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PIL @ Oxford @oxfordpil.bsky.social · 6d

Join us for our first PIL Discussion Group of this academic year next Thursday, 16 October 2025! Prof Jorge E. Vinuales will be presenting on the topic of ‘Bringing Climate Change before the ICJ: Process, Outcome and Pure Conjecture’. For more information, see here:

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PIL Discussion Group: Bringing Climate Change

Abstract On 23 July 2025, the International Court of Justice delivered a landmark advisory opinion

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PIL @ Oxford @oxfordpil.bsky.social · 12d

We are so excited to welcome all back to our new academic year!

The term card for Michaelmas is now out - do join us for a fruitful discussion 🥳 Light lunch will be available for those attending in person.

PIL @ Oxford @oxfordpil.bsky.social · Aug 7

❗Prof Lavanya Rajamani shares her insights on the ICJ's Advisory Opinion on Climate Change in the @abilaofficial.bsky.social's podcast, International Law Chats - together with Andrew B. Loewenstein, Prof @niluferoral.bsky.social and Ambassador Franz Perrez.

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Professor Lavanya Rajamani discusses landmark ICJ

Professor Lavanya Rajamani, Professor of International Environmental Law at the University of

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PIL @ Oxford @oxfordpil.bsky.social · Aug 4

🎧 In the latest episode of EJIL: The Podcast!, Prof Lavanya Rajamani, together with Profs Margaret Young and Phoebe Okowa, discuss the ICJ’s groundbreaking advisory opinion on the obligations of States in respect of climate change. Listen now: www.ejiltalk.org/ejil-the-pod...

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EJIL: The Podcast! Episode 37: The ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Climate Obligations: Remarkable, Radical and Robust

There were gasps in the courtroom when the ICJ delivered its advisory opinion on the obligations of States in respect of climate change on 23 July 2025. In this episode, Margaret Young (Melbourne Law ...

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PIL @ Oxford @oxfordpil.bsky.social · Jul 21

🚨Give the new episode of the ‘Fire and Wire’ podcast a listen as Prof Lavanya Rajamani shares her insights on climate and human rights 🌎 ⚖️

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Lavanya Rajamani featured in Vice-Chancellor's

In a recent episode of 'Fire and Wire', Vice-Chancellor Professor Irene Tracey speaks with Oxford

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PIL @ Oxford @oxfordpil.bsky.social · Jun 19

Delighted to again welcome lawyers from the Royal Navy and the FCDO to Oxford for the International Law Course, where they presented at our final PIL seminar.

We’ve had an amazing year - many thanks to our presenters and all who participated. See you next academic year!👋

PIL @ Oxford @oxfordpil.bsky.social · Jun 18

For our final PIL seminar, we heard from Ayako Hatano on ‘Reconceptualising Internalisation of International Law: A Case Study of Racialised Hate Speech in Japan’.

PIL @ Oxford @oxfordpil.bsky.social · Jun 17

It was a privilege to host an international law workshop to celebrate Sir Frank Berman KCMG KC’s work and mentorship. Thank you to everyone for a day of lively discussions - we were delighted to bring together generations of international legal scholars to Oxford! 🥳

PIL @ Oxford @oxfordpil.bsky.social · Jun 17

To conclude today’s workshop, we are honoured to have Sir Frank Berman KCMG KC and Vaughan Lowe KC in conversation, with Elizabeth Wilmshurst CMG KC as chair.

PIL @ Oxford @oxfordpil.bsky.social · Jun 17

Panel Three: presentations by Yang Huiwen and Gor Samvel with Gleider Hernández and Devika Hovell as respondents, chaired by our very own Lavanya Rajamani.

PIL @ Oxford @oxfordpil.bsky.social · Jun 17

Panel Two: @pearceclancy.bsky.social and Niko Pavlopoulos deliver papers with responses by Federica Paddeu and Fernando Bordin, with the wonderful Alison Macdonald KC as chair.

