Write On! Lieber Society prize for scholarship

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The Lieber Society for the Law of Armed Conflict, an interest group of the American Society of International Law, welcomes scholars who or 35 years old or younger to submit articles to be considered for the 2013 Francis Lieber Prize, to be announced at ASIL's annual meeting in April in Washington, D.C.
This annual prize is awarded to  authors of English-language works, published in 2012 or imminently about to be published –  monographs, articles, chapters in a book of essays – judged outstanding in the field of law and armed conflict. Topics may include the use of force in international law, the conduct of hostilities during international and non international armed conflicts, protected persons and objects under the law of armed conflict, the law of weapons, operational law, rules of engagement, occupation law, peace operations, counter terrorist operations, and humanitarian assistance.
Honored last year were:
► Kinga Tibori Szabó (right), currently an Associate Legal Officer at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, for her book Antipatory action in self-defence: Essence and limits under international law (2011), reviewed here.
► Nicolas Lamp, a Ph.D. student at the London School of Economics, for his 2011 article "Conceptions of war and paradigms of compliance: the "new war" challenge to international humanitarian law".
Submissions for this year's prize must be received by 21 January 2013. Submission requirements and other details here.

Write On! Lieber Prize

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The Lieber Society on the Law of Armed Conflict, an interest group of the American Society of International Law, welcomes nominations of books, book chapters, and articles for the Francis Lieber Prize -- one given annually to a book, and another to a chapter/article, judged outstanding in the field of law and armed conflict.
Any work in the English language, by an author 35 years old or younger, published during 2011 or whose publication is imminent at the time of submission may be nominated. Topics within the scope of the award include:
► Use of force in international law;
► Conduct of hostilities during international and non international armed conflicts;
► Protected persons and objects under the law of armed conflict;
► Law of weapons, operational law, rules of engagement, occupation law, peace operations, counterterrorist operations, and humanitarian assistance; as well as
► Other topics bearing on the application of international law during armed conflict or other military operations.
The prizes will be announced at ASIL's annual meeting on March 28-31, 2012, in Washington, D.C.
Deadline for submission is January 16, 2012; details here.

Write On! ASIL / Laws of War

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The Lieber Society on the Law of Armed Conflict invites submissions for its 2011 Richard R. Baxter Military Prize, which will honor "exceptional writing in English by an active member of the regular or reserve armed forces, regardless of nationality."
The namesake of this Society -- itself an Interest Group of the American Society of International Law -- is Francis Lieber, the Prussia-born U.S. law professor who drafted the 1863, Instructions for the Government of Armies of the United States in the Field, a synthesis of the laws and customs of war also known as the Lieber Code.
For several years now ASIL's Lieber Society has given a prize for military writing, This year is the 1st that the prize bears the name of Richard Reeve Baxter (1921-1980). The many accomplishments of Baxter (right) included service as: an Army Judge Advocate during and after World War II; Harvard international law professor; consultant to the U.S. Departments of State and Defense, U.S. Naval War College, U.N. Secretariat, and World Bank; American Journal of International Law Editor-in-Chief; ASIL President; and, in the last 2 years of his life, Judge on the International Court of Justice. (photo credit)
The Lieber Society invites both self-nominations and nominations from others "ware of exceptional writing that meets the qualifications of this competition," for which a cash prize and ASIL membership will be awarded, as well as, as appropriate, certificates of merit.
Details of the competition are here. Deadline for submissions is December 31, 2011.

On April 24

On this day in ...
... 1955, the Bandung Conference of 29 countries, mostly from Asia and North Africa, ended. Leaders who met in Bandung, Indonesia, included India's Jawaharlal Nehru, and Burma's U Nu, pictured at left, as well as Pakistan's Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Lebanon's Charles Malik, China's Chou En-Lai, and Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser. Topics discussed included "colonialism, economic and cultural cooperation, the legitimacy of defense pacts such as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO), and the viability of peaceful coexistence." The conference paved the way 6 years later for a conference among Non-Aligned Nations.
... 1863 (145 years ago today), in the midst of the Civil War, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln promulgated Instructions for the Government of Armies of the United States in the Field, known as the Lieber Code in recognition of its principal drafter, Columbia Law Professor Francis Lieber (right), who'd fought in the Franco-Prussian War before emigrating and whose sons fought on both sides of America's War Between the States. The significance of this document is noted by no less an authority than the International Committee of the Red Cross:

Although they were binding only on the forces of the United States, they correspond to a great extend to the laws and customs of war existing at that time. The "Lieber Instructions" strongly influenced the further codification of the laws of war and the adoption of similar regulations by other states. They formed the origin of the project of an international convention on the laws of war presented to the Brussels Conference in 1874 and stimulated the adoption of the Hague Conventions on land warfare of 1899 and 1907.

Write On! IHL & ICC & IT

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The Lieber Society on the Law of Armed Conflict, an interest group of the American Society of International Law, invites nominations for the 2008 Lieber Society Military Prize, awarded annually for "an exceptional writing in English by a member of or person retired from the regular or reserve armed forces of any nation that significantly enhances the understanding and implementation of the law of war." Deadline is January 2, 2008; for details contact ckeever@hawaii.rr.com. Winner of the 2007 prize: Lt. Col. Eric Talbot Jensen, for "Combatant Status: It Is Time for Intermediate Levels of Recognition for Partial Compliance." Winner of the Society's 2007 Francis Lieber Prize, named in honor of the author of the 1863 Lieber Code that proved a precursor for later formulations, including the 1949 Geneva Conventions: Dr. Laura Perna, author of The Formation of the Treaty Law of Non-International Armed Conflicts. Heartfelt congratulations!
Meanwhile, Eyes on the ICC, an interdisciplinary journal produced by the Council for American Students in International Negotiations, is seeking, "from scholars, jurists, diplomats, and professionals," papers and book reviews on "the International Criminal Court (ICC), human rights, public health, children and women's issues, disarmament and development, and nuclear non-proliferation." Here for details.
Finally, Sylvia Kierkegaard (right), information technology legal expert and president of the International Association of IT Lawyers, invites research papers or oral presentations, "on all topics related to Computer law, security and privacy," for its 2d International Conference on Legal, Security and Privacy Issues in IT, set for December 5-7 in Beijing, China. Details here.