Lent Term 2024
8 March 2024 - Thambisetty, Siva: 'Elephants not in the room: Decoupling, dematerialisation and dis-enclosure in the making of the BBNJ Treaty' (44 mins 47 secs)
23 February 2024 - Boysen, Sigrid: 'Natural Resources in International Law - The Political Economy of Sovereignty and the Postcolonial Order' (40 mins 58 secs)
16 February 2024 - Waibel, Michael: 'Re-Imagining International Monetary and Financial Law' (38 mins 52 secs)
9 February 2024 - Nesiah, Vasuki: 'Victimhood: Gender as Tool and Weapon' (38 mins 56 secs)
2 February 2024 - Joyce, Daniel: 'International Law and Communications Infrastructure: A History' (34 mins 24 secs)
Michaelmas Term 2023
17 November 2023 - Lixinski, Lucas: 'Reclaiming Agency: Indigenous Peoples and the Turn to History in International Law' (33 mins 38 secs)
27 October 2023 - Claussen, Kathleen: 'LCIL-CILJ Annual Lecture 2023: 'Trade Law Policing on the Factory Floor: Next Generation Agreements and their Corporate Accountability Tools' (60 mins)
13 October 2023 - Hovell, Devika: The 'Common Law Method': British Approaches to the Development of International Law (61 mins)
Easter Term 2023
12 May 2023 - Morgandi, Tibisay & Bartels, Lorand: Exiting the Energy Charter Treaty under the Law of Treaties (55 mins 17 secs)
5 May 2023 - Rajamani, Lavanya: The Evolving UN Climate Regime: (Professed) Ambition at the cost of (Real) Equity? (35 mins 37 secs)
28 April 2023: Snyder Lecture 2023: 'Embracing Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Disclosure: What the US Can Learn From the UK and the EU' - Prof Donna M Nagy, Indiana University Maurer School of Law (50 mins 26 secs)
Lent Term 2023
10 March 2023 - Arato, Julian: The Institutions of Exceptions (43 mins 18 secs)
3 March 2023 - Yilmaz, Anil: Oil and Water: The inherent incompatibility of international investment law with climate action (39 mins 07 secs)
24 February 2023 - van Aaken, Anne: The Behavioural Turn of the United Nations and its Implications for International Law (45 mins 21 secs)
17 February 2023 - Brower, Charles: Competing Theories of Treaty Interpretation and the Divided Application by Investor-State Tribunals of Articles 31 and 32 of the VCLT (34 mins 48 secs)
6 February 2023 - Benvenisti, Eyal: After Mythology: Contemporary Challenges for the Law of International Organisations (44 mins 18 secs)
3 February 2023 - Hodson, Loveday: Gender and the international judge: misfits on the bench (31 mins 08 secs)
23 January 2023 - Shany, Yuval: Digital Rights and the Outer Limits of International Human Rights Law (55 mins 46 secs)
Michaelmas Term 2022
28 October 2022 - McLachlan, Campbell: Why Systemic Integration Matters Now - (50 mins 54 secs)
14 October 2022: Paparinskis, Martins: Compensation under International Law and the International Law Commission (40 mins 53 secs)
Easter Term 2022
6 May 2022 - Henckaerts, Jean-Marie: Where Vienna and Geneva meet: Treaty interpretation and the Geneva Conventions (38 mins 49 secs)
29 April 2022 - Provost René: Judging ISIS Fighters Before Non-State Kurdish Courts in Syria: Is a Fair Trial Possible? (47 mins 41 secs)
Lent Term 2022
11 March 2022 - Voigt, Christina: Current issues in International Climate Law: The Paris Agreement and Beyond (43 mins 07 secs)
4 March 2022 - Deva, Surya: Facebook as the New Sovereign? International Law’s Continued Struggle to Regulating Transnational Corporate Human Rights Abuses (42 mins 20 secs)
25 February 2022 - Lang, Andrew: How should we think about agility?: Regulatory agility and new landscapes of global regulatory governance (40 mins 53 secs)
