Ariel F. Sallows Chair in Human Rights Lecture
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Lecture: The Violence of Gaza Undertaken in the Name of Proportionality
Speaker: Prof. Dino Kritsiotis, Ariel F. Sallows Chair in Human Rights
Proportionality is regarded as one of the core institutions of international humanitarian law, but with each set of hostilities comes a renewed interest in the application of the principle inviting a volley of provocations: what is the function of proportionality, how is it to be assessed, by whom and when are such assessments supposed to occur? By considering Israel’s military reaction to the Hamas action of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7, 2023, this lecture will trace the broad idea of proportionality as a normative proposition for warfare, together with the considerations that inform—or should inform—that metric. However, what weighting is to be attached in circumstances of high casualty figures for children, or women, or the elderly? Has the time come to renew focus on the purpose of the principle of proportionality and what it is designed to do when all is said and done?
Speaker Bio: Dino Kritsiotis currently holds the Ariel F. Sallows Chair in Human Rights at USask Law. His term began Jan. 1, 2025 and will conclude June 30, 2025. The Ariel F. Sallows Chair in Human Rights was the first endowed chair at the College of Law, and the first endowed chair of human rights in any college of law in Canada.
Professor Kritsiotis is a Professor of Public International Law at the University of Nottingham, where he has taught since October 1994. He serves as the Director of the Nottingham International Law & Security Centre (NILSC), where he is the founding head of the International Humanitarian Law Unit (established in 2012). Professor Kritsiotis is a recognized authority in the field of public international law, where he specializes in the legal regulation of force and armed conflict (international humanitarian law), as well as the history and theory of public international law.
Among his many publications are Conceptual and Contextual Perspectives on the Modern Law of Treaties (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and his lectures on "Intervention and and the Problematization of Consent" in Max Planck Trialogues on the Law of Peace and War (Vol. IV: Armed Intervention and Consent) (Cambridge University Press, 2023). He also serves as co-editor (alongside Eyal Benvenisti of the University of Cambridge) of the Cambridge History of International Law (Vol. XII: International Law After the Cold War), which is due to be published by Cambridge University Press in the next calendar year.
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- 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM CST
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- MLT Aikins Lecture Theatre (Room 150), College of Law, 15 Campus Drive