2025--Contemparary Challengers in International Humanitarian Law: Is there Hope for the International Order?
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Out of the 122 ongoing armed conflicts in the world, certainly two conflicts (Russian intervention in Ukraine and the War in Gaza) have raised important and critical concerns about how war is being conducted. The way the different parties to the conflicts have interpreted and applied the Laws of War (International Humanitarian Law) is a matter of intense debate. When and how, who and what can be targeted, the role of new technologies of warfare, and the mechanisms of accountability are the issues that will gather 17 world-renowned academics at the 2025 SLU LAW Center for International and Comparative Law and Saint Louis University Law Journal Symposium.
The SLU LAW Center for International and Comparative Law and SLU LAW Journal are proud and grateful to contribute to the international discussion on the current challenges of International Humanitarian Law.
Schedule
8:00 a.m.//Registration
9 a.m.//Welcome Remarks
Twinette Johnson, dean and professor of law, Saint Louis University School of Law
Ira H. Trako, executive director and instructor of law, Center for International and Comparative Law, Saint Louis University School of Law
9:15 a.m.//Welcome Remarks on The Contemporary Challenges in International Humanitarian Law: Is there Hope for the International Order?
Afonso Seixas-Nunes, SJ, assistant professor, Saint Louis University School of Law
9:30 a.m.– 10:30 a.m.//Keynote: The First Principle of the Laws of War is the Prohibition of Force
Mary Ellen O’Connell, Robert & Marion Short Professor of Law, Professor of International Peace Studies—Kroc Institute, University of Notre Dame
10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.//Break
10:45 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. //Panel I Discussion
Christopher J Borgen, Professor of Law, Co-Director of the Center for International and Comparative Law, St. John’s School of Law
Adi Gal, J.S.D. candidate, Yale Law School
Chris Jenks, Affiliate Research Professor of Law, SMU Dedman School of Law
Eric Talbot Jensen, Robert Barker Professor of Law, Brigham Young University School of Law
Asaf Lubin, Associate Professor of Law, Maurer School of Law – University of Indiana
Marco Roscini, Professor of International Law, University of Westminster School of Law
Leila Sadat, James Carr Professor of International Criminal Law, Special Adviser on Crimes Against Humanity to the ICC Prosecutor, Washington University School of Law Saint Louis
Michael Swartwout, Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Saint Louis University School of Science and Engineering
Jennifer Trahan, Clinical Professor, New York University Center of Global Affairs
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m..//Panel II Discussion and Q&A Session
Russell Buchan, Professor of International Law, University of Reading School of Law
Geoffrey Corn, George R. Killam Jr. Chair of Criminal Law; Director, Center for Military Law & Policy, Texas Tech School of Law
Nathan Derejko, Assistant Professor; Mauro Chair in Human Rights and Social Justice, University of Manitoba Law School
Major General Charles J. Dunlap, Jr. USAF (Ret.), Professor of the Practice of Law, Executive Director, Center on Law, Ethics and National Security
Lindsay Freeman, Director, Technology, Law & Policy Human Rights Center, Berkeley Law School
Jessica Peake, Director, International and Comparative Law Program, Assistant Director, the Promise Institute for Human Rights, UCLA Law School
Eytan Tepper, Program Director of the Space Governance Lab, Indiana University, Program Director, Indiana University’s new Space-Cyber Security Certificate Program, Indiana University Bloomington School of Law
1:00 p.m.//Concluding remarks
Afonso Seixas-Nunes, SJ, assistant professor, Saint Louis University School of Law
Webinar Date
4-11-2025
Keywords
Contemporary Challengers, Contemporary, Challenges, International Humanitarian Law, Humanitarian Law, International Order, International, Order
Disciplines
Law
Recommended Citation
O'Connell, Mary Ellen; Borgen, Christopher J.; Buchan, Russell; Corn, Geoffrey; Derejko, Nathan; Dunlap, Major General Charles J. Jr.; Freeman, Lindsay; Gal, Adi; Jenks, Chris; Jensen, Eric Talbot; Lubin, Asaf; Peake, Jessica; Roscini, Marco; Sadat, Leila; Seixas-Nunes, Afonso SJ; Swartwout, Michael; Tepper, Eytan; and Trahan, Jennifer, "2025--Contemparary Challengers in International Humanitarian Law: Is there Hope for the International Order?" (2025). Law Journal Symposia: Center for International and Comparative Law. 3.
https://scholarship.law.slu.edu/lj_cicl_symposia/3