Natural Resources, the Sustainable Development Goals and International Law: Leverhulme Lecture and Distinguished Experts Dialogue, Wednesday 17 March 2021, University of Cambridge and International Law Association

You are invited to register now for a Leverhulme Lecture and Distinguished Experts Dialogue on 17 March 2021 18:00 The Hague, 17:00 Cambridge, 13:00 Montreal, among leading international jurists and academics, and renowned natural resources management and public policy experts, to share insights and identify new directions for natural resources management and the global Sustainable Development Goals, guided by international law and policy.

Please register while spaces are still available at: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/natural-resources-the-sustainable-development-goals-and-international-law-tickets-142179024289

After a welcome from Professor Stephen J Toope, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, this special 'evening/lunch’ online event is chaired by the Rt. Hon Professor Nico Schrijver, Professor Emeritus of Public International Law of the University of Leiden Law School, State Councillor in the Netherlands Council of State, member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration and former President of the International Law Association. The Rt Hon Lord Jonathan Mance, Baron Mance, former Deputy President of the United Kingdom Supreme Court and Chair of the International Law Association worldwide, has been invited to give opening remarks.

The event will feature a Distinguished Experts Dialogue between respected international judges, expert professors of international law, heads of international treaty secretariats and international institutes in the field of law, public policy and sustainable development. The dialogue will be preceded by a public online Leverhulme Lecture, opened by Professor Diane Coyle Co-Director of the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, University of Cambridge, which is being provided by Professor Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor, University of Cambridge, Senior Director, Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL), Full Professor of Law, School of Environment, Entrepreneurship & Development, University of Waterloo, and Rapporteur of the ILA Committee on the Role of Sustainable Resources Management for Development which over eight years, drafted the newly approved ILA Guidelines.

For more information and to register now for free, while space remains available, see: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/natural-resources-the-sustainable-development-goals-and-international-law-tickets-142179024289.

For the Guidelines see ILA Kyoto Conference (2020) Resolution 4/2020 containing the 2020 ILA Guidelines on the Role of International Law in Sustainable Natural Resource Management for Development. For more information, see the ILA Guidelines on the Role of International Law in Sustainable Natural Resource Management  for Development.  

We invite you to join the discussion of the #LeverhulmeLecture on Twitter @intsustainlaw and @BennettInst.

* Due to international time changes on 14 March, the event will take place at 1-3pm in Montreal (in Eastern Time), not 12-2pm. *