The International Human Rights Law. A Treatise co-authored by Prof. Ludovic Hennebel and Prof. Hélène Tigroudja was published in 2025 (Cambridge University Press). It aims at providing an exhaustive analysis of International Law of Human Rights, based on the exploration of global human rights norms and mechanisms and on the comparison of regional and universal jurisprudence. The present event gathering the co-authors and high-level experts and academics in the field wishes to seize the opportunity of the recent publication to open a renewed, critics-based and constructive conversation on the rationale of the Treatise but more broadly, on the methodological requirements for a renewed approach to IHRL.

1.30pm - 1.50pm | Welcome remarks and presentation of the book, International Human Rights Law. A Treatise

• Prof. Hélène Tigroudja, Visiting Professor at CIL – NUS/Aix-Marseille University, Vice-Chair of the UN Human Rights Committee
• And Prof. Ludovic Hennebel – Aix-Marseille University (France) – Member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

1.50pm - 2.10pm | Keynote Speech by Prof. Vitit Muntarbhorn

"Human Rights and the New World (Dis)Order: Rupture or Rapture ?" by Prof. Vitit Muntarbhorn, Professor KBE, Law Faculty, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok;  former UN Special Rapporteur, UN Independent Expert  and member of UN Commissions of  Inquiry on Human Rights

2.10pm - 3.10pm - Theoretical Challenges of IHRL

MODERATOR / DISCUSSANT: Rashmi Raman, Research Fellow at CIL - NUS

Presentation of the Treatise’s Chapter on « Theoretical Foundations of IHRL » by Prof. Ludovic Hennebel, co-author of the Treatise – Aix-Marseille University (France) – Member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

‘Relativism v. Universalism’ : Critical appraisal from an African perspective by Prof. Trésor Muhindo Makunya, Associate Professor, University of Goma (Democratic Republic of Congo)

Q&A session

3.10pm - 3.25pm - Refreshment Break

3.25pm - 4.15pm – Current and Future Challenges of IHRL

MODERATOR / DISCUSSANT: Prof. Ludovic Hennebel, co-author of the Treatise – Aix-Marseille University (France) – Member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Turkey at Bandung: Politics of Non-Solidarity by Serbest Can Ensariglu, PhD Candidate at Ankara University – Visiting researcher at CIL - NUS

Universality in practice by Prof. Hélène Tigroudja, Visiting Professor at CIL – NUS/Aix-Marseille University, Vice-Chair of the UN Human Rights Committee

Q&A session

4.15pm-4.30pm - Closing remarks by H.E. Prof. Eugene Tan Kheng Boon, SMU Law School (Singapore) – Member of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights