Call for Submissions: Goettingen Journal of International Law Student Essay Competition

The Goettingen Journal of International Law has issued a call for submissions for its annual student essay competition. This year's topic is "Principles of International Criminal Law." Here's the call:

Student Essay Competition 2013: "Principles of International Criminal Law"

The Goettingen Journal of International Law (GoJIL) is the first German student-run international law journal. GoJIL seeks to foster debate among scholars of international law with its numerous and diverse fields.

As we are students ourselves, we would like to give students and young doctoral candidates the chance to gain practical experience and to publish their first scientific papers. To that end, GoJIL is hosting an annual Student Essay Competition. This year’s topic is “Principles of International Criminal Law”. The winning article will be published in one of GoJIL’s next issues.

International criminal law has increasingly gained importance during the last decades, mainly owed to the international community’s strive to fight and prosecute human rights violations. Ever since the Nuremberg Trials, this field has experienced growing attention. Given the number of contemporary scholarly publications, such development is likely to remain dynamic. The International Criminal Court’s first judgment in the Lubanga Case of 2012, amendments to the Rome Statute in 2010, and the observable trend of international crimes handled by national jurisdictions support this prediction. To contribute to the increased formalization of international criminal law caused by, among others, these developments, this year’s Essay Competition is dedicated to current questions of this field of law.

Participants are free to choose both the topic and the exact area of international criminal law on which their submissions will elaborate. We particularly welcome submissions addressing the modes of participation, problems of attribution, or the interdependency of international and national criminal law.

The deadline for your submission is 15 November 2013. The maximal word count is 5 000 words (excluding footnotes).

If you would like to write an article or are already working on the subject, send in your essay!

Further information: www.gojil.eu

In case of questions: info@gojil.eu

New Issue: Goettingen Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Goettingen Journal of International Law (Vol. 5, no. 1, 2013) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: The Law and Politics of Indigenous Peoples in International Law
• Philosophical Backgrounds and Theoretical Foundations
• Sílvia Maria da Silveira Loureiro, "By What Right?": The Contributions of the Peninsular School for Peace to the Basis of the International Law of Indigenous Peoples
• Padraig McAuliffe, Romanticization Versus Integration?: Indigenous Justice in Rule of Law Reconstruction and Transitional Justice Discourse
• Indigenous Peoples' Right to Land and Natural Resources
• Katja Göcke, Protection and Realization of Indigenous Peoples' Land Rights at the National and International Level
• Giovana F. Teodoro & Ana Paula N. L. Garcia, A Step Further on Traditional Peoples Human Rights: Unveiling the Key-Factor for the Protection of Communal Property
• Efrén C. Olivares Alanís, Indigenous Peoples' Rights and the Extractive Industry: Jurisprudence From the Inter-American System of Human Rights
• Gonzalo Aguilar Cavallo, Pascua Lama, Human Rights, and Indigenous Peoples: A Chilean Case Through the Lens of International Law
• Derek Inman, Stefaan Smis, & Dorothee Cambou, “We Will Remain Idle No More”: The Shortcomings of Canada’s ‘Duty to Consult’ Indigenous Peoples
• Indigenous Peoples' Right to Culture and Traditional Way of Life
• Sven Pfeiffer, Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the International Drug Control Regime: The Case of Traditional Coca Leaf Chewing

