Call for Papers: Inaugural Annual European Junior Faculty Forum (Berlin, June 28-29, 2017)

Network member Mattias Kumm (NYU, WZB Social Science Research Center, and Humboldt) has written to share a call for papers for the European Junior Faculty Forum on June 28-29, 2017, at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center.  Note that the deadline for submissions is April 15, 2017.

A summary and link to the Call for Papers can be found below; the original notice can be found here.

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The WZB Berlin Social Science Center, the European University Institute and the London School for Economics and Political Science invite submissions for the Inaugural Annual European Junior Faculty Forum for Public Law and Jurisprudence to be held at WZB Berlin Social Science Center on June 28-29, 2017.

The forum intends to address public law scholarship from a theoretically informed doctrinal, interdisciplinary and comparative perspective, contribute to the research of junior scholars, and create an intellectual community of European public law scholars. Public Law focused scholarship from other disciplines (philosophy, political science, history, sociology) is explicitly welcome.

The forum brings together a selected group of early career scholars for what promises to be an intellectually rewarding academic exchange. The papers, selected based upon blind peer-review, will be commented on by two senior scholars.

The author must be based in an academic institution in the European Union or in an Associated Country and have obtained the doctoral degree no longer than seven years prior to the application deadline.

For details see the Call for Papers.

Questions about the European Junior Faculty Forum for Public Law and Jurisprudence as well as submissions should be sent to Professor Mattias Kumm’s office via ejff [at] wzb.eu.

Deadline for Submissions: April 15, 2017

Decisions will be sent by May 15, 2017.

The workshop will be held on June 28-29, 2017 in Berlin at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center.

Call for Papers: "New Challenges to European Solidarity" at Cambridge (March 9-10, 2017)

Network member Alicia Hinarejos (Cambridge) has written to pass along a call for papers for a terrific-looking workshop at Cambridge in March 2017.  Entitled "New Challenges to European Solidarity," the event aims to bring younger scholars to Cambridge for two days to share their ideas and receive feedback from one another as well as participating senior academics.  It is funded by a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award.

The call for papers follows below: further information is available from Alicia.

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New Challenges to European Solidarity: Call for Papers

The European Union finds itself at a historical crossroads. It currently faces a number of existential threats that need a common and unified response; yet such a common response is likely to require unprecedented pooling of sovereignty and sharing of financial burdens among the individual Member States. In other words, these challenges require a new understanding of solidarity among the States and peoples of Europe. The responses that the Union gives to these challenges will shape European integration for the foreseeable future. This workshop will bring together young scholars who are conducting research on challenges to European solidarity, including e.g. in the context of Economic and Monetary Union, social policy, or migration. The event will provide a forum for researchers working in these areas to meet each other, present their work, and discuss their ideas with policymakers and other scholars, including senior academics who will provide feedback.

The event will take place over two days (afternoon of the 9th of March and morning of the 10th of March 2017) in Cambridge. The project is funded by a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award and organised by Dr Alicia Hinarejos, University Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge.

Advanced PhD students, postdoctoral scholars and early career academics are invited to apply by Friday, 13 January 2017, with an abstract (500 words maximum) and a recent CV to solidarity.cambridge@gmail.com. Submission of draft papers with the application is encouraged, but not required. Selected applicants will be informed of the outcome before the end of January 2017, and invited to submit draft papers by the end of February 2017. The project will cover participants’ cost of accommodation in a Cambridge college and travel within the UK (standard class rail or airfare in accordance with University of Cambridge guidelines). For further information on the workshop, please email Alicia Hinarejos at ah428{at}cam{dot}ac{dot}uk.

Call for Panels and Papers: 2016 ICON-S Conference in Berlin (June 17-19, 2016)

Network member Gráinne de Búrca (NYU) has written to share with us a call for panels and papers for the 2016 ICON-S Annual Meeting and conference, to be held in Berlin at the Humboldt University on June 17-19, 2016.  The theme for this year's conference will be "Borders, Otherness, and Public Law."  An extract from the call for panels and papers is provided below; the full version can be found here.  Note that proposals are due by February 15, 2016.

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Call for Panels and Papers: "Borders, Otherness, and Public Law"

ICON-S, the International Society of Public Law, invites paper and panel submissions for its 2016 Annual Meeting to be held at the Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, on June 17-19, 2016.

