Keynotes, speeches

“Roaming Rights and Global Mobility – Honorary Doctoral Lecture”

Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen (24/11/2022).

“Cosmopolitan Solidarity v. Actually Lived Solidarity”

European Society of International Law Forum, University of Catania, online (Italy) (15/04/2021).

“Rethinking the International Criminal Court”

Australian International Criminal Law Workshop 2019, International Criminal Justice Futures, Griffith University (28-29/10/2019).

“The Changing Face of the Protection of Aliens in International Law”

Peking University, Wang Tieya international law lecture (24/05/2019).

“Duties to One’s Own Population and Combatants in War: is there an “Internal” Humanitarian Law?”

Institute for Advanced Studies, The University of Western Australia (23/05/2018).

“The Challenges of Reparations at the ICC”

Transformative Reparations for Sexual Violence Crimes in Conflict Settings: Building New Conceptual Frameworks, University of New South Wales (12/05/2015).

“International Criminal Justice and the Idea of a Global Neo-Liberal Penality”

Institute for Global Law and Policy/Qatar Foundation, Doha (8/01/15).

“What is the Problem with International Criminal Justice?”

Critical Approaches to International Criminal Law Conference, Faculty of Law, Liverpool University (7/12/12).

“Dignity, Dignitas, Dignified”

Panel on Human Dignity, Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights (19/12/2011).

“A few things I wish I’d known when I started teaching”

McGill University, Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies (GPS), and Teaching & Learning Services (TLS), Learning to Teach: A Professional Development Workshop for Graduate Students, 7^th March 2010.

« La reconnaissance universelle des droits des personnes handicapées: pourquoi est-ce important, que cela peut-il changer? »

Association québécoise inter-universitaire des conseillers aux étudiants ayant des besoins spéciaux, Colloque biannuel, McGill University (20-22/05/2009).

“What Makes Spectacular Legal Research?”

Faculty of Law, McGill University, McGill Graduate Law Students Conference (03/04/2009).

« Intentions et motivations en droit international : ‘responsable mais pas (si) coupable’ ? »

Centre de recherches en éthique de l’Université de Montréal (CREUM), Intentions and Motivations in International Relations (23/05/2008).

“Competing Narratives of International Law: Internationalist Sensitivity and the ‘forces vives’ of Resistance”

The Toronto Group for the Study of International, Transnational, and Comparative Law, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, First Annual Graduate Student Conference, Mapping Emergent Terrains, Contesting Rigidified Tradition (11-13/01/2008).

“International Criminal Justice v. Transitional Justice? Some Thoughts on Rome + 10”

Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies (The Hague), Marie Curie Top Summer School (01/07/2008).

Guest talks, lectures and seminars

“Transnational Transitional Justice”, American University of Paris (23/06/2026).
“Towards a Human Right to Immigrate?”

North South University (Dhaka), Distinguished Webinar Series (16/04/2026).

“Thinking about Diasporas in Transnational Law: the (Strange) Case of Taxation of Remittances”

Fundação Getulio Vargas seminar (8/04/2026).

“ ‘Tous pour un et un pour tous?’ Third State Dispute Settlement in the Age of Erga Omnes Obligations and its Limits”

Fundação Getulio Vargas, Centro de Excelência Jean Monnet, “Rio School on Global Governance, Democracy and Human Rights” (8/04/2026)

“Is There Still an International Law?”

Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (7/04/2026)

“Whither International law in an Age of Populism and Authoritarianism?”

Warwick University Law School (6/03/2026)

“Transnational Human Rights Law – Rights in the Interstice?”

Discussion Group, Bonavero Human Rights Institute, Oxford University (5/03/2026)

“Everything, Everywhere, All at Once: What Should International Law Do to Tackle Ubiquitous Interference in Sovereign Affairs?”

King’s College London (4/03/2026)

“Le droit des diasporas”

Ecole Normale Supérieure (02/12/2025)

"How Should States Resist Interference in their Sovereign Affairs?"

FGV Rio Law's Centre for Global Law (CPDG) and the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence (CEJM), Rio School on Global Governance, Democracy and Human Rights (forthcoming).

"The Argentine Transition as Seen Through Third States: Nationality Based Jurisdiction, Dual Citizens, and the Specific Value of Transnationalism"

Faculty of Law, Torcuato di Tella University (08/05/2025).

“Fairness in international criminal justice”

Georgetown University in Qatar (online) (17/04/2025).

“States’ Obligations Towards their Nationals Abroad under International Law”

Columbia Faculty Workshop (13/02/2025).

“States’ Obligations Towards their Nationals Abroad under International Law”

Georgetown Law School, International Law Colloquium (10/02/2025).

“States’ Obligations Towards their Nationals Abroad under International Law”

Cardozo/Columbia workshop (6/02/2025).

“States’ Obligations Towards their Nationals Abroad under International Law”

Fordham Law School, New York area International Law Workshop (30/01/2025).

“States’ Obligations Towards their Nationals Abroad under International Law”

Copenhagen University Faculty of Law (13/12/2024).

“States’ Obligations Towards their Nationals Abroad under International Law”

Lund University Faculty of Law (13/12/2024).

“What Protection Obligations Do States Owe their Nationals Abroad?, Deakin University Faculty of Law (Australia), (7/05/2024).
“The New Interference in Sovereign Affairs and International Law”

Stockholm Centre for International Law and Justice, Stockholm universitet (11/12/2023).

“The Return of Interference in Sovereign Affairs and International Law”

The University of Hong Kong (9/11/2023).

“The Changing Nature of the Protection of States’ Nationals Abroad: History, Geopolitics, and Human Rights”

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (9/11/2023).

“Diasporas and International Law”

Columbia University Law School (23/10/2023).

“Duties to one’s own population and combatants in war: is there an ‘internal’ jus in bello?

Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights (11/05/2023).

“Amnesty International and Nelson Mandela: Prisoners of Conscience, Armed Resistance and the Dialectics of Ends and Means”

SOAS, University of London (2/05/2023).

(with Wanshu Cong) “Early efforts by the Qing Dynasty to Use International Law for the Protection of the Chinese Diaspora”

Centre for Chinese and Comparative Law, City University of Hong Kong, in partnership with Wuhan University School of Law and Fudan University School of Law (9/12/2022).

“Are there inherently sovereign functions in international law?”

The Istanbul Centre for International Law (online) (8/12/2023).

“Conceptualizing Diasporas in Transnational Law”

North South University (online) (21/08/2022).

« Le temps est-il venu pour décoloniser le concept de génocide? »

Séminaire annuel, Le génocide en question, Institut Louis Joinet (07/04/2022).

“Se battre ou se rendre? Une perspective de droits humains sur la légitime défense »

CEDIN, Université Paris X Nanterre (18/04/2022).

“The Ethics of Surrendering or Fighting On: How Far Should One Be Willing to Self-Defend?”

