Lectures and seminars

The Red Demiurge Reconsidered

• Panel Discussion and Q&A about Russian-Western Foreign Relations
• Date: Friday 16 March 2018
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The Human Rights Council: How it works

• Presentation by Dr Maria Smirnova 
• Date: Friday 16 March 2018
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Extractive industries, climate change, and the Russian Arctic: global strategies and local adaptations

• Talk by Dr Elena Cirkovic
• Date: Tuesday 14 March 2018
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Natural Rights in the History of International Law: Moral, Religious or Political?

• Talk by Professor Monica Garcia-Salmones Rovira
• Date: Monday 26 February 2018
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Rebalancing European Human Rights: Has the Brighton Declaration Engendered a New Deal on Human Rights in Europe?

• Talk by Professor Mikael Rask Madsen
• Date: Friday 23 February 2018

Heterodox Views of Corporate Law - The Enlightened Sovereign Control Paradigm

• Talk by Dr Vincenzo Bavoso
• Date: Tuesday 13 February 2018
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The Writing on the Wall: Rethinking the International Law of Occupation

• Lecture by Professor Aeyal Gross
• Date: Tuesday 30 January 2018
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The UN International Law Commission: Lessons from the topic Immunity of State Officials Annual Melland Schill Lecture

• Lecture by Sir Michael Wood
• Date: Tuesday 21 November 2017
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The Politics of Belonging in International Legal Thought

• Lecture by Sahib Singh (University of Helsinki)
• Date: Tuesday 7 November 2017
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Democratic Governance and International Law: 25 Years Later

• Confirmed keynote speakers include Catherine Dupré (University of Exeter), Steven Wheatley (University of Lancaster), Russell Buchan (University of Sheffield), Christian Pippan (University of Graz), and the Workshop will conclude with a presentation by Brad Roth (Wayne State University)
• Date: Friday 3 - Saturday 4 November 2017
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European Society of International Law 

• Date: 2018
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Beyond the state sovereignty paradigm: the case of overlapping responsibilities involving non-sovereign actors 

• Lecture by Dr Ralph Wilde (University College London)
• Date: Tuesday31 October 2017
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Reimagining Finance in the 21st Century: The Role of Banking Under a Digital Fiat Currency Regime

• Lecture by Rohan Grey
• Date: Tuesday 17 October 2017
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China and the Death of American Comparative Law

• Lecture by Professor Jedidiah Kroncke (FGV São Paulo Law)
• Date: Wednesday 20 September 2017
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Revisiting the 1945 Pan-African Congress in Manchester

• Lecture by Christopher Gevers (University of KwaZulu-Natal)
• Date: Tuesday 19 September 2017
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EU Economic Sanctions from the International Law Perspective

• Lecture by Professor Matthew Happold (University of Luxembourg)
• Date: Wednesday 26 April 2017
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Environmental Rights in Marine Spaces

• Lecture by Professor Richard Barnes (University of Hull)
• Date: 28 March 2017, 5.30pm - 7pm
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Energy Installations at Sea

• Lecture by Professor Maria Gavouneli (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
• Date: 3 March 2017
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The WTO Law in international (dis)order

• Lecture by Mr. Victor do Prado (Director of the Council and Trade Negotiations Committee Division in the WTO)
• Date: 28 November 2016
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Baseball Arbitration to Resolve International Law Disputes: Nudging States to 'Step Up to the Plate'

• Lecture by Professor Joost Pauwelyn (Graduate Institute, Geneva and Georgetown Law)
• Date: 17 November 2016
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State Theory, State Order, State System - Jus Gentium and the Constitution of Public Power

• Lecture by Professor Nehal Bhuta (EUI)
• Date: 5 October 2016
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The cultural element in international law

The second in the revived annual Melland Schill lecture series.

• Date: 5 May 2016
• Speaker: Judge Hanqin Xue of the International Court of Justice

Lecture by the UN Rapporteur on the Right to Education

• Date: 21 April 2016
• Speaker: Dr Kishore Singh

Human rights bodies: How they work and how they think

• Date: 8 December 2015
• Speakers: Carina Calabria, Loredana Tassone, Sara De Vido

Iran's nuclear program and International Law

• Date: 24 November 2015
• Speaker: Professor Dan Joiner, University of Alabama

This special 2015/16 lecture series was run in collaboration with the University of Lancaster. 

Lectures featured in the series:

30 March 2016

• Speaker: Dr Catriona Drew, University of London

24 February 2016

• Speaker: Prof Christian Tams, University of Glasgow, Senior Fellow, Centre for Global Cooperation Research (Duisburg)
• Topic: New Rules for a New World Order? Reflections on International Law after the Great War

11 November 2015

• Speaker: Dr Mirko Sossai, University of Roma TRE
• Topic: A Law Professor at the Supreme Command:  Enrico Catellani and Italy's claims for war reparations

20 May 2015

• Speaker: Dr Stephen Neff, University of Edinburgh

22 April 2015

• Speaker: Prof Steven Haines, University of Greenwich

4 March 2015

• Speaker: Prof Charles Garraway, University of Essex
• Topic: The Indian Army in Mesopotamia - Forgotten prisoners, forgotten army, forgotten war

Have recent regulations spelt the death of fractional reserve banking?

• Date: 12 May 2015
• Speaker: Professor Emilios Avgouleas, University of Edinburgh

Identification of customary international law

Seminar in conjunction with the Special Rapporteur of the United Nations International Law Commission.

• Date: 13 - 14 November 2014
• Read about the event on the Opinio Juris blog

Melland Schill Lecture Series relaunch

The relaunch of this prestigious lecture series in memory of Edward Melland Schiil:

• Date: 15 October 2014
• Speaker: Professor John Dugard, Universiteit Leiden
• Topic: Are existing states sacrosanct

Debate on international law, natural law and TWAIL

• Date: May 2014
• Speakers: Dr John Haskell and Dr Geoff Gordon

Debate on international law, cyber warfare and cyber espionage

• Date: February 2014
• Speakers: Professor Nicholas and Dr Russell Buchan

Climate change and international law

• Date: February 2014
• Speaker: Dr Alejandra Torres

The idea of autonomy in international law

• Date: December 2013
• Speaker: Dr Richard Collins

Shared responsibility in international law – a philosophical perspective

• Date: October 2013
• Speaker: Dr Roland Pierik