Jus Cogens - The International Law Podcast

Jus Cogens - The International Law Podcast

Jus Cogens - The International Law Podcast

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January 7, 2025 69 mins

In the second installment of a two-part series, Shayan Ahmed Khan is joined by Peter Tzeng and Michael Moffatt, for an in-depth discussion on the Hague Academy of International Law's Diploma with a special focus on the Directed Studies and the Diploma exam.


Both guests, awardees of the prestigious Diploma, share their valuable insights and personal experiences of successfully undertaking the Directed Studies and the Diploma Exam....

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In the first installment of a two-part series, Shayan Ahmed Khan is joined by Cécile Goubault—Larrecq and Madeleine Petersen Weiner, for an in-depth discussion on the Hague Academy of International Law's Diploma with a special focus on the Directed Studies and the Diploma exam.


Both guests, recent awardees of the prestigious Diploma, share their valuable insights and personal experiences of successfully undertaking the Di...

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In Episode # 47, Shayan Ahmed Khan is joined by Lesley Benn, Asaf Lubin, Michael Peil and Steven Schneebaum to have an in-depth discussion about authoring a Jessup Moot Problem. Each guest shares their unique perspectives and experiences, from finding inspiration for moot problem topics to the intricacies of proposal evaluation and drafting supporting materials.

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This instalment of Jus Cogens is part of a series of conversations on the governance of data, Artificial Intelligence and the digital age.

In this episode, Omer Akif speaks with Maria Khan, a Data Privacy Legal Manager at Securiti.ai, a company that produces AI software to help companies comply with global data privacy laws. Maria's work primarily focuses on consent management, cookie consent, data access governance and AI gov...

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This instalment of Jus Cogens is part of a series of conversations on the governance of data, Artificial Intelligence and the digital age.

In this episode, Omer Akif speaks with Anokhy Desai about AI governance and the usage of model cards by organizations to bring transparency to their AI models and explain how they actually work.

Sources:

https://iapp.org/news/a/5-things-to-know-about-ai-model-cards/

Correction in the Episode:

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In Episode 44, Shayan Ahmed Khan is joined by Viren Mascarenhas to have an in-depth discussion on the Advisory Opinion on Climate Change and International Law pending before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. The discussion also touches upon the pending advisory opinions before the International Court of Justice and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.


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https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/fil...

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In Episode 43, Shayan Ahmed Khan is joined by Prof. Anu Bradford to discuss her upcoming book "Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology".


The book explores the intensifying global battle among the three dominant digital powers - the United States, China, and the European Union. In particular, it discusses how these regimes are racing to regulate tech companies, advancing a competing vision for the di...

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In Episode 42, Shayan Ahmed Khan is joined by Christian Tams and Eran Sthoeger to discuss their article: “Swords, Shields and Other Beasts: The Role of Countermeasures in Investment Arbitration” published in the ICSID Review’s Special Issue on the 20th Anniversary of the Draft Articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts.


Sources:

https://academic.oup.com/icsidreview/article-abstract/37/1-2/121/660903...

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In this episode Shayan Ahmed is joined by Ashwita Ambast, Legal Counsel at the Permanent Court of Arbitration, to discuss the organization’s role and significance in the administration of inter-state Commissions of Inquiry and Conciliations.

Our Socials:

Twitter: @JCLawPodcast

Blog:   https://juscogens.law.blog/

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/JCLawPodcast

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November 1, 2022 13 mins

This Friday 4th November 2022, the United Nations General Assembly and the United Nations Security Council will elect a candidate to serve the remainder of the nine-year term that had been held by the late Judge Cançado Trindade at the International Court of Justice.  

In this special feature short , Shayan Ahmed Khan is joined by Marcelo Kohen to discuss his candidacy & vision for the ICJ.

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In Ep 40 Shayan Ahmed speaks with Daniel Stewart, Executive Director of @IndependentILA, on the work of the organization. 

IILA was founded in 2017 and has been engaged in providing PIL in-house counsel for small and developing countries. https://independentila.org/

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This episode is the second and final edition of a two-part collaboration with the Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research (NNHRR) at T.M.C. Asser Institute for International & European Law. In this episode, we speak to Prof. Mariana Gkliati about one of Europe's most important border enforcement actors, Frontex. Particularly, we look at ways of holding the agency accountable for fundamental rights violations while zooming...

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On this episode, we speak with Robin Churchill about the new edition of his book, co authored with Vaughan Lowe and Amy Sander on the Law of The Sea (4th edition, 2022). We explore the vast developments of the law and the post UNCLOS-phase premised in the book.

Works Cited:

Link to the Robin's upcoming book: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9780719079689/

Our Socials:

Twitter: @JCLawPodcast

Blog:   https://juscogen...

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This episode is the first edition of a two-part collaboration with the Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research (NNHRR) at T.M.C. Asser Institute for International & European Law. For this episode, we are joined by NNHRR member Professor Otto Spijkers for a discussion on the actual and potential influence of climate litigation on the way the “who should do what” question in managing climate change.

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In this episode, Layal Alghoozi sits down with Joanna Wilson (@JoannaLDWilson) from the International Law, Conflict and Security Research Group at the University of Glasgow to discuss Joanna's research on lethal autonomous weapons, exploring legal and moral arguments in the debate on regulating autonomy in warfare.

Our Socials:

Twitter: @JCLawPodcast

Blog:   https://juscogens.law.blog/

Facebook:  https://www.facebook...

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In this episode, we are joined by our first repeat guest in Jus cogens history, Dr Helen Duffy. Dr Duffy talks to Fares and Omer at length about the numerous challenges faced in efforts to ensure international accountability, responsibility & justice for victims of extraordinary rendition and secret detention programs run by major international players for decades. 

You can read more about Professor Helen Duffy @H...

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This episode is a joint collaboration between Jus Cogens and the George Washington International Law Review at the George Washington University, as a prelude to the upcoming The George Washington International Law Review's Annual Symposium - "The State of the Nation-State in International Law" taking place on March 18 2022.

Website: https://www.law.gwu.edu/george-washington-international-law-review-2022-symposium-state...

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In this episode, we speak with Dr Anthea Roberts (@AntheaERoberts) one of the world's leading international law scholars. I speak to her about her journey into international law and unpack the fluid and cross-disciplinary nature of her scholarship. We explore what drives her and what her unique research process and methodology look like. Anthea also sheds light on the tools, techniques and frameworks she uses to think, research and...

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In episode 32, Shayan Ahmed sits down with Professor Ioannis Kalpouzos to discuss his article, "Double Elevation: Autonomous Weapons and the Search for an Irreducible Law of War", published in Leiden Journal of International Law.


Material Referenced in the Episode:

Article - Double Elevation: Autonomous Weapons and the Search for an Irreducible Law of War

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3545332


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In this episode, we speak with Cris van Eijk (@crisveijk) on everything from Elon Musk writing a constitution of Mars, to how global south contributions to international space law have been disregarded over time, to discussing challenges of getting into an international law Ph.D., to examining the inclusiveness of the discipline in addition to a host of other issues affecting young and upcoming international lawyers.

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