11 February 2022 - Gjerde, Kristina: Current challenges regarding deep sea mining and protection of ocean life beyond national boundaries (44 mins)
4 February 2022 - Orford, Anne: International Law and the Politics of History (45 mins 45 secs)
28 January 2022 - Dunoff, Jeffrey: Road Not Taken: Comparative International Judicial Dissent ( 39 mins 51 secs)
21 January 2022: Rajagopal, Balakrishnan: Defending Social Rights during and beyond multiple global crises: Reflections on emerging challenges to the Right to Adequate Housing (23 mins 41 secs)
Michaelmas Term 2021
26 November 2021: O'Keefe, Roger: The Lauterpacht Centre 1995-2014: Personal Recollections and Reflections (64 mins)
19 November 2021: Cheah W L: CEDAW and transformative judicial obligations: the vulnerable migrant domestic worker and root causes of abuse (27 mins 02 secs)
12 November 2021: Krisch, Nico: From Drivers to Bystanders: The Varying Roles of States in International Legal Change (40 mins 39 secs)
5 November 2021: Robinson, Tracy: What is a Family in the Inter-American Human Rights System (45 mins 41 secs)
29 October 2021 - Payne, Cymie: CILJ/LCIL Annual Lecture 2021: Responsibility to the International Community for Marine Biodiversity beyond National Jurisdiction (41 mins 22 secs)
22 October 2021 - Roberts, Anthea: Six Faces of Globalization: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why it Matters (47 mins 03 secs)
15 October 2021 - Ní Aoláin, Fionnuala: Where does Counter-Terrorism go next, 20 years after 9/11? (34 mins 21 secs)
Easter Term 2021
14 May 2021 - Gathii, James: The Performance of Africa's International Courts: Using Litigation for Political, Legal and Social Change (25 mins 49 secs)
7 May 2021 - Trevisanut, Seline: Unconventional Lawmaking in the Offshore Energy Sector: Flexibilities and Weaknesses of the International Legal Framework (48 mins 32 secs)
30 April 2021 - Kalmanovitz, Pablo: Regular War, Humanitarianism, and the Difference Sovereignty Makes (40 mins 38 secs)
Lent Term 2021
12 March 2021 - Sirleaf, Matiangai: Race & Covid-19 (40 mins 47 secs)
26 February 2021 - Johns, Fleur: #HELP: Digital Humanitarian Mapping and New Cartographies of Governability (42 mins 30 secs)
19 February 2021 - Oral, Nilufer: Climate change and the law of the sea: A test for international law (35 mins 35 secs)
12 February 2021 - Hernandez, René Urueña: The Epistemic Function of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (46 mins 08 secs)
29 January 2021 - Ogle, Vanessa: "Funk Money:" The End of Empires, the Expansion of Tax Havens, and Decolonization as an Economic and Financial Event (37 mins 53 secs)
22 January 2021 - Howse, Robert: Territory and Statehood in International Law: The Controversy over International Criminal Court Jurisdiction in Palestine (35 mins 2 secs)
Michaelmas Term 2020
4 December 2020 - Online Discussion Panel (speakers: Prof Carlos Esposito, Dr Calvin Ho, Prof Bartha Maria Knoppers and Prof Jorge Viñuales): International Law, Science and Technology in the Time of COVID-19 (1 hour 30 mins)
27 November 2020 - Ranjan, Prabhash: India and International Investment Law: Refusal, Acceptance, Backlash (43 mins 51 secs)
20 November 2020 - Serdy, Andrew: CILJ-LCIL Annual Lecture 2020-2021: Brexit and Fisheries: International Law Dimensions of the 2018 White Paper and Current Fisheries Bill (59 mins 10 secs)
13 November 2020 - Bhuta, Nehal: The State Theory of Grotius (60 mins 1 sec)
6 November 2020 - Frowe, Helen: Implementing the 1954 Hague Convention: Conflicts between People and Heritage (57 mins 51 sec)