New Issue: Goettingen Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Goettingen Journal of International Law (Vol. 4, no. 3, 2012) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Jochen von Bernstorff, Georg Jellinek and the Origins of Liberal Constitutionalism in International Law
• Lando Kirchmair, The ‘Janus Face’ of the Court of Justice of the European Union: A Theoretical Appraisal of the EU Legal Order’s Relationship with International and Member State Law
• Ana Constanza Conover, The Supplement of Deficiencies in the Complaint Within the WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism
• Principles of International Criminal Law
• Britta Lisa Krings, The Principles of ‘Complementarity’ and Universal Jurisdiction in International Criminal Law: Antagonists or Perfect Match?
• Hiromi Sato, Modes of International Criminal Justice and General Principles of Criminal Responsibility
• The Impact of Human Rights on International and National Developments
• Patricia Tarre Moser, Non-Recognition of State Immunity as a Judicial Countermeasure to Jus Cogens Violations: The Human Rights Answer to the ICJ Decision on the Ferrini Case
• Roee Ariav, National Investigations of Human Rights Between National and International Law
• Semahagn Gashu Abebe, The Need to Alleviate the Human Rights Implications of Large-scale Land Acquisitions in Sub-Saharan Africa

New Issue: Goettingen Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Goettingen Journal of International Law (Vol. 4, no. 2, 2012) is out. Contents include:

• Precursors to International Constitutionalism: The Development of the German Constitutional Approach
• Introduction
• Tomer Broude & Andreas L. Paulus, Introduction
• The Historical and Philosophical Background of International Constitutionalism
• Dirk Hanschel, German Federalist Thinking and International Law
• Thomas Kleinlein, Alfred Verdross as a Founding Father of International Constitutionalism?
• Reut Yael Paz, Making it Whole: Hersch Lauterpacht’s Rabbinical Approach to International Law
• Rotem Giladi, Francis Lieber on Public War
• Phillip-Alexander Hirsch, Legalization of International Politics: On the (Im)Possibility of a Constitutionalization of International Law from a Kantian Point of View
• Global Constitutionalism: The Role of International Tribunals and Democracy
• Tomer Broude, The Constitutional Function of Contemporary International Tribunals, or Kelsen’s Visions Vindicated
• Christian Volk, Why Global Constitutionalism Does not Live up to its Promises
• A Fragmented Constitutionalism or a Pluralistic Postnational Order?
• Geir Ulfstein, The Relationship Between Constitutionalism and Pluralism
• Markus Kotzur, Overcoming Dichotomies: A Functional Approach to the Constitutional Paradigm in Public International Law
• Lars Viellechner, Constitutionalism as a Cipher: On the Convergence of Constitutionalist and Pluralist Approaches to the Globalization of Law
• Clemens Mattheis, The System Theory of Niklas Luhmann and the Constitutionalization of the World Society

Call for Submissions: The Law and Politics of Indigenous Peoples in International Law

The Goettingen Journal of International Law has issued a call for submissions for a special issue on "The Law and Politics of Indigenous Peoples in International Law." Here's the call:

Vol. 5, Issue No. 1 of the Goettingen Journal of International Law will include a focus on the law and politics of indigenous peoples in international law.

Indigenous peoples received increasing public and scholarly attention over the last decades. It has been a unique journey from the colonial history to the beginning of their political presence in the United Nations since the 1970s to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 2007. The UN’s International Year for the World’s Indigenous Peoples in 1993 as well as the following decades of the world’s indigenous peoples from 1995 to 2004 and 2006 to 2015 prove the ongoing need to attend to indigenous peoples’ interests. Today, discourses of indigenous peoples rights and their claim for self-determination are found beyond International Human Rights law: topics such as intellectual property rights, control over the exploitation of natural resources, the protection of traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions are on the agenda. Underlying all is the constant debate about a definition and the implementation of indigenous peoples’ rights beyond the Americas, particularly in Asia and Africa. In order to shine a light on the legal and political problems indigenous peoples are facing, we call for authors to submit papers on the topic.

The submission deadline is 1 March 2013. For more information contact us at info@gojil.eu.

Call for Submissions: Goettingen Journal of International Law Student Essay Competition

The Goettingen Journal of International Law has issued a call for submissions for its annual student essay competition. This year's topic is "The Interplay of International and National Law." Here's the call:

The Goettingen Journal of International Law is the first student-run journal in the field of International Law in Germany. Our object is to publish a journal that fosters debate among scholars of diversefields in International Law and related disciplines. Since 2009 the journal has already published four issues.

