France fighting ISIS- a legitimate use of force under international law?

European Student Think Tank

By Johannes Tropper, student of Law at the University of Vienna and ambassador to Austria for the European Student Think Tank.

The heinous attacks in Paris have shaken the whole of Europe. The French President described the attacks by ISIS terrorists as an ‘act of war’, which implied that a serious response had to be expected. However, France has already been involved in combating the terrorists in the Middle East by military means. This raises a central question: What has been the legal basis of French military strikes against ISIS under international law?

Since 2014 a coalition of the United States, France and other countries has flown airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq and Syria. In 2015 the Russian Federation got involved targeting ISIS and other groups in Syria. In response to the terrorist attacks in Paris, France has now declared war on ISIS. Under international law there is neither a…

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European Institute for Security and Justice Guest Lecture Series.

Start: 30 Nov 10:30AM End: 30 Nov 3:00PM 
Location: Dalhousie 2F15

Dr Alexander Kupatadze (University of St Andrews): ‘Organised Crime and the State in post-Soviet Eurasia’ Based on examples from post-Soviet Eurasian countries, this talk will show that the state-organised crime relationship supplements the formal structures and allows the exercise of government authority. Not only are political-criminal links operationalised for the rational purposes of politicians and/or criminals and help aggregate the capacity of the individual politicians to govern, but they also benefit the consolidation of political control over the short- and medium-term. However, the same relationship also functions to undermine the legitimacy, authority and transparency of formal institutions and hence does little to benefit the long-term functioning of the state. All welcome!

Criminal Law Forum: Iain Cameron, Uppsala University

Criminal Law Forum: Iain Cameron, Uppsala University

Issued: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 16:00:00 BST

The School’s Criminal Law Forum will host three research seminars by visiting speakers in the first semester of the 2015/16 academic year, the second in the series will take place on the:

Date: Wednesday 25 November

Speaker: Iain Cameron, Professor in Public International Law and Director of the Centre for Police Research, Uppsala University

Title: “The system of accountability for the Swedish national police – and some comparisons with the Scottish experience”

Time: 3.30-5pm,

University of Glasgow

Venue: Room 222, Stair Building

All welcome please contact Elaine Ferguson

 

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Iain Cameron is professor in public international law at Uppsala University. He is the author of numerous books and articles in the field of international and constitutional law. He has specialized particularly in issues relating to security and human rights. In 2005 he was appointed by the Swedish government to the Council of Europe advisory body on constitutional and international law issues, the Venice Commission.

ASP 14: How can ICC trials be more efficient?

Source: ASP 14: How can ICC trials be more efficient?

Energy Sustainability Conference University of Dundee.

30th November 2015, 10.30am – 3pm

Carnegie Building Lecture Theatre

University of Dundee

 

The organising committee is comprised of graduate students from the Centre for Energy

Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP) who run the University of Dundee Chapter of the Students for Sustainable Energy for All network, as part of Global Energy Initiative.

 

Topics to be discussed

• What is unconventional oil and gas and how are they different from “conventional” ones

• Why everybody is talking about fracking

• What is attitude of local municipal authorities of Scotland towards shale petroleum production from land-use and environmental point of view

• Is there future for fossil fuels and particularly for unconventionals in post-Paris global climate regime.

 

Outcomes and Opportunities

The attendees will have an increased knowledge and awareness regarding nature of unconventional petroleum and problems their production pose, and will have the opportunity to:

• Assess pros and cons of such production

• Hear real stories about environmental considerations during local planning for use of shale fields

• Discuss implications and opportunities of the “shale revolution” in light of changing climate regime

 

 

For more information please follow the link below.

 

EnergySustainabilityConfNov30Uod

Call for testimonies on the impact that the EU has had on the lives of people in Scotland.

Have you studied or worked in another EU country? Are you from another EU country and have come to live in Scotland? Have you worked for one of the EU institutions? Have you participated in a project or course funded by the EU? Has an EU policy had a profound impact on your life?

The European and External Relations Committee is calling on people living in Scotland to submit short testimonies either in a written or video format on the impact that the EU has had on their lives. This call is being made in the context of the Committee’s wider inquiry work on the implications of EU reform and the EU referendum for Scotland. The purpose is to develop an understanding of what EU membership means for people living in Scotland.

The Committee is interested in hearing from people who live in Scotland about the impact – positive or negative – that the EU has had on their lives at any point since the UK joined the European Economic Community in 1973. We would like to receive first-hand accounts from individuals that provide testimony to the significance of EU membership to Scotland. 

How to submit a testimony

You are invited to send your testimony. You are asked to submit no more than 500 words or a two-minute video.