EPSA 2016 Annual General Conference (Brussels, June 23-25, 2016)

Network member Will Phelan (Trinity College Dublin) has asked that we alert the network to the upcoming annual general meeting of the European Political Science Association ("EPSA"), to be held this June in Brussels.  The deadline for proposals is December 11, 2015; further information is below.

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EPSA’s sixth annual general conference will take place from June 23 to June 25 in one of Europe’s most politically and culturally significant cities: Brussels.

The conference will take place in SQUARE, a modern made-to-purpose conference centre with first-class facilities and amenities. SQUARE is  a short stroll from all of the historic city’s major attractions and the central train station.

EPSA expects 750-800 participants at the Brussels conference. We will have from 180-200 panels on all issues of modern political science. Participants will find plenty of opportunity to discuss their work, to network or to simply enjoy the amazing attractions of Brussels in the summer.

EPSA’s annual conference is a general political science conference and as such, invites the presentation of cutting edge research results from all fields of political science and all types of interdisciplinary research with a political component.

Deadline for submission of proposals is December 11, 2015.

Now Available: Cambridge Yearbook of European Studies Volume 17

Network member Kenneth Armstrong (Cambridge) has written to alert the network to the release of Volume 17 of the Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies.  Contributors to this volume include network members Joanne Scott (UCL) and Jo Shaw (Edinburgh), and friends of the network Edoardo Chiti (Tuscia) and Federico Fabbrini (Copenhagen).  The volume can be found online here.

Kenneth also extends an open invitation to the network to contact him with any ideas for articles they would like to publish in the Yearbook.

Call for Panel Proposals: 8th Pan-European Conference on the European Union, Trento (June 2016)

Friend of the network Mira Scholten (Utrecht) has passed on the following call for panel proposals for the 8th Pan-European Conference on the European Union in Trento, on the topic of Shared Enforcement of EU Law: An Accountability Perspective.  She asks that interested respondents submit an abstract of around 300 words by October 7, 2015.  Further information may be obtained from Mira.

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This is a call for papers for a panel proposal for the 8th Pan-European Conference on the European Union (Trento, June 2016). Those who are interested in the topic described below, please, submit an abstract of circa 300 words to us by October 7. We would appreciate if you forward this message to other interested persons you may know and share your/relevant publications on the topic of the proposed panel. Thank you in advance!

Shared Enforcement of EU Law: An Accountability Perspective

Enforcing EU law has since recently become a task of an increasing number of EU institutions and agencies. As a result of the EU recent financial reform, for instance, the European Central Bank directly supervises significant credit institutions, representing almost 85% of total banking assets in the euro area. Together with the possibility to withdraw a bank authorization, its enforcement arsenal includes administrative sanctions. In addition, the financial reform has led to the creation of a number of independent financial supervisors, including the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). ESMA’s enforcement authority includes the powers to examine and take copies of any relevant records and materials, ask for oral explanation, summon and hear persons, require telephone and data traffic records, and interview persons. At the same time, while EU supervisors have gained important enforcement powers, the exercise of those powers can be dependent on national level institutions (e.g., national supervisors providing relevant information or national courts for receiving authorizations to investigate one’s premises), implying the existence of a system of shared enforcement.

Since the trend of empowering EU entities with direct enforcement powers is quite recent, little is known about how shared enforcement is organized between EU and national authorities (what does an EU entity (institution, agency) and a national (supervising) authority do exactly when they enforce EU law? Are their tasks divided/subordinated to each other or do they share enforcement tasks? etc.). Along with that, it is unclear how and at what level EU and national supervisors render account for the enforcement of the EU law: do they share or spit accountability? How does it work? At what level does it take place? etc. The panel invites contributions (case-studies) addressing these questions using different perspectives and disciplines. We also welcome theoretical contributions on the organization and exercise of accountability (especially for enforcement tasks) in a multi-level order.

Reminder (Legal Scholars Especially): Proposals due Oct. 1, 2015 for "Resilient Europe?", 23rd International Conference of Europeanists, Philadelphia, April 14-16, 2016

We want to send a reminder that the 23rd International Conference of Europeanists, organized by the Council of European Studies, will take place in Philadelphia on April 14-16, 2016.  Proposals are due Oct. 1, 2015.  The topic, fittingly, is "Resilient Europe?"  The organizing committee includes two network members, Mark Pollack (Temple, as co-chair) and Peter Lindseth (UConn).  The organizing committee is especially interested in including a greater number of legal scholars on the program, so please consider submitting a proposal.  The instructions for submission of proposals are below.  