The backbone of GoJIL is formed by the Editorial Board, a group of enthusiastic students and scholars from various academic disciplines. As we are students ourselves, we want to give young scholars the chance to gain practical experience and make their own professional scientific publication with GoJIL.

To make this possible, the GoJIL hosts an annual International Law Essay Competition on a current topic in International Law. This year’s topic is “The Interplay of International and National Law”.

In our current global political and legal system, international law does not only influence national law, but also depends on it. Can national law set borders for the content of international treaties or does it become more flexible as treaties force interaction with other judicial systems? Can it be used to settle conflicts between national powers? How are treaties, both bi-lateral and multi-lateral, implemented on the domestic level? What is the impact of UN Security Council Resolutions or Human Rights agreements on States' law and politics? These are just a few of the numerous questions you could raise and address in your essay.

The deadline for your submission is 15 August 2012. The maxim word count is 3 000 words (without footnotes).

If you would like to write an article or are already working on the subject, send in your essay! The best article will be published in the Goettingen Journal of International Law - GoJIL Vol 4 No 3. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at info@gojil.eu! We strongly encourage you to take advantage of this great opportunity and hand in your submissions on the topic.

New Issue: Goettingen Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Goettingen Journal of International Law (Vol. 4, no. 1, 2012) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Pierre Thielbörger, The Status and Future of International Law after the Libya Intervention
• Tom Kabau, The Responsibility to Protect and the Role of Regional Organizations: an Appraisal of the African Union’s Interventions
• David Ighojohwegba Efevwerhan, Kosovo’s Chances of UN Membership: A Prognosis
• Current Developments in International Law
• Jens Iverson, The Continuing Functions of Article 98 of the Rome Statute
• Current Sovereign Debt Crisis and Financial Crisis
• Matthias Goldmann, Sovereign Debt Crises as Threats to the Peace: Restructuring under Chapter VII of the UN Charter?
• Maximilian Hocke, Have Measures Adopted by States to Cope With the Global Financial Crisis Been in Accordance With Their Obligations Under International Investment Law?
• GoJIL: Focus "Human Rights and their Impact on Various Fields of the Law"
• Nicolas Klein, Human Rights and International Investment Law: Investment Protection as Human Right?
• Laurens Lavrysen, European Asylum Law and the ECHR: An Uneasy Coexistence
• Maria Victoria Cabrera Ormaza, Re-thinking the Role of Indigenous Peoples in International Law: New Developments in International Environmental Law and Development Cooperation
• Sebastiaan Vandenbogaerde, They Entered without any Rumor. Human Rights in the Belgian Legal Periodicals
• Herman Voogsgeerd, The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and its Impact on Labor Law: a Plea for a Proportionality-Test "Light"

Symposium: Precursors to International Constitutionalism: The Development of the German Constitutional Approach to International Law

The Goettingen Journal of International Law, in cooperation with the Institute of International and European Law, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, and the Minerva Center for Human Rights, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, will host a symposium on "Precursors to International Constitutionalism: The Development of the German Constitutional Approach to International Law," March 9-10 2012, in Göttingen. The program is here. Here's the idea:

International constitutionalism is in the focus of contemporary international legal debate and practice, as evidenced by the recent Kadi-Jurisprudence of the European Courts and the burgeoning literature that employs constitutional as well as fragmentation terms with respect to modern international law – dealing with the pluralistic structure of modern international law, post-national law and constitutional pluralism. This seemingly new discourse is all-pervasive, with implications in international politics, law, trade and human rights.

However, this project maintains that this is not an entirely new discourse. Its precursors can be found in what could be considered to be a "German" constitutional approach towards International Public Law (Völkerrecht) that has been characterized by a strong constitutional understanding for centuries. While the roots of the discussion can be traced back to the Eighteenth Century, this has especially been the case in the Twentieth Century, as discernable in German and Austrian teachings, from the scholarship of Albert Verdross (with his 1926 'Verfassung der Völkerrechtsgemeinschaft') to Bardo Fassbender's contemporary analysis of the UN Charter as an international constitution.

