SIM Peter Baehr lecture 2023: Human Rights and the International Court of Justice

The Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) of Utrecht University kindly invites you to attend the SIM Peter Baehr lecture 2023 on the occasion of our 42nd anniversary. Hilary Charlesworth, both a renowned scholar of international law and human rights as well as now serving as a judge at the International Court of Justice in the Hague, will deliver this year's lecture, entitled “Human Rights and the International Court of Justice”. In the lecture, she will consider the human rights jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice, engaging with the potential and the limits of the Court’s role in this field.

Hilary Charlesworth was elected as a Judge of the International Court of Justice on 5 November 2021. Prior to her election, Hilary was Harrison Moore Professor of Law and a Melbourne Laureate Professor at Melbourne Law School. She was also a Distinguished Professor at the Australian National University. Hilary’s research has focused on various aspects of international human rights law, including the application of human rights principles in national, regional and international contexts. She has been a visiting professor at various institutions including Harvard Law School, New York University Global Law School, UCLA, Paris I and the London School of Economics. She has been a member of the Executive Council of the Asian Society of International Law and the American Society of International Law as well as President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law. Hilary is a member of the Institut de Droit International and the Curatorium of the Hague Academy of International Law. She served as Judge ad hoc in the International Court of Justice in the Whaling in the Antarctic case (Australia v Japan) (2011-2014) and in the Arbitral Award of 3 October 1899 case (Guyana v Venezuela) (2019-2021).

Do you wish to attend?

Please send an e-mail to:  SecretariaatIERSBR@uu.nl, with reference to ‘SIM Peter Baehr Lecture 2023’