The American Society of International Law’s International Legal Theory Interest Group (ILTIG), in collaboration with the Quebec Society of International Law (SQDI), invites academics and graduate students to submit proposals for a conference on “Intersectionality in Critical Theories of International Law.” The conference will be held parallel to the 111th ASIL Annual Meeting, in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, April 11, 2017, at Georgetown University.
When?
Tuesday, April 11th, 2017 – 1pm to 4:30pm
Where?
Georgetown University, Washington D.C., McDonough room 09
Program :
PANEL 1: Intersectionality and Institutions – 1pm to 2:30pm
Chair : Professor Alvaro Santos, Georgetown Law
- “The Right to Intersectional Democracy in International Law”
Jonathan M. Crock, Leiden University, Netherlands - “Intersectionality in the European human rights space: ‘much ado about nothing’?”
Raphaële Xenidis, European University Institute, Italy - “Whose global economic justice?”
Ralph Wilde, University College London, UK - “Intersectionality and ‘private’ transnational cases: the case of talaq recognition in French courts”
Ivana Isailovic, New York University, USA
PANEL 2: Intersectionality, Human Rights and Environmental Law – 3pm to 4:30pm
Chair : Professor Donald Earl Childress, Pepperdine School of Law
- “Human Rights as Development: Theoretical Perspectives of the South to Combat the Insecurity
to Food”
Tatiana Cardoso Squeff, Universidade do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil - “The Interplay between Environmental Protection and the Market through the lens of Disclosure
and Confidentiality of Information: Pragmatism over Dogmatism”
Anne-Claire Bernard-Tomasi, University of Westminster, London, UK - “Intersectionality in Urban Indian Women Communities: Lessons for International Human
Rights?”
Amrita Mukherjee, University of Leeds, UK - “Remedies for Indigenous Women and Girls Victims of Human Trafficking in Canada: An
Intersectional Perspective ”
Léa Lemay Langlois, University of Notre-Dame, USA
Contact persons: Donald Earl Childress (Donald.childress@pepperdine.edu), Evan Criddle (ejcriddle@wm.edu), Vanessa Tanguay (vanessa.tanguay@mail.mcgill.ca), and Sabrina Tremblay-Huet (sabrina.tremblay-huet@usherbrooke.ca)
To register: Please email Sabrina Tremblay-Huet at sabrina.tremblay-huet@usherbrooke.ca
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