University of British Columbia (29/04/2022).

“Transitional Justice for the ‘War on Terror’?”

American University in Cairo (online) (5/5/2021).

“Transitional Justice for the War on Terror?”

Tel Aviv International Law Workshop, Tel Aviv Law School (online) (12/04/2021).

“The Independence of Justice in the Cauldron of International Relations”

Temple International Law Colloquium, Temple Law School (online) (03/03/2021).

“'Sea Shepherd, Women on Waves and SOS Méditerranée: Reinventing International Law From the Mare Liberum?”

La Trobe University (22/05/2019).

“Diasporas in an Age of Globalization: What Duties Does a State Owe its Nationals Abroad?”

Cornell Law School's Berger International Speaker Series, Cornell University (18/04/2019).

“Are There Inherently Governmental Functions in International Law?”

Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva) (28/02/2018).

“Is the International Criminal Court Too Focused on Non-State Actors?”

Salzburg Summer School in International Criminal Law (5/08/2016).

“Are Human Rights Too Human-Centric?”

Melbourne University Law School (31/05/2016).

“Modern Warfare”

Think Ahead CLE lectures, Faculty of Law, McGill University (22/03/2016).

“Transnational Lives: How the Movement of Persons is Redefining International Law”

Melbourne University Law School (21/05/2015).

“Rescuing a Pacifist Sensitivity in International Law”

Australian Human Rights Centre, University of New South Wales (13/05/15).

“Lawfare, Everywhere”

International & Comparative Law Center Seminar Series, Mississippi College of Law (28/10/14).

“The Syrian Conflict and International Law: An Overview”

Department of Sociology, American University in Beirut (20/04/2013).

« Vers une éducation juridique globale ? »

Faculté de droit de Grenoble, Université Pierre-Mendès France (10/12/2012).

« ‘Who’s in and who’s out?’ A propos de la protection juridique internationale du monopole de l’exercice légitime de la force et quelques autres attributs des monstres froids »

CEDIM (UQAM), séminaires « A quoi sert le droit international ? » (26/01/2011).

“The rise and fall of ‘cosmopolitan man’: nationalism, citoyens du monde and the idea of a universal standpoint”

Institucion Fernando el Catolico (Zaragoza), III Foro Internacional, Civilizaciones, Nacionalismos y Derecho Internacional (10/12/2010).

“Some Little Discussed Issues Surrounding Aggression as an International Crime: A Few Post-Kampala Thoughts”

University of British Columbia, Faculty of Law (26/11/2010).

“International Human Rights and Legal Pluralism: A Research Agenda”

University of Manitoba, Law and Society Research Cluster Distinguished Visitor Lecture Series (25/09/09).

“The Case of the Iraq War Deserter: What Should Canada’s Legal Response Be?”

Ottawa University, Faculty of Law, International Law Speaker Series Lecture (7/01/2009).

“War, Sports and the Law: The Laws of War as ‘Rules of the Game’”

Georgetown University Law School, International Legal Theory Colloquium (24/11/2008).

“The UN Disability Convention: Why Now, What For, What Next?”

Komenského University of Bratislava, Excelentna Univerzita (04/06/2008).

Conference paper presentations

“The Nationalist Foundations of the Laws of War, Preference for ‘One’s Own’ and the Gaza Wars”

Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Bilkura: Gaza under the Rubric of International Humanitarian Law (30/06/2026-03/07/2026)

« Penser le droit international à travers le mouvement »

Colloque annuel de la Société française de droit international, Les savoirs du droit international, Sciences Po Paris (28-29/05/2026).

« Sovereignty Devouring Itself »

Sovereignty – Collective and Individual, Cornell Law School (19/05/2026).

« Les civils d’origine allemande de confession juive détenus dans les Cantons de l’Est pendant la Seconde Guerre Mondiale »

Journée d’étude d’histoire régionale du droit, ancien palais de justice de Knowlton (10/10/2025).

“Peace Through Law, Dispute Settlement or Lawfare? Russian Uses of Force before International Courts”

International Adjudication – Peace Through Law in our Times', celebrating the 150th birthday of celebrated PCIJ judge and legal scholar Prof. Walther Schücking, Walther Schücking Institute, Kiel University (10-11/05/2025).

" Interference-by-Diaspora? Extra-Territorial Outreach to Nationals and Ethnic Kin and the Principle of Non-Intervention"

Human Geopolitics and International Law, Leiden University (16-17/06/2025).

“What would a (truly) pluralist international law look like?”

International Studies Association, San Francisco (30/05/2024).

“On ‘Poverteism’ without Socialism: Discrimination, Human Rights and Distributive Justice”

International Inter- and Trans-disciplinary Conference; The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 75: Rethinking and Constructing its Future Together, Ghent University (6–8/12/2023).

(with Wanshu Cong) “Early efforts by the Qing Dynasty to Use International Law for the Protection of the Chinese Diaspora”

Centre for Chinese and Comparative Law, City University of Hong Kong, in partnership with Wuhan University School of Law and Fudan University School of Law (10–11/11/2023).

“Separate and Unequal and the Case of Diaspora Voting Rights: A Justifiable Exception?”

Law & Society Association annual meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico (1–4/05/2023).

« Le droit canadien de l’extradition face au droit international »

Droit international en droit interne : développements récents et perspectives comparées, Université de Montréal, (1/09/2023).

“The Travel Visa as the Ubiquitous Legal Infrastructure of Everyday Global Mobility Arbitrariness”

Inaugural seminar on legal infrastructures, MOBILE, DNRF Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law, Copenhagen University (21–22/09/2023).

“Amnesty International and Nelson Mandela: Prisoners of Conscience, Armed Resistance and the Dialectics of Ends and Means”

SCRIPTS project, Human rights, Liberalism and the Global South, Berlin (2–3/05/2023).

“Women, Pacifism and International Law”

Women and International Law International Conference, Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law (13–14/10/2022).

“Is International Law Addressing Problems of its Own Making?”

Workshop on Philosophy and International Law: Extensions and Contestations, Richmond University (7–8/10/2022).

“The Dignity v. Agency of ‘Little Persons’: Looking Back at Manuel Wackenheim v. France and the Practice of ‘Dwarf Tossing’”

Workshop on Human Rights and Selective Agency, McGill University (28–29/09/2022).

“Unwelcome Solidarity”

We Know it When We See it: Solidarity in International Legal Discourse, A Workshop on Competing Solidarities, Gottenburg University (25–26/08/2022).

“Should Refugees Be Allowed to Choose Where They Claim Asylum?”

Borders, Territory and Rights Workshop: Changing Legal Cartographies of Migration and Mobility, Leibniz Research Group Transformations of Citizenship, Goethe University Frankfurt (30–1/06/2022).

“What Would a Human Rights Compatible International Regime on the Use of Force Look Like?”

