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<H2 class=entry-title>Africa and International Law: Taking Stock and Moving Forward
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<DIV class=entry-likers><STRONG>Date(s) of Conference:</STRONG></DIV></DIV>
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<P>April 13-14, 2012</P>
<P><STRONG>Location:</STRONG></P>
<P>Albany Law School<BR>80 New Scotland Avenue<BR>Albany, New York 12208-3494</P>
<P><STRONG>Description:</STRONG></P>
<P>A major objective of the conference will be to engage in a broad ranging conversation among scholars, practitioners and policy-makers to examine and evaluate how these international and regional regimes and institutions in Africa are producing new narratives of justice and how best they can make a real difference in responding to the challenges facing African peoples and governments. </P>
<P><STRONG>Call for Papers:</STRONG></P>
<P>Abstracts and papers are invited on a broad range of themes including the French intervention in Cote D’Ivoire, the NATO/US allied action in Libya, the fledgling jurisprudence of regional integration tribunals as well as piracy trials being conducted under universal jurisdiction, the race for African resources by China and other countries. Thus, a broad range of themes from public to private international law, as well as international and regional economic and trade legal systems and policies will be explored at the conference and abstracts and papers are invited.</P>
<P>In addition, papers and abstracts are invited to examine one of the reigning paradigms of African international legal scholarship that has argued that Africa has been and continues to be an innovator and generator of institutions and rules of international law, rather than its passive recipient. Papers and abstracts examining the tenability of claims that Africa is wholly disadvantaged and ineffectual in regimes such as international arbitration and trade as well as the extent to which such regimes have reinforced Africa’s peripheral location in the international political economy are invited.</P>
<P>Selected papers presented at the conference will be published in the inaugural issue of a new international law journal which will serve as an authoritative mouthpiece of the African international law experience.</P>
<P>Abstracts are due by September 30, 2011. Final Papers will be due on or before March 15, 2012.</P>
<P>All abstracts and final papers should be sent to:</P>
<P><A href="http://www.albanylaw.edu/sub.php?navigation_id=157&user_id=44" target=_blank>Prof. James Gathii<BR></A>Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship<BR>Governor George E. Pataki Professor of International Commercial Law<BR>Albany Law School<BR>80 New Scotland Avenue<BR>Albany, New York 12208-3494<BR><A href="mailto:jgath@albanylaw.edu" target=_blank>jgath@albanylaw.edu</A></P>
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<P><A href="http://www.albanylaw.edu/sub.php?navigation_id=2067" target=_blank>http://www.albanylaw.edu/sub.php?navigation_id=2067</A></P></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>