RALPH WILDE – (1) CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND (2) SERVICE AS CONFERENCE PANEL
CONVENOR/CHAIR/DISCUSSANT
(1)
PRESENTATIONS, INCLUDING CONFERENCE PAPERS
(For invited lectures and keynote speeches,
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The International Court of Justice’s contribution to ‘specialist’ law as a ‘generalist’ court
V Simpósio Brasileiro sobre Cortes e Tribunais Internacionais (Fourth Brazilian Symposium on
International Courts and Tribunals), Universidade de São Paulo (University of Sao Paulo), São Paulo, Brasil,
10 November 2014
Locating the rights of the Chagos Islanders in international law
‘Imperial Locations’ seminar, University of Helsinki, 29-30 October 2014
Christine Chinkin as a role model
Symposium to celebrate Christine Chinkin, LSE, 23-24 October 2013
The ‘life of the nation’ extraterritorially: can states derogate from human rights obligations
when performing law enforcement and migration control activities abroad?
Forced Migration and Peace, 15th Conference of the International Association for the Study of Forced
Migration, Bogotá, 18 July 2014
‘Human Rights and the Dark Side of Globalisation: Transnational Law Enforcement and Migration Control’,
GLOTHRO workshop, Danish Institute for Human Rights, Copenhagen, 9-10 December 2013
Beyond the state sovereignty paradigm: the case of overlapping responsibilities involving nonsovereign actors
GLOTHRO Final Conference: Beyond State Obligations in International Human Rights Law–Towards
Common Principles on the Obligations of Multiple Global Actors, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland,
29 March 2014
Access to Justice in Human Rights Courts
IV Simpósio Brasileiro sobre Cortes e Tribunais Internacionais (Fourth Brazilian Symposium on
International Courts and Tribunals), Universidade de São Paulo (University of Sao Paulo), São Paulo, Brasil,
18-19 November 2013, http://netiusp.org/2013/11/11/programacao-iv-simposio-brasileiro-sobre-cortese-tribunais-internacionais/
Recent developments on extraterritoriality in international human rights law
Managing Refugees, Looking for Solutions: Understanding the Strategies of Protection Session II’ panel,
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Contested Spaces and Cartographic Challenges, 14 Conference of the International Association for the
Study of Forced Migration, Kolkatta, 9 January 2013
The rule of law, accountability, and the UN Security Council: What issues are at stake?
‘The UN Security Council, Force and the Rule of Law,’ Australian Research Council Linkage Project
Workshop between the ANU Centre for International Governance & Justice & the Australian Civil-Military
Centre, Permanent Mission of Australia to the United Nations, New York, 13 June 2013
Interim report of the Human Rights Committee—overview by the Committee Co-Rapporteur
International Law Association, Bi-Annual Conference, Sofia, 27 August 2012
Final report of the Study Group on United Nations Reform—overview by the Study Group
Rapporteur
International Law Association, Bi-Annual Conference, Sofia, 28 August 2012
Human rights beyond borders at the World Court: The significance of the ICJ’s jurisprudence
on the extraterritorial application of international human rights law
International Law Association Regional Conference, Lisbon, 11-12 September 2014
Brasilian Congress of International Law, Salvador, Brasil, 27-30 August 2014
Conferencia Bienal de la Sociedad Latinoamericana de Derecho Internacional, Bogotá, 14-16 August 2014
Inter-sessional meeting of the Human Rights Committee of the International Law Association, Rockefeller
Foundation, Bellagio, 14 June 2012
Exits from colonialism, occupation, Mandate and Trusteeship arrangements and international
territorial administration: the competing normative models of trusteeship and selfdetermination
Presentation, New York Law School, 4 April 2012
International law and the future recognition of Kosovo’s claim to statehood
‘International Recognition of Kosovo: ‘Stock-taking’ and ‘Looking-Forward’ Perspectives’ panel,
Consolidating Kosovo’s Statehood: Processes, Problems, and Perspectives Conference, Kosovo Research
Institute of Development and European Affairs (RIDEA) and the Centre for International Studies at the
University of Oxford, Pristina, 17 March 2012
From core to periphery and back again: casting the light of human rights law into legal ‘black
holes’, and the skewed agenda of international human rights law
‘International Law and the Periphery’ conference, American University in Cairo and Sydney University,
Cairo, 19 February 2012
The significance of Kosovo’s declaration of independence for the right to self-determination
and vice versa
‘Implementation of the Right of Peoples to Self-Determination—Avoiding Conflict’ conference, Belgrade
Centre for Human Rights, Belgrade, 18 November 2011
Human rights law as a transitional justice mechanism for redress against intervenors:
imperialism?
Presentation, ‘Human Rights Dimensions of Transitional Justice in Ongoing Conflicts’ panel, ‘The Potential
Role of Transitional Justice in Ongoing Conflicts’ conference, Minerva Centre for Human Rights, Hebrew
University, Jerusalem, 15 November 2011
The Al-Skeini decision of the European Court of Human Rights in 2011 – a landmark?
