Best Decolonizing Methodologies Podcasts (2025)

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State Immunity: Theory and Practice - Hussein Haeri KC, Withers LLP 42:29

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Lecture summary: This lecture will explore the parameters of State immunity at the international level and as reflected in different national legal systems (including England & Wales, the United States and others). It will include an overview of foundational and more recent jurisprudence in international and domestic courts, and will give particula…

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Explaining Sudan’s Catastrophe: From Popular Revolution to Coup, War and Famine 42:31

2M ago42:31

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Summary: This talk explains Sudan’s descent into a horrific war that is the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. The war has displaced over 11 million people, involved the targeting of civilians, including especially women, in mass violence, and precipitated a hunger crisis affecting over 24 million people, with over 630,000 currently facing famine. …

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Property Rights at Sea - Prof Richard Barnes 46:44

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Lecture summary: Property is a fundamental legal institution governing the use of things: who may own what, how and why. Given that such questions extend to a wide range of natural resources essential to human well-being, such as food, water and shelter, then it is reasonable to assume that human rights should play an important role in shaping prop…

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(Non-)Defining 'Gender' in the Crimes Against Humanity Draft: Possibilities, Alliances, and Strategies 2:00:20

3M ago2:00:20

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Panel: '(Non-)Defining 'Gender' in the Crimes Against Humanity Draft: Possibilities, Alliances, and Strategies' Feminist activists, country representatives, and other civil society actors have debated how to define “gender” in international criminal law (ICL) for at least three decades. In the Rome Conference that established the International Crim…

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Governing Sovereign Debt Crises: The Case for International Sovereign Insolvency Law - Dr Karina Patrício Ferreira Lima 41:01

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Sovereign debt crises have surged since the end of the Bretton Woods system and currently threaten a lost decade for many countries across the world. Indermit Gill, in the World Bank Group’s 2024 International Debt Report, describes the situation in many of the poorest countries as a ‘metastasising solvency crisis that continues to be misdiagnosed …

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The Law of State Succession: Principles and Practice' - Dr Arman Sarvarian 27:36

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Speaker: Arman Sarvarian, University of Surrey Date: Friday Lunchtime Lecture: Friday 31 January 2025 Dr Arman Sarvarian will speak about his forthcoming monograph The Law of State Succession: Principles and Practice to be published by Oxford University Press in April. The product of seven years’ labour of approximately 170,000 words, the work incl…

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Potential Legal Limitations on a Russia-Ukraine Peace Agreement: Gregory Fox 44:18

3M ago44:18

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Speaker: Gregory Fox, Wayne State University Date: Friday Lunchtime Lecture - Friday 24 January 2025 Summary: Does international law place any constraints on a possible Ukraine-Russia peace agreement? While we can only speculate about its contents, two aspects appear certain: Ukraine will be asked to relinquish (at a minimum) territory now occupied…

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Friday lecture: 'International Law, Marxist State Theory, and the Many Ends of Decolonization' - Prof Umut Özsu, Carleton University 44:28

5M ago44:28

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Lecture summary: Many political economists, economic historians, and historical sociologists understand the transition from the 1970s to the 1980s as involving a shift from debates about inflation, oil shocks, floating currencies, and the New International Economic Order to neoliberalism's political and ideological breakthrough, first in the indust…

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LCIL-CILJ Annual Lecture 2024: 'In the shadow of trade: a critique of Global Health Law' - Prof Sharifah Sekalala, University of Warwick 35:16

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Lecture summary: In this talk Sharifah Sekalala examines this critical moment in the making of Global Health Law, with two treaty making processes: the newly finalised revisions of the International Health Regulations and ongoing negotiations by the Intergovernmental Negotiation Body for a possible pandemic Accord or Instrument, as we well as soft-…

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Friday Lecture: 'Global Re/Ordering Through Norms - A Methodological Stocktake' - Prof Antje Wiener, University of Hamburg 37:08

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Lecture summary: The United Nations Charter order (UNCO) and the co-evolved liberal international order (LIO) are contested with a heretofore unknown force. The steep rise in contestations in the realm of public politics rather than the courtroom demonstrates a shift from normal contestation as a source of legitimacy and ordering towards deep conte…

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Friday lunchtime lecture: 'The Rapidly Progressing Proposal for an International Anti-Corruption Court' - Judge Mark L Wolf 40:51

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Lecture summary: Grand corruption – the abuse of public office for private gain by a nation's leaders (kleptocrats) - has devastating consequences. As then UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said, the amount lost to corruption each year is enough to feed the world's hungry 80 times over. Grand corruption contributes to climate change…

