Inaugural Charles D. Gonthier Memorial Lecture with Justice James Crawford

His Excellency Judge James Crawford AC

James Crawford AC, FBA was elected a Judge of the International Court of Justice in The Hague in November 2014 and took up this position in February 2015 for a 9-year term. Previously he was Whewell Professor of International Law at the University of Cambridge; he has also held chairs at Adelaide, Sydney and LaTrobe Universities in Australia and as Chang Jiang Distinguished Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong University, PRC. He was responsible for the ILC’s work on the International Criminal Court (1994) and for the second reading of the ILC Articles on State Responsibility (2001).

During his practicing career, he appeared as counsel in some 100 cases before the International Court of Justice and other international tribunals. He has also been an active arbitrator both in inter-state and investment treaty disputes. His publications include The Creation of States in International Law (2nd ed., 2006); Brownlie’s Principles of Public International Law (8th ed., 2012); State Responsibility: The General Part (2013), and Chance, Order, Change: The Course of International Law (2014).

About the Justice Charles D. Gonthier Lecture Series

As those who had the privilege to know him are aware, judicial integrity, responsibility and fraternity were important values to the Honourable Judge Charles D. Gonthier (1928-2009), and he supported research, education and practical activities to promote sustainable development, in its economic, environmental and social dimensions. The legacy of values he embraced is kept alive through the Gonthier Endowment Fund established in his name, to support a new series of biennial Lectures.

You are invited to join a select group of justices, deans, leaders, jurists and others from across Canada and the world, eager to broaden their minds on emerging law, justice and sustainability concerns, at the inaugural Charles D Gonthier Memorial Lecture.

The Gonthier Lecture will be preceded by a reception at 17:00 at McGill's Law Faculty, and followed by a Banquet Dinner at 19:30 also at the McGill Faculty Club.

For registration and to purchase banquet dinner tickets, please see the Conference flyer [.pdf] or see the CIAJ calendar entry.

Open to students. For further information, write to sblakely [at] cisdl [dot] org or christine [dot] robertson [at] ciaj-icaj [dot] ca.

Organized by the CISDL, McGill University, Université de Montréal, and the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice.