Gaetano Arangio-Ruiz and the Future of International Law

The panel will reflect on the scholarly legacy of Professor Gaetano Arangio-Ruiz, who passed away on 29 September 2022 at the age of 103. A former member of the UN International Law Commission, the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, and the Institut de Droit International, Gaetano Arangio-Ruiz shaped the research and practice of international law until the very end of his life, when in 2017 he published his last monograph. His publications have focused in particular on the legal personality of states, international organisations, international courts and tribunals, the rights of states, and state responsibility. He was a prolific author who influenced research in these fields by publishing in English, French, and Italian. 

One year after his death, this panel aims to reflect on the impact of Gaetano Arangio-Ruiz’s scholarship on the development and the future of international law. While remembered by Italian academia in a series of events and publications, internationally, his death and legacy received less coverage. This panel will bring together generalist international lawyers from outside Italy, with different backgrounds and expertise, to discuss topics pertaining to the law of international organisations, the law of international courts and tribunals, and state responsibility. 

Event programme

Chair

Dr Marco Longobardo (University of Westminster)

Panellists

• Dr Fernando Lusa Bordin (Cambridge)
• Dr Devika Hovell (LSE)
• Dr Yusra Suedi (Manchester)
• Prof Martins Paparinskis (UCL and International Law Commission)

Event location

The event can be joined online or in person.

Room 2.05C
4-12 Little Titchfield Street
London
W1W 7BY

Event speakers

Devika Hovell

Devika Hovell is an Associate Professor in Public International Law at the London School of Economics. She holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford, a Master of Laws from New York University and an Arts/Law degree from the University of Western Australia. She served as Associate to Justice Kenneth Hayne at the High Court of Australia, and as a judicial clerk at the International Court of Justice in the Hague, before starting her academic career at the University of New South Wales. She joined the London School of Economics in 2012, where she writes and researches on Security Council decision-making, international criminal law, the use of force and international legal theory. She is on the Editorial Board of the European Journal of International Law and is an Editor of the international law blog, EJIL Talk!.

Fernando Lusa Bordin

Fernando Lusa Bordin is a College Associate Professor and John Thornely Fellow in Law at Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. His research focuses on topics of public international law, including international legal theory, law-making, the law of international organizations, international dispute settlement, the law on the use of force, and international investment law.

Martins Paparinskis

Martins Paparinskis is a Professor of Public International Law at UCL and the Chair of the Drafting Committee of the International Law Commission.

Yusra Suedi

Yusra Suedi is a Lecturer in International Law at the University of Manchester, where her research is mainly focused on international dispute settlement, climate/environmental law and human rights. She holds a doctorate in Public International Law from the University of Geneva for her manuscript entitled The Individual in the Law and Practice of the International Court of Justice (forthcoming with Cambridge University Press). Yusra has worked for the United Nations Office in Geneva, the International Law Commission, the Institut Du Droit International, the International Labour Organization Administrative Tribunal and the International Court of Justice. She has held teaching and research positions at the London School of Economics (LSE) Law School and King’s College London, UK. She has acted for governments and organisations before the International Court of Justice and has published in journals such as The Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals and the Leiden Journal of International Law.

Dr Marco Longobardo

Dr Marco Longobardo is a Reader in International Law at the University of Westminster. He undertook his doctoral studies at the Sapienza University of Rome. He is the author of The Use of Armed Force in Occupied Territory (Cambridge University Press, 2018), for which he was awarded the 2021 Paul Reuter Prize. For his scholarship on the law of occupation, peace and security, and the protection of community interests, he has received prizes from the American Society of International Law, the Asian Society of International Law, the Italian Society of International and EU Law, and The Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals too. He is the Reviews Editor of the Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies and a member of the advisory board of the International Community Law Review.