Events

Upcoming events

CeILA Annual Lecture on 14 March 2025, CCLS, on 'Contribution of the ITLOS for the development of the law of the sea and other selected areas of international law, such as climate change and marine environmental protection’ delivered by Judge Konrad Jan Marciniak (Member of the Tribunal since 1 October 2023).

2024

• 11 November 2024
  Seminar with Professor David Kennedy (Harvard) ‘Critical Legal Talks: Of Law and the World’
• 11 September 2024 Third Annual Conference of the Western Sahara Research Group
• 12 February 2024
  CEILA Annual Lecture 2023-24 with Professor Jan Klabbers

2023

• 21 July 2023 Indigenous Peoples and Sustainability
• 1 March 2023 Changes Unseen in a Century - China and the Global Digital Order
• 8 February 2023 CEILA Annual Lecture 2022-23 with Professor Martti Koskenniemi

2022

• 23 March 2022 Turning aspirations into reality: Go green, be ethical and protect your company with Clyde & Co LLP

2021

• 14 October 2021 Annual Lecture - The Role of the International Law Commission in Shaping International Law with Sir Michael Wood
• 23 April 2021 International Law Association Annual Spring Conference 2021
• 8 March 2021: EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment in Context

2019-20

• 24 April 2020 The Centenary of the World Court: Past Achievements and Challenges Ahead with His Excellency Judge Peter Tomka - this event has been cancelled
• 27 March 2020 WEBINAR: The Implications of Xi Jinping’s New Era for Global Human Rights with Professor Eva Pils - listen to the webinar with Professor Pils
• 26 March 2020 Technologies of Risk and Discipline in China’s Social Credit System - this event has been cancelled
• 10 February 2020 EUPLANT Seminar: The EU in the New Era of Illiberalism with Professor Dr Jan Wouters
• 5 February 2020 EUPLANT Lecture: The Contribution of the General Court to the Rule of Law in the EU - watch the 2020 EUPLANT lecture now
• 4 February 2020 EUPLANT Lecture: From “Occupying Central” to “Anti-Extradition” in Hong Kong – Limits of Law and Power of Politics with Professor Lin Feng - watch Professor Lin Feng's lecture
• 29 January 2020 Lunch Seminar on ‘Uber, Free-Floating: Regulating New Mobilities’ by Professor Rozen Noguellou (Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne)
• 9 October 2019 Seminar: The Ratification Process of CETA in France

2018-19

• 10 - 11 June 2019 International Conference on the Internationalisation of EU Law and EU-China Relations
• 27 February 2019 Seminar on ‘Parliaments in EU external policies – Influential and key to a more legitimate EU?’ by Dr Kolja Raube, Assistant Professor in European Studies, University of Leuven
• 27 February 2019 China's International Investment Strategy - Bilateral, Regional and Global Law and Policy
• 12 October 2018 Arctic Cooperation: Drifting Apart or Working Together?

2017-18

• 3 May 2018 Analysing the Western Sahara Campaign Case
• 28 March 2018 CEILA Annual Lecture: "The EU and the Law of the Sea - An Assessment"
• 27 February 2018 China and Global Governance Workshop and Future of Chinese Foreign Policy Roundtable
• 15 January 2018 Populism and International Law Seminar
• 6 December 2017 CEILA Book Forum Voting Rights of Refugees by Dr Ruvi Ziegler (Reading)
• 29 November 2017 Jurisdiction in International Law Workshop
• 21 November 2017 Conversations on International Law and Materiality: International Law, Materiality and Art
• 29 September 2017 Death at Sea and the Securitisation of Search and Rescue

2016-17

• 2 May 2017 The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination at 50: Achievements and Prospects
• 20 January 2017 CEILA Brexit Series Launch Event
• 25 January 2017 Third Global Jurists Seminar - Comparisons, Transplants, Migrations
• 22 February 2017 Fourth Global Jurists Seminar - Radical/Activist visions
• 2 March 2017 Seminar on Constitutionalism and the Right to Justification
• 9 March 2017 Book Forum: Orla Lynsky The Foundations of EU Data Protection Law
• 22 March 2017 Fifth Global Jurists Seminar - Adjudication and Global Jurists
• 27 March 2017 Book Forum: The Impact of International Organizations on International Law
• 28 March 2017 CEILA Annual Lecture with Professor José E. Alvarez
• 26 April 2017 Roundtable for Global Jurists Seminar Series
• 2 May 2017 Reflections on the ICERD at 50 half-day workshop
• 1 November 2016 Half-day workshop on international law and the media
• 2 November 2016 First Global Jurists Seminar - The Idea of the Global Jurist
• 14 December 2016 Second Global Jurists Seminar - Global Jurists in History.

2015-16

Conferences

27 - 28 June 2016 Migration and Law Network 2016 Conference with QMUL

Inaugural Lecture

13 Nov 2015 CEILA Inaugural Lecture by Advocate General Maciej Szpunar

Annual Seminar Series - Jurisdiction Series (co-hosted with the Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context)

• 19 Nov 2015 Histories of Jurisdiction: Ancient, Imperial, Early Modern and Modern
• 3 Dec 2015 Public / Private Dimensions of Jurisdiction
• 21 Jan 2016 Universal / Regional / Individual Jurisdiction
• 18 Feb 2016 Health and Jurisdiction
• 17 Mar 2016 Cyberspace and Jurisdiction
• 28 Apr 2016 Roundtable: Jurisdiction in a Pluralist World - History, Theory, Challenges

Key Notes in EU and International Law

• 29 Oct 2015 CEILA Key Note Series: Professor Peter Lindseth - 'Supranational Organizations'
• 28 Jan 2016 CEILA Key Note Series: Emanuela Matei and Horia Ciurtin - 'Turning Enemies into Adversaries
• 11 May 2016 What Is Going on with the Rule of Law? An Appraisal of the Legal Framework for Safeguarding the “Rule of Law” within the European Union.

Reading Sessions

• 2 Dec 2015 Reading Sessions: “Collective Security and its Infra-Law” by Dr Isobel Roele
• 13 Jan 2016 Reading Sessions: "International Dispute Settlement and the Autonomy of EU Law: a Question of Competence" Dr Angelos Dimopoulos
• 25 Feb 2015 Reading Sessions: "Montreal Convention vs EU regulation 261/2004” by Nick Bernard
• 9 Mar 2016 Reading Sessions: “Constitutional Change in the EU: insights from comparative law” by Dr Mario Mendez

Book Fora

• 25 Nov 2015 New Book Forum: 'Intimations of Global Law' by Professor Neil Walker
• 10 Dec 2015 New Book Forum: 'Justice in the EU' by Dr Floris De Witte
• 4 Feb 2016 New Book Forum: 'Consumer Involvement in Private EU Competition Law Enforcement' by Dr Maria Ioannidou
• 4 Mar 2016 New Book Forum: 'Protecting Vulnerable Groups. The European Human Rights Framework' by Sara Iglesias Sanchez and Francesca Ippolito
• 14 March 2016 New Book Forum: Economic Governance in Europe – Comparative Paradoxes and Constitutional Challenges by Federico Fabbrini
• 6 April 2016 New Book Forum: 'Whaling and International Law' by Professor Malgosia Fitzmaurice

Rapid-Reaction and Thematic Seminars

• 13 Jan 2016 Half Day Workshop - Small States in Europe
• 11 Feb 2016 The EU and investment arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty
• 14 Mar 2016 The Deadliest Frontier: Taking Stock of Mediterranean Crossings in 2015.