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International Conference on the Responsibility of States and International Organizations and the Covid-19 Pandemic – Inscription Here
Video: International Conference on the Responsibility of States and International Organizations related with the Pandemic Covid-19 The Instituto Jurídico Portucalense (IJP) of the Universidade Portucalense Infante D. Henrique and the Portuguese Society of International Law (SPDI), the Portuguese branch of the International Law association (ILA), will organize an International Conference on the Responsibility of States and International Organizations related with the Pandemic Covid-19, that will take place at the Universidade Portucalense, Porto, on October 30, 2020. This conference aims to promote the thinking, research and scientific debate on a theme that the pandemic and the acts and/or omissions of States and International Organizations has put in the international agenda. This Conference is also intended to promote a scientific exchange within the scope of International Public Law and International Relations that will allow to deepen international cooperation in the study and investigation of this topic, also in its relationship with the responsibility to protect. In order to pursue this objective, all interested parties are invited to submit communication proposals on one of the topics listed below, to be presented at the International Conference or to be published on paper in Revista Jurídica (the legal review of the Universidade Portucalense) and/or in an e-book. All proposals submitted will be scientifically evaluated and four of them will be selected to be orally presented at the Conference, two in the morning and two in the afternoon. All the proposals approved will be published. Every person which present a proposal will be invited to participate in the sessions and the debates either in person or by videoconference. The oral presentation of each of the four communications mentioned above will have a maximum length of 10 minutes. Dates Communications must be submitted by October 20, 2020 and must be sent to wbrito@upt.pt. Style Rules Languages: Articles can be written in Portuguese, Spanish and English By 20 October 2020, 300-word communications abstracts must be submitted. The article must have a maximum of 7500 words and citations must be made using the APSA system. The article must be submitted by 10 December 2020. Themes World Health Organization: competencies, obligations and relations with States Human Security and State Responsibility to Citizens International responsibility of States for non-compliance with their obligations related with the international legal regulations of the WHO. International responsibility of international organizations for non-compliance with their obligations. Organizing Committee Wladimir Brito – Professor at Universidade Portucalense e Director of IJP Manuel Almeida Ribeiro – Professor at ISCSP (Instituto de Ciências Sociais e Políticas da Universidade de Lisboa) and Presidente of SPDI Fernando Loureiro Bastos – Professor at Faculdade de Direito de Lisboa Patrícia Galvão Teles – Professor at Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa and member of CDI Maria de Fátima de Castro Moreira – Professor at Universidade Portucalense and researcher at IJP Daniela Castilho – Professor at Universidade Portucalense and researcher at IJP Scientific Committee Wladimir Brito – Professor at Universidade Portucalense and Director of IJP Manuel Almeida Ribeiro – Professor at ISCSP (Instituto de Ciências Sociais e Políticas da Universidade de Lisboa) and president of SPDI Fernando Loureiro Bastos – Professor at Faculdade de Direito de Lisboa Patrícia Galvão Teles – Professor at Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa e Membro da CDI Maria de Fátima de Castro Moreira – Professor at Universidade Portucalense and researcher of IJP Daniela Castilho – Professor at Universidade Portucalense and researcher of IJP Maria de Assunção do Vale Pereira – Professor at Universidade do Minho Program October 30th 2020 9.00h-9.30h Reception of the participants 9.30h-10.00h Opening Session 9.30h-9.40h Intervention by the Vice-Rector for research of the UPT – Carlos Brito 9.40h-9.50h Intervention by the President of the Sociedade Portuguesa de Direito Internacional 9.50h-10.00h Intervention by the Director of the Instituto Jurídico Portucalense Wladimir Brito First Session – International Responsibility of States 10.00h-10.30h Maria Teresa Ponte Iglesias – Professor at Faculdade de Derecho de la Universidade de Santiago de Compostela 10.35h-11.05h Cláudia Monge – Professor at Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa 11.10h-11.20h Presentation of the first paper 11.20h-11.30h Presentation of the second paper 11.45h-12.00h Coffee Break 12.00h-13.00h Debate 13.00h-14.30h Lunch 15.00h Second Session International Responsibility of International Organizations 15.00h-15.30h Valério de Oliveira Mazzuoli – Professor at Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso (Brazil) 15.35h-16.05h Sean Murphy – Professor at George Washington University Law School and member of the International Law Comission 16.10h-16.20h Presentation of the third paper 16.20h-16.30h Presentation of the fourth paper 16.30h-17.30h Debate 17.30h-17.45h Closing session
