The Convenors of the Ninth Annual Cambridge International Law Conference are pleased to announce that the Conference will be going ahead as a free online event.
The Conference will take place as a series of webinars from 30 April to 2 May 2020. The event will address the very timely theme of ‘International Law and Global Risks: Current Challenges in Theory and Practice'. All events in the series will take place as Zoom Webinars. Participation is free of charge, however advance registration is required for each webinar. Please register via the web links below. Registered participants will receive a webinar link and password by email prior to the webinar.
Opening Keynote Address delivered by Professor Anne Peters
Thursday, 30 April 2020 | 9:30am-10:45am
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Panel 1: International Legal Principles for Engaging with Risk—Due Diligence and Prevention
Thursday, 30 April 2020 | 11:30am-12:30pm
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Panel 2: Risk, Diligence and Decision-making in International Humanitarian Law, Security and Arms Control
Thursday, 30 April 2020 | 2pm-3.10pm
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Panel 3: Climate Change and Public International Law—Overcoming Challenges in Governance, Cooperation and Implementation
Thursday, 30 April 2020 | 3:30-4:30pm
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Panel 4: Risk in Cyberspace—International Legal Dimensions
Recorded presentations will be available online – further details coming soon!
Panel 5: International Risk Regulation at Sea: Current Issues in Fisheries, Deep Sea Mining and the Protection of the Marine Environment
Friday, 1 May 2020 | 10am-11am
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Panel 6: International Law and the Rise of “Big Data” and Artificial Intelligence
Friday, 1 May 2020 | 11:30am-12:30pm
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Panel 7: Regulating Risks to Health and Safety—Scientific and Technical Paradigms in International Law
Friday, 1 May 2020 | 2pm-3pm
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Panel 8: Intersecting and Overlapping Regimes in International law—Environmental Rights as Human Rights
Friday, 1 May 2020 | 3:30-4:30pm
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Panel 9: State Responsibility and International Criminal Justice in Parallel—Theoretical and Practical Issues
Friday, 1 May 2020 | 5pm-6pm
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Panel 10: Risk and Diligence in Human Rights and Refugee Law
Saturday, 2 May 2020 | 10-11am
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Panel 11: International Air and Space Law—Issues on the Horizon
Saturday, 2 May 2020 | 11:30am-12:30pm
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Panel 12: Addressing Environmental Risk through International Trade and Investment
Saturday, 2 May 2020 | 2pm-3pm
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Panel 13: Rise or Decline of Multilateralism? Current Dynamics in Treaty Negotiation, Cooperation and Withdrawal
Saturday, 2 May 2020 | 3:30pm-4:45pm
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