"Unlawfully Occupied Territories and International Law by Anne Lagerwall

Anne Lagerwall is Professor of Public International Law at the Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) where she has taught since 2009 and Director of the International Law Center of the same university since 2019. She is the co-editor of the Belgian Review of International Law and the Vice-President of the Belgian Society of International Law. She is also a member of the Réseau francophone du droit international responsible for the moot court competition in public international law Charles Rousseau. Anne Lagerwall is a general international lawyer and has published on different subjects including the threat and use of force in international law, the duty not to recognize as lawful situations stemming from grave breaches of the UN Charter, States' immunities, jus cogens and human rights. She is also interested in theories of international law. Her books include Le principe ex injuria jus non oritur en droit international (2016) and A Critical Introduction to International Law (2019, co-authored with Olivier Corten, François Dubuisson and Vaios Koutroulis). Chapters 00:00 Welcome Address 00:12 Introduction by Ankit Malhotra 01:29 Introduction by Co-Moderator Ishika Mittal 04:12 Introduction by Prof. Anne Lagerwall 06:16 English Explanation of Albert Cohen’s book 08:22 Albert Cohen’s Dialogues’ Relation to the Topic of the Lecture 11:23 Exploring League of Nations Assembly 17:00 Situation in Western Sahara 32:03 Notes on Unlawfully Occupied Territories around the World 38:46 South African Court’s Advisory Opinion 39:48 Explanation of the Advisory Opinion 50:10 Human Right Case from 2010 in Turkey 58:30 Explanation of Ukraine’s Application against Russia 1:01:56 Q&A 1:10:02 Concluding Remarks by Prof. Lagerwall