The IILAH Podcast
by Institute of International Law and the Humanities
The IILAH podcast is the online home of lectures and conversations hosted by the Institute for International Law and the Humanities at Melbourne Law School. IILAH supports interdisciplinary scholarship on emerging questions of international law, governance and justice. Many of the significant modes of thought that have framed the way in which international lawyers understand the world have developed in conversation with the humanities. IILAH continues this engagement, through fostering dialogue with scholars working in disciplines such as anthropology, cultural studies, geography, history, linguistics, literature, philosophy, politics, theology and art.
Episodes
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Counterarchives Dialogue: Nuclear Archives: Hidden Histories, Unfinished Justice
In this episode, public health physician Tilman Ruff AO (University of Melbourne), journalist Nic Maclellan, historian Toshihiro Higuchi (Georgetown University), and human rights activist Aigerim Seitenova join Professor Margaret Young (Melbourne Law School) to explore how nuclear harm becomes...
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Counterarchives Dialogue: Writing Against Silence: Literature, Nuclear Harm and the Counter-Archives of International Law
In this episode, writers and activists Ali Cobby Eckermann, Vanessa Griffen, Titaua Peu and Mariko Nagai come together to explore memory, testimony and the long afterlives of nuclear harm across Australia, the Pacific and Japan — and to ask what these experiences mean for international law....
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Shane Chalmers: Customary International Law and the Humanities (Webinar)
This webinar discusses a paper reflecting on a Law and Humanities approach to customary international law, and how it shifts our understanding of “international custom”. On this approach, instead of enquiring into the rules of international law generated by general practices accepted as law, the...
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Panel Discussion: Silicon Valley and the End-times: The Law, Politics and Economy of Apocalypse
Please join Professor Melinda Cooper (Australian National University), Dr Richard Joyce (Melbourne Law School), Dr Adil Hasan Khan (Melbourne Law School) and Professor James Martel (San Francisco State University) as they discuss Silicon Valley billionaires and apocalyptic thinking. This…
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Tanzil Chowdhury: The British Constitution, Capitalism and Constitutional Change
In this episode, Associate Professor Tanzil Chowdhury (Queen Mary University of London) discusses his latest book project, examining the transformation of the British Constitution over the last century. Tanzil’s argument is that we cannot understand significant changes to the British constitution...
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Panel Discussion: Beyond Doctrine: Alternative and Critical Approaches to Law (Book Launch)
The Institute for International Law and the Humanities (IILAH) in collaboration with the Melbourne Doctoral Forum on Legal Theory (MDFLT/Forum) were pleased to host a launch of 'Beyond Doctrine: Alternative and Critical Approaches to Law' at Melbourne Law School. 'Beyond Doctrine' provides an...
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Ellycia Harrould-Kolieb & Karen Scott: The 2025 United Nations Oceans Conference
In this episode, Dr Ellycia Harrould-Kolieb (Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne) Professor Karen N Scott (University of Canterbury) and Professor Margaret Young (Melbourne Law School) shared reflections on their experiences at the 2025 United Nations Oceans Conference (UNOC3). The United...
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Panel Discussion: The ICJ's Climate Advisory Opinion
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered its long-awaited Advisory Opinion on the obligations of States in respect of climate change on 23 July 2025. In this episode, Melbourne Law School experts Dylan Asafo, Rohan Nanthakumar, Professor Jackie Peel and Professor Margaret Young…
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Karin van Marle: Jurisprudence Beyond Law: Five Concepts
In this episode of the IILAH Podcast, Professor Karin van Marle (University of Western Cape) presents on five concepts and explores how they relate to each other and how they could contribute to a jurisprudence beyond law. This seminar was chaired by Professor Ann Genovese. As legal scholars/...
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Daniel McLoughlin: Useless for Fascism (Seminar)
In this episode, Dr Daniel McLoughlin (UNSW) presents on Giorgio Agamben’s Covid Critique and the Homo Sacer Project. This seminar was chaired by Dr Richard Joyce. On the 26th of February 2020, Giorgio Agamben published a short piece on his personal website, entitled ‘Invention of an Epidemic,’...
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Fleur Ramsay & Stewart Motha: Climate Justice and Insurgent Lawyering in the ICJ and Beyond
In this episode, Alofipo So’oalo Fleur Ramsay and Professor Stewart Motha present on climate justice and insurgent lawyering in the International Court of Justice and beyond. This seminar was chaired by Professor Margaret Young. Climate destruction and dispossession is having its greatest impact…
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Book Launch: The Right to Legal Personhood of Marginalised Groups
The Institute for International Law and the Humanities was pleased to celebrate the publication of Associate Professor Anna Arstein-Kerslake's book, 'The Right to Legal Personhood of Marginalised Groups'. Anna was joined in conversation with Dr Erin O'Donnell and Associate Professor Olivia Barr....
