SCILJ Events
On this page, we have compiled a list of the Stockholm Centre for International Law and Justice seminars and other events.

2025
19 August
Seminar:
Red Notices in International Criminal Law
14 April
Seminar:
On Corporate Harm, Mute Compulsion, and Ideology: a Marxist Reading of International Corporate Criminal Responsibility
8 April
Seminar:
Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Syria
20 February
Seminar:
Constructing Modern Slavery – Law, Capitalism and Unfree Labour
30 January
Seminar:
Sights, Sounds, and Sensibilities of Atrocity Prosecutions
22 January
ILA Event:
Contemporary Challenges in International Humanitarian Law
2024
17 December
Seminar:
Power in International Thought
26 November
Seminar:
Legal Aspects of the NATO Membership
25 November
Seminar:
The Crisis of Kartenpolitik: Critical Geography and International Law
19-20 November
Event:
International Law Day 2024
14 November
Seminar:
From Vienna to Rome to Timbuktu: Using Systemic Integration to Interpret War Crimes at the ICC
31 October
ILA Meeting:
Förenta nationernas cyberbrottskonvention
26 September
Lecture:
International Courts and the Politics of Climate Litigation
12 September
Seminar:
Global standards on judicial independence and removal
29 August
Lecture:
Inaugural Lecture of the 2024 Olof Palme Guest Professor
27 May
Seminar:
TWAIL for outer space: Space Law negotiations at the UN 1958-63
16 May
Book Launch:
Targeting in International law: Counterinsurgency and the legal materiality of the principle of distinction
7 May
Seminar:
The Making of international Courts and international Society
18 April
Seminar:
Harmful effect assessment of a State’s cyber operation to make a case per International Law
21 March
Lecture:
The Sixth Hilding Eek Memorial Lecture
28 February
Panel:
South Africa v. Israel in the International Court of Justice
20 February
Seminar:
Colonialism and European Union Law
24 January
Symposium:
Security and the Formation and Application of International Law
23 January
Book Launch:
Law, Visual Culture, and the Show Trial
2023
14 December
Seminar:
Tensions and Limitations of Contemporary International Law: The Wars in Ukraine and Gaza
11 December
Seminar:
The New Interference in Sovereign Affairs and International Law
5 October
Seminar:
Freedom of expression and its limits
2 October
Seminar:
Legal science and human rights in the Israeli Constitutional Crisis and its implications for women
25 September
Seminar:
Hammarskjöld, Bernadotte, and Bunche: Mediation and Peacekeeping at the United Nations
22 September
Seminar:
The war in Ukraine before international courts: An unprecedented mobilisation of the international community?
21 September
Seminar:
International law and climate change in national courts: experiences from Sweden and other jurisdictions
21 September
Webinar:
Arabic Lexsitus, including the Arabic version of the Commentary on the Law of the ICC (CLICC)
5 May
Webinar:
Defender’s Paradox and the War in Ukraine: A Study of a Legal Dilemma
6 February
Seminar:
Shocking the Conscience of Humanity – Gravity and the Legitimacy of International Criminal Law
30 January
Lecture:
Political constitutionalism and ‘total market thinking’: the case of labour protection
26 January
Workshop Seminar:
EU’s external borders and values – sovereignty, complexity and harmonisation
18 January
Workshop Seminar:
Defence Counsel ‘Maestro’
2022
19 December
Book release:
Anfallskrigens argument: konsten att rättfärdiga våld
15 December
Workshop Seminar:
Neutral Business Assistance and the Limits of Complicity in International Criminal Law
14 December
Seminar:
SCILJ’s 10th year anniversary | The influence of International Law on the UN Security Council’s Agenda, Debates and Decision-making
24 November
Seminar:
The 1992 Stockholm Convention in a Europe in Crisis
14 November
Webinar:
Property Protection under Extraordinary Circumstances
2 November
Webinar:
Full Protection and Security (for Racial Capitalism)
31 October
Seminar:
Who is the government of Myanmar in international law?
25 October
Seminar:
Prosecuting international crimes in Ukraine
20 October
Webinar:
Should the family be recognised as a rightsholder under international law?
