Write On! Transitional justice amid conflict

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Paper proposals are being sought for The Potential Role of Transitional Justice in Active Conflicts: An International Conference to be held from November 13 to 15, 2011, in Jerusalem. The conference will launch a series of conferences in the Minerva Center for Human Rights at Hebrew University will employ a broad, interdisciplinary approach and use the comparative experience of other societies and international experts to explore transitional justice.
This 1st conference will examine the potential impact of transitional justice mechanisms while conflicts are still ongoing. Chairing the planning committee is Dr. Tomer Broude of Hebrew University; other planners include IntLawGrrl guest/alumna Fionnuala Ní Aoláin and Professor Ruti Teitel of New York Law School. Questions that may be addressed at the conference include (full list is in the call for papers):
► Are there conditions in which mechanisms of transitional justice can make a positive contribution to the cessation of violence and human rights infringements?
► Can state-led transitional justice mechanisms be formed during ongoing conflict, or will lack of political will, economic conditions, and the need to prioritize other objectives such as security, make any efforts in this direction ineffective?
► What lessons can be learned from cases in which transitional justice was pursued while the guns were not yet silent, such as in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, or in the International Criminal Court's intervention in the situation in Darfur?
► Are certain transitional justice mechanisms more suitable for application to ongoing conflicts?
► What about informal, as opposed to state-led, processes?
► Specifically in our local context, can transitional justice mechanisms assist in reaching greater reconciliation and coexistence between Israeli Jews and Arabs? Authors of selected proposals will be offered full or partial flight and accommodation expenses. It's anticipated that the conference will result in the publication of a dedicated volume or journal issue.
Deadline is May 1, 2011, for submission of 2-page proposals, plus CV, via e-mail to mchr@savion.huji.ac.il. Details here.

Write On! Dispute resolution

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Papers are being sought for a works-in-progress conference to held at the University of Missouri School of Law in Columbia on on October 21, 2011 -- the day before a symposium at which speakers from Europe and North America will discuss international dispute resolution. Keynote lecturer at the October 20 conference, entitled Border Skirmishes: The Intersection Between Litigation and International Commercial Arbitration, will be international arbitration expert Gary Born (WilmerHale); among others scheduled to speak are Louise Reilly (Court of Arbitration for Sport), Marianne Roth (Salzburg), and the convener, Stacie I. Strong (Missouri).
Submissions for the concomitant works-in-progress conference should bear some relationship to international commercial arbitration, transnational litigation, or the connection between the two. Deadline for works-in-progress proposals is May 20, 2011. (There's also a student writing contest.)
Details on all events here.

Write On! East Asia conference

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Papers are beings sought for Dialects and Dialectics: East Asian Dialogues in Law and Society, a 2d annual East Asian Law and Society Conference conference to be held September 30 and October 1, 2011, at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea. Organizers are the Collaborative Research Network on East Asian Law and Society and the Korean Society for the Sociology of Law. They write:

'Rule of law' is now accepted as the universal language of governance, but it is undeniable that various dialects are spoken in different regions of the world. While efforts are made at the national level to promote a standard form of 'rule-of-law speech,; sub-national dialects persist within each jurisdiction. This is particularly true in Asia, despite increasing pressures toward the global convergence of national legal systems. Genuine convergence, however, can only come about through dialectical relationships among the different legal dialects. A true dialectical relationship, in turn, will be possible only when meaningful dialogues take place among speakers of those different dialects. The organizers hope to explore these plural interactions through a diverse array of panels and paper presentations.

Proposals for papers and panels on this theme -- or on "any topic in connection with law and society in Asia" should be submitted no later than March 15, 2011, via e-mail to eastasialsa2@gmail.com.
Details on submission requirements here.

Write On! Gender, culture, IP

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Organizers are seeking papers on "gender and the production of traditional cultural knowledge" for the 8th Annual Symposium on IP/Gender: Mapping the Connections, to be held in D.C. on April 1, 2011, by the Program on Information Justice & Intellectual Propert, the Women and the Law Program, and the Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law, all at American University Washington College of Law. The special theme for this year's symposium is Gender and Traditional Cultural Expressions.

The full call for papers takes note of a relevant, 2010 initiative by the World Intellectual Property Organization, then states that such

developments have given new prominence to the question of what useful role intellectual property may play in correcting underlying historical imbalances. In many places, women are deemed to be the most important practitioners and custodians of certain old arts, with many cultural 'traditions' being passed primarily or exclusively from one generation of women to the next. Therefore, the consequences of introducing IP regimes in this area may have special significance for women and their communities, or may reflect underlying assumptions about gender, women's proper role in decolonization and development, and the distributive consequences of IP regimes. This workshop seeks to examine those questions in the context of the larger discussion about propertization of traditional cultural expressions.

The deadline for submission of 500-word abstracts, outlining papers or works in progress in line with the topics set forth in the full call, has been extended to February 18, 2011.

Details, including the full call for papers and a submission form, are here.

Write On! Student Writing Competition - Deadline Monday

One of the events celebrating Santa Clara University School of Law's centennial is its Centennial Writing Competition. The competition invites submission of original, unpublished scholarly papers on the topic of "future ethical challenges lawyers may face" in the areas of

1. intellectual property law,
2. international law or
3. public interest law.

These topics correspond to Santa Clara's three areas of concentration.

There is a cash prize of $1,000 for the winning entry in each category, plus an additional $1,000 prize for the overall winner, and all three winners will be invited to present their papers and receive their prizes at an event on campus. The winning paper will also be considered for publication in the Santa Clara Law Review.
The deadline for submissions is Monday, January 31, 2011, at midnight Pacific Time.
For detailed information about the competition and how to submit entries, see here. For further information, contact centennialwriting@scu.edu.

Write On! Transnational law/Toronto

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The Osgoode Hall Graduate Law Students Association, made up of LL.M. and Ph.D. candidates, seeks papers for its conference entitled No Boundaries: Transnational Law and a New Order of Global Governance, to be held May 9-10, 2011, at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, Canada.
Anchoring the conference -- slated to examine whether transnational law has included the ways states behave -- will be keynotes by Law Professors Jan Dalhuisen (King's College London) and David Hunter (American University).
Specifically welcomed are

papers that engage in questions of 'boundaries', particularly those with a focus on models of governance and transnational law. We are interested in a broad range of work dealing with the financial markets (commercial, banking and financial law), environmental protection, administrative law, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, tax, e-commerce, intellectual property, women's studies, trade, human rights, crisis and emergency planning, labour and employment, health, disability, historical conceptions of regulation and governance, reflections upon the nature and operative conditions of governance, the relationship between state sovereignty and regulatory authority. Papers with an interdisciplinary focus and from graduate students in other disciplines are strongly encouraged.

Abstracts should be submitted no later than February 21, 2011 (another website said February 7, so get them in sooner rather than later.) Details on submission, the conference, etc., here.

Write On! Colloquium on Environmental Scholarship

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Second Annual Colloquium on Environmental Scholarship
at Vermont Law School
September 23, 2011

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Vermont Law School will host the Second Annual Colloquium on Environmental Scholarship on September 23, 2011. The Colloquium offers the opportunity for environmental law scholars to present their works-in-progress and recent scholarship, to get feedback from their colleagues, and to meet and interact with those who are also teaching and researching in the environmental and natural resources law area.

If you are interested in presenting a paper at the Colloquium, please submit a working title and short abstract to Professor Jason J. Czarnezki at czarnezki@gmail.com no later than April 15, 2011. For an abstract to be eligible for submission, the author must anticipate that the paper will still be at a revisable stage (neither published nor so close to publication that significant changes are not feasible) by the date of the Colloquium. We will do our best to include all interested presenters, and will notify authors about acceptances no later than May 2011.

In a slight modification to last year’s format, this year, all selected participants will be required to submit a paper draft no later than September 1, 2011, and all participants will be asked to provide commentary on another participant’s paper draft at the Colloquium. Final papers will also be eligible for publication in the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law.

The Colloquium will take place on Friday, September 23, and Vermont Law School’s Environmental Law Center and its faculty will host a cocktail reception on Thursday evening, and dinner on Friday evening. Further Colloquium details regarding schedule, events, lodging, and transportation will be forthcoming and available at www.vermontlaw.edu.

Write On! 'Local owners' postconflict

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Our colleagues at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies(prior post here), University of Leiden, seek papers for presentation at a workshop to be held May 5 and 6, 2011, at The Hague, Netherlands. (Day 1 events will be at the Peace Palace, home to the International Court of Justice; Day 2, at Leiden's Hague campus.)
The workshop, entitled Post-Conflict Justice and ‘Local Ownership’: Assessing the Impact of the International Criminal Court, is part of a 4-year study co-directed by IntLawGrrls' alumna Larissa van den Herik and by Carsten Stahn, with the assistance of researchers Christian De Vos and Sara Kendall. The aim is to assess the impact of ICC intervention in the countries where it has opened situations: Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Central African Republic, Sudan, and Kenya. Organizers write:

The anticipated closing of the ad hoc and hybrid tribunals, combined with the expanding jurisdiction and practice of the International Criminal Court (ICC), offers an important opportunity to step back and critically assess the social and legal impact of the ICC’s prosecutions and investigations on local populations. More research is needed as to whether and how ‘local ownership’ of the ICC can be operationalized if, indeed, it can. Given that the ICC’s jurisdiction is complementary to that of domestic legal systems, there is an acute need to revisit the modalities and timing of legal reform and international justice in light of the priorities and interests of local constituencies and actors.

Papers are invited under the following 4 themes:
► Conceptualizing the Local
► Social Impact of the International Criminal Court
► Legal Impact of the International Criminal Court
► Methods and Methodology
The many possible subtopics within each theme are detailed in the full call for papers.
Proposals for papers, which may be considered for publication in a special edition of Criminal Law Forum, should be submitted electronically no later than February 1, 2011, to pcj@cdh.leidenuniv.nl. Proposals should include the author’s name and full contact information, and an abstract of no more than 500 words.

Write On! Women/gender/law history

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Papers are being sought for a conference on women's legal history -- the 2d in a series. The 1st such conference, held in 2007 at the University of Akron in Ohio, was described a while back in a guest post by the organizer of that conference, Akron Law Professor and IntLawGrrls alumna Tracy A. Thomas.

This 2d conference will be held on October 14, 2011, at Chicago-Kent College of Law; cosponsors are the Chicago-Kent Institute for Law and the Humanities and the Chicago-Kent Law Review. Speakers will be asked to contribute a short written piece to the law review. (hat tip Legal History Blog)

The organizer, Kent Law Professor Felice Batlan (left), who took part in the 1st conference, writes:

We are seeking papers which discuss from a historical perspective issues involving women, gender, and the law. Topics can span time periods, geographies, and disciplines.

Abstracts should be submitted to Professor Felice Batlan at fbatlan@kentlaw.edu no later than February 1, 2011.

Details here.

Write On! Global Legal Education

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Workshop papers are being sought for a conference, to be held June 23 and 24, 2011, to mark the 30th anniversary of the Faculty of Law at Maastricht University in the Netherlands.
The conference theme is Global Legal Education. Organizers write:

[W]e will meet to discuss what is meant by 'global law'. What are the demands of the international labour market? How do we teach globalisation in the various domains of the law? What skills, competences and knowledge should be expected from future lawyers? How will future legal education need to change to meet the demands of globalised societies? How are global developments perceived differently in Asia, Europe and North America?

