Venue:

Norwegian Centre for the Law of the Sea, UiT the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway

This conference will examine the content and application of the right to life in the maritime domain, with particular attention to the relationship between human rights law, the law of the sea, maritime law, labour law and other relevant bodies of international law. It seeks to clarify the scope of applicable obligations, identify areas of legal uncertainty or uneven protection, and assess how the right to life can be given more effective practical expression at sea.

We invite papers addressing the following themes:

• The content and scope of the right to life at sea: e.g. positive and negative obligations, due diligence, prevention of foreseeable loss of life, investigation, accountability and access to effective remedies.

• Duty-bearers and responsibility at sea: e.g. the respective obligations and responsibilities of flag, coastal and port States; naval, coastguard and rescue authorities; shipowners, employers, masters, private security providers and other non-State actors.

• Jurisdiction, extraterritoriality and protection gaps: e.g. the application of human rights obligations beyond territorial waters; questions of effective control, authority and attribution; overlapping jurisdiction; and situations in which responsibility is contested, fragmented or unclear.

• Variable standards of protection: e.g. differences in the protection afforded according to location, legal status, vessel registration, nationality, migration status, employment relationship or the identity of the responsible authority.

• The relationship between the right to life and other rights: e.g. rights relating to liberty and security, health, non-refoulement, decent working conditions and access to remedies. This also encompasses the relationship between human rights law and international humanitarian law.

We welcome a variety of approaches or methods, but papers that examine points of tension between different legal regimes, identify gaps in existing standards, or offer concrete proposals for greater coherence and accountability are particularly encouraged. Colleagues interested in presenting a paper at the Conference are invited to submit an abstract of up to 800 words, together with a short biographical note of up to 250 words, in one single document to rbarnes@lincoln.ac.uk by 22 November 2026.

Abstracts must include a title and should clearly identify the principal research question, argument, methodology and contribution to the conference themes. Please ensure you use the following title for email submissions: ‘BlueRights WG1 Conference submission’ to assist tracking of submissions.

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Ambassador Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand

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The International Law Association – Egyptian Branch is pleased to announce its first Annual Conference 2026: Contemporary Challenges in International Law: Regional Perspectives & Emerging Prospects

14–15 November 2026

Hosted by The German University in Cairo

The conference will bring together academics, practitioners, representatives of international and public institutions, students and early-career professionals to discuss contemporary challenges in international law from regional and global perspectives.

The programme will address issues including:
– use of force, conflict management and regional security;
– contemporary challenges in international humanitarian law;
– natural resources and resource nationalism;
– international investment law and dispute settlement;
– commercial and maritime disputes in a changing geopolitical environment;
– the future of international law; and
– careers in international law.

Ahead of the main conference, a dedicated online Students’ Training Day will take place on 12 November 2026, introducing students to key principles of public and private international law related to the core themes of the conference.

Expressions of interest to attend are now open

Deadline for expressions of Interest is 12 October 2026.

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Submission of an expression of interest does not constitute registration or confirmation of attendance. Attendance is subject to approval and capacity. Approved participants will subsequently receive registration and payment information. The ILA Egypt is a non-profit organization, and any registration fees are intended solely to contribute to the costs of organizing the conference.

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Hybrid Event

11–12 February 2027
Academy for European Human Rights Protection, University of Cologne
Participation is possible online or in person (hybrid)

Bringing together Early Career Researchers, senior academics, editors and practitioners the workshop will combine reflections on the changing environment of human rights law with practical discussions on academic publishing and opportunities for participants to receive feedback on their ongoing work in small group discussions.

Applications are invited from Early Career Researchers working in human rights and fundamental rights law, as well as related disciplines, including philosophy, history, political science, sociology and anthropology.

Application deadline: 9 November 2026.

Participation is free of charge. The workshop will be held in English.

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The Journal of Property, Planning and Environmental Law publishes original legal research for academic scholars, policy makers and practitioners, including those working in real property, housing, legal and real estate practice, landlord and tenant law, environmental regulation and land use planning.

This Call for Papers seeks contributions from around the world examining the impact of AI upon the operation of law within property, planning and environmental professional practice. Contributions could be empirical, doctrinal or conceptual and might focus on AI’s impact upon practices of training & education, regulation, transacting and/or advising and assessing.

Potential topic areas might include:

• How is AI currently being adopted and used within professional advisory and transactional practice in property, planning and environmental law?
• How can the future generation of property, planning and environmental management professionals be trained to develop a critical engagement with AI tools so as to provide effective assurance of AI’s outputs?
• Who will have liability for hallucinations within property, planning and environmental law processes?
• What special issues, circumstances, risks and opportunities face the implementation of AI into property, planning and environmental law practice and processes?
• How successfully can AI be incorporated into processes of property, planning and environmental regulation? What are the dangers of automating the processing of licensing applications and/or regulatory investigation and enforcement action in the property, planning and environmental sphere?
• How well do existing legal frameworks address the physical footprint and effects of AI (e.g. energy and water use) when viewed through the lenses of property, planning and/or environmental law?

It is recommended that interested submitters liaise with Dr Luke Bennett, the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Property, Planning & Environmental Law in order to discuss the suitability of their proposal for submission, for mutual benefit. Luke can be contacted at: l.e.bennett@shu.ac.uk. The deadline for submission of papers (via the Journal’s website, here) is: 31st May 2027.

