LCIL Friday Lecture: ‘#HELP: Digital Humanitarian Mapping and New Cartographies of Governability’ - Prof Fleur Johns, UNSW
Lecture summary: Like many other areas of work, international humanitarian practice and thinking are being transformed by digital technology and associated socio-technical practices. Institutional dev...
1 Mar 202142min
LCIL Friday Lecture: 'Climate change and the law of the sea: A test for international law' - Dr Nilufer Oral, Director of the Centre for International Law - NUS
Lecture summary: Recent scientific information presents an alarming diagnosis of the multiple adverse consequences of climate change on the ocean: levels of ocean acidification not seen in millions o...
23 Feb 202135min
Evening lecture: Visual International Law and Imperialism: Painting and Building Universality and Authority - Dr Kate Miles
Lecture summary: Visual international law tells stories. Image and art supporting imperialism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries also projected the authority, legitimacy, and universality of i...
23 Feb 20211h 3min
LCIL Lunchtime Event: 'The role of the Military Legal Adviser during Armed Conflict and Peacetime Military Operations' - Commander Ian Park, Naval Legal Services
Lecture summary: Commander Ian Park (Royal Navy International Law Legal Adviser) will offer a view on the role of the military legal adviser during armed conflict and peacetime military operations. H...
22 Feb 202143min
LCIL Friday Lecture: 'The Epistemic Function of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights' - Prof René Urueña Hernandez, Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia
Lecture summary: This lecture will explore how the Inter-American Court of Human Rights produces cognitive categories that deeply influence the way in which states, activists and victims understand th...
16 Feb 202146min
LCIL Friday Lecture: ''Funk Money': The End of Empires, the Expansion of Tax Havens, and Decolonization as an Economic and Financial Event' - Prof Vanessa Ogle, University of Berkeley
Lecture summary: This talk explores the history of decolonization from an economic and financial perspective. Through the examples of the French and British Empires, it shows that European settlers, o...
4 Feb 202137min
LCIL Friday Lecture: 'Territory and Statehood in International Law: The Controversy over International Criminal Court Jurisdiction in Palestine' - Prof Robert Howse, New York University
Lecture summary: The current (and intensely fought) dispute over the ICC's jurisdiction in Palestine raises some interesting doctrinal and theoretical issues in international law, such as how Palestin...
25 Jan 202135min
International Law and Political Engagement (ILPE) series: In Conversation with Prof Alejandro Chehtman: On International Law and Philosophy
This conversation will explore the relevance that analytical philosophy has played in contemporary international legal scholarship and the distinct contributions that it has and could offer — focusing...
14 Des 202056min
