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Constantinos Yiallourides
Research Leader in the Law of the Sea
Biography Dr Constantinos Yiallourides is Research Leader in Law of the Sea at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL) where he leads the Institute's Watts Programme of research, training, and events in the law of the sea and global ocean governance. He is also Lecturer in International Law at Macquarie University, School of Law, Sydney. He was previously lecturer in international law at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, post-doctoral researcher in energy law…
Climate Change+2Mariia Tymofiienko
Head of Projects, Ukrainian International Law Response
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Courts and Tribunals+1Irene Pietropaoli
Senior Fellow in Business & Human Rights
Biography Dr Irene Pietropaoli is a Senior Fellow in Business and Human Rights and joined BIICL in October 2018. She in the Director of the Human Rights Due Diligence Forum and conducts research and training programmes on corporate human rights and environmental due diligence. For example she leads BIICL's research on human rights in global supply chains and BIICL's short course on business and human rights. Irene is also leading BIICL's work on Artificial Intelligence …
Artificial Intelligence+3Roman Petrov
British Academy Research Fellow
Biography Jean Monnet Chair in EU Law at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy since 2010, Head of Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence in EU Studies at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy since 2011. Director of German Law Institute at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy since 2016. Lectured the very first Jean Monnet Module in EU law in Ukraine at the Donetsk National University in 2001. Prof. Dr. Roman Petrov obtained his PhD at the Queen Mary University…
UkraineYarik Kryvoi
Senior Fellow in International Economic Law and Director of the Investment Treaty Forum
Professor Yarik Kryvoi is the Senior Fellow in International Economic Law and Director of the Investment Treaty Forum. He is also an Of Counsel at Keidan Harrison in London. Prof Kryvoi's expertise is primarily in the areas of international dispute resolution, including investor-state arbitration and international commercial arbitration, international administrative law and international public law. In addition to his role at the BIICL, he is a visiting professor at a London-based university…
Arbitration+5Kristin Hausler
Dorset Senior Research Fellow in Public International Law and Director, Centre for International Law
Biography Kristin Hausler, Dorset Senior Fellow, is the Director of the Centre for International Law. Since joining the Institute in 2007, she has developed and led several research projects on human rights, international humanitarian law, and international criminal law, areas in which she also provides training at the Institute. Her expertise lies in cultural heritage and she is currently leading a project on the restitution of cultural objects. Recently, she completed a project analysing…
Centre for International law+5Jean-Pierre Gauci
Arthur Watts Senior Research Fellow in Public International Law and Director of Teaching and Training
Biography Dr. Jean-Pierre Gauci is Senior Research Fellow in Public International Law and Director of Teaching and Training at BIICL. Recruited in 2014 as a research coordinator for the British Influences on International Law Project, his role was extended to that of research fellow in August 2015 and associate senior research fellow in 2017. Jean-Pierre holds a PhD in Law from King's College London; a Doctor of Laws and Magister Juris in International Law from the University of Malta. Beyond…
Climate Change+7Kateryna Busol
British Academy Research Fellow
Biography Kateryna is a Ukrainian lawyer specialising in international humanitarian, criminal law, transitional justice, gender and cultural heritage. She is a Associate Professor at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. As a scholar and practitioner, Kateryna has worked on various justice issues related to her expertise and with a specific focus on the Russia-Ukraine armed conflict. She has published on the weaponisation of cultural heritage, conflict-related sexual violence,…
UkraineJulinda Beqiraj
Maurice Wohl Senior Fellow in European Law
Biography Dr Julinda Beqiraj is the Maurice Wohl Senior Fellow in European Law. She leads and develops the research and events programme in European law areas (such as human rights, migration, trade and the environment) and publishes high-quality research for the Institute in this area. She also contributes to the Bingham Centre's work on Access to Justice within its programme of research on Justice Systems and the Rule of Law, with a particular focus on the efficiency and quality…
European Law+4Tetyana Antsupova
British Academy Research Fellow
Biography Professor Tetyana Antsupova graduated from Odesa law school (Ukraine) in 1999. Between 1995 and 1997 she had been studying and successfully completed the Public Policy Programme within the cooperation of the University of Maryland (USA) and University of John Hopkins (USA) with Odesa State University. Specifically, part of her studies she did at the University of Maryland (August-December 1995). Her academic activities and publications had been devoted to the Interstate cooperation…
UkraineShort Course: War in Ukraine in Context: History, Politics and Law
Event Date: 25th April 2024
TRAINING Short Course: War in Ukraine in Context: History, Politics and Law Event - Tags Share Links Event - Timings and Location Course Details The course offers interdisciplinary overview of prerequisites, current trends and future scenarios of the War in Ukraine. The course will enable participants to understand…
Human Rights and IHL+1Roundtable: Unlocking Investment in Ukraine (in person participation)
Event Date: 24th April 2024
EVENTS Roundtable: Unlocking Investment in Ukraine (in person participation) Event - Tags Share Links Event - Timings and Location Event Details The aim of the project ''Unlocking Investment in Ukraine - UK Ministry of Justice (MOJ) and the British Institute for International and Comparative Law (BIICL)' is to inform key stakeholders…
UkraineRoundtable: Unlocking Investment in Ukraine (online participation)
Event Date: 24th April 2024
EVENTS Roundtable: Unlocking Investment in Ukraine (online participation) Event - Tags Share Links Event - Timings and Location Event Details The aim of the project ''Unlocking Investment in Ukraine - UK Ministry of Justice (MOJ) and the British Institute for International and Comparative Law (BIICL)' is to inform key stakeholders…
UkraineRoundtable: Unlocking Investment in Ukraine (hybrid)
Event Date: 24th April 2024
EVENTS Roundtable: Unlocking Investment in Ukraine Event - Tags Share Links Event - Timings and Location Event Details The aim of the project ''Unlocking Investment in Ukraine - UK Ministry of Justice (MOJ) and the British Institute for International and Comparative Law (BIICL)' is to inform key stakeholders on the advantages…
UkraineEU Common Security and Defence Policy - International/Regional Security: Can Ukraine be a Part of It?