Lecture, Melbourne University Law School, 6 December 2011
Lecture, Belgrade Centre for Human Rights, Human Rights School, Faculty of Law, Union University,
Belgrade, 17 November 2011
Faculty Seminar, Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 9 November 2011
Lecture, International University College of Turin, 28 October 2011
Presentation, Public International Law Discussion Group, University of Oxford, New College, Oxford, 20
October 2011
The governance of extraterritorial migration-related state action by human rights law:
imperialism?
Panel Presentation, International Association for the Study of Forced Migration, 13
Conference, Kampala, 3 July 2011
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Invoking international human rights law to cast light into the ‘legal black hole’ of war and
occupation
Symposium presentation, New York Law School, New York, 6 April 2011
Presentation, Global Fellows’ Forum, NYU School of Law, New York 3 March 2011
Lecture, Law School, UCLA, Los Angeles, 24 February 2011
‘Colonial Legacies’ panel, ‘Aftershocks: Legacies of Conflict’ conference, February 17-18, 2011, University
of Texas School of Law, Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, Seventh
Annual Conference, 17-18 February 2011
A critical appraisal of the ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Kosovo: Potential broader impact, and the
role of Advisory Opinions
‘Post-Kosovo: General Implications’ panel, International Law Association, British Branch, Annual
Conference, University of Sheffield, 28 April 2011
International Dispute Settlement seminar series, Law School, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, P.R.
China, 29 December 2010
Panel Discussion on the ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Kosovo, American Branch of the International Law
Association Annual Conference ‘International Law Weekend’, Fordham University, New York, 22 October
2010
Workshop on the ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Kosovo held by the Group on Peace and Security of the
European Society of International Law (ESIL) at the ESIL Conference, Cambridge, 2 September 2010
‘Kosovo as a precedent: on the Potential Impact of the ICJ Opinion’ panel, International Law Association,
Biennial conference, De Jure Humanitatis, The Hague, 19 August 2010
Extraterritoriality—perspectives from the UK and Europe
A Comparative Look at Extraterritoriality: Bagram and Beyond panel, American Society of International
Law Annual Meeting, 25 March 2010, <http://www.asil.org/files/bagrambeyond.mp3>
Recognition and non-recognition of states in international law
Public international law discussion group seminar, Chatham House, 4 February 2010,
<http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/research/international_law/research_events/view/-/id/1415> (see
also ‘Publications—shorter pieces’ above)
The extraterritorial application of human rights: Human rights imperialism?
Staff and doctoral student seminar, UCL Faculty of Laws, 13 January 2010
International Law Association, British Branch, Annual Meeting, Oxford, 15 April 2010
‘Tom Franck: Celebrating the Man and His Legacy’ conference, SOAS, London, 27 May 2010
The international administration of ‘fragile states’
‘State failure’ panel, American Branch of the International Law Association, International Law Weekend,
Fordham University, New York, New York, 23 October 2009
Applying human rights law to extraterritorial military operations: cultural imperialism and a
breach of occupation law?
International Association for the Protection of Human Rights in Cyprus, Annual Seminar 2009,
‘International Law and Human Rights’, Limassol, 2 October 2009
Applying human rights standards to extraterritorial migration initiatives: sites of identity,
community and policy transformation when boundaries are crossed
‘Refugee Regimes: Rights, Law, and Practice’ panel, International Association for the Study of Forced
Migration conference, Nicosia, 29 June 2009
The obligation to respect local law in situations of occupation
‘The rule of law in failing states’ panel, Congress of the International Society for Military Law and the Laws
of War (ISMLLW), Tunis, 8 May 2009
Self-determination in international law
Plenary presentation, ‘Self- Determination and Territorial Integrity: Awkward bed-fellows’ Chatham
House, International Affairs and BBC Radio 4’s ‘World Tonight’ conference, Chatham House, London, 20
April 2009
Details of the conference here:
<http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/Self-Determination>
See also ‘reported remarks’ above for BBC Radio 4 interview about the conference
Multipolarity and Multilateralism in the Security Council: A Case Study of Kosovo’s
Independence Declaration
‘The United Nations and Multipolarity’ panel, Annual Conference of the British Branch of the International
Law Association, University of Hull, Hull, 17 April 2009
The Reach of Europe’s ‘Legal Space’ Beyond Europe: The Applicability of the ECHR Outside the
Territory of ECHR Contracting States
‘The European Court in Conflict Societies’ panel, ‘A Unique European Institution: The European Court of
Human Rights after 50 Years’ conference, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, 20-21 March 2009
The politics of research—some insights from post-colonial theory
Research seminar, UCL Laws, 24 November 2008
Plenary address, ‘Law, Politics and International Relations’ conference convened by Birkbeck College,
University of London and the project on Contemporary Research in International Political Theory of the
British International Studies Association, Birkbeck College, London, 21 November 2008
The UN's return to the civilizing mission?
