CILRAP Conversations on World Order

Speaker: Professor Sergio Dellavalle (Professor of Public Law and State Theory at the University of Turin, Department of Law; Honorary Fellow of the Law School of Durham University; and Senior Research Affiliate of the Max Planck Institute of Comparative Public Law and International Law).
Topic: A CILRAP Conversation on World Order focusing on ‘cosmopolitan law’, its origins and evolution; the idea of ‘paradigms of social order’; Stoic philosophers and their notion of cosmópolis; relationship with the Catholic idea of the respublica christiana; Immanuel Kant's and Hans Kelsen’s contributions; the perspective of the communicative paradigm of order; implications for the concept of sovereignty and the relation between national and international criminal law.
Date of recording: 26 September 2024
Place of recording: CILRAP Bottega, Florence
Date of release: 2 December 2024
Duration of recording: 01:23:50
PURL: https://www.cilrap.org/cilrap-film/240926-dellavalle/
PURL of TOAEP policy brief by speaker: https://www.toaep.org/pbs-pdf/159-dellavalle/ 
PURL of TOAEP occasional paper by speaker: http://www.toaep.org/ops-pdf/16-dellavalle/ 
PURL of relevant TOAEP book: https://www.toaep.org/ps-pdf/36-bergsmo-buis-song/

Speaker: Dr. Benjamin P. Davis (Saint Louis University)
Topic: A CILRAP Conversation on World Order focusing on his 2023 monograph Choose Your Bearing: Édouard Glissant, Human Rights and Decolonial Ethics; whether emphasising 'European colonialism' as opposed to slave-economies and settler-societies is problematic; Glissant's idea of a 'right to opacity'; advantages and risks of dwelling on 'colonial wrongs'; international law and post-colonial discourse
Date of recording: 12 April 2024
Place of recording: CILRAP Bottega, Florence
Duration of recording: 01:23:25
PURL: https://www.cilrap.org/cilrap-film/240412-davis/
PURL of relevant TOAEP book: https://www.toaep.org/ps-pdf/40-bergsmo-kaleck-kyaw/ 
PURL of relevant TOAEP policy brief: https://www.toaep.org/pbs-pdf/140-castellino/ 
PURL of related Conversation: https://www.cilrap.org/cilrap-film/240217-ramcharan/ 
URL of JPR note on Davis' Choose Your Bearing: https://www.prio.org/journals/jpr/booknotes/393 

Speaker: Dr. Bertrand Ramcharan (formerly acting UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and Director of the International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia)
Topic: A CILRAP Conversation on World Order focusing on the UN human rights programme, Torkel Opsahl, Samuel Moyn, UN peace mediation through ICFY, Srebrenica, Thorvald Stoltenberg, the International Law Commission, UK mass-migration of indentured workers, and the use of historical commissions
Date of recording: 17 February 2024
Place of recording: CILRAP Bottega, Florence
Duration of recording: 02:05:00
PURL: https://www.cilrap.org/cilrap-film/240217-ramcharan/
PURL of Amb. Nylander's Conversation: https://www.cilrap.org/cilrap-film/220427-nylander/ 
PURL of Amb. Vibe's Conversation: https://www.cilrap.org/cilrap-film/240216-vibe/

Speaker: Ambassador Johan Vibe (Norwegian Ambassador to Italy)
Topic: A CILRAP Conversation on World Order focusing on diplomacy, peace mediation and facilitation, and the role of lawyers
Date of recording: 16 February 2024
Place of recording: CILRAP Bottega, Florence
Duration of recording: 00:43:09
PURL: https://www.cilrap.org/cilrap-film/240216-vibe/
PURL of Amb. Nylander's Conversation: https://www.cilrap.org/cilrap-film/220427-nylander/ 
PURL of Dr. Ramcharan's Conversation: https://www.cilrap.org/cilrap-film/240217-ramcharan/

