With their Klimaschutzgesetz and Shell decision of April-May 2021, the German constitutional court and the District Court of The Hague have given new traction to the European wave of climate change litigation. At ...

Despite having been an alleged priority for the EU and the Member States over the last ten years, the number of people in situations of poverty and social exclusion remains unacceptably high. The Covid-19 crisis puts ...

Jean d’Aspremont is Professor of International Law at Sciences Po School of Law. His presentation will draw on his forthcoming book entitled ‘After Meaning. The Sovereignty of Forms in International Law’.

External action and trade policy is traditionally seen as dominated by the executive. Yet, EU trade policy has undergone a gradual process of democratization, as the powers of the European Parliament have gradually ...

The third seminar of the series will hear from Associate Professor Christine Schwöbel-Patel (Warwick) and Dr Hannah Franzki (Bremen).

Economic inequality is steadily increasing. ACELG and ACLE are jointly convening an online conference discussing whether differences in how much people own and earn should be a concern for competition law.

The ACIL Annual Research Day will be held on Wednesday 19 May and we're delighted to welcome Professor Neha Jain (EUI) as our guest speaker.

Dr Deval Desai joined Edinburgh Law School in 2020 as Lecturer in International Economic Law. His work focuses on law and development, administrative law and regulation, (de)colonial patterns of knowledge and ...

The second seminar of the series will hear from Professor Lucas Lixinski (UNSW) and Dr Maria Elander (LaTrobe) and is entitled "Community: Culture, Identities and Memories"

Dr Tzouvala joined the Australian National University College of Law as a Senior Lecturer in July 2020. Her work focuses on the political economy, history and theory of international law. She is especially interested ...

The Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL) and Melbourne Law School’s Institute for International Law and the Humanities (IILAH) are pleased to announce a new seminar series entitled ‘Unpacking Transitional ...

Mauritania was the last state in the world to formally abolish “chattel slavery” in 1980. It has since committed to work towards the elimination of slavery by 2030 under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ...

Rethinking SLIC invites you to follow the money at an event on 4 March 2021. At this virtual event, a panel of speakers from the University of Amsterdam and Project Expedite Justice will explore the legal framework ...

Eric De Brabandere is Professor of International Dispute Settlement Law and Director of the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies.

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 ...

On Friday 19 February PhD Researcher Daley Birkett will defend his PhD thesis entitled 'Asset Freezing at the International Criminal Court and the United Nations Security Council: A Legal Protection Perspective’.

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 ...

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' ...

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 ...

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 ...