Call for Papers - Pandemic & International Responsibility - 20 October 2020

PRESENTATION AND CALL FOR PAPERS - PANDEMIC & INTERNATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY - DEADLINE 20 OCTOBER 2020

The Instituto Jurídico Portucalense (IJP) of the Universidade Portucalense Infante D. Henrique and the Portuguese Society of International Law (SPDI), the Portuguese branch of the International Law association (ILA), will organize an International Conference on the Responsibility of States and International Organizations related with the Pandemic Covid-19, that will take place at the Universidade Portucalense, Porto, on October 30, 2020.

This conference aims to promote the thinking, research and scientific debate on a theme that the pandemic and the acts and/or omissions of States and International Organizations has put in the international agenda.

This Conference is also intended to promote a scientific exchange within the scope of International Public Law and International Relations that will allow to deepen international cooperation in the study and investigation of this topic, also in its relationship with the responsibility to protect.

In order to pursue this objective, all interested parties are invited to submit communication proposals on one of the topics listed below, to be presented at the International Conference or to be published on paper in Revista Jurídica (the legal review of the Universidade Portucalense) and/or in an e-book .

All proposals submitted will be scientifically evaluated and four of them will be selected to be orally presented at the Conference, two in the morning and two in the afternoon.

All the proposals approved will be published. Every person which present a proposal will be invited to participate in the sessions and the debates either in person or by videoconference.

The oral presentation of each of the four communications mentioned above will have a maximum length of 10 minutes.

DATES

Proposals must be submitted until October 20, 2020 and sent to wbrito@upt.pt

THEMES

- World Health Organization: competencies, obligations and relations with States
- Human Security and State Responsibility to Citizens
- International responsibility of States for non-compliance with their obligations related with the international legal regulations of the WHO.
- International responsibility of international organizations for non-compliance with their obligations.

PROGRAMME

A copy of the outline programme for the event is attached