The mandate of the International Law Association (ILA) Study Group (SG) on the International Law of Regional Organizations (2021-2024; co-chaired by Samantha Besson and Eva Kassoti) is to clarify and evaluate, by comparison, the contours of internal and external practice of international law specific to regional international organizations (RIOs). It will lead to the publication of a general report drafted by the study group's co-rapporteurs (Fernando L. Bordin & Jed Odermatt). In parallel with the study group's work, a collective book project was launched in 2022. This book has two objectives: on the one hand, to give academic prominence to the comparative international law work carried out by deepening certain comparative aspects of the project, and on the other, to deal with more theoretical questions that could not be addressed within the framework of the study group. The volume will be structured in two parts : the chapters in the first part address some of the general and cross-cutting issues raised by the development of FBOs for the future of international law, while the second part of the book deals, from both an intra-regional and inter-regional comparative angle, with different dimensions of international FBO law practice. The workshop on December 8-9 2022 in Paris is the first of two workshops organized to discuss these draft chapters and regional thematic reports. The next workshop will be held at the Asser Institute in The Hague in January 2024.
Speakers : Samantha Besson (cochair ; Collège de France, Paris & University of Fribourg) ; Fernando Lusa Bordin (co-apporteur ; University of Cambridge) ; Laurence Boisson de Chazournes (University of Geneva) ; Catherine Brölmann (regional delegate) (University of Amsterdam) ; Srinivas Burra (South Asian University, New Delhi) ; Damian Chalmers (University of Singapore) ; Yifeng Chen (Peking University Law School) ; Andrés Delgado Casteleiro (Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Santiago) ; Kirill Entin (regional delegate) (Court of the Eurasian Economic Union, Minsk) ; Fabia Fernandes Carvalho (University of Melbourne) ; Khalid Idrissi (Islamic Development Bank, Jeddah) ; Ahmed Jabri (regional delegate) (AJ and Associates B.V., The Hague) ;Eva Kassoti (cochair ;Asser Institute, The Hague) ;Apollin Koagne Zouapet (International Court of Justice, The Hague) ; Pieter Jan Kuijper (University of Amsterdam) ; Nataliya Maroz (Belarusian State University, Minsk) ; Rowan Nicholson (Flinders University, Adelaide) ; Jed Odermatt (co-rapporteur ; City University of London) ;Kehinde Folake Olaoye (City University of Hong Kong) ;Chantal Ononaiwu (CARICOM, Georgetown) ;Cedric Ryngaert (University of Utrecht) ; Kirsten Schmalenbach (Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg) ; Emmanuel Sebijjo Ssemmanda (regional delegate) (International University of East Africa, Kampala & African Institute of Regional Integration, Kampala) ; Regis Simo (Mandela Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg) ; Guy Fiti Sinclair (regional delegate) (Victoria University of Wellington) ; René Urueña (regional delegate) (University de los Andes, Bogotá).
This research workshop, not open to the public, will be held at the Fondation Hugot of the Collège de France, on December 8 and 9 2022.
