The Rise of Investor-State Arbitration: Rethinking Key Moments
What explains the rise of investor-state arbitration? To the extent that investor-state arbitration had founding fathers, what were their mo...
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Public International Law Discussion Group (Part II)
Lectures on international law issues by eminent scholars, practitioners and judges of national and international courts. The lecture series is brought to you by the Public International Law...
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20 of 54 episodesThe Internalisation of Investment Treaties and the Rule of Law Promise
Investment treaties are often said to have two principal effects for the states that enter into them. First, it is asserted that investment...
Due Diligence: An Obligation under International Law
This talk will examine the legal nature of due diligence, namely whether it is a free-standing obligation under customary international law...
Interpretation of Security Council Resolutions and the Status of Explanation of Votes
Even though UN Security Council resolutions may have major consequences for the disputes and states concerned, some of the resolutions are a...
Regime Interaction in Ocean Governance
Oceans are increasingly under pressure; be it for the multiplication and diversification of economic activities performed at sea, for the co...
Corporations and Human Rights Regulation
This talk will consider the regulation of corporations for the human rights impacts of their activities. It will include the role of legisla...
The 2020 UN Human Rights Treaty Body Review: strengthening or strangling the system?
Following a difficult and protracted process, in 2014 the UNGA adopted Resolution 68/268 which set out to strengthen the UN human rights tre...
The Legal Metamorphosis of War
War does not escape the transformations global governance has experienced in the past decades. The research presented identifies a move from...
Travaux, Commentaries and Encyclopedias - how we write them and how we use them
The presentation will discuss the approaches to writing such reference works (based on the speaker's experience with the Update of the ICRC...
The Consequences of Brexit
Since the 24 June 2016, the politics of Brexit – in both the UK and the EU – has driven the negotiations and discussion surrounding the UK's...
The Analogy between States and International Organizations
An analogy between States and international organizations has characterised the development of the law that applies to intergovernmental ins...
Unmaking the ocean
This talk will discuss elements of a research project that explores the evolution of the law of the sea over the course of the 20th century...
Addressing key challenges to the prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
The absolute prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment is under considerable pressure. This talk...
Why punish perpetrators of mass atrocities? Reflections on peace, punishment and the ICC
Ever since the trial against the major war criminals of World War II before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg the institution...
The Trump Administration and International Law: Will It Get Better or Worse?
The talk will review the Trump administration’s record in international and national security law over the last 18 months, and will address...
Advancing the Rule of Law as part of the International Landscape
The 21st century has seen significant progress and recent regression in terms of entrenchment of the rule of law. These developments have oc...
Successes and Challenges in the Fight against Impunity
Marking the 20th Anniversary of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Twenty years after the adoption of the Rome Statute of...
In Search of a Better World: A Human Rights Odyssey
Professor Akhavan will speak about his recent book In Search of a Better World: A Human Rights Odyssey, the 2017 CBC Massey Lectures which b...
Draft Principles on Shared Responsibility
A presentation of the new principles of shared responsibility in international law The event featured a presentation of the new principles o...
Arbitral Authority to Address Corruption - Part B
Arbitrators have many powers – express, implied, and those inherent in the very process of arbitration. Disputes that involve corruption put...