This event is open to the on-campus Stanford Community only. And is hosted by the Stanford International Law Society. 

Since the adoption of the U.N. Charter in 1945 – at the latest – international law has prohibited the use of force in international relations, thereby providing legal protection to states against aggression – a legal right not be victims of war.  But is it time for international law to recognize an actionable right to peace for individuals?  If so, what would such a right entail?  Would the existence of such a right provide additional protections against the ravages of war?  And how might such a human right to peace be adjudicated and enforced in the international legal system?

About the Lecturer: Dr. Chile Eboe-Osuji served as a judge on the International Criminal Court in The Hague from 2012-2021, and as the Court’s President from 2018-2021.

Prior to joining the ICC, Dr. Eboe-Osuji served as the Legal Advisor to the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights. Before that, he held several senior posts at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.

Dr. Eboe-Osuji was the Herman Phlegar Visiting Professor of Law at Stanford Law School this past Winter quarter. Among other current appointments, he is the Distinguished International Jurist and Special Advisor to the University President at Ryerson University and a Senior Fellow at the Carr Center at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

Dr. Eboe-Osuji has an extensive record of legal scholarship and publications, including the books International Law and Sexual Violence in Armed Conflicts, and Protecting Humanity (editor). He is the editor-in-chief of the Nigerian Yearbook of International Law.