Reconceptualizing International Law (Panel 1): The Case for Reconceptualizing International Law

Описание: While there has been a recent intensified focus on issues of racial justice and systemic inequality, including in
the arena of international law, the traditional ways in which we conceptualize and practice international law
may be insufficient to address these pressing issues. Organized by Independent International Legal Advocates (IILA), the TWAIL Seminar at UCLA and the International Arbitration Group of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, this series will feature leading academics and
practitioners who will engage in critical thinking across the core topics of public international law to
conceptualize practical measures and mechanisms to convert and transform normative foundations of justice
into procedural and substantive realities for today’s world.

In the first session, utilizing as a starting point Special Rapporteur Achiume’s recent report addressing the
obligations of UN Member States to pay reparations for racial discrimination rooted in slavery and
colonialism, the speakers (Prof Achiume as moderator, Prof Balakrishnan Rajagopal, Prof Sundhya Pahuja and Prof Makane Moïse Mbengue) will address how the status quo came to be, as well as how and why there is a need
to reconceptualize international law to address matters of justice and inequality.

Details on further panels in the Reconceptualizing International Law Series will be made available on IILA's website at http://independentila.org.