Academy of European Law Workshop, European University Institute (12/04/2022).

“Awkward Legacies? Reinventing the Right to Development in the Neoliberal Era”

Battle for International Law in the Neoliberal Era, Humboldt University, Berlin (28/04/2022).

“Unwanted Solidarity”

We Know it When We See it: Solidarity in International Legal Discourse. A Workshop on Competing Solidarities, Lund University (online) (25/03/2022).

“Women and Pacifism: A Specifically Feminist Approach to the International Law on the Use of Force?”

Women and International Law, Max Planck Institute for Procedural Law, Luxembourg (10/02/2022).

“Is Discrimination in Immigration Racist?”

Comparative equality and anti-discrimination law conference, UCLA (online) (17/09/2021).

“Racial Panics and the Making of (White) International Law”

Critical Race Theory and International Law (online) (5/11/2021).

“The Grotian Style in International Criminal Justice”

Grotian Moments in International Law, Max Planck Institute for International Law (Heidelberg) (26–27/02/2021).

“The US-Mexico Mixed Claims Commissions”

International Claims Commissions, Max Planck Institute for Procedural Law (Luxembourg) /Richmond School of Law (online, 7/3/2021).

“What Would a Human Rights Compliant International Law on the Use of Force Look Like?”

International Law and Political Morality, Leeds Beckett University (10/03/21).

“Human Rights Populisms”

Human Rights at a Crossroads? A Time for Critical Reflection on the Human Rights Project, Berkeley School of Law (online, 12/11/2020).

“‘Our Kind of Defendants’: Court Discipline and the Legitimacy of International Criminal Trials”

The 21st Anniversary of the Rome Statute: Perspectives Forgotten During the 20th Celebration Party, iCourts, University of Copenhagen (14–15/11/2019).

“Neglected Figures in the Early Genesis of Abolitionism”

“Prison Abolition, Human Rights, and Penal Reform: From the Local to the Global,” The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, University of Texas at Austin School of Law (26–28/09/2019).

“Justifying Extra-Territorial Criminal Jurisdiction Over One's Nationals”

“Workshop on International Criminal Law,” Western Law's Public and Private International Law Research Group and Osgoode Hall's Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime, and Security (21/09/2019).

“Law of Foreign Relations Law or Foreign Legal Policy? Revisiting Guy de Lacharrière’s « La politique juridique extérieure de l’Etat » ”

“A Review of Current Trends in Foreign Relations Law,” Freie Universität Berlin, Universität Jena, Dornburg (9–10/05/2019).

“Canada’s Implementation of its International Human Rights Treaty Obligations”

The Impact of UN Human Rights Treaties Domestically, University of Pretoria/High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva (28/02/2019–01/03/2019).

“Alston in Alabama: Towards a Theory of International Human Rights Law Praxis”

The Struggle for Human Rights – Law, Politics, Practice, New York University Law School (17–18/02/2019).

“When Might International Criminal Justice Actually Encourage Crime?”

Who’s Afraid of the ICC? I-Courts/Copenhagen University Faculty of Law (24–25/01/2019).

“International Criminal Justice and the Margin of Appreciation”

Cosmopolitan Pluralism and International Criminal Justice Conference, University of Leeds (10–11/01/2019).

“The New Interference in Sovereign Affairs”

International Law Workshop, William & Mary (27–28/9/2018).

“The Invention of Universalism”

International Law and Universality, Annual Conference, European Society of International Law, University of Manchester (13–15/09/2018).

“Knowing Like an International Lawyer”

Knowledge Production and International Law, The Graduate Institute, Geneva (7–8/9/2018).

“State Behavior in the Security Council: Does/Should ICC Membership Make a Difference?”

Twenty Years of the ICC’s Rome Statute: Utopia – Reality – Crisis, Edge Hill University (7–8/9/2018).

“The Ambiguities of Reparation Claims by States on Behalf of their Nationals: the Herrero, Comfort women, and the Holocaust”

Droit international et réparations, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris) (26–27/06/2018).

“(Un)freedom of Movement in International Law: False Contingency or False Necessity?”

Contingency in the Course of International Law: How International Law Could Have Been, Amsterdam Center for International Law (14–16/06 2018).

“The Masculine Constitution of the Laws of War”

Humanitarianism and the Remaking of International Law: History, Ideology, Practice, Technology Laureate Program in International Law, Melbourne Law School, (31/05–02/06/2018).

« La Cour pénale internationale: a-t-elle fonctionné comme prévu? »

Troisièmes journées de la justice pénale internationale, Université de Paris II Panthéon-Assas (15–16/02/2018).

“The Past of International Criminal Law that Never Was”

Histories of International Criminal Law: Authors’ Workshop, London School of Economics (7–8/12/2017).

“Pénalité et familles: à propos des victimes collatérales de la peine »

Les sens de la peine, Université St Louis (Bruxelles) (16–17/11/2017).

« Les ONG devant la Cour pénale internationale »

Le rôle des ONG dans le contentieux international des droits de l’homme, Journal Européen des Droits de l’Homme (JEDH-EJHR) et Groupe de recherche ARC “contentieux stratégique”, Université catholique de Louvain (15/11/2017).

“Beyond UN Responsibility: The Cholera Epidemic in Haiti and the Extent of Troop Contributing and Host State Responsibility”

UN Accountability and International Law Experts Workshop, Seton Hall Law School (19/10/2017).

“The Connectedness of a Right to Consular Assistance in the Host State and the Right to Diplomatic Protection from One’s State of Nationality”

Rights for the 21^st Century: Exploring the Need for “New Rights”, HURMUR-Human rights –mutually raising excellence”, European Commission project under the first TWINNING call of Horizon 2020, Tallinn University (20–22/09/2017).

“The Strange Case of the Victim Who Did Not Want Justice”

Contesting Transitional Justice, Coventry University, London (08/09/2017).

“The Hegemonic Masculinity of the Laws of War”

Critical, Historical, and Comparative Perspectives on International Humanitarian Law, University of Wisconsin-Madison (21–22/05/2017).

“Authority as Pomposity: The Case of International Criminal Tribunals”

Constructing Authority in International Law, Durham University, (25–26/04/2017).

“The Changing Rationale for International Criminal Tribunals”

Philosophical Foundations of International Criminal Law, Frankfurt University (24–25/03/2017).

“Theorizing Dualisme de Résistance”

Global Rule of Law: Historical, Normative and Critical Perspectives, National University of Singapore (16–17/02/2017).

“A Theory of Subjecthood in International Criminal Law”

International Law Association Study Group on Individual Responsibility in International Law, Global Seminar on Individual Responsibility in International Law: Concepts and Consequences, Florence (9–11/12/2016).

“Henri Donnedieu de Vabres, from Versailles to Nuremberg”

The Intellectual Origins of International Criminal Justice, Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki (7–8/12/2016).

