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5 March 2013
Date:
5 March 2013
Location:
Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam
Oudemanhuispoort 4-6
Room A101
Time:
15:30-17:00
Topics:
International Responsibility
On Tuesday 5 March 2013, Professor Pierre-Marie Dupuy will give a lecture entitled: ‘The deficiencies of the international law of state responsibility relating to breaches of “obligations owed to the international community as a whole”: suggestions for avoiding the obsolescence of aggravated responsibility’.
Pierre-Marie Dupuy is Professor of public international law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva since 2008. (more…)
14 February 2013
Date:
14 February 2013
Location:
Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam
Oudemanhuispoort 4-6
Room A101
Time:
15:30-17:00
Topics:
International Human Rights
On 14 February 2013, Professor Olivier de Schutter will give a lecture on ‘Shared responsibility in relation to the right to food’.
Olivier de Schutter is the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food and human rights expert. He is Professor of Law at the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) and the College of Europe. (more…)
7 and 8 February 2013
Date:
7 and 8 February 2013
Location:
Amsterdam
Time:
12:00-18:30 and 9:30-17:30
This seminar will critically review the principles of international responsibility, as these have been formulated by the International Law Commission (ILC), from the perspective of shared responsibility. The seminar responds to situations where the existence, and consequences, of shared responsibility were unclear. Examples are the Al-Jedda case before the European Court for Human Rights, the Srebrenica cases in Dutch courts, and the allocation between responsibility of the EU and of member states in relation to refugees and environmental protection.
The International Law Commission recognized in its work on the responsibility of states and the responsibility of international organizations that attribution of acts to one state or organization does not exclude the possible attribution of the same act to another state or organization. (more…)
24 January 2013
Professor André Nollkaemper will deliver the Keynote Address entitled: ‘Beyond Territories: The Rise of Shared Responsibilities’ at the Young International Lawyers Research Forum on Thursday 24 January 2013. (more…)
10 January 2013
Date:
10 January 2013
Location:
Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam
Oudemanhuispoort 4-6
Room A101
Time:
15:30-17:00
On 10 January 2013, Dr. Antonios Tzanakopoulos will discuss the issue of ‘UN sanctions and their implementation: a case of shared responsibility?’.
Antonios Tzanakopoulos is Lecturer in Public International Law and Research Fellow at St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford. (more…)
3 December 2012
On Monday 3 December, the second SHARES Debate is organized in cooperation with SPUI25, the academic centre of the University of Amsterdam.
SHARES Debates are organized throughout the year to provide a platform for discussions with a broader audience on questions of shared responsibility.
This debate, entitled External Processing of Asylym Seekers outside the EU: Out of Sight, Out of Mind? will address the possibility of external processing of asylum seekers outside the territory of the European Union, and whether the policy proposals on external processing of asylum seekers provide a basis for the ‘sharing’ or ‘shifting’ of responsibility. (more…)
6 December 2012
Date:
6 December 2012
Location:
Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam
Oudemanhuispoort 4-6
Room A101
Time:
15:30-17:00
Topics:
International Responsibility
On 6 December 2012, Professor Andrea Bianchi will give a SHARES Lecture entitled: ‘My difficulties with sharing – a critique of shared responsibility’.
Andrea Bianchi is Professor of international law and head of the International Law Department at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. (more…)
15 November 2012
Date:
15 November 2012
Location:
Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam
Oudemanhuispoort 4-6
Room A101
Time:
13:00-14:00
At this ACIL Luncheon Meeting, Dr Annemarieke Vermeer-Künzli will present a paper she co-authored with Prof John Dugard entitled ‘The Elusive Allocation of Responsibility to Informal Organizations: The Case of the Middle East’. (more…)
4 October 2012
Date:
4 October 2012
Location:
Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam
Oudemanhuispoort 4-6
Room A101
Time:
15:30-17:00
Topics:
European Union
The second SHARES Lecture of the academic year will take place on Thursday 4 October, where Dr Tobias Lock will provide a lecture on the topic of ‘The EU accession to the European Convention on Human Rights and the co-responsibility mechanism’.
Dr Tobias Lock is a lecturer in law at the University of Surrey. (more…)
6 September 2012
Date:
6 September 2012
Location:
Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam
Oudemanhuispoort 4-6
Room A101
Time:
15:30-17:00
Topics:
International Human Rights
On 6 September 2012, Dr Marko Milanovic will give a SHARES Lecture on the topic of ‘Extraterritorial application of human rights treaties and shared responsibility’.
Marko Milanovic is lecturer in law at the University of Nottingham School of Law. (more…)