Call for Papers: ESIL Interest Groups Workshops Preceding 2026 ESIL Conference (Updated)

In the context of the 2026 ESIL Annual Conference in Málaga, ESIL Interest Groups are inviting submissions for their pre-conference workshops. Here are the calls that are currently open:

• IG on International Courts and Tribunals: Conflicts before Courts: Revisiting ‘Uneven Judicialization in Global Order’ Fifteen Years On (deadline: 31 March 2026)
• IG on Critical Approaches to International Law: Conflict and International Law: Beyond the Promise of Peace (deadline: 1 April 2026)
• IG on International Criminal Justice: Is the International Criminal Court in Conflict? (deadline: 7 April 2026)
• IG on International Economic Law: International Economic Law and Conflict (deadline: 10 April 2026)
• IG on International Organisations: Conflict Unbound? Revisiting International Organizations and Contestation (deadline: 10 April 2026)
• IG on Migration and Refugee Law: Asylum in Times of Conflict: Unsettling the Boundaries of Refugee Protection (deadline: 10 April 2026)
• IG on International Law of Culture: The International Law of Culture at a Crossroads: Past Developments and Future Directions (deadline: 10 April 2026)
• IG on Social Sciences and International Law: Contestation in international law (deadline: 10 April 2026)
• IG on the EU as a Global Actor: The EU as Global Peace Actor: Rhetoric or Reality? (deadline: 15 April 2026)
• IG on International Legal Theory and Philoosophy: A World without Rules? The Responsibility of International Law Scholars in Times of Fatigue (deadline: 15 April 2026)

Call for Papers: Law and Security

The Centre for Law and Security at the University of Copenhagen has issued a call for papers for a conference on "Law and Security," to take place August 27-28, 2026, in Copenhagen, The call is here.

De Vido, Russo, & Tramontana: Gendering International Legal Responses to Environmental Chronic Emergencies

Sara De Vido (Ca’ Foscari Univ. of Venice), Deborah Russo (Univ. of Florence), & Enzamaria Tramontana (Univ. of Palermo) have published Gendering International Legal Responses to Environmental Chronic Emergencies (Edward Elgar Publishing 2026). The book is available open access here. Here's the abstract:

This incisive book presents a gendered perspective on chronic environmental emergencies including climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution, and environmental degradation. Derived from the innovative concept of slow violence, the phenomenon of chronic environmental emergencies considers situational vulnerabilities and the disproportionate impact of these events on women.

Providing an ecofeminist assessment of chronic emergencies, as well as their effects on actors, legal obligations, and possible remedies, the book examines the interplay between feminism, the environment, and international law. Chapters conceptualize environmental chronic emergencies, analysing their impact across time and in various contexts spanning slow-onset events, responsibility and liability, and due diligence obligations. The global contributor team uses gendered and post-colonial approaches to advance the legal debate beyond disasters to more subtle forms of oppression, particularly towards indigenous women and female health. Ultimately, the book looks ahead at new interdisciplinary avenues of research which address the gradual deterioration of ecosystems and its effect on insidious forms of oppression through deep-rooted structural inequalities.

AJIL Unbound Symposium: Global Health at a Crossroads Part II

AJIL Unbound has posted a symposium on “Global Health at a Crossroads Part II.” (Part I is here.) The symposium includes contributions by Priti Patnaik, Loyce L. Pace and Ngozi A. Erondu, Benjamin Mason Meier, Judith Bueno de Mesquita, and Sharifah Sekalala, Alicia Ely Yamin, Tsung-Ling Lee and Pedro A. Villarreal, and Thana C. de Campos-Rudinsky and Daniel Wainstock.

Call for Papers: The Use of Force in Recent Conflicts

The Canadian Yearbook of International Law has issued a call for papers for a Young Scholars’ Workshop on “The Use of Force in Recent Conflicts,” to be held at the University of Ottawa in the fall of 2026 on the margins of the Annual Conference of the Canadian Council on International Law. At the workshop, the selected authors will receive constructive feedback from senior scholars and practitioners. Subsequently, authors will submit their articles for consideration by the Canadian Yearbook of International Law, subject to peer review. The call is here.