Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures

1pm - 2 pm, 8 - 16 - 19 March 2027 -  Besson, Samantha - Lecture title to follow

1pm - 2 pm, 8 - 10 June 2026 - Akande, Dapo - 'Immunities of State Officials and Prosecutions for International Crimes - Where does the Law Stand?' 

  • Monday 8 June - Lecture 1
  • Tuesday 9 June - Lecture 2
  • Wednesday 10 June - Lecture 3
  • Wednesday 10 June - Q&A (2 pm to 3 pm)

13 -14 March 2025  - Diversity and Self-Determination in International Law: Continuing Conversations with Karen Knop

Thursday 13 March 13 - 3:15pm - 6:15pm

  • Session I: History and Theory

Professor Martti Koskenniemi (Helsinki) in conversation with Dr Megan Donaldson (UCL)

'Narrating International Society: Management of Pluralism according to Marcel Gauchet & Karen Knop' - Professor Martti Koskenniemi

‘Gaze, Agency and International Society’ - Dr Megan Donaldson

  • Session II: Gender and Feminism 

Prof Christine Chinkin (LSE) in conversation with Dr Mai Taha (LSE)

'Self-determination for women through three encounters' - Prof Christine Chinkin 

'Ways of Seeing: On the Gendering Work of Law and Violence’- Dr Mai Taha

Friday 14 March - 9:30am - 12:45pm

  • Session III: Private and Foreign Relations

Professor Anne Peters (MPI Heidelberg) in conversation with Dr Roxana Banu (Oxford)

'Populism, Foreign Relations Law, and global order and justice' - Prof Anne Peters 

‘Foreign Affairs, Self-Determination and Private International Law’ - Dr Roxana Banu

  • Session IV: Discussion and Q&A led by Professor Susan Marks (LSE)

12 - 15 March 2024 - Simmons, Beth:  International Borders in an Interdependent World

  • Lecture 1: Setting the stage: Border Anxiety in an Interdependent World 
  • Lecture 2: Treaties and Neighbors: Recovering the Cooperative Roots of International Bordering 
  • Lecture 3:  Where Cooperative Border Governance (Should) Lead: Interstate Borders as Though People Mattered

14 March 2023 - Chimni, Bhupinder: Capitalism and the Doctrines of International Law

  • Lecture 1: Mapping the Terrain
  • Lecture 2: Exploring Nexus
  • Lecture 3: Reframing Doctrines

29 November - 2 December 2022 - Kingsbury, Benedict: International Law Futures

  • Lecture 1: International Law as Planning
  • Lecture 2: Infrastructure, Data & AI 
  • Lecture 3: Replenishing the International Law Endowment in the Planetary Epoch

2 - 4 March 2021 - Marks, Susan: On Dignity

  • Lecture 1: Dignity as a Worldly Concept
  • Lecture 2: The Idea of Human Dignity 
  • Lecture 3: Dignity and Indignity in the South African Toilet Wars

March 2020 - Madsen, Rask Mikael: Human Rights and the Making of Europe: The European Court of Human Rights in the Grand Transformation (no recording available)

  • Part 1: Legalizing Free Europe: Human Rights, Cold War and the Construction of the Post-War European Legal Order (1959-89)
  • Part 2: The ECtHR in the New Europe (1989-2009)
  • Part 3: The Endof Consensus: The ECtHR in the Age of Megapolitics (2009-2019)

March 2019 - Ginsburg, Tom: Democracies and International Law: The Trials of Liberalism

  • Part 1: Democracies and International Law
  • Part 2: International Law and Democratic Backsliding
  • Part 3: Authoritarian International Law?

