About the event
The event will discuss new developments in the application of international human rights law to armed conflicts. Taking into account recent case law by the European Court of Human Rights, the panel will discuss to what extent international human rights law applies in armed conflicts along with international humanitarian law. The discussion will focus on issues pertaining both to the extraterritorial application of international human rights law conventions and their suitability to regulate armed violence. Understanding the conditions under which international human rights law applies to armed conflict is particularly relevant today in light of the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The programme features:
- Main Speaker: Professor Yuval Shany (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
- Discussant: Dr Anicee Van Engeland (Cranfield University)
- Chair: Dr Marco Longobardo (University of Westminster)
Light refreshments will be served from 5pm.
Location
This event takes place in Room 3.07, 4–12 Little Titchfield Street, London, W1W 7BY.
About the panel
Professor Yuval Shany is the Hersch Lauterpacht Chair in International Law and former Dean of the Law Faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was a member of the UN Human Rights Committee from 2013–2020 and served for one year during that time as Chair of the Committee. He serves, at present, as a senior research fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute (where he was a vice president between 2018–2022), and as the head of the CyberLaw program of the Hebrew University’s Federmann Cyber Security Research Center. He is also the current Co-Director of the Center for Transnational Legal Studies at King’s College London. He has published extensively on international courts and tribunals, international human rights law, international humanitarian law and international criminal law. In recent years, his research focuses on international law in cyberspace and digital human rights.
Dr Anicee Van Engeland is Associate Professor of International Security & Law at Cranfield University. Her main research interests are the study of the relations between international law and Islamic law looking at security and defence, with a niche expertise in Iranian affairs. Anicée holds a PhD in Islamic Studies, Politics and Law from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris (2006). She graduated in law from Paris II Assas and furthered her studies with three masters: a masters in law from Harvard Law School (2004), a masters in international relations from Paris II Assas (2002) and a masters in Iranian studies from Paris III Sorbonne.
Dr Marco Longobardo is a Senior Lecturer in International Law at the University of Westminster, where he teaches public international law, international humanitarian law, international criminal law and other related subjects. He undertook his doctoral studies at the Sapienza University of Rome, and previously lectured at the University of Messina and in the context of international humanitarian law courses for the personnel of the Italian armed forces. He has published extensively on public international law issues and 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. He is the Reviews Editor of the Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies and sits on the advisory board of the International Community Law Review and the Journal du Droit Transnational.
