Podcasts by Public International Law Part III
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 of the International Law Association and Oxford University Press. Further details of this series can be found on the Public International Law -https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/research-subject-groups/graduate-discussion-group-index/public-international-law-discussion-group Oxford website.
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A Weapon Is No Subordinate. Autonomous Weapons and the Scope of Superior Responsibility from 2023-02-24T13:35:50
Dr. Alessandra Spadaro of Utrecht University outlines several challenges to the applicability of the doctrine of superior responsibility in the context of the use of autonomous weapons systems.
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One Hundred Years of International Administrative Law: Is the Employment Law at International Organizations Working? from 2023-02-24T13:29:41
Peter Quayle argues employment law of international organizations tends towards incoherence, however, mapping international administrative law onto a larger framework of international organizations...
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Geneva Declaration on Human Rights at Sea: Informal Lawmaking in Action? from 2023-01-20T11:02:46
Natalie Klein, Professor at UNSW Sydney, presents on the Geneva Declaration on Human Rights at Sea, adopted in March 2022 as an initiative of UK charity Human Rights at Sea, and on the Declaration'...
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Violent environments? Towards a political ecology of international law from 2023-01-20T11:01:22
Dr Eliana Cusato, postdoctoral fellow at the Amsterdam Center for International Law, presents an overview of the key arguments in her book, 'The Ecology of War and Peace: Marginalising Slow and Str...
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Climate Litigation in International Organs and Courts: The Torres Strait Islanders case from 2023-01-20T10:59:55
Monica Feria-Tinta discusses a landmark 2022 decision of the UN Human Rights Committee which found that Australia failed to protect indigenous Torres Strait Islanders against adverse impacts of cli...
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Complicity in a War of Aggression from 2023-01-20T10:57:06
Dr Nikola Hajdin outlines an analytical framework for criminal complicity in a war of aggression Dr Nikola Hajdin argues against the dominant view that a perpetrator of the crime of aggression must...
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Law of the Sea in the ‘Plasticene’ from 2022-05-04T12:07:28
Professor Karen Scott of the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, gives a presentation exploring the current regime complex for ocean plastics and considering how the law of the sea is likely to ...
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Revisiting Sovereignty and Recognition of Oppressive Governments; A focus on Myanmar from 2022-04-08T13:59:54
Professor Errol P. Mendes of the University of Ottawa gives a presentation calling for a revisiting of the origins of the concept of sovereignty in Public International Law.
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‘Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown’: Recent developments regarding the immunities of heads of state and government from 2022-03-01T10:19:04
Philippa Webb, Professor of Public International Law at King’s College London, gives a presentation on recent developments in English law in cases against current and former heads of state. Apologi...
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State Consent between Regionalism and Universalism: Particular Customary International Law before the International Court of Justice from 2022-03-01T10:09:06
Freya Baetens, Professor of Public International Law at Oslo University, gives a presentation on how the International Court of Justice has addressed claims based on ‘regional’ customary internatio...
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Six Faces of Globalization: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It Matters from 2022-01-24T17:38:57
Nicolas Lamp, Queen’s University, Canada gives a presentation to the Public International Law Discussion Group.
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A Behavioral Analysis of Humanitarian Negotiations from 2022-01-17T16:51:32
Professor Anne van Aaken, University of Hamburg, Germany, gives a talk for the Public International Law seminar series (11/11/2021).
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'The Function of Equity in International Law from 2022-01-17T16:47:42
Professor Catharine Titi, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)-CERSA, University Paris II Panthéon-Assas, France, gives a talk for the Public International Law seminar series. (4/1...
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Tactical Admissions in International Litigation from 2022-01-17T11:00:40
A presentation by Professor Stefan Talmon on Tactical Admissions in International Litigation, delivered to the Public International Law Discussion Group.
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Strasbourg on Compulsory Vaccination from 2021-10-25T14:11:28
Professor Paul Gragl, European Law at the University of Graz, Austria, gives a talk for the Public International Law seminar series. Abstract: Despite the overwhelming scientific evidence that vacc...
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Diversity Issues in International Legal Acadmia and Practice from 2021-10-25T14:07:55
Julia Emtseva, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, Germany, gives a talk for the Public International Law seminar series. Julia Emtseva is a research ...
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International Law and the Practice of Legality: stability and change from 2021-07-29T08:08:40
Professor Jutta Brunnée, University of Toronto, gives a talk for the seminar series on 6th May 2021. Drawing on the practice-turn in constructivism and in international relations (IR) theory more g...
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Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations Between a Rock and a Hard Place - Diverging Jurisprudence at the ECtHR and the UN from 2021-05-24T07:28:07
Dr Lea Raible University of Glasgow; 2020/21 re:constitution Fellow, gives a talk for the Public International Law discussion group on 20th May 2021.
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The Jurisprudence of the Inter-American Human Rights System: Standard-setting or International Law-making? from 2021-05-18T07:18:52
Ignacio de Casas, Austral University, Argentina, gives a seminar for the PIL discussion group. The terms ‘international human rights standards’ or ‘inter-American human rights standards’ are often ...
