First speaker : Prof. Erika de Wet
V: Prof. (Harvard) Head of the Institute of International Law and International Relations in the University of Graz, Austria; Honorary Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Bonn; Member of the ILA Committee on the use of force: military assistance on request (the Netherlands branch) and Co-Editor of the Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law.
Main Publications : Military Assistance on Request and the Use of Force (Oxford University Press, Oxford,2020) 258 pp (nominated for the European Society of International Law Book Prize 2021); The Chapter VII Powers of the United Nations Security Council( Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2004) 413 pp.;3. The Constitutional Enforceability of Economic and Social Rights: The Meaning of the German Constitutional Model for South Africa
(Butterworths, Cape Town, 1996) 159 pp.
Overview
Prof. De Wet lecture will be : 'Economic sanctions in response to Russian aggression: legal bases in international law' and will focus on the extent that the right to self-defence in Art. 51 UN Charter and the EU-Russia-Partnership Agreement of 1994 can form a legal basis for the economic sanctions (notably those driven by the EU). In addition, a few comments on whether these sanctions may collide with the WTO-regime
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