30 October 2020 - Hakimi, Monica: Two Visions of the International Rule of Law (34 mins 18 secs)
23 October 2020 - Webb, Philippa: The Right to a Fair Trial in International Law: Shining a light on a critical human rights protection (27 mins 26 sec)
16 October 2020 - Kedar, Alexandre: Emptied Lands: Bedouin rights, dispossession and resistance in the Negev (44 mins 23 secs)
Easter Term 2020
2 June 2020 - Guilfoyle, Douglas: Reforming the International Criminal Court (33 mins 38 secs) - (Recording from cancelled lecture in Michaelmas Term 2019)
Lent Term 2020
14 February 2020 - Shahabuddin, Mohammad: Minorities and the Making of Postcolonial States in International Law (40 mins 54 secs)
7 February 2020 - Sharman, Jason: Recovering Looted Assets in the Fight Against Grand Corruption (39 mins 51 secs)
31 January 2020 - Parfitt, Rose: The States We're in: Law, Inequality, Historiography, Resistance (43 mins 25 secs)
24 January 2020 - Bordin Lusa, Fernando: The Analogy between States and International Organizations (37 mins 27 secs)
17 January 2020 - Hobe, Stephan: Space resource acquisition and space debris - two challenges for the future order for human uses of outer space (47 mins 9 secs)
Michaelmas Term 2019
6 December 2019, Panel Discussion: Business and Human Rights in Domestic Courts - Contemporary Developments and Future Prospects (55 mins 58 secs)
22 November 2019, Dupuy, Pierre-Marie: Twenty Years Later: How has International Law evolved as a legal Order? (47 mins 36 secs)
15 November 2019, Kendall, Sara: Legal Humanitarianism: the Restorative Turn in International Criminal Law (43 mins 15 secs)
1 November 2019, O'Connell, Mary Ellen: Armed Rebellion, Intervention, and International Law (38 mins 29 secs)
25 October 2019 - Woolaver, Hannah: From Joining to Leaving: Domestic Law's Role on the International Legal Validity of Treaty Withdrawal (38 mins, 34 secs)
Easter Term 2019
10 May 2019 - Olawuyi, Damilola: Sovereign Wealth Funds and International Law (30 mins 58 secs)
3 May 2019 - Varadarajan, Latha: International Law on Trial (54 mins 7 secs)
26 April 2019 - Meyer, Timothy: Foreign Affairs and the National Security Economy (48 mins 43 secs)
Lent Term 2019
8 March 2019 - Mavroidis, Petros: What is the WTO Agreement on TBT All About? (31 mins 32 secs)
1 March 2019 - Loeffler, James: Double Amnesia: Zionism and Human Rights in History and Memory (45 mins 17 secs)
22 February 2019 - Fletcher, Laurel: Let's Talk About the Boteros: Law, Memory and the Torture Memos at Berkeley Law (44 mins 53 secs)
15 February 2019 - Jackson, Miles: Instrumental International Criminal Justice (38 mins 42 secs)
8 February 2019 - Shaw, Malcolm: Some Reflections on Territorial Sovereignty Today (41 mins 34 secs)
1 February 2019 - Schwöbel-Patel, Christine: Decolonising the International Law Curriculum (37 mins, 29 secs)
18 January 2019 - Drumbl, Mark: From Timbuktu to The Hague and Beyond: The War Crime of Intentionally Attacking Cultural Property (39 mins, 43 secs)
Michaelmas Term 2018
30 November 2018 - Round table discussion: International Law in an Era of Nationalism Speakers: Prof John Dugard, Sir Christopher Greenwood, Dr Lorand Bartels, Dr Sarah Nouwen (1 hour 58 mins)
23 November 2018 - Çubukçu, Ayça Thinking Against Humanity (45 mins 5 secs)
16 November 2018 - Berman, Frank: Authority in International Law (54 mins, 40 secs)
9 November 2018 - Brett, Annabel: Law, politics and moral reasoning in Hugo Grotius's The law of war and peace (1625) (29 mins 56 secs)
2 November 2018 - Williams, Sarah: The Amicus Curiae mechanism at the International Criminal Court (43 mins 54 secs)
