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Dr Ben Saul is Director of the Sydney Centre for International Law at the University of Sydney and a barrister, specialising in the law of armed conflict, international criminal law, human rights, and counter-terrorism. His book, Defining Terrorism in International Law (Oxford, 2006), is the leading work on the subject. Ben has taught law at Oxford, Sydney, UNSW, and in India, Hong Kong, Cambodia and Nepal. He been involved in cases in the Yugoslav Tribunal, the UN Human Rights Committee, the Israeli Supreme Court, the US military commission at Guantanamo Bay, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and in South Africa and East Timor, in has conducted human rights programs for Kuwait, Algeria, Iraq, Nepal and Laos. He is a member of the International Law Association’s Committee for the Compensation of Victims of War. He has a doctorate in law from Oxford and honours degrees in Arts and Law from the University of Sydney.
Lecture summary: The traditional view of most international lawyers is that there is no international law of terrorism as such. Rather, existing general norms were thought capable of dealing with terrorist violence, including principles of non-intervention, the non-use of force, State responsibility, the law of armed conflict, international human rights law, and international criminal law. With eight years of critical distance from 11 September 2001, and with the dust settling on the Presidency of George Bush, this seminar asks whether is now emerging a new field of international anti-terrorism law, of which it is possible to speak with increasing confidence and coherence. The seminar also discusses why it matters what we call different kinds of violence, and who are the winners and losers in international legal processes for the legitimation and delegitimation of violence and for delimiting the zone of lawful politics.
Further links:
Sydney Law School profile: http://www.law.usyd.edu.au/about/staff/BenSaul/index.shtml
Sydney Centre for International Law: http://www.law.usyd.edu.au/scil/index.html
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