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23rd International Conference of Europeanists - Call for Proposals

Resilient Europe?

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. • April 14-16, 2016
to be held at DoubleTree by Hilton Philadelphia Center City
Organized by the Council for European Studies

Call for Proposals

Resilience is the capacity to survive, to bounce back and to innovate in the wake of extraordinary stress or unexpected crises. Psychologists view resilience as a character trait. Today, researchers and scholars of all stripes are beginning to understand resilience as constitutive of societies as well as of individuals.

The Program Committee for the 23rd International Conference of Europeanists invites participants to consider contemporary Europe’s capacity for resilience. Since the financial crisis began in 2008, stresses and shocks of various sorts have posed dilemmas that challenge Europe’s resilience in economic, political, and cultural domains. How will European economies confront slow growth and austerity, as well as the atrophy of “social Europe” and the growth of inequality? How will demographic decline combined with immigration and assimilation affect the ethnic composition of Europe? Will the protracted Eurozone crisis and waning public support for European institutions and policies alter the viability of the European project? How will secular Europe confront the challenges of religious mobilization? How will European democracies confront the rise of nationalist parties and the valorization of “illiberalism” as viable political practice? Can Europe remain a “Normative Power,” a force for liberalism, democracy and the rule of law in the world, in the face of rising powers and resurgent authoritarianism?

The Council for European Studies (CES) seeks proposals that explore these questions and the quality of resilience in Europe. It encourages proposals from the widest range of disciplines and, in particular, proposals that combine disciplines, nationalities, and generations. CES invites proposals for panels, roundtables, book discussions and individual papers on the study of Europe, broadly defined, and strongly encourages participants to submit their proposals as part of an organized panel. Full panel proposals will be given top priority in the selection process. To form panels, participants may find it useful to connect with like-minded scholars through the many CES research networks, which can be found here: http://councilforeuropeanstudies.org/research/research-networks

Proposals may be submitted from August 17 to October 1, 2015. Participants will be notified of the Program Committee’s decision by December 10, 2015. Information on how to submit proposals will be posted on the CES website and disseminated through its newsletter. To subscribe to the CES newsletter visit: http://councilforeuropeanstudies.org/

Juan Díez Medrano, Chair,
Council for European Studies
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Mabel Berezin, Co-Chair, CES Conference Program Committee Cornell University

Mark Pollack, Co-Chair, CES Conference Program Committee Temple University

Call for Proposals (Due Oct. 1, 2015): "Resilient Europe?", 23rd International Conference of Europeanists, Philadelphia, April 14-16, 2016

We've been alerted that the 23rd International Conference of Europeanists, organized by the Council of European Studies, will take place in Philadelphia on April 14-16, 2016.  The topic, fittingly, is "Resilient Europe?"  The organizing committee includes two network members, Mark Pollack (Temple, as co-chair) and Peter Lindseth (UConn).  The organizing committee is especially interested in including a greater number of legal scholars on the program, so please consider submitting a proposal.  The instructions are below.  

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23rd International Conference of Europeanists - Call for Proposals

Resilient Europe?

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. • April 14-16, 2016
to be held at DoubleTree by Hilton Philadelphia Center City
Organized by the Council for European Studies

Call for Proposals

Resilience is the capacity to survive, to bounce back and to innovate in the wake of extraordinary stress or unexpected crises. Psychologists view resilience as a character trait. Today, researchers and scholars of all stripes are beginning to understand resilience as constitutive of societies as well as of individuals.

The Program Committee for the 23rd International Conference of Europeanists invites participants to consider contemporary Europe’s capacity for resilience. Since the financial crisis began in 2008, stresses and shocks of various sorts have posed dilemmas that challenge Europe’s resilience in economic, political, and cultural domains. How will European economies confront slow growth and austerity, as well as the atrophy of “social Europe” and the growth of inequality? How will demographic decline combined with immigration and assimilation affect the ethnic composition of Europe? Will the protracted Eurozone crisis and waning public support for European institutions and policies alter the viability of the European project? How will secular Europe confront the challenges of religious mobilization? How will European democracies confront the rise of nationalist parties and the valorization of “illiberalism” as viable political practice? Can Europe remain a “Normative Power,” a force for liberalism, democracy and the rule of law in the world, in the face of rising powers and resurgent authoritarianism?

