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EJIL: The Podcast!Episode 27: Preoccupied: The ICJ’s Palestine Advisory OpinionIn this episode, Dapo Akande, Marko Milanovic and Philippa Webb are joined by Yuval Shany, and discuss the recent advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem. The hosts and their guest explore the Court’s reasoning on how violations of international law in the occupied Palestinian territories rendered unlawful Israel’s continued presence there. They also examine various ambiguities in the Court’s opinion and what drove them, on matters such as apartheid in the territories and the occupat...2024-08-071h 04

Oxford Policy PodA Life in International Law: a Conversation with Dapo AkandeIn this episode, Erik Kucherenko speaks with Professor Dapo Akande, Oxford Chichele Professor of Public International Law, Co-Director of the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict, a Member of the UN International Law Commission. We discuss how the International Law Commission functions behind the scenes, how Professor Akande prepares for pleadings in the International Court of Justice, and how one of the biggest international law blogs (the European Journal of International Law) works from the inside.We also explore the latest trends in the development of international law, discussing in detail Professor Akande's o...2024-06-1945 min

Download Best Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsThe Individualization of War: Rights, Liability, and Accountability in Contemporary Armed Conflict by David Rodin, Jennifer Welsh, Dapo AkandePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/738436to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Individualization of War: Rights, Liability, and Accountability in Contemporary Armed Conflict Author: David Rodin, Jennifer Welsh, Dapo Akande Narrator: Rick Adamson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 17 minutes Release date: March 12, 2024 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The rights and responsibilities of the individual are at the center of today's armed conflicts in a way that they have never been before. This process of 'individualization,' which challenges the primacy of the sovereign state, is driven by normative developments related to human rights that have elevated human-centric conceptions...2024-03-1211h 17

Best Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsThe Individualization of War: Rights, Liability, and Accountability in Contemporary Armed Conflict by David Rodin, Jennifer Welsh, Dapo AkanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/738436 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Individualization of War: Rights, Liability, and Accountability in Contemporary Armed Conflict Author: David Rodin, Jennifer Welsh, Dapo Akande Narrator: Rick Adamson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 17 minutes Release date: March 12, 2024 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The rights and responsibilities of the individual are at the center of today's armed conflicts in a way that they have never been before. This process of 'individualization,' which challenges the primacy of the sovereign state, is driven by normative developments related to human rights that have elevated human-centric...2024-03-1230 min

EJIL: The Podcast!Episode 23: Unhappy New Year! Genocide in the CourtroomIn this episode, Dapo Akande, Marko Milanovic and Philippa Webb, joined by Mike Becker, discuss the oral hearings before the International Court of Justice on provisional measures in the South Africa v. Israel case, in which it is alleged that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. How did the hearings go, what will the Court do now, and what will it eventually do on the merits? The discussion then moves to exploring recent trends in international litigation, and concludes by briefly examining the recent strikes by the US and UK on the Houthis in Yemen.2024-01-1555 min

EJIL: The Podcast!Episode 19: From Russia with War: Part DeuxIn this episode Marko Milanovic, Dapo Akande and Philippa Webb are joined by Oona Hathaway (Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law at Yale Law School) to discuss big legal issues arising from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, one year on, including the arrest warrant against Vladimir Putin, the application of international humanitarian law in the conflict, and problems regarding reparation and immunities of frozen Russian assets.2023-03-241h 02

EJIL: The Podcast!Episode 18: Be Careful What You Ask ForIn this episode Dapo Akande, Marko Milanovic and Philippa Webb are joined by Philippe Sands and Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh. They reflect on the role and significance of advisory opinions by international courts, particularly in the context of various current efforts to litigate legal issues regarding climate change in such advisory proceedings in several different courts. They also discuss previous high-profile advisory proceedings before the ICJ, including the Nuclear Weapons, Wall and Kosovo cases, focusing on the different types of advisory cases, their legal and political purposes, the litigations strategies of the parties and the need to formulate questions tailored to...2023-02-2850 min

Oxford Undergraduate Law PodcastThe Russia-Ukraine War and International Law with Professors Webb and AkandeHave you ever thought about studying international law? Is international law nothing more than a set of non-binding rules which is not enforceable? Have you wondered how, if at all, the international legal system can respond to the Russia-Ukraine war? And what is the UK’s relationship with international law in light of recent Brexit negotiations?Hosted by Vice-Editor in Chief Richard Wagenländer, this episode explores these questions with leading international law Professors Philippa Webb and Dapo Akande, where we discuss these and more issues related to international law in an accessible way whilst also going int...2022-04-281h 13

