We learned of a call for papers
for a workshop at the University of Nijmegen on the establishment of the
Permanent Court of International Justice. Here the call:
We are approaching the centenary
of the first ‘World Court’: between 1920 and 1922, experts and diplomats
prepared the Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice (PCIJ),
the first ‘World Court’, located in The Hague. Their work drew on the efforts
of prior generations of international lawyers and activists, and yet resulted
in something new and lasting: a permanent court of potentially general
jurisdiction, whose basic structures have remained unchanged for nearly a
century. While the PCIJ itself has remained the subject of continuous inquiry,
many questions and decisions relating to its establishment have remained
understudied. These include:
– The role of key protagonists in
the drafting of the PCIJ’s Statute (including, but not limited to, the Advisory
Committee of Jurists);
– The role of civil society and
of non-European nations in the establishment phase;
– The response of the Dutch
government and society to the proposed establishment of a(nother) ‘Hague
court’;
– Contemporary views and
predictions of the future Court’s role and relevance.
To understand these issues and to
close gaps in our understanding of the PCIJ’s ‘establishment phase’, Professors
Christian J. Tams (University of Glasgow) and Henri de Waele (Radboud
University) will host a two-day workshop in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, on 11-12
June 2020.
As part of this workshop, we
invite applications for paper presentations from scholars of
international law, history, international relations, and related disciplines.
Interested applicants should
submit an abstract of no more than 750 words by 15
December 2019 to the following address: pcijconference@ru.nl. Please
include your name, affiliation and email address with the abstract, and
indicate succinctly why you feel it offers a novel angle.
The full text of the call is
available here.
