PEPA SIEL 2018

Call for Papers

The organisers invite submissions on any IEL topic including, but not limited to: 

 Law and practice in international economic governance and international organizations; 

 International trade, investment, competition, monetary and financial law;

 The interaction of IEL branches with other branches of law governing intellectual property, human rights, environment, sustainable development, food safety; 

 Bilateral and regional economic integration and the multilateral trading system; 

 Comparative economic law, focusing on how international economic law interacts with laws, institutions and actors at the domestic level; 

 International economics, philosophy, sociology, politics.

 International developments and economic law, which may inter alia, refer to Brexit, the OECD-led tax Initiatives international financial regulation, cryptocurrencies and monetary affairs.

Submissions should include a CV (no more than 2 pages) and a research abstract (no more than 400 words) and be sent no later than 3 November 2017 to pepa2018conference@gmail.com. Papers will be selected based on a double-blind review conducted by a senior practitioner or academic and a conference organizer so kindly ensure that your CV will be in a separate file and your abstract will not entail personal details.

Decisions regarding the symposium program will be made no later than November 30, 2017. Selected applicants will be expected to submit their complete paper (not exceeding 5.000 words) by February 28th, 2018.

General inquiries regarding the conference should be directed to the email address above. A limited number of scholarships to cover travel/accommodation expenses for applicants from developing countries facing financial hardship, is available by the Developing Country Participant Fund. Applicants for such a waiver are kindly invited to add a short letter of no more than 3 paragraphs to their conference application, stating the reason for the scholarship. Conference Co-Chairs: Freya Baetens, José Caiado, Konstantinos Tsimaras and Venetia Argyropoulou.