Contemporary Challenges in International Humanitarian Law: Is there Hope for the International Order

Event Details

Please join the SLU LAW Center for International and Comparative Law and the Saint Louis University Law Journal on Friday, April 11, 2025, from 8:00 a.m. to 2 p.m. for the CICL and SLU LAW Journal Symposium, "Contemporary Challenges in International Humanitarian Law: Is there hope for the International Order?"

Out of the 122 ongoing armed conflicts in the world, certainly two conflicts (Russian intervention in Ukraine and the War in Gaza) have raised important and critical concerns about how war is being conducted. The way the different parties to the conflicts have interpreted and applied the Laws of War (International Humanitarian Law) is a matter of intense debate. When and how, who and what can be targeted, the role of new technologies of warfare, and the mechanisms of accountability are the issues that will gather 17 world renown academics at Saint Louis University School of Law (SLU LAW) this April. The SLU LAW Center for International and Comparative Law and Saint Louis University Law Journal are proud and grateful to contribute to the international discussion on the current challenges of International Humanitarian Law. 

Keynote Speaker

Mary Ellen O’Connell, Robert and Marion Short Professor of Law, Professor of International Peace Studies—Kroc Institute, University of Notre Dame

Additional speakers include:

• Christopher J. Borgen, Professor of Law, Co-Director of the Center for International and Comparative Law, St. John’s School of Law
• Russell Buchan, Professor of International Law, University of Reading School of Law
• Geoffrey Corn, George R. Killam Jr. Chair of Criminal Law, Director of the Center for Military Law and Policy, Texas Tech School of Law
• Nathan Derejko, Assistant Professor, Mauro Chair in Human Rights and Social Justice, University of Manitoba Law School
• Major General Charles J. Dunlap, Jr. USAF (Ret.), Professor of the Practice of Law, Executive Director of the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security
• Lindsay Freeman, Director of the Technology, Law and Policy Human Rights Center, Berkeley Law School
• Adi Gal, J.S.D. candidate, Yale Law School
• Chris Jenks, Affiliate Research Professor of Law, SMU Dedman School of Law
• Eric Talbot Jensen, Robert Barker Professor of Law, Brigham Young University School of Law
• Asaf Lubin, Associate Professor of Law, Maurer School of Law, University of Indiana
• Jessica Peake, Director of the International and Comparative Law Program, Assistant Director of the Promise Institute for Human Rights, UCLA Law School
• Marco Roscini, Professor of International Law, University of Westminster School of Law
• Leila Sadat, James Carr Professor of International Criminal Law, Special Adviser on Crimes Against Humanity to the ICC Prosecutor, Washington University School of Law 
• Afonso Seixas-Nunes, S.J., Assistant Professor, Saint Louis University School of Law
• Eytan Tepper, Director of the Space Governance Lab, Program Director of the Space-Cyber Security Certificate Program, Indiana University 
• Jennifer Trahan, Clinical Professor, New York University Center for Global Affairs
• Michael Swartwout, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Saint Louis University School of Science and Engineering

Four MO CLE credits available.