Public International Law Discussion Group
About the Group
The Public International Law Discussion Group at the University of Oxford hosts a weekly speaker event and light lunch at New College, Oxford. Topics involve contemporary and challenging issues in international law. Speakers include distinguished international law practitioners, academics, and legal advisers from around the world.
The group typically meets each Thursday during Oxford terms in Lecture Room 6 in New College, with lunch commencing at 12:30, the speaker commencing at 12:50 and concluding by 1:30, allowing about 20 minutes for questions and discussion. Attendance and lunch at these events is free and no RSVP is necessary. Practitioners, academics and students from within and outside the University of Oxford are all welcome.
Convenor: Jarrod Hepburn
Student contact: Kubo Macak
Senior members: Dapo Akande Dan Sarooshi
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Forthcoming Group Events
May 2012
Thursday 17 May 2012 Week 4
- Customary Law in the International Criminal Tribunals
- Speaker: Judge Theodor Meron, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30
Thursday 24 May Week 5
- Domestic Application of Treaties
- Speaker: Professor David Sloss, Santa Clara University
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30
Previous Group Events
May 2012
Thursday 10 May 2012
- International criminal tribunals: Experiments? Works in progress? Institutions that are here for good? A practitioner's view
- Speaker: Sir Geoffrey Nice QC, Temple Garden Chambers
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30
Thursday 3 May
- International Law and the Use of Force: What Happens in Practice?
- Speaker: Sir Michael Wood KCMG, 20 Essex Street; International Law Commission; Lauterpacht Centre for International Law
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30
April 2012
Thursday 26 April
- Tackling Torture through Prevention: the experience of the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture
- Speaker: Professor Malcolm D Evans, University of Bristol
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30
March 2012
Thursday 8 March
- International Energy Law for the 21st Century
- Speaker: Professor Catherine Redgwell, Professor of International Law, UCL
New College Room 6 at 12:30
Thursday 1 March
- State Responsibility for International Terrorosim
- Speaker: Dr Kimberley Trapp, College Lecturer in Law, Newnham College, Cambridge
New College Room 6 at 12:30
February 2012
Thursday 23 February
- The Jurisdictional Immunities case (Germany v Italy) - judicial development of natural law
- Speaker: Dr Alexander Orakhelashvili, University of Birmingham
New College Room 6 at 12:30
Thursday 16 February
- The Restitution of Removed Cultural Properties: a Historical Precedent
- Speaker: Tullio Scovazzi, Professor of International Law, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan
New College Room 6 at 12:30
Thursday 9 February
- Another look at the interpretation of treaties
- Speaker: Sir Frank Berman, Visiting Professor in International Law, All Souls College, Oxford
New College Room 6 at 12:30
Thursday 2 February
- The Place of National Preferences in International Trade Law
- Speaker: Professor DU Ming Michael, Assistant Professor, Law Faculty, Chinese University of Hong Kong
New College Room 6 at 12:30
January 2012
Thursday 26 January
- Investment Treaty Arbitration: The (New) Law of State Responsibility?