‘From Human Rights to the Primacy of the Political’ Conference, University of Lancaster, Lancaster, 7
November 2008
The legality of Kosovo’s declaration of independence
‘Kosovo’s Independence and the Future of Self-Determination’ panel, International Law Weekend,
American Branch of the International Law Association, New York, 17 October 2008
Revealing secret histories: the nature of complex international state-building missions and the
link with colonial trusteeship
‘Can we really know ‘what really happened’ in a world of secrecy?’ panel, The Work of History in
International Law and Empire Symposium, LSE, 10 October 2008
International territorial administration as ‘trusteeship’ – why accountability is needed, and
why it has not been forthcoming
Pace University Faculty of Law, staff seminar, 21 October 2009
LSE Law Department research student symposium, 4 December 2008
‘UN Administrations’ seminar, ‘The United Nations Security Council and the individual’ series, Padua
University, 23 October 2008
‘IHL and the administration of territories by the United Nations’ plenary session, ‘International
Humanitarian Law, Human Rights and Peace Operations’ Round Table conference, International Institute
of Humanitarian Law, San Remo, 4-6 September 2008. Watch the presentation here:
<http://video.aol.com/video-detail/ralph-wilde/196018367>
Trusteeship v. self-determination: the evolution of trusteeship in international law and policy,
and its contemporary legitimation despite the self-determination entitlement
‘Citizenship, Law and Development’ panel, ‘New Perspectives on Law and Development: Between
renewed State Interventionism and Post-Dependency’ Conference, Facultad de Derecho, Universidad de
Los Andes in conjunction with the European Law Research Center at Harvard Law School, Bogotá,
Colombia, 21-22 August 2008
United Nations Reform—developments and future prospects
‘United Nations Reform Study Group’ working session, International Law Association international
conference, Rio de Janeiro, 17-20 August 2008
Beyond self-determination – other critiques of trusteeship as a meaningful and legitimate
normative guide to exits from ‘state-building’ missions
‘State Building, International Intervention, and Legitimation’ workshop, Exeter University Centre for
Ethno-Political Studies (EXCEPS), Exeter, 14 May 2009
Plenary Session VI: The Search for Exit Strategies, ‘The Ethics of Post-Conflict Reconstruction and
Statebuilding’ Research Group Seminar convened by Jennifer Welsh of Oxford University under the
auspices of the Oxford Institute for the Norms and Ethics of War (Department of Politics and International
Relations, Oxford University) with the Centre for International Studies at the School of Oriental and
African Studies (SOAS), London University, Oxford, 26 June 2008
Exits from colonialism, occupation, Mandate and Trusteeship arrangements and international
territorial administration: the competing normative models of trusteeship and selfdetermination
‘Exit Strategies and Peace Consolidation’ panel, International Studies Association Annual Convention, 15
February 2009
‘Legal-Normative Issues’ Plenary Session, Exit Strategies and Peace Consolidation Research Group Seminar
convened by Richard Caplan of Oxford University, funded by the Folke Bernadotte Academy of Sweden
and the John Fell Oxford University Press Fund, Stockholm, 14-15 June 2008
The Legitimacy of Trusteeship in the Post-Colonial Era of Self-Determination: Some Questions
for Discussion
‘International Approaches to Self-Determination’ plenary panel, ‘New Approaches to Self-Determination’
Conference, Centre for the Study of Colonialism, Empire and International Law in association with the
Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, School of Oriental and African Studies, London University,
12 June 2008
‘Development and Security’ panel, World International Studies Committee, Second International
Conference, Ljubljana, 25 July 2008
Complementing Occupation Law? Selective judicial treatment of the suitability of human
rights norms
‘The Complementary Role of Institutions’ plenary panel, ‘Complementing IHL: Exploring the Need for
Additional Norms to Govern Contemporary Conflict Situations’ Conference, Minerva Centre for Human
Rights, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Tel
Aviv Delegation, 1-3 June 2008, Jerusalem
(see http://law.huji.ac.il/calendar.asp?act=event&event_id=241&cat=494&thepage=iruim)
‘The Extraterritorial Effect of International Human Rights Law and its Relationship with International
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Humanitarian Law’ plenary session, ‘Unfolding the Human Rights Challenge at the Rise of the 21 Century’
conference, Newcastle Law School and the Modern Law Review, Newcastle, 24 June 2008
Kosovo 2008: Independence, recognition and international law
‘New Trends in International and Comparative Law’ plenary session, 2008 Conference on International
and Comparative Law, Soochow University and the Chinese (Taiwan) Society of International Law, Taipei,
Taiwan, 26 May 2008
Kosovo’s independence declaration and international law
Kosovo: International Law and Recognition panel, Chatham House, London, 22 April 2008
Rule of law promotion now and then: some questions about the legitimacy of contemporary
rule of law missions raised by the colonial comparator
Restoring the Rule of Law in Post-Conflict and Stabilization Operations: Respective Roles of International
Law and Politics panel, American Society of International Law Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 11 April
2008
Occupation as trusteeship
Transformation in Iraq: From Ending a Modern War to Creating a Modern Peace Symposium, Loyola
University Law School, Los Angeles, 4 April 2008 (see ‘Publications—journal articles’ above)
Accountability of international peace operations—selected issues
Guest lecture, Global Governance and Regulation class, Columbia Law School, 2 April 2008
Is the ‘responsibility to protect’ a legitimate framework to confront identity-based atrocities?
The ‘responsibility to rebuild’ as the new civilizing mission
Plenary presentation, ‘The responsibility to protect: A Framework for Confronting Identity-Based
Atrocities Conference,’ Program in Holocaust and Human Rights Studies, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of
Law and Department of Political Science, Yeshiva University, New York, 11 March 2008
‘From Peace-Building to Institution-Building’ panel, World International Studies Committee, Second
International Conference, Ljubljana, 25 July 2008
Jurisdiction – extraterritorial reach of human rights law
Plenary presentation, Human Rights in the International Arena: Means of Protection and Prevention
Conference, British Institute for International and Comparative Law, London, 8 February 2008
Exceptional sovereignty and exceptional responsibility: ideas of extraterritorial human rights
responsibility in international law
International Association for the Study of Forced Migration conference, Cairo, 7 January 2008
Belligerent Occupation Revisited: Political and Economic Rights and Duties of Occupying
Powers
A Wiser Century? – Judicial Dispute Settlement, Disarmament and the Laws of War 100 Years after the
Second Hague Peace Conference, International Symposium, Walther-Schücking-Institut für Internationales
Recht, Kiel, Germany, 8 – 10 November 2007
The ‘sacred trust’ and the ‘strenuous conditions’ of today’s ‘modern world’: the legacies of the
League Mandate system
American Branch of the International Law Association, Annual Conference, International Law Weekend
2007, New York, 26 October 2007
From trusteeship to self-determination and back again: the role of the Hague Regulations in
the evolution of international trusteeship
‘The Hague Peace Conferences: the Beginning of Modern International Law’ panel, Brazilian Government
Ministry of Culture and Ministry of Foreign Relations, International conference commemorating the
centenary of the Second Peace Conference at the Hague, Rio de Janeiro, 18 – 19 October 2007
Exceptional zones and exceptional responsibility: ideas of extraterritorial human rights
responsibility at the margins of Europe
European Society of International Law Research Forum conference, Budapest, 28 – 29 September 2007
Understanding the international territorial administration accountability deficit: Trusteeship
and the legitimacy of international organizations
‘Creating Just and Legitimate Outcomes’ panel, Academic Council on the United Nations System Annual
Conference, Port of Spain, 5 June 2009
Public International Law Discussion Group, Oxford University, 26 February 2009
South African Branch of the International Law Association Regional Conference, Pretoria, South Africa, 27
August 2007
Congress of the Russian Association of International Law, 3-6 July 2007
Post-conflict Constitutional Settlement panel, Annual Conference of the British Branch of the International
Law Association, Sussex University, UK, 21 April 2007
International Law on Peace and Security session, Inaugural conference of the Asian Society of
International Law, National University of Singapore, 8 April 2007
European extraterritorial migration policies and the relevance of human rights law
European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) Expert Meeting on Refugees’ Access to Protection in
Europe, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 23 – 24 April 2007
The extraterritorial application of the European Convention on Human Rights
Seminar Series on Topical and Pressing issues of the European Court of Human Rights, Danish Institute of
Human Rights, Copenhagen, 19 March 2007
The Legal Dimensions of Jus Post Bellum
‘Contemporary relevance of a jus post bellum’ plenary panel, Jus Post Bellum conference, Leiden, 2 – 3
February 2007
Human rights without borders? Extraterritorial state actions and the applicability of human
rights law
‘Transnational policies and legal implications’ plenary panel, International Conference on Refugees and
International Law: the Challenge of Protection, Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford, 15 December 2006
Casting light on the ‘legal black hole’: some political issues at stake
‘Extraterritoriality’ panel discussion, Human Rights Lawyers’ Association, London, 3 October 2006
‘Externalization and extraterritoriality 1’ panel, International Association for the Study of Forced
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Migration, 9 Annual Conference, Toronto, 22 June 2006
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‘International Law and the Exception’ panel, 3 Workshop on Critical Approaches to International Law:
the Force of International Law, Birkbeck Law School, London, 16 May 2006
United Nations reform
United Nations Reform Study Group session, International Law Association conference, Toronto, 6 June
2006
‘International Law Association Study Group on UN Reform’ workshop panel, Academic Council on the
United Nations System (ACUNS) Annual Conference, Rio de Janeiro, 9 June 2006
Triggering human rights law and humanitarian law during occupation: comparing the regimes
‘Parallel Application During Occupation’ panel, ‘International Humanitarian Law and International Human
Rights Law: Exploring Parallel Application’ conference, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 22 May 2006
Occupation and human rights law
‘Occupations and Withdrawals: Japan, Europe, Palestine and Iraq’ conference, Scottish Centre for War
Studies, Glasgow, and Human Rights and Peace Building in the Middle East Centre, SOAS, Glasgow, 12
May 2006
Piercing the corporate veil? International Organization Accountability and the Responsibility
of Member States
‘The Sources of Compliance with International Law’ panel, International Studies Association Annual
Convention, San Diego, 22 March 2006
The Relationship Between Law Created by the UN Security Council and International Human
Rights Law
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‘Tower of Babel. International Law in the 21 Century – Coherent or Compartmentalized?,’ International
Law Association (British Branch), Annual Conference, London, 3 - 4 March 2006, panel on ‘International
Organizations,’ 3 March 2006
Torture abroad and the reach of the law
Torture and Terrorism conference, the Law Society of England and Wales, London, 1 February 2006
The interplay between UN Charter obligations and human rights obligations: the Al Jedda case
International Law Association Committee on Human Rights Law and Practice, Maastricht, 27 January 2006
Rules of treaty interpretation and the European Convention on Human Rights
Rules of Interpretation Under the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties: 25 Years On, Are They Alive
And Well? Conference hosted by Eversheds and Queen Mary, University of London, 17 January 2006
UK actions overseas and the Human Rights Act
‘From Islington to Iraq: the extraterritorial application of the Human Rights Act,’ panel, Justice/Sweet &
Maxwell Human Rights Law Conference 2005, 26 October 2005
Should human rights law apply to the state when it acts abroad?
Presentation, Centre for Legal Research and Policy Studies, Oxford Brookes University, 6 March 2006
Presentation, Centre for International and Public Law, Brunel University, 6 December 2005
Presentation, Institute of International Economic Law, Georgetown University Law Center, 24 October
2005
Presentation, Department of International Relations, St Andrews University, 26 April 2005
Enhancing accountability at the international level: the tension between international
organization and member state responsibility and the underlying issues at stake
‘Advancing the effectiveness of international law: Is U.N. Reform Necessary’ panel, International Law
Association (American Branch) Annual Conference, New York, 21 October 2005
Human rights without borders
European Law Students Association, King’s College London, 17 October 2005
Self-determination in international law and the position of Montenegro
Legal Aspects for Referendum in Montenegro in the Context of International Law and Practice,
International Expert Roundtable conference held by the Foundation Open Society Institute,
Representative Office Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro, Serbia and Montenegro, 22 – 25 September
2005 (see publications, above)
Legal Black Hole?: Extraterritorial state action and international law on civil and political rights
‘The Effectiveness of Human Rights Agreements’ panel, World International Studies Conference (WISC)
2005, Istanbul, Turkey, 26 August 2005
Direct international involvement in domestic criminal law processes
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‘The role of international institutions in territorial administration and post-conflict justice’ panel, 7
Hague Joint Conference on Contemporary Issues of International Law, ‘International Institutional Reform,’
The Hague, 1 July 2005
Justifying the extraterritorial application of international human rights law
‘Extraterritorial application of human rights law’ panel, International Law Association, British Branch, 25
May 2005
Human rights without borders: extraterritorial state action and the applicability of human
rights norms
Research Seminar, International Relations Department, St. Andrews University, 26 April 2005
Critical approaches to international territorial administration
Westminster University Staff Seminar, 20 April 2005
The Genesis of International Territorial Administration
‘The Theory and Origins of State Building’ panel, State Building: Theory and Practice conference,
University of Limerick, 16 April 2006
The post-colonial uses of international territorial administration and issues of legitimacy
‘State-Building I: Issues of choice, creation and legal justification’ panel, American Society of International
Law, Annual Meeting, 1 April 2005
The extraterritorial application of human rights standards
‘Contemporary Issues in International Human Rights Law’ panel, International Studies Association Annual
Convention, Hawaii, 3 March 2005
Domestic and international human rights law and the foreign presence in Iraq
International Law Association (ILA) British Branch, South-West meeting, Bristol University, 22 February
2005
Human rights without borders: applying human rights treaties beyond state territory
Public International Law Discussion Group, Oxford University Law Department, 10 February 2005
International territorial administration as a ‘solution’ to forced migration ‘problems’
‘Post-Conflict Asylum and Return Policy’ panel, International Association for the Study of Forced
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Migration, 9 Annual Conference, São Paolo, Brazil, 13 January 2005
Extraterritorial detention and non-entrée policies towards asylum seekers: a ‘solution’ to the
‘problem’ of legal regulation?
