Events and Announcements: November 30, 2014

Events

• The International Bar Association has announced the IBA Annual Conference on International Criminal Law:International Legal Challenges for 2015 taking place 31 January-1 February 2015 at the Peace Palace in The Hague. More information, including registration and the program, can be found here.
• ALMA and the Radzyner School of Law of the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya would like to invite you to next session of the Joint International Humanitarian Law Forum. The session will be held on Wednesday, December 10, 2014, 18:30, room C110 (Arazi-Ofer Building, 2nd floor) at the IDC. In this session ALMA Chairman Ido Rosenzweig will discuss his recent publiaction: Combatants Dressed as Civilians?
  The Case of the Israeli Mista’arvim under International Law (Policy Paper of the Israeli Democracy Institute, download here). This event will be conducted in Hebrew, but could be conducted in English with sufficient preliminary request.
• The Harry Weinrebe Annual Memorial Lecture is the first in an annual series to honour the memory of Harry Weinrebe, a philanthropist and the founder of the Dorset Foundation. The series is focused on the protection of international peace and justice, values that were at heart of Mr Weinrebe’s humanitarian activities. In his keynote lecture, Ben Emmerson, UN Special Rapporteur on Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights and renowned barrister will focus on pressing issues at the intersection of peace and justice including: mass digital surveillance in the global age, the use of drones in the fight against international terrorism, the rights of victims of terrorism and areas of good practice in the fight against terrorism. Opening Remarks will be given by Professor Robert McCorquodale (Director, BIICL) and the lecture will be chaired by Dr Andraž Zidar (Dorset Senior Research Fellow in Public International Law, BIICL). The lecture, taking place in London on 4 December 2014, will be followed by a drinks reception. Full details and online booking available here.

Announcements

• If you’re looking for a stocking stuffer for the international law geek in your life, the International Game of Justice developed by Valentin Jeutner, a PhD student at Gonville and Caius College, at the University of Cambridge, may be just what you are looking for. We announced its debut last year, but the updated 5th edition has just been released. More information is here.

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