The Glasgow Centre for International Law and Security holds an exciting range of academic and professional events throughout the year. From research seminars to public lectures, in our activities, we aim to promote an understanding of how international law operates and helps to shape our world and why international legal research is crucial to this endeavour.

Recordings of past GCILS Webinars are available at the Videos webpage .

Miles Jackson – Killing in War and Crimes Against Humanity

In contrast to work that addresses the relationships between international humanitarian law (IHL) and international human rights law, there is relatively little judicial practice or scholarship addres...

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Roundtable on Unilateral Sanctions

The Glasgow Centre for International Law and Security (GCILS) at the University of Glasgow is hosting a roundtable on the topic of unilateral sanctions in international law. The roundtable brings toge...

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Textbooks and the Discipline of International Law

“A look at any standard textbook will confirm this point…”: Textbooks and the Discipline of International Law Textbooks are having a moment in international law scholarship. And for good reason. We ho...

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Book Launch

Tommaso Soave Book Talk – ‘‘The Everyday Makers of International Law’

On 4 December we will welcome Dr. Tommaso Soave, Assistant Professor at the Central European University, Vienna, to Glasgow for a talk about his monograph ‘The Everyday Makers of International Law’. I...

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International Law as a Profession: Emma Hutchison, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

International Law as a Profession: A discussion with Emma Hutchison We are delighted to invite you to our next GCILS event on the International Law as a Profession series, with Emma Hutchison, senior ...

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Book talk: Asaf Siniver on “The International Arbitration of Territorial Disputes”

Speaker: Professor Asaf Siniver – Professor of International Security From: School of Government, University of Birmingham In this lecture, Professor Asaf Siniver will introduce and discuss his ...

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