March 2018 - Pahuja, Sundhya: The Changing Place of the Corporation in International Law

  • Part 1:  From Colonial Companies to Global Corporations (Parts 1-3 recorded in one session)
  • Part 2: Decolonisation and Battles over Global Corporations and International Law
  • Part 3: Contemporary Patterns of Ordering: Business and Human Rights and International Investment Law

March 2017 - Peters, Anne: 'Privatisation under and of Public International Law'

  • Part 1: Conceptual Foundations and Privatisation in States Under the Purview of International Law
  • Part 2: The Privatisation of International Organisations 
  • Part 3: The private actors' public functions and public international law constraints 

March 2016 - Chinkin, Christine: 'International Law and Women, Peace and Security'

January 2015 - Greenwood, Christopher: Aspects of Sovereign Immunity(No recording available)

  • Part 1: Sovereignty, Sovereign Equality and Sovereign Immunity
  • Part 2: Sovereign Immunity and the Sovereign's Servants
  • Part 3: Jurisdiction and Justiciability

February 2014 - O'Connell, Mary: 'International Law and the Art of Peace'

  • Part 1: Understanding the Higher Norm against Aggression
  • Part 2: Revitalizing the Practice of International Dispute Resolution 
  • Part 3: Attracting Law Compliance 

February 2013 - Sands, Phillipe: 'La Cour!'

These lectures were not recorded.

February 2012 - Shany, Yuval: 'The Concept of Jurisdiction and Admissibility in International Adjudication - A Theoretical Framework'

  • Part 1: The Concept of Jurisdiction and Admissibility in International Adjudication - A Theoretical Framework
  • Part 2: The Law Governing Jurisdictional Decisions of International Courts
  • Part 3: Questions of Admissibility before International Courts

February 2010-2011 - Schrijver, Nico: 'The United Nations of the Future. The Role of International Law'

  • Part I: The United Nations of the Future and the Role of International Law - Introduction and UN Reform during the first sixty-five years

  • Part 2: 'The United Nations of the Future.The Role of International Law in UN Reform'' by Dr Nico Schrijver

  • Part 3: The international architecture for global governance and global justice (No recording available)

February 2009-2010 - Shaw, Malcolm: 'Regulating the Relationship between International and Domestic Law' - no recording available

November 11 2008 - Rigo Sureda, Andres: 'Discretion and Policy in Investment Treaty Arbitration' - no recording available

January 2008 - Zacklin, Ralph: 'The UN Secretariat and the Use of Force in a Unipolar World' - no recording available

November 2006 - Wood, Michael: 'The United Nations Security Council and International Law' - no recording available

November 2005 - Blix, Hans: 'The Use of Force in the International Community' - no recording available 

November 2004 - Cot, Jean-Pierre: American Legal Thinking and International Law - A French Perspective - no recording available

November 2003 - Paulsson, Jan: 'Denial of Justice in International Law' - no recording available

2002 - Jackson H, John: 'The Changing Fundamentals of International Law and International Economic Law: Perspectives on Sovereignty, Subsidiarity, Power Allocation and International Institution Building' - no recording available

2001 - Orrego Vicuña, Francisco: 'International Dispute Settlement in an Evolving Global Society: Constitutionalization, Accessibility, Privatization' - no recording available

2000 - Franck, Thomas: 'Recourse to Force: State Action Against Threats and Armed Attacks' - no recording available

1998 - Koskenniemi, M: 'European Convention on Human Rights' - no recording available

1997 - McRae M, Donald: ? - no recording available

1996 - Reisman, Michael: 'Fraudulent Evidence in International Litigation' - no recording available

1994 - HE Judge M Shahabuddeen: 'Precedent in International Tribunals'  - no recording available

1993 - Dr Golsong, Heribert: 'Investment Protection Abroad: Law and Practise of Bilateral Investment Treaties'

1992 - Watts, Arthur Sir, KCMG QC: 'Antarctia'

1991 - Butler, W E: 'Russia and the International Legal Order'

1990 - Lauterpacht, Eli: 'Aspects of the Administration of International Justice'

1990 - Arangio-Ruiz G:'Domestic Jurisdiction'

1990 - Brittan, Leon Sir: 'International Law and the Competition Laws of the European Community'

1988 - Higgins QC, Rosalyn: 'The Work of the United Nations Committee on Human Rights'

1987 - Schreuer, Christoph: 'State Immunity: Some Recent Developments'

(See also: https://www.lcil.cam.ac.uk/publications/hersch-lauterpacht-memorial-lectures)