- Speaker: Dr Martins Paparinskis, Junior Research Fellow, Merton College, University of Oxford
New College Room 6 at 12:30
Thursday 19 January
- The Role of the International Court of Justice in the Formulation and Development of Fundamental Norms of International Law
- Speaker: Vera Gowlland Debbas, Emeritus Professor of Public International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva and a Visiting Professor at University College London
New College Room 6 at 12:30
December 2011
Thursday 1 December 2011
- The Autonomy of EU Law and International Human Rights Law
- Speaker: Professor Piet Eeckhout, King's College London
New College 6 at 12:30
November 2011
Wednesday 30 November
- International Law and the Middle East: A Conversation with Ambassador Daniel Taub
- Speaker: Ambassador Daniel Taub, Israeli Ambassador to the UK
Oxford
Thursday 24 November
- A Political Theory of International Law and Human Rights
- Speaker: Professor Bill Bowring, University of London
New College 6 at 12:30
Thursday 17 November
- The Presidency of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and the 'National State Extension' Concern
- Speaker: Professor Sienho Yee, Fowler Hamilton Visiting Research Fellow, Christ Church, Oxford; Changjiang Xuezhe Professor and Chief Expert, Wuhan University Institute of International Law
New College 6 at 12:30
Thursday 10 November
- Military Necessity and International Humanitarian Law
- Speaker: Dr Anthony Cullen, University of Leeds
New College 6 at 12:30
Thursday 3 November
- Palestine, Statehood and the Challenges of Representation
- Speaker: Professor Goodwin-Gill, All Soul's College, University of Oxford
New College 6 at 12:30
October 2011
Thursday 27 October
- A Reluctant Guardian? The International Court of Justice and the Concept of 'International Community'
- Speaker: Dr Gleider Hernandez, Durham University
New College 6 at 12:30
Thursday 20 October
- The Al-Skeini decision of the EuropeanCourt of Human Rights - a Landmark on the Extraterritorial Application of Human Rights Law?
- Speaker: Dr Ralph Wilde, University College of London
New College 6 at 12:30
Thursday 13 October
- A Mechanism for UN Accountability for Violations of Human Rights: The Kosovo Human Rights Advisory Board
- Speaker: Professor Christine Chinkin, London School of Economics
New College 6 at 12:30
May 2011
Thursday 26 May
- International Criminal Justice vs. the Arms Trade: Two Elements of Globalization Collide
- Speaker: Prof James Stewart, University of British Columbia
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30
Thursday 19 May
- Bridging the Gap: The International Criminal Court and the State
- Speaker: Prof Olympia Bekou, University of Nottingham
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30
Thursday 12 May
- The Contested Borderland of Foreign Relations Law
- Speaker: Prof Campbell McLachlan QC, Victoria University of Wellington
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30
Thursday 5 May
- More about the Place of Public International Law in the WTO and Vice-Versa: the Recent China - USA Anti-Dumping Dispute
- Speaker: Prof Gabrielle Marceau, World Trade Organization
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30
March 2011
Thursday 10 March
- Human Rights and Root Causes
- Speaker: Prof Susan Marks, LSE
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30
Thursday 3 March
- Diallo in the ICJ: Human Rights Protection and Comparativism
- Speaker: Prof Mads Andenas, University of Oslo
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30
February 2011
Thursday 24 February
- Theater of the Rule of Law
- Speaker: Dr Stephen Humphreys, LSE
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30
Thursday 17 February
- Iraq: An Initial Assessment of the Evidence Generated by the Chilcot Inquiry
- Cancelled
Speaker: Prof Marc Weller, University of Cambridge
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30
Thursday 10 February
- Detention and Counter Terrorism
- Speaker: Prof Sir Nigel Rodley, University of Essex
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30
Thursday 3 February
- WTO Law and Human Rights: Sustainable Development - a Lens through which to Integrate Fragmented Fields
- Speaker: Dr Emily Reid, University of Southampton
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30
January 2011
Thursday 27 January
- Enforcement action in contested waters: legal and policy issues
- Speaker: Dr Irini Papanicolopulu
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30
Thursday 20 January
- The Trials of Samo and Tufft and the Development of International Criminal Law
- Speaker: Dr Emily Haslam , University of Kent
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30
December 2010
Thursday 2 December 2010
- 'The Trials of Samo and Tufft and the development of international criminal law'
- Speaker: Dr Emily Haslan, University of Kent
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30
November 2010
Thursday 25 November
- Treaty Interpretation in the WTO: Beyond the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
- Speaker: Dr Fiona Smith, University College London
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30
