Published on 26 September 2022 in Client Alerts
We are delighted to announce that the London International Boundary Conference will return for its 5th convention on 12th & 13th December 2022. Inaugurated in April 2013, it is a major international forum dedicated to furthering multidisciplinary approaches to complex territorial and boundary disputes. The conference strives to bring together specialists from international law, the social sciences, history, as well as technical experts – not usually an assemblage you’ll find at the same venue – to shed light on the debates of the day, emergent challenges and regional hotspots.
Territorial and international boundary disputes remain more acute than ever in the autumn of 2022 – in many ways, the sophistication of contemporary academic approaches makes for a sharp contrast with continuingly (maybe increasingly) crude state actions on land and sea. For our 5th conference we have elected to dwell on the following themes;
The upcoming event will take a hybrid format.
For further information, please email info@LondonInternationalBoundaryConference.com or monitor LIBC’s website at: https://www.londoninternationalboundaryconference.com/.
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