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The Eli Lauterpacht Lecture 2024: 'The Right to Self Determination: Chagos, the Caribbean and the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT)' - Judge Patrick Robinson 56:00

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Lecture summary:Part 1 of the Lecture focuses on the development of the right to self-determination as a rule of customary international law and its application to the Chagos Archipelago, Africa and the Commonwealth Caribbean. The adoption of Resolution 1514 by the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 14, 1960 was a decisive element i…

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Friday Lecture: 'The Duty to Cooperate and the Role of Independent Expert Bodies: The Case of the High Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom and the Media Freedom Coalition of States' - Can Yeginsu ... 48:47

7M ago48:47

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Lecture summary: At a time where questions abound about the state and future of international cooperation and compliance across the international legal system, this lecture will consider the new partnership of countries established in 2019 to promote and protect media freedom globally – the Media Freedom Coalition of States. The Coalition offers a …

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Book launch: The Art and Craft of International Environmental Law (Second Edition) 43:47

10M ago43:47

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Professor Daniel Bodansky’s seminal and widely acclaimed book The Art and Craft of International Environmental Law was first published in 2010. In contrast to other general works on international environmental law, the book focused on the processes of developing, implementing, and enforcing international environmental law rather than on legal doctr…

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LCIL Friday Lecture: 'Staging international law: order and disorder in an inter-agency meeting' - Prof Guy Fiti Sinclair, Auckland Law School 39:41

12M ago39:41

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Lecture summary: A growing body of interdisciplinary scholarship explores overlaps and interactions among different normative and institutional branches of international law. This lecture contributes to this scholarship through a case study of relations among international organizations in the mid-1960s, when several emerging political fault lines …

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LCIL Friday Lecture: ''Mistakes' in War' - Prof Oona Hathaway, Yale Law School 45:43

12M ago45:43

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Lecture summary: In 2015, the United States military dropped a bomb on a hospital in Afghanistan run by Médecins Sans Frontières, killing forty-two staff and patients. Testifying afterwards before a Senate Committee, General John F. Campbell explained that “[t]he hospital was mistakenly struck.” In 2019, while providing air support to partner force…

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LCIL Friday Lecture: 'Elephants not in the room: Decoupling, dematerialisation and dis-enclosure in the making of the BBNJ Treaty' - Dr Siva Thambisetty, LSE 44:47

1y ago44:47

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Lecture summary: This lecture examines the treatment of marine genetic resources (MGR) in the negotiations and the text of the new Treaty on Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ). The Treaty provides a coherent governance framework for MGR including an unexpected techno-fix to the most longstanding problem of biodiversity governance, som…

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LCIL Friday Lecture: 'Natural Resources in International Law - The Political Economy of Sovereignty and the Postcolonial Order' - Prof Sigrid Boysen, Helmut Schmidt University 40:56

1y ago40:56

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Lecture summary: From European colonialism to the ‘post’colonial constellation, modern international law has developed in parallel with the changing legal forms of industrialised countries’ access to the natural resources of the global South. Following this development, we can see how imperial environmentalism was translated to the transnational la…

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Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures 2024: 'International Borders in an Interdependent World' - Lecture 3: 'Where Cooperative Border Governance (Should) Lead: Interstate Borders as Though People Mattered ... 1:07:01

1y ago1:07:01

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The Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lecture is an annual three-part lecture series given in Cambridge to commemorate the unique contribution to the development of international law of Sir Hersch Lauterpacht. These lectures are given annually by a person of eminence in the field of international law. This year's lecture was given by Prof Beth Simmons, U…

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Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures 2024: 'International Borders in an Interdependent World' - Lecture 2: 'Treaties and Neighbors: Recovering the Cooperative Roots of International Bordering' - Prof Beth ... 1:03:56

1y ago1:03:56

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The Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lecture is an annual three-part lecture series given in Cambridge to commemorate the unique contribution to the development of international law of Sir Hersch Lauterpacht. These lectures are given annually by a person of eminence in the field of international law. This year's lecture was given by Prof Beth Simmons, U…

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Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures 2024: 'International Borders in an Interdependent World' - Lecture I: 'Setting the stage: Border Anxiety in an Interdependent World' - Prof Beth Simmons, University ... 1:01:09

1y ago1:01:09

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The Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lecture is an annual three-part lecture series given in Cambridge to commemorate the unique contribution to the development of international law of Sir Hersch Lauterpacht. These lectures are given annually by a person of eminence in the field of international law. This year's lecture was given by Prof Beth Simmons, U…

