Public International Law Part III
By Oxford University
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Description
Lectures on international law issues by eminent scholars, practitioners and judges of national and international courts. The lecture series is brought to you by the Public International Law Discussion Group, part of the Law Faculty of the University of Oxford, and is supported by the British Branch of the International Law Association and Oxford University Press. Further details of this series can be found on the Public International Law -https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/research-subject-groups/graduate-discussion-group-index/public-international-law-discussion-group Oxford website.
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Legal Pluralism and War: Lessons from Informal Courts of PoW Camps and Jewish Ghettos | Informal courts created in PoW camps and Jewish ghettos during World War II illustrate the disruption of law in war and the ways in which legal pluralism can help to structure thinking about the concept of law in such a context. | 21 5 2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Legal Pluralism and War: Lessons from Informal Courts of PoW Camps and Jewish Ghettos (Transcript) | Informal courts created in PoW camps and Jewish ghettos during World War II illustrate the disruption of law in war and the ways in which legal pluralism can help to structure thinking about the concept of law in such a context. | 21 5 2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Humanitarian Displacement? The (mis)appropriation of Humanitarian Principles to Justify Mass Displacement | Eitan Diamond and Ellen Nohle explore the application of the prohibition of forcible displacement in armed conflict and the extent to which the non-consensual relocation of civilians may be prohibited under the IHL rules on the conduct of hostilities. | 14 3 2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Immunities and the Crime of Aggression - A Search for Normative Coherence | Tom Dannenbaum, Associate Professor of International Law at the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University, examines approaches to addressing the crime of aggression within a normatively coherent framework of immunities and international crime | 6 3 2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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A Weapon Is No Subordinate. Autonomous Weapons and the Scope of Superior Responsibility | Dr. Alessandra Spadaro of Utrecht University outlines several challenges to the applicability of the doctrine of superior responsibility in the context of the use of autonomous weapons systems. | 24 2 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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One Hundred Years of International Administrative Law: Is the Employment Law at International Organizations Working? | Peter Quayle argues employment law of international organizations tends towards incoherence, however, mapping international administrative law onto a larger framework of international organizations law can realize a more workable version of the law. | 24 2 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Geneva Declaration on Human Rights at Sea: Informal Lawmaking in Action? | Natalie Klein, Professor at UNSW Sydney, presents on the Geneva Declaration on Human Rights at Sea, adopted in March 2022 as an initiative of UK charity Human Rights at Sea, and on the Declaration's lawmaking potential. | 20 1 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Violent environments? Towards a political ecology of international law | Dr Eliana Cusato, postdoctoral fellow at the Amsterdam Center for International Law, presents an overview of the key arguments in her book, 'The Ecology of War and Peace: Marginalising Slow and Structural Violence in International Law'. | 20 1 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Climate Litigation in International Organs and Courts: The Torres Strait Islanders case | Monica Feria-Tinta discusses a landmark 2022 decision of the UN Human Rights Committee which found that Australia failed to protect indigenous Torres Strait Islanders against adverse impacts of climate change, in breach of human rights law. | 20 1 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Complicity in a War of Aggression | Dr Nikola Hajdin outlines an analytical framework for criminal complicity in a war of aggression | 20 1 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Law of the Sea in the ‘Plasticene’ | Professor Karen Scott of the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, gives a presentation exploring the current regime complex for ocean plastics and considering how the law of the sea is likely to interact with a newly proposed plastics treaty. | 4 5 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Revisiting Sovereignty and Recognition of Oppressive Governments; A focus on Myanmar | Professor Errol P. Mendes of the University of Ottawa gives a presentation calling for a revisiting of the origins of the concept of sovereignty in Public International Law. | 8 4 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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‘Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown’: Recent developments regarding the immunities of heads of state and government | Philippa Webb, Professor of Public International Law at King’s College London, gives a presentation on recent developments in English law in cases against current and former heads of state. | 1 3 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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State Consent between Regionalism and Universalism: Particular Customary International Law before the International Court of Justice | Freya Baetens, Professor of Public International Law at Oslo University, gives a presentation on how the International Court of Justice has addressed claims based on ‘regional’ customary international law. | 1 3 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Six Faces of Globalization: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It Matters | Nicolas Lamp, Queen’s University, Canada gives a presentation to the Public International Law Discussion Group. | 24 1 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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A Behavioral Analysis of Humanitarian Negotiations | Professor Anne van Aaken, University of Hamburg, Germany, gives a talk for the Public International Law seminar series (11/11/2021). | 17 1 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The Function of Equity in International Law | Professor Catharine Titi, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)-CERSA, University Paris II Panthéon-Assas, France, gives a talk for the Public International Law seminar series. (4/11/2021) | 17 1 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Tactical Admissions in International Litigation | A presentation by Professor Stefan Talmon on Tactical Admissions in International Litigation, delivered to the Public International Law Discussion Group. | 17 1 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Strasbourg on Compulsory Vaccination | Professor