Public International Law Discussion Group (Part II)
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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 Discussion Group, part of the Law Faculty of the University of Oxford, and is supported by the British Branch...
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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 motivations,...
The 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 treaties a...
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 or a stand...
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 ambiguous i...
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 consequences...
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 legislation, indu...
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 treaty body s...
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 a binary...
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 Commentari...
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 departure...
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 institutions...
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 It will fo...
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 will explo...
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 of 'punis...
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 challenges...
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 occurred not...
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 the Inter...
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 became the...
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 of shared r...
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 into que...
Arbitral Authority to Address Corruption - Part A
Arbitrators have many powers – express, implied, and those inherent in the very process of arbitration. Disputes that involve corruption put into que...
Interaction between Hard Law and Soft Law in United Nations Law-Making
From a law-making perspective 'soft-law' is simply a convenient description for a variety of non-binding, normatively worded instruments used in conte...
The International Law Commission as an Interpreter of International Law
The International Law Commission is a subsidiary organ of the United Nations General Assembly entrusted with the progressive development of internatio...
Proving International Crimes
International criminal tribunals face an enormous task when they seek to analyse the thousands of pages of evidence that are presented in the course o...
The Oxford Guidance on the Law Relating to Humanitarian Relief Operations in Armed Conflict
The provision of life-saving assistance to people affected by armed conflict lies at the heart of humanitarian actors’ operations... and the Geneva Co...
Planetary Defence: Asteroids, Nuclear Weapons and International Law
This paper examines issues related to the question of 'planetary defence', in the sense of responding to an asteroid - or any other type of Near-Earth...
Corruption: A new Public International Law norm?
Corruption has become a hot topic in Public International Law in recent years. In particular, its prevention has been the subject of numerous treaties...
Human Rights at Sea: Establishing the Rule of Law at Sea in a post-Grotian Era
From the early 17th to the mid-20th century (the Grotian Era), the oceans were regarded as a minimally regulated ‘free’ space. Abstract:
International Law and the Sustainable Development Goals – shaping the rules for our common future
The UN Conference on Sustainable Development - or Rio+20 - took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 20-22 June 2012 States decided to launch a process...
Transnational Conflicts: A New Kind of War?
Dr Ziv Bohrer, assistant professor at Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law, gives a talk for the Public International Law Discussion Group. Please note,...
International Law and Sea Level Rise: the work of the ILA Committee
David Freestone gives a talk for the public international law seminar series. Please note, the recording of this podcast ended before the end. We apol...
Immunity from Execution of Military and Cultural Goods
Recent years have seen numerous attempts to seize State assets held outside a State's national territory to satisfy debts owed by the State to privat...
Behavioral Economics and Global Public Goods and Global Commons
Professor van Aaken's main research areas are international law with a special focus on international economic law and its interaction with other area...
Advocacy before the International Court of Justice
Advocacy is the art of persuasion on behalf of a person or cause. In this presentation, the way in which lawyers advocate before the International C...
The Updated Commentary on the First Geneva Convention: Relevance and Evolution of the Convention in the Light of 60 Years of Practice
In 2011, the ICRC embarked on a multi-year project aimed at updating its commentaries on the Geneva Conventions (the “Pictet Commentaries”) and their...
Historic Titles and Historic Rights in the Law of the Sea in the Light of the South China Sea Arbitration
Historic titles and historic rights have been a complicated issue in the law of the sea both conceptually and practically. The contemporary relevance...
Under the Radar: Fair and Equitable Benefit-sharing and the Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Related to Natural Resources
This article critically assesses the increasing cross-fertilization between international environmental law and international human rights law... Abst...
Courting Failure: When are International Criminal Courts likely to be believed by Local Audiences?
Can we reliably predict whether the populations affected by mass atrocities will believe in the accounts of the facts and criminal responsibility that...
The International Regulation of Offshore Energy Installations
In this talk, we will attempt to discuss points of interest, taking also into consideration the role offshore installations may or may not play in the...
Reading the Rome Statute - As an Organic Instrument (This was a joint session with OTJR)
Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji, Judge of the International Criminal Court and President of the Trial Division Discussion on the proper role of the ICC judges...