Lauterpacht Centre Friday Lunchtime Lecture Series for Michaelmas Term 2020

Here's the schedule for the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law's Michaelmas Term 2020 Friday Lunchtime Lectures (all lectures will be online):

• October 9, 2020: Radhika Coomaraswamy, Women and Children and the Transformation of International Law (Eli Lauterpacht Lecture)
• October 16, 2020: Alexandre Kedar (Univ. of Haifa), Emptied Lands: Bedouin rights, dispossession and resistance in the Negev
• October 23, 2020: Philippa Webb (King’s College London), The Right to a Fair Trial in International Law: Shining a light on a critical human rights protection
• October 30, 2020: Monica Hakimi (Univ. of Michigan), Two Visions of the International Rule of Law
• November 6, 2020: Helen Frowe (Univ. of Stockholm), Implementing the 1954 Hague Convention: Conflicts between People and Heritage
• November 13, 2020: Nehal Bhuta (Univ. of Edinburgh), The State Theory of Grotius
• November 20, 2020: Andrew Serdy (Univ. of Southampton), Brexit and Fisheries: International Law Dimensions of the 2018 White Paper and Current Fisheries Bill (CILJ-LCIL Annual Lecture)
• November 27, 2020: Prabhash Ranjan (South Asian Univ.) India and International Investment Law: Refusal, Acceptance, Backlash

2020 Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures

On March 3-5, 2020, Mikael Rask Madsen (Univ. of Copenhagen - Law) will deliver the 2020 Sir Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures at the University of Cambridge. There will also be a question and answer session on March 6. The topic of the lectures is: "Human Rights and the Making of Europe: The European Court of Human Rights in the Grand Transformation."

Lauterpacht Centre Friday Lunchtime Lecture Series for Lent Term 2020

Here's the schedule for the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law's Lent Term 2020 Friday Lunchtime Lectures:

• January 17, 2020: Stephan Hobe (Univ. of Cologne), Space resource acquisition and space debris – two challenges for the future order for human uses of outer space
• January 24, 2020: Nehal Bhuta (Univ. of Edinburgh), The State Theory of Grotius
• January 31, 2020: Rose Parfitt (Univ. of Kent), The States We're in: Law, Inequality, Historiography, Resistance Rose Parfitt, Kent Law School
• February 7, 2020: Jason Sharman (Univ. of Cambridge), Recovering Looted Assets in the Fight Against Grand Corruption
• February 14, 2020: Mohammad Shahabuddin (Univ. of Birmingham), Minorities and the Making of Postcolonial States in International Law
• February 21, 2020: Kirsten Campbell (Univ. of London), Building a Feminist Approach to International Criminal Law
• February 28, 2020: Hemi Mistry (Univ. of Nottingham), A Performative Theory of Judicial Dissent in International Law?

Lauterpacht Centre Friday Lunchtime Lecture Series for Michaelmas Term 2019

Here's the schedule for the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law's Michaelmas Term 2019 Friday Lunchtime Lectures:

• October 11, 2019: Joseph Weiler (New York Univ. - Law), Taking Teaching Seriously: How to Teach Treaty Interpretation (Eli Lauterpacht Lecture)
• October 18, 2019: Fuad Zarbiyev (Graduate Institute), Linguistic rationality as discursive commitment: rethinking international legal normativity
• October 25, 2019: Hannah Woolaver (Univ. of Capetown - Law), From Joining to Leaving: Domestic Law’s Role in the International Legal Validity of Treaty Withdrawal
• November 1, 2019: Mary Ellen O'Connell (Univ. of Notre Dame - Law), Armed Rebellion, Intervention, and International Law
• November 8, 2019: Larissa van den Herik (Leiden Univ. - Law), Transnational illiberal spaces and international law
• November 15, 2019: Sara Kendall (Univ. of Kent - Law), Legal Humanitarianism: the Restorative Turn in International Criminal Law
• November 22, 2019: Pierre-Marie Dupuy (Univ. of Paris (Panthéon-Assas) - Law), Twenty Years Later: How has International Law evolved as a legal Order?
• November 29, 2019: Douglas Guilfoyle (Univ. of New South Wales - Law), Reforming the International Criminal Court

Lauterpacht Centre Friday Lunchtime Lecture Series for Easter Term 2019

Here's the schedule for the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law's Easter Term 2019 Friday Lunchtime Lectures:

• April 26, 2019: Timothy Meyer (Vanderbilt Univ. - Law), Foreign Affairs and the National Security Economy
• May 3, 2019: Latha Varadarajan (San Diego State Univ. - Political Science), International Law on Trial
• May 10, 2019: Damilola Olawuyi (HBKU - Law), Sovereign Wealth Funds and International Law

Workshop: The Future of Multilateralism

On April 30, 2019, the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law will hold a workshop on "The Future of Multilateralism." The program is here.

