International Law and Affairs Group
About us
Seeking to combine insights from both International Law and International Relations scholarship, the International Law and Affairs Group (ILAG) provides a forum for research and discussion for those interested in issues of public international law, broadly defined, at The City Law School.
These include the areas of international human rights, international economic law, and international criminal law. Reflecting its interdisciplinary approach to the study of the subject, the group also collaborates with a number of academics from the Department of International Politics at City University London.
We combine the research expertise and educational excellence of ILAG members to develop thorough and specialised educational courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.
We offer a wide range of elective models available to LLB students and Graduate Entry LLB (GELLB) students. These include Public International Law, Human Rights Law, International Criminal Law, International Economic Law and International Commercial Arbitration. We also run an intensive and specialised LLM programme in Public International Law, using small-group teaching and providing modules in different fields.
Members
Academics
Dr Tawhida Ahmed
Tawhida Ahmed is Reader in Law at The City Law School. Her research interests are in EU law and human rights, specializing in minority rights protection.
Dr Grietje Baars
Grietje Baars is Reader in Law & Social Change Law at The City Law School. Their interests revolve around the role of capital, and the corporation, in global governance, as well as the nature and effects of corporate power in global society, as exemplified by the study of regulation and resistance in the global supply chain.
Dr Mauro Barelli
Dr Barelli is Reader in Law at The City Law School. His interests lie in interdisciplinary approaches to the study of minority groups' rights, the right to self-determination, and global justice. He has written extensively on the question of indigenous peoples' rights in international law. Dr Barelli is an associate of the UK Network on Minority and Group Rights, a collaborative project among scholars based primarily in the UK which organises conferences, roundtables and publications on topical issues surrounding the rights of minority groups.
Professor David Collins
Professor David Collins is a Professor in Law at The City Law School. He is a Fellow of the Institute for Globalisation and International Regulation at Maastricht University, a Visiting Professor at Esade Law School and a Current Development Editor for the Manchester Journal of International Economic Law. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of International Economic Law of Georgetown University and at Columbia University Law School as well as a number of other academic institutions.
Dr Jessica Corsi
Jessica's work focuses on how the law can prevent and alleviate violence and foster substantive and transformative equality.
Dr Tom Davies
Dr Davies is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Politics. His researches focuses on international non-governmental organizations, global civil society and transnational history. He runs the Project on the Evolution of International Non-Governmental Organizations.
Dr Carmen Draghici
Dr Carmen Draghici is Reader in Law at The City Law School. Her research interests concern the practice of the European Court of Human Rights, domestic, EU and UN counter-terrorism regimes, and the responsibility of States and international organisations for breaches of human rights and humanitarian law. She has authored several scholarly articles and chapters published in UK, US and European journals and edited collections. Her current projects include developments in the international guarantees for the protection of the family life of cohabitees, same-sex couples and transgender persons.
Ms Sandhya Drew
Sandhya Drew is a Senior Lecturer in the Bar Professional Training Course at The City Law School. She has a long history of practicing in national and international employment and public law and is a CEDR Qualified Mediator specialising in workplace and sports disputes.
Professor Elaine Fahey
Professor Elaine Fahey is Jean Monnet Chair of Law & Transatlantic Relations and Professor of Law at the Institute for the Study of European Law (ISEL).
Dr Sabrina Germain
Dr Sabrina Germain is a Senior Lecturer in the Law School at City, University of London. Her research interests lie in the many connections between law and public policy. More particularly, Dr Germain is interested in the interaction between the public and private sector and the influence of private entities on the law-making process.
Dr Mazen Masri
Dr Mazen Masri is Lecturer in Law at The City Law School. His research focuses on the interaction between law and broader social, political and economic questions, in particular the legal aspects of the Israeli-Arab conflict.
Dr Jed Odermatt (convenor)
Dr Jed Odermatt is a Lecturer at the City Law School, City, University of London. His research interests include public international law, the law of international organizations, and EU external relations law.
Dr Kseniya Oksamytna
Kseniya’s research interests are international organisations, peacekeeping and peacebuilding, and international norms.
Dr Madura Rasaratnam
Dr Madura Rasaratnam is a Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics in the Department of International Politics at City, University of London. Her research interests are situated in the areas of comparative politics, conflict, conflict management and international interventions with a regional focus on the countries of south Asia, specifically India and Sri Lanka.
Professor Katherine Reece Thomas
Professor Katherine Reece Thomas is Reader in Law at The City Law School. Her research interests include public international law and company law. She is an expert on the law of state immunity.
Dr Geoffrey Swenson
Dr Geoffrey Swenson is a Senior Lecturer in International Politics (Security). His research focuses on issues related to post-conflict reconstruction, democracy and the rule of law, legal pluralism, international relations theory, and foreign aid.
