The talk offers preliminary reflections on the role of both institutions in shaping the development of international law.

This seminar examines the effort to establish a crimes-against-humanity treaty and the imperative to end impunity.

The seminar will address the background of the policy's development, important features of the policy and current related issues concerning the policy on slavery crimes.

Professor Payam Akhavan explores the challenges courts face in interpreting genocide amid legal complexities.

Alexandra Xanthaki explores the growing role of cultural rights in shaping inclusive policies and regulating AI through a human rights lens.

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Speaker: Professor Giulio Bartolini In 2024, the UN General Assembly adopted by resolution A/79/128 where it decided to ‘elabor...

Speaker: Professor Lisa Davis International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutors announced on 23 January that they are seeking grou...

Speaker: Dr Cordula Droege In 2024, the International Committee of the Red Cross published their sixth report on international ...

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Please join us for a book talk by Olaf Bachmann on ‘quasi-armies’ in Africa. An important study in African Security and a facto...

In this talk, Chantal Joris will explore how information warfare and digital threats increasingly characterise modern conflicts...

Speaker: Professor Marko Milanovic In this talk, Professor Milanovic will discuss the formal and informal processes through whi...

Mon 20th Jan 18:30 - Sopie Duroy, winner of the 2024 Polly Corrigan Book Prize, and discussants will reflect upon her prize-winning book

In 2020, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Human Rights Center at the University of C...

The international system currently faces a number of situations which test the legal frameworks governing the use of force. In ...