The call for papers for the International Conference on “Agricultural Pesticides Vs Food Sustainability: A Need to Produce Ground-Breaking Knowledge from an Interdisciplinary and Dialoguing Perspective“, jointly organized by the ESIL Interest Group on International Environmental Law and Queen’s University Belfast – School of Law, Northern Ireland, UK to be held on 3-4 July 2024, is now available here. The deadline for the abstract submissions is 15 May 2024.   CALL FOR PAPERS ..read more

  The Call for Papers for the Conference on “THE CROSSROAD OF INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ENFORCEMENT. The instrumentalization of other legal regimes and discourses in the era of fragmentation and the Anthropocene“, jointly organized by the ESIL Interest Group on International Environmental Law, the ESIL Interest Group on the European and International Rule of Law and Open University of Catalonia (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya), Barcelona, Spain to be held on 2-3 December 2024, is available here. The deadline for the abstract submissions is 1 July 2024.   CALL FOR PA ..read more

  The call for papers for the international, multidisciplinary Conference to be held in Rennes on 3 and 4 October 2024 on “The European Union and international fora: Does the European Union serve multilateralism? is now available. Please find further details in the call for papers here. The deadline for submissions is 31 May 2024.   CALL FOR PAPERS ..read more

PDF Version Vol 13, Issue 7 Editorial board: Patrycja Grzebyk (editor-in-chief), Lucas Lixinski, Alina Miron, Anne Saab and Peter-Tobias Stoll Sotirios-Ioannis Lekkas (University of Sheffield) Panos Merkouris (University of Groningen)*   Image by Thomas Vimare (cc)   I. Change in International Law International law, much like any law, sits at the centre of a tug of war between competing forces; stability and change, motion and rest.[1] On the one hand, it must accommodate the need for stability and predictability that is essential to any legal system. On the other hand, it must rema ..read more

  The IG on International Economic Law will hold an online workshop on Monday 15 April 2024  from 10:00 to 17:30 CEST as a side event to the 2024 ESIL Research Forum hosted by the Department of Law of the University of Cyprus. The workshop will address the following topic: Interactions between Legal Orders in International Economic Law. The programme of the event is now available.   PROGRAMME ..read more

The Utrecht School of Law will offer its Summer School on Introduction to Public International Law, from 8 July to 12 July 2024. This Summer School provides participants with general tenets and fundamental rules of international law, its sources and its subjects, jurisdiction, state responsibility, and dispute settlement. Present-day challenges of global interest, such as climate change, global inequality, and modern armed conflicts will be discussed. There will also be time to reflect on the capacity of international law to deal with these challenges, and accommodate actors traditionally not ..read more

“Change in International Law: Rules of Change or Changing Rules?” series   PDF Version Vol 13, Issue 6 Editorial board: Patrycja Grzebyk (editor-in-chief), Lucas Lixinski, Alina Miron, Anne Saab and Peter-Tobias Stoll Enzo Cannizzaro (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”)   Heraclitus by Johannes Moreelse (cc)   Introduction The present ESIL Reflection, the sixth in a series devoted to the dynamics of customary law, aims to explore one of these dynamics, namely the conflicts among customary rules, which not infrequently are a powerful factor in developing the law. This explora ..read more

  The IG on the International Law of Culture will hold an online workshop on Tuesday 16 April 2024, before the 2024 ESIL Research Forum on Revisiting Interactions between Legal Orders. The workshop will take place online on 16 April 2024, 10:00-14:00 Nicosia time (EEST); 09:00-13:00 Rome time (CEST). The programme is now available. The link to join the workshop online is provided to ESIL members.   PROGRAMME ..read more

The Utrecht School of Law will run its Summer School on Unilateral Sanctions under International Law and in Global Politics, from 15 July to 19 July 2024. The Summer School provides participants with an in-depth introduction to international law on unilateral sanctions, especially those imposed by the EU and US. The course is taught by experts based at Utrecht University, through lectures and interactive exercises. It is suitable for professionals and students with an interest in gaining international legal expertise on unilateral sanctions. Further information about the Summer School can be ..read more

  The 58th Session (2024) of the International Law Seminar will take place from 1 to 19 July 2024. The application process is open from 16 February until 12 April 2024. The International Law Seminar is one of the oldest and most prestigious training programmes of the United Nations in the field of international law. It takes place on an annual basis at the United Nations Office at Geneva, in conjunction with the second part of the session of the International Law Commission.  It is designed for young scholars (advanced PhD students or academic researchers), gover ..read more