international economic law

Work On! Application for Chair in Law and Economics at The Washington University in St. Louis School of Law

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The Washington University in St. Louis School of Law seeks a distinguished scholar at the professor rank to fill a tenured appointment as the Joseph and Yvonne Cordell Distinguished Professorship, with a focus on Law & Economics.  The appointment begins July 1, 2017.  Applicants should have a strong record of influential and insightful scholarship and teaching.  Further, the candidate is expected to use economic tools to answer legal questions.  Finally, the candidate will be expected to teach law courses in their area of expertise and interact with the university community outside the law school.

Interested applicants are strongly encouraged to submit materials electronically to Professor Scott Baker at sbaker@wulaw.wustl.edu.  Paper applications can be sent to:

Professor Scott Baker                                                                                                                        Washington University in St. Louis School of Law                                                                                  Anheuser-Busch Hall  One Brookings Drive  St. Louis, Missouri 63130

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Call for Papers: ASIL/Denver Law conference ‘Reassessing International Law and Development: New Challenges for Law and Policy’; proposals due May 16

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The American Society of International Law International Economic Law Interest Group (IEcLIG), in partnership with the University of Denver Sturm College of Law Sutton Colloquium, will hold their 2014 Biennial Research Conference, “Reassessing International Law and Development: New Challenges for Law and Policy,” at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law in Denver, CO, USA, from November 13-15, 2014.

Via Elizabeth Trujillo of Suffolk Law, who is Co-Chair of the IEcLIG, comes this call for papers:

Amartya Sen’s call for understanding development not only in terms of gross national product but also “in terms of the substantive freedoms of people” marked an important reframing of the legal and policy discourse around economic development. Goals focused much academic research in this area towards a more comprehensive understanding of development, one that would recognize economic growth as intrinsically tied to such areas as: environmental sustainability; food security; the reduction of extreme poverty, hunger, and child mortality; access to health; and the promotion of education and gender equality. International economic institutions like the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund have traditionally been at the center of promoting and managing economic growth; yet, these institutions also face challenges caused by recent financial crises, the need for food security and high energy demand, while preserving natural resources and the environment.

With the approach of the fifteenth anniversary of the Millennium goals and given these new and ongoing challenges, it is time to reassess the role that international economic law (IEL) has played and continues to play in development. How effective is IEL at promoting development, broadly construed? Under what conditions is it effective? In what ways should IEL norms and institutions be adjusted to accommodate growing concerns around climate change, energy demand, food security and high energy demand, while preserving natural resources and the environment?

We encourage IEL scholars, practitioners, and advanced graduate students to submit proposals for paper presentations or panels. For guaranteed consideration, proposals must be received no later than May 16, 2014.

More information is available here (Word doc).

 

Write On! Call for Papers: Trade and Climate Change

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Trade, Law and Development is a student-edited journal on International Economic Law published by the National Law University, Jodhpur, India. Managing Editor Thomas J. Vaillianeth sends this call for papers for the journal’s upcoming special issue on Trade and Climate Change:

Founded in 2009, the philosophy of Trade, Law and Development has been to generate and sustain a constructive and democratic debate on emergent issues in International Economic Law and to serve as a forum for the discussion and distribution of ideas – with a specific focus on the development perspective of International Economic Law. In keeping with these ideals, the Board of Editors is pleased to announce Trade and Climate Change as the theme for its next Special Issue (Vol. VI, No. 1, Summer 2014).

Climate change is one of the foremost challenges facing the global community today and intersects with international trade in numerous ways. Sustainable development and protection and preservation of the environment are recognized as fundamental goals of the WTO, although its principal objective is to foster international trade. The WTO permits members to avail of exceptions to its principles in order to protect the environment under specific conditions. The on-going Doha Round has further consolidated the WTO’s stance on the environment by launching the first ever multilateral trade and environment negotiations. Moreover, the recent COP-15, Rio+20 and Earth Summit negotiations have given significant impetus towards achieving a global solution to climate change. There is hope that this multilateral dialogue will materialise into a global climate change deal in 2015 under the auspices of the UNFCCC.

This Special Issue, currently scheduled for publication in June, 2014, will provide an ideal platform for deliberation on the relationship between trade and climate change in the run-up to the proposed 2015 global climate change deal. Accordingly, the Board of Editors is pleased to invite original, unpublished submissions for the Special Issue on Trade and Climate Change for publication as ‘Articles’, ‘Notes’, ‘Comments’ and/or ‘Book Reviews’. Preference will be given to submissions that espouse perspectives of developing and under-developed countries.

Manuscripts may be submitted via e-mail, ExpressO or the TL&D website. For further information and submission guidelines, please visit the Journal’s website or contact us at editors[at]tradelawdevelopment.com.

Last date for Submissions: January 31, 2014.