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[Don Anton]

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AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 
20th ANNUAL CONFERENCE 
WELLINGTON, 5-7 July 2012 
 
INTERNATIONAL LAW IN THE NEXT TWO DECADES: FORM OR SUBSTANCE?
 
The 20th Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Society of
International Law (‘ANZSIL’) will take place from Thursday, 5 July 2012
to Saturday, 7 July 2012 hosted by the New Zealand Centre for Public
Law, Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington. The Conference
Organising Committee now invites proposals for papers to be presented at
the Conference. 
 
Call for Papers – Deadline 14 February 2012
 
This Conference is the Society’s twentieth annual conference, and
provides an opportunity to reflect on the last twenty years in the
development of international law, but equally important to look ahead to
the emerging issues and to speculate on what the next twenty years will
bring for international law and its practice and teaching. The
relentless progression of climate change, the political revolutions and
uprisings in the Middle East, the relationship between the  growing
economic and political power of countries outside Europe and North
America and their approach to international law and diplomacy, the
sharpening of debates over food security, the inability of the United
Nations to reform its institutional arrangements relating to
international peace and security, the fragility of the international
financial system and popular movements challenging its morality and
legitimacy, the resurgence of fundamentalisms, and the continuing
disgrace of widespread poverty, are just some of the issues with which
papers might engage. 
 
The Committee would welcome papers exploring significant conceptual or
practical shifts in the development, substantive content,
implementation, teaching or practice of international law. Among the
themes the Committee is keen to see addressed are:
 
·         the harmonisation of operational and normative activities of
international institutions, and the extent to which  have efforts to
produce system wide coherence been successful
·         conceptions of risk, the regulation of uncertainty and the
clash of precautions in international law
·         the “new” wave of democratisation and the role of
international law and institutions two decades after the end of the Cold
War
·         new international legal geographies
·         the changing relationship of the key pillars and institutions
of international economic law: trade, investment and finance
·         the expanding role of non-State actors including political
movements, transnational corporations and other actorschallenges posed
by the “civilianisation” of armed conflict and the regulation of means
and methods of warfare in an era of increasing technological
developments.

 
The Committee particularly invites papers that address these themes
from the perspective of private international law, as well as from
public international law perspectives. The Committee also welcomes
proposals for papers on other aspects of international law. 
 
Those proposing papers for presentation at the Conference should submit
a one‐page abstract and brief one‐page curriculum vitae by email to the
Conference Organising Committee [anzsil at law.anu.edu.au] no later than
Tuesday, 14 February 2012. Please include the heading on your email
message ‘ANZSIL Conference 2011 Paper Proposal: [Your Name]’. The
Conference Organising Committee will inform applicants of the outcome of
their proposals by mid-March 2012. Further information about the
Conference, including program and registration details, will be
available on the ANZSIL website
(http://law.anu.edu.au/anzsil/conferences.html).
 
Postgraduate students undertaking higher research degrees in
international law who wish to present their projects and the results of
their research are encouraged to
 submit their proposals (marked ‘PG
Workshop’) for presentation at the Postgraduate Workshop (to be held on
Wednesday, 4 July 2012. For further details and call for papers, see the
ANZSIL website: http://law.anu.edu.au/ANZSIL/index.html). The closing
date for applications to the Postgraduate Workshop is 24 February 2012,
and will also be the subject of a separate call for papers. Successful
applicants for the postgraduate workshop will be offered free
registration at the Conference.
 
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