The cooperation between the Minerva Center for Human Rights (Hebrew University Jerusalem), the Institute of International and European Law, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and the Goettingen Journal of International Law (GoJIL) investigate the historical development and gradual crystallization of a "German" constitutional approach in both theoretical and practical aspects. The project also fosters the current debate on modern international law with regard to constitutionalization and fragmentation trends. European constitutional thinking with respect to international law will play a role as well as current ideas of international constitutionalization in international organizations and tribunals, mainly the International Court of Justice, the European Court of Justice, and the WTO.

New Issue: Goettingen Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Goettingen Journal of International Law (Vol. 3, no. 3, 2011) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Cedric Ryngaert, The Legal Status of the Holy See
• Current Developments in International Law
• Marie-José Domestici-Met, Protecting in Libya on Behalf of the International Community
• Sebastian Wuschka, The Use of Combat Drones in Current Conflicts – A Legal Issue or a Political Problem?
• GoJIL Focus: The Legacy of the ICTY
• Donald Riznik, Completing the ICTY Project Without Sacrificing its Main Goals. Security Council Resolution 1966 – A Good Decision?
• Gabrielle McIntyre, The International Residual Mechanism and the Legacy of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda
• Mia Swart, Tadic Revisited: Some Critical Comments on the Legacy and the Legitimacy of the ICTY
• Frédéric Mégret, The Legacy of the ICTY as Seen Through Some of its Actors and Observers
• Michael G. Karnavas, The ICTY Legacy: A Defense Counsel’s Perspective
• Giovanna Maria Frisso, The Winding Down of the ICTY: The Impact of the Completion Strategy and the Residual Mechanism on Victims

New Issue: Goettingen Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Goettingen Journal of International Law (Vol. 3, no. 2, 2011) is out. Contents include:

• Jean d'Aspremont, The Politics of Deformalization in International Law
• Mayeul Hiéramente, The Myth of 'International Crimes': Dialectics and International Criminal Law
• Alexander R. J. Murray, Does International Criminal Law Still Require a ‘Crime of Crimes’? A Comparative Review of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity
• Christopher Peters, Subsequent Practice and Established Practice of International Organizations: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
• Ranieri Lima Resende, Normative Heterogeneity and International Responsibility: Another View on the World Trade Organization and its System of Countermeasures
• Vasiliki Saranti, A System of Collective Defense of Democracy: the Case of the Inter-American Democratic Charter
• Killian S. O'Brien, Refugees on the High Seas: International Refugee Law Solutions to a Law of the Sea Problem
• Julian M. Lehmann, Rights at the Frontier: Border Control and Human Rights Protection of Irregular International Migrants
• Vladislava Stoyanova, Complementary Protection for Victims of Human Trafficking under the European Convention on Human Rights

New Issue: Goettingen Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Goettingen Journal of International Law (Vol. 3, no. 1, 2011) is out. Contents include:

• Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Keynote Speech: Resources of Conflict – Conflicts over Resources
• Cindy Daase, The Redistribution of Resources in Internationalized Intra-State Peace Processes by Comprehensive Peace Agreements and Security Council Resolutions
• Alice Ruzza, The Falkland Islands and the UK v. Argentina Oil Dispute: Which Legal Regime?
• Saiful Karim, Conflicts over Protection of Marine Living Resources: The 'Volga Case' Revisited
• Christiana Ochoa & Patrick J. Keenan, Regulating Information Flows, Regulating Conflict: An Analysis of United States Conflict Minerals Legislation
• Moshik Lavie & Christophe Muller, Incentives and Survival in Violent Conflicts
• Annyssa Bellal & Stuart Casey-Maslen, Enhancing Compliance with International Law by Armed Non-State Actors
• Alexander Kees, Regulation of Private Military Companies
• Alice Gadler, Armed Forces as Carrying both the Stick and the Carrot? Humanitarian Aid in U.S. Counterinsurgency Operations in Afghanistan and Iraq
• Stormy-Annika Mildner & Gitta Lauster, Settling Trade Disputes over Natural Resources: Limitations of International Trade Law to Tackle Export Restrictions
• Anastasia Telesetsky, Resource Conflicts over Arable Land in Food Insecure States: Creating an United Nations Ombudsman Institution to Review Foreign Agricultural Land Leases
• Bjørn-Oliver Magsig, Overcoming State-Centrism in International Water Law: 'Regional Common Concern' as the Normative Foundation of Water Security
• Dereje Zeleke Mekonnen, Between the Scylla of Water Security and Charybdis of Benefit Sharing: The Nile Basin Cooperative Framework Agreement – Failed or Just Teetering on the Brink?
• Lucian Dervan, Information Warfare and Civilian Populations: How the Law of War Addresses a Fear of the Unknown
• Eszter Kirs, Limits of the Impact of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia on the Domestic Legal System of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Freya Baetens & Rumiana Yotova, The Abyei Arbitration: A Model Procedure for Intra-State Dispute Settlement in Resource-Rich Conflict Areas?
• Juan Guillermo Sandoval Coustasse & Emily Sweeney-Samuelson, Adjudicating Conflicts Over Resources: The ICJ’s Treatment of Technical Evidence in the Pulp Mills Case
• Pelin Ekmen, From Riches to Rags – the Paradox of Plenty and its Linkage to Violent Conflict

New Issue: Goettingen Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Goettingen Journal of International Law (Vol. 2, no. 3, 2010) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Alexander Orakhelashvili, Unilateral Interpretation of Security Council Resolutions: UK Practice
• Markus Kaltenborn, The Legal Significance of Global Development Partnerships: European Development Cooperation and its Contribution to the International Law of Development
• Jessica Liang, Defending the Emergence of the Superior Orders Defense in the Contemporary Context
• Ulf Linderfalk, The Post 9/11 Discourse Revisited - Self-Image on the International Legal Scietific Discipline
• Marie-José Domestici-Met, Humanitarian Action – A Scope for the Responsibility to Protect: Part II: Responsibility to Protect – A Legal Device Ready for Use?
• Cécile Vandewoude, The Rise of Self-Determination Versus the Rise of Democracy
• Current Developments
• Christopher J. Borgen, From Kosovo to Catalonia: Separatism and Integration in Europe
• Michael Riegner, The Two Faces of the Internationalized pouvoir constituant: Independence and Constitution-Making Under External Influence in Kosovo
• Volker Röben, The ICJ Advisory Opinion on the Unilateral Declaration of Independence in respect of Kosovo: Rules or principles?
• Peter Rackow & Cornelius Birr, Recent Developments in Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters
• Marie von Engelhardt, The Millennium Development Goals and Human Rights at 2010 – An Account of the Millennium Summit Outcome

Conference: Resources of Conflicts - Conflicts over Resources (Update)

The Goettingen Journal of International Law will host a conference on "Resources of Conflicts - Conflicts over Resources," October 7-9, 2010, in Göttingen. I noted the call for papers here. The registration deadline is today. The program is now available here.

UPDATE: The registration deadline has been extended until September 23.