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Hart and Kelsen on International Law from 2021-05-05T11:38:23
Professor David Dyzenhaus, University of Toronto, currently a Guggenheim Fellow and a Visiting Fellow at All Souls, gives a talk for the Public International Law seminar series. In the recent resur...
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How International is the International Court of Justice? from 2021-03-30T11:04:02
Professor James T. Gathii, Wing-Tat Lee Chair in International Law and Professor of Law at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, gives a talk for the Oxford Public International Law seminar seri...
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The Laws of War in International Thought from 2021-03-29T15:03:31
Professor Pablo Kalmanovitz, International Studies Division at CIDE, Mexico City, gives a talk for the Oxford PIL discussion group. The Law of Armed Conflict is usually understood to be a regime of...
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The Recognition of a Right to be Rescued at Sea from 2021-02-26T09:03:43
Professor Seline Trevisanut, Utrecht University, gives a talk for the Public International Law discussion group series. On 27 January 2021, the UN Human Rights Committee ascertained the responsibil...
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Two Visions of the International Rule of Law from 2021-02-22T07:29:03
Professor Monica Hakimi, University of Michigan, gives a talk for the PIL discussion series. When we speak of the rule of law, we generally mean to describe the attributes that make law, as an ente...
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Climate Change and Human Rights Litigation: A Proposed New Line of Argument from 2021-02-19T07:17:52
Professor Martin Scheinin, Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, gives a talk for the Public International Law series. On 13 November 2020, the European Court of Human Rights communicated to 33 gover...
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Dangerous proportions: Means and Ends in Non-Finite War from 2021-02-17T06:57:35
Professor Nehal Bhuta, University of Edinburgh and Dr Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi, University of Amsterdam, give a talk for the Public International Law seminar series. Philip Alston’s deep worries abou...
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The Concept of Race in International Criminal Law - and Beyond from 2021-02-17T06:55:14
Carola Lingaas, VID Specialised University, gives a talk for the Public International Law seminar series. Members of racial groups are protected under international law against genocide, persecutio...
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More than a Morbid Quest: obituaries and mapping the invisible college of international lawyers from 2021-02-05T08:16:32
Luíza Leão Soares Pereira, Lecturer in International Law at the University of Sheffield, and Doctoral Candidate at the University of Cambridge, gives a talk for the Public International Law seminar...
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Binding and Non-binding International Agreements (as explored by the OAS Juridical Committee) from 2021-01-25T07:06:06
Professor Duncan Hollis, Temple University, gives a talk for the Public International Law seminar series on 21st January 2021. Abstract: On 7 August 2020, the Inter-American Juridical Committee of...
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Humanity, Inclusive Positivism and the Law of Armed Conflict from 2020-11-06T09:16:27
Humanitarian personnel from time to time find themselves transporting desperate civilian residents forced out of besieged areas into long-term or even permanent displacement Humanitarian personnel ...
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The International Law of Mega-Awards from 2020-08-25T13:11:58
Public international law’s turn to judicialisation in the last three decades has led to more attention paid to remedies including of monetary character, in inter-State dispute settlement as well as...
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The Effect of jus cogens and the Individuation of Norms from 2020-03-06T13:22:22
International law ascribes to the conferral of a jus cogens status on a norm a particular legal significance. Bluntly put, jus cogens norms have legal consequences that norms of ordinary internatio...
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International Judicial Speech Acts from 2020-02-21T13:17:54
Domestic and international judges speak separately from their courts' institutional voice in myriad ways. Instances of separate judicial speech range from written and oral dissents, to posing quest...
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The Duty to Prevent Atrocity Crimes: Operationalising State Obligations from 2020-02-19T13:58:14
From the instant that a State receives an early warning that mass atrocities are likely to occur, what, precisely, is it required to do in response? There is wide agreement that a duty to prevent ...
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The Interplay between Maritime Security and the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea: Help or Hindrance? from 2020-02-12T12:30:21
The concept of maritime security and its interplay with the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (LOSC) have attracted a lot of attention in recent years. This talk will focus on t...
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Between Optimism and Pessimism: prospects for the conclusion of a new treaty on marine biodiversity on the high seas from 2019-11-18T15:21:20
The United Nations is currently undertaking negotiations with a view to concluding an international legally binding instrument for the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity in are...
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ILC’s Draft Conclusions on Peremptory Norms of General International Law from 2019-11-13T14:14:44
Dire Tladi is a Professor of international law at the University of Pretoria and an Extraordinary Professor at the University of Stellenbosch. He is a member of the UN International Law Commission ...
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The Legal Evolution of the Climate Change Regime: Past, Present, and Future from 2019-10-31T14:44:52
What have been the key themes in the legal evolution of the UN climate regime? How were these themes addressed In the recently adopted Paris Rulebook? And what are the principal legal issues goi...
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The Role of Domestic Law in the International Legal Validity of Treaty Withdrawal from 2019-10-25T11:54:18
If a state withdraws from a treaty in a manner that violates its own domestic law, will this withdrawal take effect in international law? The decisions to join and withdraw from treaties are both a...
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Climate Change and the Rule of Law from 2019-10-18T11:13
Despite three decades of legal development, existing systems of law fail to provide effective foundations for limiting climate change. The inadequacy of existing systems of law is thrown into relie...
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