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Queer Connections: A Triple Book Launch
This episode of the IILAH podcast captures the discussion at 'Queer Connections: A Triple Book Launch', where speakers celebrated and drew out the connections between three recent edited volumes focused on queer approaches to law: - Nuno Ferreira, Maria Federica Moscati & Senthorun Raj (eds)…
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Radha Ivory: The Concept of International Law Reform (Seminar)
The Concept of International Law Reform and the Case of Negotiated Settlements in Foreign Bribery Matters In this episode of the IILAH Podcast, Dr Radha Ivory presented on the topic of international law reform and the case of negotiated settlements in foreign bribery matters. This seminar was...
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Harro van Asselt: Phasing Out Fossil Fuels under International Law: Why and How? (Seminar)
In the episode of the IILAH Podcast, Professor Harro van Asselt (University of Cambridge) presents on the topic of phasing out fossil fuels under international law. This seminar was chaired by Professor Margaret Young and co-hosted with the Melbourne Centre for Law and the Environment. At the UN...
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Daniel Quiroga-Villamarin: Architects of the Better World (Seminar)
In this episode of the IILAH Podcast, Daniel Quiroga-Villamarin, presents on his book project, 'Architects on the Better World'. This seminar was chaired by Dr Laura Petersen. Even before the Unitedstatesean President Truman urged the attendants of the 1945 United Nations Conference on...
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Kathleen Auld: The WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies (Seminar)
In this episode, Dr Kathleen Auld presents on the WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies. The adoption of the WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies (AFS) in 2022 was hailed by many as a triple win for environment, development, and trade. The idea of a ‘triple win’ is not unique to the WTO and…
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Examining the ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on the Legality of Israel’s Occupation of Palestinian Territory
On Wednesday 31 July 2024, the Institute for International Law and the Humanities (IILAH) at Melbourne Law School hosted a panel discussion examining the International Court of Justice’s Advisory Opinion on the Legality of Israel’s Occupation of Palestinian Territory. The panellists: Dr Adil…
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Daniel Joyce: Meta's Oversight Board: A Critique (Seminar)
On Wednesday 17 July 2024, the Institute for International Law and the Humanities (IILAH) at Melbourne Law School, hosted a seminar chaired by IILAH Director, Professor Margaret Young, and presented by Associate Professor Daniel Joyce (UNSW Sydney). This episode explores the ways in which private...
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Alice Palmer and Gerry Simpson: Celebrating Natural Perception (Book Launch)
This podcast captures the conversation between Dr Alice Palmer and Professor Gerry Simpson at the launch of Alice's new book 'Natural Perception: Environmental Images and Aesthetics in International Law'. Professor Margaret Young introduces the conversation and provides a brief summary of the...
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Julian A Hettihewa: The Principle of Distinction in International Humanitarian Law (Seminar)
In this episode, Julian A. Hettihewa presents on ‘The Principle of Distinction in International Humanitarian Law’. According to the principle of distinction, the parties to a conflict shall at all times distinguish between civilians and combatants. Described as one of the cardinal principles of...
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The Role of International Law in the Rise of Populism (Seminar)
In this podcast on ‘The Role of International Law in the Rise of Populism’, Professor Margaret Young (IILAH Director, Melbourne Law School) and Chair Dr Alice Palmer (IILAH Program Director, Melbourne Law School) are joined by Professor Peter Danchin, University of Maryland Carey School of Law…
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Tim Peters: Applying for grants for law and humanities research (Skills Circle)
In this episode, Dr Ben Golder (UNSW Law School), Dr Kathleen Birrell (La Trobe Law and Humanities Network) and Professor Sundhya Pahuja (Melbourne Law School) are joined by Associate Professor Tim Peters (UniSC School of Law and Society) to discuss applying for grants for law and humanities...
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Manav Kapur: Archival research in the South (Skills Circle)
In this episode, Dr Ben Golder (UNSW Law School), Dr Kathleen Birrell (La Trobe Law and Humanities Network) and Dr Adil Hasan Khan (Melbourne Law School) are joined by Manav Kapur (Princeton University) to discuss Archival research in the South. Manav is based in the Department of History at...
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Connal Parsley: Working with other fields and across disciplines (Skills Circle)
In this episode, Dr Ben Golder (UNSW Law School), Dr Kathleen Birrell (La Trobe Law and Humanities Network) and Professor Sundhya Pahuja (Melbourne Law School) are joined by Associate Professor Connal Parsley (Kent Law School) to discuss working with other fields and across disciplines. Connal is...
