IHLEvents
Wednesday 14 March 2012 | 6.30pm-8pm | Venue: CLM7.02 (Clement House), LSE
INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW PROJECT
A dialogue between Professor William Schabas (Middlesex University) and Professor Charles Garraway (Chatham House)
Chair: Louise Arimatsu
William A. Schabas is professor of international law at Middlesex University in London. He is also professor of human rights law at the Irish Centre for Human Rights of the National University of Ireland, Galway, and an honorary professor at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, in Beijing. He also holds the honorary post of associate professor in the Département des sciences juridiques at the Université du Québec à Montréal, where he was based until 2001. He has previously acted as visiting fellow at All Souls College and Kellogg College, Oxford, and is currently Global Legal Scholar at the University of Warwick. He was a member of the Quebec Human Rights Tribunal, and a member of the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission. In addition, he is editor-in-chief of Criminal Law Forum, journal of the International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law, as well as Chairman of Board of Trustees of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Technical Assistance in the Field of Human Rights; past President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars; President of the Irish Branch of the International Law Association and chair of the International Institute for Criminal Investigation. He is also an Officer of the Order of Canada and a member of the Royal Irish Academy. He is the author of more than 20 books and 300 journal articles, on such subjects as the abolition of capital punishment, genocide and the international criminal tribunals. Recent publication include The International Criminal Court: A Commentary on the Rome Statute (Oxford University Press, 2010), Introduction to the International Criminal Court (Cambridge University Press, 2011, 4th ed.), and Genocide in International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2nd ed., 2009.
Charles Garraway is an Associate Fellow at Chatham House and a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Human Rights, University of Essex. Previously he has acted as Visiting Professor at KCL and Stockton Professor of International Law at the United States Naval War College, as well as Senior Fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. He has also taught at the LSE and served as International Legal Advisor to the British Red Cross as and Senior Adviser on Transitional Justice to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad. Prior to this he spent thirty years as a legal officer in the UK Army Legal Services where he advised the Ministry of Defence (MoD) on operations in the Balkans, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and Iraq, where he was senior Army lawyer deployed 1990/1 Gulf Conflict. In this role he represented the MoD at a number of international conferences including the First Review Conference for the 1981 Conventional Weapons Convention, the negotiations on the establishment of an International Criminal Court, and the Diplomatic Conference that led to the 1999 Second Protocol to the 1954 Hague Convention on Cultural Property. Recent publications include The Geneva Conventions and United Nations Personnel (Protocols) Act 2009: A Move Away from the Minimalist Approach (with Michael Meyer) (ICLQ, Vol.59, Part 1, January 2010), 'Applicability and Application of International Humanitarian Law to Enforcement and Peace Enforcement Operations' (Chapter 5.5) and 'International Law in Self-Defence Operations' (Chapter 11), in The Handbook of the International Law of Military Operations (Terry Gill & Dieter Fleck Eds.), (Oxford University Press, 2010)
Friday 27 January 2012 | 6.30pm – 8pm | Venue: NAB1.04 (New Academic Building)
INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW PROJECT
'The Fate of Human Rights in the 21st Century'
Chair: Professor Susan Marks (LSE Law Department)
Tuesday 18 October 2011 | 6.30pm – 7.45pm | Venue: STC.S421, St Clements Building 4th floor
'Resource Wars: Law, Land and Conflict'
Speakers: Bruce Broomhall (University of Quebec at Montreal); Balakrishnan Rajagopal (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Chair: Chaloka Beyani (LSE Law Department)
This event is free and open to all. No ticket is required. For further
information, please email
s.j.humphreys@lse.ac.uk or phone 0207 955 6814.
Bruce Broomhall is a professor of law at
the University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM). He is currently pursuing research
on resource conflicts under international law, building on collaborations he has
undertaken over recent years with legal and policy experts from a range of
fields in attempting to craft effective responses to the problem of illicit,
conflict-fuelling natural resource economies. He has published on the
role of criminal punishment in the enforcement of international norms, notably
in his book International Justice and the International Criminal Court: Between
Sovereignty and the Rule of Law (Oxford University Press, 2003).
Balakrishnan Rajagopal, B.L. (Madras), LL.M. (American), S.J.D. (Harvard)
is Associate Professor of Law and Development and Director of the Program on
Human Rights and Justice at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He
formerly served with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in
Cambodia and consulted with the UNDP, the World Commission on Dams and civil
society organizations. He has been a member of the Executive Council and
Executive Committee of the American Society of International Law, and is
currently on the Asia Advisory Board of Human Rights Watch, the International
Advisory Committee of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights and
the International Rights Advocates. His books include International Law
from Below: Development Social Movements and Third World Resistance and
International Law and the Third World: Reshaping Justice.