Dr Andrew Wolman
Andrew Wolman joined City Law School as a Lecturer in Law in September 2018. Dr Wolman’s research is focused on the development of refugee law and policy in East Asia, the international response to North Korean human rights violations, and the right to leave in the context of irregular migration.
Dr Aldo Zammit Borda
Aldo is a Reader in Law at City, University of London. He previously served as Director of the Centre for Access to Justice and Inclusion at Anglia Ruskin University. His research focus lies in the area of International Criminal Justice.
Dr Tietie Zhang
Dr Tietie “Frank” Zhang is a Senior Lecturer in Law at City, University of London. His main research areas include international commercial arbitration, international trade law, and the Chinese legal system.
Dr Jure Zrilic
Jure’s research interests lie in public international law, international investment law and international arbitration. More specifically, his recent work examines the interplay between international investment law and other bodies of law, such as the law of armed conflict and global health.
Affiliated Research Students
Alexandros-Catalin Bakos
Alexandros's research focuses on the interaction between international investment law and arbitration and economic sanctions. His thesis will focus on three aspects of this interaction.
Aminah Karim
Aminah’s thesis explores the atrocities committed during Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971 and why such atrocities were not identified as a formal genocide by the international community.
Zulker Nayeen
Zulker Nayeen's research focuses on how the competition between investor’s right to profit generation and host country’s expectation to uphold their sustainable development policies can be systematically resolved in investor-state arbitration.
Andrea Pelliconi
Andrea Pelliconi is a PhD researcher at City, University of London. Her research focuses on violations of human rights caused by demographic engineering and forced migration. She is also specialized in refugee law and asylum.
Shahd Qannam
Shahd is a PhD researcher at City, University of London. Her research interests lie in the fields of human rights law, refugee law, statelessness law, and international humanitarian law.
Sahar Sadoughi
Sahar's research focuses on the critical analysis of international legal justice institutions and systems using a background in political philosophy and law. Before commencing her PhD, Sahar completed her Master of Laws at City Law School where her dissertation examined the proceedings addressing the Rohingya Genocide at the International Court of Justice and at the International Criminal Court. Her academic background is in political theory, philosophy, and ethics and supplemented by her Masters at King's College London in Global Ethics as well as a foundation in English Law. In addition to her academic work, Sahar has worked as a legal researcher and translator for various human rights advocacy organisations.
Santosh Anand
Santosh's research focuses on the concept of international crime and seeks to critically study its historical formation and contemporary meaning under international law. He uses the framework of the Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) to develop a critical and contextual account of the concept investigating specifically the relationship of authority the concept of international crime helps institute between international law and third world.
Daria Efimova
Daria's research interests include International Commercial Arbitration, Mediation & Negotiations, Investment Law, International Trade Law, and Contemporary IP issues.
Christos Karetsos
Christos’s thesis is titled 'Navigating the Foreign Investment Control Landscape: FDI screening in the EU, US and the UK'. His thesis investigates the investment screening regimes in the EU, US, and the UK, aiming to identify major transnational trends.
Christos’s research is funded by City, University of London through the City Law School Doctoral Studentship.
Tanvir Munim
Munim’s research focuses on Universal Jurisdiction and the International Criminal Court with particular emphasis on the ICC and its complementarity regime in promoting domestic exercise of Universal Jurisdiction for core international crimes.
Visit Munim’s full student profile.
Mustafa Yilmaz
Mustafa has been specialising in commercial and maritime law for over four years. He is an admitted lawyer from the Ankara Bar Association. He is the author of the book "Legal Aspects of Autonomous Ships" (Original title in Turkish: Otonom Gemilerin Hukuki Boyutu), the first-ever monograph devoted to the legal implications of autonomous shipping.
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Events
Upcoming events
The Commercial Activity Exception to State Immunity
26 March 2025, 18:00-19:30, Room FG05, Whiskin Street Building and Online
The International Law and Affairs Group (ILAG) brings together a panel to discuss the recent book The Commercial Activity Exception to State Immunity: An Introduction (Edward Elgar, 2024).
In The Commercial Activity Exception to State Immunity: An Introduction, Katherine Reece Thomas explores the evolving nature of state immunity, providing an analysis of the tension between private and public law. The current rules on the commercial activity exception to state immunity are examined, in both international and domestic law settings, using recent case studies from the UK , the US and other common and civil law jurisdictions. Later chapters focus on central bank immunity in the context of sanctions and the use of the commercial activity exception in relation to claims against states for breaches of human rights.
Speakers:
Professor Katherine Reece Thomas, The City Law School, City St George’s, University of London
Professor Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Professor of Public International Law, Queen Mary, University of London
Dr Dogan Gultutan, Lecturer, The City Law School, City St George’s, University of London
Jonathan Brosseau, PhD candidate, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and McGill University
The event is kindly sponsored by GREYMORE.
High Steaks: Climate Change, Cattle and the International Legal Order
14 March 2025, 13:00-14:30, Room TG14, City Law School and Online
The International Law and Affairs Group (ILAG) and Centre for Food Policy have organised a panel examining the role of international law in governing livestock emissions and shaping sustainable food systems in the context of the global climate crisis.