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James Parker: Non-traditional Research Outputs (Skills Circle)
In this episode, Dr Ben Golder (UNSW Law School), Dr Kathleen Birrell (La Trobe Law and Humanities Network), Professor Sundhya Pahuja (Melbourne Law School) and André Dao (Melbourne Law School) are joined by Associate Professor James Parker (Melbourne Law School) to discuss Non-traditional…
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Danish Sheikh: The Art of the Conference Presentation (Skills Circle)
In this episode, Dr Ben Golder (UNSW Law School) and Dr Kathleen Birrell (La Trobe Law and Humanities Network) are joined by Danish Sheikh (Melbourne Law School) to discuss the art of the conference presentation. Danish Sheikh is a playwright, activist lawyer and legal researcher. He is currently...
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Rebecca Croser: Editing your Own Work (Skills Circle)
In this episode, Dr Ben Golder (UNSW Law School), Dr Kathleen Birrell (La Trobe Law and Humanities Network) and Professor Sundhya Pahuja (Melbourne Law School) are joined by Rebecca Croser (Melbourne Law School) to discuss how to successfully edit your own work. Rebecca is a PhD candidate in...
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Margaret Davies: Balancing Breadth and Depth (Skills Circle)
In this episode, Dr Ben Golder (UNSW Law School) and Dr Kathleen Birrell (La Trobe Law and Humanities Network) are joined by Professor Margaret Davies (Flinders University) to discuss how to balance breadth and depth. Margaret Davies is Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor and Research...
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Ntina Tzouvala: Peer Review (Skills Circle)
In this episode, Dr Ben Golder (UNSW Law School), Dr Kathleen Birrell (La Trobe Law and Humanities Network) and Professor Sundhya Pahuja (Melbourne Law School) are joined by Ntina Tzouvala (ANU College of Law) to discuss peer review. Ntina Tzouvala is an associate professor at the ANU College of...
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Shane Chalmers: Editing a Collection (Skills Circle)
In this episode, Dr Ben Golder (UNSW Law School), Dr Kathleen Birrell (La Trobe Law and Humanities Network) and Professor Sundhya Pahuja (Melbourne Law School) are joined by Dr Shane Chalmers (Adelaide Law School, The University of Adelaide) to discuss how to successfully edit a collection.…
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International Status in the Shadow of Empire by Cait Storr (Book Launch)
In this episode join Sundhya Pahuja and Shaun McVeigh in conversation with Cait Storr to launch her book titled ‘International Status in the Shadow of Empire: Nauru and the Histories of International Law’. Book Description: Nauru is often figured as an anomaly in the international order. This…
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Violent Modernities with Oishik Sircar and Dianne Otto (Festival of Conversations)
In this episode Dianne Otto was joined by Oishik Sircar to discuss his recent publication. 'Violent Modernities: Cultural Lives of Law in the New India' (OUP 2021)uses a critical legal perspective to show that law and violence in the postcolony share a deep intimacy, where one symbiotically feeds...
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The Past, Present, and Future of International Law and the Humanities(Festival of Conversations)
In this Festival of Conversations episode Professor Hilary Charlesworth was joined in conversation with Professor Anne Orford to discuss the founding of IILAH in 2005 and the shifting relations between international law and the humanities.
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Three Little Words: Art and Law (Festival Of Conversations)
Panelists engaged in a live online conversation about art-based methods in legal scholarship, teaching and practice, inviting the audience to participate in an interactive discussion about 'art', 'law' and the 'and' between. With Alice Palmer , Ruth Buchanan, Sara Ramshaw and Sean Mulcahy. At…
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Shaun McVeigh and Raimond Gaita: International Law and Ethical Tragedy(Festival of Conversations)
McVeigh and Gaita discuss the relations between morality, law and politics. Gaita has argued in, amongst other places, his contributions to 'Who’s Afraid of International Law', (which he edited with Gerry Simpson) that morality, law and politics are distinctive forms of the ethical and that, as...
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Sovereignty in the Anthropocene with Daniel Matthews (Festival of Conversations)
In this episode Dr Kathleen Birrell and Tim Lindgren were joined by Dr Daniel Matthews (University of Warwick) to discuss his new book Earthbound: The Aesthetics of Sovereignty . The conversation traversed the aesthetic force of sovereignty as a framing device of modern legal and political forms...