New Issue: Goettingen Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Goettingen Journal of International Law (Vol. 2, no. 2, 2010) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Stephan Hobe & Jörn Griebel, New Protectionism – How Binding are International Legal Obligations During a Global Economic Crisis
• Johanna Fournier, Reservations and the Effective Protection of Human Rights
• Charles Majinge, The Future of Peacekeeping in Africa and the Normative Role of the African Union
• Bernhard Kuschnik, Humaneness, Humankind and Crimes Against Humanity
• Ioana Cismas, Secession in Theory and Practice: the Case of Kosovo and Beyond
• Current Developments
• Bill Bowring, The Russian Federation, Protocol No. 14 (and 14bis), and the Battle for the Soul of the ECHR
• Mindia Vashakmadze & Matthias Lippold, “Nothing but a Road Towards Secession”- The International Court of Justice’s Advisory Opinion on Accordance with International Law of the Unilateral Declaration of Independence in Respect of Kosovo?
• GoJIL Focus: ICC Review Conference
• Hans-Peter Kaul, Kampala June 2010 – A First Review of the ICC Review Conference
• Sabine Klein, Uganda and the International Criminal Court Review Conference: Some Observations of the Conference’s Impact in the ‘Situation Country’ Uganda
• Roger S. Clark, Amendments to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court Considered at the First Review Conference on the Court, Kampala, 31 May-11 June 2010
• Robert Heinsch, The Crime of Aggression After Kampala: Success or Burden for the Future?
• Astrid Reisinger Coracini, The International Criminal Court’s Exercise of Jurisdiction Over the Crime of Aggression – at Last . . . in Reach . . . Over Some
• Morten Bergsmo, Olympia Bekou & Annika Jones, Complementarity After Kampala: Capacity Building and the ICC’s Legal

Call for Papers: Resources of Conflicts - Conflicts over Resources (Reminder)

The deadline for the call for papers for the Goettingen Journal of International Law's conference on "Resources of Conflicts - Conflicts over Resources" is June 1. The call can be found here.

New Issue: Goettingen Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Goettingen Journal of International Law (Vol. 2, no. 1, 2010) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Strategies for Solving Global Crises – The Financial Crisis and Beyond
• Roman Goldbach, Thorsten Hasche, Jörn Müller & Stefan Schüder, Global Governance of the World Financial Crisis?
• Julia Becker, Marcus Höreth & Jared Sonnicksen, The National Environmental Premium in Germany: A Rapid Reaction to the Financial Crisis at the Expense of Democracy?
• Luca Schicho, Pride and Prejudice: How the Financial Crisis Made Us Reconsider SWFs
• Régis Bismuth, The Independence of Domestic Financial Regulators: An Underestimated Structural Issue in International Financial Governance
• Stefan Handke, Yes, We Can (Control Them)! – Regulatory Agencies: Trustees or Agents?
• Laurissa Mühlich, South-South Regional Monetary Cooperation: Mere Myth or New Opportunity for Financial Stability?
• Franziska Müller, Storming, Norming, Performing – Implications of the Financial Crisis in Southern Africa
• Jakob Wurm, Who Guards the Guardians: Legal Implications for the Operation of International Financial Institutions in Times of Financial Crisis
• Maria Agius, Dying a Thousand Deaths: Recurring Emergencies and Exceptional Measures in International Law
• An Hertogen, An Unusual Suspect? Monetary Sovereignty and Financial Instability
• Stefan Kirchner, Effective Law-Making in Times of Global Crisis – A Role for International Organizations
• Mariusz Golecki, The Snake and the Tail – Theory of Derivatives’ Regulation and the Asymmetry of the Global Financial Crisis
• Babette Never, Regional Power Shifts and Climate Knowledge Systems in (Global) Climate Governance
• Marianne Ojo, Beyond the Financial Crisis: Addressing Risk Challenges in a Changing Financial Environment
• Florian Süssenguth, The Productive Semantics of the Crisis
• Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky, Lending and Sovereign Insolvency: A Fair and Efficient Criterion to Distribute Losses among Creditors

Call for Submissions: Goettingen Journal of International Law Student Essay Competition

The Goettingen Journal of International Law has issued a call for submissions for its annual student essay competition. This year's topic is "The Rise of Self-Determination." Here's the call:

The Goettingen Journal of International Law (GoJIL) is the first student-run journal in the field of International Law in Germany. Our object is to publish a journal that fosters debate among scholars of diverse fields in International Law and related disciplines. Since 2009 the journal has already published three issues.