PIL @ Oxford @oxfordpil.bsky.social · Jun 17

Panel One: papers by Ester Ferriello and Xenia Seabright with responses by @mpaparinskis.bsky.social ‬and Prof Campbell McLachlan KC, expertly chaired by Prof Dan Sarooshi KC.

PIL @ Oxford @oxfordpil.bsky.social · Jun 17

To start, Miles Jackson welcomes everyone to All Souls College on behalf of the PIL Group here at Oxford!

PIL @ Oxford @oxfordpil.bsky.social · Jun 17

Happy Week 8! We are excited to kickstart our final week of Trinity Term with the International Law Workshop in Honour of Sir Frank Berman KCMG KC. We have a great itinerary lined up - watch this space! ✨

PIL @ Oxford @oxfordpil.bsky.social · Jun 15

To conclude the first Oxford-Bonn workshop, we were also happy to have Professor Sienho Yee deliver his public lecture on ‘Self-drive, Inducement, and Compulsion: Co-progressive Climate Change Solutions and the Advisory Proceedings before the ITLOS and the ICJ’ 🥳

PIL @ Oxford @oxfordpil.bsky.social · Jun 13

We are delighted to have hosted the first Oxford-Bonn doctoral exchange workshop at sunny Oxford 🌞

We had such a fruitful discussion the past two days - with many lifelong friendships formed!

PIL @ Oxford @oxfordpil.bsky.social · Jun 11

Today at our Week 7 PIL Seminar, we are delighted to have Professor @bodansk.bsky.social share his insights on the topic ‘Towards an International Legally Binding Instrument to End Plastic Pollution’.

PIL @ Oxford @oxfordpil.bsky.social · Jun 10

If you’re in Oxford this Friday (13 June 2025), join us for a special public lecture by Professor Sienho Yee!

The lecture will be held in-person at the @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social, and is part of the first Oxford-Bonn doctoral exchange workshop. 🥳

No registration is required.

PIL @ Oxford @oxfordpil.bsky.social · Jun 4

We heard from Juan-Pablo Pérez-León-Acevedo at today’s PIL seminar, where he shared on his research topic, ‘Reparations for Mass Atrocities at the International Court of Justice’.

PIL @ Oxford @oxfordpil.bsky.social · May 28

What a way to dispel the 5th week blues! Today, Aakarsh Banyal presented on ‘Protection of Foreign Investments at Sea’ at our PIL Seminar.

PIL @ Oxford @oxfordpil.bsky.social · May 21

We’re now mid-way through Trinity Term! 🌞 Today, we had the fantastic opportunity to hear from Prof @atzanakopoulos.bsky.social on ‘International Law and Domestic Courts: Quantum Uncertainty’.

PIL @ Oxford @oxfordpil.bsky.social · May 15

Thank you all for a lively discussion to close off the final discussion group of this term – and to Profs Kimberley Trapp and Alex Mills for guiding us through their research. See you next term! 🥳

This is part of the ILA British Branch seminar series and supported by OUP Law.

PIL @ Oxford @oxfordpil.bsky.social · May 14

At today’s PIL seminar, @melanieschndr.bsky.social presented her research on ‘The Role of International Law in Shaping Energy Security’.

PIL @ Oxford @oxfordpil.bsky.social · May 9

Join us next Thursday - online or in person - for our final Discussion Group this term! Professors Kimberley Trapp and Alex Mills will present on ‘Jurisdictional Disconnections - State Jurisdiction and Human Rights’.

Register here:
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PIL Discussion Group: Jurisdictional

Abstract The word ‘jurisdiction’ has several uses in international law, and it is necessary to draw

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PIL @ Oxford @oxfordpil.bsky.social · May 8

Today, Prof René Provost presented his research on ‘Legal Pluralism and War: Lessons from Informal Courts of PoW Camps and Jewish Ghettos’. Thank you to everyone who participated in our discussion group – both online and in-person!