The Edinburgh Centre for International and Global Law and the Global Justice Academy present

Ukraine Crisis Rapid Reaction Briefing Session

Experts from the University of Edinburgh Law School invite you to a virtual event dedicated to thinking through the international legal challenges raised by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Through short, policy-focused presentations, we will offer a range of perspectives across the field of international law to think through how legal frameworks can respond to the crisis in innovative and robust ways. In particular, we will think through issues of criminal accountability, the implications on geopolitical security of international borders, rule of law challenges for a post-conflict Ukraine, the shifting landscape of international financial sanctions as well as a multi-stakeholder approach to regional and global governance. A series of short presentations will be followed by a Q&A session.



Speaker and Topics

Dr Michelle Burgis-Kasthala, “Innovations in International Criminal Justice: Building on Lessons from Syria”
Dr Deval Desai, “Welfare funds to combat food and commodity price shocks: design and implementation challenges”
Dr Filippo Fontanelli, “Lawsuits, interim measures and absences: Legal proceedings before the International Court of Justice and European Court of Human Rights”
Prof Andrew Lang, “Issues raised by economic sanctions on Russia and Belarus”
Dr Kasey McCall-Smith, “Framing Conflict in Human Rights”
Prof Steven Neff, “The Law of Armed Conflict and the Protection of Civilians”
Captain Ian Park Royal Navy, UK Ministry of Defence, “The UK Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy and the crisis in Ukraine”
Dr Michael Picard, “Armed conflict, military activities and the protection of the environment"