‘Extra-Territorial Detention, Xenophobia and Security in the Post 9/11 Era’ panel, International
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Association for the Study of Forced Migration, 9 Annual Conference, São Paolo, Brazil, 11 January 2005
The administration of territory by international organizations: selected legal issues
Global Governance class, Columbia University School of Law, New York, 3 December 2004
The accountability of international organizations and member state responsibility
Critical Perspectives on Global Governance (CPOGG) Conference, Monterrey, Mexico, 6 November 2004
Apologies by the United Nations and the Responsibility of Member States
‘The Age of Apology: The West Faces its Own Past’ conference, University of North Carolina, 22 October
2004
International Human Rights Law and the Occupation of Iraq
‘Iraq: Ad Bellum Obligations & Occupation’ panel, International Law Association (American Branch) Annual
Conference, New York, 16 October 2004
From Guantánamo Bay to Abu Ghraib: The applicability of international human rights law to
the post-9/11 extraterritorial activities of states
Human Rights Happy Hour (seminar), Texas Law School Human Rights Initiative (inaugural event of the
Initiative), Austin, Texas, 27 September 2004
The CPA and foreign military forces in Iraq: issues of individual and collective responsibility
‘Territories under International Administration: A Comparative Study’ Section, Constructing World Orders:
5th Pan-European Conference of the Standing Group on International Relations, The Hague, 10
September 2004, http://www.sgir.org/conference2004/
The July, 2004 ‘handover’ of ‘sovereignty’ in Iraq
‘International legal issues arising from post 30 June Iraq,’ panel, Royal Institute for International Affairs
(Chatham House), 8 July 2004
The applicability of international human rights law to the activities of the CPA in Iraq
‘Legal aspects of the occupation of Iraq’ panel, Annual Meeting of the British Institute for International
and Comparative Law, 11 June 2004
Legal responsibilities in occupied Iraq
Public International Law Group Seminar Series, Freshfields, London, 17 May 2004
Representing international territorial administration: a critique of some approaches
‘Imperialism and International law,’ Second joint workshop of Birkbeck Law School (London) and the
Foundation for New Research in International Law (Leiden) London, 10 May 2004
Military action authorised and/or conducted by international organizations and the
responsibility of member states
International Law and the Use of Force By States: Forty Years On, Conference in Honour of Ian Brownlie,
Queen Mary University of London, 16 March 2004
The legitimating effect of simplifying the purposes served by peace operations
International Law seminar, LSE, 4 March 2004
The role of the United Nations in Iraq
‘Post-War Iraq’ seminar, British Institute for International and Comparative Law, 26 February 2004
The extraterritorial reach of international human rights law
UK Human Rights Lawyers Association panel, ‘Extraterritorial issues,’ London, 12 January 2004
The European human rights legal order and the ‘war on terror’ – the Bosnia extradition case
‘Transatlantic Perspective on European Human Rights’ panel at the Centre for Advice on Individual Rights
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in Europe (AIRE) 10 Anniversary Colloquium, UCL, 22 Nov 2003
A ‘return’ to protectorates? The enduring appeal of foreign territorial administration
‘Un nouvel ordre international?’ session at ‘La guerre d’Irak, prelude d’un nouvel ordre international?’
conference of the Université libre de Bruxelles and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences sociales de
Paris, at the Institut de Sociologie of the Université libre de Bruxelles, 31 October 2003
The relationship between human rights law and humanitarian law
Society of Legal Scholars (UK), Annual Conference, St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, 17 – 20 October 2003
‘Functional duality’ and applicable law when international organizations administer territory
Joint ASIL-NVIR Conference, ‘From Government to Governance? The Growing Impact of Non-State Actors
on the International and European Legal System,’ The Hague, 5 July 2003
‘We are teachers of international law’: International law and the Iraq crisis
‘The New International Law,’ Joint Conference of the Birkbeck Law School and the Foundation for New
Research in International Law, London, 14 June 2003 (joint presentation with Susan Marks and Gerry
Simpson)
The United Nations as government: the tensions of an ambivalent role
‘The United Nations and Administration of Territory: Lessons from the Frontline’ panel, American Society
of International Law Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., 4 April 2003
The concept of ‘jurisdiction’ in international human rights law in the post-September 11-era
September 11, 2001 – A Fundamental Challenge to National and International Law Conference, Sussex
University, 22 March 2003
Ideology critique and questions of legitimacy in international legal discourse
Staff Seminar, Law Department, UCL, 4 February 2003
The Glasgow Conversations, Glasgow University Law Department, 13 May 2003
Legitimacy and international law
British International Studies Association Annual Conference, London, 18 Dec. 2002
The status of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, 1991 – 2000
International Law Association (British Branch) Seminar, London, 11 Dec. 2002
Taxonomies of international peacekeeping – an alternative narrative
‘International Governance of Territory’ panel, International Law Association (American Branch) Annual
Conference, New York, 26 Oct. 2002
Problems with the ‘failed states’ discourse in international law
‘The Faultlines of Legitimacy in International Law’ panel, International Law Association (American Branch)
Annual Conference, New York, 25 Oct. 2002
International law, the international community and reconstruction
Post conflict reconstruction: Lessons learnt and best practice conference, Wilton Park, UK, 2 Oct 2002
International territorial administration and human rights
The United Nations and Human Rights Protection in Post Conflict Situations Conference, Nottingham, 12
Sept. 2002
Mainstreaming gender discourse in international law and the perils of ‘imperial feminism’
Gender, Sexuality and Law Conference, Keele University, 28 – 29 June 2002
The detainees in Guantánamo Bay and international law
British Institute of International & Comparative Law Annual Conference, ‘International Law After
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September 11 ’ panel, 4 June 2002
Mediating the scope of legitimacy analysis: the case of international territorial administration
United Nations University Legitimacy Colloquium, United Nations University, Tokyo, 22 May 2002
The role of international territorial administration in the promotion of human rights
Law Department, University of Nottingham, 25 April 2002
International territorial administration and ‘failed states’
International Law Association (British Branch), Annual Conference, Oxford, 12 April 2002
International territorial administration and the implementation of international law
International Law Discussion Group, Faculty of Law, Oxford University, 13 February 2002
International colonialism and protection: reinvention, renewal and the legitimacy of the
‘international’
United Nations University Legitimacy Colloquium, United Nations, New York, 30 November 2001
The new colonialism?
New Approaches in International Law Conference, Brussels, 24 – 25 November 2001
Creating mandates for international territorial administration: the case of Afghanistan
International Law Association (American Branch) Annual Conference, New York, 26 Oct. 2001
Forced migration and how we see it
Closing plenary session, International Association for the Study of Forced Migration, 7th Bi-Annual
Conference, South Africa, 8 – 11 Jan. 2001
The responsibilities of UNHCR and host states: the two worlds of the Refugee Convention and
arrangements in certain refugee camps
International Association for the Study of Forced Migration, 7th International Conference, South Africa, 8
– 11 Jan. 2001
The effect of territorial administration by international organizations on local communitybuilding
International Third World Legal Studies Association and University of the Western Cape, ‘Into the 21
Century: Reconstruction and Reparations,’ Cape Town, South Africa, 4 – 6 Jan. 2001
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The legitimacy of international territorial administration
New Approaches in International Law Conference, Kaag, The Netherlands, Nov 2000
Accountability and administration in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and East Timor
International Law Association (American Branch) Annual Conference, New York, 28 Oct. 2000
The administration of territory by international organizations: an innovation in Global
Governance?
Academic Council on the United Nations System/American Society of International Law, Workshop on
Innovations in Global Governance, Warwick University, Summer 2000
The ambivalent mandates of international organizations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo,
and East Timor
American Society of International Law, Australia New Zealand Society of International Law, Joint
Conference, Sydney and Canberra, June 2000, and
Academic Council on the United Nations System, Annual Conference, Oslo, June 2000
From Bosnia to Kosovo and East Timor: the changing role of the United Nations in the
administration of territory
International Law Association (American Branch) Annual Conference, New York, 6 Nov. 1999
Applying human rights law to UNHCR governance of refugee camps
ILSA panel, ‘Applying International Law to Contemporary Phenomena,’ American Society of International
Law Annual Conference, Washington DC, 3 April 1998
Our Common Future
Plenary Session keynote Speech as ‘Youth Ambassador,’ United Nations Second World Climate
Conference, Geneva, November 1990
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SERVICE AS CONFERENCE PANEL CHAIR/CONVENOR/DISCUSSANT
Convenor, with Christine Chinkin, and Chair, ‘International Law and Feminism’ panel, European
Society of International Law, Annual Conference, University of Vienna, 4-6 September 2014
Discussant, ‘Justiçia transitória e construção de Instuçoes democráticas: uma investigação de
trajetória,’ public lecture by Professor Chandra Lekha Sriram of the University of East London at
the Fundação Casa Rui Barbosa, Rio de Janeiro, 9 August 2013.
‘Commentary on the Draft Policy Recommendations,’ Strengthening the rule of law through the
UN Security Council, Australian Research Council Linkage Project Workshop between the ANU
Centre for International Governance & Justice & the Australian Civil-Military Centre, Permanent
Mission of Australia to the United Nations, New York, 14 June 2013
Discussant, ‘Fácil de pegar: raça, militarism Americano e o corpo negro venéreo no exterior,’
public lecture by Professor Khary Polk of Amherst College at the Fundação Casa Rui Barbosa, Rio
de Janeiro, 22 March 2013.
Discussant, ‘Law and War in Leo Strauss’s Thucydides, Grotius and Kant: Strauss as an
International Legal Thinker,’ paper by Rob Howse (NYU), Global Law and Policy Roundtable, New
York Law School, 21 April 2012
Convenor, ‘What the Kosovo Advisory Opinion Means for the Future’ panel, American Society of
International Law Annual Conference, Washington DC, 25 March 2011.
Discussant, ‘History of the Human Rights Movement – the European experience and global
human rights law’ panel (papers by Karen Engle and Frédéric Mégret), ‘New Approaches to
International Law: Lessons from the European Experience’ conference (in honour of David
Kennedy), Institute for European Studies, University CEU San Pablo, Madrid, and the Institute for
Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School, Madrid, Spain, 11 December 2010.
Commentator, ‘Prospects for International Gender Norms’ panel, “After Gender? Examining
International Justice Enterprises”, A Pace Law Review Symposium, Pace Law School, White
Plains, New York.
