[IntLawProfessors] Africa and International Law: Taking Stock and Moving Forward

[Don Anton]

FYI, DA
Africa and International Law: Taking Stock and Moving Forward
Date(s) of Conference:

April 13-14, 2012
Location:
Albany Law School
80 New Scotland Avenue
Albany, New York 12208-3494
Description:
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. 
Call for Papers:
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.
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.
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.
Abstracts are due by September 30, 2011. Final Papers will be due on or
before March 15, 2012.
All abstracts and final papers should be sent to:
Prof. James Gathii
 ( http://www.albanylaw.edu/sub.php?navigation_id=157&user_id=44
)Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship
Governor George E. Pataki Professor of International Commercial Law
Albany Law School
80 New Scotland Avenue
Albany, New York 12208-3494
jgath at albanylaw.edu 
Contact Information:
http://www.albanylaw.edu/sub.php?navigation_id=2067
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