"The Role of Cities in International Law"

The International Law Association (ILA) study group on "the Role of Cities in International Law", the T.M.C. Asser Institute and the Freie Universität Berlin invite researchers to submit abstracts for reports on city practices in relation to international law. The city reports should engage with cities’ interactions with other cities, international organisations and/or global governance mechanisms. They can relate to cities invoking well-established norms of international law, as well as practices that connect to  emerging and aspirational norms like the "right to the city". We are interested in descriptive documents detailing various forms of engagement with international norms, as well as more playful forms of analysis such as critical essays on a specific city practice. 

The collected ‘city reports’ will be included as annexes to the official Report of the ILA study group to the ILA Kyoto conference in 2020. The ILA study group is further anticipating to hold an open session at the conference where a selection of these reports will be presented to ILA members. In a second step, the chairpersons of the study group will be curating a collection of city reports based on the ILA reporting process with a view to publication with a leading university press. 

More information on the call can be found here: https://www.asser.nl/about-the-institute/asser-today/ongoing-call-for-contributions-city-reports-on-international-law/