Guest Seminars 2022-2023
Prof Gleider Hernández
Marie-Laurence Hébert-Dolbec is a Lecturer at the Université libre de Bruxelles. Her research activities focus primarily, but are not confined to, international criminal law. As part of her doctoral research, she examines the status of the victim in international criminal law and discourse.
In the framework of the Guest Lecture Series on Current Issues in International Law and Global Security, Peace and Development, Dr Hébert-Dolbec delivered a seminar to ILGSPD students at the University of Glasgow on 16th October 2022.
Prof Lucas Carlos Lima
Lucas Carlos Lima is a Professor of International Law at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) and an associated member of the Institut de recherche en droit international et européen de la Sorbonne (Université Paris I).
In the framework of the Guest Lecture Series on Current Issues in International Law and Global Security, Peace and Development, Prof Lima delivered a lunchtime seminar on “Current Challenges to International Law: A Brazilian Perspective” on 1st November 2022.
Prof Gleider Hernández
Gleider Hernández is Professor of Public International Law at Katholieke University Leuven, and Secretary-General of the European Society of International Law.
In the framework of the Guest Lecture Series on Current Issues in International Law and Global Security, Peace and Development, Prof Hernández presented a discussion entitled “Judicial law-making, the World Court, and the Limits of Strategic Litigation”, with a comment by Professor Lucas Carlos Lima from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil). The seminar, which took place on 2nd November 2022, explored the role of the International Court of Justice as an ‘agent’ of legal development, with a focus on climate change.
Dr Lea Raible
Lea Raible is a Senior Lecturer in Public Law at the University of Glasgow. Her research is in the areas of international and constitutional law, as well as their relationship with political philosophy.
Dr Raible delivered a guest seminar to ILGSPD students at University of Tartu in November 2022.
Dr Andrea Varga
Andrea Varga is Lecturer in International Law at the University of Glasgow. Her research interests include the law of (state) responsibility and attribution in particular, secessionist entities in international law, rights and obligations of non-state actors, intra-state peace agreements in international law, the interaction between human rights law and general international law, and judicial reasoning at international courts and tribunals – especially the question of how parties’ pleadings influence that reasoning.
In December 2022, Dr Varga delivered a guest seminar to ILGSPD students at Université Libre de Bruxelles.