The backbone of GoJIL is formed by the Editorial Board, a group of enthusiastic students and scholars from various academic disciplines. As we are students ourselves, we want to give young scholars the chance to gain practical experience and make their own professional scientific publication with GoJIL.

To make this possible, the GoJIL hosts an annual International Law Essay Competition on a current topic in International Law. The best article submitted will be published in an upcoming issue. Examples for winning contributions in the past you can find in the recent GoJIL issue Vol 1 No 3 (Marco Benatar: "The Use of Cyber Force: Need for Legal Justification?") as well as in GoJIL Vol 1 No 1 (Evelyne Schmid: "The Right to a Fair Trial in Times of Terrorism: A Method to Identify the Non-Derogable Aspects of Article 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights").

We strongly encourage you to take advantage of this great opportunity and hand in your submissions on the topic:

‘The Rise of Self-Determination’

The deadline for your submission is 15 June 2010.

For further details, please see our website: http://www.gojil.eu/

We are looking forward to your submission.

Call for Papers: Resources of Conflicts - Conflicts over Resources

The Goettingen Journal of International Law has issued a call for papers for a conference on "Resources of Conflicts - Conflicts over Resources," to be held October 7-9, 2010, in Göttingen. Here's the call:

The Goettingen Journal of International Law (GoJIL) is pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the international conference

Resources of Conflict – Conflicts over Resources

October 7-9, 2010, Göttingen, Germany

Keynote Speaker: Judge Bruno Simma

International Court of Justice (ICJ)

The Goettingen Journal of International Law is pleased to invite scholars to engage in current debates on the multi-faceted interdependence and interaction between resources and conflicts for the upcoming conference «Resources of Conflict – Conflicts over Resources». Conflicts over resources have long sparked international disputes between states and have even become a cause of war. Armed conflicts pertain to an increasing number of different actors whose legal status is in question in current international legal debate. The protection of natural and cultural resources in times of armed conflict is also a topical issue. Resources inform the underlying agenda in international conflicts, power struggles and post-conflict situations. The question is whether the scarcity of resources leads to international cooperation or to further conflict. The assessment, access and benefit sharing of resources may be central to prevent future conflicts. In addition to the issues surrounding tangible resources, the debate about the intangible resource of knowledge has complexified the international debate. Knowledge as a resource plays an important role in fact finding missions, truth and reconciliation commissions, and as evidence in international tribunals. In what can be deemed the modern battlefield of cyberspace, knowledge is a weapon and should also be considered as a resource of conflict.

About the Conference

The conference will consist of four panels and two keynote speeches, one of which will be given by Judge Bruno Simma of the International Court of Justice. We encourage submissions with interdisciplinary approaches in the fields of international law, international politics and from adjacent disciplines. We welcome papers with a theoretical (analytical/normative), as well as an empirical focus. We anticipate the publication of a special issue of the Goettingen Journal of International Law from the papers presented at the conference. Please note that panels can still be subject to change.

Panel 1: Actors of Armed Conflicts and International Law

Panel 2: Resources Before, During and After Conflicts

Panel 3: Resources and Conflict Prevention: Access, Sharing and Regulation

Panel 4: Knowledge as a Resource: Access, Assessment and Legal Consequences

Submission Process

We invite emerging scholars and junior faculty to submit English abstracts of no more than 500 words by June 1, 2010. Please send your abstracts to Anne Dienelt (Anne.Dienelt@gojil.eu), who will be taking care of the submission process. Selected participants will be notified by July 1, 2010 and are expected to submit their papers by September 20, 2010 for circulation to the chairs and panelists. The length of the final papers should not exceed 7,000 words. For more information, including detailed penal descriptions, visit our website at http://conference.gojil.eu or contact us at conference@gojil.eu.

