Publications & Events

Wednesday, February 8, 2017, 6 pm
Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung (HIS), Mittelweg 36, Hamburg

Prof. Philippe Sands (University College London, Faculty of Laws)

East West Street. On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity

When human rights lawyer Philippe Sands received an invitation to deliver a lecture in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, he began to uncover a series of extraordinary historical coincidences. It set him on a quest that would take him half way around the world in an exploration of the origins of international law and the pursuit of his own secret family history, beginning and ending with the last day of the Nuremberg trial. Part historical detective story, part family history, Sands guides us through some interconnected stories on the development of international law and the inclusion of the terms 'crimes against humanity' (Lauterpacht) and 'genocide' (Lemkin) in the judgement at Nuremberg.

Philippe Sands is Professor of Law and Director of the Centre on International Courts and Tribunals at the University College London Faculty of Laws. His fields of expertise include public international law, the settlement of international disputes, and environmental and natural resources law. As a practicing barrister he has extensive experience litigating cases before various international courts, including the ITLOS in Hamburg. Sands is also a regular commentator in the media. His most recent book East West Street is winner of the Baillie Gifford (Samuel Johnson) Prize for Non-Fiction.

The event was recorded with kind support of the HIS

8. Februar 2017_Philippe Sands: East West Street. On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity from HH_Institut_für_Sozialforschung on Vimeo.

Zu der im Sommersemester 2016 gemeinsam mit anderen Research Areas des CGG organisierten Vortragsreihe, hat die Research Area 4 Prof. Wouter Werner (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) eingeladen.

14/07/2016, Wednesday, 6-8 p.m.

Prof. Wouter Werner University of Amsterdam Screening International Criminal Justice - A Study of Four Advocacy Documentary Films

Today’s international relations feature a paradox. On the one hand, there is an increase in references to constitutional norms and processes across global regions and in a range of international organizations. On the other hand, the interpretation of international law is frequently subject to controversy. In the global realm, an ever-broader range of ‘public’ and ‘private’ actors with different levels of authority and legitimacy intervene into these processes. Against the background of diverse and, more often than not, divergent, ‘global’ and ‘local’ background knowledges, the meaning of corresponding norms is highly contested. Examples ranging from decisions of the United Nations Security Council or domestic courts to locally operating human rights advocacy groups indicate that when international norms are applied, practice faces the need to “translate” and re-contextualize norms in “productive” ways.
Research on norms suffers from being divided through disciplinary boundaries, with schol-ars sometimes using different vocabularies. Starting from the interface between global governance, constitutionalism, and world society approaches, the lecture series on “Con-testation, Knowledge, Practice” aims to stimulate ‘interdisciplinary encounters” by featuring speakers with different disciplinary backgrounds in order to highlight the paradoxical constellations of global normativity.

 

 

COORDINATION: Prof. Antje Wiener PhD FAccS, head of the research area 4 of the CGG “Global Governance, Constitutionalism and World Society” and Dr. Philip Liste

VENUE: Main building of the University of Hamburg, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Hörsaal C/ auditorium C

 

19/11/2014, Mittwoch, 18-20 Uhr	Professor Dr. Kirsten Ainley,  London School of Economics and Political Sciences, UK Practices of Responsibility in International Relations
10/12/2014, Mittwoch, 18-20 Uhr	Dr. Christian Büger,  Cardiff University, UK Experimental Governance: Lessons from the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia
17/12/2014, Mittwoch,  18-20 Uhr	Professor Annelise Riles PhD,   Cornell Law School, USA New Approaches to International Financial Regulation: What Legal Scholars and Policymakers Can Learn from Critical and Anthropological Studies of Knowledge, Contestation and Practice
07/01/2015, Mittwoch,  18-20 Uhr	Prof. Dr. Stephan Stetter,  Universität der Bundeswehr, München Frozen Crossing, Hot Contestations: Macht- und Herrschaftspraktiken im Kontext des Nahen Ostens
28/01/2015, Mittwoch,  18-20 Uhr	Dr. Christoph Humrich,  University of Groningen, Netherlands Politics in the New Arctic: Resource Contest, Contested Sovereignties and Regional Governance

Diese Lecture Series ist leider nicht als Video abrufbar. Die Referenten und Titel waren wie folgt:

21/10/2009	Prof. Dr. Mathias Albert (Universität Bielefeld) Globalisierung oder Weltgesellschaft, Global Governance oder Weltstaat?
05/11/2009	Prof. Michael Cox, PhD (London School of Economics and Political Sciences)  The New Twenty Years Crisis
09/12/2009	Prof. Antje Wiener, PhD  (Universität Hamburg) The Invisible Constitution of International Order (Die unsichtbare Konstitution internationaler Ordnung)
04/01/2010	Prof. Michael Byers, PhD (University of British Columbia, Vancouver)  Global Governance and the Arctic
20/01/2010	Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Rüdiger Wolfrum (MPI, Heidelberg und Internationaler Seerechtshof)  Global Governance auf hoher See
27/01/2010	Prof. Nick Rengger, PhD University of St. Andrews, Scotland Another Great Illusion? The Ambiguities of Global Governance
03/02/2010	Prof. Kathryn Hochstetler, PhD (University of Waterloo, Canada)  Governance from a Comparative Regional Perspective
10/02/2010	Prof. Dr. Michael Zürn (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin und Hertie School of Governance)  Global Governance und Demokratie zwischen Staat und Gesellschaft