- Register for the April 28th EU/CIL Workshop Now!The European Union and the Interpretation of Customary International Law (Online & In-Person) April 28th 2023 / 11:00am – 6:00pmSenate Room, Academy Building / University of Groningen Online Attendance Link In-Person Attendance Registration Link Workshop Overview The European Union (EU) not a state, but an international organisation. Yet, as all textbooks explain, the EU is a very special type of international organization to which its Member States have transferred a number of their competences. These … Continue reading Register for the April 28th EU/CIL Workshop Now!
- Call for Papers: Workshop – The European Union and Interpretation of Customary International LawThe TRICI-Law and EUDIPLO projects are organizing a Workshop in Groningen on the 28th of April 2023. The Workshop aims to examine the interpretation of customary international law within and by the EU. This will be done by taking a dual perspective: 1. An outside-in perspective in which we analyse how CIL has been and is being interpreted in the EU legal order and which choices are made by the legislator and the judiciary; and2. An inside-out perspective in which specific … Continue reading Call for Papers: Workshop – The European Union and Interpretation of Customary International Law
- Registration Now Open for December 1-2 TRICI-Law Conference!The Practice of Interpretation in International Law The TRICI-Law project and the Department of Transboundary Legal Studies of the University of Groningen have the pleasure to invite you to a conference on ‘The Practice of Interpretation in International Law: Unity, Diversity, and Evolution’ which will take place on 1-2 December 2022. This 2-day Conference aims to reflect upon the prospects and limitations of rules of interpretation in international law focusing on the law and practice … Continue reading Registration Now Open for December 1-2 TRICI-Law Conference!
- TRICI-Law’s National Report Page Now LiveThe TRICI-Law Team is extremely excited to announce the launch of our National Report Page. Currently, three reports have been completed by our National Research Teams (NRTs): Kenya, North Macedonia, & Singapore, with more reports to follow. YOU CAN FIND THE NATIONAL REPORT PAGE HERE About the Reports The National Research Teams (NRTs) of the TRICI-Law project are a collaborative research effort between TRICI-Law and national research institutions in various countries of the world. The … Continue reading TRICI-Law’s National Report Page Now Live
- September 30th Videos Now Live!The TRICI-Law team are excited to announce that the videos from our recent Workshop on ‘Change of International Law: Rules of Change and Changing Rules’ are now live! Please click the banner below to view them. Themes of the Workshop International law, much like any law, sits at the centre of a tug of war between competing forces; stability and change, motion and rest. On the one hand, it needs to accommodate the need for … Continue reading September 30th Videos Now Live!
- Registration for September 30th TRICI-Law Workshop Now Open!Change of International Law: Rules of Change and Changing Rules (Online & In-Person) Workshop Overview The TRICI-Law project and the University of Groningen’s Department of Transboundary Legal Studies have the pleasure to invite you to a workshop on ‘Change in International Law: Rules of Change and Changing Rules’ which will take place at the ‘Old Courtroom’ of the University of Groningen on 30 September 2022, from 10am – 5pm. The conference will form part of … Continue reading Registration for September 30th TRICI-Law Workshop Now Open!
- Registration for December 2nd-3rd TRICI-Law Conference Now Open!Interpretation of CIL: Methods, Interpretative Choices and the Role of Coherence (Online Conference) We are happy to announce that the 2-3 December 2021 conference, co-organised with the PluriCourts Centre and the University of Groningen’s Department of Transboundary Legal Studies, will take place in an online format via Zoom. Free registration for the Conference Zoom: DAY 1 HERE / DAY 2 HERE ***Given the newly announced COVID-19 regulations, the conference will now be completely online*** Substance of the Conference … Continue reading Registration for December 2nd-3rd TRICI-Law Conference Now Open!