To help answer these questions, papers are welcomed on how to teach a number of subfields -- comparative criminal law, comparative tax law, environmental law, and private law -- as well as these additional workshop subjects:
► Legal education in a global legal environment: Training academics or practitioners?
► Skills in a legal curriculum
► Law and culture English language
► Impact of international and European law
► How to compare law
► Law: A transnational program? Development of joint programs
► Lawyers: A national profession?
Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be submitted by the deadline of January 15, 2011, to the respective workshop coordinator, as detailed at the conference website.

Write On! AsianSIL in Beijing

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The Asian Society of International Law is seeking papers, on the theme of Asia and International Law: A New Era, to be presented at the Society's 3d Biennial Conference on August 27 and 28, 2011, in Beijing, China.
As stated in an excerpt from the call for papers:

The international community is now entering a new era, one in which a discernible shift has taken place in the distribution of global power. Asia, once more, is emerging as an extremely dynamic, prosperous, and innovative region. At the same time, it must be noted that Asia is an extraordinarily diverse continent; it contains many distinctive civilizations, and it includes states that are among the wealthiest and poorest in the world. Tensions exist between Asian states, and an overwhelming number of people in Asia continue to be vulnerable to oppression, poverty, environmental disasters, and the ravages of conflict.

Papers are welcome, from scholars, practitioners, NGO representatives, and others, on topics such as:
► Law of the Sea
► Climate Change and Development
► Disaster Management and International Law
► Human Rights, Sovereignty, and Asia
► Peace and Justice, the International Criminal Court, Issues of Universal Jurisdiction
► Migration and Dislocation
► Armed Conflict, International Law, and Human Rights
► Asia, Regional Arrangements and Free Trade Agreements
► Transnational Litigation and Arbitration in Asia
► Intellectual Property and International Law
► Treaties and Foreign Law in Domestic Courts in Asia
► Contribution of Asian Judges and Jurists to International Law
► Asia and Third World Approaches to International Law
► International Law Education and Research in Asia
Submit online via this application form no later than 11 p.m. Beijing time on December 1, 2010. For information about the selection process, e-mail asocbeijing@gmail.com; for questions about the conference, e-mail secretariat@csil.cn.
Authors whose papers (of 6,000 to 8,000 words) are accepted for the conference will be encouraged to submit them for possible publication in the Society’s new, peer-reviewed Asian Journal of International Law.

Write On! London war crimes conference

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Papers are being sought on the theme of Justice? – Whose Justice? Punishment, Mediation or Reconciliation?, for the 2nd Biennial War Crimes Conference to be held March 3-5, 2011, at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies of the University of London, Charles Clore House, 17 Russell Square.

Also cosponsoring the conference are the British universities' consortium known as SOLON, as well as the Centre for Contemporary British History.

As detailed in the call for papers, organizers welcome proposals for papers, roundtables, and workshops on issues including:

► ‘Forgetting’ and memory in war crimes;

► Implications of the use of national or international courts and tribunals;

► Problems of jurisdiction;
► Media's role and rhetoric in portraying war crimes;

► Witness perspectives;

► Legal issues, such as evidence, doctrine, and limitations; and

► Theory and war crimes.

Proposals of about 350 words should be sent to Belinda.Crothers@sas.ac.uk, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies; deadlien is October 31, 2010. For further information, e-mail l.r.charlesworth@ljmu.ac.uk or judith.rowbotham@ntu.ac.uk.

Write On! Thematic Investigation and Prosecution of International Sex Crimes

Our colleague Morten Bergsmo (left) has passed along a call to papers for a conference on "Thematic Investigation and Prosecution of International Sex Crimes" to be held in Cape Town on March 7-8, 2011 under the auspices of the Forum on International Criminal and Humanitarian Law.