26 October 2018 - Lord Lloyd-Jones, David: Foreign Affairs and Domestic Courts (52 mins 14 secs)
Lent Term 2018
19 January 2018 - Hernández, Gleider: Systemic Agents in International Law (44 mins 33 secs)
26 January 2018 - Nicholson, Matthew: Psychoanalyzing International Law (48 mins 19 secs)
Easter Term 2018
11 May 2018 - Kupelyants, Hayk: Conflict of Laws before International Courts and Tribunals (45 mins 18 secs)
4 May 2018 - Roberts, Anthea: Is International Law International? (33 mins 21 secs)
27 April 2018 - García-Salmones Rovira, Mónica: Human Rights, Natural Rights and the Ordering of Conquest (39 mins 20 secs)
Friday Lunchtime Lecture series Michaelmas Term 2017
24 November 2017 - Whitehall, Deborah: A time map for international law (53 mins 10 secs)
17 November 2017 - McCorquodale, Robert: Business and human rights: due diligence in law and practice (37 mins 36 secs)
3 November 2017 - Aust, Helmut: Cities and climate change in the populist post-Paris world: an international law perspective (36 mins 24 secs)
27 October 2017 - Duranti, Marco: The Christian origins of European human rights law, 1899-1950 (28 mins 55 secs)
20 October 2017 - Bianchi, Andrea: International adjudication, rhetoric and storytelling (28 mins 58 secs)
13 October 2017 - Kritsiotis, Dino: A return to the Caroline Correspondence 1838-1842 (31 mins 55 secs) VIDEO - Part of the Inaugural Sir Eli Lauterpacht Lecture
Lent Term 2017
3 March 2017 - Mälksoo, Lauri: The Historical Origins of Russia’s Contemporary Concept of International Law (20 mins 30 secs)
24 February 2017 - Dannenbaum, Tom: The Criminalisation of Aggression and Soldiers' Rights (40 mins 49 secs)
17 February 2017 - Wittich, Stephan: 'Spoilt for Choice? The Reparation of Non-Material Damage in International Law' (48 mins 4 secs)
10 February 2017 - Bekou, Olympia: The ICC at 15: prospects and challenges (37 mins 56 secs)
27 January 2017 - Wiener, Antje: The Rule of Law in Inter-national Relations: Contestation despite Diffusion - Diffusion through Contestation (34 mins 51 secs)
20 January 2017 - Allott, Philip: Welcome to Eutopia! (34 mins 30 secs)
Easter Term 2017
12 May 2017 - van Sliedregt, Elies: The Malabo Protocol and the African Court of Justice and Human Rights: model for the future? (43 mins 44 secs)
5 May 2017 - Mestad, Ola: Global governance on the ground: the development and implementation of the OECD Guidance Documents for Responsible Business Conduct (48 mins 19 secs)
28 April 2017 - Werner, Wouter: Screening International Criminal Justice: A Study of Four Documentary Films on the International Criminal Court (30 mins 55 secs)
Michaelmas Term 2016
25 November 2016 - Magnusson, William: Unilateral Regulation of Global Corporate Problems (20 mins 30 secs)
18 November 2016 - Lustig, Doreen: Late 19th Century International Law: Between Facilitation and Constraint (36 mins 57 secs)
11 November 2016 - Vidmar, Jure: Legal Capacity, State Responsibility, and the Use of Force (43 mins 3 secs)
4 November 2016 - Branch, Adam: After the ICC? The Politics and Possibilities of an African Criminal Court (40 mins)
21 October 2016 - Kesselring, Rita: Law, Victimhood and the Body (36 mins 15 secs)
14 October 2016 - Hébié Mamadou: Territorial Sovereignty by Treaty: A Study of the Agreements Between Colonial Powers and Local Political Entities (33 mins 1 sec)
7 October 2016 - Simpson, Gerry: Cold War International Law (33 mins 13 secs)
Lent Term 2016
11 March 2016 - Azaria, Danae: Community Interest in International Energy Law: A European Perspective (44 mins 10 secs)
