Event Highlights: International Human Rights Litigation in Europe and Its Limits
This virtual lecture by Ioannis Kalpouzos, Visiting Assistant Professor at Boston University School of Law, took place on Thursday, March 25, 2021. Prof. Kalpouzos described his work setting up the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN), a collaboration between legal academics, practitioners, and investigative journalists, taking on the audacious task of using international law to challenge international injustice. Kalpouzos’s approach to critical international law starts from the understanding that the international legal system, both historically and at present, benefits the most powerful actors. He went on to talk about GLAN’s efforts to highlight the structural injustice of the international legal system while achieving results within it in such arenas as war and occupation, environmental justice, supply chains and accountability, as well as migration and border violence.
Zinaida Miller, Assistant Professor, International Law & Human Rights, School of Diplomacy & International Relations, Seton Hall University, and Dimitrios Skiadas, Visiting Researcher at the Center for the Study of Europe and Jean Monnet Chair and Professor of EU Governance at the University of Macedonia, provided comments. The event was moderated by CSE Director Daniela Caruso.