PLEASE NOTE: whilst use of AI to help craft a submission is permitted, such use must be fully disclosed and evaluated. Furthermore, submissions will need to provide evidence of ethical approval (if empirical) and in all cases present a fully referenced, original and thought-provoking contribution to this topic area, with a rigorous and critical approach to analysis and exposition. For more information on the publisher’s policies regarding the use of AI in academic work, please see our webpage here.

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List of topic areas:

• Re-theorizing/conceptualizing educational leadership in the age of generative AI
• Empirical Studies of AI in K–12 Leadership Contexts
• AI in Policy
• AI and Ethics, Power, and Governance

Submissions information:

Submissions are made using ScholarOne Manuscripts. Registration and access are available at: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jnlea

Author guidelines must be strictly followed. Please see: https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/jea

Authors should select (from the drop-down menu) the special issue title at the appropriate step in the submission process, i.e. in response to “Please select the issue you are submitting to”.

Submitted articles must not have been previously published, nor should they be under consideration for publication anywhere else, while under review for this journal.

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The Taube Centre for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences at the Jagiellonian University, the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford and the Centre for the Study of Ethnic Conflict at the Queen’s University Belfast invite submissions for the international workshop Lived Experiences in Contested Places: Governance and Humanitarianism to be held on 11-12 March 2027 at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland.

Keynote speakers

• Ivan Gusic, Department of Government, Upsalla University
• Tom Scott-Smith, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford

The workshop brings together two bodies of research that have largely developed in parallel, focusing on two forms of contestation that are usually studied separately: places whose territory, authority, or identity is contested, including divided cities, disputed regions, segregated territories, and borderlands; and people whose mobility, status, or belonging is contested, including migrants, displaced populations, and returnees, as well as the spaces they inhabit and navigate, from cities and neighbourhoods to different forms of accommodation, including camps, shelters, reception centres, and other supposedly temporary settings. The workshop’s distinctive contribution lies in examining shared governance challenges across these different forms and spaces of contestation, rather than treating conflict, peacebuilding, diversity, humanitarianism, and governance as separate issues. Our central premise is that, despite the very different origins of contestation, these settings can produce similar everyday governance challenges: insecurity and violence, precarious living conditions, unequal access to services, parallel systems of provision, legitimacy disputes, and limited participation and representation.

We particularly encourage submissions addressing, but not limited to, the following themes:

• lived experiences of governance, its challenges, and forms of resistance across contested substate settings, including municipalities, cities, neighbourhoods, borderlands, camps, shelters, reception centres, and other local or regional spaces;

• everyday peace practices employed by people in these contested spaces to navigate, prevent, or de-escalate conflict and violence and promote peace;

• how people in contested spaces navigate fragmented, overlapping, or contested systems of authority and provision, negotiate status and belonging, and access or circumvent formal and informal institutions and services, including formal and informal systems of governance;

• informal networks, responses to exclusion or unequal treatment, and intra and extra group dynamics.

• creative and cultural practices through which people express, negotiate, or contest exclusion, belonging, identity, and governance and foster peace, including art and other forms of cultural expression and research methodologies.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit their work for consideration for publication in a potential special issue to be guest edited by the workshop organisers.

We invite abstracts of approximately 300 words and a short biography of 100 words to both aleksandra.zdeb@uj.edu.pl and fabricio.carrijo@uj.edu.pl

IMPORTANT DATES

• Deadline for abstract submission: 11 December 2026
• Notification of acceptance: 21 December 2027
• Submission of draft article: 05 March 2027
• Workshop: 11-12 March 2027

We particularly encourage submissions from women, early-career scholars, and researchers based in regions and institutions that are underrepresented in international academia. We welcome contributions from a wide range of geographical, institutional, and disciplinary contexts and especially value perspectives that are often marginalized within dominant academic debates.

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UCLouvain-Saint-Louis Brussels 

The Political Economy working group is pleased to invite you to apply for its 6th workshop which will take place on 22 January 2027, at UCLouvain-Saint-Louis Brussels.

We are delighted to welcome Pr. Sean McDaniel as the keynote speaker for this workshop!

The workshop will be divided into two parts:

– The morning session is open to all PhD students wishing to present the progress of their research, whether in the form of a thesis project, an article or a chapter.

-The afternoon session is open to all researchers interested in presenting a publication or work in progress related to the broad research interests of the Political Economy Working Group.

Organizers:

Ariane Gemander (ULB), Norman Vander Putten (UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles), Zoé Evrard (UCLouvain) and Zeineb Mezghani (UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles).

About

Founded during the ABSP Congress in 2024, this group aims to contribute to the advancement of the field of political economy in Belgium. It brings together scholars working across comparative and international political economy, with a particular interest in the changing relations between states, markets and societies in Belgium, Europe and beyond. Its research interests include, among others, European economic and budgetary governance; fiscal, monetary and financial integration and regulation; and the political economy of the green and just transitions. The group also has a strong interest in transformations of the state and state–market relations, approached from perspectives including law and political economy, financialisation and neoliberalism, and through areas such as investment policies and planning, industrial relations and welfare states, austerity and the politics of economic adjustment, and the evolution of applied economics within states and international organisations.

Call for Papers

To propose a presentation for the morning or afternoon sessions, submit a title and abstract of no more than 400 words via this form by 15 November 2026. Notification of acceptance will be sent by 1 December 2026. Manuscripts (working papers, chapters or drafts) will be requested by the 11 January 2027, in order to give discussants and other participants sufficient time to prepare. We recommend manuscripts of between 5,000 to 10,000 words. Contributions are welcome in either French or English. Presentations should generally be delivered in English.

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