About this Event
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The Victorian Chapter of the International Law Association (Australia) is excited to host a hybrid event at which Professor Paparinskis (PhD, Professor in Public International Law at University College London and member of the United Nations International Law Commission) and Isabel Walther (PhD candidate & legal assistant of a United Nations International Law Commission member) will share their experience and insights in relation to topics on the current work programme of the International Law Commission (in livestream from Europe). Topics include the immunity of State officials from foreign criminal jurisdiction, compensation for damage caused by internationally wrongful acts and sea level rise in relation to international law.
Speakers:
Professor Martins Paparinskis is a generalist public international lawyer with a variety of specialist interests. He is a member of the United Nations International Law Commission (Chairperson of the Drafting Committee 2023, First Vice-Chair 2024). In the field of inter-State dispute settlement, he is a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration and the OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration, and has appeared before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS/PV.23/C31/9) and the International Court of Justice (CR 2023/15, CR 2024/44). In the field of investor-State arbitration, he is a member of the ICSID Panels of Arbitrators and of Conciliators, the Beijing Arbitration Commission / Beijing International Arbitration Center's Panel of Arbitrators for International Investment Arbitration, and CIETAC Panel of Arbitrators. In the field of human rights law, he is a member of the list of experts of the OSCE Human dimension mechanism (Moscow mechanism) and the Scientific Committee of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency. In the field of international environmental law, he is a member of the implementation committee of the UNECE Water Convention.
Professor Paparinskis is also the Editor in Chief of CIL Dialogues and a member of the Editorial Boards of Journal of International Economic Law and Journal of World Investment and Trade, Advisory Boards of American Review of International Arbitration and Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law, and Academic Review Board of the Cambridge Journal of International Law. He is a member of the Academic Forum on ISDS, the Academic Council of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration, and the Advisory Board of the BIICL Young ITF.
Isabel Walther, PhD candidate at Humboldt-University of Berlin, is an Assistant to UN ILC Member Prof. Martins Paparinskis on the project concerning State officials’ immunity. She researches procedural safeguards and the corresponding ILC’s work, attending sessions in 2019, 2021 and 2024.
Moderators:
Mary Quinn, practising lawyer with expertise in public and international law. She holds an LLB(Hons) from Melbourne Law School and an LLM from New York University, and has taught law at Monash University and Deakin University. Mary is a past editor of the Melbourne Journal of International Law and gained experience at the International Law Commission, UN Women and as an NYU Human Rights Scholar at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice.
Yvonne Vera Diaz is a Policy Officer in the Advancing Traditional Owner Rights and Land Justice Division at the Department of Premier and Cabinet in Victoria. Yvonne holds a Master of Public and International Law from Melbourne Law School and is a member of the Victorian International Law Association (Australia).
Schedule
17:30 Event opens
18:00 Q&A begins
19:00 Refreshments
19:30 Event ends
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Corrs Chambers Westgarth, 567 Collins Street, Melbourne, Australia
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