“Global Migration Law Meets International Human Rights Law: The Case of the Right Not to Be Arbitrarily Denied Immigration”

What is Global Migration Law? American Society of International Law Interest Group on Global Migration Law, Bellagio (9–11/11/2016).

“Contextualizing Onuma”

Conférence en l’honneur du Profeseur Onuma Yasuaki, Sciences Po Paris/Ambassade du Japon à Paris (8/10/2016).

“International Criminal Justice as a Peace Project”

Faculty of Law, Oxford University/European Society of International Law (07/2016).

“L’auto-mise en scène de la justice pénale international”

Les enjeux de la ritualisation judiciaire, International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onati (9–10/06/2016).

“Le Juge Lebel et les Immunités”

Journée d’études en l’honneur de l’Honorable Louis Lebel (29 octobre 2015).

“Katanga, Biafra, and the Early Demise of Secession in International Law”

State Oppression, Violence Against Minorities, and the Possibilities for Remedial Secession and Independence: An International Conference, George Washington University Law School (7–8/04/2015).

“The Aliens Among Us”

Wrongs Across Borders, Robina Institute of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, University of Minnesota Law School (27–28/03/2015).

“‘Red Notices,’ International Criminal Tribunals and the European Arrest Warrant: The Rise of ‘Surrender’ and the Fluidification of Extradition”

New practices of transnational criminal law, Centre for Excellence for International Courts (Icourts), Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen (27/11/2014).

“Military Justice as a Mode of Implementation of International Humanitarian Law: A Moderate Defense”

63^rd Annual Continuing legal Education Conference, Judge Advocate General of the Canadian Forces, Ottawa (23/10/2014).

“Protecting Identity by Denying it? A Critical Look at the French and Rwandan Paradoxes”

Who Are We? The Quest for Identity in Law, Faculty of Law, Dalhousie University (20–21/10/2014).

“The International Criminal Court: Where Does it Stand?”

Copenhagen Euroscience Open Forum (22/06/2014).

« La justice pénale internationale : une perspective bourdieusienne »

L’Empire du crime? Vers une analyse critique des processus internationaux de criminalisation, Université du Québec à Montréal (06/06/2014).

“The ICC: Reinforcing States at the Expense of Non-State Actors?”

55^th International Studies Association Conference, Spaces and Places-Geopolitics in an Era of Globalization (28/03/2014).

“International Criminal Justice as a Legal Field”

Constructing the International Criminal Justice Field: Cores and Peripheries. 55^th International Studies Association Conference, Spaces and Places-Geopolitics in an Era of Globalization (30/03/2014).

“The Judgment as Ritual”

Ritual in International Criminal Justice, 55^th International Studies Association Conference, Spaces and Places-Geopolitics in an Era of Globalization (28/03/2014).

“What Are Facts? Can they Be Found? And Who Cares?”

International Human Rights Fact Finding in the Twenty-First Century, NYU School of Law (01/11/2013).

“Theorizing the Laws of War”

Theorizing International Law Workshop, Amsterdam (26/03/2013).

“Logics of Practicality and the Construction of the Field of International Criminal Justice”

5^th ESIL Research Forum, Amsterdam (23–25/05/2013).

“L’approche nord-américaine du droit à la retraite”

Quel avenir pour notre retraite au Liban?, Faculté de droit, Université du Saint Esprit Kaslik, Beyrouth (29–30/04/2013).

“The Peculiar Indeterminacy of International Human Rights Law”

Engaging the Writings of Martti Koskenniemi, 2013 Laura H. Carnell Chair Workshop, Temple University Law School, Philadelphia (12–13/04/2013).

« Entreprises multinationales et nouveaux outils de mise en oeuvre des droits de l’homme: certifications, audits, contractualisation »

Les droits de l’Homme et l’entreprise : l’entreprise citoyenne, Colloque de lancement du Journal européen des droits de l’Homme, Université Paris I/Editions Larcier (26/04/2013).

“How States and Governments Use International Criminal Justice”

The Politics of International Diffusion: Regional and Global Dimensions, International Studies Association (3–6/04/2013).

“What is so Special about Drones?”

The Legal and Ethical Limits of Technological Warfare, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law (01/02/2013).

“La responsabilité de protéger: quelles implications pour le jus in bello?”

Aux confins du Jus ad Bellum et du Jus in Bello : Retour sur les interventions autorisées par le Conseil de sécurité, du Kosovo et de l’Afghanistan à la Libye et au Mali, Centre d’études sur la sécurité international et les coopérations européennes, Faculté de droit de Grenoble, Université Pierre-Mendès France (22–23/11/2012).

“When is Use of Force in Pursuit of Self-determination Legitimate?”

Theoretical Foundations of Self-Determination, American Society of International Law, International Legal Theory Interest Group (9/11/2012).

“Collectivizing Reparations”

Reparations Colloquium, Centre international de criminologie comparée (CICC), Université de Montréal (26–27/10/2012).

“Prospects for a Security Council Human Rights Ombudsperson”

Strengthening the Rule of Law Through the Security Council, Australian National University Centre for International Governance and Justice/Australian Civil-Military Centre, Canberra (17–18/09/2012).

“Repentance”

The Passions of International Law, Melbourne Law School Symposium (13–15/09/2012).

“The Transformation of Peace Operations Into Civilian Protection Operations?”

La civilianisation de la guerre : comment est-ce que la distinction entre les civils et les militaires a évolué ces cent dernières années ? Un atelier interdisciplinaire, UQAM (8/09/2012).

“Should Insurgents Be Amnestied?”

Jus Post Bellum, Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies (Den Haag) (30/05/2012–01/06/2012).

« Les obligations en matière de réparation : un régime réaliste au regard des difficultés financières éprouvées par nombre d’organisations internationales ? »

Table ronde sur la responsabilité des organisations internationales, CERIC (Université Paul Cézanne)/Centre de Droit International (Université de Bruxelles), Aix-en-Provence (24/03/2012).

“The Problematic Legitimacy of International Adjudication”

High Level Policy Seminar: Courts, Social Change and Judicial Independence, Robert Schuman Centre, Global Governance Program, European University Institute, Florence (16–17/03/2012).

“The European Court of Human Rights and the Armenian Genocide”

The Armenian Genocide: From Recognition to Reparation, Catholicosate of Cilicia, Antelias (Beirut) (23–25/02/2012).

“The Abolition of Slavery and the Making of Africa’s Peripherality”

International Law & the Periphery, American University in Cairo/Sidney Law School (17–19/02/2012).

« Y a-t-il des limites en droit international à ce qu’un Etat peut privatiser ? »

Séminaire mensuel de l’UMR 621, Université Paul Cézanne (06/01/2012).

