Inside the International Court of Justice

This informal talk will explain how the International Court of Justice (ICJ) works, focussing on its deliberative methods.

This presentation is jointly hosted by the Centre for International Governance and Justice, School of Regulation and Governance (RegNet), ANU and the Centre for International and Public Law, College of Law, ANU.

About the speaker

Hilary Charlesworth is Harrison Moore Professor and Melbourne Laureate Professor at Melbourne Law School. She is also Honorary Professor at RegNet. She held an ARC Federation Fellowship from 2005-2010 and an ARC Laureate Fellowship from 2010-2015.

Her research includes the structure of the international legal system, peacebuilding, human rights law and international humanitarian law, international legal theory, particularly feminist approaches to international law and the art of international law.

Hilary was elected to the Institut de Droit International in 2011 and she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium in 2016. She has served as a Judge of the International Court of Justice since late 2021.

COVID protocols

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This seminar presentation will be in-person only.

No registration is required for this event as ANU and ACT Health no longer require registration for the purposes of contact tracing.

If you require accessibility accommodations or a visitor Personal Emergency Evacuation Plan please email regnet.communications@anu.edu.au.

Image credit: View of the ICJ courtroom on 1 December 2022, at the reading of the Judgement of the Court in the Dispute over the Status and Use of the Waters of the Silala (Chile v. Bolivia), from the ICJ website (free to use for educational institutions per ICJ Media Services Item C conditions).