2024 ASIL Abroad Meeting - Geneva
Date: 5-6 June 2024
Time: See booking page
Venue: University of Geneva (UNI MAIL) - Boulevard du Pont-d'Arve 40, 1205 Genève, Switzerland
Meeting Details
The Society will hold its 2024 ASIL Abroad meeting on June 5-6 at the University of Geneva in Geneva, Switzerland. Co-chairs of this meeting are Simon Batifort (Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP), Christie Edwards (Stimson Center), and Neha Jain (Northwestern/European University Institute).
The two-day conference will consist of dual parallel tracks on Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, International Criminal Law (Track 1) and International Dispute Resolution & International Economic Law (Track 2). Georges Abi-Saab (honorary professor at The Geneva Graduate Institute) will deliver a keynote speech, with Laurence Boisson de Chazournes (University of Geneva) as discussant. Track 1 sessions will address topics ranging from international accountability and justice at the ICJ, inclusive transitional justice mechanisms, corporate responsibility for war crimes, addressing the needs of persons with disabilities in humanitarian emergencies, climate justice, and multilateral negotiations in Geneva. Track 2 sessions will focus among other themes on banking regulations in investment and trade disputes, compensation in international law, the enforcement of arbitral awards against States, the origins of investor-State dispute settlement, and will feature a lecture by Zachary Douglas KC (Geneva Graduate Institute). Cocktail receptions will be held at the end of each of the two meeting days.