Speaker: Professor Sarah M.H. Nouwen (European University Institute)
Topic: A CILRAP Conversation on World Order focusing on ‘positive complementarity’, its political and legal aspects and normative and practical significance; the politics of extraversion; positive complementarity as a policy beyond the ICC Statute; states as beneficiaries and participants; the assumption of Western and international justice superiority; the ILA Report on positive complementarity; the different meanings of ‘complementarity’, ‘positive complementarity’, and ‘a positive approach to complementarity’; obstacles in implementation; conflicts of interests between international and national mechanisms; and the paradox of the ICC’s implementation of positive complementarity.
Date of recording: 3 October 2022
Place of recording: CILRAP Bottega, Florence
Duration of recording: 01:09:06
PURL: https://www.cilrap.org/cilrap-film/221003-nouwen/
PURL of ILA report: https://www.legal-tools.org/doc/vqvrwy/ 
PURL of ILA resolution: https://www.legal-tools.org/doc/cfwjzm/
PURL of related book on ‘positive complementarity’: https://www.toaep.org/ps-pdf/8-bergsmo
PURL of relevant policy brief: https://www.toaep.org/pbs-pdf/114-bergsmo/
PURL of related Bekou Conversation: https://www.cilrap.org/cilrap-film/180608-bekou
PURL of related Nylander Conversation: https://www.cilrap.org/cilrap-film/220427-nylander

Speaker: Ambassador Dag Halvor Nylander (Director, Norwegian Centre for Conflict Resolution (NOREF))
Topic: A CILRAP Conversation on World Order focusing on ‘peace mediation’; the importance of negotiations being party-driven; realism as an essential characteristic of mediators; the need to reward country specialisation among mediators; the non-durability of peace without justice; the Colombia-FARC peace negotiation process and the work of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace; co-operation between lawyers and peace mediators; inequality of arms between parties and the need for capacity building; foreign experts as catalysts; how social media and misinformation influence party behaviour.
Date of recording: 27 April 2022
Place of recording: Oslo
Duration of recording: 00:27:33
PURL: https://www.cilrap.org/cilrap-film/220427-nylander/
PURL of Dr. Ramcharan's Conversation: https://www.cilrap.org/cilrap-film/240217-ramcharan/ 
PURL of Amb. Vibe's Conversation: https://www.cilrap.org/cilrap-film/240216-vibe/
PURL of related book on law in peace negotiations: https://www.toaep.org/ps-pdf/5-bergsmo-kalmanovitz-second
PURL of related policy brief by Bergsmo: https://www.toaep.org/pbs-pdf/149-bergsmo/
PURL of related expert meeting: https://www.cilrap.org/events/240216-mediation

Speaker: Judge Roberto Bellelli (President, Military Tribunal for Sentence Enforcement, Rome)
Topic: A CILRAP Conversation on World Order focusing on ‘international criminal justice institutions’; state supervision and management of such institutions; politics of securing state budgets; the potential role of national prosecutors and judges in nominating international judges and high officials; the concept of a ‘world order’; legality as a driving factor in state policy decisions; ICL as a weapon in state rivalries; political sovereignty; role of national actors in international accountability; lessons from national jurisdictions on preservation of evidence and dealing with old evidence; military justice systems; need for professionalism in international criminal justice; and the mid- and long-term prospects.
Date of recording: 16 June 2021
Place of recording: CILRAP Bottega, Florence
Duration of recording: 01:42:32
PURL: https://www.cilrap.org/cilrap-film/210616-bellelli/
PURL of related Nouwen Conversation: https://www.cilrap.org/cilrap-film/221003-nouwen
PURL of policy brief on ICC State-Party governance: https://www.toaep.org/pbs-pdf/146-governance/

Speaker: Professor Gregory S. Gordon (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Topic: A CILRAP Conversation on World Order focusing on experiences as a legal educator in Hong Kong; lessons for international law from Covid-19; Foucault’s ‘governmentality’ and international criminal law as population security from social pandemics; atrocity speech law; hate speech as a precursor to mass atrocity; and the role of different actors in combating hate speech.
Date of recording: 2 August 2020
Place of recording: CILRAP Bottega, Florence
Duration of recording: 01:37:16
PURL: https://www.cilrap.org/cilrap-film/200802-gordon/
PURL of related book: https://www.toaep.org/ps-pdf/41-bergsmo-manocha/
PURL of related policy brief: https://www.toaep.org/pbs-pdf/149-bergsmo/
PURL of Gordon lecture: https://www.cilrap.org/cilrap-film/180512-gordon/

