The Epistemology of the Law of Targeting: Open Source Evidence and Litigation in Europe and Beyond (02/25/22)
Join us via Zoom on Friday, February 25 at 11 AM, for a virtual lecture by Ioannis Kalpouzos, Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and a Visiting Researcher at BU’s Center for the Study of Europe, entitled “The Epistemology of the Law of Targeting: Open Source Evidence and Litigation in Europe and Beyond.” (The law of targeting contains rules concerning which persons, places, and objects can be attacked in the course of an armed conflict in order to attain the underlying strategic, operational, or tactical objectives pursued by the belligerents.) Tom Dannenbaum, Assistant Professor of International Law at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and Mohammad Al Abdallah, Executive Director of the Syria Justice and Accountability Center, will serve as discussants.
Ioannis Kalpouzos specializes in public international law, international criminal law, the law of war and human rights law. Co-founder of the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN), he has worked on the themes of war & occupation, environmental justice, supply chains & accountability, as well as migration & border violence. He has worked on projects on the exploitation of natural resources in Western Sahara; a collaboration with Bellingcat on air-strike analysis and evidence in Yemen; climate change and international law; and international criminal law and the treatment of asylum seekers in Australia, co-authoring a submission to the International Criminal Court.
Presently, Dr. Kalpouzos is working on evidence in the law of targeting and on the history of the legal concept of war involving non-state armed groups. His research has also focused on new weapons technologies, on which he has been a recipient of a Harvard Law School Institute of Global Law and Policy collaborative grant, as well as the history and theory of international criminal law, especially in relation to ‘banal’ or ‘structural’ criminality.
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When: Feb 25, 2022 11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Topic: The Epistemology of the Law of Targeting: Open Source Evidence and Litigation in Europe and Beyond
https://bostonu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_D5dVlyl6SYG-w0F1O0mMVw
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