Human Rights Law

Call for Papers: Revisiting the Role of International Law in National Security

Deadline: 

04/8/16

Event Date: 

05/19/16

Location name: 

New York City

Organization: 

Hosted by Cardozo Law School; Co-organized by the International Committee of the Red Cross Delegation for the United States and Canada, and faculty at Loyola Law School Los Angeles and Stanford Law School.

Many conversations in the U.S. about situations of armed conflict – within civil society, academia, and the U.S. government – center on “national security law,” often drawing primarily from domestic law and military perspectives.  International law is sometimes set aside in these discussions.   This workshop aims to draw the international legal aspects of armed conflicts to the forefront once again. 

Call for Papers – The 2016 AHRI Human Rights Research Conference

Deadline: 

03/25/16

Event Date: 

09/2/16 to 09/3/16

Location name: 

Utrecht, the Netherlands

Organization: 

The Association of Human Rights Institutes (AHRI)

Call for Papers – The 2016 AHRI Human Rights Research Conference The Association of Human Rights Institutes (AHRI) calls for the submission of proposals for papers to be presented at the general AHRI Human Rights Research Conference to be held at the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) in Utrecht, the Netherlands, on 2-3 September 2016: 50 Years of the Two UN Human Rights Covenants: Legacies and Prospects 2016 will mark a half century since the adoption of the two foundational human rights treaties, the ICCPR and ICESCR.

Call for Papers: Interaction Between Human Rights: 50 Years of the Covenants

Deadline: 

04/15/16

Event Date: 

09/29/16 to 09/30/16

Location name: 

Aarhus, Denmark

Organization: 

INTRAlaw

INTRAlaw (International and Transnational Tendencies in Law) is organising an academic workshop on29–30 September 2016 on the theme of Interaction between human rights: 50 years of the Covenants.

Call for Papers: Inaugural Postgraduate Conference in International Law and Human Rights: International Law and Human Rights in Crisis?

Deadline: 

03/31/16

Event Date: 

06/14/16 to 06/15/16

Location name: 

University of Liverpool, UK.

Organization: 

School of Law and Social Justice at the University of Liverpool

Inaugural Postgraduate Conference in International Law and Human Rights: International Law and Human Rights in Crisis? University of Liverpool, 14th -15th June 2016 Call for Papers The International Law and Human Rights Unit, part of the School of Law and Social Justice at the University of Liverpool, warmly invites postgraduate research students to its Inaugural Postgraduate Conference in International Law and Human Rights. The conference will take place on 14th -15th June 2016. The theme of the conference is: ‘International Law and Human Rights in Crisis’.

Call for Papers: International Human Rights Law and Business: Evaluating the Impact of UNGP

Deadline: 

01/20/16

Event Date: 

03/29/16

Location name: 

George Washington University, Washington DC, USA

Organization: 

Human Rights Interest Group, American Society of International Law Business and Human Rights

Human Rights Interest Group, American Society of International Law Business and Human Rights Roundtable on ‘International Human Rights Law and Business: Evaluating the Impact of UNGPs’ 29th March 2016 George Washington University, Washington DC, USA. Call for Papers Deadline 20th January 2016. The Human Rights Interest Group of the American Society of International Law is delighted to announce that a Human Rights Workshop will take place on 29th March 2016 in advance of the ASIL 2016 Annual Meeting in Washington DC.

Call for Papers: Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop

Deadline: 

01/4/16

Event Date: 

06/6/16 to 06/7/16

Location name: 

UCLA School of Law in Los Angeles, California

Organization: 

UCLA School of Law in Los Angeles, California

CALL FOR PAPERS – 2016 Law & Humanities Junior Scholar WorkshopColumbia Law School, the University of Southern California Center for  Law, History & Culture, UCLA School of Law, and Georgetown University Law  School invite submissions for the twelfth meeting of the Law & Humanities Junior  Scholar Workshop, to be held at UCLA School of Law in Los Angeles, California,  on June 6 and 7, 2016. 

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Call for Papers: What to Learn from International Human Rights Systems?

Deadline: 

11/3/15

Event Date: 

01/29/16 to 01/30/16

Location name: 

Ghent University’s Human Rights Centre, Belgium

Organization: 

The IAHRN

Call for Papers: What to Learn from International Human Rights Systems?

 

The IAHRN is inviting submissions for papers to be presented at a two-day workshop entitled “Moving Beyond the Good, the Bad and the Ugly: What to Learn From International Human Rights Systems?“. The workshop will be held at Ghent University’s Human Rights Centre on 29th and 30th January 2016.

Call for Papers: INEQUALITY & HUMAN RIGHTS SPRING 2016 CONFERENCE

Deadline: 

12/1/15

Event Date: 

04/7/16 to 04/8/16

Location name: 

The University of Texas at Austin School of Law

Organization: 

The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at The University of Texas at Austin School of Law

INEQUALITY & HUMAN RIGHTS SPRING 2016 CONFERENCE Call for Papers The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at The University of Texas at Austin School of Law invites submissions for an interdisciplinary conference on the theme “Inequality and Human Rights,” to be held April 7-8, 2016. Since the current global financial crisis began in 2008, income and wealth inequality both within and between countries has come under attack from multiple perspectives.

Call for Papers: Inequality and Human Rights

Deadline: 

12/1/15

Event Date: 

04/7/16 to 04/8/16

Location name: 

Austin, TX

Organization: 

he Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at The University of Texas at Austin School of Law

The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at The University of Texas at Austin School of Law invites submissions for an interdisciplinary conference on the theme “Inequality and Human Rights,” to be held April 7-8, 2016.

Call for Papers: Moving Beyond the Good, the Bad and the Ugly: What to Learn From International Human Rights Systems?

Deadline: 

11/3/15

Event Date: 

01/29/16 to 01/30/16

Location name: 

Ghent, Belgium

Organization: 

Inter-American Human Rights Network

There has been a remarkable rise in the number of decisions issued by judicial and quasijudicial human rights bodies at different levels, especially during the last two decades. In this context, the role of universal and regional human rights instruments and institutions has increased, and thus more debate on their roles and impact should take place.

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