2019 Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures

On March 12-14, 2019, Tom Ginsburg (Univ. of Chicago - Law) will deliver the 2019 Sir Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures at the University of Cambridge. There will also be a question and answer session on March 15. The topic of the lectures is: "Democracies and International Law: The Trials of Liberalism."

Lauterpacht Centre Friday Lunchtime Lecture Series for Michaelmas Term 2018

Here's the schedule for the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law's Michaelmas Term 2018 Friday Lunchtime Lectures:

• October 5, 2018: Shaheed Fatima (Blackstone Chambers), Protecting Children in Armed Conflict
• October 12, 2018: Catherine Brölmann (Univ. of Amsterdam), Speaking law to power: the UN and the vertical and the horizontal dimension of the international rule of law
• October 19, 2018: Marc Weller (Univ. of Cambridge), Self-determination after Kosovo and Catalonia
• October 26, 2018: Lloyd Jones (Justice, Supreme Court of the United Kingdom), Foreign Affairs and Domestic Courts
• November 2, 2018: Sarah Williams (Univ. of New South Wales), The Amicus Curiae mechanism at the International Criminal Court
• November 9, 2018: Annabel Brett (Univ. of Cambridge), Law, politics and moral reasoning in Hugo Grotius's The law of war and peace (1625)
• November 16, 2018: Frank Berman (Essex Court Chambers), Authority in International Law
• November 23, 2018: Ayça Çubukçu (London School of Economics and Political Science), Thinking Against Humanity
• Novmeber 30, 2018: International Law in an Era of Nationalism: A Round Table Discussion, with John Dugard (Doughty Street Chambers), Christopher Greenwood (formerly, Judge, International Court of Justice), Catherine Barnard (Univ. of Cambridge), and Lorand Bartels (Univ. of Cambridge)

Workshop: Rethinking Reparations in International Law

On November 16-17, 2018, the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law will host an ESIL-sponsored workshop on "Rethinking Reparations in International Law." The program is here. Here's the idea:

What role do reparations play in international law today? What is the theory behind reparations in different areas/systems of international law? Do reparations play a different role in different areas of international law (human rights, investment law)? How are reparations chosen by judges and arbitrators and how are damages calculated? What is the link between efficiency and reparations? How can reparations be made more efficient? How do judges/arbitrators understand their role in relation to reparations? These questions will be at the centre of an ESIL-sponsored workshop held at the Lauterpacht Centre, University of Cambridge in November 2018. The workshop will seek to address the recent developments and scholarship in the area of reparations (remedies) in international law. It will bring together scholars writing on theory of reparations, those conducting empirical or comparative research, as well as practitioners, judges and arbitrators. The aim is to provide a platform for discussion of new ideas about efficiency of reparations in international law.

Lauterpacht Centre Friday Lunchtime Lecture Series for Easter Term 2018

Here's the schedule for the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law's Easter Term 2018 Friday Lunchtime Lectures:

• April 27, 2018: Mónica García-Salmones Rovira (Univ. of Helsinki), Human Rights, Natural Rights and the Ordering of Conquest
• May 4, 2018: Anthea Roberts (Australian National Univ. - School of Regulation and Global Governance), Is International Law in International?
• May 11, 2018: Hayk Kupelyants (Univ. of Cambridge), Conflict of Laws before International Courts and Tribunals

Call for Papers: Rethinking Reparations in International Law (Reminder)

A reminder that a call for papers has been issued for a workshop on "Rethinking Reparation in International Law," to take place in November 2018, at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. The deadline is April 30, 2018. Here's the call:

Call for Papers: Rethinking Reparations in International Law

What role do reparations play in international law today? What is the theory behind reparations in different areas/systems of international law? Do reparations play a different role in different areas of international law (human rights, investment law)? How are reparations chosen by judges and arbitrators and how are damages calculated? What is the link between efficiency and reparations? How can reparations be made more efficient? How do judges/arbitrators understand their role in relation to reparations?

These questions will be at the centre of an ESIL-sponsored workshop held at the Lauterpacht Centre, University of Cambridge in November 2018. The workshop will seek to address the recent developments and scholarship in the area of reparations (remedies) in international law. It will bring together scholars writing on theory of reparations, those conducting empirical or comparative research, as well as practitioners, judges and arbitrators. The aim is to provide a platform for discussion of new ideas about efficiency of reparations in international law.

At this point, we would like to invite scholars and practitioners working in the area, to submit a max. 400-word abstract to Dr Veronika Fikfak at vf243@cam.ac.uk. The deadline for submission is 30 April 2018. Abstracts will be selected by early June. Papers for the workshop will have to be submitted by mid-September.