Dr Rebecca Williams will present her book Climate Change, Cattle, and the International Legal Order (Hart Bloomsbury, 2024) with expert commentary from Dr Rebecca Wells and Dr Christian Reynolds from the perspective of food policy.
Speakers
Dr Rebecca Williams is a lecturer in environmental law at the University of Glasgow. Her research interests include the intersection of the agricultural sector and environmental law and governance, particularly with respect to climate change, forests, nitrates management, trade, public health, food security and climate justice. Dr Williams is the author of Climate Change, Cattle, and the International Legal Order (Hart Bloomsbury, 2024).
Dr Christian Reynolds is an expert in food loss and waste, sustainable diets, and food policy. He has researched and addressed these issues globally and has published extensively. He has provided evidence to parliaments and played a role in developing standards for food loss and waste accounting. His recent work focuses on citizen science, sustainability in the UK food system, and the environmental impact of public procurement. Currently, he is leading a project on reducing plastic packaging and food waste through product innovation simulation. He is also involved in a project investigating the effects of food taxes on the entire food system. He has previously held positions at WRAP where he worked on international food sustainability and integrating healthy sustainable eating and food waste reduction policies. Additionally, he has collaborated with global partners such as the World Bank, NRDC, and WWF.
Dr Rebecca Wells is a Senior Lecturer in Food Policy in the Centre for Food Policy at City St George’s, University of London, and the Programme Director for the university’s MSc in Food Policy. A former BBC radio producer and food journalist, Rebecca's research focuses on how food policy for better food systems is communicated. After completion of her PhD in Food Policy, Rebecca worked as a Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow on the food systems teaching and learning programme IFSTAL (Interdisciplinary Food Systems Teaching and Learning), and a Research Fellow on the EU funded research project QUEST (QUality and Effectiveness in Science and Technology Communication). She is the PI for the Centre for the UKRI-funded Fix Our Food project, which explores food systems transformation in Yorkshire. She has a particular interest in food systems teaching and learning, has an MA in Academic Practice, and is the co-lead for the Centre for Food Policy on the UKRI funded Centre for Doctoral Training in Food Systems.
Dr Jed Odermatt is a Reader in International Law at The City Law School and convenor of the International Law and Affairs Group (ILAG). He leads the interdisciplinary module Sustainability and Climate Change at City St George’s.
Minimum Wage: tool of emancipation or tool of coercion?
Thursday 6 March 2025, 16:00-18:00
A panel of distinguished speakers will address this question, to be followed by a general discussion. All are welcome.
Alessandro Stanziani is Professor of Global History at Paris Sciences et Lettres Research University and Senior Research Fellow at Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS). He is the author of Les métamorphoses du travail contraint: Une histoire globale XVIIIe-XIXe siècles (Sciences Po, Les Presses, 2020) and of Labor on the Fringes of Empire: Voice, Exit and the Law (Springer, 2018).
Zoe Adams is Fellow at King's College, Cambridge and Lecturer at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of Labour and the Wage: A Critical Perspective (OUP, 2020) and of The Legal Concept of Work (OUP, 2022).
Liberty Bridge is Senior Associate Solicitor at Leigh Day Solicitors, specialising in international claims against parent companies for breaches of fundamental rights down their supply chains. She has conduct of the case of Limbu v Dyson (judgment on jurisdiction) [2024] EWCA Civ 1564. The Claimants are Nepalese and Bangladeshi workers transported to Malaysia and not paid the local minimum wage, amongst other forms of mistreatment. They seek redress against Dyson, using the law of negligence and unjust enrichment. Liberty will also discuss her other cases Milasi Josiya and others v British American Tobacco and others; and San San Aye and 130 others v Tesco PLC, Intertek Group PLC and others.
Natalie Sedacca is Assistant Professor in Employment Law at the University of Durham. She has carried out theoretical and practical work on emancipation of domestic workers. She was also part of the move towards removal of the exemption from the National Minimum Wage for family workers. In her forthcoming book, she discusses the rights of domestic workers in Chile, the UK, India, and South Africa and the use of human rights law to challenge lack of protection. She will discuss her draft chapter on the devaluation of domestic work through perception of a ‘family-like’- relationship.
Sandhya Drew (Chair) is a Barrister, Senior Lecturer at City St George's, Honorary Adjunct Professor in Law, O.P. Jindal Global University, and Professeure Invitée, Université Paris Nanterre. Her focus on forced labour started with Human Trafficking: Human Rights Law and Practice (LAG, 2009). Her article 'Safe in Leicester Town? Law's reach to those working below the minimum wage' is forthcoming in ILJ 2025.
