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MPIL Agora Archive

10th April 2024 MPIL Agora with Guido Casavecchia: "COVID-19 and The Italian Constitutional Court"; Hans Lind: "The Artistic Protection Acts: Paradigm Changes in United States First Amendment Jurisprudence?" and Paul Weismann: "Selected Questions on Fundamental Rights Protection in EU Banking Law".


20th March 2024 MPIL Agora with Victoria Dhaisne: "The Extraterritorial Scope of International Human Rights Instruments" and Maciej Grześkowiak: "The Gap Between the Principle of Temporary Refuge and Asylum: How the International Refugee Regime Perpetuates Emergencies".


21st February 2024 MPIL Agora with Nicolas Lamp: "The Rise and Fall of the Market Metaphor of International Trade Lawmaking".


10th January 2024 MPIL Agora with Szymon Kucharski: "Solution Hidden in a Glass of Water: Accommodating Forced Climate Migrations in International Law" and Angelo Raffaele Salerno: "Constitution and Punitive Power: Changes in Italian Constitutional Jurisprudence".

 


20th December 2023 MPIL Agora with Cecilia Jacob: "The Human Protection Transnational Legal Order: Humanization of International Law and Accountability Norms" and SUN Yi: "Constitutional Review of Treaties?: An International Legal Assessment of German, French, and Dutch Practice from a Functionalist Perspective". 


15th November 2023 MPIL Agora with Peri Uran Murphy: 'Rethinking the "Turkish Type Presidential System"' and Nathaniel Boyd: "Changing Circumstances for the International Rule Of Law".

 


18th October 2023 MPIL Agora with Sek Lun Cheong: "From Investor Due Diligence to Human Rights Due Diligence in International Investment Law" and Zhang Qiyue: "Collaborative Governance of Climate Change and the Marine Environment: Observations of ITLOS Advisory Proceeding on Climate Change and International Law".


14th June 2023 MPIL Agora with Moumita Mandal: "The Role of Climate Change in Exacerbating Sexual and Gender-Based Violence against Women: A New Challenge for International Law" and Ali Sharifi: "Objective International liability" .


31st May 2023 MPIL Agora with Veerl Platvoet "The Importance of Animal Welfare in Wild Animal Law" and Pierre Lesaffre: "Arbitrariness in International Law" .


1st February 2023 MPIL Agora with Thalia Viveros Uehara: "The Fundamental Rights to Life and Health in Climate Litigation: Insights from Latin America". 


 

7 December 2022   Max Hofmann: "Der Informationsanspruch im Staat des digitalen Zeitalters"


9 June 2022

Yanwen Zhang, PhD candidate at the Faculty of Laws, University College London (UCL), held a presentation on the following topic: ‘The Historical Roots and Institutional Reforms of Investor-State Dispute Settlement: A Public International Law Perspective’.


7 December 2022  Max Hofmann: "Der Informationsanspruch im Staat des digitalen Zeitalters"


8 December 2021

Yutaka Arai-Takahashi held a presentation entitled “Demystification of the Tadic Appeals Judgment and the responsibility of a State for non-State actors under International Humanitarian Law (IHL)”.

Jitte Akkermans followed with his presentation “Equal consideration for the competences of the Member States: what the ECJ can learn from the Belgian Constitutional Court”.


29 September 2021

Nadja Reimold, presented her Ph. D. thesis which deals with acquired rights of individuals and state succession.


21 July 2021

Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan held a presentation on the topic "Contested Secularism in Bangladesh".


26 May 2021

Julia Meier held a presentation on the topic "Substantive Limitations on Amending the Swiss Federal Constitution".


27 February 2020

Laura Letourneux, gave a presentation on Repetitive Conduct in the Law of State Responsibility.

Manuel Monteagudo talked about Macroeconomic Stability and the Economic Constitution in the Pacific Alliance: Possibilities of Future Institutional Evolutions

 


25 September 2019

Ziv Bohrer (Faculty of Law, Bar-Ilan University, Israel) hold a presentation entitled "Nuremberg Was Not the First International Criminal Tribunal – by a Longshot: The Long (Forgotten) Pre-WW2 History of International Criminal Law"

followed by

Michael J. Moffatt (Section for International Law and International Relations, University of Vienna, Austria) who dealt with the topic of "Quod licet Jovi non licet Bovi: Double Standards – Feature or Affliction of the International Legal Order?"


14 August 2019

Gergö Balázs adressed the subject of: Can attacks against embassies serve as basis for the invocation of self-defence?


