Monday, October 29, 2018

Conference: Canadian Council on International Law 2018 Annual Conference

The 47th Annual Conference of the Canadian Council on International Law will take place November 1-2, 2018, in Ottawa. The theme is "International Law at the Boundaries." The program is here. Here's the idea:
Populist movements in Brexit Britain and Trump America seek to reassert the primacy of national frontiers, after decades of increasing integration in politics, economics and law. But borders seem to offer no answer to climate change, mass migration, global capital flows or even, in the case of Putin’s Russia, territorial aggrandizement. And all of these transnational challenges arise at a time of rapid innovation: in a new technological context, have existing international legal norms been pushed to the boundaries of their usefulness?