Registration and Travel Grants

Registration fee will be waived for scholars presenting a paper. Thanks to our sponsors, we will be able to provide a limited number of travel grants. Details on travel arrangements and accommodation will be provided to participants in due time.

We are looking forward to your submission.

The Conference Committee

New Issue: Göttingen Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Göttingen Journal of International Law (Vol. 1, no. 3, 2009) is out. Contents include:

• Marco Benatar, The Use of Cyber Force: Need for Legal Justification?
• Marie-José Domestici-Met, Humanitarian Assistance Looking for a Legal Regime Allowing its Delivery to Those in Need Under any Circumstances
• Jiaxiang Hu, Market Access or Market Restrictions - Analysis on the Regulations of PRC on Administration of Foreign-funded Banks
• Nele Matz-Lück, Framework Conventions as a Regulatory Tool
• Cornelia Janik & Thomas Kleinlein, When Soering Went to Iraq . . . : Problems of Jurisdiction, Extraterritorial Effect and Norm Conflicts in Light of the European Court of Human Rights’ Al-Saadoon Case
• Marko Milanovic, The Human Rights Committee’s Views in Sayadi v. Belgium: A Missed Opportunity
• Kenneth Anderson, Does Anyone Really Want a Parliament of Man?

Call for Papers: Strategies for Solving Global Crises. The Financial Crises and Beyond

The Institut für Völkerrecht und Europarecht and the Institute of Political Science of the Universität Göttingen, in cooperation with the Göttingen Journal of International Law, have issued a call for papers for a junior scholars workshop on "Strategies for Solving Global Crises. The Financial Crises and Beyond." Here's the call:

The recent, ongoing crisis of the world financial system, but also other global problems such as climate change or the spread of weapons of mass destruction have highlighted the susceptibility of a globalized world to equally globalized crises.

In October 2009, an interdisciplinary workshop held at the Georg-August-University Göttingen will explore the phenomenon of global crises both theoretically and empirically. In particular the workshop will use the global financial crisis as paradigm to analyze different strategies for preventing and solving global crises, ranging from international approaches to regional initiatives and action taken on the national level.

Conference Organization

The workshop will be held in English and include four working panels as well as one concluding panel. The papers presented at the workshop will be published together with a conference report in a special issue of the Göttingen Journal of International Law (GoJIL). Welcome are papers with a theoretical (analytical/normative), as well as an empirical focus.

Panel 1: Dynamics of global phenomena: Actors and Processes before and during global crises

Panel 2: Analyses of prevention and solution strategies for global crises

Panel 3: The role of international law: Obstacle to or instrument for solutions to global problems?

Panel 4: Beyond the financial crisis: Theoretical models for global crises

The panels are prospective. All papers dealing with the general topic of the workshop are welcome and suggestions for alternative panels are encouraged.

Submissions of Papers

This call for papers is addressed in particular to scholars of international law, international politics and economics, but scholars from adjacent disciplines are explicitly encouraged to also submit papers of relevance to the general topic.

The workshop will focus on junior scientists ranging from the doctoral to the post-doctoral level. Interested scholars shall send their abstracts in English (up to 400 words) until 26 June 2009 to: Roman.Goldbach@sowi.unigoettingen.de and Joern.Mueller@jura.uni-goettingen.de.

Selected participants will be notified by 12 July 2009 and are expected to submit their full papers by 20 September 2009. The length of the final papers should not exceed 7,000 words.

Conference Attendance and Registration

Authors of accepted papers are expected to attend all conference sessions (a small number of additional participants may attend by invitation only). There is no registration fee for scholars presenting their papers.

Accommodation and Travel Arrangements

Funds for travel expenses and accommodation (especially for international scholars) are available in a limited amount. Details on travel arrangements and accommodation will be provided to the selected participants in due time.

Contact details and further information may be found here.

We are looking forward to your submission.