Munich-Oxford Seminar 2007
Current Topics in International Law
Berlin 2007
The latest interchange with our partner faculty in Munich took place from 19-22 April 2007. Previous exchanges have taken the form of the longer-term exchange of a faculty member for research purposes and that of a joint conference of faculty members in 2005 (just published as volume 5 of the Studies of the Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law).
This interchange experimented with a new format; that of a seminar for doctoral students in a subject area, in this instance public international law.
Two faculty members, Dapo Akande and Katja Ziegler and six DPhil students from Oxford, Veronika Fikfak, Gleider Hernandez, Markos Karavias, Keren Michaeli, Martins Paparinskis and Antonios Tzanakopoulos travelled to Berlin to present and discuss ideas related to their theses – all current themes of public international law – with their colleagues from Munich.
They were matched by a delegation of nine doctoral students from Munich, led by Munich faculty member Professor Georg Nolte. Kick-off fittingly took place in Germany’s foreign ministry (Auswärtiges Amt) where the participants engaged in a lively discussion on two very topical themes: attempts to define the crime of aggression in international criminal law and legal issues in the fight against terrorism – and Germany’s position with regard to theses issues.
The main part of the seminar was dedicated to the students’ presentations (programme). While many discussions continued over German beer (or German wine!), this is not to neglect the social and the sightseeing aspects of the interchange in Berlin– the latter providing ample links to the practical study of historical events relevant to international law... (photos).
