Wednesday 13 December
Common Interests and Common Spaces: Institutional Approaches to Dispute Settlement

The Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies kicks off a new series of events organised by the Leiden Forum on the Architecture of Justice, and features a keynote from Professor Malgosia Fitzmaurice (Queen Mary University London).
13.30 Introductions
13.45 Roundtable: The Changing Shape of Justice in the Global Commons
- Institutional Mechanisms for Safeguarding the Community Interest in the Protection of
the Marine Environment within National Jurisdiction
Millicent McCreath (Ph.D. Candidate, University of New South Wales) - The Implementation and Compliance Committee of the ABBNJ: Facilitating Cooperation
and Public Participation in the Ocean
Carlos Antonio Cruz Carrillo (Ph.D. Candidate, Basel University) - Climate Justice before International Courts and Tribunals
Miriam Cohen (Associate Professor, University of Montreal) & Vladyslav Lanovoy (Assistant
Professor, University of Laval) - Climate Litigation and Pleas to Universal Truths, not Common Interests
Carl Emilio Lewis (Researcher, Asser Institute)
3.30 Break
16.00 Roundtable: Reimagining Foundations and Judicial Functions
- The Elusiveness of Interdependent Obligations and the Law of State Responsibility
Priya Urs (Junior Fellow, University of Oxford) - “Proxy States” as Champions of the Common Interest? Implications and Opportunities
Sarah Thin (Assistant Professor, Radboud University)…
13.30 Introductions
13.45 Roundtable: The Changing Shape of Justice in the Global Commons
- Institutional Mechanisms for Safeguarding the Community Interest in the Protection of
the Marine Environment within National Jurisdiction
Millicent McCreath (Ph.D. Candidate, University of New South Wales) - The Implementation and Compliance Committee of the ABBNJ: Facilitating Cooperation
and Public Participation in the Ocean
Carlos Antonio Cruz Carrillo (Ph.D. Candidate, Basel University) - Climate Justice before International Courts and Tribunals
Miriam Cohen (Associate Professor, University of Montreal) & Vladyslav Lanovoy (Assistant
Professor, University of Laval) - Climate Litigation and Pleas to Universal Truths, not Common Interests
Carl Emilio Lewis (Researcher, Asser Institute)
3.30 Break
16.00 Roundtable: Reimagining Foundations and Judicial Functions
- The Elusiveness of Interdependent Obligations and the Law of State Responsibility
Priya Urs (Junior Fellow, University of Oxford) - “Proxy States” as Champions of the Common Interest? Implications and Opportunities
Sarah Thin (Assistant Professor, Radboud University) - Compensation for Damage to Common Spaces and Interests between the Law of
International Responsibility and the Need to Restore Collective Goods
Elisa Ruozzi (Associate Professor, University of Turin) - Conditional Judicialization of International Investment Dispute Settlement
Yu Chen (Assistant Professor, City University of Hong Kong)
5.45 Break
6:00 PM Keynote & Discussion: Prof. Malgosia Fitzmaurice (Queen Mary University London)
When
- Wednesday the 13th of december 2023 from 13:30 to 19:00