Judging International Law: A conversation with Judge Hilary Charlesworth, of the International Court of Justice
Location:
Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre
Edinburgh Law School
Old College
South Bridge
Edinburgh
EH8 9YL
Date/time
Tue 11 October 2022
17:30-19:00
The Edinburgh Centre for International and Global Law and Edinburgh Law School present
Judging International Law: A conversation with Judge Hilary Charlesworth, of the International Court of Justice
Join Dr Michelle Burgis Kasthala (Senior Lecturer in International Law, Edinburgh Law School), Leigh Lawrie (Faculty of Advocates) and Douglas Ross QC (Faculty of Advocates) for a wide ranging conversation with Judge Hilary Charlesworth of the International Court of Justice on the challenges and opportunities of judging international law from the standpoint of the World Court in the Hague.
Her Excellency Judge Hilary Charlesworth is Harrison Moore Professor and Laureate Professor of Law at Melbourne Law School. She was elected as a Judge of the International Court of Justice (the World Court) in November 2021. A pioneering scholar of feminism and international law, Judge Charlesworth has written extensively about the theory of international law, human rights law, humanitarian law and peace-building. She is a recipient (with Professor Christine Chinkin) of the American Society of International Law’s Goler T. Butcher award for ‘outstanding contributions to the development or effective realization of international human rights law’. In 2021, the International Studies Association conferred a Distinguished Scholar award on Hilary. She has held both an Australian Research Council Federation Fellowship (2005-2010) and an ARC Laureate Fellowship (2010-2015).
Hilary has been a visiting professor at various institutions including Harvard Law School, New York University Global Law School, UCLA, Paris I and the London School of Economics. She has been a member of the Executive Council of the Asian Society of International Law and the American Society of International Law as well as President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law. In 2016 Hilary was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. She delivered the General Course in Public International Law at the Hague Academy in 2019. She is a member of the Institut de Droit International and served as Judge ad hoc in the International Court of Justice in the Whaling in the Antarctic case (Australia v Japan) (2011-2014).
This event will take place in person and will not be recorded or streamed live.
Please register to attend (link below).