PIL Discussion Group | Between Rigor and the Search for a More Human International Law | Week 2

The PIL Discussion Group at the University of Oxford is a key focal point for PIL@Oxford and hosts regular speaker events. Topics involve contemporary and challenging issues in international law. Speakers include distinguished international law practitioners, academics, and legal advisers from around the world.

The Discussion Group's seminars are part of the programme of the British Branch of the International Law Association and they are supported by the Law Faculty and Oxford University Press.

Practitioners, academics and students from within and outside the University of Oxford are all welcome at PIL Discussion Group seminars. 

Venue: The Old Library, All Souls College, University of Oxford and Online (Hybrid) unless otherwise stated.

Register for the seminars and join the mailing list at: https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/pil-discussion-group/pil-discussion-group
 

Speaker: Judge Dire Tladi

Dire Tladi is a Judge of the International Court of Justice, in the Hague. Prior to that, Tladi was Professor of international law and holder of the NRF SARChI Chair in International Constitutional Law at the University of Pretoria. He was previously Chair and member of the UN International Law Commission and its Special Rapporteur on Peremptory Norms of General International Law (Jus Cogens).  He was President of the South African Branch of the International Law Association. He was also Special Adviser to the South African Foreign Minister. He was legal adviser to the South African Foreign Ministry and the legal counsel to the South African Mission to the United Nations in New York. He has published widely in international law. Dire Tladi is also the author of two works of fiction.