Each year, The Protection Project hosts conferences around the world regarding women’s rights, comparative international human rights law, trafficking in persons, child protection, and the role of civil society and the media in monitoring human rights violations. Periodically, The Protection Project will release a call for papers to encourage the participation of scholars, practioners, and experts from around the world in such events. Calls for papers for upcoming conferences:
On September 10-11, 2012 The Protection Project at The Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) will organize a regional conference titled “Harmonization of the Law: the Hague Conference, Unidroit, and UNCITRAL ” in cooperation with the three organizations and the Faculty of Law and Political Science at the Beirut Arab University in Beirut, Lebanon. The conference will examine approaches to harmonization of the law utilized by the Hague Conference, Unidroit and UNCITRAL. Issues addressed will include, among others, the place of Islamic law in the legal family, Islamic law as a source of international principles of the law, reservations made by Muslim countries to international conventions, the merging of common law and civil law principles in the areas of contract law and secured transactions law, human rights and business law, human rights and contract law, international trade law and the rule of law, incorporating the human rights perspective in standard-setting in private international law, the effects of improvements in international trade law on human rights, model laws as effective means of harmonization of the law, and related topics.
On November 6, 2012 The Protection Project at The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies will host a conference titled “The Procedural and Substantive Elements of Prosecuting Cases of Trafficking in Persons: Comparative Models and International Standards” in Washington, D.C., USA. The symposium will investigate the procedural and substantive elements of prosecuting trafficking cases in the United States and abroad. Law professors, prosecutors, practicing lawyers, legal clinics providing aid to victims, and NGOs representing victims of trafficking are encouraged to submit a paper addressing different aspects of prosecuting trafficking cases.
On December 5-6, 2012, The Protection Project at The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in cooperation with Beirut Arab University will host the first regional conference on corporate social responsibility titled: ‘Corporate Social Responsibility in the Arab World” in Beirut, Lebanon. The conference will bring together business representatives, law professors, and representatives from NGOs and other elements of civil society to discuss a broad array of topics related to corporate social responsibility, specifically in the 22 countries members of the League of Arab States.
On December 19-20, 2012, the Alexandria University Faculty of Law (AUFL) and The Protection Project at The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies will host a conference titled “Access to Justice” at the Helnan Palestine Hotel in Alexandria, Egypt. The event will bring together professors of law, religion and social sciences and representatives from NGOs and other elements of civil society to discuss a broad array of topics related to access to justice.
