Other MILC Events

MILC members organise and host a range of events and activities to promote the importance of international legal research, the study of international law, and cross disciplinary engagement concerning global governance.

MILC Events 2023 - 2024:

  • 5th February 2024: Conversation: 'The South Africa v. Israel ICJ Case and the Genocide Convention'
  • 19th February 2024: Research seminar: 'Britain, Iraq and the Politics of Genocide' Hawraman Ali (Universitv of Manchester)
  • 28th February 2024: Book talk: 'The Many Paths of Change in International Law' Nico Krisch (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies) and Ezgi Yildiz (California State University)
  • 4th March 2024: WILNET International Women's Day Lecture: 'Gender Parity at the International Court of Justice: ‘The 2026 Elections and Beyond' Jessica Corsi (City University London) and Gail Lythgoe (University of Edinburgh)
  • 7th March 2024: Workshop: 'EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive and its impact on LDCs' Tarcisio Gazzini (University of Padua), Avidan Kent (University of East Anglia), Kristian Siikavirta (Universities of Helsinki/Vaasa)
  • 8th April 2024: Book talk: 'The European Court of Human Rights and the Norm Against Torture' Ezgi Yildiz (California State University)
  • 11th April 2024:Talk: 'Attempting to Kill the Law of Peace’ Mary Ellen 0'Connell (University of Notre Dame)

MILC Events 2022 - 2023:

  • 26th September 2022: ‘What is international law good for?’ discussion and MILC start of term social
  • 3rd October 2022: Dr Maria Smirnova | Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights ‘International Law as a Profession’
  • 17th October 2022: Aarif Abraham | Garden Court North Chambers and Oksana Zolotaryova | Director General for International Law, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine ‘Justice Processes for Ukraine: The ICJ Case and Special Tribunal’
  • 24th October 2022: Neil McDonald | UK Attorney General’s Office ‘International Law as a Profession’
  • 14th November 2022: Dr Marie-Catherine Petersman | University of Tilburg ‘When Environmental Protection and Human Rights Collide’
  • 21st November 2022: Professor Lisa Hajjar | University of California ‘Guantanamo's Legacy: From a Legal Black Hole to in the Fight against Torture’
  • 28th November 2022. Professor Eric De Brabandere | Leiden University ‘Foreign Investment and Territorial Disputes’
  • 13th February 2023: Núria Reguart-Segarra with Dr Emma Nyhan as discussant ‘Indigenous Peoples’ Religious Freedom in Land-Grabbing Conflicts: An Insight from the Regional Human Rights Systems’
  • 2nd March 2023: Dr Mamadou Hébié | Leiden University ‘Territorial sovereignty in Africa’
  • 8th March 2023: Professor David Collins | City University ‘Legal Issues in Digital-Only Trade Agreements’
  • 23rd March 2023: Dr Federica Paddeu | University of Cambridge ‘Consent as a Defence to the Use of Force’
  • 20th April 2023: Professor Paul Beaumont | University of Stirling ‘Uniform treaty interpretation as seen through leading cases on the Hague Child Abduction Convention’
  • 26th April 2023: Elham Saudi | Lawyers for Justice in Libya ‘International Law as a Profession’

MILC Events 2019 - 2020:

  • 13th - 15th September 2018: ESIL Annual Conference ‘International Law and Universality’
  • 19th September 2018: The Political Economy of Vulnerability - Martha McCluskey and Lua Yuille
  • 2nd October 2018: The State of Exception: The Legal Form of Neoliberalism - Rafael Valim
  • 5th October 2018: Naming without Shaming, Accusations and International Law in Global Cybersecurity - Duncan Hollis
  • 16th October: Points of Intersection: The Use of the Rules of Organisations in Different Courts - Mariela Apostolaki
  • 5th November 2018: From Peace to Security: The Techno-Managerial Turn in Global Security Governance - Delphine Dogot
  • 26th November: Lawfare: The Law Against Democracy - Rafael Valim
  • 30th November 2018: Multilateral Trade Rule-Making and the Contributions of the WTO to the Development of International Trade and Investment Rules - John Adank
  • 3rd December 2018: Revisiting Judicial Decisions in International Criminal Law Adjudication - Letizia Lo Giacco
  • 4th December 2018: The Myth of Coherence and Consistency in International Investment Arbitration - Eric de Brabandere
  • 18th February 2019: How Contractual Disputes Turn into Investment Treaty Arbitrations: Exploring the Interplay Between Commercial and Treaty-Based Claims - Vitaliy Kozachenko
  • 7th March 2019: The Contributions of United Nations Security Council Resolutions to the Law of Non-International Armed Conflict: New Evidence of Customary International Law - Gregory Fox
  • 20th March 2019: Trade Agreements and Gender: How Far can and do They Go? - Kamala Dawar
  • 25th March 2019: The Dispute Settlement Minuet Between Trade and Investment - Andrea Bjorklund
  • 26th March 2019: Crisis or Continuity? Global Constitutionalism as a Change in International Law(yers) - David Scott
  • 25th June 2019: MILC Emerging Scholars Workshop

