Submissions are invited for a two-day workshop on Protest Movements and International Law in Heidelberg on all aspects pertaining to protest movements in international law.

About the Call for Papers

Submissions are invited for a two-day workshop in Heidelberg, Germany on all aspects pertaining to protest movements in international law.

Abstracts will be selected for the on-site conference in Heidelberg in November 2023. Afterwards, the conveners plan to submit selected papers as a Special Issue to an international law journal.

Themes and Sub-themes

Particularly interested in submissions on: 

  • Human Rights protection of protest movements
  • Protest movements and international Human Rights adjudication
  • Protest movements in international and regional democracy frameworks
  • The prohibition of intervention and support to protest movements
  • Invocation of international law through protest movements
  • Case studies on protest movements from an international law perspective
  • The democratic or anti-democratic impact of protest movements
  • Protest movements and their relationship to regional and international organizations
  • Distinguishing violent from nonviolent protests from a perspective of international law
  • A right to revolution or rebellion in international law

How to Submit?

Please submit abstracts of no more than 500 words alongside a short CV of one page to kriener@mpil.de by 30 April 2023. Applicants will be notified by the end of May.

Submission Deadline

April 30, 2023

Contact Information

Christian Marxsen (Humboldt University; MPIL) and Florian Kriener (MPIL)

e-mail ID: kriener@mpil.de

Location

Heidelberg, Germany

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