The Council for European Studies (CES) seeks proposals that explore these questions and the quality of resilience in Europe. It encourages proposals from the widest range of disciplines and, in particular, proposals that combine disciplines, nationalities, and generations. CES invites proposals for panels, roundtables, book discussions and individual papers on the study of Europe, broadly defined, and strongly encourages participants to submit their proposals as part of an organized panel. Full panel proposals will be given top priority in the selection process. To form panels, participants may find it useful to connect with like-minded scholars through the many CES research networks, which can be found here: http://councilforeuropeanstudies.org/research/research-networks

Proposals may be submitted from August 17 to October 1, 2015. Participants will be notified of the Program Committee’s decision by December 10, 2015. Information on how to submit proposals will be posted on the CES website and disseminated through its newsletter. To subscribe to the CES newsletter visit: http://councilforeuropeanstudies.org/

Juan Díez Medrano, Chair,
Council for European Studies
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Mabel Berezin, Co-Chair, CES Conference Program Committee Cornell University

Mark Pollack, Co-Chair, CES Conference Program Committee Temple University

CFP: Sheffield University (UK) Conference on Skilled Migration Policies, September 15, 2015

Network member Francesca Strumia (Sheffield University) has asked that we pass along the following call for papers for a conference in September entitled "Unravelling the Talent Tale: Skilled Migration Policies between National Images, Membership Bonds and Economic Priorities."  See below and here for details.

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Unravelling the Talent Tale: Skilled Migration Policies between National Images, Membership Bonds and Economic Priorities

Sheffield University School of Law

Tuesday September 15, 2015

with Professor Peter J. Spiro, Charles R. Weiner Professor of Law at Temple University Beasley School of Law (keynote speaker)

This one-day interdisciplinary conference, jointly sponsored by the Sheffield Faculty of Social Sciences Migration Research Group and the Sheffield Centre for International and European Law, proposes to bring together scholars, practitioners and institutional actors involved with the development and practice of skilled migration policies to consider a range of questions targeting the interrelation between attracting skilled migrants and redefining community boundaries and membership bonds.

Which concepts of talent underpin skilled migration policies and what kind of stake in the community do these concepts relate to? How do skilled migration policies alter existing paradigms for community closure and the nature of the ‘genuine links’ among community members? How do the claims to admission of skilled migrants relate to those of ‘standard’ migrants? How do these policies relate to narratives of sovereignty and nationalism?

Proposals for papers addressing the above questions from legal, political, sociological perspectives are encouraged. Paper proposals not exceeding 500 words in length and a one paragraph bio should be emailed by 30th April 2015 to skilledmigration.2015@gmail.com.  Successful applicants will be notified by mid-June 2015

For additional details and the full call please see http://migrationgovernance.org/activities_items/call-papers-skilled-migration-conference/.

CFP: International Society of Public Law (ICON·S), 2015 Conference on "Public Law in an Uncertain World", New York City, July 1-3

Network member Gráinne de Búrca has asked us to pass along the following call for papers from the International Society of Public Law (ICON·S) for their conference in July entitled "Public Law in an Uncertain World."  See below and here for details.

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International Society of Public Law (ICON·S)

2015 Conference

New York City, July 1-3

Call for Panels and Papers

“Public Law in an Uncertain World”

ICON-S invites submissions for papers and fully-formed panels for its 2015 Conference on “Public Law in an Uncertain World”.

The Conference will take place in New York City, on July 1-3, 2015, at the New York University School of Law.

The Conference will feature a keynote address as well as three plenary sessions on the Conference theme. A provisional program can be found here. The heart of the Conference, however, will be the two days devoted to the papers and panels selected through this Call.

ICON-S welcomes both individual papers as well as proposals for fully-formed panels. Panel proposals should include at least 3 papers by scholars who have agreed in advance to participate and should identify one or two discussants, who may also be paper presenters. Concurrent panel sessions will be scheduled over two days. Each concurrent panel session will last 1 hour and 30 minutes.