Targeted Sanctions Against Individuals
Thursday 30 January 2025, 18:00-19:00, City, University of London
Proportionality Concerns in Targeting Family Members – A Comparative Analysis between EU and UK Jurisprudence
Speaker: Francesca Finelli, University of Luxembourg
Discussant: Dr Jed Odermatt, City Law School, City St George’s, University of London
Chair: Dr Andrew Wolman, City Law School, City St George’s, University of London
Past events
2024-25
How do you Solve Problems in Dictatorial Countries like North Korea?
Wednesday 23 October 2024, City, University of London
Presenter: Timothy Cho (co-Secretariat of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on North Korea)
Chair: Sahar Sadoughi (PhD Candidate, City Law School)
Timothy Cho is a two-time North Korean escapee who has endured imprisonment four times in China and North Korea. After his parents fled North Korea, he became a homeless member of the "enemy class", a group comprised of families of regime defectors deprived of opportunities. He served as an aid to Fiona Bruce MP for Congleton in 2018-19 and currently holds the position of co-Secretariat of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on North Korea. Timothy also serves as an Open Doors spokesperson for Korea and a CREDO Ambassador for persecuted people worldwide. He regularly speaks at conferences in the UK and internationally, including the 49th, 52nd, and 55th United Nations Human Rights Council sessions on North Korea, where he addresses human rights, political and religious persecution in North Korea and other nations.
2023-24
Climate Change Litigation and International Courts
Thursday 14 March 2024, 13:00-14:00, City, University of London
What role do international courts play in tackling climate change? Join us for a panel discussion on how courts at the international level are addressing questions about state obligations to combat climate change.
Chair: Jed Odermatt, City Law School
Speakers:
- Paul Clark (Garden Court Chambers) Climate Change in the ECHR and Domestic Tort Litigation
- Monica Feria-Tinta (20 Essex Street) The Climate in Court: The (International Law) Crucibles
- Yusra Suedi (University of Manchester) Climate Change Litigation before the African Human Rights System: Prospects and Pitfalls.
2022-23
Decolonising Minority Rights Discourse' - Workshop with Prof. Mohammad Shahabudin (Hybrid) - Event organized by the Centre for Law & Social Change
Wednesday 21 February 2023, 13:00-14:00, City, University of London - Northampton Square, London, EC1V 0HB
The Centre for Law & Social Change is excited to announce the public lecture by Prof. Mohammad Shahabuddin (Birmingham Law School), on the topic of ‘Decolonisation and Minority Rights’. The lecture will build on the introduction to his book Minorities and the Making of Postcolonial States in International Law (CUP 2021) and the new article on ‘Decolonising Minority Rights Discourse’ (open access).
Professor Mohammad Shahabuddin teaches and researches international law and human rights with a special focus on the history and theory of international law, ethnicity and nationalism, and human rights. His teaching and research are informed by critical, postcolonial, and TWAIL (Third World Approaches to International Law) scholarship.
The Architecture of International Justice: Origins, Resilience & Growth
Friday 15 December 2023, 17:00-18:00
Chair: Muhammad Tanvir Hashem Munim (PhD candidate, City Law School)
Presenter: Mr Aarif Abraham (Barrister, Doughty Street Chambers)
Aarif Abraham is a barrister, writer and speaker, specialising in international criminal law and public international law including international human rights law and international arbitration. He has held leadership positions - as a director, trustee, lawyer, or investigator - in private practice, international courts or tribunals, and NGOs and international organisations. Aarif’s most recent, and high-profile, work includes advising States on the initiative to create the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression committed in Ukraine (working with Prof. Philippe Sands KC and former heads of government), the Uyghur Tribunal (where he acted as co-counsel and principal legal advisor), the Yazidi Justice Committee (as founder), and the Hazara Inquiry (as external advisor). Aarif has acted as an external advisor to various international initiatives including on the Genocide Determination Bill, Genocide Prevention Bill, and several All Party Parliamentary Groups concerning international law and/or foreign policy.
Human Trafficking for the Purpose of Organ Harvesting: Strengthening Identification, Investigation and Prosecution by UK Policing and Key Partners
Venue: Oliver Thompson Lecture Theatre (OTLT), City University of London
Date: Thursday 18 January 2024
Armed Conflict and Effective Protection at Sea: A Concurrent Application of the Second Geneva Convention and the International Convention on Maritime Search and Rescue in Naval Warfare
Monday 27 November 2023
Chair: Andrea Maria Pelliconi, PhD candidate, City Law School & Teaching Associate, University of Nottingham
Speaker: Alba Grembi, PhD candidate, European University Viadrina & Visiting Researcher, City Law School
Discussants: Dr Aphrodite Papachristodoulou, Postdoctoral Researcher, Irish Centre for Human Rights & Academic Visitor, The Institute for Ethics in AI, Oxford and Chiara Pavesi, Postgraduate Research Student and Graduate Teaching Fellow in Law
Peacekeeping and Statebuilding: From Decolonisation to the US Withdrawal from Afghanistan
Thursday 16 November 2023
The international community has engaged in efforts to promote peace and build states in conflict-affected regions for many decades. On the basis of their recently published books, Dr Geoffrey Swenson, Dr Margot Tudor, and Dr Kseniya Oksamytna will discuss how this engagement has evolved over time and how it has reflected the dominant conceptions of statehood, order, and stability. Focussing in particular on the role of the United Nations, they will reflect on how the world organisation has at time failed those who needed its protection, imposed unworkable solutions, or inhibited self-determination aspirations.
