7 November 2013
On Thursday 7 November 2013, Dr. Eduardo Valencia-Ospina will give a lecture entitled: ‘The ILC Work on the Protection of Persons in the Event of Disasters’.
Dr. Eduardo Valencia-Ospina is member of the International Law Commission (ILC) and the United Nations ILC Special Rapporteur on the Protection of Persons in the Event of Disasters. (more…)
3 October 2013
On Thursday 3 October 2013, Professor Michael Faure will give a lecture entitled: ‘Joint and several liability in tort law: lessons for international law’.
Professor Faure is Professor of Comparative and International Environmental Law at Maastricht University, academic director at the Maastricht European institute for transnational legal research (METRO), and Academic Director of the Ius Commune Research School. He is also Professor of Comparative Private Law and Economics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. (more…)
6 June 2013
On Thursday 6 June 2013, Professor Samantha Besson will give a lecture entitled: ‘Allocation of human rights duties (and responsibilities) to multiple duty-bearers’.
Professor Besson is Professor of public international law and European law, co-director of the European Law Institute, and head of the department of international and commercial law at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). (more…)
22 May 2013
On Wednesday 22 May 2013, Emeritus Professor Vera Gowlland-Debbas will give a lecture entitled: ‘Shared responsibility between member states and the United Nations’.
Professor Gowlland-Debbas is Emeritus Professor of public international law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, and visiting Professor at University College London. (more…)
24 May 2012
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…)