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LCIL Friday Lecture: 'Re-Imagining International Monetary and Financial Law' - Prof Michael Waibel, University of Vienna 38:52

1y ago38:52

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Lecture summary: This lecture considers what Josef Kunz termed “swings of the pendulum” in international monetary and financial law and the formal and informal institutions in these related fields. International monetary law exploded in importance after the Second World War with the creation of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and a global sys…

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LCIL Friday Lecture: 'Victimhood: Gender as Tool and Weapon' - Prof Vasuki Nesiah, NYU GALLATIN 38:54

1y ago38:54

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Lecture summary: This paper looks at the political purchase of International Conflict Feminism (ICF) in helping constitute the normative framework guiding and legitimizing laws and policies advanced under the rubric of Countering Violent Extremism (CVE). It attends to how these have intersected with the work of the international criminal court (ICC…

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LCIL Friday Lecture: 'International Law and Communications Infrastructure: A History' - Dr Daniel Joyce, Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney 34:25

1y ago34:25

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Lecture summary: This research examines international law’s longstanding entanglement with communications infrastructure. There is increasing concern regarding the rise of private global power in the form of global digital platforms and their model of information capitalism. This paper responds by focusing on historical connections between internat…

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Friday Lecture: 'Reclaiming Agency: Indigenous Peoples and the Turn to History in International Law' - Dr Lucas Lixinski, UNSW Sydney 33:39

1+ y ago33:39

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Lecture summary: In this talk, Lucas Lixinski examines the erasure of Indigenous perspectives from the literature on the turn to history in international law. Considering the turn to history’s promise to offer alternative imaginations by recovering history, it is somewhat surprising and disappointing that so much of this turn is narrated from the p…

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LCIL Lecture: 'Maritime crimes and the 'interdiction' of ships without nationality' - Prof Loureiro Bastos, University of Lisbon 46:41

1+ y ago46:41

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Lecture summary: After the conclusion of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and the entry into force of its Article 108, the subject of maritime crimes has experienced many important developments. Indeed, at present, States have to deal with criminal actions which did not exist in the classical International Law of the Sea. Relevan…

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LCIL-CILJ Annual Lecture 2023: 'Trade Law Policing on the Factory Floor: Next Generation Agreements and their Corporate Accountability Tools' - Prof Kathleen Claussen, Georgetown Law 1:01:00

1+ y ago1:01:00

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The LCIL and Cambridge International Law Journal (CILJ) are pleased to invite you to the LCIL-CILJ Annual Lecture Lecture summary: Recent pathbreaking trade agreements empower trade policymakers to target foreign companies in novel ways and to police corporate due diligence in global supply chains rather than seek to change foreign government behav…

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Friday Lecture: 'The 'Common Law Method': British Approaches to the Development of International Law' - Dr Devika Hovell, LSE 1:01:30

1+ y ago1:01:30

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Lecture summary: For better or for worse, the ‘English school’ or ‘British tradition’ of international law has eluded systematization or definition. The lecture pursues the argument that it is possible to identify clear synergies in the mainstream legal method of British international lawyers, focusing on British approaches to the doctrine of self-…

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LCIL Friday Lecture: 'Exiting the Energy Charter Treaty under the Law of Treaties' - Dr Tibisay Morgandi, Queen Mary University of London & Professor Lorand Bartels, University of Cambridge 55:26

2y ago55:26

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Lecture summary: The Energy Charter Treaty was concluded in 1994 on the assumption that fossil fuels could continue to be used for the foreseeable future. This article examines how ECT contracting parties can now withdraw from this treaty for climate change reasons without being subject to its 'sunset' clause, which protects existing investments fo…

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LCIL Friday Lecture: 'The Evolving UN Climate Regime: (Professed) Ambition at the cost of (Real) Equity?' - Professor Lavanya Rajamani, University of Oxford 35:35

2y ago35:35

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Lecture Summary: This lecture will discuss recent developments in the UN Climate Regime, focusing in particular on the mismatch between the increasing emphasis on temperature goals and target-setting under the Paris Agreement and its treatment of equity and fairness in delivering these goals and targets. Lavanya Rajamani is a Professor of Internati…

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Snyder Lecture 15: '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 50:26

2y ago50:26

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Lecture summary: Just over a year ago, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sought public comments on a bold and thoughtfully framed rule proposal for the enhancement and standardization of climate-related disclosure. It was a move that signaled to many that the US was finally responding to the global shift amongst investors and asset ma…

