LCIL Friday Lecture: 'Authority in International Law' by Sir Frank Berman KCMG QC
Lecture summary: The problem confronting the users of international law, whether academic or professional, is very often not whether a rule of customary law has come into existence (as has recently be...
20 Nov 201854min
LCIL Friday Lecture: 'Law, politics and moral reasoning in Hugo Grotius's The law of war and peace (1625)' by Dr Annabel Brett
Lecture summary: At various points throughout this work, Grotius makes reference to a category that he variously calls 'morals' (moralia), 'moral things' (res morales) or 'the matter of morals' (mater...
12 Nov 201829min
LCIL Friday Lecture: 'The Amicus Curiae mechanism at the International Criminal Court' by Prof Sarah Williams
Lecture summary: The role of civil society in drafting and the adoption of the Rome Statute for the International Criminal Court (ICC) is well known, as is the contribution of civil society to advocat...
5 Nov 201843min
LCIL Friday Lecture: 'Foreign Affairs and Domestic Courts' by Lord David Lloyd-Jones
This talk will consider the changes which have taken place in recent years in attitudes towards questions of public international law and of foreign affairs when they arise in the context of domestic ...
30 Okt 201852min
LCIL Friday Lecture: 'Conflict of Laws before International Courts and Tribunals' by Dr Hayk Kupelyants
Lecture Summary: The lecture will consider the role of the conflict of laws before international courts and tribunals. Very rarely is the conflict of laws examined in the writings on public internatio...
21 Maj 201845min
LCIL Friday Lecture: 'Is International Law International?' by Anthea Roberts
In this talk, Anthea Roberts will introduce her new book Is International Law International? which was awarded the American Society of International Law's 2018 Book Prize for the preeminent contribut...
8 Maj 201833min
LCIL Friday Lecture: Human Rights, Natural Rights and the Ordering of Conquest by Mónica García-Salmones Rovira
Lecture summary: Recent literature on human rights has proposed to go beyond the dualism of essentialist versus historicist conceptions of human rights. It is argued that ‘the history of human rights’...
1 Maj 201839min
Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lecture 2018: The Changing Place of the Corporation in International Law by Professor Sundhya Pahuja
Part 1: From Colonial Companies to Global Corporations In this lecture, I will introduce the problematic of the corporation in international law. The modern corporation is often understood to be a c...
12 Mars 20182h 21min