Co-organized with the International Policy Studies (CIPS) Research Cluster, Centre for Modern History (CMH)
The Facebook / Meta Oversight Board: International and Regional Law Applications
, 18:00 – 19:30
Speakers:
Prof. Laurence R. Helfer Duke University School of Law, University of Copenhagen – iCourts – Centre of Excellence for International Courts
Prof. Molly K. Land University of Connecticut School of Law
Dr Richard Danbury Senior Lecturer in Journalism, School of Communication & Creativity, City, University of London,
Stefania Di Stefano PhD Researcher in International Law, Geneva Graduate Institute
Prof. Elaine Fahey Professor of Law, Jean Monnet Chair in Law & Transatlantic Relations, City Law School
Jed Odermatt Senior Lecturer, City Law School
Honorary Professor Richard Meeran “Business & Human Rights Litigation"
, 18:00 – 19:30
Speakers:
Speaker: Richard Meeran, Partner at Leigh Day, Honorary Professor, City Law School
Chair: Jed Odermatt, City Law School, International Law and Affair Group
Decolonising Human Rights Law and International Criminal Law
12 December 2022, 17:00 – 18:00
Speaker: Professor William Schabas (Professor of International Law, Middlesex University School of Law)
Chair: Dr Andrew Wolman, City Law School, International Law and Affair Group
Book Launch: 'International Law and the European Union' by Jed Odermatt
Thursday 17 November 2022, 17:00-18:15
Speakers:
- Geert De Baere, Judge at the General Court of the European Union October 2017.
- Isabelle Van Damme is Partner at Van Bael & Bellis
- Jed Odermatt, City Law School, International Law and Affair Group
Presenter: Dr Alexander Gilder, University of Reading School of Law
Chair: Prof. Elaine Fahey, City Law School
Strongmen Saviours: A Political Economy of Populism in India, Turkey, Russia and Brazil – Book Talk by Deepanshu Mohan and Abhinav Padmanabhan
Tuesday 27 September 2022, 17:00-19:00
Chair: Sandhya Drew, Senior Lecturer, City Law School
Speakers: Deepanshu Mohan, Abhinav Padmanabhan
Discussant: Dr Madura Rasaratnam, Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics, Department of International Politics at City, University of London
Book Launch: 'Stabilization and Human Security in UN Peace Operations' by Alexander Gilder
9 March 2022, 17:00-18:15
Presenter: Dr Alexander Gilder, University of Reading School of Law
Discussant: Dr Kseniya Oksamytna, City, University of London, Department of International Politics
Chair: Dr Andrew Wolman, City Law School, International Law and Affair Group
In the Name of Islam, the Syariah and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
23 March 2022, 17:00-18:00
Presenter: Nurhalida Mohamed Khalil, Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Malaya and Visiting Fellow, City Law School
Chair: Dr Andrew Wolman, City Law School, International Law and Affair Group
The Crime against Humanity of Apartheid: from South Africa to North Korea, Palestine and Myanmar – or: why has nobody been prosecuted (yet)?
