From Peace to Justice 2012 - Call for papers

The Politics of Justice: From a Human Rights Revolution to Global Justice?

Annual Conference of the Hague Academic Coalition at the International Institute of Social Studies.

12 & 13 October 2012.

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Call for papers

If you are interested in presenting a paper at the conference on one or more of the questions or themes described below, please send the title and abstract (300 words maximum) to secretariat@remove-this.haguecoalition.org.

Deadline for abstracts - 15 May 2012

Key questions and themes

1. How can we define global justice?
2. To what extent, if at all, have the roles of states and international organizations been affected by the above-sketched transformation from rights to global justice?
3. To what extent do non-governmental organizations (NGOs) play a role in promoting global justice; and has their role been overstated?
4. Why have many of the main world powers been so selective in their embracing of human rights and international (criminal) justice?
5. To what extent has the rights revolution led to real and permanent change?
6. Are lawyers prepared to confront the political nature of their work; for what reasons, and to what ends?
7. Where is the link between the theory and practice of global justice?

This conference will critically reflect on these and other associated questions in exploring the politics of law and international justice from both legal and inter-disciplinary perspectives. Guiding themes include:

1. The rights revolution and contemporary challenges
2. International criminal justice: challenging impunity through law and other justice efforts
3. Global justice and international law?