This event follows on a seminar being held this week at Yale University on "Proving Sex Crimes," as we discuss here. The Forum, which is under Morten's direction, seeks proposals addressed to the following topics:

International sex crimes were first investigated and prosecuted in a systematic manner by the ICTY through the so-called 'Fo?a cases' (referring to Foca Municipality in Bosnia and Herzegovina). The Tribunal used a default strategy of 'thematic prosecution': that is, it gave at least initially the international sex crimes priority over other crimes, including more serious crimes such as killings. This was considered necessary by the ICTY Office of the Prosecutor in order to focus adequate resources to build complex and time-consuming cases. It was done as an exception to the standard approach which is to consider the totality of crimes first - including possible sex crimes - and when that is done, proceed to prioritize those crimes that are most serious overall. Thematic prosecution of sex crimes, on the other hand, entails that these crimes are singled out and prioritised for investigation and prosecution, even if that means that there may not be enough resources to investigate murders or other serious crimes that do not involve sexual violence. The ICC has later used thematic prosecution for the recruitment and use of child soldiers.

A reasoned justification for thematic prosecution of core international crimes - in particular sex crimes - has not yet been developed. This is a serious lacunae insofar as the practice of thematic prosecution is potentially controversial. It is easy for criminal justice officials worldwide to insist that the most serious core international crimes must be prioritised for investigation and prosecution, whether before international or national criminal jurisdictions. Most criteria for the prioritisation of cases place decisive emphasis on the gravity of the crimes. Regrettably, contemporary armed conflicts are still characterised by many killings, normally many more than the criminal justice systems concerned can process. Murder is widely considered more grave than sex crimes and torture.

Against this background, the seminar seeks to address the justification for why criminal justice officials can prioritise the investigation and prosecution of international sex crimes. The seminar will also consider the related questions of whether there should be thematic jurisdictions for international sex crimes (special courts or chambers), whether there should be special investigative and case preparatory institutional capacity for such crimes, or other forms of special measures to facilitate such investigations and prosecutions.

If you would like to present a seminar paper that would contribute substantially to the analysis of these questions, please send an abstract and your curriculum vitae to info@fichl.org by 20 November 2010.

On October 6

On this day in ...
... 1921, International PEN was founded in London by Catherine Amy Dawson Scott (right), a writer of poems and novels who hailed from Cornwall in England, whom many sources call "Mrs. C.A. Dawson Scott," and who herself aspired in her Victorian era to be "'The Sappho of this age.'" Decades earlier Dawson Scott had hosted women's suffrage and women writers' events. Operating from its beginning as a "voice in opposing political censorship and speaking for writers harassed, imprisoned, sometimes murdered for the expression of their views," today International PEN, a nongovernmental organization, includes "144 Centres in 102 countries."

(Prior October 6 posts are here, here, and here.)

Write On! Asia-Pacific challenges

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The Chinese (Taiwan) Society of International Law is seeking papers for presentation at Contemporary International Law Issues in the Asia Pacific: Opportunities and Challenges, the International Law Association Asia-Pacific Regional Conference to be held May 29-June 1, 2011, in Taipei, Taiwan.
Proposals from scholars and professionals alike are encouraged, on any topic relating to international law with a focus on the Asia Pacific. Examples listed in the call for papers include:
► Use of Force
► Asia-Pacific Security
► Territorial Disputes
► Teaching and Research of International Law
► Law of the Sea and Fisheries Conservation
► International Criminal Law
► International Protection of Human Rights
► World Trade Organization, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
► Free Trade Agreements and the Cross-Strait Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement
► United Nations and Regional Organizations
► Enforcement of Arbitral Awards and Court Judgments
Proposals of no more than 300 words, including the author's name and full contact information, should be e-mailed no later than December 20, 2010, to ila@nccu.edu.tw. Questions may be directed to Professor Pasha L. Hsieh of Singapore Management University, a co-organizer of the conference, at pashahsieh@smu.edu.sg.

