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On 6 October 2023, the award-winning online Customary IHL Database of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was updated with practice from Peru up to the end of 2012, as well as South Africa up to the end of 2016. This recently added practice is marked in green throughout the database. A team of British Red Cross researchers based at …

The Faculty is delighted to announce the election of Professor Campbell McLachlan KC to the Professorship of Law (1973). Although one of the Faculty's newest statutory chairs, the 1973 Professorship has a highly distinguished history, having previously been held by Kurt Lipstein, SFC Milsom, Bill Cornish, Sir Bob Hepple and, most recently, John Bel…

In May 2023, Dr Maayan Menashe was invited by the Republic of Korea’s Economic, Social and Labor Council (ESLC) to share his experience and expertise in domestic and transnational labour law. The invitation was part of the Government of Korea’s current efforts to achieve major labour law reform, and, as part of this, the ESLC’s running of an expert…

On 22 June 2023, the award-winning online Customary IHL Database of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was updated with practice from Nigeria up to the end of 2014, as well as Tajikistan up to the end of 2019. This recently added practice is marked in green throughout the database. A team of British Red Cross researchers based at t…

The Lauterpacht Centre for International Law and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law of Heidelberg are pleased to announce that the Max Planck – Cambridge Prize for International Law (MaxCamPIL) has been awarded to Emily Crawford, Professor at University of Sydney Law School. The Prize was established in 2019 b…

On 3 March 2023, Sir Hersch Lauterpacht was honoured at a ceremony for the Day of the Righteous 2023 held in the Garden of the Righteous in Milan, Italy. Sir Hersch’s granddaughter, Mrs Gabriel Cox, accompanied by Mrs Emanuella Gillard – a former Research Fellow at the Centre and Research Assistant to Sir Eli Lauterpacht, were guests at the event o…

The Centre is delighted to announce that Tor Krever, currently Assistant Professor at the School of Law, University of Warwick, will be joining the Lauterpacht Centre as a Fellow from immediate effect. He will be joining the Faculty of Law in October 2023 as Assistant Professor in International Law.    Tor’s work is focused on the history and theor…

Language in International Law The Cambridge International Law Journal (CILJ) is pleased to invite submissions for Volume 12(2), to be published in December 2023 on the theme 'Language in International Law'. The Board welcomes articles (6,000–12,000 words, inclusive of footnotes) and case notes that engage with current themes in international law, a…

Professor Lorand Bartels MBE, Professor of International Law, Fellow and Director of Studies at Trinity Hall and Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre, has been appointed by the Minister of State for Trade to a government body that promotes responsible business conduct by multinational enterprises abroad. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and D…

Congratulations to Lauterpacht Centre Affiliated Fellow Professor Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger who commences her new visiting chair in sustainable development law and policy at the University of Cambridge.  As visiting chair, Professor Cordonier Segger, together with Cambridge PhD Candidate Tejas Rao as Research Coordinator and Assistant Editor, a…

The Republic of Vanuatu has secured the co-sponsorship of no less than 105 States for the submission to vote by the UN General Assembly of a Draft Resolution requesting the International Court of Justice, dubbed the 'World Court', to provide an advisory opinion on climate change under international law. Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and …

On Monday 6 February 2023 Professor Campbell McLachlan KC delivered the Goodhart Lecture at the Faculty of Law on the topic 'The legal science of the international'. Professor Campbell McLachlan is the 2022-23 Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal Science in the University of Cambridge and a visiting fellow of Trinity Hall. He is Professor of…

Cambridge University's Dr Andrew Sanger (Corpus Christi College/Lauterpacht Centre for International Law) is one of five individuals shortlisted for the title 'OUP Law Teacher of the Year 2023', sponsored by Oxford University Press. The final award will be made at this year’s Celebrating Excellence in Law Teaching conference, which will be held on …

The Centre is delighted that to hear that Fabian Eichberger's paper entitled 'Informal Communications to the International Court of Justice in Cases of Non-Appearance' has won the Rosalyn Higgins Prize 2022. The Rosalyn Higgins Prize is awarded annually by the Brill journal The Law & Practice of International Courts and Tribunals for an article on …

Oxford University Press has published Occupation in International Law by Eliav Lieblich and Eyal Benvenisti. The international law of occupation is the body of law, under international humanitarian law, that regulates the actions of states that gain effective control over territory during armed conflict. This body of law seeks to balance between se…