The plenary sessions are not intended to limit the subject-matter scope of individual paper submissions and fully-formed panel proposals. Paper and panel proposals may focus on any theoretical, historical, comparative, empirical, doctrinal, philosophical or practical perspective related broadly to public law, including administrative law, constitutional law, criminal law, or international law in all of their possible domestic, transnational, supranational, international and global variants related to the 2015 Conference theme. The purpose of this conference is to explore and evaluate the function and limits of public law in our uncertain world in relation to war and peace, human rights, religion, state-building, constitution-making, formal and informal institutional change, revolutionary movements, national security as well as but not limited to the economy, the environment and the challenge of new technologies.

We invite potential participants to refer to the ICON-S Mission Statement when choosing a topic.
ICON-S is by no means restricted to public lawyers! We particularly welcome panel proposals that offer a genuine multi-disciplinary perspective from various areas of law (including civil, commercial, criminal, tax, and labor law), as well as from scholars from the humanities and the social sciences with an interest in the study of public law and (un)certainty.

We welcome submissions from both senior and junior scholars (including advanced Ph.D. students) as well as practitioners.

All submissions must be made on the ICON-S website (www.icon-society.org) by April 10, 2015.

Successful applicants will be notified by May 1, 2015.

All participants will be responsible for their travel and accommodation expenses.

Call for Panels and Papers (Deadline Mar 31, 2014): Rethinking the Boundaries of Public Law and Public Space

We are pleased to pass on the call for panels and papers from network member Julie C. Suk for the Inaugural Conference of the International Society of Public Law to be organized at the European University Institute in Florence, from June 26-28, 2014. The Conference is entitled "Rethinking the Boundaries of Public Law and Public Space". The announcement is below and a provisional program can be found in PDF form here. 

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Call for Panels and Papers 

Rethinking the Boundaries of Public Law and Public Space 

The Inaugural Conference of the International Society of Public Law 

On June 26-28, 2014, in Florence, the European University Institute, NYU La Pietra and the University of Florence will be hosting the inaugural conference of the newly established International Society of Public Law (ICON•S).

You are invited to submit proposals for either individual papers or panels to be presented at the conference, or simply to register for participation.

Full details, modules for submitting proposals and information on how to register for the conference are available at http://icon-society.org/. The website also sets out the aims of the new Society and displays the provisional program of the inaugural conference.

Call for Papers (Deadline Mar 9, 2014): What Form of Government for the EU and the Eurozone?

We are pleased to pass on the call for papers for a new Conference to be organized at Tilburg Law School on June 5-6, 2014. The Conference is entitled "What Form of Government for the EU and the Eurozone?" and one of the lead participants is network member Dan Kelemen. The announcement is below and can be found in PDF form here, 

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What Form of Government for the European Union and the Eurozone?

Venue: Tilburg Law School, Tilburg, the Netherlands

Dates: June 5-6, 2014

Organizers: Federico Fabbrini, Han Somsen on behalf of Tilburg Law School

The debate about the institutional reforms of the European Union (EU) generally, and of the Euro-zone specifically, has recently acquired a new impetus. The Euro-crisis and the constitutional responses to it have profoundly modified de facto and de jure the institutional architecture of the EU designed by the Lisbon Treaty, and a number of influential road-maps have been advanced at the highest level of policy-making to trace the way forward for the EU. The purpose of this Conference is to examine from a comparative constitutional perspective the form of government of the EU and to discuss the prospects of integration and institutional reform in the Eurozone and the EU at large.

German Law Journal, Europe and the Lost Generation: Call For Papers, Essays and Comments (due April 15, 2014)

This call for papers from the German Law Journal, which was forwarded to us by network member Russell Miller (W&L), is seeking contributions reflecting from a broad range of perspectives on the legal, social, political and personal implications of the heavy burden resting on young people in the European south. It is, therefore, addressed in particular young legal researchers with backgrounds in or ties to the Eurozone's "crisis countries". The announcement is below and can be found in PDF form here, along with information about the submission procedure.

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GERMAN LAW JOURNAL 

Call For Papers – Essays – Comments 

Europe and the Lost Generation 

There are hints of recovery in some of the Eurozone’s so-called “crisis countries.” The Irish GDP is growing even as unemployment and borrowing costs fall. With the help of recent export growth, Spain’s two-year-old recession seems to have worn itself out. The IMF is closely watching what it calls a “fragile” economic recovery in Greece.

