About this Event
Join us on Wednesday, 18 November, 6-7 PM CET at the T.M.C. Asser Institute in The Hague for this annual event featuring Judge Hilary Charlesworth of the International Court of Justice in discussion with Professor Anna Spain Bradley, MacArthur Foundation Chair in International Justice and Human Rights at UCLA School of Law. The discussion will center on the evolving role of international adjudication and international law in the world today. This lecture series furthers the mission of The Promise Institute and UCLA by supporting public education and engagement with international justice and human rights.
Judge Charlesworth was elected to the International Court of Justice on 5 November 2021 and was re-elected for a nine-year term in 2023. Before her election, she was Harrison Moore Professor of Law and Melbourne Laureate Professor at Melbourne Law School and a Distinguished Professor at the Australian National University. She has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, New York University Global Law School, the University of California, Los Angeles, Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, and the London School of Economics.
Her professional leadership has included the presidency of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law and membership of the Executive Councils of the Asian Society of International Law and the American Society of International Law. She is a member of the Institut de Droit International and the British Academy. She also served as Judge ad hoc at the ICJ in the Whaling in the Antarctic case (Australia v. Japan) (2011–2014) and the Arbitral Award of 3 October 1899 case (Guyana v. Venezuela) (2019–2021).
The lecture will be followed by a reception.
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T.M.C. Asser Instituut, 20-22 R.J. Schimmelpennincklaan, Den Haag, Netherlands
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