Events
Past events
International Environmental Law: Changing Context, Emerging Trends & Expanding Frontiers | |
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18 November 2020 | This lecture is part of the International Law Association (British Branch) Lecture Series Speaker: Professor Lavanya Rajamani (University of Oxford) Chair: Dr Ralph Wilde (UCL Laws) About the lecture This talk will explore and illustrate the ways in which international environmental law has evolved over the last decade. It will discuss how the field has adapted to a changing geo-political context, as well as to the possibilities and limits of global regulation in addressing the complex, polycentric and intractable nature of global environmental harms. It will also explore the increasing activity at the intersections of international environmental law with other fields of law and policy, thus expanding the sites at which international environmental law is made, applied and implemented. It will conclude with reflections on the future of international environmental law in the context of the emerging understanding of the fundamental limits posed by the nature and operation of environmental law within the current architecture of international law and politics. For fruther information visit the event's website. |
International Tribunals in Interesting Times: A Fireside Chat with Elias and Lim | |
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28 January 2020 | Speakers: Olufemi Elias (UN), Chin Leng Lim (CUHK) About the talk About the speakers Chin Leng Lim is the Choh-ming Li Professor of Law at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and practises from Keating Chambers, London. He is an Honorary Senior Fellow of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, and a Visiting Professor at King’s College London. Chin was for many years Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong and served on both Court and Senate. He was also recently the Lionel Astor Sheridan Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore. His latest books include Lim, Ho and Paparinskis, International Investment Law & Arbitration (Cambridge, 2018), with a Foreword by Gaillard, and the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to International Arbitration, with a Foreword by Lord Neuberger. |
Novice in Nienstedten, informal observations from a junior judge | |
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27 February 2019 | This lecture is part of the ILA (British Branch) Lecture Series. Speaker: Judge Liesbeth Lijnzaad (ITLOS International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea) Chair: Dr. Danae Azaria About the Lecture: The presentation will provide some informal observations of a junior judge at ITLOS on the basis of experiences in her very first year on the bench. This will include some comments on transitioning from the role of Legal Adviser to the position of judge, as well as some observations on life in the deliberations’ room at the Tribunal. For further information visit the event's website. |
8th Annual UCL and Baker McKenzie Lecture on International Law and Litigation | |
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13 November 2018 | Regulation and its discontents: A changing landscape for international investment law? With Hugo Perezcano Díaz, Deputy Director of International Economic Law with the International Law Research Program (ILRP), Centre for International Governance Innovation Chaired by Professor Philippe Sands QC (UCL Laws / Matrix Chambers) About the speaker For further information visit the event's website. |
Adjudicating Reparation for Human Rights Violations | |
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24 January 2018 | An International Law Association (British Branch) Lecture Speaker: Prof. Photini Pazartzis, Professor of Public International Law and Director of the Athens Public International Law Center of the Faculty of Law of the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens Chair: Dr Danai Azaria, UCL Laws About this talk: There has been great attention in international human rights law and jurisprudence on remedies to victims of human rights violations. International human rights courts have greatly contributed to the development of the right to reparation, applying and adjusting the general principle of reparation in the law of State responsibility -as well as the various forms of reparation-, within the specific context of human rights treaties violations. This presentation will discuss the remedial practice of the UN Human Rights Committee, in the framework of its quasi-adjudicatory function of the examination of individual communications. For further information visit the event's website. |
Identifying customary international law | |
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19 October 2016 | 19 October 2016, 6:00 pm–7:00 pm INTERNATIONAL LAW ASSOCIATION (British Branch) Lecture: Identifying Customary International Law: Speaker: Professor Maurice Mendelson QC, Blackstone Chambers Chair: Professor Roger O’Keefe (UCL Laws) About the lecture In 2000 the International Law Association adopted the London Principles on the Formation of Customary International Law and commended it to governments, international organisations etc. The International Law Commission of the United Nations subsequently took up the subject with a view to possible codification, and in 2016 adopted a draft, on first reading, which has been transmitted to governments for their comments. The speaker, who chaired the International Committee which drafted the ILA Principles, will consider the challenges of codification and make some brief comparisons between the two documents. For further information visit the event's website. |
Lex specialis in the WTO | |
