Please join the Institute for International Law and Justice for this event, bringing together six members of the UN International Law Commission and other leading international lawyers to explore the possibilities and limitations of principles in international law for addressing contemporary planetary challenges. Planetary considerations – changes in oceans, climate and biosphere, as well as human technological programs ranging from nuclear weapons and geoengineering to space data centers – link very local occurrences to very large phenomena. International law is one of the resources humanity has for developing collective responses, but it is severely challenged in adapting to planetary scales, temporalities, and circumstances.
Date: Monday, October 26, 2026
Time: 3:00-5:00 pm, followed by a reception until 5:30 pm
Venue: Snow Dining Room, Vanderbilt Hall, NYU School of Law, 40 Washington Square South, New York
Speakers
- Professor Keun-Gwan Lee
- Dr Penelope Ridings
- Professor Nilüfer Oral
- Professor Olufemi Elias
- Professor August Reinisch
- Professor Mārtiņš Paparinskis
- Professor Benedict Kingsbury – NYU School of Law
- Professor Laura Mai – University of Bern