Guest Seminars 2024-25
Prof Asaf Siniver
Prof Asaf Siniver is Professor of International Security at the University of Birmingham. He specialises in conflict resolution, international mediation, diplomacy, Foreign Policy Analysis, contemporary US foreign policy and the politics, diplomacy, and history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. His current research projects include the role of legal and diplomatic methods of dispute settlement in interstate and intrastate conflicts.
Prof Siniver delivered a guest seminar at the University of Glasgow in October 2024, where he discussed his book The International Arbitration of Territorial Disputes published by Oxford University Press in 2024.
Dr Katharina Stasch
Dr Katharina Stasch has been serving as the Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations Office at Geneva since April 2021. Prior to her appointment to the UN in Geneva, Dr Stasch contributed to important projects including the shaping of the Alliance of Multilateralism, Germany‘s Membership in the UN Security Council, the Law on Equal Rights of Women and combating hate speech.
In the framework of the Guest Lecture Series on Current Issues in International Law and Global Security, Peace and Development, Dr Stasch delivered a guest seminar entitled “Multilateralism at the UN – Resilient or Under Threat?” in November 2024.
Dr Justina Uriburu
Dr Justina Uriburu is an international law scholar with a special interest in international dispute settlement and the history and theory of international law. She is a Lecturer in International Law at the University of Manchester and the Co-Director of the Manchester International Law Centre (MILC). Her research projects include international dispute settlement and its relationship to peace, and the influence of law firms on states’ decisions regarding litigation venues and the framing of their legal claims.
In the framework of the Guest Lecture Series on Current Issues in International Law and Global Security, Peace and Development, Dr Uriburu delivered a guest seminar on “Unsettling International Dispute Settlement” in November 2024.
Dr Sally Thin
Dr Sally Thin is an Assistant Professor in International and European Law at Radboud University’s Department of International and European Law. She specialises in public international law, in particular state responsibility, international environmental law, human rights, and the law of international courts and tribunals.
In the framework of the Guest Lecture Series on Current Issues in International Law and Global Security, Peace and Development, Dr Thin delivered a guest seminar on “When States Help Other States Break the Law: Complicity in International Law” in November 2024.