3 November 2021, 17:00-18:00
Presenter: Dr Carola Lingaas, Associate Professor of Law, VID Specialized University (Oslo, Norway)
Chair: Dr Andrew Wolman, City Law School, International Law and Affairs Group
Book Talk: ‘Minorities and the Making of Postcolonial States in International Law’
17 November 2021, 17:00-18:15
Presenter: Professor Mohammad Shahabuddin, Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham
Discussant: Aminah Karim, City Law School, International Law and Affairs Group
Chair: Dr Andrew Wolman, City Law School, International Law and Affairs Group
General and Complete Disarmament: Contemporary Perspectives on World Peace Through World Law
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Session 1: Reforming the UN for Decisive Action in the Security Field
1st September 2021, 16:00-18:00 UK time
Matthew Bolton – Pace University
Ian Hurd – Northwestern University
Cecilie Hellestveit – Norwegian Academy of International Law
Session 2: The Establishment of a UN Peace Force
15th September 2021, 16:00-17:30 UK time
Chiara Ruffa – Uppsala University
Alexander Gilder – Royal Holloway, London
Lenneke Sprik – Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Session 3: Making World Courts Fit for General and Complete Disarmament
29th September 2021, 16:00-17:30 UK time
Jason Ralph – University of Leeds
Emilia Justyna Powell – University of Notre Dame
Cecilia Marcela Bailliet – University of Oslo
Session 4: General and Complete Disarmament as a Near Term Objective Without UN Reform
13th October 2021, 16:00-17:30 UK time
Henrietta Wilson – University of Bristol
Clara Portela – University of Valencia
Benoît Pelopidas – Sciences Po
Dan Plesch – SOAS
2020-21
Book Launch - ‘The Interplay between the EU's Return Acquis and International Law’ by Tamás Molnár
5.00pm - 6.15pm, 16th June 2021
Discussants: Professor Paul James Cardwell, University of Strathclyde, Professor Elspeth Guild, Queen Mary, University of London
Chair: Dr Andrew Wolman, City Law School, International Law and Affairs Group
Legal Justifications for Gender Parity on the Bench of the International Court of Justice
5.00pm - 6.00pm, Wednesday 26th May 2021
Speaker: Jessica Corsi, City Law School and City's Violence and Society Centre
Chair: Jed Odermatt, City Law School
Discussant: J. Jarpa Dawuni, Associate Professor of Political Science at Howard University
Making and Unmaking the Post-colonial State – Kashmir as the Wild Zone of Sovereignty
5.00pm - 6.15pm, Wednesday 28th April 2021
Speaker: Rohini Sen, Jindal Global Law School, O.P Jindal Global University
Chair: Jed Odermatt, City Law School
Webinar: Human Rights, Poverty, and Capitalism: Exploring the Value of an Institutionalist Approach
5.00pm - 6.15pm Wednesday 17th March 2021
Speaker: Dr Anna Chadwick, University of Glasgow
Discussant: Dr Grietje Baars, Reader in Law & Social Change, City Law School
Chair: Jed Odermatt , City Law School
Webinar: The Litigation of Community Interests before the ICJ: From Belgium v. Senegal to The Gambia v. Myanmar
5.00pm - 6.15pm Wednesday 17th November 2020
Speaker: Dr Marco Longobardo, University of Glasgow
Chair: Jed Odermatt, City Law School
Discussants: Andrea Maria Pelliconi and Aminah Karim (City Law School)
Webinar: The European Union’s External Action and International Law: A View From the Outside
12 Jun 2020
The City Law School, International Law and Affairs Group (ILAG) and the ESIL Interest Group on the EU as a Global Actor will host a webinar on ‘The European Union’s External Action and International Law: A View From the Outside’ on 12 June 2020.
The event will be convened by Jed Odermatt, City Law School, and Ramses A. Wessel, University of Groningen.
Webinar: The Law of Facebook: Borders, Regulation and Global Social Media
15 May 2020
Speakers: Dr. Stephen Allen, Queen Mary University of London School of Law; Professor Elaine Fahey, City Law School, City, University of London; Dr. Kate Klonick, St. Johns University Law School, author of ‘Creating Global Governance for Online Speech: The Development of Facebook’s Oversight Board’, 129 YALE L. J. (forthcoming 2020); Professor Andrew Murray, London School of Economics Law Department; Dr. Jed Odermatt , City, University of London;Dr. Maria Tzanou, Keele University School of Law
A Tale of Two Duties: Comparing the scope and effectiveness of UK and French National Law on Supply Chains and Fundamental Rights
29 January 2020
Speakers: Professor Sarah Bros, Ms Sandhya Drew
Justice for All, and How to Achieve It
30 October, 2019
Speakers: Sir Geoffrey Nice, QC
Chair: Jed Odermatt, City Law School
How global is cyber law regulation?
16 July, 2019
Speakers: François Delerue, Research Fellow in cyberdefense and international law at the Institute for Strategic Research (Insitut de Recherche Stratégique de l’École Militaire– IRSEM) Paris ‘How International law applies to Cyberspace’ (forthcoming with Cambridge University Press), Russell Buchan, Senior Lecturer in International Law, University of Sheffield , Elaine Fahey, City Law School, Robin Sellers, Barrister, Senior Lecturer and External CPD Consultant, City Law School
Regional Approaches to International law
3 July, 2019
Speakers: Lauri Mälksoo, University of Tartu, Estonia , Wim Muller, Maastricht University, the Netherlands, Mauro Barelli, City Law School, Matthieu Burnay, Queen Mary, University of London, Elizabeth O’Loughlin, City Law School (discussant)
Chair: Jed Odermatt, City Law School
Comparative Methodologies and Global Law
18 June, 2019
Speakers: Veronika Fikfak, University of Cambridge, Liora Lazarus, Universty of Oxford, Jacco Bomhoff, London School of Economics, Elizabeth O’Loughlin, City Law School (Chair)
The Corporation, Law and Capitalism: A Radical Perspective on the Role of Law in the Global Political Economy
16th May 2019
Speakers: Professor Susan Marks, Professor of International Law, Department of Law, LSE; Professor Dan Danielsen, Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Program on the Corporation, Law and Global Society, School of Law, Northeastern University; Dr Emily Jones, Lecturer, School of Law, University of Essex And the author; Dr Grietje Baars, Senior Lecturer, The City Law School, City, University of London
Chair: Jed Odermatt , City Law School
The National versus the foreigner in South America: 200 Years of Migration and Citizenship Law
10th April 2019
Speaker: Dr Diego Acosta Arcarazo, University of Bristol
Chair: Jed Odermatt, City Law School
Sanctions: Where Next?
