The California International Law Center (CILC) adds new events all the time, so please check back regularly for schedule and event registration links. All events will be offered on Zoom; additionally, some will offer an in-person option on campus at the UC Davis School of Law in King Hall.
2025 Events
“Micro International Law” – A New Approach to Studying and Practicing International Law
Monday, Jan 27, 2025 | 12 p.m. - 1 p.m. | King Hall 1001 and via Zoom | Click to Register
Prof. Katrin Kuhlmann from Georgetown University Law Center will present her forthcoming paper on “Micro International Law” (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4984408), which proposes a new way of studying and applying international law to reflect smaller-scale lessons and legal innovations at the local, national, and regional levels that reflect the interests of a more diverse range of beneficiaries of international law, including individuals and developing economies. Prof. Kuhlmann will present the importance of a “micro” approach at this critical turning point in international law and discuss how this interdisciplinary work would better align international law with other disciplines, including economics and international relations. She will illustrate how the model can be applied through empirical study and policy interventions using a case study on food security and agricultural regulation in Tanzania and East Africa.
Communities and Places of Environmental Justice: Perspectives from Australia
Tuesday, Feb 4, 2025 | 12 p.m. - 1 p.m. | King Hall 1301 | Click to Register
Environmental justice has universal relevance, but it requires translation and integration into different legal systems and geographies. This presentation discusses how environmental justice has been brought into Australian environmental laws. It identifies a gap in how the law understands and responds to communities of and for environmental justice.
Environmental justice cannot be realised if the law fails to recognise the existence and interests of communities on the terms of the communities themselves. This presentation deliberately challenges the law relating to standing and human rights, arguing those aspects of law are deficient in achieving an increasingly multi-faceted concept of environmental justice, and suggests a broader role for, and a wider understanding of, communities in environmental law, grounded in ideas of place-based connection. Approaching the question of achievement of environmental justice with community interests at its centre, the environment of environmental justice also broadens to encompass places of shared value.
Dr. Brad Jessup, Senior Lecturer at Melbourne Law School, will focus on learnings from case studies regarding: development of places of worship; proposals to locate nuclear waste on land traditionally owned by Aboriginal People; landfill pollution in suburbs of socio-economic disadvantage; and the demolition of queer night-time venues.