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B. Section Convenor

Matthew Happold Professeur en droit international public
Faculté de Droit, d?Économie et de Finance
Université du Luxembourg
148, avenue de la Faïencerie
L-1511 Luxembourg

Email: Matthew.HAPPOLD@uni.lu

C. Section News

- Call for Papers on International Law for the 2010 SLS Conference at Southampton - Published Thursday September 02 2010.

D. Provisional Conference Programme

2010 Conference at Southampton

Session 1: September 13th 14.00 - 15.30 Room Law 3057

1A      Ademun-Odeke (Southampton Solent)

         "International Criminal Jurisdiction and the Treatment of Suspected Somali Pirates in Third Flag States"

1B      Regina E. Rauxloh (Surrey)

          "Restorative Justice in the International Criminal Court?  The Role of Victims in International Criminal Law"

1C     Kirsten Sellars

          "International Courts and the Problem of the Criminalisation of Aggression"

Session 2: September 13th 16.00 - 17.30 Room Law 3057

2A     Gyan Basnet (Lancaster)

           "International Human Rights, Transnational Corporations and Poverty Alleviation: Looking Through the Lens of the Right to Development" 

2B       Elvira Domínguez-Redondo (Middlesex)

           "Revisiting Implementation of International Law to Promote and Protect Human Rights: Is There Life Beyond Shaming and Judicialization?"

2C      Loveday Hodson (Leicester)

           "The Individual Complaints Procedure of CEDAW: A Unique Contribution to Human Rights?"

Session 3 September 14th 09.30 - 11.00 Room Law 3057

3A     Christian Henderson (Oxford Brookes)

         "The Auto-Interpretative Nature of International Law and the Possibilities for a Lawful yet Illegitimate Use of Force"

3B     Yassin A. M'Boge (UCD)

          "A Hopeless Romance: The Relationship between the Security Council and the ICC'"

3C     Eki Yemisi Omorogbe (Leicester)

          "The African Union and the Responsibility to Protect"

Session 4 September 14th 14.00 - 15.30 Room Law 3057

4A    Bill Bowring (Birkbeck) 

        The ECtHR Grand Chamber in Kononov v Latvia: Is the Russian Federation Correct in its Understanding of the Relationship between Politics and International Law?'

4B    Elimma Ezeani (Robert Gordon)

        "My Right or Your Duty?  The Individual versus the State's Obligation to Extradite (A United Kingdom Perspective)"

4C   Veronika Fikfak (Oxford)

         "The Ten Years of the Human Rights Act: A Re-Defined Role for the Judiciary in Foreign Affairs Cases?"

Previous Conferences

- Oxford 2003.
- Sheffield 2004.
- Strathclyde 2005.
- Keele 2006.
- Durham 2007.
- London 2008.

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