« Memorial monuments and transitional justice”

Constructing Memories in the Wake of Crimes against Humanity: Artistic Interventions and the Politics of Memory, projet PIMPA (Politiques et initiatives mémorielles et pratiques artistiques), Geneva University of Art and Design (08–10/12/2011).

“Where is the Battlefield?”

The Laws of War: International Conflict and the Global War on Terror, International Law Review Symposium, Loyola University of Chicago School of Law (25/02/2011).

“Where does the Critique of International Human Rights Stand?”

New Approaches to International Law: lessons from the European experience, Fundacion Universitaria CEU San Pablo (Madrid) (11/12/2010).

“ICC and R2P: Might the two clash?”

The International Criminal Court and the Responsibility to Protect: Synergies and Tensions, Erik Castren Institute of International Law and Human Rights/ Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (3–4/12/2010).

“Aggression, the Council and the Court”

Road from Kampala, An Analysis of the First Review Conference of the Rome Statute, International Criminal Court Student Network, Duke Law School (29–30/11/2010).

“Pratique religieuse et pondération des droits: une perspective européenne »

La hiérarchie des droits fondamentaux et les accommodements religieux en droit constitutionnel québécois, canadien et comparé, Association québécoise de droit constitutionnel, Cinquième Congrès (Faculté de droit, Université de Montréal), (29/10/2010).

“The Pitfalls and Promise of International Institutionalization”

Echenberg Global Conference on Human Rights in Diverse Societies, Faculty of Law, McGill University, (09/10/2010).

“The Sources of International Criminal Law”

International Criminal Procedure Expert Framework: Towards the Codification of General Rules and Principles, Amsterdam University Centre for International Law/ Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law (1–2/07/2010).

“Prospects for ‘Constitutional’ Human Rights Scrutiny of Substantive International Criminal Law by the ICC”

Public Law and Human Rights Workshop, Faculty of Law, University of Jerusalem (26/05/2010).

“International Human Rights and Domestic Legal Pluralism: Does one Ever have the Right to One’s Own Law?”

Toleration, equality, and segregation in the name of culture, Minerva Center for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, (25/05/2010).

« La contribution des tribunaux pénaux internationaux à la paix civile »

Journée d’étude : la justice pénale internationale, bilan, défis et perspectives, Centre Thucyclide, Université Panthéon-Assas (21/05/2010).

« Désir de reconnaissance et tentation de l’irresponsabilité : le respect du droit international humanitaire par les acteurs non-étatiques en conflit armé »

Journée d’étude Guerre et reconnaissance, Université d’Artois, Faculté de droit de Douai (6/05/2010).

« La ratification de la Convention des Nations Unies sur les droits de personnes handicapées par le Canada : quelles perspectives ? »

Tribunal des droits de la personne du Québec/Barreau du Québec, Race, femme, enfant, handicap : Les conventions internationales et le droit interne à la lumière des enjeux pratiques du droit à l’égalité (26/03/2010).

“Child Soldiers: Victims, Criminals or Heroes?”

Imagining the Child/Imaginer l’enfant, The Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas, McGill University (10–11/03/2010).

“International Criminal Law in Canada”

Faculty of Law, McGill University, Think Ahead–Une pensée d’avance, Continuing Legal Education series (16/2/2010).

“The Slowly Changing Status of International Human Rights Law before International Criminal Tribunals: Towards a Constitutional Framework?”

Emerging Themes in International Law: Legal Theory, Human Rights, and Financial Regulation, Vanderbilt University Law School, International Law Program Roundtable (Nashville, by video-link, 12/02/2010).

“Prospects for ‘Constitutional’ Human Rights Scrutiny of Substantive International Criminal Law by the ICC, With Special Emphasis on the General Part”

Roundtable in Public International Law and Theory, Washington University School of Law, Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute, International Legal Scholars Workshop (Saint Louis, 4–6/2/2010).

“A dialética entre Dignidade Humana e Direitos Humanos”

Conferência em Comemoração do Primeiro Aniversário do Lançamento da Agenda (São Paulo, 21/12/2009).

“That ‘Springbreak’ Feeling: Pragmatism, Irony and Belief in the Age of Human Rights”

Evaluating Critical Approaches to International Law, CERDIN (Faculté de droit Sorbonne) /Institute for International Law and the Humanities (University of Melbourne) (Paris, 11–12/12/2009).

« Quelles obligations pour les Etats dans les conflits asymétriques ? »

Guerre, paix et justice entre les nations, Pour une éthique des monstres froids au 21e siècle, Ecole normale supérieure, Tables rondes sur l’éthique des relations internationales (5/12/2009).

“The Canadian Anti-Terrorism Experience”

Towards a Global Legal Counter-Terrorism Model: Transatlantic Perspectives, Magna Carta Institute (Bruxelles) (4/12/2009).

« L’enjeu de la distinction entre le génocide et les crimes de guerre »

Colloque : la prévention du génocide et des atrocités de masse, Programme paix et sécurité internationales, Université Laval (23/11/2009).

“The Judge Who Talked Too Much: When Do Past Declarations Impugn Impartiality?”

Institute for Ethics, Governance and Law/Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) Waterloo/United Nations University (UNU)/ Australian Governance Research Network, International Workshop on ethical supports for the rule of law in international affair, “Ethical Supports For Strengthening The International Rule of Law” (19–20/10/2009).

« Une justice pénale internationalisée pour juger le terrorisme : l’exemple du Tribunal spécial pour le Liban »

Vers une internationalisation du jugement des actes de terrorisme international?, Université Paris I, Centre d’étude et de recherche en droit international, Projet transatlantique (3/07/2009).

« La diversification des acteurs impliqués dans les conflits armés : vers un dépassement de la ‘participation directe aux hostilités’ ? »

Université Paris 1, Centre d’étude et de recherche en droit international, Projet Atlas, Le rôle des tiers aux conflits armés dans la protection des populations civiles (2/07/2009).

“Rehabilitation as a Neglected theme in Transitional Justice: From ‘Traitor’ to ‘Resisters’ after the Reich”

Taking Stock of Transitional Justice, University of Oxford, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford Transitional Justice Research Group (26–28/06/2009).

“The Role of Resistance in Preventing Atrocities”

Preventing Genocide and Mass Violence: What Can Be Learned From History?, 21^st Century Trust/Salzburg Global Seminar (12–14/06/2009).

« Cette étrange bête qu’est le Fond de compensation des victimes de la CPI: entre logique pénale et solidaire »

Soutenir, rapprocher et progresser: les droits des victimes dans le cas des crimes contre l'humanité et des crimes de guerre, Centre international de criminologie comparée, Université de Montréal (30/04/2009).

« Les réparations devant la CPI : une logique hybride »

Les enjeux contemporains de la justice pénale internationale : réparer l’irréparable, CREUM/CRDP, Université de Montréal, (23/04/2009).

