O Instituto Jurídico Portucalense (IJP) da Universidade Portucalense Infante D. Henrique e a Sociedade Portuguesa de Direito Internacional (SPDI), Portuguese Branch da International Law Association (ILA) estão a organizar uma Conferência Internacional sobre a Responsabilidade dos Estados e das Organizações Internacionais no âmbito da Pandemia Covid-19, que se realiza na Universidade Portucalense, Porto, no dia 30 de outubro de 2020.

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O programa, acompanhado por uma "call for papers" (ambos em língua Inglesa), será o seguinte:

PANDEMIC AND INTERNATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY

OCTOBER 30, 2020

ORGANIZATION: IJP – INSTITUTO JURÍDICO PORTUCALENTE and SPDI – SOCIEDADE PORTUGUESA DE DIREITO INTERNACIONAL

9:00-9:30 | Reception of the participants

9:30-10:00 | Opening Session

9:30-9:40 | Intervention by the Vice-Rector for research of the UPT

9:40-9:50 | Intervention by the President of the Sociedade Portuguesa de Direito Internacional

9:50-10:00 | Intervention by the President of the Instituto Jurídico Portucalense

10:00 First Session – International Responsibility of States

10:00-10:30 | Maria Teresa Ponte Iglesias – Professor of Faculdade de Derecho de la Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

10:35-11:05 | Cláudia Monge – Professor of Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa

11:10-11:20 | Presentation of the first paper

11:20-11:30 | Presentation of the second paper 

11:45-12:00 | Cofeebreak

12:00-13:00 | Debate 

13:00-14:30 | Lunch break

15:00 Second Session - International Responsibility of International Organizations

15:00-15:30 | Valério de Oliveira Mazzuoli - Professor of Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso (Brazil)

15:35-16:05 | Sean Murphy - Professor of George Washington University Law School and Member of the International Law Comission (ILC)

16:10-16:20 | Presentation of the third paper

16:20-16:30 | Presentation of the fourth paper

16:30-17:30 | Debate

17:30-17:45 | Closing session

The Seminar will be in person and by videoconference. Please register here.

PRESENTATION AND CALL FOR PAPERS

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.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

- Wladimir Brito – Professor of the Universidade Portucalense and Director of the IJP

- Manuel Almeida Ribeiro – Professor of the ISCSP (School of Social and Political Science of the University of Lisbon) and President of the SPDI

- Fernando Loureiro Bastos – Professor of Faculdade de Direito de Lisboa (Law School of the University of Lisbon)

- Patrícia Galvão Teles – Professor of the Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa

- Maria de Fátima de Castro Moreira – Professora of the Universidade Portucalense and researcher of the IJP

- Daniela Castilho – Professor of the Universidade Portucalense and researcher of the IJP

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

- Wladimir Brito – Professor of the Universidade Portucalense and Director of the IJP

- Manuel Almeida Ribeiro – Professor of the ISCSP (School of Social and Political Science of the University of Lisbon) and President of the SPDI

- Fernando Loureiro Bastos – Professor of Faculdade de Direito de Lisboa (Law School of the University of Lisbon)

- Patrícia Galvão Teles – Professor of the Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa

- Maria de Fátima de Castro Moreira – Professora of the Universidade Portucalense and researcher of the IJP

- Daniela Castilho – Professor of the Universidade Portucalense and researcher of the IJP

- Maria de Assunção do Vale Pereira – Professor of the Universidde do Minho

DATES 

Proposals must be submitted, in Portuguese, Castilian, or English, until October 20, 2020 and sent to wbrito@upt.pt

Abstract with 300 words. Article with 7500 words. Final submission until December 10, 2020, at 23:55.

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.