18 October
Seminar:
The mismatch of international refugee law and international criminal law
17 October
Seminar:
Domestic prosecution of international crimes
10 October
Seminar:
The Contributions of American Power to International Law and Order in Today’s World
4 October
Seminar:
Celebrating Professor David Fisher: universalism versus relativism in the human rights discourse
6 September
Seminar:
How to govern borders? Pluralism about Territorial Rights and Its Consequences for Border Control
2021
25 October
Lecture:
The fifth Hilding Eek Memorial Lecture
9-11 September
Conference:
2021 ESIL Annual Conference
2020
23 November
Webinar:
Investigation and Prosecution of International Crimes in Domestic Courts
19 November
Webinar:
Mission Impossible? Courts, quasi-judicial bodies and the assessment of civilian mental harm in warfare
6 October
Webinar:
Thinking about Armed Groups Legislating for Rights for their Detainees
1 October
Webinar:
Legal reasoning as web design: the Advisory Opinions of the International Court of Justice
15 September
Webinar:
Territorial Disputes and State Soverignty
10 September
Webinar:
Covid-19 and international law: science and disinformation, exceptions and emergencies
24 February
Webinar:
Book Release: Lagföring i Sverige av internationella brott
24 February
Webinar:
Advocates of Humanity
13 February
ILA Meeting:
Becoming and Working as a Human Rights Lawyer
2019
25 November
Seminar:
Borders rules
15 November
Seminar:
The Right to Health Care in Armed Conflict
13 November
Seminar:
EU solidarity as collective self-defence? Constitutionalism and the public uses of coercion and force
1 November
Lecture:
Freedom of expression in armed conflict
29 October
Seminar:
The Hong Kong crisis and international law
21 October
Seminar:
The Enduring Value of the International Criminal Court to Humanity
9 October
Seminar:
Investment Law and Legal Forms of Empire
2 October
Lecture:
The fourth Hilding Eek Memorial Lecture
5 June
Seminar:
Privacy and Legalization of a Mass Surveillance: In Search for Resources of International Human Rights Law
4 June
Seminar:
The International Legal Principle of Non-Interference and Cyber-Operations: Unjustified Expectations?
28 May
Seminar:
The Authority of Transnational Law
7 May
Seminar:
The Use of Force by States at the Inter- and Intra-State Levels: Never the Twain Shall Meet, Two Sides of the Same Coin or in Unison?
23 April
Seminar:
The Changing Practices of International Law
16 April
Seminar:
The Russian law on Refugees and the principle of non-refoulement: an analysis through the lens of the European Court of Human Rights
15 April
Seminar:
The Reparations System of the Extraordinary African Chambers: A Comparative Perspective
14 February
Seminar:
Minorities on the Border between International and Constitutional Law
30 January
Seminar:
The Authority of Global Law
1 January
Seminar:
International Law and Rescue of Refugees at Sea
2018
10 December
Seminar:
Interactive Strategies for Advancing Marginalized Actors in Transnational Governance Contests: Labour and the Making of ISO 26000
27 November
Seminar:
The International Criminal Court’s jurisdiction over alleged violations of the human rights of the Rohingya people in Myanmar and on the territory of Bangladesh
19 November
Seminar:
Irresolvable Norm Conflicts in International Law
16 November
Panel discussion:
Protection Against Violence in Refugee Law
12 November
Seminar:
Climate change as a threat to the existence or territorial extension of states
8 November
Seminar:
At the Crux: Security, Development and Pettiness in the Global South
2 October
Seminar:
Investment arbitration as constitutional law: constitutional analogies, linkages, and absences
1 October
Seminar:
The legacy of Kofi Annan
11 June
Seminar:
Legal Pluralism and International Criminal Justice
31 May
ILA Meeting:
Sustainable Oceans? Current Legal Challenges
24 May
Seminar:
The Mladić trial – international criminal justice at a crossroads
22 May
Seminar:
Marriage for all: a walk through of the decision and effects of the Advisory Opinion 24 of the Interamerican Court of Human Rights
15 May
Seminar:
Figuring Women into the Nuremberg Trials Narrative
10 March
Seminar:
The Contribution of International Law to Global Health Governance: Lessons from the Experience of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
13 February
Seminar:
Foreign fighters in Swedish law
30 January
Seminar:
The Authority of Global Law with Dr. Neil Walker
2017
21 November
Seminar:
The contribution of Judge Håkan Friman to the making of the International Criminal Court
14 November
Seminar:
Immunities for international organizations
13 November
Seminar:
American Civil Liberties Union v CIA Torture Psychologists
28-29 October
Conference:
Power in International Criminal Justice: Towards a Sociology of International Justice
18 September
Lecture:
The third Hilding Eek Memorial Lecture
5 September
Seminar:
“Specially Affected” States and the Formation of Custom: A Concept in Search of a Meaning
15 June
Seminar:
Legal and political obstacles to accountability for the use of chemical weapons in Syria
8 June
Seminar:
International Criminal Court: an internal perspective to its lessons learned, current challenges and way forward
1 June
Seminar:
Torture in the 21st Century
30 May
Seminar:
‘Three Grades of Evil’: Nabokov and the Perils of Interpretation of Investment Treaties
29 May
Seminar:
In memory of Catalán: Protection under international law for UN and humanitarian personnel in conflict zones
8 May
Seminar:
Courting Failure: When Are International Criminal Courts Likely to be Believed by Local Audiences?
