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New Horizons in Human Trafficking and International Criminal Law
24 Feb 2021
15:00 - 17:15
Lecture
The key-note speaker is Herman Bolhaar, Dutch National Rapporteur for Human Trafficking. Herman was Chairman of the Board of Prosecutors General, the national management of the Dutch public prosecution service from ...
The International Criminal Court vs. Powerful States: The United Kingdom/Iraq Preliminary Examination and Beyond
18 Feb 2021
15:00 - 16:30
Lecture
On 9 December 2020, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda, announced that she would close the United Kingdom/Iraq preliminary examination. The panelists will analyze the Prosecutor’s ...
PhD defence Evelien van Roemburg
10 Feb 2021
17:00 - 18:00
Lecture
On Wednesday 10 February PhD Researcher Evelien van Roemburg will defend her PhD thesis entitled 'The effectiveness of UNHCR's supervision: Assessing the UN refugee agency's supervisory task regarding states' ...
Toward a History of Grassroots International Law: Was the Road Taken?
8 Feb 2021
15:30 - 17:00
Lecture
Doreen Lustig is an Associate Professor at Tel Aviv University, Buchmann Faculty of Law. Lustig’s primary research and teaching interests include the history and theory of international law, political economy and the ...
Inside the diplomatic EU Code of Conduct Group: 20 Years of Tackling Harmful Tax Competition
7 Dec 2020
15:30 - 17:00
Lecture
Martijn Nouwen is an Assistant Professor in Tax Law at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and Director of the Institute for Tax Transparency. His presentation will discuss the functioning and effectiveness of the ...
Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Weapon Systems and Accidents in War
1 Dec 2020
17:00 - 18:00
Lecture
On Tuesday 1 December 2020, Dr Rebecca Crootof (University of Richmond School of Law) will deliver the inaugural lecture of the DILEMA Lecture Series, on the topic of ‘Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Weapon ...
PhD defence Vincent Vleugel
24 Nov 2020
12:00 - 13:30
Event
On Tuesday, 24 November 2020 PhD Researcher Vincent Vleugel will defend his PhD thesis entitled 'Culture in the State Reporting Procedure of the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies'.
Human Rights, Poverty and Capitalism
3 Nov 2020
15:30 - 17:00
Lecture
Anna Chadwick will examine the inter play between state obligations to eradicate extreme poverty
and realize socio economic rights under International Human Rights Law and some of
the legal regimes and economic ...
ACIL luncheon: Conflict classification in international criminal law
5 Oct 2020
12:00 - 13:00
Lecture
Rogier Bartels will discuss how international criminal courts and tribunals pronounce on the classify armed conflicts. His presentation is based on the research he conducted for a recent article on the same topic, ...
ACIL-ACELG luncheon: Overlapping Institutions in the United Nations Human Rights System: Mutual Reinforcement or Competition?
29 Sep 2020
12:00 - 13:00
Event
The international system is increasingly characterized by the presence of partially overlapping institutions that regulate and monitor states’ performance in a given area, known as regime complexes. Whereas scholars ...
Situating Contingency in International Law: On the possibility of a different law
31 Aug 2020
12:00 - 13:00
Lecture
During this ACIL luncheon Ingo Venzke will introduce the book 'Situating Contingency in International Law: On the possibility of a different law,' which he co-edited with Kevin Jon Heller (forthcoming from Oxford ...
Open source investigations in International Criminal Justice
16 Jun 2020
15:00 - 16:00
Event
During this session 6 students will present findings from their research on the use of open source information as evidence in international criminal law. The students conducted this research as part of the ...
(Cancelled) Veiled Power: International Law and the Private Business Corporation, 1886–1981
28 May 2020
09:30 - 11:00
Lecture
Please note that this event has been cancelled /\/\/\/\ In her lecture Doreen Lustig (Tel Aviv University) presents a historical study of the international law of the private business corporation. This book ...
(Cancelled) Monopolizing War: Codifying the Laws of War to Reassert Governmental Authority, 1856–1874
27 May 2020
15:30 - 17:00
Lecture
Note that this event has been cancelled /\/\/\/\ In her lecture Doreen Lustig (Tel Aviv University) will challenge the canonical narrative about civil society’s efforts to discipline warfare during the mid-nineteenth ...
(cancelled) International law and its writers
20 Apr 2020
15:30 - 17:00
Lecture
Please note that this event has been cancelled. We are looking to reschedule it /\/\/\/\ In her guest lecture entitled 'International law and its writers' Lianne Boer (VU Amsterdam) will discuss the construction of ...
The socio-economic rights of people on the move affected by cooperative migration control
20 Apr 2020
12:00 - 13:00
Lecture
In this online luncheon, ACIL visiting fellow Annick Pijnenburg (Tilburg University) discusses ongoing work in her research on ‘At the frontiers of shared responsibility: the socio-economic rights of people on the ...
(cancelled) Human Rights, Poverty, and Capitalism
30 Mar 2020
15:30 - 17:00
Lecture
This lecture has been cancelled in line with Covid-19 precautionary measures. We are looking to reschedule this lecture to autumn 2020. /\/\/\/\ In her guest lecture Anna Chadwick (University of Glasgow) will argue ...
(cancelled) What is international legal doctrine? An empirical approach
16 Mar 2020
12:00 - 13:00
Lecture
This lecture has been cancelled in line with Covid-19 precautionary measures. We are looking to reschedule this presentation to later this year. /\/\/\/\ In this luncheon ACIL visiting fellow William Hamilton Byrne ...
Investment Protection, Human Rights, and International Arbitration
6 Mar 2020 - 7 Mar 2020
18:00 - 18:00
Workshop
The 2020 Frankfurt Investment Law Workshop will take stock of the current state of interaction between international investment law and human rights. The fundamental question which has dominated the scholarly debate ...
The Role of the NATO Legal Advisor
4 Mar 2020
15:00 - 17:00
Lecture
In his lecture entitled 'The Role of the NATO Legal Advisor,' Steven Hill will provide an overview of the legal issues and challenges currently facing the NATO and discuss the role of the Legal Adviser in the ...
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