Events during the past year
The Public International Law Discussion Group at the University of Oxford is a key focal point for PIL@Oxford. The PIL Discussion Group 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 discussion group's meetings are part of the programme of the British Branch of the International Law Association and are supported by the Law Faculty and Oxford University Press.
The group typically meets each Thursday during Oxford terms in Lecture Room 6 in New College, with lunch commencing at 12:30. The speaker will commence at 12:45 and speak for about forty minutes, allowing about twenty five minutes for questions and discussion. The meeting should conclude before 2:00.
Practitioners, academics and students from within and outside the University of Oxford are all welcome. No RSVP is necessary. Join the PIL Email List to receive information about the PIL Discussion Group meetings, as well as other PIL@Oxford news.
Most of the seminars are available as podcasts.
PIL Lunchtime Discussion Group Co-ordinators
Jessica Howley jessica.howley@magd.ox.ac.uk and
Thomas Lieflaender thomas.lieflaender@st-hughs.ox.ac.uk
Faculty PIL Lunchtime Discussion Group Co-ordinator
Dapo Akande dapo.akande@law.ox.ac.uk
PILDG events
There are no forthcoming seminars scheduled at the moment, so here is a list of our recent seminars.
Audio recordings of a number of our seminars are available.
A download link is shown in the listing for the item below, and on the media files page.
[As this is a list of events which have already happened, some links may no longer work as expected.]
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May 2013
Thursday 16 May 2013
- Public International Law Discussion Group
Investment Arbitration and the Philosophy of Property
- Speaker: Professor Zachary Douglas, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30
Wednesday 15 May
- Public International Law Discussion Group
The United States and International Law: Drones and Other Challenges for the Obama Administration’s Second Term
- Speaker: Mr John Bellinger III, Former Legal Adviser to the U.S. State Department
All Souls College Old Library at 20:30
Thursday 9 May
- Public International Law Discussion Group
International Law in the Long 1990s: Notes Towards an Investigation
- Speaker: Dr Akbar Rasulov, University of Glasgow
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30A podcast of this talk is available.
Thursday 2 May
- Public International Law Discussion Group
Democratic Statehood in International Law
- Speaker: Dr Jure Vidmar, University of Oxford
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30
April 2013
Thursday 25 April
- Public International Law Discussion Group
The (In)applicability of the Prohibition on the Use of Force to International Organizations
- Speaker: Dr Sarah Heathcote, Australian National University
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30
March 2013
Friday 1 March
- Public International Law Discussion Group
Judging At Home and Abroad
- Speaker: Judge Kenneth Keith, International Court of Justice
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 15:00
February 2013
Thursday 28 February
- Public International Law Discussion Group
Neither Common or Civil: Principles of Liability in International Criminal Law
- Speaker: Professor Robert Cryer, University of Birmingham
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30A podcast of this talk is available.
Thursday 21 February
- Public International Law Discussion Group
Reducing Genocide to Law: Definition, Meaning, and the Ultimate Crime
- Speaker: Professor Payam Akhavan, McGill University
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30A podcast of this talk is available.
Thursday 14 February
- Public International Law Discussion Group
International Law as Law at Last
- Speaker: Professor Philip Allott, University of Cambridge
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30
Thursday 7 February
- Public International Law Discussion Group
The Investment Treaty System as Judicial Review: Some Remarks on its Nature, Scope and Standards
- Speaker: Dr Federico Ortino, King’s College London
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30A podcast of this talk is available.
January 2013
Thursday 31 January
- Public International Law Discussion Group
Self-Defense Against an Imminent or Actual Armed Attack by Nonstate Actors
- Speaker: Sir Daniel Bethlehem, Former Legal Adviser to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30
Thursday 24 January
- Public International Law Discussion Group
Transnational Organized Crime at Sea
- Speaker: Dr Efthymios Papastavridis, Academy of Athens
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30A podcast of this talk is available.
Thursday 17 January
- Public International Law Discussion Group
The Articles on the Responsibility of International Organizations: Magnifying the Fissures in the Law of International Responsibility
- Speaker: Professor Jean d'Aspremont, University of Manchester
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30
November 2012
Thursday 29 November 2012
- Public International Law Discussion Group
The relations between jus ad bellum and jus in bello: independence versus conflation
- Speaker: Dr V Koutroulis, Visiting Fellow, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:45A podcast of this talk is available.
Thursday 22 November
- Public International Law Discussion Group
Title to be confirmed
- Speaker: Dr A Lang, Reader in Law, LSE
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:45
Thursday 15 November
- Public International Law Discussion Group
Immunities and Extradition: The Curious Case of Khurts Bat
- Speaker: Dr R O'Keefe, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Cambridge
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:45A podcast of this talk is available.
Thursday 8 November
- Public International Law Discussion Group
The Legality of the STL’s Establishment and Reviewability of SC Resolutions
- Speaker: Mr J Jones, Doughty Street Chambers
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:45
Thursday 1 November
- Public International Law Discussion Group
Is the Rome Statute Binding on Individuals?
- Speaker: Dr M Milanovic, Lecturer in Law, University of Nottingham
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:45A podcast of this talk is available.
October 2012
Thursday 25 October
- Public International Law Discussion Group
The Independence of Scotland
- Speaker: Professor J Crawford, Whewell Professor of International Law, University of Cambridge
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:45A podcast of this talk is available.
Thursday 18 October
- Public International Law Discussion Group
Are investments still protected under Intra-EU BITs?
- Speaker: Mr D Reed , Partner, International Arbitration Division, Arnold & Porter
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:45A podcast of this talk is available.
Thursday 11 October
- Public International Law Discussion Group
Mr. Salomon and M. Diallo: Personality and Protection in International Law
- Speaker: Professor H Thirlway, Former Principal Legal Secretary, International Court of Justice
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:45A podcast of this talk is available.
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