LCIL Friday Lecture: 'Double Amnesia: Zionism and Human Rights in History and Memory' by Professor James Loeffler
Lecture summary: 2018 marks the seventieth anniversary of two momentous events in twentieth-century history: the birth of the State of Israel and the creation of the UN Universal Declaration of Human ...
4 Mars 201945min
LCIL Friday Lecture: 'Let's Talk About the Boteros: Law, Memory and the Torture Memos at Berkeley Law' by Prof Laurel Fletcher
Lecture summary: What parts of their uncomfortable histories should universities remember, and how? Recent debates have erupted at institutions of higher learning over their ties to early benefactors ...
25 Feb 201944min
LCIL Friday Lecture: 'Instrumental International Criminal Justice' Professor Miles Jackson
Lecture summary: The International Criminal Court is engaged in investigations in a number of situations of ongoing conflict. Recent scholarship and practice has paid attention to the question of whet...
18 Feb 201938min
LCIL Friday Lecture: 'Some Reflections on Territorial Sovereignty Today' Prof Malcolm Shaw QC
Lecture summary: This talk reflects upon the evolution of territorial sovereignty in international law. Professor Shaw will trace the classic origin and formulation of this key concept and discuss the...
12 Feb 201941min
LCIL Friday Lunchtime lecture: 'Decolonising the International Law Curriculum' Dr Christine Schwöbel-Patel
Dr Christine Schwöbel-Patel is Associate Professor at Warwick Law School, University of Warwick. She previously held positions at the University of Liverpool, Leiden University and Kings' College Lond...
4 Feb 201937min
LCIL Friday Lecture: 'From Timbuktu to The Hague and Beyond: The War Crime of Intentionally Attacking Cultural Property' by Prof Mark Drumbl
Lecture summary: This essay refracts the ICC’s criminal conviction and reparations order in the Al Mahdi case into the much broader frame of increasingly heated public debates over the protection, rem...
21 Jan 201939min
International Law in an Era of Nationalism
Round table discussion: 'International Law in an Era of Nationalism'. Speakers: Prof John Dugard SC - Doughty Street Chambers; Sir Christopher Greenwood GBE CMG QC; Prof Catherine Barnard - Universit...
7 Dec 20181h 58min
LCIL Friday Lecture: 'Thinking Against Humanity' by Dr Ayça Çubukçu
Contrasting how Malcolm X and Hannah Arendt approached the question of human rights, this lecture examines how violence is central and hierarchy is intrinsic to the political operations of humanity. I...
27 Nov 201845min
