Friday Lunchtime Lectures: Lent 2008
During the University term, the Centre holds Friday Lunchtime Lectures on topical issues in international law given by leading academics and practitioners. The lecture programme for Lent Term 2008 is listed below. A pdf version of the lecture programme is available here.
Lectures usually take place from 1pm - 2pm with a sandwich lunch, sponsored by Cambridge University Press provided at the Centre from 12:30 pm.
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25 January 2008
The UN Secretariat and the Use of Force in a Unipolar World: Discussion on the Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures
Mr Ralph Zacklin
Former Assistant-Secretary General for Legal Affairs, United Nations
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1 February 2008
Dr Michael Carrel, Dr Anthony Cullen and Ms Iris Müller
ICRC/BRC Customary International Humanitarian Law Project Update Team, Lauterpacht Centre... More»
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8 February 2008
The ECJ's Decision in the MOX Plant Case and its Implications
The Hon Sir Richard Plender
Judge of the High Court, Queen's Bench Division; formerly a Barrister at 20 Essex Street
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15 February 2008
Procedure and Remedies before Different International Courts and Tribunals: Convergence or Divergence?
Dr Chester Brown
Legal Division, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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22 February 2008
A New Framework for Understanding the International Legal System
Dr Charlotte Ku, Assistant Dean for Graduate and International Legal Studies, University of Illinois College of Law; and
Professor Paul Diehl, Henning Larsen Professor of Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
UPDATE: Unfortunately Professor Diehl is unable to attend to deliver his part of the lecture so Dr Ku will present the lecture on her own.
To read more on the work of Dr Ku and Professor Diehl in this area see:
"Filling In the Gaps: Extra-Systemic Mechanisms for Addressing Imbalances Between the International Legal Operating and Normative Systems". Global Governance, 12, 1 (2006) : 161-183; and
"The Dynamics of International Law: The Interaction of Normative and Operating Systems" International Organization, 57, 1 (2003) : 43-75.
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29 February 2008
The Military Lawyer: Commander's Accomplice or Voice of Conscience?
Major-General David Howell CB, OBE
Director of Amy Legal Services
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