The workshop is part of a larger project on Damages for Human Rights Violations funded by the ESRC. It is organised by Dr Veronika Fikfak, Lauterpacht Centre, University of Cambridge and Professor Photini Pazartzis, Athens Public International Law Centre, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens. The aim is to publish suitable contributions as an edited collection or special edition of an international journal. Papers with an empirical or comparative approach are particularly welcome.

Call for Papers: Rethinking Reparations in International Law

A call for papers has been issued for a workshop on "Rethinking Reparation in International Law," to take place in November 2018, at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. Here's the call:

Call for Papers: Rethinking Reparations in International Law

What role do reparations play in international law today? What is the theory behind reparations in different areas/systems of international law? Do reparations play a different role in different areas of international law (human rights, investment law)? How are reparations chosen by judges and arbitrators and how are damages calculated? What is the link between efficiency and reparations? How can reparations be made more efficient? How do judges/arbitrators understand their role in relation to reparations?

These questions will be at the centre of an ESIL-sponsored workshop held at the Lauterpacht Centre, University of Cambridge in November 2018. The workshop will seek to address the recent developments and scholarship in the area of reparations (remedies) in international law. It will bring together scholars writing on theory of reparations, those conducting empirical or comparative research, as well as practitioners, judges and arbitrators. The aim is to provide a platform for discussion of new ideas about efficiency of reparations in international law.

At this point, we would like to invite scholars and practitioners working in the area, to submit a max. 400-word abstract to Dr Veronika Fikfak at vf243@cam.ac.uk. The deadline for submission is 30 April 2018. Abstracts will be selected by early June. Papers for the workshop will have to be submitted by mid-September.

The workshop is part of a larger project on Damages for Human Rights Violations funded by the ESRC. It is organised by Dr Veronika Fikfak, Lauterpacht Centre, University of Cambridge and Professor Photini Pazartzis, Athens Public International Law Centre, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens. The aim is to publish suitable contributions as an edited collection or special edition of an international journal. Papers with an empirical or comparative approach are particularly welcome.

Lauterpacht Centre Friday Lunchtime Lecture Series for Lent Term 2018

Here's the schedule for the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law's Lent Term 2018 Friday Lunchtime Lectures:

• January 19, 2018: Gleider I Hernández (Durham Univ.), Systemic Agents in International Law
• January 26, 2018: Matthew Nicholson (Durham Univ.), Psychoanalyzing International Law
• February 2, 2018: Photini Pazartzis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens ), Whose Authority? The Human Rights Committee and the Interpretation of the ICCPR
• February 9, 2018: Catriona Drew (SOAS Univ. of London), tbd
• February 16, 2018: Sean Aughey (11KBW), Refracting international law ideas through the prism of the common law: act of state is (almost) dead, long live act of state!
• February 23, 2018: Tsilly Dagan (Bar-Ilan Univ.), International Tax policy: Between Competition and Cooperation
• March 2, 2018: Petros C. Mavroidis (Columbia Univ.), Last Mile for Tuna (to a Safe Harbor) How the WTO Appellate Body Has Misconstrued the TBT Agreement and Why a Sea Change is Not Enough
• March 16, 2018: Karen Engle (Univ. of Texas), The Common Sense of Anti-Impunity: Human Rights, Amnesties, and Sexual Violence in Conflict

2018 Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures

On March 6-8, 2018, Sundhya Pahuja (Univ. of Melbourne - Law) will deliver the 2018 Sir Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures at the University of Cambridge. There will also be a question and answer session on March 9. The topic of the lectures is: "The Changing Place of the Corporation in International Law."

Lauterpacht Centre Friday Lunchtime Lecture Series for Michaelmas Term 2017

Here's the schedule for the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law's Michaelmas Term 2017 Friday Lunchtime Lectures:

• October 6, 2017: Georg Nolte (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Recent developments in international law and in the ILC: in sync?
• October 13, 2017: Dino Kritsiotis (Univ. of Nottingham), A Return to the Caroline Correspondence, 1838-1842
• October 20, 2017: Andrea Bianchi (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies), International adjudication, rhetoric and storytelling
• November 3, 2017: Helmut Aust (Freie Universität Berlin), Cities and climate change in the populist post-Paris world: an international law perspective
• November 10, 2017: Phoebe Okowa (Queen Mary, Univ. of London), Contested authority: public power and the exploitation of natural resources
• November 17, 2017: Robert McCorquodale (British Institute of International and Comparative Law), Business and human rights: due diligence in law and practice

2017 Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures

On March 7-9, 2017, Anne Peters (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law) will deliver the 2017 Sir Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures at the University of Cambridge. There will also be a question and answer session on March 10. The topic of the lectures is: "Privatisation Under Public International Law."