ANU Law student ambassador Andre Kwok is currently on exchange at the National University of Singapore as a Westpac Asian Exchange Scholar. Read about his experiences in this four-part blog series.

Since it was adopted in 1969, the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT) has come to be widely regarded as one of the International Law Commission’s (ILC’s) greatest successes. Indeed, the VCLT’s drafting history reflects that the ILC sought to create an enduring set of provisions constituting a law of treaties – regardless of the specific features of the individual treaties to which such rules might come to be applied.

This public lecture by Professor Peter Danchin (University of Maryland) and Professor Shruti Rana (Indiana University) with commentary from Professor Philip Alston (New York University) seeks to address the fundamental problem of how to reconceive engagement by states with the international legal order in the face of a sustained populist backlash.

The Minister for Defence has referred to the parliament's Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs Trade and Defence the question how Australia makes decisions to send service personnel into international armed conflict. The decision to go to war is arguably the most important decision any government can make. Yet it is the least regulated of any government decision. We have all observed the many hours of parliamentary debate and back room negotiation on controversial legislation.

The Australian Year Book of International Law (AYBIL) uniquely combines scholarly commentary with contributions from Australian government officials. Consistent with this mission, this event will highlight recent work published in the Year Book focussed on the legal implications of the downing of MH17 in 2014.

In her book, International Law in Public Debate (Cambridge University Press, 2021), Madelaine argues that public debates in the language of international law have produced a popular form of international law that matters for international practice. In this seminar, Madelaine will give an account of her book’s argument, drawing on examples from the Australian public debates over the 2003 Iraq War and over Australia’s military intervention in Vietnam in 1965/66. Through this account, Madelaine re-wires traditional accounts of who gets to ‘speak’ international law.

Got an interest in international and comparative law? Join the ANU College of Law for the Demystifying Law Careers series as we focus on exploring careers in international and comparative law.

Our panellists will explore their experiences in the legal field as well as the steps they took to get to their current positions. Light refreshments will be provided.

Kriti Mahajan has always been interested in travelling and finding ways to improve global communities. This led her to The Australian National University (ANU), where she is currently in the final year of her Bachelor of Law (Hons) and Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE) flexible double-degree. 

This roundtable will discuss emerging issues in climate and international law from multidisciplinary perspectives. Panellists will reflect on their experiences in academia, international negotiations, and domestic implementation of international conventions, and how their work is situated in a broader geopolitical context.  

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Join Dr Camille Goodman in conversation with Sue Robertson, Henry Burmester AO QC and Professor Tim Stephens to launch her new book 'Coastal State Jurisdiction over Living Resources in the Exclusive Economic Zone' (Oxford University Press, 2021).

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