"International Rule of Law" - Professor Malcolm Evans, Professor William A. Schabas and Right Rev. Andrew John

On 20 March 2013, Bangor University Honorary Fellow and Professor of International Law at Bristol University, Professor Malcolm Evans OBE; Professor William A. Schabas OC MRIA of the University of Middlesex and the National University of Ireland (Galway); and the Right Reverend Andrew John, the Bishop of Bangor, will be participating in a high-level discussion on International Rule of Law.

The interactive discussion will be chaired by Professor Suzannah Linton, Chair of International Law at Bangor Law School, and will focus on the following issues:

• The concept of an ‘international rule of law’
• Just war and use of force
• Whether the international system continues to be biased against the Global South/developing world, and whether the international system is capable of supporting multiculturalism and pluralism, and not engaging in cultural imperialism
• Whether law, in our present international system, makes the world a safer or more dangerous place
• Whether religious institutions, and those who work within them, are still, around the world, outside the reach of the law
• Whether the focus on international justice is correctly placed, in a world where there seems not to have been a reduction in international criminality and powerful states still evade responsibility, a world where children continue to die from malnutrition and disease, women die in childbirth, millions cannot read or write, and existence seems almost worthless for so many around the world

Time: 2.00-4.00pm

Venue: Main Arts Lecture Theatre, College Road

Publication date: 7 March 2013