Event Date: 16th April 2024
EVENTS EU Common Security and Defence Policy - International/Regional Security: Can Ukraine be a Part of It? Event - Tags Share Links Event - Timings and Location International Roundtable Discussion Moderator Oksana Holovko-Havrysheva, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, head of the Jean Monnet Center…
European Law+1Short Course: Children's Rights: Current Challenges in a Global Perspective (Online Participation)
Event Date: 12th April 2024
EVENTS Short Course: Children's Rights: Current Challenges in a Global Perspective (Online Participation) Event - Tags Share Links Event - Timings and Location Course Details This course explores current challenges to children's human rights, examining to what extent existing international and regional legal frameworks…
Climate Change+5Short Course: Children’s Rights: Current Challenges in a Global Perspective (In Person Participation)
Event Date: 12th April 2024
EVENTS Short Course: Children's Rights: Current Challenges in a Global Perspective (In Person Participation) Event - Tags Share Links Event - Timings and Location Course Details This course explores current challenges to children's human rights, examining to what extent existing international and regional legal frameworks…
Climate Change+5Short Course: Children’s Rights: Current Challenges in a Global Perspective (Hybrid)
Event Date: 12th April 2024
TRAINING Short Course: Children's Rights: Current Challenges in a Global Perspective (Hybrid) Event - Tags Share Links Event - Timings and Location Course Details This course explores current challenges to children's human rights, examining to what extent existing international and regional legal frameworks offer…
Artificial Intelligence+6Short Course: War in Ukraine in Context
Last Updated: 3rd November 2023
Short Course: War in Ukraine in Context: History, Politics and Law Share LinksCourse Outline The course offers interdisciplinary overview of prerequisites, current trends and future scenarios of the War in Ukraine. The course will enable participants to understand the reasons of the conflict and to find political and legal solutions to combat its consequences and to restore trust in international law and justice. Over the course of five sessions, participants will gain knowledge…
UkraineIndividual Reparations for Human Rights Violations in Ukraine
13th October 2023
Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula and aggression in Ukraine's eastern Donbas provinces that led to the establishment of non-recognised entities (the so-called "Donetsk/Luhansk People's Republics") in 2014 resulted in a significant deterioration in the human rights situation within these territories. The armed conflict has had wider human rights, economy and security repercussions for Ukraine and the region. Russia has also labelled the treatment of ethnic Russians and…
Cultural Heritage+4Individual Reparations for Human Rights Violations in Ukraine (Hybrid)
Event Date: 15th June 2023
EVENTS Individual Reparations for Human Rights Violations in Ukraine (Hybrid) Event - Tags Share Links Event - Timings and Location Event Details The annexation of Crimea and Russia's aggression in Donbas that led to the establishment of non-recognised entities (so-called "Donetsk/Lugansk people's republics") in…
Cultural Heritage+4Short Course: War in Ukraine in Context: History, Politics and Law
Event Date: 30th May 2023
TRAININGTRAINING Short Course: War in Ukraine in Context: History, Politics and Law Event - Tags Share Links Event - Timings and Location Course Details The course offers interdisciplinary overview of prerequisites, current trends and future scenarios of the War in Ukraine. The course will enable participants to…
International Law+1Private International Law in National Adjudication
Event Date: 24th April 2023
EVENTS Private International Law in National Adjudication Event - Tags Share Links Event - Timings and Location Hosted by the Ukrainian Association of International Law In cooperation with the Supreme Court of Ukraine and British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL) Conference Details Globalization processes,…
Courts and Tribunals+3Contribution to European Parliament Report
22nd March 2023
Protecting cultural heritage from armed conflicts in Ukraine and beyond Today, the European Parliament published a Report on Protecting cultural heritage from armed conflicts in Ukraine and beyond for which many stakeholders were interviewed to identify good practices and gaps in the ways cultural heritage is being protected in Ukraine. In addition to detailing the legal and policy frameworks applicable to the protection of cultural heritage from the ongoing armed conflict in Ukraine,…
Cultural Heritage+1BIICL Roundtable on Ukraine attended by the Presidents of the Supreme Courts of Ukraine and the UK
10th February 2023
Leading judiciary and experts gather at BIICL to discuss support for Ukraine's courts and legal reform programme. On 30 January 2023 the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL) hosted the Roundtable "Ukrainian courts and the justice system during a war". The Roundtable was attended by a delegation of senior judges and politicians from Ukraine, led by the President of the Ukrainian Supreme Court, Vsevolod Knyazev. Ukrainian participants also included His Excellency Ambassador…
