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Thursday, 11 February 2016 - 10.30am

The issue of how and by whom knowledge is formed and circulated in international law lies at the core of this inquiry. The concept of ‘epistemic community' is unpacked and analysed with a view to assessing whether it can be put to good use in international law theory and practice.

Andrea Bianchi is Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute in Geneva since 2002 (on sabbatical leave 2015-2016). Currently, Dickson Poon Visiting Professor, King’s College London; and Visiting Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Vienna.

Professor Bianchi is author and/or editor of: Interpretation in International Law (co-edited with Dan Peat and Matt Windsor; Oxford University Press, 2015); Transparency in International Law (co-edited with Anne Peters; Cambridge University Press, 2013); and of a trilogy of books on terrorism for Hart Publishing: Enforcing International Law Norms against Terrorism (2004); Counterterrorism: Democracy’s Challenge, (co-edited with Alexis Keller) (2008); and International Law and Terrorism (co-authored with Yasmin Naqvi) (2011). He has also edited: Research Collection on the Philosophy and Theory of International Law (Edward Elgar 2016 – forthcoming); and Non-State Actors in International Law (Ashgate, 2009).

Andrea Bianchi’s new monograph on: International Law Theories. An Inquiry Into Different Ways of Thinking, is forthcoming for Oxford University Press (June 2016).

Andrea Bianchi has consulted for international organizations on matters related to security and human rights; and for multinational corporations on business and human rights issues. Last year he appeared as counsel before the European Court of Human Rights in the Al-Dulimi case. Between 2010 and 2014 he served as a designated member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Terrorism. He co-chaired (with Michael Wood) the working group on the use of force that led to the Leiden Policy Recommendations on Counterterrorism and International Law (2010). In 2001 he was among the founders of the European Society of International Law in which Executive Council he sat until 2010.

Discussants:

  • Dr Michael Waibel, University of Cambridge
  • Dr Surabhi Ranganathan, University of Cambridge

 

Speaker: Andrea Bianchi, Professor of International Law, Graduate Institute, Geneva

Date: Thursday, 11 February 2016

Time: 10.30am

Venue: Finley Library, Lauterpacht Centre, 5 Cranmer Rd, Cambridge


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