Samantha Besson - External lectures

Statutory lectures in France and abroad

2024-2025

France

Strasbourg University

September 26 2024, a lecture (1 h), on : Equity in international law.

Netherlands

University of Leiden

On December 4 2024, a lecture (1 h), on : In What Sense are International Organizations "Public"?

TMC Asser Institute, The Hague

On December 6 2024, a lecture (2 h), on : Equity as a General Principle in EU External Relations Law.

2023-2024

Sweden

Uppsala University

December 12, 15 and 19 2023, three lectures (3 h) on :

  • What can International Law do against Privatization? ;
  • Democratic Representation in, through and by International Organizations ;
  • The Human Right to Participate in Science and the Legal and Institutional Structure of Science.

*Under agreement with Collège de France.

United States

Columbia University Law School, New York

April 17 2024, a lecture at : "The Human Right to Participate in Science and the Institutional Guarantee of Science", Law & Philosophy Seminar.

2022-2023

United Kingdom

King's College, London
Center for Transnational Legal Studies

On 20 April 2023, a conference on : Democratic Representation by and in International Organizations.

Switzerland

University of Lausanne*

On May 9 and 16 2023, two conferences on :

  • International democratic representation ( general conference) ;
  • The public/private distinction in international law (specialized lecture followed by a seminar).

*Under an agreement signed with the Collège de France

Japan

University of Tokyo
Tokyo College

On May 25 2023, a conference on : International democratic representation.

*Within the framework of an agreement signed with Collège de France

2021-2022

India

Originally scheduled for January 5-15, 2022, the three lectures on : Human Rights as part of the Collège de France's traveling chair have been postponed to January 2023.

Germany

Freie Universität & Humboldt Universität, Berlin/Potsdam Universität

From May 09 to May 16, 2022, two lectures on :

  • Public and Private International Law: Genealogy of an Artificial Opposition and Risks of the New Confluence ;
  • The Public/Private Relation and International Law.

Max Planck Institut für Ausländisches und Internationales Privatrecht, Hamburg

On May 18, 2022, a lecture on : Public and Private International Law: Genealogy of an Artificial Opposition and Risks of the New Confluence.

2020-2021

Norway

Center for Advanced Study (CAS), Oslo

As part of the GOODPOL project (What is a Good Policy? Political Morality, Feasibility and Democracy), two conferences on :

  • May 27, 2021 : Disagreement, Consent and Consensus about International Human Rights Law. A Democratic Argument (GOODPOL Disagreement, Good Policy and Human Rights Workshop) ;
  • June1, 2021 : A Good Government Standard for International Organizations (GOODPOL Closing Conference).

2019-2020

Netherlands

The Hague Academy of International Law

From January 13 to 17, 2020, a special lecture at : Due diligence in international law.