Ogłoszenia 7.04.2023 r.

1. Call for papers: Doctoral Workshop "The EU’s Response to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: International and European Perspectives" (Lejda, czerwiec 2023 r.)

22 czerwca br. w Lejdzie odbędzie się Doctoral Workshop "The EU’s Response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: International and European Perspectives".

Wystąpienia mogą dotyczyć zwłaszcza następujących tematów:

• The day after the war - reconstruction, development and justice for Ukraine

• Prosecution of crimes of aggression against Ukraine

• The EU's political support and financial, humanitarian and military assistance to Ukraine

• EU restrictive measures

• Implications on EU Common Foreign and Security Policy, EU Security and Defence Policy, and the EU's broader system of fundamental rights

• Proceedings before international courts (ICJ, ICC, ECtHR) and EU support

• EU measures to support refugees and victims

• EU measures to support Ukraine and horizontal issues of public international law (international responsibility, law of treaties, countermeasures)

• The EU's role in a new geopolitical world order

Planowana jest publikacja pokonferencyjna.

Organizatorzy mogą pokryć (w ograniczonym zakresie) koszty podróży i zakwaterowania.

Zgłoszenia (abstrakt do 500 słów wraz z krótkim CV) należy przesyłać do 23 kwietnia br.

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2. Call for papers: Workshop "How to Find the Brakes on A Slippery Slope?" (Utrecht, wrzesień 2023 r.)

26 września br. na Uniwersytecie w Utrechcie odbędą się warsztaty pt. "How to Find the Brakes on A Slippery Slope?".

Organizatorzy planują następujące panele:

• Session 1 Conceptual, theoretical legal aspects of the rule of law backsliding. Conceptualising backsliding (and resilience) of the rule of law and its linkages to human rights.
• Session 2 Regional courts and other regional (human rights) institutions. Comparative examination of how regional courts and other regional human rights institutions – including the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights and the European Court of Human Rights - have experience dealing with earlier, similar developments of rule of law backsliding and human rights.
• Session 3 United Nations human rights treaty bodies and other global institutions The role of human rights treaty bodies, special rapporteurs, and others in defending the rule of law and human rights and responding to backsliding.
• Session 4 The effect of rule of law backsliding on substantive human rights protection How does rule of law backsliding affect different human rights, including the independence of the judiciary and the right to a fair trial.
• Session 5 General discussion: Strategies of resilience

Zgłoszenia (abstrakt do 350 słów wraz z krótkim CV i listem motywacyjnym) należy przesyłać do 15 maja br.

Planowana jest publikacja pokonferencyjna.

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3. Call for papers: Conference on Human Rights and Sustainable Development (lipiec 2023 r.)

W dniach 14-15 lipca br. w formie hybrydowej odbędzie się Conference on Human Rights and Sustainable Development.

Wystąpienia mogą dotyczyć m.in. następującej problematyki:

1. The human rights perspective on sustainable development and theoretical approaches to the relationship.

2. Concepts and principles, including inter-generational equity and standing for future generations, the precautionary principle, the prevent principle, and due diligence.

3. Jurisdiction and areas beyond national jurisdiction.

4. Subjects and actors, including rights of women, children, indigenous peoples, peasants and the peoples of small island states; conversely, duties for businesses.

5. The relationship with particular human rights (e.g. adequate standard of living, health, education, expression and association); the right to a satisfactory environment as an expression of sustainable development

6. The right to development and peoples’ rights to resources and self-determination.

7. Informing sustainable development, including duties of consultation, environmental impact assessment, notification and exchange of information.

8. The challenge in measuring progress on human rights in the context of sustainable development

9. Institutions: implementation by human rights bodies and/or environmental bodies and processes.

10. The role of science in informing national and international bodies.

11. Impact on international investment and trade law.

12. Remedies, including restitution, compensation and the polluter pays principle.

Zgłoszenia (abstrakt do 500 słów wraz z CV) należy przesyłać do 24 kwietnia.

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