Events from Research in Public International Law (RIPIL)

Event spotlight

RIPIL Showcase Panel Event, 6 December 2023

This inaugural RIPIL panel event showcased some of the outstanding research being undertaken within the group. Six presentations across two panels covered a wide range of international law topics, such as the forcible transfer of children from Ukraine, artificial intelligence, and ecocide (amongst others). Presenters were a mixture of colleagues from the College of Business and Law (CBL) and the College of Health, Science and Society (CHSS), and included both Professors, mid-career colleagues and early career researchers/PhDs, reflecting the diversity of the group.

Image of Noelle Quinevet pointing to the presentation screen at the RIPIL Inaugural Showcase Event on 6 December 2023.

Presenting on Displaced Children in Ukraine

Noëlle Quenivet shows the attribution link in the law of state responsibility.

Presenters on the first panel - Noelle Quenivet, Phil Cole, and M. Emre Hayyar field audience questions at the RIPIL Inaugural Showcase Event on 6 December 2023.

Panel 1 Q&A

Presenters on the first panel - Noëlle Quenivet, Phil Cole, and M Emre Hayyar - field audience questions.

Professor James Green delivering his presentation at the RIPIL Inaugural Showcase Event on 6 December 2023. He is at the speaker's podium facing the audience with his presentation behind him. Suwita Hani Randhawa and Mike Pollard are seated.

Presentation on the Future of International Security Law

James Green presents his paper while his fellow panel members – Suwita Hani Randhawa and Mike Pollard – watch on.

Past events

2025

  • A conversation on global ecological issues – nature, embodiment, and spirituality, 13 February 2025
    This cross-disciplinary event - co-sponsored by RIPIL - was an immersive experience, blending art, music, indigenous perspectives, and academic insights to challenge conventional understandings of sustainability, rights of nature, climate justice, and ecological crisis.
  • Work in-progress seminar, 15 January 2025
    A RIPIL work-in-progress seminar featuring papers by Dr Christel Querton and Professor James Green (UWE Bristol).

2024

  • Unveiling the power of climate change litigation II: Challenges and opportunities in corporate climate litigation, 4 December 2024
    This event featured a keynote presentation by Dr Joana Setzer (LSE, London), and a roundtable including Professor Belén Olmos Giupponi (Middlesex University), Dr Elena Blanco (UWE Bristol), and Cristian Heredia Ligorria (UWE Bristol).
  • Coercive environment as a defence and/or mitigating factor for crimes under International Law: Sentencing former child soldiers, 27 November 2024
    Professor Noëlle Quénivet (UWE Bristol) and Dr Windell Nortje (University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa and Visiting Fellow, UWE Bristol) presented a joint paper.
  • Roundtable on the occupied Palestinian Territories, 6 November 2024
    Members of the RIPIL group met to discuss the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice: Legal Consequences Arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem (19 July 2024).
  • PhD workshop, 9 July 2024
    RIPIL hosted a workshop for PhD candidates whose work has a particular focus on the issues related to the use of force and/or laws of war. Presenters and attendees were a mix of UWE Bristol PhD students and external PhD students (University of Liverpool, University of Essex, University of Bristol). 
  • Roundtable on the ongoing situation in Gaza, 5 June 2024
    Members of the RIPIL group met to discuss the situation in Gaza as had developed since the attacks of 7 October, with a focus on legal issues that emerged.
  • Panel discussion and book launch on Conflict Refugees: Past, Present and Future of International Protection, 23 April 2024
    The Panel also launched Dr Christel Querton's monograph, Conflict Refugees: European Union Law and Practice, published by Cambridge University Press in 2023.
  • Workshop: Implementing TWAIL and postcolonialism in International Law Research, 9 April 2024
    Session led by Dr Vivel Bhatt (University of Aberdeen).
  • Book launch: Collective self-defence in International Law, 20 March 2024
    Hybrid event featuring presentations by the author, Professor James Green (UWE Bristol), and invited discussant, Dr Chris O'Meara (University of Exeter).
  • The current crisis in nuclear arms control law, 12 March 2024
    Featuring guest speaker, Professor Daniel Joyner (University of Alabama).

2023

  • RIPIL Showcase Panel Event, 6 December 2023
    Inaugural RIPIL panel event showcased some of the outstanding research being undertaken within the group. Six presentations across two panels covered a wide range of international law topics, such as the forcible transfer of children from Ukraine, artificial intelligence, and ecocide (amongst others). Presenters were a mixture of colleagues from the College of Business and Law (CBL) and the College of Health, Science and Society (CHSS), and included Professors James Green and Noëlle Quenivet, mid-career colleagues and early career researchers/PhDs, reflecting the diversity of the group.
  • Use of force against non-state actors in international law - online lecture, 1 August 2023
    Speaker: Dr Dire Thladi
    A joint event in partnership with the Faculty of Shariah and Law, Villa College, Maldives. 

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