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Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lecture 2023: 'Capitalism and the Doctrines of International Law' - Lecture 3: 'Reframing Doctrines' - Dr B S Chimni, Jindal Global University 58:19

2y ago58:19

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Lecture 3: 'Reframing Doctrines' A series of three lectures by Dr. B.S.Chimni, Distinguished Professor of International Law, O.P. Jindal Global University. Previously, he was for over three decades Professor of International Law, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Between 2004-2006 he was the Vice Chancellor of the W.B. N…

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Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lecture 2023: 'Capitalism and the Doctrines of International Law' - Lecture 2: 'Exploring Nexus' - Dr B S Chimni, Jindal Global University 1:01:48

2y ago1:01:48

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Lecture 2: 'Exploring Nexus' A series of three lectures by Dr. B.S.Chimni, Distinguished Professor of International Law, O.P. Jindal Global University. Previously, he was for over three decades Professor of International Law, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Between 2004-2006 he was the Vice Chancellor of the W.B. Natio…

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Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lecture 2023: 'Capitalism and the Doctrines of International Law' - Lecture 1: 'Mapping the Terrain' - Dr B S Chimni, Jindal Global University 1:01:32

2y ago1:01:32

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Lecture 1: 'Mapping the Terrain' A series of three lectures by Dr. B.S.Chimni, Distinguished Professor of International Law, O.P. Jindal Global University. Previously, he was for over three decades Professor of International Law, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Between 2004-2006 he was the Vice Chancellor of the W.B. N…

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LCIL Friday Lecture: 'The Institutions of Exceptions' - Prof Julian Arato, University of Michigan Law School 43:18

2y ago43:18

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Lecture summary: International economic law binds the state in relation to markets – most prominently with respect to cross-border trade in goods and services (trade) and the cross-border flow of capital (investment). The core tension to be managed in treaty design involves the balance between economic disciplines and the sovereign’s reserved regul…

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LCIL Friday Lecture: 'Oil and water: The inherent incompatibility of international investment law with climate action' - Dr Anil Yilmaz Vastardis, Essex Law School 39:08

2y ago39:08

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Lecture Summary: The survival of our planet requires swift and targeted climate policies to adapt, mitigate and repair. Scientists and political elites acknowledge the urgency to reduce our reliance on coal and fossil fuels to achieve the necessary reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. Academics have been studying the impacts of investment treaty …

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LCIL Friday Lecture: 'The Behavioural Turn of the United Nations and its Implications for International Law' - Prof Anne van Aaken, University of Hamburg 45:19

2y ago45:19

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Lecture summary: United Nations (UN) and several UN Agencies have started to use behavioural sciences in order to achieve their policy goals, including for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). While it is to be appreciated that insights on actual behavior inform policy making of international actors, they raise scientific and normativ…

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LCIL Friday Lecture: 'Competing Theories of Treaty Interpretation and the Divided Application by Investor-State Tribunals of Articles 31 and 32 of the VCLT' - Judge Charles N Brower, Twenty Essex 34:46

2y ago34:46

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Lecture summary: It is alleged that the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT) embodied the victory of Sir Gerald Fitzmaurice’s preference to interpret treaties based on the “ordinary meaning of the words” over Sir Hersh Lauterpacht’s view that one instead should seek to ascertain the treaty parties’ “actual intentions.” But is that so? If…

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LCIL Friday Lecture: 'After Mythology: Contemporary Challenges for the Law of International Organisations' - Prof Eyal Benvenisti, University of Cambridge 44:15

2y ago44:15

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Lecture summary: After 1945, the United Nations – and international organizations (IOs) more generally – were widely embraced as the ideal, democratic means to resolve international conflicts and promote global welfare. Sharing this almost feverish enthusiasm, a Western-controlled International Court of Justice adopted a deferential attitude toward…

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LCIL Friday Lecture: 'Gender and the international judge: misfits on the bench' - Dr Loveday Hodson, University of Leicester 31:08

2y ago31:08

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Lecture summary: It is widely recognised that there is a dearth of women judges sitting on international courts and tribunals. In this lecture, particular attention will be paid to the question of why the lack of judicial parity matters. It will be argued that the dearth of women judges is both symptom and cause of the highly gendered way in which …

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LCIL Friday Lecture: 'Digital Rights and the Outer Limits of International Human Rights Law' - Prof Yuval Shany, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 55:43

