International Law and Political Engagement (ILPE) series: In Conversation with Dr Robert Knox and Dr Ntina Tzourvala on International Law and Critique in time of COVID-19
A series of conversations on international legal scholarship, political engagement and the transformative potential of academia. Each conversation will be chaired by Francisco José Quintana and Marina...
23 Juni 20201h 20min
LCIL Friday Lecture: 'Reforming the International Criminal Court' - Dr Douglas Guilfoyle, UNSW
Lecture summary: Over the last two years the court has faced a series of unprecedented challenges. We have seen a run of acquittals, case collapses, and greater and lesser scandals involving judges a...
2 Juni 202033min
LCIL Friday Lecture: 'Minorities and the Making of Postcolonial States in International Law' - Dr Mohammad Shahabuddin, University of Birmingham
Lecture summary: While the Rohingya genocide is one of the worst incidents against minorities in recent times, ethno-nationalism and minority oppression in various forms and intensities are defining f...
17 Feb 202040min
LCIL Friday Lecture: Recovering Looted Assets in the Fight Against Grand Corruption - Prof Jason Sharman, University of Cambridge
Lecture summary: The presentation analyses an unprecedented new international moral and legal rule that forbids one state from hosting money stolen by the leaders of another state. The aim is to count...
10 Feb 202039min
LCIL Friday Lecture: The States We're in: Law, Inequality, Historiography, Resistance' - Dr Rose Parfitt, Kent Law School
Lecture summary: The idea that all states are equal, however powerful or wealthy they might be, is an axiom of international law both in theory and in practice. Yet from Araribóia to Grenfell to Hodei...
3 Feb 202043min
LCIL Friday lecture: The Analogy between States and International Organizations - Dr Fernando Lusa Bordin, University of Cambridge
Lecture summary: An analogy between States and international organizations has characterised the development of the law that applies to intergovernmental institutions on the international plane. That ...
24 Jan 202037min
LCIL Friday Lecture: Space resource acquisition and space debris - two challenges for the future order for human uses of outer space - Prof Stephan Hobe, University of Cologne
Lecture summary: There are currently two important issues confronting the international space community. Does international space legislation permit the digging of resources from celestial bodies? And...
21 Jan 202047min
LCIL Panel Discussion: 'Business and Human Rights in Domestic Courts - Contemporary Developments and Future Prospects'
Join us for a panel discussion on contemporary developments and future prospects in business and human rights litigation involving transnational corporations. The expert panellists will discuss recen...
9 Dec 201955min
