6 June 2013
Date:
6 June 2013
Location:
Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam
Oudemanhuispoort 4-6
Room A009
Time:
15:30-17:00
Topics:
International Human Rights
On Thursday 6 June 2013, Professor Samantha Besson will give a lecture entitled: ‘Allocation of human rights duties (and responsibilities) to multiple duty-bearers’.
Professor Besson is Professor of public international law and European law, co-director of the European Law Institute, and head of the department of international and commercial law at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). (more…)
30 and 31 May 2013
This SHARES Seminar will consider extra-legal perspectives on how responsibility is to be distributed among multiple wrongdoing actors.
The question of distribution is central to the SHARES Project. Actors may agree on distribution ex ante, e.g. by determining that some states should carry higher burdens in military operations. If such ex ante agreements of distribution have been made, this may influence or even determine responsibility ex post facto. If nothing has been agreed, the question arises how nonetheless responsibilities are to be distributed. Should the responsibility of all actors be based on their individual contribution to such harms? Are there grounds for differentiation, and should individual responsibilities be determined on these bases? Or should all actors be held responsible in an equal amount, or should they, if no differentiation can be made, be held responsible collectively? (more…)
22 May 2013
Date:
22 May 2013
Location:
Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam
Oudemanhuispoort 4-6
Room A009
Time:
15:30-17:00
On Wednesday 22 May 2013, Emeritus Professor Vera Gowlland-Debbas will give a lecture entitled: ‘Shared responsibility between member states and the United Nations’.
Professor Gowlland-Debbas is Emeritus Professor of public international law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, and visiting Professor at University College London. (more…)
16 May 2013
This SHARES Seminar will discuss papers reviewing the practice of shared responsibility in the field of international refugee law. (more…)
18 and 19 April 2013
This SHARES Seminar will discuss papers reviewing the practice of shared responsibility in the field of international law of the sea and international environmental law. (more…)