4 March 2016 - Krajewski, Markus: Leading the Reform of the Global Investment Regime? (48 mins 17 secs)
26 February 2016 - Paparinskis, Martins: The Rise and Rise of Legitimate Expectations: A reflection on Sources and Development of International Investment Law (45 mins 12 secs)
19 February 2016 - Heller, Kevin: The Use and Abuse of Analogy in International Humanitarian Law (32 mins 32 secs)
12 February 2016 - Fletcher, Laurel: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing? Transitional Justice and the Effacement of State Accountability for International Crimes (44 mins 35 secs)
5 February 2016 - Williams, Andrew: The UK and Allegations of War Crimes in the Occupation of Iraq: A Failure of Accountability? (46 mins 2 secs)
22 January 2016 - van Aaken, Anne: Can Behavioral Economics Inform International Legal Theory (42 mins 40 secs)
15 January 2016 - Benvenisti, Eyal: Can Courts Promote Democracy in an Era of Global Governance? The Case of the Mega Regionals (30 mins 30 secs)
Easter Term 2016
6 May 2016 - Murray, Rachel: Monitoring Implementation of the Decisions of the African Commission and Court on Human and Peoples' Rights (42 mins 18 secs)
29 April 2016 - Gillard, Emanuela-Chiara: The Law Regulating Humanitarian Relief Operations in Armed Conflict (30 mins 50 secs)
22 April 2016 - Ambos, Kai: The Colombian Peace Process with the FARC and International (Criminal) Law (56 mins 8 secs)
Michaelmas Term 2015
27 November 2015 - Desautels-Stein, Justin: Structuralism and International Legal Thought (49 mins 1 sec)
20 November 2015 - Howse, Robert: 20 years on: taking stock of the WTO dispute settlement system and the challenges for the future (33 mins 25 secs)
13 November 2015 - Jain, Neha: Judicial Law-Making at the International Criminal Courts: Experimenting with General Principles of Law (29 mins 27 secs)
6 November 2015 - Vadi, Valentina: International Economic Courts and the Protection of Cultural Heritage (41 mins 15 secs)
30 October 2015 - Lustgarten, Laurence: Arms Trade Treaty: Achievements, Failings, Future (45 mins 32 secs)
23 October 2015 - Capps, Patrick: Legal Idealism and Global Administration (28 mins 52 secs)
16 October 2015 - Sriram Lekha, Chandra: Does transitional justice affect democratic institution-building (27 mins 17 secs)
9 October 2015 - Neff, Stephen: An International Community: Is there any such thing? (28 mins 54 secs)
Lent Term 2015
13 March 2015 - Becker-Weinberg, Vasco: The South China Sea Disputes and the Law of the Sea (44 mins 2 secs)
6 March 2015 - Webb, Phillipa: The immunity of States and international organizations in the face of employment disputes: the new human rights dilemma? (31 mins 48 secs)
27 February 2015 - Digglemann, Oliver: International Law and World War I (41 mins 5 secs)
13 February 2015 - Bottigliero, Ilaria: Access to justice: revolutionizing the role of women (51 mins 21 secs)
6 February 2015 - Ranganathan, Surabhi: Strategically Created Treaty Conflicts and the Politics of International Law (32 mins 28 secs)
30 January 2015 - Kröll, Stefan: Challenges to Arbitrators (41 mins 51 secs)
16 January 2015 - Cryer, Robert: On the Siren Song of Sui Generis: Customary law, humanitarian law, and the ILC (45 mins 25 secs)
Easter Term 2014
9 May 2014 - Ronen, Yael: Big Borther's Little Helpers: Corporate Responsibility under Human Rights Law and Intelligence Gathering (26 mins 35 secs)
2 May 2014 - Gehring, Markus: International Law and the Global Economy (45 mins 57 secs)
25 April 2014 - Oomen, Barbara: Rights for others: the slow home-coming of human rights in the Netherlands (35 mins 45 secs)
