Workshops and Interest Groups
A number of specialist workshops and interest groups will meet prior to the start of the main ESIL 2010 conference. These pre-conference sessions are not part of the ESIL 2010 conference and are not organised by the ESIL 2010 conference organisers.
NB: Interest Group attendees are under no obligation to attend the main ESIL 2010 conference; and ESIL 2010 attendees are under no obligation to attend an Interest Group.
Enquiries regarding these pre-conference events should be directed to the interest group/workshop in question. Details, as provided to us by the Interest Groups/Workshops, are below.
Please note that only ESIL members can attend 'ESIL Interest Group' Sessions.
Wednesday pm & Thursday am:
ESIL Interest Group on International Legal Theory [In G24]
"Ruptures in International Law"
Wednesday 14:00 - 17:30 Thursday 09:30 - 11:00
The Interest Group on International Legal Theory will be holding an event on Wednesday 1st and Thursday 2nd September, before the main conference. More detailed information on the event can be found on the IGILT website. For further information, to register your interest in the event, or to join the IGILT, please visit the IGILT website (http://igilt.wetpaint.com) or email legaltheory@esil-sedi.eu.
Thursday 09:30 - 12:30:
ESIL Interest Group on International Economic Law [In LG18]
The Law of Financial Markets
The interest group will present and discuss work done in regard to the law of financial markets. Based on a report of its conference on the issue in April in Granada, new developments will be discussed and commented. In addition, an organizational meeting will take place to discuss future activities of the group.
IELIG website »Granada conference » IELIG Granada conference info »
ESIL Interest Group on International Environmental Law [In LG17]
"Fairness in International Environmental Law"
The Inaugural Workshop of the ESIL Interest Group on International Environmental Law will be held in the morning of Thursday 2nd September. Entitled Fairness in International Environmental Law, the workshop’s objective is to explore the role of fairness – actual or potential – in the evolution and development of International Environmental Law and to consider the ways in which existing norms, processes and institutions can be revisited to address issues of fairness on the global stage.
ESIL Interest Group on Peace and Security [In LG19]
"The ICJ Advisory Opinion on the Unilateral Declaration of Independence of Kosovo: Has International Law Something to Say About Secession?"
The Interest Group on Peace and Security (IGPS) will be holding a workshop on The ICJ Advisory Opinion on the Unilateral Declaration of Independence of Kosovo on Thursday 2nd September 2010, in Cambridge, just before the opening of the 4th Biennial Conference of the European Society of International Law.
On 17 February 2008 the provisional institutions of self-government of Kosovo proceeded to a unilateral declaration of independence. International reaction has been rather mixed. As of 19 May 2010, 69 States have formally recognized Kosovo as a new independent State, whereas the majority of UN Member States has not recognized Kosovo. On the legal ground, a dispute arose about interpretation of classical rules of international law (self-determination, territorial integrity, recognition, non-interference in domestic affairs, definition of a State) and of relevant norms adopted within the framework of the international administration of Kosovo put in place by the Security Council in 1999 (SC Res 1244 (1999)). On 8 October 2008, the General Assembly requested an Advisory Opinion from the Court on the “Accordance with International Law of the Unilateral Declaration of Independence by the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government of Kosovo”. The Court is now deliberating and will probably render its Advisory Opinion in the next few months.
This workshop of the IGPS will provide an opportunity to comment on this important opinion. Participants will be invited to discuss the impact of this Opinion (if available) and of this case to International Law and the relevance of contemporary international legal rules in dealing with secession. Participants to this workshop include many academics working in the fields of self-determination/international administration of territories:
Dr. Theodore Christakis, Professor, University of Grenoble
Dr. Olivier Corten, Professor, Free University of Brussels
Dr. Marcelo Kohen, Professor, Graduate Institute of International Studies
Dr. Anne Peters, Professor, University of Basel
Dr. Marc Weller, Reader, University of Cambridge
Dr. Ralph Wilde, Reader, University College London
For more information, to register your interest in the event or to join the IGPS, please visit the IGPS website (http://igps.wordpress.com) or contact Professor Theodore Christakis (Christakis@wanadoo.fr).
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Workshop, with the support of the British Red Cross Society [In B16]
"An Integrated Approach to the Repression of War crimes at the Domestic Level"
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) will be holding a workshop on the above topic on the morning of Thursday 2nd September. The workshop is free and open to all ESIL 2010 participants.
Confirmed Panellists:
Moderator: Ms Elizabeth Wilmshurst,CMG, Associate Fellow, Chatham House, Visiting Professor of International Law, University College London
Panellists: Dr David Donat-Cattin, Director, Parliamentarians for Global Action
Prof Robert Cryer, Professor of International Law, University of Birmingham
Mr David Kendal, Deputy Head, Department of International Law, Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Mr Antoine Bouvier, Legal Adviser, Advisory Service on International Humanitarian Law, ICRC, Geneva
For more information please contact Antoine Bouvier, ICRC Legal Adviser abouvier@icrc.org or Tel: +4122 730 2687.
More interest groups may be announced. Keep checking the ESIL 2010 website for updates and information.