ESIL Lectures
The ESIL Lecture Series hosts broadcasts of presentations on international law topics held at partner institutions, allowing the presentation to reach a wider audience of ESIL members and non-members alike.
ESIL Lectures are available on our website and on our YouTube Channel.
To propose an ESIL Lecture, please read the ESIL Conference Series Guidelines.
ESIL Lecture Series Coordinators: Giulio Bartolini and Edouard Fromageau.
Past ESIL Lectures and Dialogues
- SPEAKER: Adam Bodnar
- VENUE: ESIL Annual Conference 2025, Freie University, Berlin
- LECTURE: Reconstructing International Law (Keynote Lecture opening the ESIL Annual Conference 2025)
- DATE: 11 September 2025
- SPEAKER: Anne Lagerwall
- VENUE: University of Catania, Italy
- LECTURE: Permacrisis: a game changer for international law?
- DATE: 20 March 2025 (live), 18 June 2025 (recording)
- SPEAKER: Pierre Marie-Dupuy
- VENUE: Athens PIL
- LECTURE: International Law as a Common Heritage of Mankind
- DATE: 7 May 2025
- SPEAKER: Phoebe Okowa
- VENUE: Stockholm University
- LECTURE: International Courts and the Politics of Climate Litigation
- DATE: 26 September 2024
- SPEAKERS: Simon Chesterman, Jekaterina Govina, Roxana Vatanparast
- VENUE: Vilnius ESIL Annual Conference 2024
- LECTURE: Keynote lecture and Opening Discussion on “Technology and Regulatory Regionalism: Europe as Centre or Periphery?”
- DATE: 5 September 2024
- SPEAKER: Anne Orford
- VENUE: Stockholm University
- LECTURE: The Securitization of Climate Change (Olof Palme Inaugural Lecture 2024)
- DATE: 29 August 2024
- SPEAKER: Judge Hilary Charlesworth
- VENUE: Stockholm University
- LECTURE: Challenges facing the International Court of Justice
- DATE: 21 March 2024
- SPEAKERS: Siena Anstis, Jakub Dalek and Ron Deibert (all of Citizen Lab, University of Toronto), Alexa Koenig (Berkeley), Matthew Gillett (Essex)
- CHAIR: Tamar Megiddo (Hebrew University)
- TOPIC: Ethical Considerations in Open-source Investigations
- VENUE: Online via Zoom
- DATE: 18 March 2024
- SPEAKER: Judge Iulia Motoc
- LECTURE: Humanism, Legal Technicality and Justice; Rethinking European Human Rights
- VENUE: West University of Timișoara
- DATE: 27 February 2024
- SPEAKER: Prof. William Schabas
- LECTURE: 75th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Genocide Convention
- VENUE: Belgrade Centre for Human Rights
- DATE: 5 October 2023
- SPEAKER: Prof. Gleider Hernández
- LECTURE: Beyond Formalism? (International) Legal Education in the 21st Century
- VENUE: KU Leuven
- DATE: 28 September 2023
- LECTURE: Opening Discussion on “The Long Quest for Fairness”
- SPEAKERS: Yves Daudet, Andrea Bianchi, Slim Laghmani, and Ineta Ziemele
- VENUE: Aix-Marseille University
- DATE: 31 August 2023
- LECTURE: Closing Discussion
- SPEAKERS: Laurence Boisson de Chazournes, Mathias Forteau, Surabhi Ranganathan, and Fuad Zarbiyev
- VENUE: Aix-Marseille University
- DATE: 2 September 2023
- LECTURE: Conversation with the winners of the 2023 ESIL Monograph Prize and Collaborative Book Prize
- SPEAKERS: Freya Baetens, Frederick Cowell, Anne Peters, Jérôme de Hemptinne, and Robert Kolb
- VENUE: Aix-Marseille University
- DATE: 2 September 2023
- SPEAKER: Prof. Sergey Sayapin
- LECTURE: Eurasian Integration and its Law in the Shadow of Russia’s War against Ukraine
- VENUE: University of Tartu
- DATE: 28 April 2023
- SPEAKER: Ms. Jelena Pejić
- LECTURE: International humanitarian law against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine
- VENUE: Aero Klub, Belgrade
- DATE: 5 October 2022
- SPEAKER: Prof. Jean d’Aspremont
- LECTURE: The Discourse on Customary International Law
- VENUE: University of Graz
- DATE: 30 September 2022
- SPEAKER: Prof. Jan Wouters
- LECTURE: Enhancing the Rule of Law in Europe and in the World: Mission Impossible?