- November 5th Workshop Registration Now Live!The registration for the upcoming TRICI-Law Workshop on ‘The Role of Interpretation in the Practice of Customary International Law: Interpretation as a Tool‘ is now open! REGISTER FOR THE FREE WORKSHOP HERE: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_y1YwnE1uQU-vKqI_s4ahgg The workshop will take place at 10:30am CET on 5 November 2021 in Groningen, Netherlands. More information about the workshop can be found here. Due to the ongoing Covid-19 restrictions, the workshop will take place in a hybrid format. Our speakers will … Continue reading November 5th Workshop Registration Now Live!
- June 11 Workshop Videos Now Live!The TRICI-Law team are excited to announce that the videos from our recent Workshop on ‘Interpretation in International Law: Rules, Content, and Evolution’ are now live! Please click the banner below to view them. Description of the Workshop In international law, the law and method pertaining to the process of interpretation continues to generate rich debates amongst legal scholars and to pose perplexing questions in international legal practice. From a conceptual viewpoint, the approach of … Continue reading June 11 Workshop Videos Now Live!
- June 11 TRICI-Law Workshop Registration Now Live!Registration for the TRICI-Law Project’s upcoming Workshop on ‘Interpretation in International Law: Rules, Content, and Evolution’ June 11 2021 10am CET IS NOW LIVE. REGISTER FOR FREE HERE: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_sOpoL_ckQ6ev3aYxEM3pTw You can find an in depth description of the Workshop HERE Schedule 10.00-10.30 Opening Remarks: Professor Panos Merkouris (TRICI-Law) 10.30-11.30 Keynote Speech: Professor Hélène Ruiz Fabri (MPI Luxembourg) 12.00-13.30 Panel 1: A Normative Approach to Interpretation in International Law: Prospects and Challenges Chair: Professor Pauline … Continue reading June 11 TRICI-Law Workshop Registration Now Live!
- Call for Papers! Interpretation of CIL: Methods, Interpretative Choices and the Role of CoherenceThe TRICI-Law project in collaboration with the PluriCourts Centre, is excited to announce its latest call for papers (deadline: 18 April 2021) for its 2nd Conference: Interpretation of Customary International Law: Methods, Interpretative Choices and the Role of Coherence 25-26 November 2021, The Hague.
- New Research Paper from Team Member Dr. Sotirios-Ioannis LekkasThe TRICI-Law team is excited to announce that Dr. Sotirios-Ioannis Lekkas’ latest research paper, entitled ‘The Uses of the Work of the International Law Commission on State Responsibility in International Investment Arbitration: Maintaining the Unity of the Law of StateResponsibility through Interpretation?‘ is now available on the TRICI-Law website. Abstract: The Articles on State Responsibility for Internationally Wrongful Acts (‘ARSIWA’) constitute an experiment in international law-making. Unlike other successful projects of the International Law Commission … Continue reading New Research Paper from Team Member Dr. Sotirios-Ioannis Lekkas
- Are You Following TRICI-Law?The TRICI-Law project has been expanding its digital footprint! For the most up to date TRICI-Law experience, check us out on the following platforms: Social media Facebook Twitter LinkedIn podcASTS Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Podcasts Videos YouTube
- TRICI-Law PI’s Article on the Gabčíkovo-Nagymaros Judgment Published in BookProf. Panos Merkouris, PI of the TRICI-Law project, recent had an article published in a collected book entitled ‘The Gabčíkovo-Nagymaros Judgment and Its Contribution to the Development of International Law‘. The book, edited by Serena Forlati, Makane Moïse Mbengue, and Brian McGarry, ‘offers a comprehensive analysis of both the management of this case and the substantive legal issues at stake. It also reappraises the Court’s findings in light of subsequent developments in the international legal … Continue reading TRICI-Law PI’s Article on the Gabčíkovo-Nagymaros Judgment Published in Book
- Principal Investigator, Prof. Panos Merkouris Co-Publishes Book on ‘Treaties in Motion’Principal Investigator of the TRICI-Law project, Prof. Panos Merkouris, has co-published a book alongside Prof. Malgosia Fitzmaurice entitled ‘Treaties in Motion’, which can be found here. The law of treaties is in constant motion, understood not only as locomotion, but also as motion through time and as change. Thus, kinesis and stasis, two sides of the same concept of ‘motion’, are the central themes of Treaties in Motion. The concept of motion adopted in this … Continue reading Principal Investigator, Prof. Panos Merkouris Co-Publishes Book on ‘Treaties in Motion’
- TRICI-Law Workshop & Conference Postponed Due to COVID-19Due to the ongoing global situation with regard to COVID-19, the TRICI-Law team has decided to postpone both our May 22 2020 Workshop ‘Interpretation in International Law: Rules, Content, and Evolution’ and 23-24 September 2020 conference on ‘Custom and International Investment Law.’ New dates will be announced in the future and abstracts are currently under review. We thank you for your patience during these interesting times.