MILC Events 2017 - 2018:

  • 2017: Niklas Luhmann Distinguished Visiting Chair in Sociological Theory, University of Bielefeld (May-July 2018)
  • ‘The Sociology of Law and Global Sociology’, Niklas-Luhmann-Address, University of Bielefeld (June 2018).
  • ‘The Colombian Constitutional Court in the Global Legal System’, Invited Lecture at the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Colombia (April 2018).
  • ‘Constitucionalismo Global, Democracia e o Direito Internacional’, Advocacia-Geral da União, Brasilia (Federal Attorney General’s Office, Brazil) (April 2018).
  • Three-day Lecture Series on ‘Sociology of Constitutions’, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (April 2018)
  • ’Constitutional Instability and Political Instability in Latin America’, Plenary Lecture at Conference on Political Instability in Latin America, Wolfson College Oxford (December 2017)
  • 3 Lectures on ‘Democracy, International Law and Global Sociology’ (special Guest of Congress of Brazilian Legal Sociologists), Unisinos, Sao Leopoldo (November 2017).
  • ’The Citizen of the Global Constitution’, Conference on Global Constitutionalism, Radzyner Law School, Herzliya Interdisciplinary Centre, Tel Aviv (June 2017)
  • Visiting Professorship Held By Yenkong Hodu - Yao Meizhen Professor of International Law, Institute of International Law, University of Wuhan, (for three years starting in December 2018)

MILC Events 2016 - 2017:

  • lena Pineros (University of Manchester), ‘The role of amicus curiae briefs in the International Court of Justice’ - 15 September 2016
  • Workshop: ‘Justice in Non-International Armed Conflicts’ – 30 September - 1st October 2016 (in Louvain-la-Neuve)
  • Professor Nehal Bhuta (EUI), ‘State Theory, State Order, State System - Jus Gentium and the Constitution of Public Power’ - 5 October 2016
  • Elizabeth O' Loughlin (University of Manchester), 'Decolonising Jurisprudence: Public Interest Standing in Post-Colonial Settings' - 19 October 2016
  • Professor Joost Pauwelyn (Graduate Institute, Geneva & Georgetown Law), ‘Baseball Arbitration to Resolve International Law Disputes: Nudging States to 'Step Up To the Plate' - 17 November 2016
  • Victor do Prado (Director of the TNC and General Council at the WTO) ‘The WTO Law in international (dis)order’ – 28 November 2016
  • Professor Olivier Corten (Université Libre de Bruxelles), presentation of research - 31 January 2017
  • Workshop: ‘The Role of International Organizations and Non-State Actors in the Formation of Customary International Law’ – 26-27 January 2017
  • Işil Aral (University of Manchester), presentation of research - 27 February 2017
  • Alexis Galán - 28 February 2017
  • Professor Maria Gavouneli (University of Athens), ‘Energy Installations at Sea’ - 3 March 2017
  • Professor Mary Footer (University of Nottingham), Gillian White Annual lecture 'Revisiting the New International Economic Order: On Law, Development and Economic Process' - 7 March 2017
  • Alex Batesmith (University of Liverpool), ‘International criminal Justice and the Tribunal in Cambodia’ - 14 March 2017
  • Professor Richard Barnes (University of Hull), ‘Environmental Rights in Marine Spaces’ – 28 March 2017
  • Yang Liu (University of Manchester), 'International law in times of emergency: invoking necessity as a circumstance precluding wrongfulness’ - 29 Wednesday 2017
  • Dr Maria Smirnova (University of Manchester) ‘Injection of Justice: The Role of International Law in Transforming Institutions in Russia’ - 11 April 2017
  • Professor Matthew Happold (University of Luxembourg), ‘EU economic sanctions from the public international law perspective’ - 26 April 2017
  • Dan Joyner (University of Alabama), ‘Syrian Chemical Weapons Use and American Tomahawk Response’ – 9 May 2017
  • Roundtable with the support of the European Society of International Law: ‘Universal International Law?’– 16 May 2017
  • Sebastian Preller (University of Manchester) 'Sustainable Development's Global Governance in a Multi-Actor International Community' - 6 June 2017
  • Roundtable: ‘A fresh look at non-state actors and the formation of customary international law’ –14 June 2017
  • Professor Mohamed Arafa (Alexandria University) ‘Terrorism in International Perspective: Whither Egypt and Tunisia?’ - 15 June 2017
  • Dr Sara De Vido (Centre for Human Rights Studies Unive) 'Violence against women's health: An international law perspective' - 20 June 2017
  • Professor Iain Scobbie (University of Manchester), ‘The Ukraine v. Russia case before the International Court of Justice’ and Antal Berkes (University of Manchester) “The settlement of concurrent applications by the European Court of Human Rights from areas outside the territorial State’s effective control (Crimea, Eastern Ukraine)’ – 26 June 2017
  • Dr John R Morss (University of Australia) 'Sign and structure in International Law theory'. Commented on by Dr Ozlem Ulgen (Birmingham City University) and followed by a roundtable discussion - 28 June 2017


