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LCIL International Law Centre PodcastHLML2025: Diversity and Self-Determination in International Law: Continuing Conversations with Karen Knop - Session I - History and TheoryHersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures 2025: Diversity and Self-Determination in International Law: Continuing Conversations with Karen KnopWe will come together to celebrate the life and scholarship of our colleague and friend, Professor Karen Knop (1960-2022). Karen, until her untimely passing, was the Cecil A Wright Chair at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law. A long-time friend of the Lauterpacht Centre, Karen was to have delivered the Centre’s 2025 Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures.Session I - History and TheoryProfessor Martti Koskenniemi in conversation with Dr Megan DonaldsonChair: Professor Surabhi Rang...2025-06-101h 07
Public Lectures from the Faculty of Law, University of CambridgeHLML2025: Diversity and Self-Determination in International Law: Continuing Conversations with Karen Knop - Session I - History and TheoryHersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures 2025: Diversity and Self-Determination in International Law: Continuing Conversations with Karen KnopWe will come together to celebrate the life and scholarship of our colleague and friend, Professor Karen Knop (1960-2022). Karen, until her untimely passing, was the Cecil A Wright Chair at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law. A long-time friend of the Lauterpacht Centre, Karen was to have delivered the Centre’s 2025 Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures.Session I - History and TheoryProfessor Martti Koskenniemi in conversation with Dr Megan DonaldsonChair: Professor Surabhi Rang...2025-06-101h 07
Underworlds - Sites and Struggles of Global Dis/OrderingCommonsThe Commons as Sites and Struggles of Global Dis/Ordering
Rather than focusing strictly on how the commons are formally (mis)recognised or regulated in (international) law, this episode foregrounds the diverging modes of dis/ordering that practices of commoning can produce. This entails an attentiveness to the new legal spaces that commoning engenders, as well as the forms of political subjectivity and resistance that animate it. Moving across different sites and scales, the episode explores commoning practices on both a transnational and local level – from a reimagining of international law’s constitution of value and the recl...2024-09-2544 min
Underworlds - Sites and Struggles of Global Dis/OrderingOceansOceans as Site and Struggle of Global Dis/Ordering
Rather than concentrating only on how oceans are formally framed or regulated as objects of international legal ordering, this episode foregrounds the patterns and imaginaries of global dis/ordering that thinking through the ocean reveal. Which material historical conditions have shaped the current legal constitution of oceanic space? Which new legal and political temporalities, geographies, and subjectivities might ‘thinking oceanically’ generate? How are international law and the ocean co-constituted – through its specific spatial zones, its depths and bottoms, its vexing vents, and amphibious legalities? Which critical practices can enable...2024-04-031h 00Public Lectures from the Faculty of Law, University of CambridgeHersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures 2024: 'International Borders in an Interdependent World' - Lecture 2: 'Treaties and Neighbors: Recovering the Cooperative Roots of International Bordering' - Prof Beth Simmons, University of PennsylvaniaThe Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lecture is an annual three-part lecture series given in Cambridge to commemorate the unique contribution to the development of international law of Sir Hersch Lauterpacht. These lectures are given annually by a person of eminence in the field of international law. This year's lecture was given by Prof Beth Simmons, University of Pennsylvania.Summary: The Golden Age of globalization has reached an end in the popular and political imagination. In its place has arisen growing anxiety about state borders. What is the evidence of such a shift? What are the causes and consequences...2024-03-191h 03LCIL International Law Centre PodcastHersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures 2024: 'International Borders in an Interdependent World' - Lecture 2: 'Treaties and Neighbors: Recovering the Cooperative Roots of International Bordering' - Prof Beth Simmons, University of PennsylvaniaThe Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lecture is an annual three-part lecture series given in Cambridge to commemorate the unique contribution to the development of international law of Sir Hersch Lauterpacht. These lectures are given annually by a person of eminence in the field of international law. This year's lecture was given by Prof Beth Simmons, University of Pennsylvania.Summary: The Golden Age of globalization has reached an end in the popular and political imagination. In its place has arisen growing anxiety about state borders. What is the evidence of such a shift? What are the causes and consequences...2024-03-191h 03
Public Lectures from the Faculty of Law, University of CambridgeProfessor Christine Chinkin: Cambridge Pro Bono Project Annual Lecture 2024The Cambridge Pro Bono Project (CPP) hosted the annual lecture featuring Professor Christine Chinkin, FBA.The Cambridge Pro Bono Project is a research centre that draws on the subject-matter expertise of graduate researchers and Faculty experts to produce reports on a wide range of public interest matters. Every year, we invite distinguished speakers to address our researchers, staff, and students at the University of Cambridge. This year's Cambridge Pro Bono Project Annual Lecture will be delivered by Professor Christine Chinkin and chaired by Professor Surabhi Ranganathan, Professor of International Law and Deputy Director of the Lauterpacht Centre...2024-02-2651 minCambridge Pro Bono ProjectProfessor Christine Chinkin: Cambridge Pro Bono Project Annual Lecture 2024The Cambridge Pro Bono Project (CPP) hosted the annual lecture featuring Professor Christine Chinkin, FBA.The Cambridge Pro Bono Project is a research centre that draws on the subject-matter expertise of graduate researchers and Faculty experts to produce reports on a wide range of public interest matters. Every year, we invite distinguished speakers to address our researchers, staff, and students at the University of Cambridge. This year's Cambridge Pro Bono Project Annual Lecture will be delivered by Professor Christine Chinkin and chaired by Professor Surabhi Ranganathan, Professor of International Law and Deputy Director of the Lauterpacht Centre...2024-02-2651 min
