Submission ASSELLMU 2021

Theme

Environmental Law Education for Sustainable Development in the Middle East and North African (MENA) Region: Methodologies and Pedagogical Approaches for Effective Delivery

In acknowledgment of the importance of the environment to the MENA region, the plenary session and the TTT program will provide an opportunity for sharing information on how to enhance capacity for environmental law development and implementation in the region. The program will cover national, regional, and international law aspects on five main substantive topics:

International Environmental Law

Key multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) that, through their effective implementation, can advance the SDGs, specifically through issues related to climate change mitigation and adaptation, energy transition, food security, sustainable water management, land use and solid minerals, and clean technology entrepreneurship across the MENA region.

Environment Law Education for Sustainable Development

The role of environmental law education in advancing specific and critically important SDGs in the MENA region, especially those relating to water, energy, food, and economic diversification. Legal treatment of the determinants of environment and sustainable development in the countries of the Middle East and the Arab Maghreb.

Evidence-based Learning for Environmental Protection

Innovative educational techniques, legal tools, best practices, research, resources, and simulation models that can enhance legal and institutional capacity on environmental governance in the region.

Education Technologies (Ed-Tech) for Environmental Law

Existing technologies, enablers, challenges, and barriers faced in implementing MEAs in the region.

Practical Application

Current capacity development gaps and needs of environmental law agencies and ministries in the region, and how they can be met.

Papers

We are inviting abstracts for papers falling within any of the above topics that will propose groundbreaking academic-style contributions to environmental law in the MENA region. The contributions can take a continental approach to the issues they cover; or focus on sub-regional or country-level case studies. In so far as methodology is concerned, papers adopting multidisciplinary and empirical approaches are welcome. The papers can also address innovative approaches to teaching, carrying out research in and litigating environmental law.

Submission Guidelines

Environmental law teachers, scholars and legal practitioners, and other persons interested in the discipline of environmental law and policy from the MENA region, are invited to submit an abstract on any of the above five main substantive topics. The proposals should be of no more than 600 words and include the following elements:

• Name of the author
• Institutional affiliation of the author
• Author’s contact details
• Short description of the topic to be addressed in the paper
• The methodological approach taken
• A brief overview of the expected outcomes of the final paper

The submission must be original and not have already been published or submitted elsewhere. Please ensure that submissions do not infringe other people's intellectual property rights.

Submission of abstracts and publication timetable

The selection panel will consider the submitted abstracts and inform only the selected authors on or before October 7, 2021. On acceptance of an abstract by the selection panel, the author will be invited to present their paper for discussion at the ASSELLMU third Scientific Conference to be held on November 1-5, 2021.

In addition to comments received at the third Scientific Conference and TTT, authors of papers will receive comments from the editors of a journal special issue or book to be published. Authors are expected to incorporate these comments and return their final papers to the editors by January 31, 2022. Finally accepted papers will be published in a journal special issue or book.

The closing date for submission of abstracts is September 30, 2021. Any questions on this call for abstracts should be directed to dolawuyi@hbku.edu.qa

Abstracts should be submitted, together with a copy of the author’s curriculum vitae, as email attachments to Dr. Damilola S. Olawuyi, SAN ( dolawuyi@hbku.edu.qa).