The Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law is a double-blind peer reviewed, open-access journal which aims to publish high-end legal scholarship. It has a particular focus on publishing work that examines the intersection of different international, domestic and transnational legal regimes. 

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  • Written by Naomi Burke

    The 2013 CJICL conference "Legal Tradition in a Diverse World" is taking place this weekend (18-19 May) in Cambridge. The conference will begin on Saturday morning with a keynote address by Judge Abdulqawi Yusuf of the ICJ. At lunchtime on Saturday Professor Patrick Glenn will deliver a guest lecture on the topic "The State as a Legal Tradition" and launch his new book "The Cosmopolitan State" by Oxford University Press.

    Sunday morning sees a debate between Professor James Crawford and Professor Alain Pellet on the topic "Anglo-American v Continental Traditions in Advocacy at International Courts and Tribunals." The debate will be moderated by Professor Catherine Redgwell.

    More than 50 papers will be presented in over a dozen panels covering a wide range of topics, including IHL, transitional justice, the teaching of law, EU law, economic development, legal procedure and critical legal studies.

    The full conference programme is available here:

    http://www.cjicl.org.uk/conference

    Anyone wishing to attend who hasn't yet registered may sign up for the last remaining places via the CJICL conference website: www.cjicl.org.uk/conference

    Those unable to attend can follow some of the conference highlights via the CJICL Blog Twitter account: https://twitter.com/CJICLBlog

    Highlights of the conference will be tweeted using the hashtag

    We look forward to seeing many of you in Cambridge.

    Written on 16 May 2013
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  • Written by Naomi Burke

    From 18-19 April, I attended the inaugural London International Boundaries Conference. It was a superb conference, involving excellent presentations from a variety of practitioners on technical and legal aspects of boundary delimitation. Sitting at the back of the room at one point, I was struck by the fact that the majority of the audience was made up of white men in grey suits. Boundary delimitation is a man’s world, it seemed.

    A quick scan of Twitter during the conference provided some welcome news. I was very happy to read that President Obama had nominated Avril Haines as the next Legal Adviser of the State Department. If her appointment is confirmed, she will fill the vacancy created by the departure of Harold Koh, the former Legal Adviser. Koh returned to Yale Law School in January 2013 as Sterling Professor of International Law.

    Written on 23 April 2013
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  • Written by Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law

    The full programme of the 2013 CJICL Conference "Legal Tradition in a Diverse World" has now been released and is available at www.cjicl.org.uk/conference.

    Written on 10 April 2013
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