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Immunities and the Crime of Aggression - A Search for Normative Coherence

Tom Dannenbaum, Associate Professor of International Law at the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University, examines approaches to addressing the crime of aggression within a normatively coherent framework of immunities and international crimes.

A Weapon Is No Subordinate. Autonomous Weapons and the Scope of Superior Responsibility

Dr. Alessandra Spadaro of Utrecht University outlines several challenges to the applicability of the doctrine of superior responsibility in the context of the use of autonomous weapons systems.

One Hundred Years of International Administrative Law: Is the Employment Law at International Organizations Working?

Peter Quayle argues employment law of international organizations tends towards incoherence, however, mapping international administrative law onto a larger framework of international organizations law can realize a more workable version of the law.

Geneva Declaration on Human Rights at Sea: Informal Lawmaking in Action?

Natalie Klein, Professor at UNSW Sydney, presents on the Geneva Declaration on Human Rights at Sea, adopted in March 2022 as an initiative of UK charity Human Rights at Sea, and on the Declaration's lawmaking potential.

Violent environments? Towards a political ecology of international law

Dr Eliana Cusato, postdoctoral fellow at the Amsterdam Center for International Law, presents an overview of the key arguments in her book, 'The Ecology of War and Peace: Marginalising Slow and Structural Violence in International Law'.

Climate Litigation in International Organs and Courts: The Torres Strait Islanders case

Monica Feria-Tinta discusses a landmark 2022 decision of the UN Human Rights Committee which found that Australia failed to protect indigenous Torres Strait Islanders against adverse impacts of climate change, in breach of human rights law.

Complicity in a War of Aggression

Dr Nikola Hajdin outlines an analytical framework for criminal complicity in a war of aggression

Law of the Sea in the ‘Plasticene’

Professor Karen Scott of the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, gives a presentation exploring the current regime complex for ocean plastics and considering how the law of the sea is likely to interact with a newly proposed plastics treaty.

Revisiting Sovereignty and Recognition of Oppressive Governments; A focus on Myanmar

Professor Errol P. Mendes of the University of Ottawa gives a presentation calling for a revisiting of the origins of the concept of sovereignty in Public International Law.

‘Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown’: Recent developments regarding the immunities of heads of state and government

Philippa Webb, Professor of Public International Law at King’s College London, gives a presentation on recent developments in English law in cases against current and former heads of state.

State Consent between Regionalism and Universalism: Particular Customary International Law before the International Court of Justice

Freya Baetens, Professor of Public International Law at Oslo University, gives a presentation on how the International Court of Justice has addressed claims based on ‘regional’ customary international law.

Six Faces of Globalization: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It Matters

Nicolas Lamp, Queen’s University, Canada gives a presentation to the Public International Law Discussion Group.

'The Function of Equity in International Law

Professor Catharine Titi, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)-CERSA, University Paris II Panthéon-Assas, France, gives a talk for the Public International Law seminar series. (4/11/2021)

Tactical Admissions in International Litigation

A presentation by Professor Stefan Talmon on Tactical Admissions in International Litigation, delivered to the Public International Law Discussion Group.

International Law and the Practice of Legality: stability and change

Professor Jutta Brunnée, University of Toronto, gives a talk for the seminar series on 6th May 2021.

The Effect of jus cogens and the Individuation of Norms

International law ascribes to the conferral of a jus cogens status on a norm a particular legal significance.

International Judicial Speech Acts

Domestic and international judges speak separately from their courts' institutional voice in myriad ways.

The Duty to Prevent Atrocity Crimes: Operationalising State Obligations

From the instant that a State receives an early warning that mass atrocities are likely to occur, what, precisely, is it required to do in response?

The Legal Evolution of the Climate Change Regime: Past, Present, and Future

What have been the key themes in the legal evolution of the UN climate regime?

The Role of Domestic Law in the International Legal Validity of Treaty Withdrawal

If a state withdraws from a treaty in a manner that violates its own domestic law, will this withdrawal take effect in international law?

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