Announcements: Obligations Erga Omnes Symposium; ELAW Fellowship; International Refugee Law Competition; CfS Cambridge International Law Journal; Prohibition on Forcible Reprisals Lecture; CfS International Criminal Law Conference

1. Obligations Erga Omnes: Theoretical and Sensible Views Symposium. On 28 November 2025, from 2pm to 6pm, Bocconi College will host in hybrid format the symposium ‘Obligations Erga Omnes: Theoretical and Sensible Views’. The audio system can be Roger O’Keefe (Bocconi College), Priya Urs (St John’s Faculty, College of Oxford), Federica Paddeu (Queens’ Faculty, College of Cambridge), and Martins Paparinskis (United Nations Worldwide Regulation Fee; College Faculty London), with concluding remarks by Tarcisio Gazzini (College of Padua). These aspiring to attend in individual are requested to register right here, which additionally gives particulars of the right way to entry the net dwell stream.

2. ELAW Fellowship. ELAW has a distant, Europe-based fellowship for our 2025 Killian Doherty Environmental Justice Fellowship. candidates can evaluation full particulars and apply right here.

3. IRLIG Worldwide Refugee Regulation Pupil Writing Competitors. The American Society of Worldwide Regulation’s Worldwide Refugee Regulation Curiosity Group (IRLIG) has introduced the twelfth annual Worldwide Refugee Regulation Pupil Writing Competitors. Papers might deal with any subject associated to worldwide legislation and refugees, stateless individuals, internally displaced individuals (IDPs), and/or pressured migrants. Pupil authors should have been enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate diploma program at an accredited college in 2025. Submissions should vary from 7,000 to 12,000 phrases, together with footnotes. Articles ought to be submitted to Christopher Bonnez (irlig {at} ilsa(.)org) as Microsoft Phrase attachments by 7 January 2026.

4. Name for Submissions: Cambridge Worldwide Regulation Journal. The Cambridge Worldwide Regulation Journal (CILJ) is inviting submissions of abstracts to be thought of for shows on the fifteenth Annual Convention of the CILJ. The Convention will happen on the School of Regulation, College of Cambridge, on 23 – 24 April 2026. Extra detailed info may be discovered right here. The subject of the Convention is ‘Reimagining Worldwide Regulation: Important, Regional, and Trans-Disciplinary Views.’ Contributors are inspired to contemplate how worldwide legislation operates not in isolation however inside social, political, and financial buildings; how its establishments and doctrines replicate energy dynamics; and the way important, regional, and trans-disciplinary modes of authorized creativeness would possibly chart various, higher futures. Abstracts of between 250 and 300 phrases ought to be submitted right here by 23:59 GMT on 31 December 2025. Chosen papers can be offered on the Convention, and all convention presenters may have the chance to submit their papers for consideration for publication in Quantity 15(2) of the CILJ. Questions ought to be despatched to convention {at} cilj.co(.)uk.

5. Two Regulation Lecture Collection on the Legal guidelines of Conflict: The Dying and Lifetime of the Prohibition on Forcible Reprisals. On 24 November 2025, from 6 – 7 pm CET, Eliav Lieblich will maintain the following lecture of the Two Regulation – Lecture Collection on the Legal guidelines of Conflict through MS Groups. The subject is: “The Dying and Lifetime of the Prohibition on Forcible Reprisals”. The lecture examines the resurgence of retaliatory pressure in inter-state relations, which challenges the prohibition on forcible reprisals. It traces the prohibition’s origins within the UN Constitution’s rejection of pre-Constitution assumptions – self-help amongst sovereigns, the convergence of defence and punishment, and state-centred legislation – and reveals how immediately’s polarisation and permissive doctrines erode it. Register right here. The MS Groups hyperlink can be despatched to these registered on the day of the occasion. Questions ought to be despatched to Alexandra Konecny (analysis assistant to Prof. Andreas Kulick) akonecny {at} uni-mainz(.)de.

6. CfS Extension: GCRCJS Worldwide Convention on Worldwide Prison Regulation. The deadline for the submission of abstracts for this convention has been prolonged to five December 2025. Further sub-themes have additionally been added: Anti–Cash Laundering Regimes and Worldwide Prison Regulation, and White Collar Crimes And Transnational Monetary Accountability. The highest three analysis papers of the convention can be revealed in SCC Instances. Extra info right here.