Speaker: Professor Claus Kreß (University of Cologne)
Topic: A CILRAP Conversation on World Order focusing on ‘international legal order’, and its difference with ‘world order’; international criminal law as the ius puniendi of the civitas maxima; the hegemonic objection to the idea of an ‘international community’; expressivism as the primary function of international criminal law; victim participation and national reconciliation as a collateral function; the significance of the crime of aggression under the ICC Statute; the ‘humanitarian intervention’ exception to use of force; states’ ‘responsibility to protect’ and making Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter more effective; restrictions on exercising veto in the Security Council; the role of the General Assembly; the United Nations’ armed contingents; a European Union defence force; the role of emerging powers like China and India in the evolution of the international legal order; and a European responsibility to reducing asymmetries in international law.
Date of recording: 12 June 2019
Place of recording: Florence 
Duration of recording: 2:40:26
PURL of film: https://www.cilrap.org/cilrap-film/190612-kress/
PURL of related occasional paper: https://www.toaep.org/ops-pdf/13-kress/
PURL of Singh Conversation: https://www.cilrap.org/cilrap-film/170823-singh/

Speaker: Judge David Re (Special Tribunal for Lebanon)
Topic: A CILRAP Conversation on World Order focusing on ‘international and national criminal justice systems’; main contributions of international criminal justice; differences between the Nuremberg and contemporary justice processes; possibilities for improvement; differences between national and international justice institutions and bureaucracies; the leading role of national or hybrid criminal justice systems; judgment-writing practices; the role of the prosecution and defence in distilling evidence; the importance of cataloguing evidence; and interdisciplinary approaches to reviewing evidence.
Date of recording: 21 February 2019
Place of recording: New Delhi 
Duration of recording: 58:53
PURL of film: https://www.cilrap.org/cilrap-film/190221-re/
PURL of Judge Baragwanath Conversation: https://www.cilrap.org/cilrap-film/170824-baragwanath/
PURL of Judge Lokur Conversation: https://www.cilrap.org/cilrap-film/190221-lokur/

Speaker: Justice Gilbert Bitti (Judge, Kosovo Specialist Chambers; at the time of recording, he was Senior Legal Adviser, ICC Pre-Trial Division (speaking in his personal capacity))
Topic: A CILRAP Conversation on World Order focusing on victim participation in international criminal justice, and why it is important; inadequacies of victim outreach; risk of exploitation by other actors in the justice process; managing victim expectations; the need, processes and risks of reparations in international criminal justice; the interplay of differences between civil and criminal law at trial; the successes and the failures of the International Criminal Court; reforms in the election and appointment of the highest officials of the Court; and issues arising from a lack of streamlining of charges presented before the Court.
Date of recording: 21 February 2019
Place of recording: New Delhi 
Duration of recording: 42:45
PURL of film: https://www.cilrap.org/cilrap-film/190221-bitti/ 
PURL of Judge Greve Conversation: https://www.cilrap.org/cilrap-film/170429-greve/
PURL of Judge Perrin de Brichambaut Conversation: https://www.cilrap.org/cilrap-film/170520-perrin-de-brichambaut/
PURL of Judge Baragwanath Conversation: https://www.cilrap.org/cilrap-film/170824-baragwanath/
PURL of Judge Lokur Conversation: https://www.cilrap.org/cilrap-film/190221-lokur/
PURL of Judge Bitti Conversation: https://www.cilrap.org/cilrap-film/190221-bitti/
PURL of Judge Bellelli Conversation: https://www.cilrap.org/cilrap-film/210616-bellelli/

Speaker: Professor Carsten Stahn (Leiden University)
Topic: A CILRAP Conversation on World Order focusing on ‘inclusivity in the global order’; critical perspectives on ‘internationalism’ and ‘cosmopolitanism’; transnational legal processes as backstops for international law; lessons from cultural plurality and relativism; the powerful-weak state dichotomy; contributions of international criminal law to ‘world order’; the state of European capacity engagement with non-Western states; the role of intellectuals in broadening ownership in developing international law; Indian contributions to international criminal justice; and methods to increase inclusivity in the development of international criminal law.
Date of recording: 21 February 2019
Place of recording: New Delhi 
Duration of recording: 38:41
PURL of film: https://www.cilrap.org/cilrap-film/190221-stahn/ 
PURL of related policy brief: https://www.toaep.org/pbs-pdf/131-stahn/
PURL of Kreß Conversation: https://www.cilrap.org/cilrap-film/190612-kress/

