Announcements: CfP Canadian Yearbook of International Law Symposium; Human Rights and the Green Transition Symposium; CfP Early Career Conference on Humanitarian Disarmament; Ljubljana Sanctions Conference; Rio School on Global Governance, Democracy and Human Rights; India and Pakistan on the Brink of War Event; Changing Role of the ICJ Seminar; CfP Developments in the Law of State Immunity

1. Name for papers: Canadian Yearbook of Worldwide Regulation Symposium – The Adjudication of Local weather Change. The Canadian Yearbook of Worldwide Regulation (CYIL) is soliciting papers (in English or French) for a symposium on “The Adjudication of Local weather Change”. Potential authors are invited to submit an summary of as much as 500 phrases by 15 July 2025 to cyil-editor {at} uottawa(.)ca. These chosen shall be invited to current their paper on the Younger Students’ Workshop to be held on the College of Ottawa on 12 November 2025, the place they are going to obtain constructive suggestions from senior students and practitioners. Authors will then submit their articles for consideration by the CYIL. Topic to beneficial peer-review, articles submitted as a part of the symposium will seem in Quantity 63 of the Yearbook in 2026. See right here for extra data.

2. Symposium on Human Rights and the Inexperienced Transition: Making certain Justice for All. The Editors of the Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Regulation (Brill Nijhoff) are inviting submissions for his or her upcoming on-line symposium on “Human Rights and the Inexperienced Transition: Making certain Justice for All” to be held on 28 November 2025. They encourage submissions from students, practitioners and activists from numerous disciplines and geographical areas. Abstracts of not more than 250 phrases must be submitted by 15 September 2025 to the Common Editor of the Yearbook, Prof. Dr. Matthias Vanhullebusch (electronic mail: matthias.vanhullebusch {at} uhasselt(.)be). Chosen papers (8000-15000 phrases) shall be thought of for publication in a particular subject in Vol. 10 of the Yearbook. Paper deadline: 31 January 2026.  For extra data see the flyer.

3. Name for Papers [Date Change]: Early Profession Convention on Humanitarian Disarmament. On 11-12 September 2025, the Asser Institute in The Hague will host a convention for younger students on Humanitarian Disarmament. The organizers have issued a name for papers open to researchers engaged on worldwide humanitarian regulation, worldwide arms management and associated matters, who’re at present enrolled in a PhD program or who obtained their PhD not more than three years in the past. Restricted bursaries can be found to presenting contributors. To use, authors should submit an summary (150-200 phrases) by 17 July 2025 to t.coventry {at} asser(.)nl. For registration,  additionally electronic mail Thea Coventry. Additional data is on the market right here.

4. Ljubljana Sanctions Convention. Registration is now open for the Ljubljana Sanctions Convention, which is scheduled to happen on 25 – 26 September 2025 on the School of Regulation, College of Ljubljana. The Programme options a lot of students and practitioners together with Thomas Biersteker, Jean d’Aspremont, Frank Hoffmeister, Petra Mahnič, Allain Pellet, Clara Portela, Marko Rakovec, Cedric Ryngaert, Mirko Sossai and Larissa van den Herik. The audio system will cowl a variety of matters, together with the evolution of worldwide sanctions practices, theoretical and sensible views on sanctions, challenges in nationwide sanctions implementation, sanctions and human rights, authorized points surrounding the confiscation of state and personal property, sanctions as geo-political and geo-economic instruments, hyperlinks between sanctions and funding regulation, sanctions and humanitarian motion, essential views on sanctioning insurance policies and double requirements, in addition to TWAIL views on sanctions. Early hen registration is on the market till 31 July.

5. Rio Faculty on World Governance, Democracy and Human Rights. The FGV Rio Regulation Centre for World Regulation has introduced the opening of the Admissions Course of for the third version of the Rio Faculty on World Governance, Democracy and Human Rights on the FGV Jean Monnet Heart of Excellence (JMCE), coordinated by Professor Paula Wojcikiewicz Almeida and funded by the European Fee beneath the Erasmus+ Programme. It is a four-month intensive programme, taught in English, aimed toward increasing information on European Union establishments and practices on World Governance, in addition to their relevance for South America. It’s going to happen between 6 August – 5 November 2025 (on Wednesdays), from 3:50pm to five:30pm (GMT-3 hours), in particular person, at FGV’s headquarters in Rio de Janeiro (Praia de Botafogo, 190). Purposes open till 13 July  2025. Register right here. 

6. India and Pakistan on the Brink of Warfare Occasion. Solon Solomon (BUL Faculty of Regulation, Brunel College of London) and Saeed Bagheri (College of Studying Faculty of Regulation) are co-convening the SLS Worldwide Regulation part to the Central London 30 June occasion titled ‘India and Pakistan getting ready to battle: A view on the newest tensions from a geopolitical and worldwide regulation perspective’ with Marion Messmer from Chatham Home and Tsvetelina van Benthem from the College of Oxford as audio system. Register right here.

7. The Altering Function of the Worldwide Courtroom of Justice Seminar. This Seminar will happen on 11 June 2025, 10.00 AM – 12.00 midday (UK time),  at Moot Courtroom, 8 – 10 Berkeley Sq., College of Bristol Centre for Worldwide Regulation. The ICJ, which can quickly mark its eightieth anniversary, is at present busier than ever, with round 20 contentious instances and three requests for advisory opinions at present pending earlier than the Courtroom. Latest years have seen a spread of noteworthy developments within the apply of the ICJ, together with mass interventions, public curiosity litigation, and a big improve in requests for provisional measures. This seminar will mirror on the substance of latest instances, noteworthy procedural developments, and the altering function of the ICJ within the worldwide authorized system. Audio system: Martins Paparinskis, Matina Papadaki, Yusra Suedi, Eirik Bjorge. To attend on-line, register by way of Eventbrite. For additional data, contact law-exec {at} bristol.ac(.)uk

8. Name for Papers: Seminar on Developments within the Regulation of State Immunity. The Analysis Group for Human Rights and Worldwide Regulation at UiT The Arctic College of Norway will host a seminar on Developments within the Regulation of State Immunity on 20 November 2025 in Tromsø. The seminar will function discussions on the regulation of state immunity, which is taken to incorporate the immunity of the State and its property, as nicely the immunity of State representatives, each useful immunity (ratione materiae) and private immunity (ratione personae). Keynote audio system are Professor Roger O’Keefe (Bocconi College) and Professor Astrid Kjeldgaard-Pedersen (College of Copenhagen). The organizers welcome the submission of abstracts on these and associated themes. Ph.d. college students are particularly inspired to use. Chosen papers shall be printed in a particular subject of the Nordic Journal of Worldwide Regulation. Abstracts of as much as 500 phrases and a CV must be despatched to Gaiane Nuridzhanian (gaiane.nuridzhanian {at} uit(.)no) by 1 August 2025. Additional data may be discovered right here.