News and events archive

2025

• Indigenous Knowledge, Education and Methodologies for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation, 19 February 2025
• Climate Change Induced Migration and the Environmental Refugee Question, 22 January 2025

2024

• Advances in Climate Litigation and Environmental Justice, 11 December 2024
• The Impact of the Global Gas Crisis: Lessons for the UK and Implications for Its Net-Zero Pathway, 28 November 2024
• CELI-BIICL event: Developing the UK-EU Relationship: TCA Review and Beyond, 21 November 2024
• International Investment and Arbitration, Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation and the Emergent African Continental Free Trade Agreement, 23 October 2024
• The London Conference on International Law, 17 and 18 October 2024
• CELI Director appointed to Advisory Board of Leading Journal in European Law
• Tom de la Mare KC on 'Taking back Executive Control: the post-Brexit Democratic Deficit of the UK', 8 May 2024
• Are we becoming more tolerant of immigration?, 12 March 2024
• “White Supremacy, Racial Segregation and Contested Ideas of Freedom in the USA”, 21 February 2024
• 'The role of the ECOWAS Court in subregional efforts to address the challenge of unconstitutional changes of government in West Africa', 18 January 2024

2023

• 'The Impact of International Monitoring Mechanisms on Human Rights in the UK', 13 December 2023
• 'CELI and Leicester Pro-Bono Society: Share The World's Resources (STWR)  showcased their campaign: “Article 25 - A People's Strategy for World Transformation', 8 December 2023
• 'Communities Of Origin and Ownership of Heritage Objects in Africa: The ‘oba’ and ‘benin’ Bronzes', 7 December 2023
• 'Backlash and resistance to International Courts and Tribunals in Latin America: from the ICJ to the IACTHR', 30 November 2023
• 'The Supreme Court ruling on the 'Rwanda plan' - first reactions', 22 November 2023
• ‘The International Court of Justice and the Law of the Sea Dispute Settlement System’, 8 November 2023
• ‘Beyond corrective justice: holding the state to account for colonial wrongs’, 18 October 2023
• International Conference on Space Security and Safety Dimensions, 28–29 September 2023
• New Perspectives on Trial by Media: A free one-day online workshop, 30 June 2023
• Dr Jens T Theilen on ‘The concept of Europe: Progress, colonial continuities, and the European Convention on Human Rights’, 16 May 2023
• ‘Migration and Race: Human Rights or Nation-Centred Justice?’ A public talk by Hiroshi Motomura, 4 May 2023
• Workshop with Professor Hiroshi Motomura on his book project 'Ethical Borders', 4 May 2023
• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights’ 75th Anniversary Conference, 28 April 2023
• CELI Annual Lecture 2023: Shamima Begum and the Future of British Citizenship, 27 April 2023
• Russia’s 2022 War against Ukraine and a New international security architecture, 6 March 2023

2022

• CELI publication on the legal significance of UN resolutions
• Seminar on the UK Rwanda Asylum Plan, 4 July 2022
• New CELI publication: Research Handbook on General Principles in EU Law published by Edward Elgar
• Call for papers: ‘Dispute Resolution and Religion: a Roundtable’ (deadline 20 June 2022)
• The journey of business and human rights arbitration from Geneva to The Hague, 30 March 2022
• The situation in Ukraine, 11 March 2022
• The future of human rights protection in the UK – a “Modern Bill of Rights”?, 26 January 2022
• Book launch: The emergent African Union Law: Conceptualization, delimitation, and application, 26 January 2022

2021

• No more Blackface: The trial of Black Pete, 15 December 2021
• Prestigious UKRI grant awarded for critical COVID-19 research
• 20th anniversary of the entry into force of the Constitutive Act of the African Union, 26 May 2021
• Assassination, Necropolitics and International Law: Global Inequality and Violence, 4 March 2021
• How might MPs scrutinise the new UK-EU relationship?
• Feeding Global Inequality, 28 January 2021

2020

• Race-ing Global Inequality, 9 December 2020
• Reading and Re-imagining Equality, 20 November 2020
• CELI Member analyses whether African-Americans could be granted refugee status in Europe
• The legal procedures in the context of the rule of law backsliding in Poland, 12 February 2020
• Dr Ewa Zelazna analyses the rule of law crisis in Poland
• Crimes against humanity in the EU's migration policy: facing the inconceivable, 29 January 2020
• When blockchain meets arbitration: the birth of decentralized justice, Friday, 31 January 2020
• Wishful thinking or common sense? Arguing for a new EU approach to unlawfully present migrants, 15 January 2020
• Women's Non-Refoulement Claims: Gendering Article 3 ECHR Risk Assessment

2019

• I Vow to Thee, my Country: International Law and The Chagos Islanders' Quest for Justice, 20 November 2019
• A history of exclusionary policy: the case study of post WWII migration from the Caribbean to Britain, 6 November 2019, 4:30-6 pm
• Peace talk: Living in Hostile Environments - Illegality Assemblages and Everyday Experiences of 'Illegality', 23 October 2019
• Post-colonial Trojan Horse or genuine agent for change? An inquiry into post-colonial engagement between Third World States and the United Nations, 17 October 2019