THE SECOND BIENNIAL GENERAL CONFERENCE OF THE ASIAN SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW TOKYO, 1-2 AUGUST 2009.
Call for papers
General information
The Second Biennial General Conference of the Asian Society of International Law (AsianSIL) will be held on 1-2 August 2009 at the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. The theme of the Conference is: ”International Law in a Multi-polar and Multi-civilizational World: Asian Perspectives, Challenges and Contributions”.
The Call for Papers for this Conference concerns four different types of Papers: Plenary Session 1, three Agora Panels (A1-A3), three Panels of Session A (A4-A6) and three Panels of Session B and C.
The Organizing Committee seeks to encourage the participation in the Conference of all international lawyers, whether young professionals or established scholars, academics or practitioners, by inviting submissions of papers or proposals for speakers or discussants in all sessions and panels.
To truly represent the spirit of “Multi-polar and Multi-civilizational” perspectives, speakers and discussants will be selected through a competitive process without any prejudice to factors such as race, gender, language, religious background and geographical location. Papers of the discussants in Plenary Session I, and the panelists of Panel Sessions A1, A2, A3, A4, A5 and A6 will be selected by the Selection Committee, which will work independently of the Organizing Committee. The panelists of Panel Sessions B1, B2 and C3 will be selected by the organizers of these panels.
Note should be taken that presentation shall be made only in English because of the limited time of the Sessions of the Conference. However, respecting the multitude of different cultures and languages in the region, the paper may be written in any language on the condition that English translation should be attached to the paper and the responsibilities for the English translation, including the quality of the translation and the accompanying cost of the translation, should be assumed by the applicant. The selection of the paper should be made only on the basis of the English paper, whether it is written originally in English or translated into English.
An applicant can submit his or her papers for up to two panels, though he or she will not be selected for more than one panel. Any such applicant must indicate in each paper that he or she is applying for two panels, and must provide details of the second paper being submitted, including the title of the paper and the panel.
The Organizing Committee will cover accommodations for all the panelists and discussants from 31 July (in) to 3 August (out) for three nights in hotels which are near to the conference site. We will not ask registration fees of the panelists or discussants. Furthermore, we will subsidize the airfares of a limited number of presenters. The subsidy will be provided to a substantial number of discussants of the plenary session and panelists who submit papers of exceptionally high quality. The amount of subsidy will be limited to the actual fare between Tokyo and the airport of departure, discount economy class, up to 100,000 yen. If the fare exceeds 100,000 yen, the recipient of the subsidy must pay the balance between the actual fare and the subsidy of 100,000 yen.
All speakers at the Conference must be members of the Society. Membership is open to any person who has an interest in and respect for international law and supports the objectives of the Society (http://law.nus.edu.sg/asiansil/membership.htm). All participants of the Conference, including discussants of the plenary session and panelists, must join the Society, if they have not done so yet.
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Paper guidelines
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