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From The Director Newsletter of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law Issue 14 : Summer 2009 Customary International Humanitarian Law Centre Support Update: Conference, 29-30 May 2009 Building Fund Reaches £125,000 Since June 2007, the Centre has hosted As a result of historic gifts from Sir a three-member research team that is Elihu and Lady Lauterpacht, augmented working on a joint project, sponsored by by a number of donations from Friends the International Committee of the Red of the Centre following its 25th Cross (ICRC) and the British Red Cross anniversary celebrations last year, the Society (BRCS), to update the practice Centre’s building fund has passed the section of the ICRC Study on Customary £125,000 mark. The aim is to link Nos International Humanitarian Law, which 5 and 7 Cranmer Road, adding both was published in three volumes by space, greater amenity and additional Cambridge University Press in 2005. facilities. Many thanks for those who have given to the Fund: if you would The Conference provided a forum for the invitees On 29-30 May 2009, the Centre hosted to evaluate the progress of the ICRC update project like to find out about how you might a conference to mark the presence of the help the Centre, do contact Centre project at the Centre, to receive an update States Claims Tribunal. The Conference Director Professor James Crawford on: on progress, and to provide a forum for provided an invaluable opportunity for [email protected]. some 35 invited participants to reflect the project to receive further feedback, on the impact and use of the study. both on the Customary IHL Study and on New Online Giving Facility On the first evening of the conference, factors important in the work of updating participants attended a dinner at Trinity the practice section of the Study. A new online giving facility, hosted by the College, hosted by the Centre’s founder University’s Development Office, has now and first director, Sir Elihu Lauterpacht, During the Conference it was agreed been set up. Visit the Centre’s website QC, at which the keynote speaker was with the ICRC and BRCS that the project (www.lcil.cam.ac.uk/about_the_centre/ Judge George Aldrich of the Iran-United would be renewed for a further 3 years. support_the_centre.php) to find out more. British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow: First Winiarski Dr Jessie Hohmann Scholar ‘Mugged’ of the international legal system and the implications of these pressures for international law. Jessie has recently completed her PhD on ‘The Right to Housing: Theoretical and Practical Possibilities’ at the University of Cambridge and holds an LLM from the University of Sydney, an LLB from Jessie Hohmann will join the Centre in October Osgoode Hall (York University) and Dr Joanne Gomula (right) with Bohdan as a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow a BA from the University of Guelph. Winiarski Scholar Dr Filip Jasiński and his son Dr Jessie Hohmann will be joining the Prior to commencing her PhD here, The first Bohdan Winiarski scholar, Lauterpacht Centre in October 2009 as she lectured in constitutional law at Dr Jasiński pursued his studies on “the a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow. Macquarie University. links in international law between Her research, on human rights and the maritime piracy, mercenarism and normative limits of international law, will With Dr Michael Waibel and, as of October, trafficking in human beings”. He is based culminate in a monograph investigating Sarah Nouwen, there will be three post- at the Permanent Representation of how human rights push at the limits doctoral fellows working at the Centre. Poland to the EU in Brussels. Lauterpacht Centre for International Law | 5 Cranmer Road Cambridge CB3 9BL UK | Tel: 01223 335 358 | Email: [email protected] | Web: www.lcil.cam.ac.uk FTD Newsletter Issue 14 : Summer 2009 Page 2 Alumni Conference in Budapest Wolfgang Friedmann 23 May 2009 Memorial Award James receives the Friedmann Award from David Hambrick at Columbia Law School Congratulations to Centre Director From Left to right: Tamás Ádány, Ottavio Quirico, Raffaela Nigro, Anne Lagerwall, Christina Binder, Chia James Crawford on becoming the 36th Lenhardt, Marcel Szabó, Roger O’Keefe, Aurora Mateos, Penelope Nevill and András Varga recipient of the Wolfgang Friedmann A group of Lauterpacht Fellows, past and group, Roger O’Keefe, Chia Lenhardt, Memorial Award at a ceremony at the present, held a symposium on 23 May Anne Lagerwall, Ottavio Quirico, end of March. The Award is presented in Budapest, on the 40th anniversary of Raffaela Nigro, Penelope Nevill and annually by the Columbia Journal the conclusion of the Vienna Convention Christina Binder are grateful to the of Transnational Law based at the of the Law of Treaties, under the title Centre for being the “matchmaker” for University of Columbia. Each year the Interplay between the Law of Treaties academic cooperation and friendship. Award honours an individual who has and State Responsibility. The Conference As you can see, not all their time was made outstanding contributions to the was hosted by Marcel Szabó. The entire spent discussing the topic! field of international law. Previous honorands have included Philip News from Centre Friends and Alumni: Jessup, Oscar Shachter, Rosalyn Higgins, Thomas Buerguenthal, John Hazard, Congratulations to Frank Madsen Thomas Franck, Louise Arbor, Ian (Visiting Fellow Oct 03 - Jun 05) on Brownlie, Hans Blix and Antonio Cassese. his first book Transnational Organized Crime, which has just been published Visiting Fellows Talks by Routledge as part of the Global Institutions series. The book examines The following talks took place recently: the history and current key issues Gregory Fox on Constitutional surrounding transnational organised Violations and the Validity of Treaties crime in the era of globalization. Ignacio Rodrigues Alvarez on Stare Super Antiquas Vias: Theories and Realities If you have any Alumni or Centre-related news you would like others to hear upon Precedent in the Law of Nations about, please do send it to us by email to [email protected] In Memoriam: Sir Derek Bowett Professor Thomas Franck Many of you will have body. He was one of the Another sad loss in recent weeks heard already the sad greatest advocates before the is Tom Franck, who died after a news of the death of Derek International Court of his long and brave struggle against Bowett QC, who died generation, having a great cancer. Tom was a Distinguished after a long illness on gift of clarity and an Visiting Fellow at Trinity College 23 May 2009. He unequalled strategic sense. in 1997 and gave the Hersch was Reader in Public Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures International Law at The Squire Law Library’s in 2000, published as Recourse to Cambridge, President of Queens’ Eminent Scholars Archive provides Force. State Action against Threats College and Whewell Professor a valuable insight into Sir Derek’s and Armed Attacks (Cambridge (1981-1991). He was a foundation life and works, including a series University Press, 2002). member of the Centre’s Committee of interviews, conducted by Lesley of Management. As a member of Dingle between Dec 06 and Apr 07, the International Law Commission detailing some of his characteristic (1992-1996) he always spoke recollections (see: www.squire.law. pointedly, wittily and crisply, cam.ac.uk/eminent_scholars/derek_ an unusual combination for that bowett.php). Lauterpacht Centre for International Law | 5 Cranmer Road Cambridge CB3 9BL UK | Tel: 01223 335 358 | Email: [email protected] | Web: www.lcil.cam.ac.uk.