PROFESSOR JAMES CRAWFORD, Director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law and Whewell Professor of International Law, University of Cambridge
Biography: James Crawford SC, FBA, LLD is Whewell Professor of International Law and Director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge. He was a member of the United Nations International Law Commission from 1992-2001 and Special Rapporteur on State Responsibility (1997-2001). In addition to scholarly work on statehood, selfdetermination, collective rights and international responsibility, he has appeared frequently before the International Court of Justice and before other international tribunals, and is actively engaged as expert, counsel and arbitrator.
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PROFESSOR HÉLÈNE RUIZ FABRI, President of the European Society of International Law; Professor of International Law, Université Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne
Biography: Hélène Ruiz Fabri has degrees in law and political science, a Doctorate in Law and is Agrégée des Facultés de droit. She is currently Professor of International Law at and Dean of the Sorbonne Law School, Director of the Institute of Comparative Studies of Paris (UMR de droit comparé - Paris I/CNRS) and of the Master 2 Program in International Economic Law and is President of ESIL. She teaches and researches International Law, WTO Law, International Dispute Settlement, ECHR Law and has numerous publications in these fields, especially the WTO Dispute Settlement and Comparative International Dispute Settlement Law.
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PROFESSOR SIR ELIHU LAUTERPACHT, Emeritus Director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law and Honorary Professor of International Law, University of Cambridge
Biography: Sir Elihu Lauterpacht has had a distinguished career in international law, combining teaching and practice on an extensive scale. He was called to the Bar in 1950, became a QC in 1970, and has practiced extensively before the International Court of Justice and other international jurisdictions, as well as before the English courts. He was ad hoc judge in the Bosnia case before the International Court, has been an arbitrator in NAFTA, ICSID and other arbitrations, the President of the East African Market Tribunal, and a member of the Panel of the UN Compensation Commission, the World Bank and Asian Development Bank Administrative Tribunals and of the Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission. Sir Eli founded the Research Centre for International Law (now the Lauterpacht Centre) in 1983.
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KEYNOTE SPEAKER: PROFESSOR ANDREW HURRELL, Montague Burton Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford
Biography: Andrew Hurrell is Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at Oxford University and a Fellow of Balliol College. His publications include On Global Order. Power, Values and the Constitution of International Society (2008), and (with Ngaire Woods) Inequality, Globalization and World Politics (1999). His research interests cover theories of international relations, with particular reference to international law and institutions; theories of global governance; the history of thought on international law and relations; comparative regionalism; and the international relations of the Americas, with particular reference to Brazil. He is currently completing a book on emerging powers and global order.
SIR DANIEL BETHLEHEM, Legal Adviser, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (UK)
Biography: Daniel Bethlehem is the Legal Adviser of the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office, a post he has held since May 2006. Prior to taking up this appointment, he was a Queen’s Counsel in practice at the Bar in London, specialising in international law, and the Director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge.
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PROFESSEURE JUTTA BRUNNÉE, Professeure de droit et directrice du Centre de recherche Metcalf en droit de l'environnement, Université de Toronto
Biography: Vice-doyenne aux études supérieures en droit et professeure de droit et directrice du Centre de recherche Metcalf en droit de l’environnement. Ses intérêts d’enseignement et de recherche sont en droit international public et en droit international de l’environnement. La professeure Brunnée est co-auteure de Legitimacy and Legality in International Law: An Interactional Account (Cambridge University Press, 2010), et co-éditrice du Oxford Handbook of International Environmental Law (Oxford University Press 2007) et de A Globally Integrated Climate Policy for Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2008), aussi que l’auteure de nombreux articles sur les sujets du droit international de l’environnement et du droit international. Elle siège sur le Comité éditorial du American Journal of International Law.
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