Thursday 18 November
- The Representations of International Arbitration
- Speaker: Professor Emmanuel Gaillard, Shearman&Sterling
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30
Thursday 11 November
- The Human Rights Committee of the ICCPR and Problems of Implementation : Challenges and Prospects
- Speaker: Professor Sandy Ghandhi , University of Reading
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30
Thursday 4 November
- Not taking International Law seriously: The US Supreme Court in Medellin v Texas
- Speaker: Professor Mark Janis, University of Connecticut
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30
October 2010
Thursday 28 October
- Progressive Development of International Law and its "softer" Codification
- Speaker: Professor Mary Footer, University of Nottingham
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:45
Thursday 21 October
- Rethinking the Law of Internal Armed Conflicts
- Speaker: Mr Sandesh Sivakuraman, University of Nottingham
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:45
Thursday 14 October
- Some Reflections of Law and Poetry: The Poetry of Judges and the Judges of Poetry
- Speaker: Judge Al-Khasawneh, Judge International Court of Justice
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:45
May 2010
Thursday 20 May
- Transnational/Asymmetric Wars and Responsibility
- Speaker: Professor Iain Scobbie, SOAS
New College Lecture Room 6 at 1245
Thursday 13 May
- International Immunities and Human Rights: Mapping the Contours of an Uneasy Relationship
- Speaker: Professor Craig Barker, University of Sussex
New College Lecture Room 6 at 1245
Thursday 6 May
- The Idea of Legitimate Authority and the (Democratic) Rule of International Law
- Speaker: Mr Steven Wheatley, University of Leeds
New College Lecture Room 6 at 1245
April 2010
Thursday 29 April
- Enforcing International Security: What Role for Individual States?
- Speaker: Professor Christian Tams, University of Glasgow
New College Lecture Room 6 at 1245
March 2010
Thursday 11 March
- Cancelled
- New College Lecture Room 6 at 1230
Thursday 4 March
- Cancelled
- New College Lecture Room 6 at 1230
February 2010
Thursday 25 February
- Principles of International Internet Law
- Speaker: Robert Uerpmann, University of Regensberg
New College Lecture Room 6 at 1230
Thursday 18 February
- The Reception of International Law by the European Court of Justice
- Speaker: Anne Thies, University of Reading
New College Lecture Room 6 at 1230
Thursday 11 February
- The Interpretation of "Direct Participation in Hostilities"
- Speaker: Charles Garraway, British Red Cross
New College Lecture Room 6 at 1230
Thursday 4 February
- Agency Costs in International Law
- Speaker: Sandeep Gopalan, National University of Ireland Maynooth
New College Lecture Room 6 at 1230
January 2010
Thursday 28 January
- Necessity in International Economic Law
- Speaker: Asif Qureshi, University of Manchester
New College Lecture Room 6 at 1230
Thursday 21 January
- The International Humanitarian Law Implications of Peacekeepers Vested with Enforcement Powers
- Speaker: James Sloan, University of Glasgow
New College Lecture Room 6 at 1230
December 2009
Thursday 3 December 2009
- The European Court of Human Rights: The First Half-Century
- Speaker: Dr Ed Bates , University of Southampton
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:45
November 2009
Thursday 26 November
- Prosecuting Indonesian War Crimes in Portuguese Timor: The International Legal Protection of Journalists in Armed Conflict
- Speaker: Dr Ben Saul , University of Sydney
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:45
Thursday 19 November
- Jurisdiction Over Foreign Armed Forces: Examining the Calipari/Lozano Case
- Speaker: Dr Aurel Sari , University of Exeter
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:45
Thursday 12 November
- Hague Academy of International Law Information Session AND The Special Tribunal for Lebanon
- Speaker: Professor Yves Daudet , Secretary-General, Hague Academy of International Law
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30
Thursday 5 November
- The Security Council, The Security Imperative, and International Law
- Speaker: Professor Nigel White , University of Nottingham
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:45
October 2009
Thursday 29 October
- Lauterpacht's Method
- Speaker: Dr Patrick Capps , University of Bristol
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:45
Thursday 22 October
- The Accountability of International Organisations: The Role of Civil Society
- Speaker: Ms Treasa Dunworth , University of Auckland
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:45
Thursday 15 October
- Prospects and Challenges in International Criminal Justice
- Speaker: Judge Philippe Kirsch , Judge ad hoc, International Court of Justice
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:45
May 2009
Thursday 21 May
- International Organisations and Human Rights
- Speaker: Dr Guglielmo Verdirame, University of Cambridge and 20 Essex St
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30
Thursday 14 May
- The International Criminal Court's Early Practice: Building Legitimacy?
