Academy Lecture Series
 
 
 
APPLICABLE LAW
 
International humanitarian law 
International human rights law 
International criminal law 
International refugee law 
 
 
ISSUES
 
Qualification of armed conflicts 
Application of international law to non-state actors 
Application of humanitarian and human rights law to international organisations 
Derogation from human rights treaties in situations of emergency 
Interaction between humanitarian law and human rights in armed conflicts 
Responsibility to protect 
Key documents 
Other key Issues

Academy Lecture Series
Towards an Arms Trade Treaty
First Review Conference of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
Academy Lecture Series
 
     
The Academy Lecture Series treat multiple aspects of International Law in armed conflict. Each lecture will form a chapter in a future "Oxford Handbook of International Law in Armed Conflict" to be published by Oxford University Press in 2011.
 
Videos of the Lectures are available: 
  • Current Challenges to International Humanitarian Law, VIDEO of the Conference (Feb. 2008) by Antonio Cassese  (Professor of International Law, University of Florence, Former President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)).

 

  • Customary Humanitarian Law: from the Academy to the Courtroom, VIDEO of the Conference (Sept. 2008) by Theodor Meron (Judge, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)).

 

  • War crimes: The Evolution of the Concept, VIDEO of the Conference (Oct. 2008) by Georges Abi-Saab (Honorary Professor of International Law, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva).

 

  • Targeted Killing in International Law, VIDEO of the Conference (Oct. 2008) by Nils Melzer (Legal Adviser, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)).

 

  • The Right to Life in Armed Conflict, VIDEO of the Conference (Nov. 2008) by William Schabas (Director of the Irish Centre for Human Rights Law Professor in Human Rights, National University of Ireland (Galway)).
 
  • Neutrality, VIDEO of the Conference (Feb. 2009) by Ambassador Paul Seger, (Director, Legal Adviser, Directorate for Public International Law, Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs).
 
  • Les Traités dans les Conflits Armés, VIDEO of the Conference (March 2009), by Robert Kolb, (Professeur de Droit International Public, Université de Genève)
 
   
 
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Wednesday, 08 September 2010
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