The Use of Force Against ISIS: Is International Law Changing?

The Launch of the new Centre for International Law of the Institute of International Relations Prague combined with the public lecture by Prof. Dr. Anne Peters, LL.M., Director of the  Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. The event took place on 31st March from 3 PM at the Institute of International Relations, Nerudova 3. You can recall the most interesting moments now, as the videos from both parts are ready for you.

31. 3. 2016 (0:00)

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15:00 – 16:15 The Use of Force Against ISIS: Is International Law Changing?

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  • Prof. Dr. Anne Peters, LL.M., Director, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg


16:15 – 16:30 Launch of the New Centre for International Law of the IIR

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  • Petr Kratochvíl, Director of the Institute of International Relations Prague
  • Veronika Bílková, Co-ordinator of the Centre for International Law of the Institute of International Relations Prague
  • Tamás Lattmann, Research Fellow and member of the Centre for International Law of the Institute of International Relations Prague


16:30 – 17:00 Glass of Wine


Prof. Dr. Anne Peters, LL.M. (Harvard) is director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg and professor of International Law at the Universities of Basel and Heidelberg and Freie Universität Berlin. She studied Law, Modern Greek and Spanish in Wurzburg, Freiburg, Lausanne and Cambridge, USA before obtaining a Ph.D. in Freiburg (1994) and qualifying as a professor at the University of Kiel (2000). Anne Peters was president of the European Society of International Law (2010-2012) and member (substitute) of the European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission) in respect of Germany (2011-2015). She is currently member of the Council of International Law of the German Federal Foreign Office (since 2013). Her current research interests relate to public international law, including its history, global animal law, global governance and global constitutionalism, and the status of humans in international law.

You can download the inviation leaflet with more information about the Centre here.