NOTICE: Interest Group "Historia Del Derecho Internacional" (Latin-American Society of International Law)

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The Latin-American Society of International Law (LASIL) has created an Interest Group "Historia Del Derecho Internacional", coordinated by Ignacio de la Rasilla del Moral (Brunel). The advisory board counts Anne Peters, William Butler, Randall Lesaffer, Emmanuelle Jouannet, Jorge Esquirol and Antonio Remiro Brotons among its members.

The Group plans an inaugural conference in the year 2016-2017 on the theme The History of International Law between Continuity and Discontinuity in Latin-America.

More information here.

REMINDER: Lecture by Prof. Martti Koskenniemi, "Sovereignty and Property: A History of International Law" (Ghent University, Faculty of Law; International Order and Justice Lecture Series), 15 Feb 2016

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On Monday 15 Februari, the Lecture Series International Order and Justice (Ghent University, Faculty of Law) has the honour to welcome Prof. Martti Koskenniemi (Helsinki) for a lecture and doctoral seminar. Professor Koskenniemi will address the audience in the Academic Council Room on “Sovereignty and Property: A History of International Law” (15:00, not 10:00 as announced earlier). 

Afterwards, prof. Koskenniemi will attend a doctoral seminar and comment on presentations by PhD-researchers from the universities of Ghent, Liège and Leuven. 

The International Order and Justice Lecture Series is supported by the Vrije Universiteit Brusssel (VUB), the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL) and was made possible thanks to the financial support of  the UGent Doctoral School of Arts, Humanities and Law, the Belgian Branch of the International Law Association as well as the Belgian Society for International Law. 

Practical information and registration with Kristien.Ballegeer@UGent.be or on the Website of the Gustave Rolin Jaequemyns Institute of International Law.

REMINDER: Deadline for the ESIL Research Forum (Istanbul, 21-22 Apr 2016) 15 JANUARY 2016

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The ESIL Interest Group History of International Law kindly reminds the readership of the present blog of the upcoming deadline for the Research Forum in Istanbul: Beyond the Western Paradigm ? Towards a Global History of International Law (see call for papers here). Proposals are welcome until 15 January 2016 (tomorrow).