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International Law and the Politics Of Computation (Festival of Conversations)
In this episode join James Parker, Jake Goldenfein, Fleur Johns, Andrea Leiter and Andre Dao in conversation on the questions of international law and technopolitics in the humanities.
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Critique In The Tropics (Festival of Conversations)
Critique in the Tropics: The Crisis of Indian Legal Education and Scholarship, convened by Adil Hasan Khan. This panel featured contributions from academics trained in the law in India, and who are currently teaching at Indian universities, and reflected on the inheritances, futures and failures…
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Visual Global Politics with Roland Bleiker (Festival of Conversations)
Join Hilary Charlesworth (MLS) in conversation with Roland Bleiker (Director of a cross disciplinary project on Visual Politics at UQ) to discuss the role of images and emotions in global politics, and in particular the politics and ethics of visualising humanitarian crises which is the subject…
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Skills Circle (Festival of Conversations)
In this event, we talked about doing fieldwork, and were joined by special guests, Dr Debolina Dutta and Dr Amanda Gilbertson. The session was convened jointly with Dr Ben Golder and the UNSW Critique Network.
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Romancing The Tomes with Margaret Thornton (Festival of Conversations)
Join Johanna Commins, Ann Genovese for this conversation with Professor Margaret Thornton which reflects on the 2000 conference, Romancing the Tomes, which brought together feminist scholars working across law and the humanities under the auspices of the ANU Humanities Research Centre to address...
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Oishik Sircar, Sara Kendall, and Christopher Gevers: Dealing with...the past?(Seminar)
The Amsterdam Center for International Law and IILAH present Unpacking Transitional Justice: International Law, Memory, and Power, convened by Dr Eliana Cusato (ACIL) and Valeria Vázquez Guevara (MLS). The aim of the Series is to bring together scholars from around the world employing...
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Christine Schwöbel-Patel and Hannah Franzki: The Political Economy of International Law(Seminar)
The Amsterdam Center for International Law and IILAH present Unpacking Transitional Justice: International Law, Memory, and Power, convened by Dr Eliana Cusato (ACIL) and Valeria Vázquez Guevara (MLS). The aim of the Series is to bring together scholars from around the world employing...
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Lucas Lixinski and Maria Elander: Community: culture, identities, and memories (Seminar)
The Amsterdam Center for International Law and IILAH present Unpacking Transitional Justice: International Law, Memory, and Power, convened by Dr Eliana Cusato (ACIL) and Valeria Vázquez Guevara (MLS). The aim of the Series is to bring together scholars from around the world employing...
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Valeria Vazquez Guevara and Eliana Cusato: Truth: facts and post-conflict state-building (Seminar)
The Amsterdam Center for International Law and IILAH present Unpacking Transitional Justice: International Law, Memory, and Power, convened by Dr Eliana Cusato (ACIL) and Valeria Vázquez Guevara (MLS). The aim of the Series is to bring together scholars from around the world employing...
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Stewart Motha: Academic Podcasting (Skills Circle)
This instalment of the IILAH/Critique Network Skills Circle featured Stewart Motha (Birkbeck, University of London) on his experience at running a podcast. Stewart’s research is on sovereignty, violence, human and post-human archives. He has recently published articles on international law and…
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Illan Wall: Academic Blogging (Skills Circle)
This instalment of the IILAH/CN Skills Circle features Illan Wall (University of Warwick) who discusses his experience with academic Blogging. Illan works on questions of protest, public order and critical legal theory. He has published on critical legal theory, affective dynamics of policing,...
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Balakrishnan Rajagopal: the Right to Adequate Housing (Interview)
Across the world today, more than one billion people live in substandard housing and informal settlements. Every year, several million people lose their homes as a consequence of development projects, conflicts, natural disasters or the climate crisis. Many of them are subjected to forced...
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Rahul Rao: Out Of Time: The Queer Politics Of Postcoloniality (Book Discussion)
Join Dr. Ntina Tzouvala (ANU) and Danish Sheikh (MLS) in conversation with Dr. Rahul Rao (SOAS), the author of 'Out of Time: The Queer Politics of Postcoloniality'. In this book, Rahul explores the encounters and entanglements across geopolitical divides that produce and contest contemporary...
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The IILAH podcast is the online home of lectures and conversations hosted by the Institute for International Law and the Humanities at Melbourne Law School. IILAH supports interdisciplinary scholarship on emerging questions of international law, governance and justice. Many of the significant modes of thought that have framed the way in which international lawyers understand the world have developed in conversation with the humanities. IILAH continues this engagement, through fostering dialogue with scholars working in disciplines such as anthropology, cultural studies, geography, history, linguistics, literature, philosophy, politics, theology and art.
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