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27 January 2016 | Speaker: Dr Lorand Bartels (University of Cambridge) Chair: Professor Piet Eckhout (UCL) About this eventWTO law provides an excellent case study for anyone interested in the phenomenon of overlapping and conflicting treaties. WTO law is comprised of a constitutional agreement (usually called the ‘Marrakesh Agreement’) and four Annexes. Annex 1 is subdivided into three separate annexes, and one of these, Annex 1A, is further subdivided into another twelve self-standing agreements. It frequently happens that more than one agreement has a bearing on a particular factual issue, and it is necessary to determine which of these provisions is applicable. For various reasons, this question is usually determined from the perspective of the principle of lex specialis. This presentation will examine the way that WTO law treats this principle, and what this might mean for international law more generally. For further information visit the event's website. |
Dying as a side-effect: | |
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9 | Speaker: Professor Janina Dill (London School of Economics) Chair: Dr Kimberley Trapp (UCL) About this event: For further information visit the event's website. |
International justice and the rule of law: the 70th anniversary of Nuremberg | |
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19 November 2015 | Organised by UCL Centre for International Course and Tribunals with the British Institute of International and Comparative Law
An event to mark the 70th anniversary of the Nuremberg trials. The event will provide an opportunity to hear leading experts and relatives of those participating in the trial reflect on this important moment for the rule of law and international justice. This event will offer a historical perspective and comment on the legacy For further information visit the event's website. |
Investor-State Arbitration and the Law of State Responsibility: Recent Trends | |
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18 November 2015 | Speaker: Professor Robert Howse(NYU Law School / LSE) Chair: Dr Martins Paparinskis (UCL) About this event: For further information visit the event's website. |
The Current Work of the UN International Law Commission | |
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14 October 2015 | Speaker: Sir Michael Wood (20 Essex Street) Chair: Professor Roger O'Keefe (UCL) About this event: For further information visit the event's website. |
Contemporary Issues of Whaling: A Gordian Knot? | |
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4 February 2015 | Speaker: Professor Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Queen Mary University of London Chair: Dr Martins Paparinskis (UCL) About the lecture: For further information visit the event's website. |
The International Minimum Standard and Fair and Equitable Treatment | |
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21 January 2015 | Speaker: Dr Martins Paparinskis, University College London Chair: Philippe Sands QC (UCL) Discussants: About the lecture: For further information visit the event's website. |
Thoughts on the Judicial Function in International Law, with special attention to the International Court of Justice | |
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3 December 2014 | Speaker: Dr Gleider Hernandez About the lecture: For further information visit the event's website. |
People at Sea and International Law | |
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12 November 2014 | Speaker: Dr Irini Papanicolopulu About the lecture: |
Shared Responsibility in International Energy Law | |
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29 October 2014 | Speaker: Professor Catherine Redgwell, Chichele Professor of Public International Law, University of Oxford About the lecture: |
The Protection of Cultural Property in Armed Conflicts: Thinking Outside the Lacquered Box | |
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1 October 2014 | Speaker: Roger O'Keefe ,Professor of International Law, UCL About the lecture: |
Annual Lecture with Baker & McKenzie LLP 2014: | |
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14 May 2014 | Judge Abdulqawi Yusuf He was Lecturer at the Somali National University from 1974 to 1981 and at the University of Geneva from 1981 to 1983. He has also been guest professor and lecturer at a number of universities and institutes in Switzerland, Italy, Greece and France. From 1987 to 1992, Dr Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf was Chief of the Legal Policies Service of United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) before becoming its Representative and Head of its New York Office from 1992 to 1994. From 1994 to 2001, he served as Legal Advisor (up to 1998), then Assistant Director for African Affairs to United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in Vienna. From March 2001 to January 2009, Dr Yusuf was Legal Adviser and Director of the Office of International Standards and Legal Affairs for United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). As of February 6, 2009, he had been a judge at the International Court of Justice. In 2011, Judge Yusuf gained a seat in the advisory council of The Hague Institute for Global Justice. Dr Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf is Founder and General Editor of the African Yearbook of International Law and a member of the Institut de droit international (Geneva). He is also one of the founders of the African Foundation for International Law and Chairman of its Executive Committee. In addition, Judge Yusuf has authored several books and numerous articles on various aspects of international law as well as articles and op-ed pieces in newspapers on current Northeast African and Somali affairs. He is a member of the editorial advisory board of the Asian Yearbook of International Law, and a member of the Thessaloniki Institute of Public International Law and International Relations curatorium. Dr Yusuf is fluent in Somali, English, French, Arabic, and Italian. |
What is an International Crime? | |
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5 March 2014 | Speaker: Kevin Jon Heller, Professor of Criminal Law, SOAS University of London About the lecture: |
Rethinking Jurisdiction in International Law | |
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5 February 2014 | Speaker: Dr Alex Mills, UCL About the lecture: |
Investment Treaty Arbitration and the World Trade Organization: What Role for Systemic Values in the Resolution of International Economic Disputes | |
