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Legality, Legitimacy & the United Nations: A Public Lecture delivered by the APCML Sir Ninian Stephen Visiting Scholar 2009 Professor Ramesh ThakurMon 07/12/20096:00 PM |
| Speaker | Professor Ramesh Thakur, Director, Balsillie School of International Affairs, Ontario, Canada |
| Description | The gulf between law and legitimacy – a distinction popularised in the context of NATO’s intervention in Kosovo in 1999 – is a more serious crisis-in-the-making for the United Nations than is commonly realised. The lecture will discuss international law and international humanitarian law; sanctions; nuclear weapons; atrocity crimes and international interventions; international criminal justice; the Security Council; the UN-US relationship; and UN integrity in this context. Ramesh Thakur is Director, Balsillie School of International Affairs; Distinguished Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation, and Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo in Canada. He was Vice Rector and Senior Vice Rector of the United Nations University (and Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations) from 1998–2007. He was a Commissioner and one of the principal authors of The Responsibility to Protect (2001), and Senior Adviser on Reforms and Principal Writer of the United Nations Secretary-General’s second reform report (2002).
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Bookings essential – to RSVP, please contact Cathy Hutton, 03 8344 4775 or
law-apcml@unimelb.edu.au |
| Venue | Lecture Theatre G08, Ground Floor |
| Address | Melbourne Law School 185 Pelham Street Carlton VIC 3010 |
| Contact Person | Cathy Hutton |
| Contact Details | 03 8344 4775 |
| RSVP Contact | law-apcml@unimelb.edu.au |
