Humanitarian Assistance in International Law

Marina Sharpe, Associate Professor of International Law at the Royal Military College Saint-Jean, has written the first comprehensive account of how public international law governs humanitarian assistance across multiple contexts. Structured by humanitarian assistance contexts rather than legal regimes, and showing how international law applies in real-world operational settings, Sharpe examines how international law governs UN, state, and non-state humanitarian actors. She will be hosted by the Las Casas Institute on Monday the 16th of November at 4pm in the Aula of Blackfriars Hall to discuss the themes of her book. Emanuela-Chiara Gillard, Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict, and Claude Maon, Legal Director of Intersectional Law at Medecins Sans Frontieres, will act as discussants. Hugo Slim, Director of the Las Casas Institute, will chair this event.

Marina Sharpe’s book is available for purchase through OUP and a discount is available with the code: AUFLY30.

This event is free and open to everyone. Registration in required.

speakers

Marina Sharpe, Associate Professor of International Law at the Royal Military College Saint-Jean. Prior to joining RMC Saint-Jean, Professor Sharpe was Senior Legal Officer with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Representation to the African Union in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia). She has also been a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at McGill University’s Faculty of Law, Senior Research Fellow at Global Canada, legal officer at human rights NGOs in Kampala, and a lawyer with the New York firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP.

Emanuela-Chiara Gillard, Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict. From 2007 to 2012 she was Chief of the Protection of Civilians Section in the Policy Development and Studies Branch of the United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and for seven years prior to joining OCHA, Emanuela was a legal adviser at the International Committee of the Red Cross.

Claude Maon, Legal Director of Intersectional Law at Medecins Sans Frontieres. Before joining MSF, she worked as an attorney at the Brussels Bar. She also worked with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Avocats Sans Frontieres (ASF), focusing on access to justice and the fight against impunity in several African countries.

Venue: Blackfriars Hall - St Giles Oxford, OX1 3LY United Kingdom

Contact:
Las Casas Institute
lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk