Professor Nehal Bhuta, University of Edinburgh and Dr Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi, University of Amsterdam, give a talk for the Public International Law seminar series. Philip Alston’s deep worries about the institutionalization of the tactic of targeting killing, the ensuing extension of warfare and its corrosive consequences for any meaningful possibility of sc ... Show More
Mar 2025
Immunities and the Crime of Aggression - A Search for Normative Coherence
Tom Dannenbaum, Associate Professor of International Law at the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University, examines approaches to addressing the crime of aggression within a normatively coherent framework of immunities and international crimes. He particularly focuses ... Show More
34m 42s
Aug 2023
Chris Dietz, "Self-Declaration in the Legal Recognition of Gender" (Routledge, 2022)
Self-Declaration in the Legal Recognition of Gender (Routledge, 2023) is a socio-legal study that offers a critique of what it means to self-declare with regard to legal gender. Based on empirical research conducted in Denmark, the book engages in some of the most controversial i ... Show More
1h 13m
Dec 2016
Philosophy and the Future of Warfare
Can there be such a thing as a ‘moral’ war? Can it ever be right to kill innocent people, even in self-defence? Can there be such a thing as a ‘moral’ war? Can it ever be right to kill innocent people, even in self-defence? How do autonomous weapons, remote control weapons and dr ... Show More
1h 2m
Oct 2024
Policies—and a new global program—to fight anti-LGBTQI+ discrimination
Anti-LGBTQI+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex) discrimination is on the rise, both in the United States, where hate crime statistics are climbing, and globally, with the increase in right-wing populist governments weaponizing public sentiment against margi ... Show More
53m 57s
Sep 2024
Speaking Law to War | Kathleen Cavanaugh
What are the key legal principles that govern the conduct of war and protect human rights? In this episode, we speak with Professor Kathleen Cavanaugh, the Executive Director of the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights, and Senior Instructional Professor in the College at UChicag ... Show More
54m 3s
Jan 2025
Terrorisme, le sens d’un mot 1/4 : Le terrorisme, un flou juridique
durée : 00:58:16 - Avec philosophie - par : Géraldine Muhlmann, Antoine Ravon - Le terme "terrorisme" reste une notion juridique et politique empreinte d'une certaine ambiguïté, tant dans l'histoire du droit interne des États que dans celle du droit international. Mais comment dé ... Show More
58m 16s