74th Conference of the International Law Association
Dear ILA member, 
This e-mail is to update you on the interesting developments of the 74th Conference of the International Law Association: De iure humanitatis, peace, justice and international law, 15 – 20 August 2010.
Complementary Programme
More than 80 speakers have confirmed to participate in the complementary panel sessions in The Hague. The complementary panels address core issues of international law that cut across the work of various ILA committees and study groups and present-day challenges for international law.
Among the speakers in the complementary panels you will find:
- Fatou Bensouda (Deputy Prosecutor, ICC)
- Sean Hagan (General Counsel, IMF)
- Justice C.G. Weeramantry (former Vice-President, International Court of Justice)
- Ben Kioko (Legal Advisor, African Union)
- Beth Stephens (Professor, Rutgers School of Law)
- William Schabas (Director, Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland
- John Dugard (Former Dean and Director, Centre for Applied Legal Studies, University of Witwatersrand; Former Special Rapporteur to the UN Commission on Human Rights on violation of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory; Former Judge Ad Hoc, ICJ; Em. Professor of Public International Law, Leiden University)
- Pieter Kooijmans (former judge, ICJ; former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands
- James Crawford (Matrix Chambers, London; Professor of International Law, University of Cambridge)
- Luka Biong Deng (Minister of Presidential Affairs of the Government of Southern Sudan; Member of the SPLM National Liberation Council)
- Julie Bédard, Counsel, Skadden, Arps (US law firm)
- Jean-Pierre Cot (Président de la Société française pour le droit international)
- Theo van Boven (Emeritus Professor of International Law, University of Maastricht)
- Kamal Hossain (Lawyer, Dr. Kamal Hossain & Associates, Bangladesh; former UN Special Rapporteur on Afghanistan)
- Rüdiger Wolfrum (Judge ITLOS; Antarctica-expert; Director Max Planck Institute Heidelberg)
- Xue Hanqin (President of the Asian Society of International Law)
- Christine Gray (Professor of International Law (Use of Force), University of Cambridge)
- Catherine Kessedjian (Professor at the University of Paris II; Ad Hoc Arbitrator, ICSID, the ICC, LCIA and the AAA)
- Hélène Ruiz-Fabri (President of the European Society of International Law)
More information can be found on our web site: www.ila2010.org
Make sure you register!!