Lecture summary: This lecture examines the treatment of marine genetic resources (MGR) in the negotiations and the text of the new Treaty on Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ). The Treaty provides a coherent governance framework f

LCIL Friday Lecture: 'Natural Resources in International Law - The Political Economy of Sovereignty and the Postcolonial Order' - Prof Sigrid Boysen, Helmut Schmidt University

Mar 22nd, 2024 40m 55s

Lecture summary: From European colonialism to the ‘post’colonial constellation, modern international law has developed in parallel with the changing legal forms of industrialised countries’ access to the natural resources of the global South. F

Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures 2024: 'International Borders in an Interdependent World' - Lecture 3: 'Where Cooperative Border Governance (Should) Lead: Interstate Borders as Though People Mattered' - Prof Beth Simmons, University of Pennsylvania

Mar 19th, 2024 1h 7m

The Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lecture is an annual three-part lecture series given in Cambridge to commemorate the unique contribution to the development of international law of Sir Hersch Lauterpacht. These lectures are given annually by a p

Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures 2024: 'International Borders in an Interdependent World' - Lecture 2: 'Treaties and Neighbors: Recovering the Cooperative Roots of International Bordering' - Prof Beth Simmons, University of Pennsylvania

Mar 19th, 2024 1h 3m

Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures 2024: 'International Borders in an Interdependent World' - Lecture I: 'Setting the stage: Border Anxiety in an Interdependent World' - Prof Beth Simmons, University of Pennsylvania

Mar 19th, 2024 1h 1m

LCIL Friday Lecture: 'International Law and Communications Infrastructure: A History' - Dr Daniel Joyce, Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney

Feb 5th, 2024 34m 24s

Lecture summary: This research examines international law’s longstanding entanglement with communications infrastructure. There is increasing concern regarding the rise of private global power in the form of global digital platforms and their m

Friday Lecture: 'Reclaiming Agency: Indigenous Peoples and the Turn to History in International Law' - Dr Lucas Lixinski, UNSW Sydney

Nov 20th, 2023 33m 38s

Lecture summary: In this talk, Lucas Lixinski examines the erasure of Indigenous perspectives from the literature on the turn to history in international law. Considering the turn to history’s promise to offer alternative imaginations by recove

LCIL Lecture: 'Maritime crimes and the 'interdiction' of ships without nationality' - Prof Loureiro Bastos, University of Lisbon

Nov 9th, 2023 46m 41s

Lecture summary: After the conclusion of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and the entry into force of its Article 108, the subject of maritime crimes has experienced many important developments. Indeed, at present, States hav

LCIL-CILJ Annual Lecture 2023: 'Trade Law Policing on the Factory Floor: Next Generation Agreements and their Corporate Accountability Tools' - Prof Kathleen Claussen, Georgetown Law

Oct 30th, 2023 1h

The LCIL and Cambridge International Law Journal (CILJ) are pleased to invite you to the LCIL-CILJ Annual LectureLecture summary: Recent pathbreaking trade agreements empower trade policymakers to target foreign companies in novel ways and to

Friday Lecture: 'The 'Common Law Method': British Approaches to the Development of International Law' - Dr Devika Hovell, LSE

Oct 19th, 2023 1h 1m

Lecture summary: For better or for worse, the ‘English school’ or ‘British tradition’ of international law has eluded systematization or definition. The lecture pursues the argument that it is possible to identify clear synergies in the mainstr

LCIL Friday Lecture: 'Exiting the Energy Charter Treaty under the Law of Treaties' - Dr Tibisay Morgandi, Queen Mary University of London & Professor Lorand Bartels, University of Cambridge

May 12th, 2023 55m 25s

Lecture summary: The Energy Charter Treaty was concluded in 1994 on the assumption that fossil fuels could continue to be used for the foreseeable future. This article examines how ECT contracting parties can now withdraw from this treaty for c

LCIL Friday Lecture: 'The Evolving UN Climate Regime: (Professed) Ambition at the cost of (Real) Equity?' - Professor Lavanya Rajamani, University of Oxford

May 9th, 2023 35m 35s

Lecture Summary: This lecture will discuss recent developments in the UN Climate Regime, focusing in particular on the mismatch between the increasing emphasis on temperature goals and target-setting under the Paris Agreement and its treatment

Snyder Lecture 15: 'Embracing Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Disclosure: What the US Can Learn From the UK and the EU' - Prof Donna M Nagy, Indiana University Maurer School of Law