- VENUE: University of Granada
- DATE: 18 March 2022
- SPEAKER: Prof. Pierre Bodeau-Livinec
- LECTURE: Responsibility, Liability, Accountability. Les incertitudes de la responsabilité des organisations internationales
- VENUE: University of Geneva
- DATE: 14 December 2021
- SPEAKER: Prof. Mariano Aznar Gómez
- LECTURE: Maritime Claims and Underwater Archaeology. When History Meets Politics
- VENUE: University of Helsinki, Center for European Studies
- DATE: 25 November 2021
- SPEAKER: Prof. Concepción Escobar Hernández
- LECTURE: Immunity of State officials from criminal jurisdiction
- VENUE: University of Deusto
- DATE: 20 September 2021
- SPEAKER: Catharine Titi
- LECTURE: Nationality and Representation on the International Bench
- VENUE: Online
- DATE: 25 November 2020
- SPEAKER: Robin Geiß
- LECTURE: Disruptive Military Technologies
- VENUE: Geneva Academy
- DATE: 26 February 2020
- SPEAKER: Anastasios Gourgourinis
- LECTURE: Attribution of Lawful Conduct to the State for the Purposes of International Responsibility
- VENUE: Athens Mediation & Arbitration Organization
- DATE: 31 May 2019
- SPEAKER: Giovanni Distefano
- LECTURE: Le pacte Briand-Kellog à l’heure de ses 90 ans – La consécration d’une idée révolutionnaire
- VENUE: University of Geneva
- DATE: 27 November 2018
- SPEAKER: Christian J. Tams
- LECTURE: The Centenary of a ”Great Experiment”: The League of Nations and its Legacy
- VENUE: University of Geneva
- DATE: 23 October 2018
- SPEAKER: Manfred Nowak
- LECTURE: The need to fight for human rights: Vojin Dimitrijevic memorial lecture
- VENUE: Belgrade Center for Human Rights
- DATE: 5 October 2018
- SPEAKER: Ekaterina Trendafilova
- LECTURE: The Kosovo Specialist Chambers as a New Model of Transitional Justice in the Balkan Region
- VENUE: University of Sofia
- DATE: 24 April 2018
- SPEAKER: Veronika Fikfak
- LECTURE: Monetising Human Rights
- VENUE: King’s College London
- DATE: 13 April 2018
- SPEAKER: Attila Tanzi
- LECTURE: The Prevention And Settlement Of Hydroelectric Industry Related Disputes Under International Law: A Multi-Layered Approach
- VENUE: Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London
- DATE: 5 April 2018
- SPEAKER: Lorenzo Gradoni
- LECTURE: Position and Agency of the WTO Dispute Settlement System in the Fragmented World of International Adjudication
- VENUE: University of Naples Federico II
- DATE: 28 February 2018
- SPEAKER: Olivier de Frouville
- LECTURE: Le Rôle de la Société Civile dans les Organisations Internationales : Théorie(s) et Pratique(s)
- VENUE: University of Geneva
- DATE: 31 October 2017
- SPEAKER: Morten Kjaerum
- LECTURE: The duty to engage – the recipe for trust in a world of angst.
- VENUE: Belgrade Centre for Human Rights
- DATE: 4 October 2017
- SPEAKER: Erika de Wet, University of Pretoria
- LECTURE: “Military Intervention by Invitation in the 21st Century”
- VENUE: Université de Genève
- DATE: 20 February 2017
- SPEAKER: Jean-Marc Sorel, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
- LECTURE: “Le foisonnement et la variété des organismes dans la régulation financière internationale”
- VENUE: University of Geneva
- DATE: 25 October 2016
- SPEAKER: Christian Tomuschat, Humboldt University (Berlin)
- LECTURE: “Syria – Challenge to the International System for the Protection of Human Rights”
- VENUE: Belgrade Centre for Human Rights
- DATE: 4 October 2016
- SPEAKER: Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, University of Minnesota Law School
- LECTURE: “The Gendered Landscape of International, Regional and Local Approaches to Peacemaking”
- VENUE: Ulster University, Northern Ireland
- DATE: 27 June 2016
- SPEAKER: James Hathaway, University of Michigan Law School
- LECTURE: “Fixing the Refugee System”
- VENUE: University of Amsterdam School of Law
- DATE: 13 May 2016
- SPEAKER: Christine Bell, Edinburgh Law School
- LECTURE: “The Role of Human Rights in Peace Settlements – A Twenty-Five Year History: Northern Ireland’s Past and Current Struggles in Global Perspective”
- VENUE: Queen’s University of Belfast
- DATE: 23 November 2015