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25 November 2013 | Speaker: Professor Dan Sarooshi, University of Oxford This talk will evaluate and compare a number of key elements of WTO and ICSID dispute settlement in order to gauge the extent to which broader values can, or indeed should, play a role in these two leading fora for the settlement of international economic disputes. |
Autonomous Weapons and Responsibility Under International Law | |
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2 October 2013 | Speaker: Professor Dan Saxon, Leiden University College, The Hague About the talk: |
Annual Lecture with Baker & McKenzie LLP 2013: | |
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6 June 2013 | Professor Brigitte Stern University of Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne About this lecture: This lecture assesses investment treaty arbitration through the eyes of a public international lawyer, and the lens of public international law. Contrary to a purely “commercial” approach to the resolution of disputes between foreign investors and States – which tend to proceed on the basis that both actors are to be treated as similar economic entities acting in the same playing field – this perspective offers the necessary and invaluable contribution of public international law. Such law takes into account the public nature of these disputes, and the specificities and functions of sovereign States, on questions such as interpretation, attribution and the consequences of the application of general principles of international law. |
Annual Lecture with Middle Temple and Baker & McKenzie LLP 2012: | |
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11 June 2012 | Professor Brigitte Stern University of Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne About this lecture: This lecture assesses investment treaty arbitration through the eyes of a public international lawyer, and the lens of public international law. Contrary to a purely “commercial” approach to the resolution of disputes between foreign investors and States – which tend to proceed on the basis that both actors are to be treated as similar economic entities acting in the same playing field – this perspective offers the necessary and invaluable contribution of public international law. Such law takes into account the public nature of these disputes, and the specificities and functions of sovereign States, on questions such as interpretation, attribution and the consequences of the application of general principles of international law. |
Inaugural Annual Lecture with Baker & McKenzie LLP 2011: | |
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13 June 2011 | Professor Vaughan Lowe QC Chichele Professor of Public International Law and a Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford and Essex Court Chambers (London). About this Lecture: The Function of Law in the International Community - to take the title of Hersch Lauterpacht's classic study - is to establish a framework for international dealings. But what is the function of litigation in the international community? Development of the law? The peaceful settlement of disputes? Or something different? And how does the function of the international litigation relate to the function of law? Venue: The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, London |
Amsterdam Center for International Law: | |
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Friday, 18 March to Saturday, 19 March 2011 | On 18 and 19 March 2011, the ACIL, in cooperation with the Project on International Courts and Tribunals (PICT), will organize a two-day seminar on the International Judicial Function. The seminar will discuss the goals of different international courts and the role of judges in fulfilling these goals. Separate panels will focus on the dispute settlement role of international courts, international courts as law-interpreters/developers, international courts as ‘law enforcers’, international courts as fact-finders and the international judicial function of national courts. A key question will be the degree in which the judicial functions converge or vary across different international (and national) courts. Speakers include judges of the International Court of Justice, the European Court of Human Rights, the Court of Justice of the EU, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, and the UK Supreme Court, and leading academics. The seminar is a closed meeting. Venue: University of Amsterdam |
Impact of International Criminal Procedures on Domestic Criminal Procedures in Mass Atrocity Cases | |
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Thursday 30 September and Friday 1 October 2010 | "THE DOMAC PROJECT"is hosting a Conference on the Impact of International Criminal Procedures on Domestic Criminal Procedures in Mass Atrocity Cases at the University of Amsterdam. The Conference is organized by DOMAC, in cooperation with the Project on International Courts and Tribunals (PICT) and the Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL). The Conference is free and open to academics and practitioners in various fields, including international law and international relations. For more information on DOMAC, please visit www.domac.is Venue: University of Amsterdam |
DOMAC | |
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16 May 2009 | ICC Prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo, will give the keynote address at a symposium organised by the DOMAC project to be held in Reykjavik on 16 May 2009. The symposium is entitled Prosecuting Serious International Crimes: The joint role of national and international courts. The keynote address will be followed by two panel discussions featuring DOMAC researchers and Justice Shireen Fisher, Judge in the Appeals Chamber of the Special Court for Sierra Leone and former judge in the War Crimes Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The event is followed by a closed DOMAC workshop on Sunday 17 May. |
Forensic Anthropology and Human Rights: Investigation, exhumation and analysis of evidence in the context of political/ethnic violence | |
