"International Law in Europe: Between Tradition and Renewal" – The Inaugural Conference of the European Society of International Law

2005 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-68
Author(s):  
Riikka Koskenmäki
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
European Society

scholarly journals Editor's Introduction

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 737-741
Author(s):  
THÉODORE CHRISTAKIS
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Interest Group ◽  
European Society ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
Peace And Security ◽  
Usual Process ◽  
University Of Oslo ◽  
The University

The present symposium follows on from a forum held at the University of Oslo on 11 September 2015 during the 11th Annual Conference of the European Society of International Law. This forum, sponsored by the ESIL Interest Group on Peace and Security, was particularly successful and led to a very interesting debate between the members of the European Society of International Law. The Leiden Journal of International Law has today the pleasure to publish, after the usual process of peer review, the complete and updated versions of the four papers presented during this event.

“A French Jew Emancipated the Blacks”

2021 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 645-674
Author(s):  
Noëmie Duhaut
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
International Law ◽  
European Society ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Rhetorical Strategies ◽  
Southeastern Europe ◽  
Civil And Political Rights ◽  
Droit International ◽  
National Framework

Abstract This article examines the rhetorical strategies put in place by French Jewish activists to demand equal civil and political rights for Jews in southeastern Europe in the second half of the nineteenth century. It identifies the parallel they drew between the abolition of slavery and Jewish emancipation as a central plank in this campaign. Through references to the antislavery movement, French Jews sought to make Jewish emancipation a matter of international law and mobilize different constituencies at home and abroad. Drawing on the biblical story of the Exodus, this abolitionist rhetoric was an attempt to challenge the Christian nature of abolitionism and oppose exclusionary views of European society. The emergence of this new emancipatory discourse is analyzed within the national framework of France as well as in a broader eastern European and world context. Cet article étudie les stratégies rhétoriques mises en place par les militants juifs français pour revendiquer l’égalité civique et politique des Juifs de l'Europe du sud-est dans la seconde moitié du dix-neuvième siècle. Le parallèle qu'ils ont établi entre abolition de l'esclavage et émancipation des Juifs était un élément central de cette campagne. A travers leurs références au mouvement antiesclavagiste, les Juifs français ont cherché à faire de l’émancipation juive une question de droit international ainsi qu’à mobiliser différents publics en France et à l’étranger. S'appuyant sur le récit biblique de l'Exode, cette rhétorique abolitionniste tentait de contester la nature chrétienne de l'abolitionnisme et de s'opposer aux visions d'une société européenne fondée sur l'exclusion. L’émergence de ce nouveau discours émancipateur est analysée dans le cadre national de la France ainsi que dans un contexte est-européen et mondial plus large.

scholarly journals On Academic Production and the Politics of Inclusion

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 617-624 ◽  
Author(s):  
SARA KENDALL
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
European Society ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
Academic Production ◽  
Supportive Role ◽  
Role Of Women

Before the 2015 annual meeting of the European Society of International Law, participants were notified of a ‘women in international law’ happy hour for exchanging ideas on ‘the improvement of representation of women’. At the convivial and well-attended event in Oslo, organizers thanked the men who were present, remarking that their support was not only welcomed but also necessary. This theme of inclusion resurfaced in side conversations about past conference panels on gender that noted the supportive role of senior male academics in audiences comprised primarily of women. Gender was mainly discussed along a single axis of male/female rather than intersectionally. Other categories of identity, such as ethnicity and nationality, remained on the sidelines of this event, which focused on the role of women within the field.

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