Avril McDonald lecture series
The annual Avril McDonald lecture is organized by the Department Transboundary Legal Studies of the Faculty of Law. This lecture is dedicated to Avril McDonald, a scholar in the fields of international humanitarian law and international criminal law, who passed away in 2010 at the age of 44.
17 April 2024
Jan Tijmen Ninck Blok serves as the senior legal advisor for international humanitarian law at the Netherlands Red Cross. Before this, he worked as a researcher on protection and conduct of hostilities with the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva.
'The Law of Humanitarian Assistance – A Framework for Relief in Armed Conflict’
17 April 2024, 16:00, Lokin room Röling Building
7 April 2022
Dr. Robert W. Heinsch, LL.M. (London), is an Associate Professor of Public International Law at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies of Leiden University, and the Director of its regular LL.M. Programme in Public International Law.
'The Conflict in Ukraine: Possibilities to Prosecute Violations of International Humanitarian Law and Ways to Support the Civilian Population'
7 April 2022, 16:00, Heymanszaal Academy Building
16 March 2020
Dr Annyssa Bellal, Senior Research Fellow and Strategic Adviser in International Humanitarian Law at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights
'One for all and all for one: the impact of coalitions on international humanitarian law'
16 March 2020, 16:00, Exhibition Room Harmonie Building
14 March 2019
Dr. Katharine Fortin, Assistant Professor in Human Rights Law and Public International Law, Utrecht University
`Hatches, matches and dispatches: legal identity in rebel-held territory'
14 March 2019, 16:00, Marie Loke zaal, (Harmonie Building)
18 May 2017
Professor Joyeeta Gupta, Professor of Environment and Development in the Global South,
Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research of the University of Amsterdam
‘Sharing our Earth: International law and the Sustainable Development Goals’
18 May 2017, 11.00, Zernikezaal (Academy Building)
20 March 2015
Professor Christine van den Wyngaert, Judge at the International Criminal Court
“International criminal justice at a crossroads? - New challenges for the ICC”.
20 March 2015, 15.00, Senaatszaal (Academy Building)
22 April 2014
'Sexual Violence and International Criminal Law: Achievements and Challenges'
25 April 2013
Maria Green, holder of the 2012-2013 Fulbright Lund Distinguished Chair in International Human Rights, Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Lund University:
'Charting New Paths: International Human Rights Law and International Development'.
May 24 2012
Prof. Malcolm Evans, Professor of International Law at Bristol University and Chairperson of the UN Sub Committee on the Prevention of Torture:
'Preventing Torture: the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture (OPCAT) in theory and in practice'.
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