Speakers

Bennoune, Karima

Karima Bennoune is the Lewis M. Simes Professor at the University of Michigan Law School. She served as the UN Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights from 2015–2021. Bennoune was appointed as an expert for the International Criminal Court in 2017 during the reparations phase of the groundbreaking case Prosecutor v. Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi, concerning intentional destruction of cultural heritage by extremists in Mali. A former legal advisor for Amnesty International, she has carried out human rights missions in most regions of the world. In September 2023, she spoke to the UN Security Council about gender apartheid in Afghanistan. She is Vice-President of the American Society of International Law.

Bilkova, Veronika

Professor Veronika Bílková is the head of the Department of International Law at the Faculty of Law of the Charles University in Prague and senior researcher in the Centre for International Law at the Institute of International Relations, Prague. She is also the head of the University Centre for Conflict and Post-Conflict Studies in Prague. She is member of the Venice Commission (since 2010) and member of COMEX (since 2025) of the Council of Europe. She was member of five expert missions on Ukraine established under the OSCE Moscow Mechanism in 2022–2025 and of the Management Board of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency (2020–2025). She was also the chair of the Czech Committee for Human Rights of Older Persons (2020–2025) and Secretary General and Vice-President of the European Society of International Law (2018–2023). Her fields of research include the use of force, international humanitarian law, international human rights law, international criminal law and the fight against terrorism. She has published extensively in Czech, English and French.

Dunoff, Jeffrey L.

Jeffrey L. Dunoff is the Associate Dean for Research and Laura H. Carnell Professor of Law at Temple University Beasley School of Law. His research focuses on public international law, international regulatory regimes, international courts, international legal theory, and interdisciplinary approaches to international law. Among other activities, he serves on the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law, as a general editor of the Journal of International Dispute Settlement, on the advisory board of the Journal of International Economic Law, as an elected member of the American Law Institute, and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.

Hamamoto, Shotaro

Professor at Kyoto University. Docteur en droit (Paris II). Counsel for Japan in the ILO advisory proceedings (ICJ, 2024–), Whaling (ICJ, 2010–2014), Hoshinmaru (ITLOS, 2007), and Tomimaru (ITLOS, 2007); Counsel for Botswana in Chagos advisory proceedings (ICJ, 2018–2019); Assistant for Spain in Fisheries Jurisdiction (ICJ, 1997–98). Japanese Delegate to UNCITRAL (2010–) and to the OECD Investment Committee (2011, 2026). His recent publications on international human rights include 'Human Rights, Treaty Bodies, General Comments/Recommendations' (MPEPIL, 2023, co-authored with Hinako Takata).

Martin, Claudia

Professor Claudia Martin is the Co-Director of the Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and Professorial Lecturer in Residence at American University Washington College of Law. At the Academy, Professor Martin is the Co-Director of the LL.M in International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and oversees the academic coordination of the Program of Advanced Studies in Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and the Inter-American Moot Court Competition. Professor Martin specializes in international and comparative human rights law and Inter-American human rights law.

Peters, Anne

Anne Peters is a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law Heidelberg, a Professor at the universities of Heidelberg, Freie Universität Berlin and Basel and a L. Bates Lea Global Law Professor at the Law School of the University of Michigan. She is a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, a member of the Institut de Droit International as well as a member of the academic advisory council on international law for the German Government. She holds honorary doctorates of the universities of Lausanne, KU Leuven and Vienna.

Ruiz Fabri, Hélène

Hélène Ruiz Fabri is a Professor at the Sorbonne Law School (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne). She is also a member of the Institut de droit international and a former president of the European Society of International Law. She was previously dean of the Sorbonne Law School and director of a research centre. She is also an arbitrator.

Viñuales, Jorge E.

Jorge E. Viñuales is the Harold Samuel Professor of Law and Environmental Policy at the University of Cambridge, a Research Professor of International Law at Luiss Guido Carli, in Rome, and a Member of the Institut de Droit International.