- Speaker: Professor Robert Cryer, University of Birmingham
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30
Thursday 7 May
- The exclusionary rule of evidence: Art 3 ECHR and Art 15 CAT
- Speaker: Mr Raza Husain, Matrix Chambers
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30
April 2009
Thursday 30 April
- Maxims of Public International Law in the Jurisprudence of the Yugoslavia Tribunal
- Speaker: Dr Jan Nemitz, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30
March 2009
Monday 16 March
- Recent Developments in International Environmental Law: A Subject Comes of Age?
- Speaker: Prof. Alan Boyle, University of Edinburgh
New College Lecture Room 6 at 15:15
Thursday 5 March
- International Law in the Case-Law of the ECtHR
- Speaker: Judge Ineta Ziemele, European Court of Human Rights
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30
February 2009
Thursday 26 February
- Understanding the international territorial administration accountability deficit: Trusteeship and the legitimacy of international organizations
- Speaker: Dr. Ralph Wilde , UCL
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30
Thursday 19 February
- Legal Implications of the Kosovo Declaration of Independence
- Speaker: Prof. Kaiyan Homi Kaikobad, Brunel University
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30
Thursday 12 February
- Insolvent States
- Speaker: Dr. Michael Waibel , University of Cambridge
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30
Thursday 5 February
- Reading and Rereading the Caroline Correspondence, 1838-1842
- Speaker: Mr. Dino Kritsiotis, University of Nottingham
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30
January 2009
Thursday 29 January
- Recent Developments in WTO Dispute Settlement (And Anything Else You Ever Wanted to Know About the WTO)
- Speaker: Mr. Bruce Wilson , Legal Affairs Division, World Trade Organization Secretariat
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30
Thursday 22 January
- International Climate Change Policy: Precepts for US Foreign Policy
- Speaker: Prof. Daniel Bodansky, University of Georgia
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30
December 2008
Thursday 4 December 2008
- Combating Modern Piracy: International and Regional Responses
- Speaker: Dr D Guilfoyle, UCL
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30
November 2008
Thursday 27 November
- The Emergence of General Principles of Procedure in International Adjudication
- Speaker: Dr Chester Brown, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30
Thursday 20 November
- Revisiting the Element of Practice in Customary International Law
- Speaker: Prof F Pazartzis, University of Athens
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30
Thursday 13 November
- The Enforcement of Investment Awards in National Courts
- Speaker: Prof A Reinisch, University of Vienna
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30
Thursday 6 November
- Geopolitical Context and Some Legal Aspects of the Georgia-Russia War of 2008
- Speaker: Prof R Mullerson, Kings College London
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30
October 2008
Thursday 30 October
- Litigation over Marine Resources: Perspectives from Australian Experience
- Speaker: Dr N Klein, Macquarie University
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30
Thursday 23 October
- Questions and Answers on
- Cancelled
Speaker: Prof HH Koh, Yale Law School
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30
Thursday 16 October
- Towards a Europeanisation of International Law?
- Speaker: Prof J Wouters, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30
Thursday 9 October
- The Contribution of EU Practice to International Law
- Speaker: Prof F Hoffmeister, European Commission Legal Service; Vrije Universiteit Brussel
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30
May 2007
Thursday 17 May 2007
- The Diplomatic Conference of Geneva of 1949 Revisited: Minimum Protection for Civilians who Have Taken Part in Hostilities in a Combat Zone
- Speaker: Dr. Yutaka Arai-Takahashi
New College 6 at 12:30
Thursday 18 May 2006
- Careers in International Law: The Role of the International Lawyer in an International Organization
- Cancelled
Speaker: Dr Edward Kwakwa, World Intellectual Property Organization
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30
