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Asia-Pacific | February 23-24, 2012 Singapore, The workshop is sponsored by The National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Asian Society of International Law (AsianSIL). It is intended for younger academics, doctoral students, and young legal professionals. Abstracts Due: September 16, 2011 |
North America | March 2012 Washington, D.C., United States (USA) The Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition is the world's largest moot court competition. The competition is a simulation of a fictional dispute between countries before the International Court of Justice, the judicial organ of the United Nations. The Moot Problem (Compromis) for 2012 will address the legality of the destruction of a cultural site, who may represent a State after a coup d'etat, and State responsibility for a regional operation. |
North America | March 28, 2012 Washington, D.C., United States The conference will provide mock performances, corporate client perspective panels, workshops, and luncheon keynote speakers. MCLE credit available. |
Europe | March 29-April 5, 2012 Vienna, Austria The goal of the Vis Arbitral Moot is to foster the study of international commercial law and arbitration for resolution of international business disputes. Approximately 150+ law schools participate. |
Asia-Pacific | April 2012 Hong Kong, The goal of the Vis Moot (East) is to foster the study of international commercial law and arbitration for resolution of international business. More than 200 teams compete. Because this is a separate competition from the one held in Vienna, law schools may enter one arbitration team to compete in Hong Kong and another arbitration team to compete in Vienna. |
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Return of the StateThis article is the extended address by José E. Alvarez, the Herbert and Rose Rubin Professor of International Law at New York University School of Law, at the University of Minnesota Law School's conference on "International Economic Law in a Time of Change." Alvarez relects upon and rebuts a collection of papers on supra-nationalism presented at the conference. He argues that states, as sovereign entities, are making a comeback. The full-text is available online for free.
Whither Justice? Uganda and Five Years of the International Criminal Court Michael Drexler argues that the International Criminal Court is pursuing an inappropriate engagement strategy in Uganda by ignoring the impacts of criminal prosecution and investigation on the prospects for peace to the country's decades-long conflict. It is published by the peer-reviewed Interdisciplinary Journal of Human Rights Law (IJHRL) and is available online for free.
