GNHRE Weekly Announcements: 23 August '24 -Call for works from ESIL-SEDI -Opportunities with Climate Policy Initiative, Center for International Environmental Law & Macquarie University -Events with Aberdeen Climate Action & Raoul Wallenberg Institute -New releases from Indra Overland, Dr. J & SR human rights & climate change, Elisa Morgera gnhre.org/?p=18155

ABILA's Spring/Summer newsletter is live! Read all about the International Law Association (ILA) Biennial, the upcoming ILW, ASIL's annual meeting, our recent blogging symposium, member updates, and more. ila-americanbranch.org/wp-content/upl…

📣 Call for abstracts You have been working on the topic of judicial and non-judicial mechanisms in the resolution of transnational ecological conflicts? A three-day hybrid workshop will take place in Arusha in November (19th-21st) All details to apply: curiaevirides.eu/arushaworkshop

Join Lori F. Damrosch (Columbia Law School), Harold Hongju Koh (Yale Law School), Sean D Murphy (GW Law), and Nilüfer Oral (NUS Faculty of Law) on Oct 24 for #ILW2024's Presidential Opening Plenary focusing on the ICJ. ABILA's Michael Scharf (CWRU School of Law) & Leila Sadat (leila sadat) will moderate.

Next in our Procedural and Environmental Rights in Canada blog series is Erin Dobbelsteyn. Read her piece 'Dearth of Protections for Earth Protectors: Lessons from Aarhus on Canada’s Protection of Indigenous and Environmental Human Rights Defenders' here: gnhre.org/?p=18159

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The Core Paradox of International Refugee Law - With Emily Arnold-Fernández of Forced Migration Review, Rez Gardi of R-SEAT: Refugees Seeking Equal Access at the Table, James Hathaway of Michigan Law School, John Thon Majok of The Wilson Center, & Leah Zamore of NYU Law. Register for #ILW2024 here: ila-americanbranch.org/ilw-2024-regis…

Taking a week off writing the Global Network for Human Rights & Environment newsletter for the long weekend. I had not anticipated how much work goes into planning a major international law conference 😴

Dear legal studies universe - the Law and Society call for papers has dropped for the Chicago 2025 meeting. There will be an amazing mini conference within a conference. Our [very hard] C4P deadline is coming: 15 September. Please share/retweet/send us your abstracts!

A survey found 28% of respondents wrongly think COVID vaccines killed thousands of people. The truth is the opposite: COVID vaccines have saved millions of lives. So many more lives could have been saved if not for the deadly spread of disinformation. axios.com/2024/08/29/mor…

📢 Apply now for our First Book Grant Fellowship! Deadline: 5 PM GMT (6 PM CET), 1st November 2024. Candidates must have been awarded their PhD and should be within three years of PhD award at the time of application Share widely! More info 👇 isrf.org/funding-opport…

The War in Ukraine: Lessons Learned and Challenges Ahead for International Criminal Law #ILW2024 Jonathan Hafetz of Seton Hall Law Oona Hathaway of Yale Law School Ambassador Ambassador Beth Van Schaack, Global Crim Justice Jennifer Trahan of NYUGlobalAffairs & Ambassador Wenaweser of Liechtenstein UN ila-americanbranch.org/ilw-2024-regis…

The wonderful Dina Lupin has put together a blogging symposium for GNHRE based on their student's submissions for the 'Environmental Justice and the Law' module. This week, we will post five blogs examining various environmental justice case studies. gnhre.org/?p=18168

Finally taken the step to start studying for the NY bar. Any foreign-trained lawyer friends who have also taken the NY bar, I appreciate all tips & tricks (and ways to enjoy civ pro🤞) 🙏

Call for papers: Recognizing Refugees. Join me and Cathryn Costello at University College Dublin on April 11 2025 for a workshop on Refugee Admission, Relocation and Recognition Practices in Comparative and Transnational Social Sciences. Details attached! dropbox.com/scl/fi/lihczkl…

I will never stop talking about the dangers of COVID. I have been sick for four years since August of 2020 (before vaccines were even released). This is real. It is happening. People ignoring it doesn’t make them invincible.

As conference season is here, I want to remind people the importance of covid precautions. Nearly 300,000 US children have become orphans because of COVID-19. Rates are surging in most major cities - there is still time to start masking again. Be safe! imperialcollegelondon.github.io/orphanhood_USA/

NYPD arrests scientist Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 at Citibank: “I’m a biologist, I’ve been studying climate change since 1982 and no one is listening to the data. So today they’re going to have to listen to my body blocking the doors of the world’s largest funder of new fossil fuel

Wd any1 like to do a review of my book? Its OA (see below) I'd especially love an ECR or WCA to review it. A book review was the first thing I ever wrote tinyurl.com/3s7a6p5b (read a few before writing). A book review is something your supervisor often suggests you do too