Ranked #1
The Trump Administration and International Law: Will It Get Better or Worse?
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 month... Read more
12 Jun 2018
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44mins
Ranked #2
The Legal Metamorphosis of War
The Legal Metamorphosis of War
War does not escape the transformations global governance has experienced in the past decades. The research presented id... Read more
25 Jan 2019
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46mins
Ranked #3
Corporations and Human Rights Regulation
Corporations and Human Rights Regulation
This talk will consider the regulation of corporations for the human rights impacts of their activities. It will include... Read more
12 Feb 2019
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38mins
Ranked #4
The Oxford Guidance on the Law Relating to Humanitarian Relief Operations in Armed Conflict
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’ o... Read more
5 Dec 2017
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46mins
Ranked #5
Interaction between Hard Law and Soft Law in United Nations Law-Making
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 wo... Read more
28 Feb 2018
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43mins
Ranked #6
Draft Principles on Shared Responsibility
Draft Principles on Shared Responsibility
A presentation of the new principles of shared responsibility in international law The event featured a presentation of ... Read more
6 Mar 2018
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45mins
Ranked #7
Immunity from Execution of Military and Cultural Goods
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 deb... Read more
7 Jun 2017
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34mins
Ranked #8
Proving International Crimes
Proving International Crimes
International criminal tribunals face an enormous task when they seek to analyse the thousands of pages of evidence that... Read more
23 Jan 2018
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33mins
Ranked #9
The Analogy between States and International Organizations
The Analogy between States and International Organizations
An analogy between States and international organizations has characterised the development of the law that applies to i... Read more
6 Nov 2018
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37mins
Ranked #10
Transnational Conflicts: A New Kind of War?
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 ... Read more
31 Oct 2017
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12mins
Ranked #11
The International Law Commission as an Interpreter of International Law
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 progres... Read more
6 Feb 2018
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35mins
Ranked #12
The Consequences of Brexit
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 ... Read more
13 Nov 2018
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44mins
Ranked #13
Arbitral Authority to Address Corruption - Part B
Arbitral Authority to Address Corruption - Part B
Arbitrators have many powers – express, implied, and those inherent in the very process of arbitration. Disputes that i... Read more
28 Feb 2018
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26mins
Ranked #14
Planetary Defence: Asteroids, Nuclear Weapons and International Law
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 - o... Read more
28 Nov 2017
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50mins
Ranked #15
The 2020 UN Human Rights Treaty Body Review: strengthening or strangling the system?
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... Read more
1 Feb 2019
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43mins
Ranked #16
Why punish perpetrators of mass atrocities? Reflections on peace, punishment and the ICC
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 Nurem... Read more
16 Oct 2018
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41mins
Ranked #17
Arbitral Authority to Address Corruption - Part A
Arbitral Authority to Address Corruption - Part A
Arbitrators have many powers – express, implied, and those inherent in the very process of arbitration. Disputes that i... Read more
28 Feb 2018
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17mins
Ranked #18
Addressing key challenges to the prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
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 ... Read more
23 Oct 2018
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47mins
Ranked #19
Travaux, Commentaries and Encyclopedias - how we write them and how we use them
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... Read more
5 Dec 2018
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45mins
Ranked #20
Unmaking the ocean
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 ... Read more
26 Oct 2018
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46mins