Talks by Jean d'Aspremont

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Forthcoming talks and presentations by Jean d'Aspremont

  • "Deformalization in International Law: the Temptation of a move away from the theory of sources", Lauterpacht Research Center of International Law, Cambridge, 27 April 2012 (confirmed)
  • "International Law and Science", Durham University, 26 April 2012 (tbc)
  • "Formalism and the Sources of International Law", British Institute of International and Comparative Law, 24 April 2012 (tbc)
  • "International Law and the Social Thesis", NYU Law School, 3 April 2012 (confirmed). 
  • "International Legal Positivism in a Post-Modern World", Annual meeting of the American Society of International Law, Washington, 28-29 March 2012 (confirmed)

Past talks and presentations by Jean d'Aspremont

  • "Formalism and the Sources of International Law", Seminar of the ILA-Belgian Branch, Brussels, 9 December 2011
  • "Hart, Enforcement and International Law", Seminar in the honor of Bruno Simma, Glasgow, 2 December 2011
  • "Multiplicity of Tortfeasers and Shared Responsibility: Unearthing Plurality in the Law of International Responsibility", ACIL SHARES conference, 17 November 2011, Amsterdam
  • "Hart and postmodern positivism", Amsterdam Workshop on International Legal Positivism, 3 November 2011
  • "Le déclin de la théorie des sources en droit international", Brussels, Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis, 30 September 2011
  • "Formalism and the Sources of International Law", Faculty Seminar, 19 October 2011
  • “The Dialectical Methodology of Global Administrative Law”, Paris-X Nanterre La Défense,16 June 2011
  • “Customary Investment Law: Story of a Paradox”, Leiden, 15 June 2011
  • “The Control of International Criminal Tribunals by Domestic Courts”, Workshop on International Criminal Law and its Application within Domestic Legal Orders, Macerata, Italy, June 2011
  • “Inclusive law-making and law-enforcement processes for an exclusive international legal system”, Oxford University, 21 May 2011
  • “The International Legal Scholar in Palestine: Hurling Stones under the guise of Legal Forms? – A Talk with Martti Koskenniemi and Mudar Kassis”, Birzeit University, Palestine, April 2011
  • "The articulation between international human rights, international humanitarian law and international refugee law", ICTR-UNHCR workshop, Arusha, Tanzania, April 2011
  • “The PCIJ’s in a multi-judiciary world” Conference on the PCIJ’s Legacy, Queen Mary, University of London, November 2010
  • “State Responsibility and Transitional Justice”, Jus Post Bellum ATLAS Conference, Brussels, 21-22 October 2010
  • “The International Judge and Science”, ILA Brazil Conference, Joao Pessoa, Brazil, October 2010
  • “The Rise and Fall of Democratic Legitimacy in International Law”, European Society of International Law, Cambridge, September 2010
  • “Deformalization in International Law”, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, July 2010
  • “The World Court and Statehood”, Pristina, Kosovo, 4 July 2010
  • “Informal international public policy making: from a pluralization of international norm-making to a pluralization of our concept of international law”, HiiL-project on New International Law, Geneva, June 2010
  • “Deformalization in International Law”, McGill University, 28May 2010
  • “Les fluctuationsde la gouvernance démocratique en droit international, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), 27 May 2010
  • “Softness in International Law”, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), 26 May 2010 
  • “L’Etat non-démocratique en droit international”, University of Galatasaray, May 2010
  • “Deformalization in International Law”, The National University of Singapore (NUS), April 2010 
  •  “Deformalization in International Law”, The University of Sydney, April 2010
  • “Deformalization in International Law”, the National University of Australia (ANU), March 2010 • “La Démocratie et le droit international”, Université de Kinshasa, January 2010
  • “International Law and Non Democratic States”, Colloquium of the Diritti umani e diritto internazionale, Catania, December 2009
  • “The policy of formalism in international law”, participation to a roundtable on the occasion of the colloquium on “EvaluatingCritical Approaches to International Law”, CERDIN, Université deParis 1, December 2009
  • “Global Values v. Common Interests, The Foundations of International Humanitarian Law”, Conference on International Humanitarian Law (IHL) between Universalism and Cultural legitimacy: Perspectives from Muslim Countries, Asser Institute, The Hague, November 2009
  • “Enforcing IHL at the domestic Level: the Fallacious Idea of Universal Criminal Jurisdiction”, Minerva Centre for Human Rights and Hebrew University of Jerusalem, November 2009
  • “Soft Law Strategies in International Legal Scholarship”, ILA Talks, University of Bristol, November 2009
  • “Non-State Actors in International Law”,ABILA Annual Conference, New York, November 2009
  • “The Incompatibility between Contemporary International Law and the Potential Solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict”, Conference on Israel/Palestine: Mapping Models of Statehood and Paths to Peace, Toronto, June 2009
  • “Democratic conditionality in international trade law”, University of Montreal (UDM), June 2009
  • ”Coups d’Etats and International Law”, Presentation at the CORIM (Conseil des Relations Internationales de Montréal), June 2009
  • “The Systemic Integration of International Law by Domestic Judges”, Unity or Fragmentation of International Law - the Role of International and National Tribunals. Oslo, May 2009 “The Counter-Measures taken by International Organizations against Third States”, Bologna Seminar on the Counter-Measures by International Organizations, April 2009
  • Non-StateActors in International Law, FWO Seminar on Non-State Actors at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL), March 2009 • “La licéité des coups d’Etat”, University of Paris Sud, February 2009
  • “The Concept of Autonomy of International Organizations, Workshop Series on International Organizations and the Idea of Autonomy”, University of Sheffield (organized by N. D. White and R. Collins),October 2008
  • “Le Tyrannicide en droit international”, Common meeting of the French and German Societies of International Law, Hamburg, October 2008
  • “The European Endeavors to Constitutionalize the International Legal Order, GARNET Conference on “Mapping Integration and Regionalism in a Global World: The EU and regional governance outside the EU”, September 2008
  • “The Doctrinal Illusion of Heterogeneity in International Law-Making”, Heidelberg General conference of the European Society ofInternational Law (ESIL), September 2008
  • “The Legitimacy of Insurgents in International Law”, Heidelberg General conference of the European Societyof International Law (ESIL), September 2008
  • “La licéité des coups d’Etat en droit international”, Société française du droit international, Brussels, June 2008
  • “The foundations of the international legal order”, Conference on Theorizing the international legal order, University of Swansea, May 2008
  • “Values and Interests in International Law: the Eastern European Perspective”, Research Forum of the European Society of International Law (ESIL), Budapest, September 2007
  • “The dual character of Legitimacy”,General GARNET Conference, Warwick, September 2007
  • “The Effects of War on Treaties”,GARNET, University of Oslo, May 2007
  • “The contribution of the Asian Scholarship to the public character of International Law”, Plenary Session of the Inaugural Meeting of the Asian Society of International Law, Singapore, April 2007
  • “The Abuse of the Legal Personality of International Organizations, conference on the Accountability of International Organizations organized by the KUL & the University of Antwerp, Brussels, March 2007
  • “Democracy and International Law”, Global Research Forum, New York University (NYU), September 2005 • “Contemporary wars: which rules?”,Université de Montréal (UDM), September 2005
  • “The Creation of Democratic States in International Law”, Research Forum of the European Society of International Law (ESIL), Geneva, May 2005
  • “Les réserves à la Convention-Cadre du Conseil de l’Europe sur les minorités nationales”, Colloque de l’Association Henri Capitant sur les minorités, MexicoCity, May 2002.



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