Conference: Mounting Tensions and Melting Ice: Exploring the Legal and Political Future of the Arctic

The Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law is sponsoring a symposium this Friday, February 6th, on "Mounting Tensions and Melting Ice: Exploring the Legal and Political Future of the Arctic." There will be panels on the Continental Shelf, the Northwest Passage, and Social, Environmental, and Security Claims and Boundary Disputes. The full program is available here.

Call for Papers: National Security Law Junior Faculty Workshop

The Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas will host the second annual National Security Law Junior Faculty Workshop in March. Here's the call for papers:

The 2nd annual National Security Law Junior Faculty Workshop will take place in Austin on March 12 and 13, 2009. This event is unique in that it combines discussion of works-in-progress with training in the law of war provided by instructors from the International Committee of the Red Cross and the US Army JAG School. The deadline for submitting a paper or abstract for consideration is January 15th. The full details, including a link to the event announcement, are posted here. Note that you do not have to submit a paper, let alone have your paper selected, in order to attend the event. Questions should be submitted to Bobby Chesney at rchesney@law.utexas.edu.