In this episode of EJIL: Live! Sarah Nouwen, Editor-in-Chief of EJIL, speaks with Hala Khoury-Bisharat, Lecturer in law, Ono Academic College School of Law, Haifa, Israel and Michael A. Becker, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Trinity College Dublin, about the Symposium on International Commissions of Inquiry, which appears in EJIL’s 30:3 issue. Michael Becker first speaks about the motivation of the organizers – Doreen Lustig of Tel Aviv University, Sarah Nouwen and himself – to develop a project on Commissions of Inquiry (CoIs) and more specifically why they framed the project in terms of the difference that such commissions make. Hala Khoury-Bisharat then introduces her case study in the Symposium on the Goldstone Inquiry in Israel and the unintended backlash effects it produced for human rights organizations in the country. As the first Palestinian Israeli woman to hold a professorial position in Israel, she then elaborates, on a more personal note, on the obstacles that she, as a member of a minority in Israel, had to face and overcome in her career. The interview concludes with some…
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New EJIL: Live! Interview with Dr Sarah Nouwen
This episode of EJIL: Live! introduces EJIL’s new joint Editor-in-Chief, Dr Sarah Nouwen. Currently a University Senior Lecturer at the University of Cambridge and recently appointed as Professor of International Law at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy (starting September 2020), Dr Nouwen speaks with Professor Joseph Weiler about her own academic trajectory, her research interests and…
New EJIL: Live! Interview with Dr Veronika Fikfak
In this episode of EJIL: Live! the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal, Professor Joseph Weiler, speaks with Dr Veronika Fikfak, Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Cambridge, whose article “Changing State Behaviour: Damages before the European Court of Human Rights”, appears in EJIL’s 29:4 issue. In her pioneering article, Dr Fikfak…
New EJIL: Live! Interview with Professor Bhupinder Chimni on his Life and Life Work
In this episode of EJIL: Live! the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal, Professor Joseph Weiler, speaks with Bhupinder Chimni, Professor of International Law at the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India. The interview, rather than discussing a specific article, looks at the life and the life work of Professor B.S. Chimni.
New EJIL: Live! Interview with Jürgen Kurtz on his Article “Convergence and Divergence in International Economic Law and Politics”
In this episode of EJIL: Live! the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal, Professor Joseph Weiler, speaks with Jürgen Kurtz, Professor of International Economic Law at the European University Institute, whose article “Convergence and Divergence in International Economic Law and Politics”, co-authored with Sungjoon Cho, Professor of Law at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of…