These hopeful signs have been purchased at a terrible price for the European project. The Commission’s Spring 2013 Eurobarometer Report showed a steady increase in the negative impressions of the EU, matched almost in lock-step with a steady decrease in the positive impressions of the EU. Now there is growing anxiety that Euroskeptic parties might capitalize on this disillusionment and win a significant bloc in the upcoming elections for the European Parliament. European Council President Herman van Rompuy acknowledged the damage one month ago in speech in Berliln when he cautioned against rising nationalism and populism in Europe and lamented the fact that prejudice toward other member states has significantly increased. Jürgen Habermas, in an April 2013 speech at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, concluded with regret that “what unites the European citizens today are Euroskeptical mindsets.”

But the cost to the European project is nothing compared with the human toll that has resulted from the rescue and bailout measures. Young Europeans in Greece, Spain, Portugal and Ireland have been especially hard-hit by staggering unemployment and vanishing prospects for the future. They are being called “the lost generation” and, in their millions, their stories constitute an almost silent political and moral indictment that has been characterized by some as a “social time-bomb.”

Call for Papers (Extended Deadline Feb 7, 2014): Workshop on Transnational Perspectives for Equality Law

We had posted this CFP previously but wanted to alert readers that the deadline has now been extended to February 7, 2014, and more importantly the eligibility requirements to submit proposals have been revised to invite faculty members at non-US institutions.

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Call for Presentations and Papers

Workshop on Transnational Perspectives on Equality Law

June 22-24, 2014: Washington, D.C.

EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION:

FEB 7, 2014

New Eligibility Categories:

Fellows and International Law School Faculty

Send to: 14-tpelcfp@aals.org

We are seeking proposals for presentations and papers for the 2014 Mid-Year Workshop on Transnational Perspectives on Equality Law.  The Workshop will be held on June 22-24, 2014 in Washington, DC at the Renaissance Mayflower Hotel.  The workshop will begin with a reception at 6:00 p.m. on Sunday, June 22 and conclude at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, June 24.  It will appeal to a wide range of teachers and scholars interested in these and related subject areas.

Background

Antidiscrimination law is an American invention that has spread all around the world.  During the American civil rights movement of the 1960s, antidiscrimination law promised radical social transformations towards equality for women and minorities in the workplace, in politics, and in education.  But recent developments in Equal Protection and Title VII doctrine have paralyzed this trajectory.  Meanwhile, the last decade has seen the unprecedented globalization of antidiscrimination law, as well as its expansion and alternative development outside the United States, catalyzed largely by the European Union's two directives in 2000, on race equality and on equal treatment in employment.  Over the last few years, a new body of equality law and policy experimentation has emerged not only in the EU and in European countries, but also in South Africa, Canada, Latin America, and Asia. There is a range of public policies adopted to mitigate the disadvantages of vulnerable groups such as racial, ethnic, and religious minorities, women, the disabled, the elderly, and the poor, constituting an "equality law" that goes beyond norms prohibiting discrimination.

Call for Papers (Deadline March 15, 2014): New Directions in EU and Global Risk Regulation: Regulatory Autonomy, Evidence-based Policymaking and International Regulatory Co-operation

We are pleased to pass on the call for papers from network member Alberto Alemanno (HEC) for the 10th International Workshop for Young Scholars (WISH) at HEC Paris in December 2014 (date to be determined). The topic is ‘New Directions in EU and Global Risk Regulation: Regulatory Autonomy, Evidence-based Policymaking and International Regulatory Co-operation’. The Workshop offers outstanding young scholars an opportunity to present their best research work in a professional academic setting to an audience of other young scholars and more senior academics. The announcement along with information about the abstract submission procedure is below and can be downloaded in PDF form here.

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The European Law Journal, HEC Paris and the Center for Research on Transnational Law (CTL), Peking University School of Transnational Law (PKUSTL), Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, are welcoming proposals for presentation at the 10th International Workshop for Young Scholars (WISH)/10ème Rencontre Internationale des Jeunes Chercheurs (RIJC).

