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ILHRU Lunchtime Series

Members of the International Law and Human Rights Unit gather to discuss a range of international legal issues.

Schedule - Semester 1 2024/5

All sessions will take place in the SLSJ Building, Nelson Yu Room (3rd floor). This semester,
meetings will take place on Thursdays, 13:00-14:00.

Week 1, Thursday 26 September 2024 – Dr Phil Burton
Phil will present a work-in-progress paper on ‘The experiment of international administration’.

Week 2, Thursday 3 October 2024 (SLSJ Room B)– Danielle Reeder (PGR)
Danielle will present her PhD thesis Collective Security through Alliance Security: Understanding ‘Regionalised’ Collective Security in International Law through the UK’s post-Brexit Alliance Policy ahead of her upcoming viva.

Week 3, Thursday 10 October 2024 – Dr Antal Berkes
Antal will present a work-in-progress paper on ‘Addressing modern slavery through extraterritorial national regulation: domestic legislative activism or obligation of international law?’.

Week 4, Thursday 17 October 2024 – Chiara Pavesi (PGR)
Chiara will give a presentation based on her PhD research (title TBC).

Week 5, Thursday 24 October 2024 - The ICJ’s 2024 Advisory Opinion on Palestine
A panel of speakers will introduce a group discussion of the legal issues addressed in the ICJ’s recent opinion on ‘Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem’.

Week 7, Thursday 7 November 2024 – Dr Priya Urs (University of Oxford)
Priya will give a presentation on her recently published monograph, Gravity at the International Criminal Court (OUP 2024).

Week 9, Thursday 21 November 2024 – Ferass Bourasli (PGR)
Ferass will present a paper on ‘The challenge of attributing cyber conduct under the law of state responsibility to states for harmful cyber activities of non-state actors’.

Week 11, Thursday 5 December – Dr Mark Bennett (Liverpool Hope) and Dr Ben Murphy
Ben and Mark will present a paper on ‘Orders of the Security Council and Orders in Council: The Janus-Faced Role of the UK Executive in UN Counter-Terrorist Sanctions’.

 

Any queries, please contact Dr Katie Johnston (katie.johnston@liverpool.ac.uk) and Dr Ben Murphy (hsbmurph@liverpool.ac.uk).

 

 

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