The Oxford University Faculty of Law, ELAC, All Souls College and Wadham College will host a one-day, in-person workshop on 17 June 2025 in honour of Sir Frank Berman KCMG KC. The workshop will honour Sir Frank’s long personal and professional association with Oxford, which includes his time as a Rhodes Scholar from 1961-1963, his service as a Visiting Professor of International Law, his role as General Editor, The Oxford International Law Library, and his position as an Honorary Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford.
The theme of the workshop is Treaty Regimes in International Law. We invite applications from researchers working on topics within this theme, including on the functioning, control, and governance of particular treaty regimes, on the activities of dispute settlement or monitoring bodies, and assemblies or conferences of State parties. We are particularly interested in examining how well the general law of treaties copes with the interactions or conflicts between different treaty regimes, as well as between treaty regimes and general international law. We are also interested in papers that take an evaluative approach to the operation of particular regimes with the above in mind.
The workshop is for early-career researchers, including doctoral students and independent scholars. The idea is to create a space where researchers working on these topics enjoy close, substantive engagement with their work in progress. Each person selected to present will be paired with an established scholar who will act as discussant of their paper at the workshop.
Abstracts of no more than 400 words together with a short resumé should be submitted by 10 March 2025 to [email protected] – please indicate ‘Berman workshop abstract’ in the subject line. If selected, participants will then be asked to circulate a draft of the paper by 23 May 2025. We are able to provide some financial assistance to selected participants on the basis of need.
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