Events and Announcements: 9 April 2023

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Events

International Law, The Ocean-Climate Nexus and Human Rights: On Monday 10 April at 12:45pm Pacific Time/8:45pm UK Time, the Human Rights Center and the Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law will host this webinar in conversation with Dr Mitchell Lennan (University of Aberdeen), moderated by Co-Executive Directer of the Berkeley HRC, Betsy Popken. Dr Lennan will discuss connections between international law of the sea, climate and biodiversity law, and human rights law. Please register before the day of event for the Zoom link here.

The Preventive Turn in Security Policy: European and Global Law Perspectives – Sheffield Centre for International and European Law seminar: The Sheffield Centre for International and European Law has invited Professor Valsamis Mitselgas (University of Liverpool) to give a lecture on his ongoing research project “The Preventive Turn in Security Policy: European and Global Law Perspectives”, a book to be published by Oxford University Press.  The lecture will be held on Tuesday 25 April 2023 from 5 – 6:30pm UK Time at Bartolomé House (Moot Court), Winter Street, Sheffield, S3 7ND, and online. To register, click here.

Tel Aviv University International Law Workshop Special Roundtable -Towards the ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on “LEGAL CONSEQUENCES ARISING FROM THE POLICIES AND PRACTICES OF ISRAEL IN THE OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY”: This roundtable will be held on Monday, April 17, 2023, 16:15-17:45 Tel Aviv Time and will be convened by Natalie Davidson, Aeyal Gross & Eliav Lieblich. Speakers include Gilad Noam (Israel Ministry of Justice), Orna Ben Naftali (The College for Management & Van Leer Jerusalem Institute), Nathaniel Berman (Brown University), and Omar Dajani (University of the Pacific). To register and join via Zoom, please email ILworkshopTAU@gmail.com.

Podcasts

Opinio Juris is pleased to announce the launch of its podcast, Fresh Squeezed: The Opinio Juris Podcast (#freshsqueezedOJ), led by Dr Mohsen al Attar and Dr Omar Kamel. Fresh Squeezed will discuss important topics in international law through an inclusive, pluri-lingual approach, featuring OJ contributors and international legal scholars from a mix of cultural and linguistic backgrounds. For more information about the podcast, see the introduction post here, and stay tuned for the first episode to be posted on our website soon!