Traditionally, the Annual General Meeting is held in the afternoon of the first Friday in November.
The meeting consists firstly of a brief session devoted to the Society’s domestic affairs. During this part of the meeting the internal affairs of the Society are discussed by the members and the Executive Board, new Board members are appointed and a report of the Society’s finances is provided. This is followed by a public session, covering most of the afternoon, which is open also to non-members. Every year, the Board of the Society invites at least two persons to write a paper on a subject of public international law or private international law that is relevant to practice and scholarship in The Netherlands. These papers are sent to the members in September or October. At the meeting a brief introduction by the authors is followed by a discussion of the contents of the papers. In most cases, reports are made of the discussions (see below). The report of the 2020 discussion is available in the format of an Mp4 recording (please also see below).
KNVIR Annual Meeting 2021 Announcement
General, Annual General MeetingGLOBAL HEALTH LAW DISRUPTED: COVID-19 AND THE CLIMATE CRISIS
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
ROYAL NETHERLANDS SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
ON FRIDAY 5 NOVEMBER 2021 AT 13:30 HRS CET
VENUE: THE HAGUE HUMANITY HUB
FLUWELEN BURGWAL 58, 2511 CJ THE HAGUE
(AND ACCESSIBLE ONLINE VIA ZOOM)
The COVID-19 pandemic painfully demonstrated that protecting health is of the utmost importance to humankind. Governments everywhere are struggling to deal with the pandemic, alongside their fight against persistent diseases such as malaria and against climate change, whose effects on health conditions are undeniable.
This year, the KNVIR focuses on several major issues in the area of global health law, a field of international law that has developed over a period of 70 years, with the World Health Organization as centrepiece.
At the annual meeting four reports will be presented, addressing the status of global health law, and some of its achievements and challenges. These will be discussed in the context of human rights law, international economic law and environmental law, making it clear that the concerns raised cannot be addressed separately. There may be lessons to be learned for the discipline of international law at large.
SPEAKERS:
PROF.MR DR BIRGIT C.A. TOEBES AND MEAGHAN BEYER, LL.M.
The Origins and Scope of Global Health Law
DR KATRINA PEREHUDOFF AND DR JENNIFER SELLIN
Innovation and Access to Medicines
MARLIES HESSELMAN, LL.M.
Climate Change as a Global Health Threat in International Climate Law and Human Rights Law
DR PEDRO VILLARREAL
International Health Law and Pandemics – Will COVID-19 be a Watershed?
At 13:30 hrs CET the Annual General Meeting of the KNVIR will be held, to which only members are admitted.
At 14:00 hrs CET the presentation of the reports will start, at which members and non-members are welcome.
The presentations and discussion will be held in English.
The printed version of the Collected Papers, containing the reports, has been published by T.M.C. Asser Press and may be ordered by non-members by applying to ln.re1642553108ssa@s1642553108serp1642553108 (price € 25.00 + p.&.p.). Members have received or will receive a copy of the Collected Papers via regular mail.
PLEASE NOTE: If you wish to attend the meeting, you are required to register by sending a message to gro.r1642553108ivnk@1642553108tcatn1642553108oc1642553108 no later than Monday 1 November 2021. When you register, please indicate whether you wish to attend in person – at The Hague Humanity Hub – or on-line.
Annual General Meeting 2020
General, Annual General MeetingThe Society devoted its Annual General Meeting of November 6, which was held online, to the theme: ‘International Law for a Digitalised World’. The recording of the discussion of the Collected Papers can be viewed here. (Please note that the video starts rather abruptly, while for technical reasons the parts on the voting on the propositions have been left out.)