May 2019

The Rise of Investor-State Arbitration: Rethinking Key Moments

What explains the rise of investor-state arbitration? To the extent that investor-state arbitration had founding fathers, what were their motivations, what constraints did they have, what was their thinking? Using documents from the American, British, German, and Swiss archives, ... Show More

39m 56s

May 2019

The Internalisation of Investment Treaties and the Rule of Law Promise

Investment treaties are often said to have two principal effects for the states that enter into them. First, it is asserted that investment treaties act to increase levels of foreign investment in host states. Second, it is said that investment treaties have a positive effect on ... Show More

1h 10m

May 2019

Due Diligence: An Obligation under International Law

This talk will examine the legal nature of due diligence, namely whether it is a free-standing obligation under customary international law or a standard by which compliance with specific obligations may be assessed. It will be shown that there is a significant number of common e ... Show More

43m 41s

Aug 2013

Manipulation and Independence in Humanitarian Action: Ethical Challenges in Recent Crises (partial recording)

Professor Antonio Donini (Tufts University) gives a talk on 7th November 2012. This is a Oxford Humanitarian Group Event.

38m 7s

Dec 2012

The relations between jus ad bellum and jus in bello: independence versus conflation

Dr V Koutroulis, Visiting Fellow, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law - 29 November 2012.

46m 43s

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

Jul 2020

Seerah Part 96 - The Year of Delegations (3)

This lecture was recorded on 12th November 2014

1h 20m

Dec 2012

European authors and Russian nuns. An Enlightened girl takes a monastic oath

8/8. Andrei Zorin (Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, Oxford) delivers a talk for "Was there a Russian Enlightenment?", a one-day seminar held at Ertegun House, Oxford in November 2012.

35m 37s

Feb 2016

Counter-Terrorism and Security in Europe after the Paris attacks

A web seminar delivered by Professor Fiona de Londras (Birmingham) for the Oxford Human Rights Hub on Friday 22nd January 2016 at Pembroke College, University of Oxford. Moderated by Sandra Fredmad.

59m 13s

Jan 2019

'Don't Bury the Famine Dead': how humanitarian intervention killed the most vulnerable in Ajiep, South Sudan, in 1998

This Anthropology Departmental Seminar was given by Jok Madut Jok, SUNY Upstate Medical University, on 23 November 2018

46m 5s

Jul 2020

Seerah Part 95 - The Year of Delegations (2)

This lecture was recorded on 5th November 2014

1h 15m

Why have we Criminalised Agressive War?