Sadie Blanchard
About/Bio
Sadie is a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law. In 2012-2013 she was Law Clerk to Judge Charles N. Brower of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, assisting with ICSID and ad hoc investor-State arbitrations. Previously she practiced international arbitration at King & Spalding in Paris. Sadie holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and is a member of the New York bar.
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This Week: Discussion of Jan Klabbers’s ‘The Transformation of International Organizations Law’
August 18, 2015
Sadie Blanchard
Over the next few days, we will be hosting a discussion of the first annual EJIL Foreword, Jan Klabbers’s article “The Transformation of International Organizations Law,” which was published in volume 26, no. 1 of the European Journal of International Law (2015). The commentaries on his article will be by Alison Duxbury (Melbourne) and Ian Johnstone (The Fletcher School). We…
Announcements: CfP Junior Scholars Roundtable on Settling Tax Disputes under Int’l Law (Luxembourg); Chatham House Meetings on Business & Human Rights, Foreign Affairs in National Courts (London)
August 1, 2015
Sadie Blanchard
1. Call for papers for junior scholars roundtable at University of Luxembourg conference on the settlement of tax disputes under international law, 12-13 November 2015, Luxembourg. On 12-13 November 2015, the Research Unit in Law of the University of Luxembourg, with the support of the Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg, will be holding a conference on the settlement of tax disputes under international…
Announcements: CfP, Legal Theory/Philosophy Conference on European Values (Ljubljana); New Additions to UN Audiovisual Library
July 25, 2015
Sadie Blanchard
1. Call for papers, 2015 Legal Theory and Legal Philosophy Conference (20 and 21 November 2015, Ljubljana): In Search of Basic European Values.” The Graduate School of Government and European Studies and the European Faculty of Law, both Slovenia, invite researchers undertaking research on public law, human rights , legal theory and legal philosophy to submit abstracts for participation at the…
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Popular articles by Sadie Blanchard
The Peace of Utrecht in 1713, a Painting by Semiramis Öner Mühüdaroğlu
July 7, 2014
Sadie Blanchard
The Treaty of Utrecht was until recently one of the few major peace treaties that had not been commemorated in a painting or photograph. The treaty was finally memorialized on the occasion of its 300-year anniversary last year in a painting (pictured left, click to enlarge) by Turkish artist Semiramis Öner Mühüdaroğlu. The Treaty of…
Tennyson’s “Locksley Hall”: A Disappointed Dream of Peace Through Law
September 2, 2014
Sadie Blanchard
In “Locksley Hall”–a lesser known masterpiece of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (pictured left)–a soldier ruminates on the disappointments of his youthful passion and idealism. Below is an excerpt in which the narrator reflects on his earlier vision of a future of peace through international law and commerce and his later disillusionment with that dream. The poem is remarkably post-modern given that it was first published…
Announcements: Hague Academy Course on ICL; Int’l Law Conference (Ottawa); Summer Courses on Human Rights, European Law (Florence); Summer Courses on ICL, Transitional Justice, Children’s Rights, Women, Peace and Security (Leiden); Call for Submissions on Theoretical Approaches to Int’l Law; EJIL:Live!
March 17, 2015
Sadie Blanchard
We've been experiencing technical difficulties, so here are last week's announcements, a few days late: 1. New Hague Academy Advanced Course on International Criminal Law (24 August to 4 September 2015). The Hague Academy of International Law and the Grotius Centre have launched a new Advanced Course on International Criminal Law (ICL) which will be held…