“Transitional Justice as Substantive Justice” (by videolink)

Sturm College of Law, University of Denver, Conceptualizing Substantive Justice (17–18/04/2009).

« La volonté d’agir pour quoi ? L’importance de prêter assistance aux victimes et aux résistants »

Humain avant tout/UQAM, Institut d’études internationales de Montreal, À travers les yeux des résistants et des sauveteurs : Saisir la volonté d'agir (2/04/2009).

“The Emergence of an International Criminal Procedure: Dynamic and Determinants”

UCLA School of Law, UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs 2009 Symposium, Trends and Tensions in International Criminal Procedure (20/02/2009).

“The Selection, Status and Role of Judges before International Criminal Tribunals”

Bureau of Intelligence and Research, US Department of State & Central Intelligence Agency, Lessons Learned on International Tribunals for the New Administration (20–21/11/2008).

“The Changing Nature of Ad Hoc Tribunal’s Core Focus: From War Crimes to Crimes against Humanity”

Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy/Université Paris II/American Society of International Law, Perspectives on International Criminal Justice, Boston (14–15/11/2008).

« ‘Parties civiles’: the French Experience »

Canadian Centre for International Justice/University of Ottawa, Civil Litigation Workshop (7–8/11/2008)

« Une insurrection contre une occupation illégale est-elle légale en droit international? »

International Peace and Security Interest Group, “Insurgency and International Law”, 3rd Biennial Conference of the European Society of International Law, International Law in a Heterogenous World, Heidelberg (4/09/2008).

“Civil Disobedience in Defense of International Values: A Common Culture of Resistance?”

World International Studies Committee, 2^nd Global International Studies Conference, Lujbljana, What Keeps Us Apart, What Keeps Us Together? International Order, Justice, Values (23–26/07/2008).

“The Accountability and Ethics of International Prosecutors”

University of Leuven, Faculty of Law, The International Prosecutor: Organization, Policy, and Legacy from Nuremberg to the ICC. Workshop 3, (27–28/05/2008).

« ‘Asi se baila’… Codes de la milonga et ‘droit du quotidien’ »

ACFAS, Québec, 76^ème Congrès, Couple, identité société : le tango argentin comme facteur de développement (06/05/2008).

« La Convention des Nations Unies sur les droits des personnes handicapées : inspiration, exigences, et implications »

Réseau international sur le Processus de production du handicap (Québec), PPH, politiques sociales et droits humains (25/04/2008).

« Un chemin vers la liberté négligé? Rebellions d’esclave, théories de la résistance à l’oppression et réception par les tribunaux »

Université d’Ottawa, Faculté de droit, Les chemins de la liberté : réflexions à l’occasion du bicentenaire de l’abolition de l’esclavage (14–16/03/2008).

“The World Seen Through Humanitarianism: Some International Law Distortions”

Finnish International Studies Association/Erik Castren Institute of International Law and Human Rights, Helsinki Workshop on Humanitarianism (14–15/12/2007).

“A Cautionary Tale from the Crusades? International Humanitarian Law and Prisoners in Conditions of Religious Incommensurability”

University of Oxford, Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War, Prisoners in War (10–12/12/2007).

University of Leuven, Faculty of Law, The International Prosecutor: Organization, Policy, and Legacy from Nuremberg to the ICC. Workshop 2, (8–10/11/2007).
“Non-Accountability in the Shadow of Colonization: Lessons learnt from the Mandate and Trusteeship Systems for “International Territorial Administrations”

International Law Association (American Branch), New York, Towards a New Vision of International Law (25–27/10/2007).

“Civil Society and Resistance to Genocide: Beyond the ‘Rescue Paradigm’”

Faculty of Law, McGill University, Echenberg Global Conference on the Prevention of Genocide (12/10/2007).

“La notion d’accommodement raisonnable dans une perspective internationale”

Université de Montréal, Faculté de droit, La Religion, le Droit et le « Raisonnable » (18/06/2007).

“Las ocupaciones como forma de desobediencia civil indígena: practica, justificación, resultados”

Consorcio Desarrollo y Justicia, Encuentro Canadá-Venezuela sobre los derechos de los pueblos indígenas, Universidad Central de Venezuela (14/06/2007).

“Le rôle du droit international dans la légitimation de la résistance à l’oppression”

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, 75^ème Congrès de l’ACFAS (08/05/2007).

“The UN and Online Child Exploitation”

University of Toronto, Center for Innovation Law and Policy/ Microsoft, 2^nd International Symposium on Online Child Exploitation (07/05/2007).

“Le cadre juridique des opérations de maintien de la paix: vers une troisième génération?”

Université du Québec à Montréal, Des casques bleus aux casques verts (04/04/2007).

“Civil Disobedience in Defence of International Law: Sketch for a Theoretical Argument”

Oslo University, The New International Law (15–18/03 2007).

“The Constitutionalization of a Right to Resist Tyranny: a Comparative Analysis”

McGill University, Faculty of Law, Young Scholars Conference (26/01/2007).

Koninklijke Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en SchoneKunsten van Belgie (Bruxelles), The International Prosecutor: Organization, Policy, and Legacy from Nuremberg to the ICC. Workshop 1, (7–9/12/2006).
“What Ever Happened to the Right to Resist Tyranny?”

Birckbeck College, London, The Force of International Law (16/04/2006).

“La ‘responsabilité de protéger’ à l’épreuve des faits”

Université du Québec à Montréal, Irak, Darfour, Haïti...La responsabilité de protéger: quel avenir ? (27/03/2006).

“Jus in bello as jus ad bellum and vice-versa”

American Society for International Law, Centennial Conference, “A Just World Under Law”, Washington DC (23/03/2006).

“A Strong Defence of Hybridity”

McGill University, Faculty of Law, Hybrid Courts in Context (17/02/2006).

“Le mécanisme de suivi de la Convention inter-américaine de lutte contre la corruption”

Organization of American States/University of Ottawa, Annual International Law Workshop (25/10/2005).

“Une réforme encore plus fondamentale? L'ouverture des Nations Unies aux acteurs non-étatiques”

Chaire Raoul-Dandurand en études stratégiques et diplomatiques, Institut d’Etudes Internationales, UQAM, Réformer ou reformer ? (06/10/2005).

“The Poverty of Customary International Humanitarian Law”

McGill University, Faculty of Law, Customary International Humanitarian Law: Challenges, Practices and Debates (29/09/2005).

“The Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography: Challenges Ahead”

University of Toronto, Center for Innovation Law and Policy/ Microsoft, Symposium on Online Child Exploitation (2/05/2005).

“Some Comments on the French Tradition in International Law”

Harvard Law School, Comparative Visions of Global Public Order (5–6/03/2005).

“Who Should We Try Milosevic and Hussein?”

Cornell University (Ithaca), Faculty of Law, Milosevic and Hussein on Trial (25–26/02/2005).

