Events of Interest

Not everything interesting happens at the Institute! Our friends, alumni and partner institutions also routinely develop and host events which advance new thinking and collaboration on important issues of global law and policy.
If you know about events you would like us to consider sharing with the IGLP Network, please send an announcement about them to iglp@law.harvard.edu

The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at The University of Texas School of Law extends a call for papers for the Audre Rapoport Prize for Scholarship on Gender and Human Rights. The $1,000 prize will be awarded to the winner of an interdisciplinary writing competition on international human rights and [...]

    The Zvi Meitar Center for Advanced Legal Studies at the Faculty of Law, Tel-Aviv University, Israel is pleased to announce a call for papers for “Law in a Changing World: A Workshop for Young Scholars” on October 30-31, 2013.  Event Description:  The modern world is changing at a rapid pace, and the law [...]

  The Conference “Critical Foundations of Contemporary Cosmopolitanism” at New Europe College, Bucharest will be held on November 1-2, 2013. Keynote speakers will include Daniele Archibugi (Birkbeck and CNR, Rome),  James Bohman (tbc), (St. Louis),  Costas Douzinas (Birkbeck),  and Oliver Marchart (Düsseldorf).  Contributions are invited that address the questions of foundations of cosmopolitanism from perspectives such as: [...]

The University of Bremen in Germany is offering two positions for Junior Research Group Leaders. The two research groups will join the Center for Transnational Studies of the Universities of Bremen and Oldenburg, where scholars mainly from economics, law, political science, and sociology collaborate. Applications from a broad spectrum of social sciences are welcome. Research proposals [...]

The Melbourne Journal of International Law is seeking submissions for their second issue of 2013! They will be focusing on the concepts of the state and sovereignty, with emphasis on interdisciplinary approaches to international legal theory. Articles should be about 8,000 to 20,000 words in length. Commentaries that explore recent developments in a specific field [...]

Law and Boundaries is an interdisciplinary yearly conference that aims to discuss and propose new perspectives on  the challenges the legal discipline is facing regarding its object, its function, its theoretical foundations and  its practical outcomes. This conference is organized by several of our IGLP Alumni and Faculty network from Sciences Po Law, such as Veronica [...]

The Symposium on Technologies of Imperialism: Law in Contemporary and Historical Perspective, a conference for masters students is looking for paper submissions for the Symposium on March 16, 2013 at the University of London. The purpose of this symposium is to critically assess the role of law as a technology in imperialist projects and in [...]

The Power of Legality: Practices of the International Law and their Politics Workshop will be convened in Florence, Italy on May 27-28, 2013. The workshop is hosted by the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST), Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (EUI), and the Global Governance Programme (EUI) and will be co- convened by [...]

 IGLP affiliated scholars, Matthew Craven, Andrew Lang, and Susan Marks are pleased to announce  a call for papers for The London Review of International Law.  The London Review of International Law is a new journal that will be published by Oxford University Press and is encouraging submissions for 2013. In addition to scholarly articles, they will [...]

The Law and Society Association is pleased to invite IGLP members to participate in their 2013 Annual Conference in Boston from May 30- June 2, 2013. The LSA Annual Conference will take place in the days leading up to the 2013 IGLP: The Conference. The meeting’s focus will be centered around the main theme Power, [...]

The University Institute for European Studies, Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at CEU San Pablo University in Madrid, organizes the International Conference “New perspectives on Francisco de Vitoria: Does international law lie at the heart of the origin of the modern world?” from March 11-12, 2013. The objective is to establish an international forum for [...]

USC’s Center for Law, History and Culture announces that submissions are being accepted for the Spring 2013 Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop. The Junior Scholar workshop is open to graduate students, postdocs and faculty members pre-tenure who work at the intersection of law & humanities. Please help us to spread the word.  Share this announcement with [...]

The Weatherhead Initiative for Global History will award up to two summer graduate dissertation fellowships for research on topics in global history. The Global History fellowships are designated to facilitate investigations that link two or more regions of the world in a shared historical development. The objective of the Weatherhead Initiative and the fellowships is [...]

Princeton University’s Program in Law and Public Affairs (LAPA) invites outstanding faculty members, independent scholars, lawyers, and judges to apply for appointments as resident Fellows for the academic year 2013-2014. We anticipate naming up to six fellows who are engaged in substantial research on topics broadly related to law and public affairs or law and [...]

An International PhD/Postdoctoral Workshop co-sponsored by the University of Amsterdam (UvA) Jean Monnet Chair in European and Transnational Governance and the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance (ACELG) To be held at the University of Amsterdam,July 1-5, 2013 This workshop will bring together PhD candidates, postdoctoral researchers, and senior scholars, from the fields of [...]