About the conference
The second reading of the topic (and thereby its conclusion) is expected to occur in May–August 2025. The ILC’s Special Rapporteur, Marcelo Vázquez-Bermúdez, will participate in the seminar. The conference will take place at Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne. Another conference was organized at the University of Oxford on 21 January 2022 (pdf).
We invite applications to participate in the discussion. Applicants may indicate which session they would like to participate in, and send in an abstract of their interventions on maximum 200 words by 15 March 2025 to mads.andenas@jus.uio.no and Paolo.Palchetti@univ-paris1.fr.
Programme
- 9:30-9:45 Welcome
- 9:45-11:15 Session 1
“Recognition”: by whom and how? The role of international organizations [Draft Conclusion 2: ‘The use of the term “community of nations” does not preclude that, in certain circumstances, international organizations may also contribute to the formation of general principles of law’].
- 11:30-13:00 Session 2
“Recognition”: by whom and how? The role of the other non-state actors
- 14:00-15:30 Session 3
The role of courts and tribunals in the identification of general principles of law: subsidiary means or more? [Draft conclusion 8 and Draft conclusion 10 (general principles as a basis for procedural rules)].
- 15:45-17:15 Session 4
The ‘main’ function of general principles of law: a ‘complementary’ but not ‘ancillary’ function? [draft conclusion 10: ‘general principles of law are mainly resorted to when other rules of international law do not resolve a particular issue in whole or in part’; ‘the misconception that general principles of law play an ancillary role in comparison to treaties or custom’]
Organizers: Mads Andenæs, UiO, Paolo Palchetti, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne