papers can be found here (deadline: 15 January 2015).

The Association Internationale du Droit de la Mer has opened a call for papers on the following topic: International Law and Maritime Governance. Current Issues and Challenges for Regional Economic Integration Organizations. The event is to happen at the Université Ca’ Foscari Venice (Italy) on 20-21 November 2014. More information on the application procedure can be found here. 

The Goettingen Journal of International Law is launching its anual student essay competition. Participants are free to choose both the topic and the exact area of the international law of the sea on which their submissions will elaborate. The deadline for submissions is 15 September 2014. More information on this call can be found here.

The flyer of this year’s GoJIL student essay competition.

The Law of the Sea Interest Group of the European Society of International Law has issued a call for papers for the 10th Anniversary Conference of the Society, to take place in Vienna on September 3rd, 2014. Here is the call.