13th March 2019
Speaker: Maya Lester QC, Brick Court Chambers
Chair: Jed Odermatt, City Law School
City Law Alumnae Network Panel Discussion about the Practice of Human Rights Law
6th February 2019
Guest Speakers: Antonia Benfield - Doughty Street Chambers, Megan Goulding - Liberty, Keina Yoshida - Doughty Street Chambers and Basmah Sahib - Bindmans LLP
International Courts and the Populist Onslaught: The Case of the European Court of Human Rights
27th February 2019
Speaker: Prof Mikael Rask Madsen, Director, Centre of Excellence for International Courts (iCourts)
Chair: Jed Odermatt, City Law School
Find out about our past seminars.
Publications
Browse our latest publications on City Research Online
Below is a selection of publications released by group members:
2024
Ahmed, T. 
, Bahri, A. & Sana, A. (2024). Can a Uniform Civil Code Address Injustices for Muslim Women in India?. Manchester Journal of Transnational Islamic Law and Practice, 19(4), pp. 94-111.
Bakos, A., Chen, X., Dunne, J. (2024). Trade negotiations, trade policy and law-making in an era of soft law: is the EU a leader or a laggard? (CLS Working Paper Series 2024/02). London, UK: City Law School.
Besson, S., Kassoti, E., Lusa Bordin, F. (2024). The International Law of Regional Organizations. London, UK: International Law Association.
Collins, D. (2024). Market-Based Reforms to the UK Economic Sanctions Regime. London, UK: Adam Smith Intsitute.
Collins, D. (2024). Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic and Customary Law Defences: Force Majeure and the State of Necessity. In: Faccio, S. & Pertile, M. (Eds.), International Investment Law and the Pandemic. . Leiden, Netherlands: Brill.
Fahey, E. (2024). Democratic Leadership through Transatlantic Cooperation for Trade and Technology Reforms through the EU-US TTC Model? In: Petersmann, U. & Steinbach, A. (Eds.), Constitutionalism and Transnational Governance Failures. World Trade Institute Advanced Studies, 16. (pp. 279-307). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill/Nijhoff. doi: 10.1163/9789004693722_012
Fahey, E. (2024). The Evolution of EU-US Cybersecurity Law and Policy: on Drivers of Convergence. Journal of European Integration, 46(7), pp. 1073-1088. doi: 10.1080/07036337.2024.2411240
Fahey, E. (2024). The Evolution of EU-US Cybersecurity Law and Policy: on Drivers of Convergence (CLS Working Paper Series 2024/05). London, UK: City Law School.
Fahey, E. (2024). Health, Climate, Energy and Cyber: Transnational Areas, Limited Cooperation Ambitions? In: Fabbrini, F. (Ed.), The Law & Politics of Brexit: Volume V. The Trade & Cooperation Agreement. (pp. 151-166). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Fahey, E. , Schröder, M., Thouvenin, F. (2024). Comparative Law Research on the Personal Data Protection Law in Various Countries (5). Tokyo, Japan: KGRI.
Germain, S. & Veronesi, G. (2024). Harnessing Deliberative Regulation to Address Inequities in Accessing Healthcare Services in England. Medical Law Review, 33(1), doi: 10.1093/medlaw/fwae042
Odermatt, J. (2024). The State(hood) of the Union: The EU’s Evolving Role in International Law. European Papers (EP), 9(1), pp. 367-376. doi: 10.15166/2499-8249/761
Wolman, A. (2024). Resettlement Under the Radar: A Study of Japanese Resettlement of North Korean Escapees (City Law School Research paper 2024/07). London, UK: City Law School.
2023
Al-Qasem, A. & Barelli, M. (2023). The Voice and the Right of Indigenous Peoples to Effective Participation City Law Forum.
Collins, D. A. (2023). China's Inward FDI Strategy: Considering the Foreign Investment Law (FIL) 2020. International Trade Law and Regulation, 2024(4), pp. 159-166.
Draghici, C. (2023). ‘From Indissolubility of Marriage to Unilateral Divorce on Demand: A Tardy Revolution in English Family Law’. Child and Family Law Quarterly(4),
Draghici, C. (2023). Rethinking the Grounds for Divorce: Comparative Perspectives from the UK, the US, Canada and Australia. Child and Family Law Quarterly, 2023(Dec), pp. 333-338.
Fahey, E. (2023). 50 years on: divergent paths of British and Irish membership of the EU. London, UK: Verfassungsblog/ UK in a Changing EU.
