Latest events
3 September 2012
The SHARES Debates are organized by SHARES in cooperation with SPUI25, an academic centre of the University of Amsterdam, which develops connections between academics, students, alumni, and a larger public outside the university. SPUI25 holds regular lectures, debates and interviews aiming at reflecting on current events and engaging with a heterogenous audience.
Through this setting, SHARES will periodically provide discussions platforms where researchers and practitioners will exchange with a wide public. During this first debate, the results of the Rio+20 conference will be discussed through the topic: ‘The Future We Want: The Long Road to Sustainable Development’. (more…)
9 July 2012 to 13 July 2012
Date:
9 July 2012 to 13 July 2012
Location:
Federal University of Minas Gerais, in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Time:
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Topics:
International Responsibility
André Nollkaemper will deliver a lecture series on Shared Responsibility as part of the VIII International Law Winter Course, inspired by and based upon the The Hague Academy of International Law Summer Course. (more…)
11 June 2012
On 11 June 2012, Professor Daniel Bodansky will give a SHARES lecture on the topic of: ‘The future of the UN climate change regime: options for the Durban platform negotiations’.
Professor Bodansky is Lincoln Professor of Law, Ethics and Sustainability at Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. He an expert on global climate change whose teaching and research focus on international environmental law and public international law. (more…)
24 May 2012
Date:
24 May 2012
Location:
University of Amsterdam - Faculty of Law
Oudemanhuispoort 4-6
Room A101
Time:
15:30-17:00
On 24 May 2012, Professor Bruno Simma will provide a SHARES Lecture at the University of Amsterdam on the topic of ‘Joint responsibility in international law: revisiting the Oil Platforms case‘.
Professor Bruno Simma is a former Judge of the International Court of Justice (2003-2012) and is William W. Cook Global Law Professor at University of Michigan Law School. He has notably been writing on issues central to the topic of shared responsibility (e.g. From Bilateralism to Community Interest in International Law, 1994), and is member of the SHARES Advisory Board. (more…)
15 March 2012
Date:
15 March 2012
Location:
Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam
Oudemanhuispoort 4-6
Room A101
Time:
14:30 - 16:00
Topics:
International Refugee Law
Professor Bhupinder S. Chimni will provide a lecture on ‘burden sharing in international refugee law’ as part of the SHARES lecture series. The principle of burden sharing requires states to cooperate in dealing with the global refugee problem. In his book International Refugee Law: A Reader he argues that it is not merely a moral but a legal principle. (more…)
8 March 2012
Date:
8 March 2012
Location:
SPUI25
Spui 25-27
1012 WX Amsterdam
Time:
17:00 - 19:00
On 8 March 2012, the Amsterdam Center for International Law in cooperation with Amsterdam University Press will host a panel discussion followed by the book launch of “Responsibility to Protect: From Principle to Practice”, a volume edited by Julia Hoffmann and André Nollkaemper.
Progamme
Saskia Gieling (Publisher Amsterdam University Press) will provide a welcome address and an introduction of the panel.
Speakers on the panel include Ko Colijn (Director of the Clingendael Institute of International Relations and regular commentator for Dutch and foreign public news services), Juurd Eijsvoogel (International relations correspondent at NRC Handelsblad and chair of the panel), Frank Majoor (Permanent Representative of the Netherlands at the NATO) and André Nollkaemper (Professor of Public International Law at the University of Amsterdam). (more…)
17 and 18 November 2011
Date:
17 and 18 November 2011
Location:
Amsterdam
Time:
13:30-18:30 ; 09:00-18:00
The research project on Shared Responsibility in International Law (SHARES) carried out at the University of Amsterdam explores the allocation of international responsibilities where multiple actors contribute to an international wrong. It seeks to uncover the extent and nature of the problem of scattering international responsibilities and to provide a fresh perspective on how the ever increasing interdependence in the international legal order, can be better matched with a proper system of shared responsibility.
The Conference on Foundations of Shared Responsibility in International Law, organized at an early stage in the SHARES project, will explore fundamental and conceptual issues that explain the state of law, allow for identification of gaps and provide insights on possibilities for further development of the law pertaining to shared responsibility.
The Conference also will be a first take on the findings of the SHARES project so far, and will allow for a confrontation with other competing and/or complementary approaches. (more…)
7 October 2011
The Expert Meeting will address the allocation of responsibility in respect of environmental protection.
Transboundary environmental harm is the archetypical problem of shared responsibility in that it invites an application of principles of joint and several or proportionate responsibility. But the number of claims that has actually led to the application of such principles is very limited, especially in the context of traditional enforcement mechanisms. Rather, states have laid down in a series of treaties how responsibility for transboundary environmental harm is to be shared. Such arrangements differ for different environmental problems, such as climate change, transboundary air pollution and transboundary movement of hazardous wastes and chemicals.
The seminar is organized with a view to map primary rules in the area of international environmental law. (more…)
30 May 2011
The Expert Seminar addressed the allocation of responsibility in respect of refugee protection. Collective or shared responsibility for refugees is highly topical. The regime is based on the recognition that problems of refugees (both the causes of refugee flows and the protection of refugees) are international problems that require international cooperation.
The meeting focused on three aspects of the refugee regime that are of particular interest from the perspective of SHARES: (1) collective responsibility (obligations) of states for the protection of refugees; (2) shared responsibilities arising out of extra-territorial refugee policies; and (3) shared responsibilities arising out of the practice of refoulement. The aim of the seminar was to examine and discuss what principles of collective and shared responsibility have emerged in the area of refugee protection.
On the basis of the presentations and discussions during the meeting, a report is currently being prepared on issues of shared responsibility in the context of refugee law that will be made publicly available on this website.
15 May 2011
The Conference on Foundations of Shared Responsibility in International Law, the first major conference organized by the SHARES project, will explore fundamental and conceptual issues that explain the state of law, allow for identification of gaps and provide insights on possibilities and limitations for further development of the law pertaining to shared responsibility.
These questions are of theoretical and practical relevance in themselves, and will inform future developments of the SHARES project as a whole. The Conference also will be a first take on the findings of the SHARES project so far, and will allow for a confrontation with other competing and/or complementary approaches.
We invite the submission of proposals for the Conference. The deadline for submission is 15 May. Proposals should be sent to Isabelle Swerissen. Any inquiry about the Conference can be directed to Dov Jacobs.
Find the full call for papers here.