Lent Term 2014
14 March 2014 - Ikeshima, Tai: The Role and Limits of International Law in Settling the South China Sea Dispute (54 mins 22 secs)
7 March 2014 - Abass, Ademola: Who may exercise the International Responsibility to Protect? (43 mins 11 secs)
28 February 2014 - Binder, Christina: Stability and Change in Times of Fragmentation. The Limits of Pacta sunt Servand revisited (40 mins 10 secs)
21 February 2014 - Fox, Gregory: Transformative Occupation and Creepng Unilateralism (38 mins 59 secs)
31 January 2014 - Stoll, Peter-Tobias: Splendid fragmentation? The emergence of preferential trade agreements and the future of the world economic order (46 mins 17 secs)
Michaelmas Term 2014
28 November 2014 - Gantz, David: TTIP, CETA, TPP and the Post-Bali WTO: Toward a New World Trade Order? (44 mins 34 secs)
21 November 2014 - Thomson, Jolyon: Science and international environmental law: a meeting of minds, or two disciplines worlds apart (39 mins 16 secs)
14 November 2014 - McGregor, Lorna: The Principle of Due Diligence: A Core Principle of International Human Rights Law? (36 mins 17 secs)
31 October 2014 - Hovell, Devika: The Power of Process: Procedural Fairness in Security Council Decision-making (34 mins 24 secs)
24 October 2014 - Hohmann, Jesse: International Law's Objects (29 mins 19 secs)
17 October 2014 - Hestermeyer, Holger: The Changing Structure of International Law and Its Normative Consequences: International IP Law as an Example (32 mins 42 secs)
10 October 2014 - Redgwell, Catherine: The internationalization of energy law (53 mins 40 secs)
Michaelmas Term 2013
29 November 2013 - Esmail, Bilqees: Nationality laws and the prevention of statelessness in Sudan and South Sudan (49 mins 3 secs)
22 November 2013 - Humphreys, Stephen: Theorising International Environmental Law (44 mins 24 secs)
15 November 2013 - Nouwen, Sarah: Complementarity in the line of fire: The Catalysing Effect of the International Criminal Court in Uganda and Sudan (44 mins 45 secs)
8 November 2013 - Volterra, Robert: Facts, Evidence and Causation: Practice of the ICJ (52 mins 7 secs)
25 October 2013 - Verdirame, Guglielmo: The Devil and the Holy Water: Will Human Rights Tame War or Will War Corrupt Human Rights? (38 mins 37 secs)
18 October 2013 - Chappell, Louise: Gender Justice and Legitimacy at the International Criminal Court (46 mins 15 secs)
11 October 2013 - Klabbers, Jan: Research as Curiosity (40 mins 30 secs)
Easter Term 2013
10 May 2013 - Verdier, Pierre-Hugues: How does Customary International Law Change? The Case of State Immunity (32 mins 43 secs)
3 May 2013 - Lesaffer, Randall: The Growth of the ius contra bellum (48 mins 45 secs)
26 April 2013 - Joseph, Sarah: The International Lawyer and Social Media (46 mins 25 secs)
Lent Term 2013
8 March 2013 - Allott, Philip: The True Nature of International Law (1 hour 1 min)
22 February 2013 - Akhavan, Payam: Reducing Genocide to Law: Definition, Meaning and the Ultimate Crime (50 mins 39 secs)
15 February 2013 - Footer, Mary: Credit Rating Agencies: Using Indicators to Measure Transnational Governance Responses to the Global Financial Crisis (43 mins 1 sec)
8 February 2013 - Fikfak, Veronika: International Law in Domestic Courts - Beyond the Term 'Part' (28 mins 22 secs)
1 February 2013 - Khan, Karim: The International Criminal Court's Role in Promoting International Justice: A Comparison of the Sudan, Kenya, and Libya Situations (35 mins 6 secs)
25 January 2013 - Brown, Rory: Amity, Enmity and Identity (46 mins 31 secs)
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