UkraineThe effect of sanctions on investment arbitration
24th October 2022
Illustration: Daily Mail These remarks were delivered at the 12th Investment Treaty Arbitration Conference organised by the Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic on 20 October 2022. Following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the effect of sanctions on arbitration has become an increasingly important topic. Within weeks of the invasion, the European Union, United States, United Kingdom, Japan and other states imposed sweeping sanctions to support peace and the territorial integrity…
Arbitration+2Economic Sanctions Against Russia and their Compatibility with WTO Law: Questions and Answers
6th April 2022
1. What are the benefits and duties deriving from Russia's WTO membership? Russia became a WTO member in 2012. The Most Favoured Nation (MFN) clause embodied in different WTO agreements (notably the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and others) entitles Russia, as a WTO member, to benefit from the same regulatory and tariff treatment accorded to products of other WTO members, regarding both imports and exports. Similarly, as regards services, under the General Agreement on Trade…
Investment and Trade+1New article published by Guy Beringer in City A.M
1st April 2022
Guy Beringer, Co-Chairman of the Bingham Development Board considers how the emergence of economic sanctions creates new challenges for government, business and the law. The emergence of economic sanctions as a potential deterrent weapon for dealing with rogue states gives rise to new challenges for government, business and the law. This will require new thinking and co-ordinated planning. It will also require better understanding of the rationale for rule of law principles in market economies.…
Comparative Law+3Part 2: Responsible Exit from Russia: Business and Human Rights in a Global Governance Gap
22nd March 2022
This is a two-part blog series. In Part 1 Dr Irene Pietropaoli discusses whether foreign companies have a responsibility under international law to leave Russia. In Part 2, Dr. Irene Pietrapaoli and Dr. Daniel Aguirre discuss responsible exits from Russia. Hundreds of multinational companies have left Russia since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine. While this voluntary divestment - most are not subject to sanctions - may be an effective economic weapon in response…
Business and Human Rights+3Destruction of Ukrainian cultural heritage vis-a-vis military necessity and lasting peace
21st March 2022
Almost four weeks into the Russian invasion, important Ukrainian heritage sites have suffered destruction or damage, including the State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre and the Philharmonic in Kharkiv, as well as the museum of local history in Ivankiv, where the losses have included works by the celebrated Ukrainian folk artist, Maria Prymachenko. Plenty more is at risk, including Ukraine's seven World Heritage Sites designated pursuant to the World Heritage Convention (1972) and…
Cultural Heritage+2Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and International Law: Questions and Answers
17th March 2022
Authors: Prof. Yarik Kryvoi (YK), Kristin Hausler (KH), Iris Anastasiadou (IA), Dr Jean-Pierre Gauci (JPG), Dr Noemi Magugliani (NM), Dr Irene Pietropaoli (IP), Dr Berenika Drazewska (BD) In the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL) has prepared a list of relevant questions and answers, which the general public may have. In addition to answers prepared by BIICL's experts in the relevant…
Business and Human Rights+4Part 1: Do foreign companies have a responsibility under international law to leave Russia?
14th March 2022
This is a two-part blog series. In Part 1 Dr Irene Pietropaoli discusses whether foreign companies have a responsibility under international law to leave Russia. In Part 2, Dr. Irene Pietrapaoli and Dr. Daniel Aguirre discuss responsible exits from Russia. Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine on 24th February, over 300 multinational companies have decided to leave Russia or suspend their operations there. Do they have an obligation under international law to do so? Foreign companies have…
Business and Human Rights+3How does international law protect Ukrainian cultural heritage in war? Is it protected differently than other civilian objects?
10th March 2022
In line with the principle of distinction, the cornerstone of international humanitarian law, attacks may only be directed against military objectives; thus, in principle, all civilian objects enjoy protection during hostilities. Objects and sites of cultural, religious or historical importance benefit from additional protection on the basis of treaty and customary international law. While the Geneva Conventions of 1949 do not include a specific provision for cultural property, Article 53 of…
Cultural Heritage+1