EJIL: The Podcast!Episode 15: Now or Never, Or Maybe Later: The Use of Force to Recover an Occupied TerritoryThis episode accompanies the launching of a new rubric in the European Journal of International Law – Legal/Illegal. The first installment of Legal/Illegal, which appears in issue 32(4), focuses on the question whether the use of force by a state to recover a territory that has been occupied for many years may be considered a lawful act of self-defence. In the Podcast, Michal Saliternik interviews the authors of this section: Tom Ruys and Felipe Rodriguez Silvestre on the illegal side, and Dapo Akande and Antonios Tzanakopoulos on the legal side. Beginning with the second Nagorno-Karabakh war, passing through the con...2022-03-2347 min

EJIL: The Podcast!Episode 14: From Russia With WarIn this episode Dapo Akande, Marko Milanovic and Philippa Webb, joined by Rebecca Barber and Mike Becker, examine various aspects of Russia’s war on Ukraine. The discussion begins with an evaluation of Russia’s legal justification for invading Ukraine, moving to an analysis of the responses to Russia’s aggression by the UN General Assembly and the Security Council. We then turn to the proceedings brought by Ukraine against Russia before the International Court of Justice pursuant to the Genocide Convention, the investigation initiated by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, the commission of inquiry created by the Hu...2022-03-0656 min

asymmetrical haircutsEpisode 52 – International Law What? with Phoebe Okowa and Dapo AkandeDapo Akande and Phoebe Okowa explain all things International Law Commission 2021-11-0540 min

feature interviews – asymmetrical haircutsEpisode 52 – International Law What? with Phoebe Okowa and Dapo AkandeDapo Akande and Phoebe Okowa explain all things International Law Commission 2021-11-0540 min

EJIL: The Podcast!Episode 12: No Licence to KillIn this episode Dapo Akande, Marko Milanovic and Philippa Webb discuss the legal issues that arise from targeted killings conducted by states outside their territory. They begin with a discussion of the recent blockbuster judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in the case concerning the killing in London in 2006 of the Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko. They talk about how the Court dealt with the attribution of the killing to Russia and then explore the extraterritorial application of human rights treaties obligations - a question on which many courts and treaty bodies have given inconsistent answers. The podcast...2021-10-1844 min

Jus Cogens - The International Law Podcast#27 - Dapo Akande - Unpacking the UN International Law CommissionIn this episode, the brilliant Dapo Akane joins Jus Cogens for an all-round chat on the UN International Law Commission. We explore the role & function of the ILC and discuss some key issues that its work focuses on. It also features Professor's Akande elevator pitch for the upcoming election of the members of the ILC where he has been nominated as a candidate by 5 countries. Material Referenced in the Episode: Article - Implications of the Diversity of the Rules on the Use of Force for Change in the Law. https://academic.oup.com/ejil/article/32/2/679/6324073 2021-10-0553 min

EJIL: The Podcast!Episode 6: Trumping International Law?This episode examines the effects of the four years of the Trump Administration on international law. Dapo Akande is joined by Joseph Weiler, Neha Jain and Chimene Keitner. In their conversation, they explore the impact of the last four years on the future of multilateralism. They discuss the impact of Trump policies on international institutions such as the World Trade Organization and the International Criminal Court. Did those policies simply expose weaknesses in those institutions? How might those weaknesses be remedied, and how will the relationship between those institutions and the US develop over the course of the new...2021-01-3131 min

EJIL: The Podcast!Episode 5: Breaking Bad - in a Specific and Limited WayIn this episode Dapo Akande, Marko Milanovic, Sarah Nouwen and Philippa Webb analyse the Internal Market Bill currently pending before the UK Parliament, which the UK government’s own legal officers admit breaches international law by reneging on parts of the Withdrawal Agreement with the European Union and the Northern Ireland Protocol thereto that the UK had freely entered into less than a year ago. The team discuss why the UK government has put this Bill forward, how it is fairly unique for a state to admit to breaking international law before actually doing so, and why no international leg...2020-09-2736 min

EJIL: The Podcast!Episode 4: Court between a Rock and a Hard PlaceThe International Criminal Court has for a long time been criticised for exclusively focusing on Africa, as opposed to investigating situations in which powerful western states are heavily involved or have strong interests. In the first part of this podcast Kamari Clarke joins Dapo Akande, Marko Milanovic, Sarah Nouwen and Philippa Webb to discuss whether black lives matter before the ICC and whether it can deal with structural injustice. The second part of the podcast discusses some of the political and legal challenges that have arisen when the Court goes after nationals of states not party to its Statute. The...2020-08-0139 min