MILC Events 2015 - 2016:

  • Presentation by Dr. Sufyan Droubi – Date: 5 July 2016 – Title: The role of the United Nations in the development of customary international law in the field of human rights
  • Workshop in collaboration with the Amsterdam Centre for International Law on ‘International Legal Argumentation’ (closed expert meeting) – 10 June 2016 (held at the University of Amsterdam)
  • 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
  • Joint UK-Russia symposium on jurisprudence and sovereignty organised by MILC's Dr Maria Smirnova together with Dr Jorge Nunez from Manchester Metropolitan University, and Russian partners - Date: 16 and 17 March 2016
  • Lecture by Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Canada to the World Trade Organization, Jonathan T. Fried - Date: 8 March 2016
    • Topic: ''The Contribution of the WTO to the Development of International Law"
  • Lecture by Ambassador and Deputy Director General or the World Trade Organization, Frederick Agah – Date: 19 February 2016 on “Regional Trade agreements in the WTO and the Future of the Doha Development Round”
  • International Law and the 1st WW - 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
  • Lecture by Professor Chia-Jui CHENG, Professor of International Law, Soochow University, 3 February 2016
  • International Law and the 1st WW – 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
  • Workshop: Human rights bodies: How they work and how they think - Date: 8 December 2015
    • Speakers: Carina Calabria, Loredana Tassone, Sara De Vido
  • Lecture on Iran’s nuclear program and International Law - Date: 24 November 2015
    • Speaker: Professor Dan Joiner, University of Alabama
  • Co-organizer of the Annual meeting of the African Society of International Law held in Yaounde, Cameroon, 29-30 October 2015
  • Workshop on the Sources of International Law in collaboration with the University of Fribourg, 4-5 September 2015

MILC Events 2014 - 2015:

  • 3rd March 2015 - International Law and WWI - The Indian Army in Mesopotamia - Prof Charles Garraway - University of Essex
  • 5th - 6th March 2015 - Experts workshop on guidelines on justice in non-international armed conflicts
  • 22nd April 2015 - International Law and WWI - The Laws of War at Sea - Prof Steven Haines - University of Greenwich
  • 12th May 2015 - Have Recent Regulations Spelt the Death of Fractional Reserve Banking? - Prof Emilios Avgouleas - University of Edinburgh
  • 20th May 2015 - International Law and WWI - War and Peace in Contention: Neutrality after the Great War - Prof Stephen Neff - University of Edinburgh
  • 7th October 2015 - International Law and WWI - Dr Ralph Wilde University College London
  • 11th November 2015 - International Law and WWI - Dr Mirko Sossai University of Roma TRE
  • 24th February 2016 - International Law and WWI - Prof Christian Tams University of Glasgow
  • 30th March 2016 - International Law and WWI - Dr Catriona Drew University of London
  • International Law and WWI - Bruno Simma Judge on the International Court of Justice from 2003 until 2012
  • International Law and WWI - Matt Craven – University of London
  • International Law and WWI - Françoise Hampson – University of Essex