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Can International Law Provide an Effective Response to Climate Change?
2 October 2008Can International Law Provide an Effective Response to Climate Change? 01/10/08 Over the next 18 months - with a deadline for the end of 2009 - the international community will try...
Competition Law Forum: Report on Regulation 1/2003
30 September 2008Regulation 1/2003 is the centrepiece of the European Commission's project to 'modernise' the enforcement of the EC competition rules. After more than five years experience with this enforcement framework,...
Investment Treaty Forum Conference
22 September 2008On 18-19 September, the Institute's Investment Treaty Forum hosted a two-day conference on 'The Energy Charter Treaty: Energy security, investment protection and future developments'. The choice of the topic...
The British Institute of International and Comparative Law Newsletter
8 September 2008Please find below the link to the summer edition of the Institute's newsletter. /files/3727_newsletter_vol_02.pdf
Latest Rapid Response Briefing: Prosecuting Sudanese President Al-Bashir before the ICC
29 July 2008The Institute's latest Rapid Response briefing took place on 24 July 2008, exploring the implications of the recent request by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court for the...
Rapid Response Briefing: After Lisbon - Opprobrium or Opportunity?
8 July 2008The aim of this Rapid Response Briefing held at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law on 1 July 2008 was to explore the effects of Ireland's recent...
Institutes hosts celebrations for 400th Anniversary of death of Alberico Gentili
16 June 2008Alberico Gentili, the Italian jurist, is considered to be the founder of modern public international law. His work and achievements are closely studied by the Centro Internazionale Studi Gentiliani...
Institute appoints new Dorset Fellow in Public International Law
22 May 2008The Institute is delighted to announce the appointment of Sarah Williams as the new Dorset Fellow. Sarah will lead the Institute's research and events programme in public international law. Sarah...
Institute launches e-newsletter
15 May 2008The Institute has relaunched its newsletter in electronic format and circulated it to all its members; it can also be accessed below. The aim is to keep members and...
Relighting the Flame: Institute hosts third Rapid Response seminar on Tibet
24 April 2008The status of Tibet has long been in question, but a recent period of rioting in the Tibetan Autonomous Region and the surrounding Chinese provinces coincided with demonstrations by...
Institute's Citizenship Report published as part of Lord Goldsmith's independent review of citizenship
12 March 2008The Institute's study on the Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship was published by the Ministry of Justice alongside former Attorney General Lord Goldsmith's independent review of citizenship on 11...
Institute hosts successful Conference on the Treaty of Lisbon
3 March 2008On Friday 29 February, BIICL hosted a conference on the new European treaty, the Treaty of Lisbon. Speakers included academics, practitioners, political scientists and politicians, covering every aspect of...
'Rapid Response' seminar on Kosovo: To recognize or Not to Recognize
29 February 2008On 17 January 2008 the government of Kosovo proclaimed its independence. Since that time a number of states have declared that they will or will not recognise Kosovo as...
Institute Research Fellow lectures on international criminal law in Ottawa
29 February 2008In the third week of February 2007, Institute Research Fellow Adineh Abghari visited the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa (Canada) and delivered a lecture on 'Victim's Rights...
Dr Philip Marsden appointed to OFT Board as a non-executive director
25 February 2008The British Institute of International and Comparative Law congratulates Dr Philip Marsden on his appointment by the Office of Fair Trading to its Board as non-executive director for a...
Institute hosts high profile human rights conference
15 February 2008As this year marks the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a reflection on the current state of Human Rights' prevention and protection schemes seems particularly...
Institute publishes media monitoring reports on Iran and hosts an Islamic Conference
14 February 2008Media Monitoring Report - now online The first two media monitoring reports on the international media's coverage of Iranian human rights stories, for the periods January-April 2007 and July-September 2007,...
New Director for BIICL in its 50th Anniversary Year
29 November 2007The British Institute of International and Comparative Law is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Robert McCorquodale as its new Director. He takes up his position in January...
Institute launches Rapid Response Briefings: first event features Pakistan
28 November 2007As part of its 50th Anniversary programme, on 6 December the Institute launched an important new occasional events series at the Institute: Rapid Response Briefings. The first...
Sir Arthur Watts KCMG QC passes away
27 November 2007The Institute was saddened to learn of the death of Sir Arthur Watts on Friday, 16 November in St Thomas's hospital in London. His partner, Cecilia Gillette, and other...
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