Call for Proposals: Pacific Legal Orders in a Changing World: Governance, Resilience, Transformation, 19–20 February 2026
Tāmaki Makaurau | Auckland, New Zealand
We invite paper proposals for a workshop on Pacific Legal Orders in a Changing World: Regional Governance, Resilience, Transformation, to be held at Auckland Law School on 19–20 February 2026. The workshop seeks to explore how the Pacific region engages with, resists, reshapes, and reimagines international law and governance in a time of global transformation.
We welcome contributions on a wide range of topics in international law and governance affecting the Pacific region, including but not limited to:
• Climate change and environmental governance
• Trade, finance, and development
• Geopolitics, regional security, and militarisation
• Decolonization and struggles for self-determination
• Nuclear disarmament, waste dumping, and environmental justice
• Public health, pandemics, and global health governance
• Oceans law and fisheries governance
• Cultural heritage, Indigenous knowledge, and intellectual property
• Human rights, women’s rights, and gender justice
• Migration, mobility, and climate displacement
• Regional and sub-regional institutions
• Interactions of constitutional law with regional and global governance
• The role of private actors, NGOs, and corporations
• Legal pluralism, Indigenous law, and non-state legal orders
Submission procedure
Please submit the following to beatrice.tabangcora@auckland.ac.nz by 15 August 2025:
• paper title • concise abstract – up to 500 words • brief bio(s) of the author(s) – up to 200 words per author, including full name(s), affiliation(s), and contact details Selected participants will be expected to deliver a 2,000–3,000-word paper by 1 February 2026.
Participants will be expected to read all papers before the workshop to encourage deeper discussion.
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