Write On! Risk, science, international law

(Write On! is an occasional item about notable calls for papers.) The International Economic Law Interest Group of the American Society of International Law seeks anbstract proposals for papers on "the emerging complexities and interconnectedness of risk, science, and law as they relate to international governance."
Papers will be presented at the interest group's Research Forum on December 5, 2009, at Chicago-Kent College of Law in Chicago, Illinois. Here's a forum description:

International law in the 21st century has increasingly responded to and been challenged by domestic measures which aim to address various health risks. A number of different international organizations and instruments engage the intersection of science, risk and law. These include the World Health Organization, the Conference of Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization with its Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS). It also includes the jurisprudence that the WTO has spurred, such as the EC-Hormones and ECBiotech cases. Recent investment cases such as Canadian Cattlemen for Fair Trade v. United States, under NAFTA’s investment chapter, suggest that these issues extend to international investment and perhaps other areas.

Details and a full list of suggested topic areas is available here. Proposals of no more than 300 words should be sent by the September 15, 2009, deadline to Professor Sungjoon Cho, scho1@kentlaw.edu.

Go On! "Human Rights & Forensic Science"

(Go On! is an occasional item on symposia of interest) On April 24th & 25th 2009 the Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland-Galway, in association with the Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification, University of Dundee, will host a conference on Human Rights and Forensic Science. This one and a half day conference will explore current and potential future application of forensic science disciplines in the field of human rights. Issues of both a practical and theoretical nature will be discussed and a range of speakers will include significant scholars from various fields including law, sociology, medicine and forensic anthropology.
Confirmed speakers include Professors Marie Cassidy, the Irish State Pathologist, Sue Black, Head of the Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification at the University of Dundee, and William Schabas, Director of the Irish Centre for Human Rights.
The conference will be divided into five thematic panels: war crimes and forensic investigations; human identification; sexual violence and forensic evidence; investigations of ongoing human rights violations, war crimes and crimes against humanity, and fair trial issues.
Further information is available here, or you can contact the conference organisers Eadaoin O'Brien at e.obrien9@nuigalway.ie or Niamh Hayes at niamh1@gmail.com.