Lauterpacht Lectures 2016: "International Law and Women, Peace and Security", by Professor Christine Chinkin. Part 1: "What is the Women, Peace and Security Agenda Under International Law?"

A series of three lectures by
Professor Christine Chinkin
London School of Economics

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 Lecture Series by Cambridge University Press.

Lecture Summary:

Part 1: What is the Women, Peace and Security Agenda Under International Law?

In this first lecture I will introduce what is now known as the Security Council’s Women, Peace and Security agenda following the Council’s adoption of Resolution 1325 in October 2000, including its evolution and contemporary substantive content.  I will reflect upon the fact that it has become part of the international landscape and discuss its status under international law, in particular whether it can be understood as constituting a special regime of international law.

Part 2: Women and Peace >>

Part 3: Women and Security >>

Professor Christine Chinkin, FBA, is Emerita Professor in International Law and Director of the Centre for Women Peace and Security at the London School of Economics. She is also a William Cook overseas faculty member of the University of Michigan Law School. She is an academic member of Matrix Chambers.

Professor Chinkin is the author of Third Parties in International Law (1993); co-author of Dispute Resolution in Australia (2^nd edition 2002);  The Boundaries of International Law: A Feminist Analysis (2000);  The Making of International Law (2007) and numerous articles on human rights, especially women’s human rights. With Hilary Charlesworth, in 2006 she was awarded the Goler T Butcher ‘for outstanding contributions to the development or effective realization of international human rights law’ by the American Society of International Law.  She was Scientific Expert to the Council of Europe’s Committee for the drafting of the Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (Istanbul Convention, 2011); and a member of the Human Rights Advisory Panel to the United nations Mission in Kosovo (2010 – 2016).

Audio

Duration: 52 mins 8 secs

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