SIEL E-Newsletter - Number
8 (November 2009)
This is the Eighth SIEL newsletter, the others may be found
at the the news section of the SIEL website
- www.sielnet.org.
This Newsletter includes information on:
- The SIEL
2010 Conference Call for Papers/Panels
- SIEL 2010
Website
- The SIEL Annual General Meeting
- The SIEL
Investment Law Network
- Other IEL Activities
- The ELSA Moot Court Competition on WTO Law -
North American
Regional
Round (March 2010)
- Investment
Treaty Disputes Project at Washington & Lee and UNCTAD
- Social Legal Studies Assoc. annual
conference in Bristol
– IEL stream
- IEL Job
Postings
I. SIEL 2010 Conference Website and Call for Papers/Panels
A. SIEL
2010 Call for Paper/Panels
MEMBERS: Please circulate/repost the below call or the url
of the Call (http://www.sielnet.org/Default.aspx?pageId=466207)
The Second Biennial Global Conference of the Society of
International Economic Law (SIEL) will be hosted by the University
of Barcelona and its IELPO Programme
(see http://www.ielpo.org/) at the premises
of the University
of Barcelona from the 8th
July to 10th July 2010.
The conference committee seeks proposals for paper
presentations and conference panels under the following terms.
Conference
Themes
Over the course of the last two decades, the communities of
scholars, practitioners and others active in the area of international economic
law have grown and diversified in ways that few could have predicted. The field
of international economic law now includes a diverse array of participants and
covers many new substantive issues. Inevitably, the term international economic
law defies easy definition: it is at once a fully integrated part of public
international law and an identifiable field in its own right.
This conference provides a venue for exploring many
different faces of international economic law. Given that the aim of the
Society includes fostering research in the area of IEL and promoting
cooperation among all parts within the field, the SIEL Global Conference offers
a forum for those inside and outside academia to share pedagogical and research
methods, as well as to explore greater cooperation among the many different
constituencies of the field.
We welcome proposals for papers and panels on any topic
related to International Economic Law, including:
- the three
traditional pillars of IEL: trade, investment, and monetary policies;
- the
relationship between these pillars, and between these pillars and other
branches of
law;
- the
influence of disciplines such as economics, political economy, and others on
international
economic law;
- comparative
international economic law, focusing on how international
economic
law interacts with laws, institutions and actors at the domestic level;
- the
geographies of international economic law, relating to the role of
international
economic
law in different parts of the world;
- the roles
that law and legal practices play within international economic
governance;
- methods and
trends in the teaching and learning of international economic law; and
- interactions
between scholars, practitioners, government officials and civil society
groups
active in international economic law.
We are particularly interested in integrating new voices
with more established figures in the field, and therefore welcome works in
progress from young or new scholars.
There will be plenary and concurrent panels. Each panel will
be moderated and may also have commentators on the papers presented. We anticipate that many of the eminent
members of the Founding Executive Council and members of the present Executive
Council will attend the conference - as presenters, commentators, and as Key
Note Speakers (see www.sielnet.org for a full listing).
Submission
Procedure
Both paper and panel proposals are due by 15 December 2009.
Paper proposals should include a cover e-mail with full
institutional affiliation and contact details, and a paper abstract of no
longer than 300 words.
In evaluating proposals, please note that priority will be
given to unpublished papers and works in progress. In your proposal, please
note whether the paper has already been published, or has been accepted for
publication.
Panel proposals should include a panel title, a description
of the topics covered during the panel, and a list of suggested panelists
(between 4 and 6), including information about the panelists and their specific
contribution to the panel, in the form of a paper or presentation title.
Suggested panelists must have been consulted by the proposer about the
proposal. They must have confirmed their
interest in serving on such a panel if it were to be selected. Please take into
account the diversity of speakers and opinions reflected in your panel
proposal.
Proposals must be submitted via email to SIEL2010conference@gmail.com in WORD or PDF formats. Please, write “SIEL 2010 Conference Call for
Papers” in the subject of the email.
Results of the selection process are expected to be
announced by the end of February 2010. Accepted papers must be submitted by 10
June 2010.
Conference fees and the costs associated with attending the
conference will be kept as low as possible. The Society hopes, but cannot
guarantee, to be in a position to provide a subsidy of the conference fee for
some speakers on the basis of need, but at this time cannot make any
guarantees.
Review
and Selection Process
Every paper or panel proposal will be reviewed by at least
two members of the conference committee, on a double blind and confidential
basis.
Online
Publication
Conference papers will be made available online prior to the
conference. Papers from the Inaugural conference were published online as a
working paper series on SSRN's Legal Scholarship Network (see http://www.ssrn.com/link/SIEL-Inaugural-Conference.html).
Inquiries
Please submit inquiries to Colin Picker: Co-Executive Vice
President, SIEL (Email: pickerc@umkc.edu).