18 April
Seminar:
Free Trade, International Law, and the Battle for the State
21 March
Seminar:
Enforcing international law against armed groups: The ambivalent role of the collective security system
14 March
Seminar:
Feminist International Law with Marie Jacobsson & Cecilia Baillet
22 February
Seminar:
When Confucius came to the UN – Peng Chun Chang and the UN Declaration of Human Rights
14 February
Seminar:
The Supreme Court's case law 2003–2015: challenges and opportunities of incorporating the UNCRC
2016
6 December
Seminar:
International concern or domestic empowerment? Rethinking the political conception of human rights
24 November
Seminar:
International Law Aspects of the Right to Self-Determination in Western Sahara: Theory and Practice
8 November
Seminar:
Swedish Foreign Intelligence Court
25 October
Seminar:
Raphaël Lemkin in Stockholm: Coining 'Genocide' and Shaping the UN Convention
10 October
Seminar:
Third-Party Countermeasures in International Law
6-8 October
Conference:
Historicising International (Humanitarian) Law? – Could we? Should we?
27 September
Seminar:
Men are the Guardians of Women – Advancing Women’s Rights in Islamic Law
20 September
Seminar:
The South China Sea Arbitration
26 May
Seminar:
Palestine on the road to independence
25 May
Seminar:
Should There be a Responsibility Not to Veto in the UN Security Council in Cases of Grave Atrocities
14-15 March
PhD internship with Professor Martti Koskenniemi, Professor Anne Margaret Orford, Professor Pål Wrange and Professor Said Mahmoudi
5 March
Seminar:
How human rights are (but should not be) used to racialize people and groups
21 March
Seminar:
Countermeasures against low intensity cyber attacks
25 February
Seminar:
Reconceptualizing the Scope and Meaning of Human Rights
26 January
Seminar:
Western Sahara: Recognition as a state? Human rights on hold? Where does the EU stand?
2015
16 December
Seminar:
Interpretation of treaties - focus on the UNCRC
16 December
Seminar:
UN Security Council Resolution 2249 (Combating ISIL)
5 December
Information session:
Public information on the future report on historical mass atrocities
1 December
Seminar:
Shari’a and Contemporary Legal Systems in Muslim Countries – Commercial Law Aspects
18 November
Seminar:
Jus ad vim and the just war framework
16 November
Lecture:
Hilding Eek Memorial Lecture with Dr. Hans Blix
10 November
Seminar:
The right to self-determination and Western Sahara
5 November
Seminar:
Governance of international courts and tribunals
29 September
Seminar:
Global Political Legitimacy Beyond Justice and Democracy?
14 September
Seminar:
The Iran Deal: An Assessment
25 August
Seminar:
Two Chinese-Swedish discussions: Governmental transparency. The protection of workers overseas
25 August
Seminar:
The Chagos Islanders & the UK/Mauritian Sovereignty Dispute over the British Indian Ocean Territory
10 June
Seminar:
Does transitional justice affect democratic institution-building?
4 June
Seminar:
The refugee crisis in the Mediterranean
19 May
Seminar:
International Human Rights Law and International Development Processes
4 May
Seminar:
John Cerrone, Distinguished Chair in Human Rights & Humanitarian Law
16 April
Seminar:
Global Land Grabs and Property from Below
17 March
Seminar:
The Mystery of Territory
17 March
Seminar:
The Structure of Humanitarian Intervention Revisited
15 January
Seminar:
International courts & tribunals and the making and unmaking of international law
2014
17 December
Seminar:
Nuclear Renaissance in Asia and its Safety and Security Risks.
26 November
Seminar:
Can robots implement the Geneva Conventions?
11 November
Seminar:
Intersectionality and discrimination in a national and international norm complex
3 October
Seminar:
Visits by members of the International Advisory Board
Last updated: May 14, 2025
Source: Stockholm Centre for International Law and Justice