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Thursday 27 November 2008 | Speaker: Silvana Turner, Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team About the event: The Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team, (Equipo Argentino de Anthropologia Forense, EAAF), established in 1984, is a nongovernmental, nonprofit scientific organization that applies forensic sciences, mainly forensic anthropology, archaeology, and genetics, to the investigation of human rights violations in Argentina and around the world. The team was founded in response to the need to investigate the disappearances of at least 9,000 people by the military regime that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983. Applying forensic anthropology and related sciences, and working closely with victims and their relatives, the team seek to shed light on human rights violations, contributing to the search for truth, justice, reparation, and prevention of future abuses. Silvana Turner has been a forensic anthropologist, investigator and researcher for EAAF since 1989. In addition to participating in investigations in Argentina, she has worked at the request of national and international NGOs, governmental and intergovernmental organisations, national and international commissions in Brazil, Uruguay, Bolivia, Colombia, Panama, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico, Ethiopia, South Africa, Zimbabwe and the Philippines. |
Selecting International Judges: Principle, Process and Politics | |
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Tuesday 9 September 2008, 9 – 5pm | The number of international courts is increasing and international courts are exerting ever greater influence on political, social, economic and environmental issues. These developments raise an important question: how are the international judges that sit on these courts selected? Venue: Greenberg Lounge at the New York University (NYU) School of Law Related documents: |
International Courts and Tribunals in the 21st Century: the future of international justice | |
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30 November - 1 December 2007 | On 30 November and 1 December 2007, the Centre for International Courts and Tribunals (CICT) organised a conference at the Peace Palace in The Hague entitled International Courts and Tribunals in the 21st Century: the future of international justice. The event marked the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the |
Lecture Series 2007-08: | |
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9 October 2007 | Professor Campbell McLachlan QC Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand; Bankside Chambers (Auckland) and Essex Court Chambers (London); Visiting Fellow, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge The Relationship Between Investment Treaty Law And General International Law (Keeton Room, Bentham House) |
3 December 2007 | Professor Cesare Romano Loyola Law School, Los Angeles Professor Daniel Terris Brandeis University The International Judge (Keeton Room, Bentham House) |
5 February 2008 | Dr Chester Brown Foreign and Commonwealth Office A Common Law of International Adjudication (Keeton Room, Bentham House) |
4 March 2008 | Dr. Nikolaos Lavranos Center for International Law, University of Amsterdam Regulating Competing Jurisdictions Among International Courts And Tribunals (Keeton Room, Faculty of Laws, UCL) |
Lecture Series 2004-05: | |
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9 November 2004 | Mr Ibrahima Kane Legal Officer for Africa, Interights Protecting Human Rights in Africa: Can the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights Meet the Challenge? (Keeton Room, Bentham House) |
30 November 2004 | Professor Joel Paul Hastings College of Law, University of California American Justice: The War on Terror and the Rights of Prisoners (Moot Court Room, Bentham House) |
9 December 2004 | Professor Anne-Marie Slaughter Dean, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University Independence of the International Judiciary (Keeton Room, Bentham House) |
Lecture Series 2003-04: | |
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21 October 2003 | Professor Paul Schiff Berman University of Connecticut The Rise, Fall, and Puzzling Persistence of Transnational Jurisdiction Keeton Room, Bentham House |
14 January 2004 | Alan Perry Kendall Freeman The Loewen Award and the Function of Foreign Investment Arbitration Keeton Room, Bentham House |
28 January 2004 | Professor Elizabeth Wilmshurst Visiting Professor, UCL/ former Deputy Legal Adviser, Foreign & Commonwealth Office The International Criminal Court: Challenges and Prospects Keeton Room, Bentham House |
11 February 2004 | Professor Bart Brown Chicago-Kent School of Law/Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law, Cambridge University The Complementary Jurisdiction of the ICC and the Balance between State Responsibility and Individual Criminal Responsibility Keeton Room, Bentham House |
6 May 2004 | Professor Francisco Orrego Vicuna University of Santiago, Chile What future ICSID? Keeton Room, Bentham House |
26 May 2004 | Professor David Kennedy Harvard Law School The Dark Side of International Adjudication Keeton Room, Bentham House |
Past Lecture Series: | |
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9 October 2002 | Professor Georges Abi-Saab Member, Appellate Body, WTO; former Judge, ICTY The Function of the International Judge Followed by reception to launch Centre on International Courts and Tribunals |
30 October 2002 | Allan Rosas, Judge European Court of Justice The European Court of Justice - Neither International nor Domestic |
4 December 2002 | Michael Wood Legal Adviser, Foreign and Commonwealth Office The United Kingdom and the Settlement of Disputes by International Courts and Tribunals |
5 February 2003 | Chidi Odinkalu Interights |
30 April 2003 | Patricia Sellars Prosecutor, International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia Midlife Prosecutorial Challenges at the ICTY |
4 June 2003 | Professor Laurence Boisson de Chazournes University of Geneva The Development of International Environmental Law and Judicial Legislation: Where is the Boundary? |