- Panel 5.2.3 / Nikolaos Voulgaris / The Genesis of Customary International Law through the International Law Commission; Disentangling lex ferenda from lex lata
- Panel 5.2.2 / Letizia Lo Giacco / Eureka! On Courts’ Discretion in ‘Ascertaining’ Rules of Customary International Law
- Panel 5.2.1 / Vladyslav Lanovoy / The Role of International Courts and Tribunals in the Treatment of Customary International Law: A Plea for Greater Methodological Rigour
- Panel 5.1.4 / Marina Fortuna / Interpretation of Customary International Law: You Know It When You See It?
- Panel 5.1.3 / Kostiantyn Gorobets / Practical Reasoning and Interpretation of Customary International Law
- Panel 5.1.2 / Mariana Clara de Andrade / Identification of and Resort to Customary International Law by the WTO Appellate Body
- Panel 5.1.1 / Riccardo di Marco / Customary International Law: a Foreword to Identification v. Interpretation
- Panel 4.2.4 / Nina Mileva / Old, New, Borrowed, or Blue: How can we Learn from the Interpretive Practices of Domestic Courts?
- Panel 4.2.3 / Gerard Hoogers / Customary International Law as a Tool for Federal Dispute Settlement: the Surprising Relevance of Customary International Law for the Domestic Legal Order in Germany and Austria
- Panel 4.2.2 / Luigi Crema / Once You Reach the Top of a Positivized Legal System, Customary Law Emerges Again. Hints from the Italian Constitutional Court
- Panel 4.2.1 / Cedric Ryngaert / From Customary Law Ascertainment to Interpretation: the Role of Domestic Courts
- Panel 4.1.4 / Fabian Augusto Cárdenas Castañeda / Interpreting CIL as an Argumentative Construct
- Panel 4.1.3 / Orfeas Chasapis-Tassinis / Interpreting State Practice and Interpreting the Rules of Customary International Law: Practical Relevance and Theoretical Reflection
- Panel 4.1.2 / John R Morss / The Interpretation of Customary International Law: Some Questions
- Panel 4.1.1 / Panos Merkouris / The Viability of and Need for Interpretation of Customary International Law
- Panel 3.2.4 / Zhuo Liang / The Practice of Non-state Armed Groups and the Formation of Customary International Humanitarian Law: Towards a Direct Relevance?
- Panel 3.2.3 / Maiko Meguro / Behind the Fiction of Opinio Juris: the Actors that Actually Create International Law
- Panel 3.2.2 / Machiko Kanetake / Critical Analysis of the Formation of Customary International Security Law
- Panel 3.2.1 / Catherine Brölmann / Is the Classical Paradigm of State Practice and Opinio Juris Still Valid Today?
- Panel 3.1.4 / Markus P. Beham / State Interest and Customary International Law – Identifying Custom Through International Relations
- Panel 3.1.3 / Frederick Cowell / Can Customary International Law emerge from Universal Periodic Review recommendations? A Democratic-Constructivist Theory
- Panel 3.1.2 / Anna Irene Baka / The Phenomenology of Absence in Customary International Law
- Panel 3.1.1 / David Howard / An Alternate Theory of Customary International Law
- Panel 2.2.3 / Asif Hameed / Particular vs General Rules: A Major Faultline for Customary International Law