The 10th WISH builds on the success of the previous WISH held annually since 2002. It offers outstanding young scholars an opportunity to present their best research work in a professional academic setting to an audience of other young scholars and more senior academics. Selected revised versions of the papers may be published in a special issue of the European Law Journal or in a bilingual edited book (Bruylant, Brussels) destined for an international readership.

Call for Papers (Deadline Jan 6, 2014): Informal Enforcement of Competition Law: Perspectives from the U.S. and Europe

Harvard European Law Association is organizing its first conference on Antitrust / EU Competition law on March 24, 2014 at Harvard Law School. The conference is open to young scholars and practitioners. The announcement is below, along with information about the abstract submission procedure.

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Call for Conference Abstracts

“Informal enforcement of competition law: perspectives from the U.S. and Europe”

March 24, 2014 at Harvard Law School

The first five years following the introduction of settlement procedures in cartel cases (EC Regulation 662/2008) and the growing interest in subjecting competition cases to arbitration provide an opportunity to discuss the use of informal mechanisms for the enforcement of competition/antitrust. This year’s conference will look into the realities in the EU and will compare them with the experience from the US. Consideration will be given to the relation and interaction between litigation, arbitration and settlement and to the grey areas in between them. The conference will shed light on dogmatic questions such as the normative tension between arbitration and private enforcement and the question of structural or behavioral remedies in settlement procedures. From a legitimacy standpoint, reflections will focus on the public nature of competition/antitrust enforcement and on the role of party autonomy. Based on the above, are we witnessing a change in the function of competition/antitrust or are we merely using “informal” means to justify “formal” ends?

Call for Papers (Deadline Dec 22, 2013): The Preliminary Reference to the Court of Justice of the European Union by Constitutional Courts

This call for papers, which was forwarded to us by friend of the network Giovanni Piccirilli (LUISS-Rome; Emile Noël Fellow this term at NYU), is addressed in particular PhD students and post-doctoral researchers. The seminar will take place in Rome, Italy on March, 28-29, 2014. The announcement is below, along with information about the abstract submission procedure.

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Call for Papers

The Preliminary Reference to the Court of Justice of the European Union

by Constitutional Courts

Seminar in memory of Gabriella Angiulli

March 28-29, 2014

Venue: LUISS Guido Carli, Rome, Italy

Organisers: Centro di Studi sul Parlamento, LUISS Guido Carli of Rome, in co-operation with the Centro interdipartimentale di ricerca e formazione sul diritto pubblico europeo e comparato, University of Siena

Conveners: Maria Dicosola, Cristina Fasone, Irene Spigno

In an age of globalisation of markets, policies and law, European integration is undergoing an extraordinary expansion. This process, far from involving only the harmonisation of national legislation according to common principles, underpins the transformation of the nature of European constitutional systems. According to many distinguished scholars, in fact, a multilevel system of sources and courts is re-defining the boundaries of European Law, which now has an inherent constitutional dimension.

Call for Papers (Deadline Dec 15, 2013): Central European Judges under the EU Influence

Network member Matej Avebelj (Graduate School of Government and European Studies, Kranj, Solvenia) has passed on the call for papers for the conference at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy on May 12-13, 2014.  The topic of the conference is 'Central European Judges under the EU Influence: The Transformative Power of Europe Revisited on the 10th Anniversary of Enlargement'. More details can be found below.

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Central European Judges under the EU Influence:

The Transformative Power of Europe Revisited

on the 10th Anniversary of the Enlargement

Date: May 12-13, 2014
Venue: European University Institute, Florence

Organisers: European University Institute, Centre for Judicial Cooperation and College of Europe, Department of European Legal Studies.

Outline: The aim of the conference is to critically examine the influence the membership in the European Union has had on the judicial thinking, method, and institutions in the new Central and Eastern European Member States.

Reminder: Two AALS Annual Meeting CFPs due September 3

Joint Program of the State and Local Government Law & Comparative Law Sections

Joint Program of the Financial Institutions andEuropean Law Sections

Both are due September 3 (click on the links above for instructions on submission).  Remember also the eligibility criteria:

Full-time faculty members of AALS member law schools are eligible to submit papers.  The following are ineligible to submit: foreign, visiting (without a full-time position at an AALS member law school) and adjunct faculty members, graduate students, fellows, non-law school faculty, and faculty at fee-paid non-member schools. Papers co-authored with a person ineligible to submit on their own may be submitted by the eligible co-author.