“The Conference Committee is honored to invite academics and practitioners to submit paper to contribute to the International Conference on Rethinking International Law and Justice.”
Date: 24-25 September 2012
Venue: TC Istanbul Kültür University, Akıngüç Auditorium and Art Center, ISTANBUL, TURKEY
The Conference Comittee is honored to announce that Honorable Prof. Mark Villiger, Judge at the European Court of Human Rights will deliver a keynote speech at the Conference.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Committee welcomes papers exploring issues of justice arising in specific areas of international law, as well as underlying theories of justice deriving from political science, international relations and international law.
The Committee welcomes papers on related topics, including but not limited to:
* Issues of justice in:
– International criminal law
– International humanitarian law
– Human rights law
– Environmental law
– Law of the sea
– Refugee law
– International trade law
* The role of non-state actors in promoting international justice
* The international dimension of legal theories of justice, particularly:
– Theories of the history, development and future of international law and institutions
– Third world approaches to international law
* Issues of international justice identified in political theory and international relations theory
Paper proposals/papers can be submitted and presented in either Turkish or English. Simultaneous translation from Turkish to English and English to Turkish will be provided.
*Selected papers from the Conference will be published in an edited collection/s. More details will be announced on this website.
Deadline for paper abstract submission: 10 June 2012
The Conference Organising Committee will inform applicants of the outcome of their proposals by 25 June 2012.
CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS
Selected papers from the Conference will be published in the edited Ashgate Collection.
Papers will be selected on the basis of: topic and link to conference theme;originality of idea and argument in paper and written quality of paper(communication and referencing). Presenters who are interested in publishing apaper in the edited collection, should send a full draft of the paper to RowenaMaguire r.maguire@qut.edu.au by 16 September 2012.
Contributions should be prepared in accordance in the AshgateAuthor Pack: Social Sciences and should be 7000 words in total (includingreferences). Decisions about the edited collection, will be communicated by 28 September 2012.
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
RETHINKING INTERNATIONAL LAW AND JUSTICE
Date: 24-25 September 2012
Venue: TC Istanbul Kültür University, Akıngüç Auditorium and Art Center, ISTANBUL, TURKEY
The Conference will be co-hosted by the Istanbul Kültür University Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology, the Institute for Ethics, Governance and Law (a joint initiative of the United Nations University, Griffith University, the Queensland University of Technology, the Australian National University, OP Jindal Global University and the Center for Asian Integrity).
PARTICIPANTS
The Conference will be of interest to academics and practitioners interested in international law, environmental law, human rights, ethics, international relations, political theory and other relevant social sciences.
The Conference Comittee is honored to announce that Honorable Prof. Mark Villiger, Judge at the European Court of Human Rights will deliver a keynote speech at the Conference.
LANGUAGE OF THE CONFERENCE
The official language of the Conference is Turkish and English. Papers can be submitted and presented in either Turkish or English. Simultaneous translation from Turkish to English and English to Turkish will be provided.
BACKGROUND
Debates about the values which international actors should follow focus on the rule of law, human rights, democracy and sustainability. Although these governance values were largely formulated in the west and adopted in international instruments, similar values are found in most, possibly all, cultures. While these other values are not hostile to the familiar western formulations, neither is their sense fully captured by those formulations. In debates about security, health, finance and global warming, some feel that there is something missing.
A common complaint is that the framing of those debates and the solutions proposed are not in accord with ‘justice’ – a broader term that may be seen to encompass the rule of law, human rights, democracy and sustainability but is certainly not exhausted by it. For example, there are concerns that those countries which were the principal causes of global warming are not bearing a commensurate burden in dealing with it. This raises an important concern. Rawls argued that ‘justice is the first virtue of institutions’ – a point of view that is equally valid for international as national institutions.
Raising the issue of justice hardly resolves the matter: in western philosophy there are several forms of justice (Formal, Procedural, Substantive, Retributive, Restorative) and many theories offering different answers as to what justice requires. Even where formal justice is available, issues of Access to Justice loom large. Going beyond the west to the many long standing Asian, African, American and Indigenous cultures, there are a host of valuable perspectives on the ways that human beings relate to each other in communities in interaction with nature.
With this background in mind, the Committee welcomes papers exploring issues of justice arising in specific areas of international law, as well as underlying theories of justice deriving from political science, international relations and international law.
CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS
Selected papers from the Conference will be published in the edited Ashgate Collection.
Papers will be selected on the basis of: topic and link to conference theme;originality of idea and argument in paper and written quality of paper(communication and referencing). Presenters who are interested in publishing apaper in the edited collection, should send a full draft of the paper to RowenaMaguire r.maguire@qut.edu.au by 16 September 2012.
Contributions should be prepared in accordance in the AshgateAuthor Pack: Social Sciences and should be 7000 words in total (includingreferences). Decisions about the edited collection, will be communicated by 28 September 2012.
Contact Person:
Asst. Prof. Derya Aydın Okur Co-Chair of the Conference Organising Committee d.aydinokur@iku.edu.tr
For registration please e-mail to: registration@internationallawandjustice.com
For enquiries please e-mail to: info@internationallawandjustice.com
Postal Address : Istanbul Kültür University Faculty of Law E-5 Karayolu Üzeri, Eski Londra Asfaltı, Şirinevler Yerleşkesi, 34191 ISTANBUL/TURKEY
Telephone : +90 212 498 4525 +90 212 498 4616
