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13 -14 March 2025  - Diversity and Self-Determination in International Law: Continuing conversations with Karen Knop

Thursday 13 March 13 - 3:15pm - 6:15pm

  • Session I: History and Theory

'Narrating International Society: Management of Pluralism according to Marcel Gauchet & Karen Knop' - Professor Martti Koskenniemi (Helsinki) in conversation with Dr Megan Donaldson (UCL)

  • Session II: Gender and Feminism 

'Self-determination for women through three encounters' - Professor Christine Chinkin (LSE) in conversation with Dr Mai Taha (LSE)

Friday 14 March - 9:30am - 12:45pm

  • Session III: Private and Foreign Relations

'Populism, Foreign Relations Law, and global order and justice' - Professor Anne Peters (MPI Heidelberg) in conversation with Dr Roxana Banu (Oxford)

  • Session IV: Discussion and Q&A led by Professor Susan Marks (LSE)

12 - 15 March 2024 - Simmons, Beth:  International Borders in an Interdependent World

  • Lecture 1: Setting the stage: Border Anxiety in an Interdependent World 
  • Lecture 2: Treaties and Neighbors: Recovering the Cooperative Roots of International Bordering 
  • Lecture 3:  Where Cooperative Border Governance (Should) Lead: Interstate Borders as Though People Mattered

 

14 March 2023 - Chimni, Bhupinder: Capitalism and the Doctrines of International Law

  • Lecture 1: Mapping the Terrain
  • Lecture 2: Exploring Nexus
  • Lecture 3: Reframing Doctrines

 

29 November - 2 December 2022 - Kingsbury, Benedict: International Law Futures

  • Lecture 1: International Law as Planning
  • Lecture 2: Infrastructure, Data & AI 
  • Lecture 3: Replenishing the International Law Endowment in the Planetary Epoch

 

2 - 4 March 2021 - Marks, Susan: On Dignity

  • Lecture 1: Dignity as a Worldly Concept
  • Lecture 2: The Idea of Human Dignity 
  • Lecture 3: Dignity and Indignity in the South African Toilet Wars

 

March 2020 - Madsen, Rask Mikael: Human Rights and the Making of Europe: The European Court of Human Rights in the Grand Transformation (no recording available)

  • Part 1: Legalizing Free Europe: Human Rights, Cold War and the Construction of the Post-War European Legal Order (1959-89)
  • Part 2: The ECtHR in the New Europe (1989-2009)
  • Part 3: The Endof Consensus: The ECtHR in the Age of Megapolitics (2009-2019)

 

March 2019 - Ginsburg, Tom: Democracies and International Law: The Trials of Liberalism 

  • Part 1: Democracies and International Law
  • Part 2: International Law and Democratic Backsliding
  • Part 3: Authoritarian International Law?

 

March 2018 - Pahuja, Sundhya: The Changing Place of the Corporation in International Law 

  • Part 1:  From Colonial Companies to Global Corporations (Parts 1-3 recorded in one session)
  • Part 2: Decolonisation and Battles over Global Corporations and International Law
  • Part 3: Contemporary Patterns of Ordering: Business and Human Rights and International Investment Law

 

March 2017 - Peters, Anne: Privatisation under and of Public International Law 

  • Part 1: Conceptual Foundations and Privatisation in States Under the Purview of International Law
  • Part 2: The Privatisation of International Organisations 
  • Part 3: The private actors' public functions and public international law constraints 

 

March 2016 - Chinkin, Christine: International Law and Women, Peace and Security

  • Part 1: What is the Women, Peace and Security Agenda Under International Law?
  • Part 2: Women and Peace 
  • Part 3: Women and Security 

 

January 2015 - Greenwood, Christopher: Aspects of Sovereign Immunity (No recording available)

  • Part 1: Sovereignty, Sovereign Equality and Sovereign Immunity
  • Part 2: Sovereign Immunity and the Sovereign's Servants
  • Part 3: Jurisdiction and Justiciability

 

February 2014 - O'Connell, Mary: International Law and the Art of Peace

  • Part 1: Understanding the Higher Norm against Aggression
  • Part 2: Revitalizing the Practice of International Dispute Resolution 
  • Part 3: Attracting Law Compliance 

 

February 2013 - Sands, Phillipe: "La Cour!"

These lectures were not recorded.

 

February 2012 - Shany, Yuval: The Concept of Jurisdiction and Admissibility in International Adjudication - A Theoretical Framework

  • Part 1: The Concept of Jurisdiction and Admissibility in International Adjudication - A Theoretical Framework
  • Part 2: The Law Governing Jurisdictional Decisions of International Courts
  • Part 3: Questions of Admissibility before International Courts

 

February 2010-2011 - Schrijver, Nico: The United Nations of the Future. The Role of International Law 

  • Part I: The United Nations of the Future and the Role of International Law - Introduction and UN Reform during the first sixty-five years

  • Part 2: 'The United Nations of the Future.The Role of International Law in UN Reform'' by Dr Nico Schrijver

  • Part 3: The international architecture for global governance and global justice (No recording available)

 

February 2009-2010 - Shaw, Malcolm: Regulating the Relationship between International and Domestic Law - no recording available

November 11 2008 - Rigo Sureda, Andres: Discretion and Policy in Investment Treaty Arbitration - no recording available

January 2008 - Zacklin, Ralph: The UN Secretariat and the Use of Force in a Unipolar World - no recording available

November 2006 - Wood, Michael: The United Nations Security Council and International Law - no recording available

November 2005 - Blix, Hans: The Use of Force in the International Community - no recording available 

November 2004 - Cot, Jean-Pierre: American Legal Thinking and International Law - A French Perspective - no recording available

November 2003 - Paulsson, Jan: Denial of Justice in International Law - no recording available

2002 - Jackson H, John: The Changing Fundamentals of International Law and International Economic Law: Perspectives on Sovereignty, Subsidiarity, Power Allocation and International Institution Building - no recording available

2001 - Orrego Vicuña, Francisco: International Dispute Settlement in an Evolving Global Society: Constitutionalization, Accessibility, Privatization - no recording available

2000 - Franck, Thomas: Recourse to Force: State Action Against Threats and Armed Attacks - no recording available

1998 - Koskenniemi, M: European Convention on Human Rights - no recording available

1997 - McRae M, Donald: ? - no recording available

1996 - Reisman, Michael: Fraudulent Evidence in International Litigation - no recording available

1994 - HE Judge M Shahabuddeen: Precedent in International Tribunals  - no recording available

1993 - Dr Golsong, Heribert: Investment Protection Abroad: Law and Practise of Bilateral Investment Treaties

1992 - Watts, Arthur Sir, KCMG QC: Antarctia 

1991 - Butler, W E: Russia and the International Legal Order

1990 - Lauterpacht, Eli: Aspects of the Administration of International Justice

1990 - Arangio-Ruiz G: Domestic Jurisdiction

1990 - Brittan, Leon Sir: International Law and the Competition Laws of the European Community

1988 - Higgins QC, Rosalyn: The Work of the United Nations Committee on Human Rights

 

(See also: https://www.lcil.cam.ac.uk/publications/hersch-lauterpacht-memorial-lectures)