Paul Gragl, European Law at the University of Graz, Austria, gives a talk for the Public International Law seminar series. | 25 10 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Diversity Issues in International Legal Acadmia and Practice | Julia Emtseva, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, Germany, gives a talk for the Public International Law seminar series. | 25 10 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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International Law and the Practice of Legality: stability and change | Professor Jutta Brunnée, University of Toronto, gives a talk for the seminar series on 6th May 2021. | 29 7 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations Between a Rock and a Hard Place - Diverging Jurisprudence at the ECtHR and the UN | Dr Lea Raible University of Glasgow; 2020/21 re:constitution Fellow, gives a talk for the Public International Law discussion group on 20th May 2021. | 23 5 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Jurisprudence of the Inter-American Human Rights System: Standard-setting or International Law-making? | Ignacio de Casas, Austral University, Argentina, gives a seminar for the PIL discussion group. | 17 5 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Hart and Kelsen on International Law | Professor David Dyzenhaus, University of Toronto, currently a Guggenheim Fellow and a Visiting Fellow at All Souls, gives a talk for the Public International Law seminar series. | 5 5 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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How International is the International Court of Justice? | Professor James T. Gathii, Wing-Tat Lee Chair in International Law and Professor of Law at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, gives a talk for the Oxford Public International Law seminar series. | 30 3 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Laws of War in International Thought | Professor Pablo Kalmanovitz, International Studies Division at CIDE, Mexico City, gives a talk for the Oxford PIL discussion group. | 29 3 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Recognition of a Right to be Rescued at Sea | Professor Seline Trevisanut, Utrecht University, gives a talk for the Public International Law discussion group series. | 26 2 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Two Visions of the International Rule of Law | Professor Monica Hakimi, University of Michigan, gives a talk for the PIL discussion series. | 21 2 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Climate Change and Human Rights Litigation: A Proposed New Line of Argument | Professor Martin Scheinin, Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, gives a talk for the Public International Law series. | 18 2 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dangerous proportions: Means and Ends in Non-Finite War | Professor Nehal Bhuta, University of Edinburgh and Dr Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi, University of Amsterdam, give a talk for the Public International Law seminar series. | 16 2 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Concept of Race in International Criminal Law - and Beyond | Carola Lingaas, VID Specialised University, gives a talk for the Public International Law seminar series. | 16 2 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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More than a Morbid Quest: obituaries and mapping the invisible college of international lawyers | Luíza Leão Soares Pereira, Lecturer in International Law at the University of Sheffield, and Doctoral Candidate at the University of Cambridge, gives a talk for the Public International Law seminar series. | 5 2 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Binding and Non-binding International Agreements (as explored by the OAS Juridical Committee) | Professor Duncan Hollis, Temple University, gives a talk for the Public International Law seminar series on 21st January 2021. | 24 1 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Humanity, Inclusive Positivism and the Law of Armed Conflict | Humanitarian personnel from time to time find themselves transporting desperate civilian residents forced out of besieged areas into long-term or even permanent displacement | 6 11 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The International Law of Mega-Awards | Public international law’s turn to judicialisation in the last three decades has led to more attention paid to remedies including of monetary character, in inter-State dispute settlement as well as in tribunals open to non-State actors. | 25 8 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Effect of jus cogens and the Individuation of Norms | International law ascribes to the conferral of a jus cogens status on a norm a particular legal significance. | 6 3 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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International Judicial Speech Acts | Domestic and international judges speak separately from their courts' institutional voice in myriad ways. | 21 2 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Duty to Prevent Atrocity Crimes: Operationalising State Obligations | From the instant that a State receives an early warning that mass atrocities are likely to occur, what, precisely, is it required to do in response? | 19 2 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Interplay between Maritime Security and the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea: Help or Hindrance? | The concept of maritime security and its interplay with the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (LOSC) have attracted a lot of attention in recent years. | 12 2 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Between Optimism and Pessimism: prospects for the conclusion of a new treaty on marine biodiversity on the high seas | The United Nations is currently undertaking negotiations with a view to concluding an international legally binding instrument for the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction (the BBNJ Treaty). | 18 11 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ILC’s Draft Conclusions on Peremptory Norms of General International Law | Dire Tladi is a Professor of international law at the University of Pretoria and an Extraordinary Professor at the University of Stellenbosch. | 13 11 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Legal Evolution of the Climate Change Regime: Past, Present, and Future | What have been the key themes in the legal evolution of the UN climate regime? | 31 10 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Role of Domestic Law in the International Legal Validity of Treaty Withdrawal | If a state withdraws from a treaty in a manner that violates its own domestic law, will this withdrawal take effect in international law? | 25 10 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Climate Change and the Rule of Law | Despite three decades of legal development, existing systems of law fail to provide effective foundations for limiting climate change. | 18 10 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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