Faculty Awareness Bulletin

The Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs will hold this public interest law symposium at the UCLA School of Law on February 29, 2008 and will explore the development of public interest law systems around the world over the last 25 years and examine how these developments have reshaped the definition and practice of public interest law.  For more details, go here.

Topics: Public Interest Law; International Law; Conferences & Symposia

International Law Weekend 2007 will be co-hosted by the American Branch of the International Law Association and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. It will be held at The House of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York from Thursday, October 25th - Saturday, October 27th.  For more details, go here.

Topics: International Law

The Exploitation of Women and Children: A Comparative Study of Human Trafficking Laws between the United States-Mexico and China-Vietnam  was recently posted to GlobaLex  (Global Law & Justice Program) database.  It includes an annotated bibliography that highlights lots of good resources.

Topics: Humanitarian Law, International Law

Fordham Law School will be holding a symposium on October 4-5, 2007 entitled, International Law & the Constitution: Terms of Engagement.  For more details, go here.

At the AALS mid-year meeting from June 17 - 20, 2007 in British Columbia, there’ll be a joint AALS & American Society of International Law Conference entitled, “What is Wrong with the Way We Teach and Write International Law.”  For more details, go here.

Topics: International Law; Summer 2007

The University of Richmond has put together a really neat database that allows you to access an impressive number of country constitutions, charters, amendments, and other related documents.  Simply select the country your interested in and click go. 

Topics: Constitutional Law, International Law, Technology Trends 

For more details go here.

Topics: Family Law; International Law; News & Events

The Power of International Law in Times of European Integration
European Society of International Law
September 2007 Budapest
http://www.esil-sedi.org/english/forthcoming.html

To learn more about the second ESIL Forum, occurring in September of this year, refer to their website which will provide more information regarding the conference and the call for papers in the near future.  The forum will take place over a day and a half in Budapest and it will follow the structure of the 2005 conference held in Geneva.

Deadline: August 18, 2006
Conference dates: January 3-6, 2007
Washington DC
Submission Guidelines
Further information regarding the conference

This year’s conference theme is:  Expanding Knowledge and Serving our Communities: Academic, Civil, and International

August 31-September 3, 2006 
Philadelphia, PA
For more information visit
APSA’s Annual Meeting 

Chaired by Judith Goldstein and Rick Valelly