Fahey, E. (2023). The EU-US Transatlantic Trade and Technology Council: Shifting Multilateralism Through Bilateralism and Institutions? In: Quirico, O. & Williams, K. K. (Eds.), The European Union and the Evolving Architectures of International Economic Agreements. (pp. 171-179). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-99-2329-8
Fahey, E. (2023). The life cycle of passenger name records in European Union law—on the normalisation of crisis. Irish Jurist, 70, pp. 211-223.
Fahey, E. , Guild, E. & Kuskonmaz, E. (2023). The novelty of EU Passenger Name Records (PNR) in EU Trade Agreements: On shifting uses of data governance in light of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement PNR provisions. European Papers, 8(1), pp. 273-299. doi: 10.15166/2499-8249/651
Fahey, E. & Terpan, F. (2023). The Future of the EU-US Privacy Shield. In: Fahey, E. (Ed.), The Routledge Research Handbook of Transatlantic Relations. (pp. 221-236). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Germain, S. , Ashcroft, R. & Benatar, S. (2023). International Perspectives on Resource Allocation. In: Reference Module in Biomedical Sciences. . Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-323-99967-0.00066-1
Germain, S. & Ray, K. (2023). Shedding Light on Racial Inequity in Health, in Conversation with the Author: Black Health: the Social, Political, and Cultural Determinants of Black People’s Health. Medical Law International, 24(2), pp. 151-158. doi: 10.1177/09685332231211914
Odermatt, J. (2023). Decolonising the International Law Curriculum: A Critical Literature Review (CLS Working Paper Series 2023/05). London, UK: City Law School, City, University of London.
Odermatt, J. (2023). The Court of Justice of the European Union and International Dispute Settlement: Conflict, Cooperation and Coexistence. The Cambridge yearbook of European legal studies, 24, pp. 88-110. doi: 10.1017/cel.2022.9
Odermatt, J. (2023). International law as challenge to EU acts: Front Polisario II. Common Market Law Review, 60(1), pp. 217-238. doi: 10.54648/cola2023009
Zulker Nayeen, M. S. (2023). ODR in the Civil Justice System of Bangladesh: Prospects and Challenges. Manchester Journal of International Economic Law, 20(1), pp. 104-126.
2022
Collins, D. A. (2022). Book Review: Incomplete International Investment Agreements by Tae Jung Park. International Trade Law and Regulation, 28(4), pp. 252-254.
Collins, D. A. (2022). The UK, the WTO and Global Trade: Leading Reform on Services Trade. Brentford, UK: Politeia.
Draghici, C. (2022). Unplanned Fatherhood is Not Sperm Donation: The Unduly Moralistic Approach to Natural Fathers in European Convention Case Law. Child and Family Law Quarterly, 2022(2), pp. 123-147.
Draghici, C. (2022). Divorced from Human Rights? English Divorce Law under human-Rights Scrutiny. In: Miles, J., Monk, D. & Probert, R. (Eds.), Fifty Years of the Divorce Reform Act 1969. (pp. 223-242). London, UK: Hart Publishing.
Fahey, E. (2022). Global Governance and European Union Integration in Oxford Encyclopedia of EU law. In: The Oxford Encylopedia of EU Law. . Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Fahey, E. (2022). Accession to the Communities, and Compensation under the Common Agricultural Policy: Opinion of Advocate General Warner in Ireland v Council. In: Shaping EU Law the British Way: UK Advocates General at the Court of Justice of the European Union. (pp. 71-77). London, UK: Hart Publishing.
Fahey, E. (2022). Developing EU cybercrime and cybersecurity On legal challenges of EU institutionalisation of cyber law-making. In: Hoerber, T., Weber, G. & Cabras, I. (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of European Integrations. (pp. 270-284). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Fahey, E. & Poli, S. (2022). The strengthening of the European Technological Sovereignty and its legal bases in the Treaties. Eurojus.it rivista, 2(2), pp. 147-164.
Fahey, E. & Wieczorek, I. (2022). The European Parliament as a Defender of EU Values in EU-Japan Agreements: What Role for Soft Law and Hard Law Powers?. European Law Review, 47(3), pp. 331-352.
Germain, S. & Yong, A. (2022). Ethnic Minority and Migrant Women’s Struggles in Accessing Healthcare During COVID-19: An Intersectional Analysis. Journal for cultural research, 26(1), pp. 65-82. doi: 10.1080/14797585.2021.2012090
Germain, S. & Yong, A. (2022). Ethnic minority and migrant women’s struggles in accessing healthcare during COVID-19: an intersectional analysis (City Law School Research Paper 2022/01). London, UK: City Law School.
Mancini, I. (2022). Introduction: Understanding the EU as a good global actor: whose metrics? In: Fahey, E. & Mancini, I. (Eds.), Understanding the EU as a Good Global: Actor Ambitions, Values and Metrics. . Abingdon, UK: Edward Elgar.
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