EJIL: The Podcast!Episode 3: Hacked Off!With cyberattacks against the health care sector on the rise, this episode focuses on international law and cyber operations, especially in the context of the fight against COVID-19. For this discussion, Dapo Akande, Marko Milanovic, & Sarah Nouwen are joined by Harriet Moynihan (Chatham House), and Tilman Rodenhäuser (International Committee of the Red Cross). They consider whether international law imposes obligations on states to refrain from such attacks having effect in other states. They also examine the obligations, under international human rights law and other bodies of law, to take positive action to prevent such attacks by non-state actors.2020-06-1140 min

EJIL: The Podcast!Episode 2: WHO let the bats out?Dapo Akande, Marko Milanovic, Sarah Nouwen and Philippa Webb are joined by Gian Luca Burci, former Legal Counsel of the World Health Organization, to discuss international health law and pandemics. They discuss the obligations arising under the WHO's International Health Regulations, as well as various attempts to hold states and organizations (China, the US, the WHO) accountable in a variety of domestic and international courts.Moving from the virus to immunity, the final segment discusses a recent English case that raises a difficult tension between the obligations to protect human rights and to accord diplomatic immunity. 2020-05-0539 min

EJIL: The Podcast!Episode 1: ContagionDapo Akande, Marko Milanovic, Sarah Nouwen and Philippa Webb discuss the compatibility with international human rights law of the measures taken by states in the fight against the corona virus. Do states have a duty to cooperate in tackling the virus? Should they derogate from rights provided for in human rights treaties or are those rights flexible enough to permit the measures being taken? What measures can be taken to combat misinformation relating to the virus? They end with one of the international law issues of the day not receiving attention because of the virus...2020-04-1642 min

Changing Character of WarThe Law and Practice of Cross-border Humanitarian Relief Operations: Syria as Case StudyDapo Akande and Emanuela-Chiara Gilliard from ELAC (Oxford) discuss humanitarian relief in Syria The extremely severe restrictions on humanitarian operations have been one of the defining features of the Syrian conflict. Humanitarian operations have been severely impeded by a range of constraints, including active hostilities, repeated attacks against those providing humanitarian and, in particular, medical assistance, shifting front lines, proliferation of parties to the conflict, and the instrumentalisation of assistance by all belligerents. It is unquestionable though that a principal impediment have been the constraints imposed by the Government of Syria, particularly, but not exclusively, on relief operations for people...2019-04-2946 min

International Law Behind the HeadlinesEpisode 1: Part I—International Law TodayIs the post-World War II international order being dismantled? Are we witnessing an unprecedented assault on the international order, or are current events just part of a natural ebb and flow of history? In the inaugural episode, we sat down with top experts in international law for their assessments on where we stand today, how we got here, and the future of the international order. In Part I, guests Harold Koh, Oona Hathaway, and Dapo Akande give their assessments on the current historical moment, touching on Brexit, the role of China in the international order, the rise of populism, and...2018-11-2731 min

Oxford Transitional Justice Research SeminarsBook Launch: 'East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity'Prof Philippe Sands (QC) presents his new book in a colloquium with Prof Dapo Akande and Dr Stephen Humphreys in the OTJR series.2017-04-1300 min

Ethics, Law and Armed ConflictThe ICC at 10ELAC Panel Discussion with Professor Jennifer Welsh, Dr David Rodin, Janina Dill and Dapo Akande (ELAC)on 20th May 2012.2012-05-2353 min

Ethics, Law and Armed ConflictIran's Nuclear Programme and International LawProfessor Daniel Joyner (University of Alabama School of Law) gievs a talk for the ELAC/CCW seminar series on 6th March 2012. Introduced by Professor Dapo Akande.2012-03-0737 min

Ethics, Law and Armed ConflictIntervening to Protect Civilians: Debating the NATO-led mission in LibyaProfessor Jennifer Welsh, Dr David Rodin, Dr Cheyney Ryan and Dapo Akande (ELAC) debate the recent NATO led mission in Libya.2011-06-131h 01

Oxford Transitional Justice Research SeminarsImmunities of State Officials, International Crimes and Foreign Domestic CourtsDapo Akande, Lecturer in Public International Law; Co-Director, Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC), University of Oxford gives a talk for the Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminar Series.2011-02-1149 min