Speaker: Justice Madan B. Lokur (former Judge, Supreme Court of India)
Topic: A CILRAP Conversation on World Order
Date of recording: 21 February 2019
Place of recording: New Delhi 
Duration of recording: 57:41
PURL of film: www.cilrap.org/cilrap-film/190221-lokur/ 

Speaker: Professor Usha Tandon (Professor-in-Charge (dean), Campus Law Centre, Delhi University)
Topic: A CILRAP Conversation on World Order
Date of recording: 21 February 2019
Place of recording: New Delhi 
Duration of recording: 01:20:38
PURL of film: www.cilrap.org/cilrap-film/190221-tandon/ 

Speaker: Professor Olympia Bekou (The University of Nottingham; CILRAP Research Fellow)
Topic: A CILRAP Conversation on World Order
Date of recording: 8 June 2018
Place of recording: Florence 
Duration of recording: 41:53
PURL of film: www.cilrap.org/cilrap-film/180608-bekou/

Speaker: Ambassador Rolf Einar Fife (Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
Topic: A CILRAP Conversation on World Order
Date of recording: 5 June 2018
Place of recording: Florence 
Duration of recording: 01:11:30
PURL of film: www.cilrap.org/cilrap-film/180605-fife/

Speaker: Sir William David Baragwanath (Judge and former President, Special Tribunal for Lebanon)
Topic: A CILRAP Conversation on World Order
Date of recording: 24 August 2017
Place of recording: New Delhi 
Duration of recording: 01:01:20
PURL of film: www.cilrap.org/cilrap-film/170824-baragwanath/

Speaker: Colin Gonsalves (Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India; Founder, Human Rights Law Network)
Topic: A CILRAP Conversation on World Order
Date of recording: 24 August 2017
Place of recording: New Delhi 
Duration of recording: 57:50
PURL of film: www.cilrap.org/cilrap-film/170824-gonsalves/

Speaker: Ambassador Narinder Singh (formerly, Chair, International Law Commission; Legal Adviser, Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
Topic: A CILRAP Conversation on World Order
Date of recording: 23 August 2017
Place of recording: New Delhi 
Duration of recording: 44:58
PURL of film: www.cilrap.org/cilrap-film/170823-singh/

Speaker: Professor James Silk (Yale Law School)
Topic: A CILRAP Conversation on World Order
Date of recording: 17 June 2017
Place of recording: Florence 
Duration of recording: 01:08:22
PURL of film: www.cilrap.org/cilrap-film/170617-silk/

Speaker: Judge John Dugard (International Court of Justice)
Topic: A CILRAP Conversation on World Order
Date of recording: 14 June 2017
Place of recording: Historical Reading Room, Peace Palace, The Hague
Duration of recording: 55:51
PURL of film: www.cilrap.org/cilrap-film/170614-dugard/

Speaker: Dr. Christopher B. Mahony (The World Bank; CILRAP Research Fellow)
Topic: A CILRAP Conversation on World Order
Date of recording: 27 May 2017
Place of recording: Beijing 
Duration of recording: 57:21
PURL of film: www.cilrap.org/cilrap-film/170527-mahony/

Speaker: Judge Marc Perrin de Brichambaut (International Criminal Court; formerly, Secretary-General, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe)
Topic: A CILRAP Conversation on World Order
Date of recording: 20 May 2017
Place of recording: Peking University, Beijing  
Duration of recording: 50:05
PURL of film: www.cilrap.org/cilrap-film/170520-perrin-de-brichambaut/

Speaker: Judge Hanne Sophie Greve (Gulating Court of Appeal; formerly, European Court of Human Rights)
Topic: A CILRAP Conversation on World Order
Date of recording: 29 April 2017
Place of recording: Nuremberg, Palace of Justice, Courtroom 600 
Duration of recording: 30:25
PURL of film: www.cilrap.org/cilrap-film/170429-greve/

Speaker: Secretary-General Wolfgang Kaleck (European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights)
Topic: A CILRAP Conversation on World Order
Date of recording: 8 April 2017
Place of recording: Florence 
Duration of recording: 01:16:49
PURL of film: www.cilrap.org/cilrap-film/170408-kaleck/