5 March 2013

SHARES Lecture: ‘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’, by Pierre-Marie Dupuy

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. He has been on leave from the Panthéon-Assas University (Paris 2) since 2000. In between 2000 and 2008, he held the chair of public international law at the European University Institute in Florence.

Professor Dupuy has been involved in many contentious cases before the International Court of Justice. He is member of the International Arbitration Institute and has participated in a number of ICC, ICSID and PCA arbitrations dealing with international investment disputes.

Pierre-Marie Dupuy is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Revue Générale de Droit International Public, and was a founding member of the European Journal of International Law.

He taught at the Hague Academy of International Law and his monograph Droit international public is a renown international law textbook.

As part of its Lecture Series, SHARES regularly invites scholars to give presentations on issues of shared responsibility. See here the overview of the SHARES Lecture Series.