Write On! Human rights at AALS

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The Section on International Human Rights of the Association of American Law Schools invites abstracts and proposals for papers to be presented at the Section's "New Voices in Human Rights" program during the AALS annual meeting January 5-8, 2011, in San Francisco, California.
Eligible are faculty members of AALS member and fee-paid law schools who have never before submitted a paper in an area of international human rights law and practice for the first time at an AALS conference. Non-U.S., visiting and adjunct faculty members, graduate students, and fellows are not eligible.
Submissions should be e-mailed, in Word or pdf format, to Section Chair Sarah H. Paoletti (left) at paoletti@law.upenn.edu. Deadline is very soon: September 16, 2010.

Write On! Transitional Justice

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The International Journal of Transitional Justice invites submissions for its 2011 special issue titled "Civil Society, Social Movements and Transitional Justice." Guest-editing the issue will be Dr. Lucy Hovil (left), Senior Researcher, Citizenship and Displacement in the Great Lakes region, International Refugee Rights Initiative; and Moses Chrispus Okello, Project Coordinator, Beyond Juba Project and Senior Research Advisor, Refugee Law Project, Uganda.
Possible topics to be covered include:
► Survivor/victim organizations and transitional justice
► Transitional justice, as a social movement, and as an international human rights movement
► Political context for civil society operating in periods of transition
► Roles of various entities and actors, including funders, civil society, media, and popular culture
► Relationship among local, national, transnational and international civil society, as well as political context for civil society operating in periods of transition
► Impact of transitional justice mechanisms on civil society
► Engagement of religious actors in transitional justice processes
► Art and literature
► Women's groups and transitional justice
► Civil society and disarmament, demobilization and rehabilitation
The deadline for submissions is April 1, 2011. Papers should be submitted online from the Journal's webpage. For questions or further information, please contact the Journal's Managing Editor at ijtj@csvr.org.za.

Write On! "Feminism Globally"

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IntLawGrrls guest/alumna Nienke Grossman, a professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law, sends news that the law school's Center on Applied Feminism seeks submissions for its 4th Annual Feminist Legal Theory Conference, which will be held March 3 & 4, 2011, and focus on the theme of Applying Feminism Globally.

As detailed in the full call for papers, paper topics within this theme might include:

► How has feminist legal theory affected the lives of women across the globe?

► How could feminist legal theory improve women's lives in a global context?
► How does feminist legal theory differ across cultures within and outside the United States?

► What do comparative perspectives teach us about feminist legal theory?

► How could feminist legal theory from outside of the United States benefit American women and feminist scholarship?

► How do anti-essentialist perspectives on feminist legal theory apply in an international context?

► How do post-colonial perspectives on feminist legal theory apply in a domestic context?

► What can feminist legal theory contribute to the debate over universal vs. cultural specific norms and objectives?

► Is feminism still ambivalent about many areas of international law?

► What, if any, role has feminism played in the empowerment of women in international law-making?

► Can feminist legal theory improve our understanding of challenges facing immigrants within our own borders?

► What does feminist legal theory offer for indigenous peoples?

► How are human rights norms compatible with feminist legal theory?

(As described here, the Center's past 3 conferences have treated a variety of issues and featured keynotes speakers like Sheryl WuDunn, Maya Angelou, and Gloria Steinem.)
Abstracts of no more than 1 page, describing papers within the theme of the "Applied Feminism Globally" theme, should be submitted no later than October 15, 2010, via an e-mail with subject line "CAF conference submission," to Professor Michele Gilman (right), the Center's Co-Director, at mgilman@ubalt.edu. Working drafts of papers to be presented at the conference will be due no later than February 11, 2011; a select number of the final papers will be published in the University of Baltimore Law Review. Details on all aspects of the options in this call here.