Study Group member participant, Open Working Session, International Law Association Study
Group on United Nations Reform, International Law Association Bi-Annual Conference, De Jure
Humanitatis, The Hague, 17 Aug 2010
Chair, Committee on Teaching of International Law Open Working Session, and presenter of the
Committee’s Resolution to the Plenary Assembly, International Law Association Bi-Annual
Conference, De Jure Humanitatis, The Hague, 17 and 19 Aug 2010
Chair, ‘Revisiting a Landmark: the Continuing Relevance of the Barcelona Traction judgment’
presentation, Professor Christian Tams, UCL-ILA British Branch international law seminar series,
London 30 February 2010
Chair, ‘Rescuing Piracy from the Antiquarians’ presentation, Professor Vaughan Lowe QC, UCLILA British Branch international law seminar series, London 20 January 2010
Chair, ‘Israel-Palestine: Aspects of a Prolonged Occupation’ presentation, Professor Iain Scobbie,
UCL-ILA British Branch international law seminar series, London 13 January 2010
Chair, ‘International Law and Global Values’ panel, ‘The United Nations and Global Values’
conference, Leiden University and the Hague Academy of International Law, The Hague, 12
December 2008
Chair, ‘False Contingency’, Current Legal Problems Lecture, Professor Susan Marks, UCL Laws, 13
November 2008
Chair, ‘Colonial Administrations’ Plenary Session, Exit Strategies and Peace Consolidation
Research Group Seminar convened by Richard Caplan of Oxford University, funded by the Folke
Bernadotte Academy of Sweden and the John Fell Oxford University Press Fund, Stockholm, 1415 June 2008
Discussant, ‘New Developments in International and Comparative Law’ plenary session, 2008
Conference on International and Comparative Law, Soochow University and the Chinese
(Taiwan) Society of International Law, Taipei, Taiwan, 26 May 2008
Moderator, ‘Queering International Law’ panel, American Society of International Law Annual
Meeting, 29 March 2007
Chair, ‘Externalization and extraterritoriality 2’ panel, International Association for the Study of
Forced Migration, 9th Annual Conference, Toronto, 22 June 2006
Chair, ‘International Law Association Study Group on UN Reform’ workshop panel, Academic
Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS) Annual Conference, Rio de Janeiro, 9 June 2006
Chair, International Criminal Court Committee session, International Law Association
conference, Toronto, 7 June 2006
Chair, opening plenary session, ‘Tower of Babel. International Law in the 21 st Century –
Coherent or Compartmentalized?,’ International Law Association (British Branch), Annual
Conference, London, 3 - 4 March 2006
Chair, ‘The Empire Strikes Back? Colonialism, empire, self-determination and international law’
panel discussion, International Law Association, British Branch, London, 25 January 2006
Commentator, ‘International Law and the Anxiety of Influence’ paper by Dr Susan Marks, King’s
College London, 30 November 2005
Chair and Commentator, ‘Human Rights: Contestations’ panel, European Consortium for Social
Research conference, Corvinus University of Budapest, 10 September 2005
Chair and Convenor, ‘The role of international institutions in territorial administration and postconflict justice’ panel, 7th Hague Joint Conference on Contemporary Issues of International Law,
‘International Institutional Reform,’ The Hague, 1 July 2005
Discussant, ‘Legitimacy and accountability of international administrations’ panel, Second
European Society of International Law Conference, Institut universitaire de hautes études
internationales,
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Chair, ‘Treaty Consent: Beyond the Vienna Convention,’ Lecture by Professor Malgosia
Fitzmaurice, International Law Association, British Branch, London, 27 April 2005
Discussant, ‘The Juridification of International Politics,’ Sovereignty and Its Discontents seminar,
King’s College, London, 24 March 2005, see <http://www.said-workshop.org/seminars.php>
Discussant, ‘From Sovereign Equality to Global Regulationism: Demystifying Global Governance’
panel, International Studies Association Annual Convention, Hawaii, 3 March 2005
Discussant, ‘EU Asylum Policy I’ and ‘EU Asylum Policy II’ panels, International Association for
the Study of Forced Migration, 9th Annual Conference, São Paolo, Brazil, 11 & 12 January 2005
Chair, ‘Extra-Territorial Detention, Xenophobia and Security in the Post 9/11 Era’ panel,
International Association for the Study of Forced Migration, 9th Annual Conference, São Paolo,
Brazil, 11 January 2005
Discussant, ‘Cross-Cultural Translation of Human Rights Norms’ panel, Critical Perspectives on
Global Governance (CPOGG) Conference, Monterrey, Mexico, 6 November 2004
Chair and Discussant, ‘The Legitimacy Dimension’ panel, ‘Territories under International
Administration: A Comparative Study’ Section, Constructing World Orders: 5th Pan-European
Conference of the Standing Group on International Relations, The Hague, 10 September 2004,
see <http://www.sgir.org/conference2004/>
Chair, ‘Extraterritorial issues under the Human Rights Act’ event, Human Rights Lawyers
Association/Law Society of England and Wales, London, 12 January 2004
Chair and Convenor, ‘The Faultlines of Legitimacy in International Law’ panel, International Law
Association (American Branch) Annual Conference, New York, 25 Oct. 2002
Chair and Convenor, ‘The Limits of International Law’ panel, International Law Association
(American Branch) Annual Conference, New York, 26 Oct. 2001
Wrap-up Presenter, Roundtable on Temporary Protection, International Association for the
Study of Forced Migration, 7th Bi-Annual Conference, South Africa, 8 – 11 Jan. 2001
Chair, ILSA panel, ‘Applying International Law to Contemporary Phenomena,’ American Society
of International Law Annual Conference, Washington DC, 3 April 1998.