31 July 2019

On the first part Giulia Ciliberto held a presentation entitled: Where in the Eurozone is IHRL? Challenges to the Effective Protection of Socio-economic Rights in the Aftermath of the Sovereign Debt Crisis.

On the second part Federica Merenda adressed the subject of Autonomous Weapons Systems (AWS): The Ethical and Legal Challenges of Having Robots Apply International Humanitarian Law.


22 May 2019

Janne Mende held a presentation on the topic "Private Authority and Companies as Hybrid Actors: Developments of Business Responsibilities for Human Rights."


25 April 2019

Elisabetta Tatì discussed the subject of "European Cities' Recent Legal Actions in EU Institutions: Towards Stronger Urban Power?".


3 April 2019

Dr. Nuria Saura held a presentation entitled "Human Rights Defenders: The Right to Promote and Protect Human Rights".

Gabriela Navarro addressed the subject matter of "The Inter-American Jurisprudence on Indigenous Land Rights".


13 February 2019 

Andreas Orator currently Max Planck Grantee, held a presentation entitled "EU Constitutional Development since the Treaty of Lisbon: From Revision to Change?"

Irini Papanicolopulu (Associate Professor of International Law at the University of Milano-Bicocca Italy) followed with her presentation "The Past and Present of the Duty to Rescue at Sea"


28 November 2018

Tamas Dezso Ziegler (Eötvös Loránd University/ Institute for Legal Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, both in Hungary) hold a presentation entitled Fundamental Rights in the Higher Education Within the EU: Why the Market is a Bad Reference Point. 

Douglas Howland (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee). His talk wa entitled "Sovereign Claims and Possessions – The Beginnings of the Territorial State".


23 August 2018

Cosimo Gabbani (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies) presented on "Ineffectiveness of Administrative Punishments: Legal Consequences Under a MultiLevel Perspective"
Francesca Iurlaro (European University Institute) held a presentation on "Unpuzzling Customary International Law (CIL): the “Invention” of Customary Law of Nations from Francisco de Vitoria to Emer de Vattel"


5 July 2018

Amineh Farasatmand (Faculty of Law and Political Science/University of Tehran) presented on "Can Proportionality Make a Balance Between Interests of Foreign Investors and Hosting States?"
Jenny Poon (Faculty of Law, University of Western Ontario, Canada) gave a presentation on "Dynamism of Non-Refoulement Through Time: Relevance for Future International Protection?"


26 April 2018 Prof. B.S. Chimni gave a presentation on "Capitalism and Jurisdiction in International Law: A Conspectus of Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Over Time."


5 April 2018 Diego Bonetto, Sciences Po Law School, Paris/University of Turin presented on "What is in the Bottle? An Analysis of Water Distribution, Scarcity, and Commodification".


22 March 2018 At the joint session of Theory Talks-Agora Prof. B.S. Chimni provided a short introduction to TWAIL based, among others, on his own article.


22 February 2018 Sebastian M. Spitra, University Vienna followed by Germán M. Teruel Lonzano, University Murcia (Spain) gave the following presentations:


17 January 2018 Volkan Aslan (Istanbul University, Turkey) followed by Frauke Renz (University of Bern, Switzerland) held their presentations:


14 December 2017 Kubo Mačák (University of Exeter, United Kingdom) presented on the topic "Old Wine, New Bottles? Challenges for the Application of the Law of Targeting in Cyberspace and Outer Space".


16 November 2017 Lori Damrosch (Columbia Law School, New York) followed by Rebecca E. Khan (Central European University, Budapest) gave their presentations.


On 11 October, 2017 Professor Giulio Napolitano (University of Roma Tre) held a presentation on "The Transformations of Comparative Administrative Law".


09 August 2017 Ji Hua from Peking University, talked about "Common but Differentiated Responsibilities in the Paris Agreement: Meanings, Approaches and Implications".


20 July 2017 Viktoriia Lapa followed by José Gustavo Prieto Muñoz gave their presentations.


21 June 2017 Nesa Zimmermann addressed the notion of vulnerability invoked by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) throughout several cases.


23 May 2017 Ilja Richard Pavone presented on the topic "Towards a EU Animal Welfare Law? Animal Testing in the Context of the European Union: Reflections on the Directive 2010/63/EU and Its Transposition in Germany and in Italy".


20 April 2017 Juan Herrera presented on the topic “The Right of Cultural Minorities to Binding Consent: A Case Study of Judicial Dialogue in the Framework of a Ius Constitutionale Commune en América Latina”.


23 March 2017 Leiry Cornejo Chávez presented on the topic