“Peut-on parler de droit international humanitaire en termes de droits?”

Canadian Council on International Law (Ottawa), annual conference (15/10/2004).

“Accountability for Human Rights Abuses at the UN”

Incore/United Nations University, Cape Town, The Unintended Consequences of Peacekeeping (15–19/11/2004).

“The ICTY and Domestic Courts: What Interaction?”

International Humanitarian Law Centre, Belgrade, Dealing with the Past (22–23/10/2004).

“International Humanitarian Law and its ‘Others’: From Tribes to Terrorists”

University of Melbourne Faculty of Law, International Law and its “Others”: Legal Theory Workshop (12–14/06/2004).

“The Relevance of International Instruments on Racial Discrimination to Racial Discrimination Policy in Ontario”

Ontario Human Rights Commission/Association for Canadian Studies, Race Policy Dialogue Conference (10/10 2004).

“Is the International Criminal Court ‘Political’?”

The Minerva Center for Human Rights (Tel Aviv University and Hebrew University of Jerusalem), The International Criminal Court and the Advent of International Criminal Justice (14–16/12/2003).

“L’éthique de non-intervention du droit international”

Institut d’études internationales de Montréal/Chaire Raoul Dandurand, Montréal, A la recherche d’une éthique de l’intervention internationale (20–21/12/2003).

“The Dubious Progeny of a Deformalizing Agenda”

Birkbeck College, London, The New International Law Program (12–14/06/2003).

“Who Should Judge the Terrorists?”

University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor. ‘A War Against Terrorism’: What Role for International Law? – US and European Perspectives (18–19 /10/2002).

“Guantanamo’s Prisoners dilemma”

European University Institute, Florence, ‘Le Droit … c’est moi?’ – International Law Under the New Empires (18–19/05/2002).

“Infinite Justice/Endless War”

Foundation for New Research in International Law, Brussels, Infinite Justice? - Autumn Workshop on New Scholarship in International Public and Private Law (23–25/11/2001).

“Akayesu and the “Constructed” Concept of Groups under the Genocide Convention”

Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Third Workshop on New Scholarship in International Public and Private Law (19–20/04/2001).

“The ‘War on Terrorism’ and International Law”

European University Institute, Florence, The Other Side of ‘War’ (3/12/2001).

Guest seminars

“Corporations as Agents of Interference in Sovereign Affairs: from United Fruit to Cambridge Analytica”, Laureate Research Program on Global Corporations & International Law, Melbourne University Law School (16/05/2024).
“International Criminal Law and the Symbolic Economy of Stigma,” International Nuremberg Principles Academy (8/05/2023).
“What should we do with war deserters under international law?”, Bundeswehr University Munich (9/25/2023).
“Whither International Criminal Justice?”

Masterclass, Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Western Australia (24/05/2018).

“Teaching Criminal Justice Rather than Criminal Law”

Faculty Seminar, Faculty of Law, University of Western Australia (23/05/2018).

“The Apology of Utopia”

Law School, University of Toronto, Human Rights Seminar (Professor Patrick Macklem) (24/03/2018).

“The Potential of Big Data to Detect Human Rights Violations”

Human Rights Workshop, Yale Law School (2/04/15).

“Big data and human rights methods”

Law Department, European University Institute, Florence (3/03/2015).

“Féminisme, genre et Cour européenne des droits de l’homme”

Faculté de droit, Université Paris X Nanterre (11/12/2014).

“International Human Rights Law: The Apology of Utopia”

Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, Globalization, Law & Justice Workshop (28/11/2013).

“The Rise and Fall of ‘International Man’”

Harvard Law School, International Law Workshop (18/10/2012).

“Thoughts on the Evolution of International Criminal Justice”

American University in Cairo (22/02/2012).

« La protection internationale des minorités »

Master 2 droit international et européen, Faculté libre de droit, Université catholique de Lille (14–16/12/2011).

“Le régime de réparations de la Cour pénale internationale”

Hague Academy of International Law, Seminar for Advanced Studies, Challenges in International Criminal Law (23/01/2010).

“Victim Reparation and the ICC”

Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies (Den Haag), Marie Curie Top Summer School 2009 (1/07/2009).

“Les réparations dues aux victimes dans le cadre de la Cour pénale internationale”

Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies (Den Haag), Centre Bilingual Summer School on International Criminal Law (30/06/2009).

“Prospects for ‘constitutional’ scrutiny of international criminal law through international human rights, with special emphasis on substantive law”

Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies (Den Haag), Marie Curie Research Course 2008–2009, The Diversification and Fragmentation of International Criminal Law in a Global Society (16/03/2009).

“Verticalism v. Horizontalism in International Criminal Law”

Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies (Den Haag), Marie Curie Research Course 2008–2009, The Diversification and Fragmentation of International Criminal Law in a Global Society (30/06/2008).

“Going Hybrid: The Face of Sustainable International Criminal Justice to Come?”

Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies (Den Haag), Marie Curie Top Summer School 2008–2009, The Diversification and Fragmentation of International Criminal Law in a Global Society (30/06/2008).

« Le cadre juridique des opérations humanitaires: droit international des droits de l’homme, droit international humanitaire et droit des réfugiés »

UQAM/UNITAR/IEIM/Chaire Raoul-Dandurand, Séminaire d’approfondissement sur les opérations humanitaires (27/05/2008).

« Le cadre juridique des opérations de maintien de la paix »

UQAM/UNITAR/CANADEM, Séminaire d’approfondissement des missions de paix des Nations Unies (07/05/2008).

“Positive and Negative Discrimination in the Disabilities Convention”

McGill Institute for Health and Social Policy (04/04/2008).

“Civil Disobedience in Defense of International Law: What Should International Law Have to Say?”

University of Georgia School of Law (28/03/2008)

“The Essence of Hybridity: are Hybrid Tribunals Different?”

International Criminal Tribunal for the Former-Yugoslavia, ICTY Chambers Training Presentations (25/02/2008).

“Resistance to Genocide”

McGill University, International Young Leaders Forum, Global Conference on the Prevention of Genocide (09/10/2007).

“Treaties of a Humanitarian Nature”

The Erik Castren Institute of International Law and Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki, The 21st Helsinki Summer Seminar on International Law: Tensions in the law of Treaties (22–23/08/2007).

“Understanding Human Rights Treaties” and “Civil disobedience in defense of international human rights”

Institute for Human Rights, Äbo Akademi University, Advanced Course on the International Protection of Human Rights (13–16/08/2007).

« Le cadre juridique des opérations de maintien de la paix »

UQAM/UNITAR/CANADEM, Séminaire d’approfondissement sur les opérations de maintien de la paix, (04/04/2007).

“The Security Council and Human Rights”

New York University Law School (05/02/2007).