The Lawfare PodcastThe Law of the Sea in the Age of Climate ChangeThough the threat of climate change has come sharply into focus in recent decades, humans have long endeavored to shape and reshape the natural world, carving it up and making sense of it through technological innovations. In just one example, projects of reclamation have increased Singapore’s total land area by 25 percent. The Changi airport sits on land that was once ocean. As Surabhi Ranganathan discusses in her recent article, “The Law of the Sea” for The Dial, this poses a unique challenge for international law. Surbahi writes, “The shifting relation between land and sea reflects the scale of...2023-05-1549 min
Law and the Future of WarWhat space law can tell us about international law - Cris van EijkSend us a textIn this episode, Dr Simon McKenzie chats with Cris van Eijk about space law – including some of its fundamental documents and places of political contestation - and what the structure and focus of space law tells us about international law more generally. After a few decades on the outer, space law is back in vogue: the rise of commercial space ventures combined with an uptick in geopolitical tension about the use of space makes it particularly important for us to think about if and how it is regulated by law.Cris van...2021-10-2738 min
EJIL: The Podcast!Episode 8: After the FallIn this new series, 'Reckonings with Europe: Pasts and Present', Surabhi Ranganathan and Megan Donaldson host conversations about enduring legacies of empire, capitalism, and racism in international law and the legal academy. Joined by Matthew Smith, Mezna Qato, and Rahul Rao, they open the series with a discussion about statues, less tangible legacies woven into institutions, and the place of law in struggles about pasts and futures.2021-05-2036 min
SynTalk#TIAR (The Interactions And Reactions) --- SynTalkHow quiet is the sea? Do you want to mine manganese? What makes certain interactions reactions? Are there reactions happening in your room? How is heat different from light? What does new Law come from? Can oceans ‘retain’ certain information for centuries? When do we say that a bond has broken? Can radio frequencies ionize molecules? Is your water from Greenland? Might an equatorial event in 1982 have impacted Japan in ~1992? Can physical pressure (alone) cause reactions? Does the deep seabed interact with the atmosphere? What does law say about ‘what’ the ocean is? Is carving up oceans very different from carving...2020-01-051h 18
Faculty of Law LLM Subject Forum MOVEDInternational Law of Global Governance LLM 2019: Dr Surabhi RanganathanThe LLM Subject Forum is an event held at the beginning of each academic year to help current LLM students decide which courses to take. Course convenors for each course discuss for approximately 10 minutes the goals and objectives of their course, and some general introductory presentations are also delivered. Potential applicants to the LLM listening to this presentation must bear in mind the students who were in the audience were intended as the target audience. Most of the courses offered each year will run in subsequent years, but not necessarily all of them.
Please see the LLM website http://www...2019-10-1007 minFaculty of Law LLM Subject Forum MOVEDInternational Human Rights Law LLM 2019: Dr Surabhi RanganathanThe LLM Subject Forum is an event held at the beginning of each academic year to help current LLM students decide which courses to take. Course convenors for each course discuss for approximately 10 minutes the goals and objectives of their course, and some general introductory presentations are also delivered. Potential applicants to the LLM listening to this presentation must bear in mind the students who were in the audience were intended as the target audience. Most of the courses offered each year will run in subsequent years, but not necessarily all of them.
Please see the LLM website http://www...2019-10-1008 min
Public Lectures from the Faculty of Law, University of CambridgePanel 7: New Issues in ReparationsOn 16-17 November 2018, the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, in collaboration with the Athens Public International Law Center, held a workshop entitled ‘Rethinking Reparations in International Law’, organised by Dr Veronika Fikfak, fellow and director of studies at Homerton College, and Professor Photini Pazartzis, professor at the Faculty of Law at the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens. This is Panel 7, chaired by Surabhi Ranganathan, featuring: - Raphaëlle Nollez-Goldbach, École Normale Supérieure: 'The ICC approach on reparations: the first reparations orders of the Court'- Ralph Wilde, University College London: 'Rethinking Reparat...2018-12-0333 min
Public International Law Discussion Group (Part II)Unmaking the oceanThis talk will discuss elements of a research project that explores the evolution of the law of the sea over the course of the 20th century It will focus on the emergence of the seabed as an area of political, economic and technological interest, and trace its subjection to national and international regimes. Calling attention to the legally constructed imaginary of the seabed as a space distinct from the above water, the talk will re-examine views of both the ocean and the law, which are commonly held, and presented as natural and therefore necessary. Suggesting instead a greater focus on...2018-10-2646 min
Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) PodcastCIPIL Spring Conference 2017: Surabhi Ranganathan - 'The International Sources of Human Rights: The UDHR, Covenants, ECHR and EU Charter'On Saturday 11 March 2017 the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) held it's annual Spring Conference, entitled 'Intellectual Property and Human Rights'.
In this recording, Dr Surabhi Ranganathan of the University of Cambridge speaks on the topic of 'The International Sources of Human Rights: The UDHR, Covenants, ECHR and EU Charter'.2017-03-1334 min
LCIL International Law Centre Podcast'Strategically Created Treaty Conflicts and the Politics of International Law' by Dr Surabhi RanganathanThe Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (LCIL), University of Cambridge hosts a regular Friday lunchtime lecture series on key areas of International Law. Previous subjects have included UN peacekeeping operations, the advisory jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice, the crime of aggression, whaling, children and military tribunals, and theories and practices for proving individual responsibility criminal responsibility for genocide and crimes against humanity.
This lecture, entitled 'Strategically Created Treaty Conflicts and the Politics of International Law', was delivered at the Lauterpacht Centre on Friday, 6 February 2015 by Dr Surabhi Ranganathan, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Warwick, UK.
Please note...2015-03-0632 min