May 3rd, 2023 50m 26s

Lecture summary: Just over a year ago, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sought public comments on a bold and thoughtfully framed rule proposal for the enhancement and standardization of climate-related disclosure. It was a move t

Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lecture 2023: 'Capitalism and the Doctrines of International Law' - Lecture 2: 'Exploring Nexus' - Dr B S Chimni, Jindal Global University

Mar 17th, 2023 1h 1m

Lecture 2: 'Exploring Nexus'A series of three lectures by Dr. B.S.Chimni, Distinguished Professor of International Law, O.P. Jindal Global University. Previously, he was for over three decades Professor of International Law, School of Interna

Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lecture 2023: 'Capitalism and the Doctrines of International Law' - Lecture 1: 'Mapping the Terrain' - Dr B S Chimni, Jindal Global University

Mar 17th, 2023 1h 1m

Lecture 1: 'Mapping the Terrain'A series of three lectures by Dr. B.S.Chimni, Distinguished Professor of International Law, O.P. Jindal Global University. Previously, he was for over three decades Professor of International Law, School of Int

Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lecture 2023: 'Capitalism and the Doctrines of International Law' - Lecture 3: 'Reframing Doctrines' - Dr B S Chimni, Jindal Global University

Mar 16th, 2023 58m 19s

Lecture 3: 'Reframing Doctrines'A series of three lectures by Dr. B.S.Chimni, Distinguished Professor of International Law, O.P. Jindal Global University. Previously, he was for over three decades Professor of International Law, School of Int

LCIL Friday Lecture: 'The Institutions of Exceptions' - Prof Julian Arato, University of Michigan Law School

Mar 14th, 2023 43m 18s

Lecture summary: International economic law binds the state in relation to markets – most prominently with respect to cross-border trade in goods and services (trade) and the cross-border flow of capital (investment). The core tension to be man

LCIL Friday Lecture: 'Oil and water: The inherent incompatibility of international investment law with climate action' - Dr Anil Yilmaz Vastardis, Essex Law School

Mar 6th, 2023 39m 7s

Lecture Summary: The survival of our planet requires swift and targeted climate policies to adapt, mitigate and repair. Scientists and political elites acknowledge the urgency to reduce our reliance on coal and fossil fuels to achieve the neces

LCIL Friday Lecture: 'The Behavioural Turn of the United Nations and its Implications for International Law' - Prof Anne van Aaken, University of Hamburg

Feb 28th, 2023 45m 18s

Lecture summary: United Nations (UN) and several UN Agencies have started to use behavioural sciences in order to achieve their policy goals, including for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). While it is to be appreciated that in

LCIL Friday Lecture: 'Competing Theories of Treaty Interpretation and the Divided Application by Investor-State Tribunals of Articles 31 and 32 of the VCLT' - Judge Charles N Brower, Twenty Essex

Feb 27th, 2023 34m 46s

Lecture summary: It is alleged that the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT) embodied the victory of Sir Gerald Fitzmaurice’s preference to interpret treaties based on the “ordinary meaning of the words” over Sir Hersh Lauterpacht’s

LCIL Friday Lecture: 'After Mythology: Contemporary Challenges for the Law of International Organisations' - Prof Eyal Benvenisti, University of Cambridge

Feb 7th, 2023 44m 15s

Lecture summary: After 1945, the United Nations – and international organizations (IOs) more generally – were widely embraced as the ideal, democratic means to resolve international conflicts and promote global welfare. Sharing this almost feve

LCIL Friday Lecture: 'Gender and the international judge: misfits on the bench' - Dr Loveday Hodson, University of Leicester

Feb 6th, 2023 31m 8s

Lecture summary: It is widely recognised that there is a dearth of women judges sitting on international courts and tribunals. In this lecture, particular attention will be paid to the question of why the lack of judicial parity matters. It wil

LCIL Friday Lecture: 'Digital Rights and the Outer Limits of International Human Rights Law' - Prof Yuval Shany, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Jan 31st, 2023 55m 42s

Lecture summary: The lecture will explore the extent to which key normative and institutional responses to the challenges raised by the digital age are compatible with, or interact with, changes in key features of the existing international hum

Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lecture 2022: 'International Law Futures' (Lecture 3): 'Replenishing the International Law Endowment in the Planetary Epoch' - Prof Benedict Kingsbury, NYU

Dec 15th, 2022 1h

A series of three lectures by Benedict Kingsbury, New York University. Vice Dean and Murry and Ida Becker Professor of Law Director, Institute for International Law and Justice Faculty Director, Guarini Institute for Global Legal Studies. Ben