The 76th ILA Biennial Conference took place from 7-11 April 2014 in Washington, D.C. The conference coincided with and was intertwined with the ASIL 108th annual meeting. The theme was ‘The Effectiveness of International Law’. Some 470 ILA-members attended (as well as more than 1000 ASIL-members). The ILA’s core work (committees on various topics, studying […]
Please note that by mistake, the KNVIR submitted an incorrect version of the preadvies written by Hans van Loon and Stéphanie De Dycker, entitled ‘The Role of the International Court of Justice in the Development of Private International Law’, to the publisher. Our sincere apologies for this. The Role of the International Court of Justice […]
One Century Peace Palace, from Past to Present On Friday 1 November 2013 the Annual General Meeting was held at the Peace Palace in The Hague. The public part of the meeting was devoted to a discussion of three papers on the theme mentioned above.
The Board of the Royal Netherlands Society of International Law Invites those who are students at, or have obtained a Master’s degree from, a Dutch university, to submit a paper or other similar writing (not being a Ph.D. thesis, a book, a published article or another publication that has been judged externally) on a subject […]
Arbitration as a means of solving international disputes Advantages and Risks Speakers mr. Hugo H. SibleszSecretary General of the Permanent Court of Arbitration prof.dr. Jamal SeifiJudge at the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal and Professor of Global Law (2015) at Tilburg University prof.dr. Vesna LazicSenior Researcher at the T.M.C. Asser Institute, Associate Professor of International Commercial […]
Looting of Cultural Property during Foreign Occupation Speakers mr. Taco Dibbits Director of Collections of the Rijksmuseum prof.dr. Liesbeth Lijnzaad Legal Adviser, Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Professor Practice of International Law at Maastricht University mr. Rob Polak Formerly partner De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, and Chairman of the Association of Art, Culture and Law held […]
Business and Human Rights: Issues of Legal Accountability Speakers dr. Liesbeth F.H. Enneking Post-doctoral Research Fellow at UCALL, Utrecht University’s Centre for Accountability and Liability Law and co-author of one of the amicus curiae briefs in the Kiobel case before the U.S. Supreme Court prof.dr. René J.M. Lefeber Professor of International Environmental Law at the […]
The Jury of the François Prize received eighteen submissions for this year’s Prize. Most of the submissions deal with a public international law subject. Only one submission concerns a topic of private international law. In 2014 also, the Jury had to conclude that the number of submissions in the field of private international law was […]
The jury of the François Prize 2014 received a record-number of 25 submissions, covering a wide range of international law topics. Most of them are on public international law. Only a few concern private international law. The jury notes this development with some concern, but refrains from any speculations as to the cause.
Voor de Françoisprijs 2012 zijn negentien inzendingen ontvangen. Alle inzendingen zijn door de juryleden gelezen en beoordeeld op de volgende criteria: originaliteit en belang van het onderwerp, systematische en logische denkwijze, kwaliteit van de juridische analyse en van de conclusies, stijl en taalgebruik, en ten slotte de presentatie van het werkstuk. De inzendingen betreffen zeer […]