Current Issues in Private International Law - MENA & EU: Call for papers

Current Issues in Private International Law

MENA & EU

Call for papers

The Faculty of Law at Ozyegin University is pleased to host its first Private International Law Symposium, which is to be held on 19 November 2021. The symposium aims to bring together MENA and EU scholars working in the Private International Law field.

The Faculty of Law welcomes submissions by scholars in the following thematic areas: MENA & EU Law, International Family Law, International Commercial Law and Alternative Dispute Resolution, with a particular focus on how these fields are shaped by Private International Law. Each panel topic will feature up to 4 speakers, and each panel will be allocated a combined total of 1 hour 20 minutes of presentation time and 20 minutes of Q&A. The acceptance of abstracts will depend on the relevance of the issues raised by the symposium panels and the originality of research. The selected panelists will be offered the possibility to publish their paper in a special issue of the Journal of International Trade & Arbitration Law, but this is subject to editorial and peer review. 

Topics for submissions

• The rights of same-sex couples in the cross-border context, 
• The Hague Children's Conventions, 
• Regulating non-traditional family structures, including cross-border surrogacy and the Verona Principles, 
• ADR in the context of international family law,
• Investment arbitration procedure: jurisdiction, applicable law, bifurcation, appeals procedure, enforcement, 
• Overriding mandatory rules and public policy in international commercial arbitration,  
• Arbitrating art disputes, 
• Arbitrating IP disputes,  
• Arbitrating sport disputes
• Competition law and arbitration, 
• Jurisdictional issues around cryptocurrency and block chain, 
• Contemporary challenges in EU governance, 
• Rule of Law backsliding in the European Union,  
• The challenges posed by citizenship by investment at the MENA and EU level, 
• PIL issues in the MENA region.

Please note that this is not an exhaustive list of topics. There will be a thematic panel division in the symposium, but you are welcome to submit on any topic of your interest as long as it falls under one of the main areas: MENA & EU Law, International Family Law, Transnational Commercial Law, and Dispute Resolution, and it addresses the interrelation with Private International Law.

Relevant dates      

• Submission of abstracts: 20 September 2021 
• Announcement of accepted papers: 5 October 2021
• Submission of handouts: 1 November 2021 

Submission process

Please email a completed submission form until 20 September 2021, in a pdf format to Mr. Anıl Akyıldız at anil.akyildiz@ozyegin.edu.tr

Submission form docs

Hosted by

Özyeğin University, Faculty of Law

Venue

The symposium will take place online

Contact

For enquiries, please contact Mrs. Jocelyne Alayan at jocelyne.alayan@ozyegin.edu.tr