SCILJ Events

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

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2026

16 September
Seminar:
The rule of law, justice and accountability in times of war – lessons from Ukraine

10 September
Seminar:
Greenland, the Lansing Declaration, and the 1916 Treaty: A living treaty dispute with a bearing on Nordic security policy

8 September
Seminar:
The dispute settlement function of the International Court of Justice

1 June
Seminar:
When Consent Justifies Force: Rethinking the Foundations of Intervention by Invitation

21 May
Seminar:
Contestation of the world trade regime: the semi-blockage of dispute settlement at the WTO

12 May
Seminar:
How not to solve a problem like plastics: The ‘wickedness’ of the Global Plastics Treaty

29 April
Event:
International Law and the Rules-Based Order: Past, Present, Future

29 April
Seminar:
The Right to Food Between Availability and Accessibility

3 March
Seminar:
The Wildlife Poaching Crisis in Africa

17 February
Seminar:
HODL the Void – Welcome to the Law of Rule

16 February
Seminar:
The Standard of Proof at the International Court of Justice

12 February
Seminar:
The individuals ability to control their data in light of public and private information management, EU legal and national constitutional principles, and sector-specific legislation

11 February
Seminar:
The Role of a Special Adviser to the Prosecutor at the Embattled ICC

21 January
Seminar:
The Human Right to Science

13 January
Seminar:
The New National Security Strategy of the United States: Implications for International Law, Order, and Global Governance


2025

25 November
Lecture:
The Seventh Hilding Eek Memorial Lecture

7 October
Seminar:
Evil AI and Critical Agents: Frontiers of International Governance

1 October
Seminar:
Children deprived of liberty

9 September
Seminar:
Applicable Law in Business & Human Rights Litigation

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

Past Events

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?

24 April
Seminar:
Revitalized Global Partnership for Development and the Need for Understanding its Dynamic Complexity: A Case Study of the Kenya Electricity Expansion Project/Olkaria

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

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

5 June
Seminar:
International Investment Law and Community Interests: Towards a Public Interest-Based Rationale for Protecting Foreign Investors under International Investment Agreements

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

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

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

Last updated: 2026-09-08

Source: Stockholm Centre for International Law and Justice

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