Write On! Vulnerability & the Corporation

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On October 29-30 this year the Feminism and Legal Theory Project and the Vulnerability and the Human Condition Initiative (both based in Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia) will hold a workshop on Vulnerability and the Corporation. The workshop is organised by me, Emory's Martha Fineman (below right), and Anna Grear of Bristol Law School in England. It will take place at Emory from 4pm, Friday, October 29, to approx 5pm Saturday, October 30. Here is the call for papers:

Vulnerability, understood as a universal and constant part of the human condition, is an important paradigm within which to consider and evaluate the ways in which states respond (or fail to respond) to individual, structural and community catastrophes. This workshop will build on the notion of a responsive state and consider the relationship between corporate structures, vulnerability, and state responsiveness. In the first instance, we recognize that increasingly corporations—whether operating on a local, national or transnational basis—act in ways that can either exacerbate or alleviate human vulnerability. Corporations can cause or complicate the inherent vulnerability of their employees and their dependents, as well as exploit the ecology and vulnerability of our natural and created environments. How should the state respond to this powerful potential for benefit or harm that is lodged in a “private” institutional actor? In addition, corporations may themselves be conceptualized as vulnerable entities. The corporation itself has been recognized as a “person” under the US Constitution, entitled to legal rights and protections and as a holder of human rights under the European Convention on Human Rights. How does the concept of corporate personhood differ from that of the natural person in law and what are the implications of those differences for state responsiveness and regulatory policy?

Papers proposed might consider (although are not limited to) questions related to:
► The identification as corporations as rights-bearers and the implications of the disembodiment of rights protection;
► The transfer of power from the state to the corporation and implications for individuals as citizens/consumers/subjects/objects of state-like power;
► The implications of the conceptualisation of corporations as legal persons with standing;
► Regulatory responses to the vulnerabilities produced by corporations including, in particular, questions of worker welfare, protection and environmental justice;
► State, regional and international responses to perceived corporate and market vulnerability and the vulnerabilities that may emerge from such responses;
► Distinctions between human vulnerability and corporate vulnerability and implications of such distinctions for appropriate state responses;
► The potential for the Corporate Social Responsibility and Business and Human Rights movements to enhance theories of appropriate state and corporate responses to vulnerability; and
► Connections and disconnections between experiences of vulnerability by and of the corporation between the Global North and the Global South.
Anyone interested in presenting their work should email an abstract of several paragraphs in length to mfineman@law.emory.edu, anna.grear@uwe.ac.uk, fiona.delondras@ucd.ie, and cdomozi@emory.edu no later than August 15th. Draft papers will be due by October 11th.

Write On! IHL Yearbook

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The Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law invites submissions of manuscripts on international humanitarian law. Sponsored by the Hague-based T.M.C. Asser Instituut (prior IntLawGrrls post), this peer-reviewed Yearbook is published annually by T.M.C. Asser Press/CambridgeUniversity Press.
Although papers on any topic related to international humanitarian law are welcome, the editors are especially interested in receiving submissions on the principal theme of their next issue, Volume 13 [2010]. The theme is "Maritime Operations" -- inspired, of course, by recent piracy news, yet broader in its potential scope. Topics might include:
► The applicability of international humanitarian law during counter-piracy operations;
► Detention during maritime operations;
► Maritime security zones;
► Blockades;
► Maritime operations during non-international armed conflicts; and
► Protection of the environment during maritime warfare.
The Yearbook also accepts both articles (ballpark range of 15,000-20,000 words, including footnotes) and shorter pieces on any current development in international humanitarian law. These current developments pieces, which are not limited to the volume's principal theme, typically address international humanitarian law issues that have arisen during the year, including, for example:
► Codification;
► Important publications; and
► Decisions of courts and tribunals.
Submissions should be sent by December 2010, via e-mail to the Yearbook's Managing Editor, Dr. Louise Arimatsu (left), Department of Law, London School of Economics, at l.arimatsu@lse.ac.uk. Questions may be addressed to her or to the Yearbook's Editor-in-Chief, Professor Michael N. Schmitt, Durham Law School, at michael.schmitt@durham.ac.uk.