For more information about the SIEL, please go to: www.sielnet.org
B. New
SIEL 2010 Conference Website
The SIEL 2010 website, hosted by the IELPO and at their
website, is now up and running at http://siel2010.com/.
At this website there is additional information on such conference issues as
hotel discounts, Barcelona, the conference program (when it is released), and
so on.
II. SIEL Annual General Meeting
The SIEL will be holding its Annual General Meeting (“AGM”)
in London, and
remotely by call in, on December 14th at 2 PM GMT. More details, including any resolutions, will
follow by a separate e-mail to members. At that time we will provide the
details on how to arrange for proxy participation. It is not expected that anything
controversial or all that consequential will take place as the next AGM will be
held in Barcelona six months later where it is expected that a significant
number of members will be able to participate.
III. The SIEL Investment Law Network
A SIEL Investment Law Network is being established as a
sub-group within SIEL to build a network amongst academics and
academically-minded practitioners and officials interested in the field of
international investment law. The
Network is designed to be an inclusive group open to all SIEL members. Its purpose is to foster a specialized level
of engagement and encourage targeted SIEL events on investment.
The SIEL Investment Network will be officially launched at
an investment conference taking place in Sydney,
Australia, in
February 2010: Investment Treaty Law and
Arbitration: Evolution and Revolution in Substance and Procedure. For further information on participating in
the SIEL Investment Network, contact Kate Miles, University of Sydney,
at k.miles@usyd.edu.au.
IV. Other IEL Activities
A. The
ELSA Moot Court
Competition on WTO Law - North American
Regional Round (March
2010)
The ELSA Moot Court Competition on WTO Law is an international
moot court competition on WTO dispute settlement organized by the European Law
Students Association which includes teams of students around the world. Information is available on the ELSA website
at: www.elsamootcourt.org. Regional Rounds will be held in Asia, Europe,
Australia, Latin America and
North America in March and April, with the Final Round being held in the Dominican Republic
in May. This competition is supported by
the WTO, and co-sponsored by the World Trade Institute, IELPO and Sidley Austin
LLP.
This year, the University
of Ottawa, Faculty of Law is pleased
to host the North American Regional Round, which is open to teams from
universities in Canada and
the United States. It will be held from March 18-20, 2010 in Ottawa, Canada. Information about the North American Regional
Round is available at: www.commonlaw.uottawa.ca/wtomoot. If you are at a North American law school,
please consider fielding a team.
B. Washington & Lee School
of Law and UNCTAD Project on Investment
Treaty Disputes
Washington and Lee School of Law has announced a new
partnership with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development to
explore the prevention and efficient management of investment treaty disputes.
The joint project’s initial phase will occur through website collaboration. The
site (accessible at http://investmentADR.wlu.edu)
facilitates discussion by providing overviews of relevant concepts and
collecting preconference research. The effort culminates in a conference at
Washington and Lee University School of Law in Lexington, Virginia
on March 29, 2010.
The conference is free and open to the public. To register
for the conference, please contact Wendy Rice at ricew@wlu.edu
no later than Monday, March 22, 2010. Media Contact: Susan D. Franck, Associate
Professor of Law (francks@wlu.edu); Jan
Knoerich, UNCTAD (Jan.Knoerich@unctad.org).
C. Social
Legal Studies Assoc. annual conference in Bristol
– IEL stream
A subject stream entitled International Economic Law,
Justice and Development will be included at the Social Legal Studies
Association annual conference in Bristol
(30.03.10-01.04.10). The call for papers and instructions for submission of
proposals can be found at: http://law.uwe.ac.uk/slsa/call-for-papers.aspx
D. IEL
Activity Announcements
The SIEL also seeks to publicize IEL events – be they
conferences, “calls for papers”, IEL competitions, IEL programs and so on. Please send us such information for
posting. To view a list of past SIEL
posts, please visit the SIEL website (www.sielnet.org).
V. IEL Job Postings
At the SIEL website, http://www.sielnet.org/Default.aspx?pageId=113495,
there are three new IEL jobs posted (1.Senior Research Fellow in International
Investment and Trade Law, at the British Institute of International and
Comparative Law; 2. Director, at the WTO Legal Affairs Division; and 3.UNCTAD
Transnational Corporations Affairs Officer)
As you hear of new jobs please log in as a member and post them there.
VI. IEL Publisher Discounts
Since its inception, the SIEL has negotiated SIEL member
discounts with a wide variety of publishers, all of whom have been very
supportive of the SIEL. For more
information on discounts being provided from individual publishers, please
visit: http://www.sielnet.org/Default.aspx?pageId=107157
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As a member run organization with around 400 members
globally, please consider getting in touch with us with specific ideas for SIEL
projects and services. We are committed
to expanding the SIEL activities and services wherever appropriate - be it
alone or in partnership with other IEL organizations around the world. Indeed, at the moment we are in the process
of developing new projects and services and once they are finalized we will let
you know.
Thanks for your support and interest.
Colin & Andrew
Executive Vice-Presidents, SIEL