London Conference on International Law 2024 Photos

Photos of the 2024 London Conference, arranged by session. Click on an image to enlarge and scroll to see more.

Introductory remarks

Sally Langrish, Legal Adviser and Director General Legal, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office; Chair, London Conference on International Law Steering Committee

Plenary 1: In Conversation with Members of the International Law Commission

Chair: Sir Michael Wood KC, Barrister, Twenty Essex

In conversation with…

Professor Dapo Akande, Chichele Professor of Public International Law, University of Oxford
Professor Martins Paparinskis, Professor of Public International Law, University College London
Ambassador Mario Oyarzábal, Ambassador of the Argentine Republic to the Kingdom of the Netherlands
Dr Nilüfer Oral, Director of the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore
Patricia Galvão Teles, Member, United Nations International Law Commission

Panel 1: Climate and the environment

Chair:
Judge Tomas Heidar, President, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea

Speakers:
Sudhanshu Swaroop KC, Barrister, Twenty Essex
Professor Philippe Sands KC, Professor of Public Understanding of Law, University College London; Barrister, 11 King’s Bench Walk
Philomena Cleobury, Senior Legal Officer, Legal Affairs Service, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Professor Christina Voigt, Professor of Law, Department of Public and International Law, University of Oslo

Panel 2: Investor-State Disputes

Chair:
Professor Mavluda Sattorova, Professor of International Economic Law (Trade and Investment) Law, University of Liverpool

Speakers:
Andrea Menaker, Partner, White & Case
Christophe Bondy, Partner, Steptoe and Johnson
Catherine Drummond, Barrister, 3VB
Jessica Gladstone, Partner, Clifford Chance

Panel 3: Accounting for war

Chair:
Professor Pierre d’Argent, Full Professor of Public International Law, University of Louvain (UCL); Special Counsel, Foley Hoag

Speakers:
Professor Luke Moffett, School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast
Professor Helen Duffy, Professor of International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, University of Leiden; Director, Human Rights in Practice
Professor Chiara Giorgetti, Professor of Law, University of Richmond, USA
Ben Brzezicki, Legal Counsellor, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Panel 4: The Colonial Legacy of International Law

Chair:
Professor Antonios Tzanakopoulos, Professor of Public International Law, University of Oxford

Speakers:
Dr Yusra Suedi, Lecturer in International Law, University of Manchester
Angela Mudukuti, Legal Director, The Clooney Foundation for Justice, Waging Justice for Women Initiative
Shehzad Charania, Director of Legal Affairs, Mission Policy and International Relations

Careers in international law

Chair:
Shehzad Charania MBE, Director of Legal Affairs, Mission Policy and International Relations, GCHQ

Speakers:
Ruth Tomlinson, Legal Director, Home Office
Professor Philippa Webb, Professor of Public International Law at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford
Sunil Pal, IDLO Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN

Panel 5: Immunity of Foreign Officials: the State of Play

Chair:
George Howe, Assistant Legal Adviser, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Speakers:
Professor Roger O’Keefe, Professor of International Law, Bocconi University
Dr Christiane Ahlborn, Assistant Professor of Public International Law, Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, School of Law
Professor Leila Nadya Sadat, James Carr Professor of International Criminal Law, Washington University School of Law

Panel 6: Taxation

Chair:
Rt Hon Lady Arden of Heswall DBE, Former Justice Supreme Court of the United Kingdom

Speakers:
Jesse Eggert, OECD Secretariat
Edward Kieswetter, Commissioner & Chief Executive, South African Revenue
Jonathan Peacock KC, Barrister, 11 New Square
Fedelma C Smith, Independent Practitioner, Vienna; former Senior Legal Counsel, Permanent Court of Arbitration
Professor Itai Grinberg, Carmack Waterhouse Professor of International Economic Law, University of Georgetown

Panel 7: Sanctions: Is it really ‘the West versus the Rest’?

Chair:
Dr Federica Paddeu, Associate Professor & Derek Bowett Fellow in Law, Queen’s College, University of Cambridge

Speakers:
Nicholas Waddell, Deputy Director, Sanctions Directorate, FCDO
Prof. Dr. Patricia Wiater-Hellgardt, Chair for Public Law, Public International Law and Human Rights, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Ambassador Namira Negm, Director, The African Migration Observatory; Honorary President of the African Society of International Law
Petra Mahnič, Legal Advisor, Council of the European Union

Panel 8: Current issues in Law of the Sea

Chair:
Professor Sir Malcolm Evans, Principal, Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford

Speakers:
Dr Joanna Dingwall, Visiting Lecturer in International Law, University of Glasgow School of Law
Oonagh Sands, Partner, Fietta LLP
Lowri Mai Griffiths, Head of the Ocean Policy Unit, Legal Directorate, FCDO