2y ago55:43

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Lecture summary: The lecture will explore the extent to which key normative and institutional responses to the challenges raised by the digital age are compatible with, or interact with, changes in key features of the existing international human rights law (IHRL) framework. Furthermore, it will be claimed that the IHRL framework is already changin…

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Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lecture 2022: 'International Law Futures' (Lecture 3): 'Replenishing the International Law Endowment in the Planetary Epoch' - Prof Benedict Kingsbury, NYU 1:00:14

2+ y ago1:00:14

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A series of three lectures by Benedict Kingsbury, New York University. Vice Dean and Murry and Ida Becker Professor of Law Director, Institute for International Law and Justice Faculty Director, Guarini Institute for Global Legal Studies. Benedict Kingsbury’s broad, theoretically grounded approach to international law closely integrates work in leg…

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Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lecture 2022: 'International Law Futures' (Lecture 2): 'Infrastructure, Data & AI' - Prof Benedict Kingsbury, NYU 59:36

2+ y ago59:36

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A series of three lectures by Benedict Kingsbury, New York University. Vice Dean and Murry and Ida Becker Professor of Law Director, Institute for International Law and Justice Faculty Director, Guarini Institute for Global Legal Studies. Benedict Kingsbury’s broad, theoretically grounded approach to international law closely integrates work in leg…

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Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lecture 2022: 'International Law Futures' (Lecture 1): 'Futurities: International Law as Planning' - Prof Benedict Kingsbury, NYU 1:01:35

2+ y ago1:01:35

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A series of three lectures by Benedict Kingsbury, New York University. Vice Dean and Murry and Ida Becker Professor of Law Director, Institute for International Law and Justice Faculty Director, Guarini Institute for Global Legal Studies. Benedict Kingsbury’s broad, theoretically grounded approach to international law closely integrates work in leg…

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LCIL Friday Lecture: 'Compensation under International Law and the International Law Commission' - Martins Paparinskis, UCL 40:50

2+ y ago40:50

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Lecture summary: ‘Is there an international law of remedies?’ asked Cambridge’s very own Christine Gray in 1985. The United Kingdom was sceptical in the 1993 UN General Assembly’s Sixth Committee, with a particular reference to compensation: ‘The international law of remedies was piecemeal and undeveloped … . Many of the authorities culled by the […

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Lunchtime Lecture: 'The Inner Logic of International Law' - Adil Ahmad Haque, Rutgers Law School 30:42

2+ y ago30:42

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Lecture summary: How does international law change? Must international law await change by external political intervention from outside the legal system? Or does international law provide reasons for its own development to those empowered to develop it? To address these questions, we should draw on an unlikely source. Joseph Raz was one of the grea…

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LCIL Friday Lecture: 'Why Systemic Integration Matters Now' - Professor Campbell McLachlan KC 50:51

2+ y ago50:51

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Lecture summary: What explains the persistence of the idea of international law’s systematicity in view of its decentralised nature, constantly dependent upon the shifting consent of states and the vagaries of political will? To what extent can its systemic character endure and adapt as the tectonic plates of geo-politics shift? In this lecture, Ca…

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The Eli Lauterpacht Lecture 2022: 'Does the Metaverse Dream of Electric Rights? International Law in the Era of Late Social Media' - Prof Noah Feldman 51:32

2+ y ago51:32

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The Eli Lauterpacht Lecture was established after Sir Eli's death in 2017 to celebrate his life and work. This lecture takes place on the first Friday lecture of the Centre at the start of the Michaelmas Term in any academic year. The Eli Lauterpacht Lecture for 2022 will be delivered by Professor Noah Feldman. Noah Feldman is Felix Frankfurter Pro…

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The Future of International Law: Judge Christopher Greenwood KC 28:14

2+ y ago28:14

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Judge Christopher Greenwood KC lectures on' The Future of International Law' at the celebratory event of the Dr Ivan and Francesca Berkowitz Seminar Room Opening on Thursday 6 October 2022. For more about the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, see: https://www.lcil.cam.ac.uk/By LCIL, University of Cambridge

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Evening Lecture: 'Move, see, listen, imagine international law (or not)' - Dr Sofia Stolk, Asser Institute in The Hague, University of Amsterdam 16:28

3y ago16:28

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This lecture is is part of the Art, Architecture and International Law seminar series which is being launched this academic year. The series is designed to bridge the worlds of art, architecture and international law. It explores the different ways in which art and architecture and international law intersect. It also demonstrates that internationa…

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