Director's Activities

21 September 2022: CIL Director Dr Nilüfer Oral Was Invited to Participate in the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) Informal, Focused Consultation on Legal Matters Dr Oral was invited to share her expertise on “Structural and framework considerations” under her capacity as United Nations’ International Law Commission The mandate of the INB was established by the …

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8 September 2022: CIL Director Dr Nilüfer Oral was Invited to Speak at the Asia-Pacific Online Session on International Humanitarian Law Session – ARMED CONFLICT AND THE PROTECTION OF THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT Organized by the International Committee of the Red Cross ABOUT THE APOS The Asia-Pacific Online Session on International Humanitarian Law (APOS) was a …

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Dr Oral was invited to present a paper at a conference on Sea Level Rise and International Law: Assessing its Impacts on the Americas during the 73rd Session of the International Law Commission (ILC). The specific goal of the conference was to bring together scholars, practitioners, and diplomats to analyze from a legal perspective to …

26 July 2022: CIL Director Dr Nilüfer Oral was Invited by the American University Washington College of Law to Speak at the “Sea Level Rise and International Law Conference” Which was held from 26-27 July 2022. Read More »

The Summer Course will focus on the international law responses to climate change. The complex phenomenon of climate change upends many constants of international law and calls for innovative solutions. Its unprecedented traits as a global threat, where scientific knowledge continuously evolves, its institutional arrangements and the multiplicity of actors involved in climate change governance …

4 July 2022: CIL Director Dr Nilufer Oral was Invited to Speak at Thessaloniki Summer Course on “Climate Change and International Law” Read More »

Dr Nilufer Oral spoke at the session on Climate Change and Ocean Governance focusing on “Challenges of Sea Level Rise for the Law of the Sea and the Work of the International Law Commission” Abstract：The 1982 United Nations Convention of the Law Sea (UNCLOS), the fortieth anniversary of which is celebrated this year, was negotiated and adopted …

24-25 June 2022: CIL Director Dr Nilufer Oral was Invited to Speak at the 9th Annual Ocean Law and Governance International Symposium on “Human Community with Shared Future and the Law of the Sea” Read More »

Dr Oral moderated at the session: International Law and Current Challenges: Sea-Level Rise on 22 June 2022. She was also one of the panellists at the session: Biodiversity in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction on 23 June 2022. International law is key to peace, justice, and development in a globalized world. Since 1873, the ILA’s constitutional …

23 June 2022: CIL Director Dr Nilufer Oral was Invited to Speak at the 80th Biennial Conference of the International Law Association (ILA) held in Lisbon Read More »

Dr Nilufer Oral was one of the panellists at the session “Bringing Climate Change Before International Courts and Tribunals” In recent years, climate litigation has become an important instrument to demand and enhance climate commitments made by governments. This trend has been accompanied by a wave of human rights-based climate litigation, integrating human rights considerations with …

20 June 2022: CIL Director Dr Nilufer Oral was Invited to Speak at the Conference “Climate Change and International Law: The Promise of an Advisory Opinion from the International Court of Justice” – A Joint Initiative of Blue Ocean Law and Leiden University Read More »