Evening Lecture: 'The ICJ – Its Role and Limits in the Settlement of Disputes' - Prof Alain Pellet, University Paris-Nanterre

Time: 5 pm - 6.15 pm

This is an in-person event only.

Lecture summary: At no time since the Second World War has the integrity of international law been so threatened, and at no time has there been so much recourse to it. The growing recourse to the ICJ, both in contentious and advisory matters, reflects this phenomenon. The Court, imperturbably - and sometimes courageously - states the law without having the means to ensure respect for it, even if its influence must be neither exaggerated nor neglected.

Alain Pellet is Professor Emeritus at the University Paris-Nanterre  (Centre de Droit International (CEDIN)). He is a former member and chairperson of the International Law Commission, an honorary President of the French Society for International Law, President of the Institute of International Law and former member of the Panel of ICSID Arbitrators. He is the author of several books and many articles in international law and has appeared before the ICJ in more than 60 cases including Nicaragua v. the USA, the first “Genocide case” (Bosnia and Herzegovina v. Serbia) and the more recent “Palestine cases”.

Commentator: Sir Michael Wood KCMG KC, Honorary Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre.

This event is part of the Reflections on International Law lecture series.