Postgraduate Conference: New Voices in International Law

About this event

As global society confronts an ever-growing set of challenges and crises, the discipline of international law finds itself under critical scrutiny. Can international law rise to the occasion and provide answers and solutions to global problems? Or is international law itself a part of the problem, whether because of dysfunction, ineffectiveness or structural blind spots? Ultimately, how or to what extent can international law’s aspirations be realised?

With the aim of bringing together PhD candidates and early-career researchers from universities across the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland who are working within the broad field of international law, the School of Law of Trinity College Dublin invites the submission of abstracts for ‘New Voices in International Law’, a postgraduate conference to take place on 8 May 2025 in person at the Trinity Long Room Hub.

The conference aims to provide a dynamic forum for postgraduate scholars to present and discuss their ongoing research in international law, including with established scholars in the field. The event is further envisaged as providing a foundation for future collaboration.

Venue: The Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin

Call for Abstracts

The conference organisers welcome submissions on questions of general international law (sources, subjects, state responsibility, dispute settlement, jurisdiction and immunities) as well as work in specialised areas of international law (human rights, armed conflict, law of the sea, international criminal law, international organisations, trade and investment, environment and climate change, or artificial intelligence and new technologies). Submissions on intersections between international law and other disciplines or critical perspectives are also welcomed.

Interested applicants should submit an abstract (up to 500 words) and a brief author bio or CV by the deadline of 31 January 2025 to pgconf.intlaw@gmail.com. Successful applicants will be informed by mid-February and will be asked to submit draft papers of 5,000-8,000 words by 20 April 2025. Please note that funding cannot be offered to cover travel and accommodation costs, but food and refreshments will be provided on the day.