Announcing: ABILA’s first-ever blogging symposium!

In honor of ILW 2024’s theme of ‘powerless law or law for the powerless?‘ ABILA is hosting a blogging symposium. The International Environmental and Energy Law Committee will sponsor the first symposium, and other committees will sponsor subsequent symposia. The second symposium will be hosted after ILW 2024.

To participate, kindly submit a 200-word abstract and a brief biography to Freya Doughty-Wagner at [email protected] by May 19, 2024. Abstracts and biographies may be in Word or PDF format. Please ensure to include the phrase ‘blog symposium’ in the email subject line. Abstracts must address the ILW 2024 theme from an international environmental or energy law perspective.

Successful applicants will be notified a week later and requested to prepare a 1,500-word piece with hyperlinks as references and an attached open-access image by June 14. All blogs may undergo editing, subject to author approval, before publication.

Five abstracts will be selected. One blog a day will be posted to the ABILA blog during the week of June 24-28 and shared widely across our social media. The best two blogs will be included in our summer print newsletter. Submissions may come from law students, academics, or practitioners. Undergraduates are not able to apply at this time. Blogs may not be crossposted to other blogging platforms.

Please send any questions to Freya at [email protected]. Happy writing!