The Committee prefers to receive written submissions electronically and in a form accessible by MS Word. These should be sent to: 

EUreformandreferendum@scottish.parliament.uk

When we have received your testimony, we will post it on our blog.

Policy for Handling Written Evidence

Before you submit your written evidence, please ensure that you have read our policy on treatment of written evidence. Written submissions will be handled in accordance with this policy.

You may also submit a video as evidence. This guidance note explains how you can send your evidence to the Committee in a short video. 

Contact

For details about the Committee’s work on this inquiry please contact Katy Orr, Clerk to the Committee, tel 0131 348 5234 or katy.orr@scottish.parliament.uk.

After Paris: Consequences for European Politics and International Security.

“After Paris: Consequences for European Politics and International Security”
A Special Roundtable
 
Tuesday 24 November, 3.00 – 4.30 pm
Dalhousie 2F14
 
The tragic events that unfolded in Paris over the last few days have raised several political, social and legal questions. What drives some individuals to commit such actions? How can such atrocities be prevented in future? Was there a failure of the intelligence and security services? How can counter-terrorism policies be reconciled with human rights and fundamental freedoms? What will be the impact of the Paris events on the handling by European states of the current refugee crisis in the Mediterranean? What role for international law and international cooperation in addressing all these challenges?
These are some of the questions, amongst many others, that will be explored at the roundtable.
 
Roundtable participants:
Dr Patricia Bauer, Lecturer in Politics
Dr Jacques Hartmann, Lecturer in International Law, Dundee Law School
Prof. Christian Kaunert, Professor of International Politics & Director of the European Institute for Security and Justice (EISJ)
Dr Sarah Leonard, Senior Lecturer in Politics
Dr Bert Schweitzer, Lecturer in Politics
 
ALL WELCOME!
 

The City is a Thinking Machine.

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city is a thinking machine
activism in the built environment

 

Accompanying the Exhibition in the Lamb Gallery is a programme of three evening events, the second of which takes place this Wednesday:
Activism in the Built Environment: Media
Wednesday 18 November 2015, 6pm in the D’Arcy Thompson Lecture Theatre, Tower Building, University of Dundee

This double bill should be of interest to architects planners lawyers psychologists, artists and other agitators, anyone interested in the city as the arena in which our social political and legal relations are played out and inscribed in our collective memory.

 

Mike Small – Geddes and the 5th Estate: Publishing, Citizenship and Cultural Insurgency

Mike Small is the editor of Bella Caledonia, a columnist for the Guardian and a lecturer in Food Citizenship as part of the UNESCO Chair of Sustainable Development and Territory Management at the University of Torino. He founded the Fife Diet local eating experiment which aims to re-localise food production and distribution in response to globalisation and climate change. He worked with the anarchist ecologist Murray Bookchin. He has published widely on Geddes. His lecture will put Geddes’ civics in the context of the contemporary outlier press.

 

Paul Guzzardo – A Septic Turn in the Space of Appearance: A Brief for the City with Elites in Decline

Paul Guzzardo is a Fellow at the Geddes Institute for Urban Research. He is a media activist, designer, and lawyer based in St Louis and Buenos Aires. He maps the devolving state of the American public sphere. He has published papers in Urban Design Journal and AD: architectural design, and co-authored with Michael Sorkin and Mario Correa Displaced: Llonch+Vidalle Architecture. His installations and theatre pieces have been exhibited and performed the US and the UK. His lecture will focus on the role of digital media in collective consciousness.

 

The lectures will be followed by questions and answers from the audience.

The questions and answers will be followed by a wine reception in the Exhibition in the Lamb Gallery.

 

The event will be recorded and posted on the Geddes Institute website.

The event is free and everyone is welcome.

This event is sponsored by the Geddes Institute at the University of Dundee and the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland

 

http://www.dundee.ac.uk/museum/exhibitions/city/

Research Associate Notice.

RESEARCH ASSOCIATE NOTICE
gLAWcal – Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development is an independent non-profit research organization (think tank) that aims at providing a new focus on issues related to economic law, globalization and development, namely the relationship between international economy and trade, with special attention to a number of non-trade-related values and concerns.
gLAWcal is looking to recruit passionate Research Associates to carry out research on a number of topics, some of those research will be executed in China within EU funded research projects. The Research Associate will work to produce a policy paper to be agreed with gLAWcal Director of Research on one of the following relevant areas: trade, investments, globalization, liberalism, human rights, social economic and cultural rights, sustainable development, climate change, energy, environment, meritocracy, European Union institutions, EU-China relations etc.
Applications will be accepted by 31 December 2015 at research@glawcal.org.uk
 
Further information here