Plenary 2: Women in International Law

Chair:
Sally Langrish, Legal Adviser and Director General Legal, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Speakers:
Judge Joanne Korner KC, Member, International Criminal Court
Judge Graciela Gatti Santana, President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal tribunals
Professor Dr Phoebe Okowa, EBS, Professor of Public International Law, Member, United Nations International Law Commission, Queen Mary University of London

Plenary 3: A view from the International Bench

Chair:
Doug Wilson OBE, Director-General, Attorney General’s Office

Speakers:
Judge Tim Eicke KC, European Court of Human Rights
Judge Kimberley Prost, Member, International Criminal Court

Plenary 4: Public International Law in the UK Supreme Court

Chair:
The Rt Hon Lady Arden of Heswall DBE, former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom

Speaker:
The Rt Hon Lord Lloyd-Jones, Justice of the Supreme Court

Panel 9: International Settlement of Disputes

Chair:
Professor Vaughan Lowe KC, Barrister, Essex Court Chambers

Speakers:
Clara Brillembourg, Partner; Co-Chair, Latin-American Practice, Foley Hoag
Professor Mathias Forteau, Professor of Law, University of Paris Ouest
Kate Parlett, Barrister, Twenty Essex
Chanaka Wickremasinghe, Legal Counsellor, Head of National Security team, FCDO Legal Directorate

Panel 10: Activities of Multinational Corporations under International Law

Chair:
Adrian Roberts, Legal Director (International Trade), Government Legal Department

Speakers:
Hannah Ambrose, Partner, Herbert Smith Freehills
Anna Kirkpatrick, Director, Clifford Chance
Olivia Windham Stewart, Independent Business and Human Rights Specialist
Professor Lorand Bartels MBE, Professor of International Law, University of Cambridge, Counsel, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP

Panel 11: International migration and refugee law

Chair:
Rashmin Sagoo, Director – International Law Programme, The Royal Institute of International Affairs Chatham House

Speakers:
Dr Joelle Grogan, Head of Research, UK in a Changing Europe
Vicky Tennant, Representative to the UK, UNHCR
Colin Yeo, Barrister, Garden Court Chambers
Professor Cathryn Costello, Full Professor of Global Refugee and Migration Law, University College Dublin

Panel 12: Old and New: Changing technologies in warfare and international humanitarian law

Chair:
Andrew Murdoch, Legal Director, FCDO

Speakers:
Professor Nehal Bhuta, Professor of Public International Law, The University of Edinburgh
Professor Jennifer Maddocks, Assistant Professor, Department of Law, United States Military Academy
Dr Cordula Droege, Chief Legal Officer and Head of the Legal Division, ICRC
Robert McCorquodale, Chair, United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights

Panel 13: International Law and Domestic Courts: Human Rights and Customary International Law

Chair:
Joanne Clement KC, Barrister, 11 King’s Bench Walk

Speakers:
Jessica Simor KC, Barrister, Matrix Chambers
Amy Sander, Barrister, Essex Court
Professor Chris McCrudden, Professor of Human Rights and Equality Law, Queen’s University Belfast; William W Cook Global Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
Professor Yuval Shany, the Hersch Lauterpacht Chair in International Law; former Dean of the Law Faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Panel 14: Artificial Intelligence

Chair:
Emily Taylor, CEO, Oxford Information Labs

Speakers:
Daragh Murray, Senior Lecturer and IHSS Fellow, Queen Mary University London
Harriet Moynihan, Associate Fellow, International Law Programme, Chatham House
Robert Spano, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP; former President, European Court of Human Rights

Panel 15: Energy Security

Chair:
Helen Mulvein OBE, Legal Counsellor, Deputy Director, Ocean and Overseas Territories Team, FCDO Legal Directorate

Speakers:
Dr Danae Azaria, Associate Professor, Faculty of Laws, UCL
Former Ambassador Marie Jacobsson, Associate Professor, Former Ambassador and Principal Legal Adviser on International Law, Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Dr Conway Blake, Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton
John Swords, Legal Adviser and Director of Office of Legal Affairs, NATO

Panel 16: Space law

Chair:
Paul Berman, Legal Director, FCDO

Speakers:
Dr Gershon Hasin, Associate, Fietta LLP
Professor Rossana Deplano, Professor of International Space Law, University of Leicester
Dr Erin Pobjie, Assistant Professor, Essex Law School, Senior Research Affiliate, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law

Plenary 5: The future of international law

Chair:
Sir Daniel Bethlehem KCMG KC, Barrister and Arbitrator, Twenty Essex

Speakers:
Judge Tomas Heidar, President, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
Professor Naz Modirzadeh, Professor of Practice, Harvard Law School
Professor Surabhi Ranganathan, Professor of International Law, University of Cambridge