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Tuesday, 20 January 2015 - 5.30pm
Location: 
Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, Finley Library

Sir Christopher Greenwood CMG, QCA series of three lectures by
Sir Christopher Greenwood CMG, QC
Judge, International Court of Justice.

The Sir Hersch Lauterpacht Lecture is a series of annual lectures given in Cambridge to commemorate the unique contribution to the development of international law of Sir Hersch Lauterpacht.  The lectures are given by a person of eminence in the field of international law and a revised and expanded version of the lectures is usually published in the Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures Series by Cambridge University Press.


Lecture Summary:  

These three lectures will examine selected aspects of the law of sovereign (or State) immunity. They are not intended to be a comprehensive treatment of this area of international law but, rather, a discussion of some of the more difficult issues which arise in relation to sovereign immunity today.

Lecture 2: Sovereign Immunity and the Sovereign's Servants

The second lecture will consider the extent to which the immunity of the State may also apply to its officials. How far have cases like Pinochet in the House of Lords ((1998-99) 119 ILR 1) and Charles Taylor in the Special Court for Sierra Leone ((2004) 128 ILR 239) altered the position ? Where is the line drawn between those officials who benefit from immunity ratione personae (as described by the International Court of Justice in Arrest Warrant (Democratic Republic of Congo v.Belgium), I.C.J. Reports 2002, p. 3; 128 ILR 1) and those who do not ? What form of immunity ratione materiae is applicable to those other officials ? Is there a distinction between immunity in a criminal case and in civil proceedings and is such a distinction tenable (a question which divided the Court of Appeal from the House of Lords in Jones v. Saudi Arabia (2006) 126 ILR 629)?

Lecture 1: Sovereignty, Sovereign Equality and Sovereign Immunity >>

Lecture 3: Jurisdiction and Justiciability >>

Sir Christopher Greenwood, CMG, QC, was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he obtained first class honours in both parts of the Law Tripos (1975 and 1976) and the Ll.B (International Law) (1977) and was President of the Cambridge Union Society in 1976. He was Whewell Scholar in 1977 and was elected a Fellow of Magdalene College in 1978. From 1978 to 1996 he taught law at Cambridge. He became Professor of International Law at the London School of Economics in 1996.

Called to the Bar by the Middle Temple in 1978, he practised in the field of international law before the English and international courts, becoming a QC in 1999 and a Bencher of Middle Temple in 2003. Many of his appearances in court were in cases concerned with sovereign immunity; these included Pinochet, Holland v. Lampen-Wolfe, Kuwait Airways and Jones v. Saudi Arabia in the House of Lords. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George in 2002 and was knighted in 2009 for services to public international law.

Since 2009 he has been a Judge of the International Court of Justice.


Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures 2015: Monday, 19th January - Wednesday, 21st January 2015
Q&A Session: Thursday, 22nd January 2015
 

Speaker: Sir Christopher Greenwood, CMG, QC, Judge, International Court of Justice

Dates:  Lecture 2: Tuesday 20th January 2015

Time:    5.30 pm

Venue:  Finley Library, Lauterpacht Centre, 5 Cranmer Rd, Cambridge


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