“El derecho de resistencia a la opresión en un contexto latino-americano y mundial”

Universidad John Kennedy, Buenos Aires (07/07/2006).

« Quelques problèmes d’actualité en droit humanitaire »

Cours francophone inter-africain de droit international humanitaire, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (Comité international de la Croix Rouge) (10–13/03/2006).

“International Humanitarian Law as an Attempt to Regulate the Absolutely Exceptional”

Raoul Wallenberg Institute and the Institute for Human Rights, Åbo Akademi, Lund University, Nordic Human Rights Research Course: Human Rights and the Exceptional (31/05–4/06/2004).

“Is International Humanitarian Law a Sham?”

The Erik Castren Institute of International Law and Human Rights (University of Helsinki) (4/03/2004).

“The International Criminal Court and the protection of human rights”

Helsinki University, “The Mosaic”, 3rd Annual Helsinki Seminar on International Criminal Law, (05/03/2004).

“El impacto del 11 de septiembre sobre los derechos humanos”

Institut drets humans de Catalunya, Barcelona (03/2003).

“The International Criminal Court”

New York University Law School (10/2002).

Workshops, roundtables, commentator, moderator, chair

Ambedkar Lecture, Amaney A. Jamal, Dean, Princeton, The Global Disappearance of the Poor: Racialization, Segregation, and Poverty, Columbia Law School (7-8/10/2026).
Commentator, Transitional justice panel, “Confederation as Conflict Resolution”, A Land for All/International Peace Institute/New York Law School (26-28/09/2026)
Participant, “A Structured Ambivalence? A Multidisciplinary International Conference on Third World Approaches to International Law and Governance in a Time of Global Crises”, York University, Toronto (5-6/09/2025).
Commentator, Manuscript workshop, Saira Mohamed – “What a State Owes its Soldiers”, UC Berkeley (19/09/2025).
Panelist, « Soirée hommage à Robert Badinter et aux valeurs démocratiques à DC, » Villa Albertine at the Cleveland Park Library, Washington D.C. (05/11/2025).
Panelist, « Les approches francophones en droit international ? », Journées conjointes, Société française de droit international/Société québécoise de droit international, Université Paris Cité (16-17/10/2025).
Participant (by invitation), "Are We Witnessing an End of the Prohibition on the Use of Force?," Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (23/06/2025).
Rapporteur, "The Future of the Laws of Armed Conflict," American Academy of Arts and Sciences, (06-07/03/2025).
The British Institute of International and Comparative, “Roundtable: Examining recent normative debates pertaining to the status of sovereignty and due diligence obligations in international law” (29/02/2024).
Participant (by invitation), “Think Peace: Lessons from the History and Andrew Carnegie’s Visionary Peace Project,” Carnegie Peacebuilding Conversations, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, The New York Times (15/10/2019).
Commentator, Junior Faculty Seminar, University of Melbourne (28–30/05/2018).
Discussant, “Encounters, Practices, and the Making of International Law,” Law and Society Association annual conference, Toronto (10/06/2018).
Participant, “Roundtable on international migration in history,” Law and Society Association annual conference, Toronto (10/06/2018).
Chair, “The Construction of the Ideal Victim and the Grateful Refugee,” Law and Society Association annual conference, Toronto (8/06/2018).
Participant, “Roundtable on Right Authority in the Use of Force,” International Studies Association Annual Conference, San Francisco (7/04/2018).
Invited participant, “Interdisciplinary Approaches to Global Justice,” Michigan University School of Law (18/05/2017).
Invited participant, “Global Battlefields: The Future of U.S. Detention Under International Law,” Harvard Law School’s Program on International Law and Armed Conflict (16–17/05/2016)
Chair, “Persecution of the Rohyngia Minority in Myanmar,” McGill University (8/02/2016).
Commentator, Research Workshop on “Réparer les injustices coloniales Perspective transitionnelle sur la justice réparatrice,” Annual Montreal Political Theory Manuscript Workshop with Magali Bessone, McGill University (04/05/2015).
Commentator, “Human Rights Experimentalism,” Watson Institute, Brown University (13/11/2015).
Chair, “Diverse Modes of Legal Normativity: Is there an International ‘Rule of Law’?,” Canadian Council of International Law (6/11/2015).
Chair, “Overloading Human Rights?,” American Society of International Law, 109^th Annual Meeting (3–6/04/2015).
Invited participant, Politics and the International Rule of Law Workshop (manuscript, Ian Hurd), Department of Political Science, Northwestern University (13/03/2015).
Commentator, “International Law and the Fiduciary Constitution of Sovereignty,” (manuscript, Evan Fox-Decent and Evan Criddle), Faculty of Law, McGill University (7/05/2014).
Invited participant, “Workshop on Precedent in International Law,” Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts, McGill University (14/04/2014).
Chair, “The Tension Between Law and Politics: Can the ICC Navigate a Multipolar World?,” American Society of International Law, 107^th Annual Meeting (3–6/04/2013).
Chair, “The Arab Spring: Challenges, Effects and Consequences,” Echenberg Global Conference on Human Rights, Democracy and the Fragility of Freedom (21–23/03/2013).
Invited participant, “Workshop: The Fabric of International Jurisprudence,” Robert Schuman Centre, Global Governance Program, European University Institute, Florence (15–16/03/2012).
Invited participant, “International Law is Political: So What?,” Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, Cambridge University (26–27/01/2012)
Commentator, Book launch: Ruti Teitel, Humanity’s Law, Académie de droit humanitaire, Genève (8/12/2011).
Chair, “Climate Change and the Arctic: What Role for Human Rights?,” Canadian Council on International Law, Annual Conference (29/10/2010).
“Challenges before the International Criminal Justice System,” Hague Academy of International Law, Seminar for Advanced Studies, Challenges in International Criminal Law (23/01/2010).
“International Justice Across the Disciplines,” International Studies Association, New York Annual Convention (16/01/2009).
“New Wars, New Laws? Humanitarian Law in the 21st Century,” Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame (South Bend, Indiana), “Of War and Law” (13/01/2009).
“The Newly Adopted International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Instrument of Change?,” McGill University, Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism (13/02/2008) (as chair).
“How Does Contemporary International Law Accommodate Private Actors?,” European Society of International Law, Geneva Research Forum on International Law (2005) (as chair).
Jena Bates, “Competing Expressions of Sovereignty: Revisiting the State Consent Issue in the Territorial Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court over Nationals of Third States”.
Canadian Council on International Law, Annual Conference, Ronald St. John Macdonald Young Scholars Award (30/10/2010).
Commentator, Tyrone Kirchengast, “Integrating the Victim into the Adversarial Criminal Trial,” Centre international de criminology Comparée, Université de Montréal, (1/12/2009).
« Justice et droits humains: entre principes et application » / “Justice and human rights: between principles and application,” Les facettes du pouvoir/Facets of Power, McGill University (3/05/2007).