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Join our War Crimes Research Group Seminar exploring humanitarian Intervention, foreign fighters and war refugees in the war in Ukraine. The recent Russian invasion of Ukraine triggered a heated discourse about the use of force as response to violations of human rights, highlighted the phenomenon of foreign fighters and shed light on the massive exodus of civilians fleeing war. Our three scholars will address those issues and explore their normative implications.
Speakers:
- Dr Ruvi Ziegler, Associate Professor in International Refugee Law, University of Reading,
- Dr Mark Swatek-Evenstein, Scholar and Lawyer
- Dr Emanuele Giuseppe Sommario, Associate Professor of International Law at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa
About the speakers
Dr Mark-Swatek Evenstein is a scholar and lawyer specialising in criminal law, immigration and refugee law. He is a member of the International Network of Genocide Scholars and has taught courses on the Holocaust and the law. His current research focuses on the minority experience in International Law. His lastest book published by CUP is entitled: A history of Humanitarian Intervention.
Dr Emanuele Sommario is Associate Professor of International Law at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa (Italy). Since 2018 he is the Director of the Scuola's Master in Human Rights and Conflict Management. His main interests lay in Human Rights Law, International Humanitarian Law, the International Law on the use of force, Collective Security Law and International Disaster Law, and he is the author of several scholarly works on the above topics, which he teaches at under- and post-graduate level.
He is a member of the Italian Society of International and EU Law and of the International Law Association (ILA). He is a member of the ILA Committee on Human Rights in Times of Emergency, as well as a member of the Editorial Committee of the Yearbook of International Disaster Law (Brill) and of The Italian Review of International and Comparative Law (Brill).
Dr Ruvi Ziegler is Associate Professor in International Refugee Law at the University of Reading, School of Law, where he is the Director of Postgraduate Taught Programmes and co-Chair of the LGBT+ staff network. Ruvi is a Research Associate of the Refuge Studies Centre, University of Oxford; Senior Research Associate of the Refugee Law Initiative (Institute for Advance Legal Study, University of London) and Editor-in-Chief of its Working Paper Series. He is a Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg and at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Previously, Ruvi was a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School’s Immigration and Refugee Clinic and with the Human Rights Program; and a Tutor in Public International Law at Oxford. Ruvi is the author of Voting Rights of Refugees (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Ruvi's areas of research interest include International Refugee Law, Electoral Rights and citizenship, Comparative Constitutional Law, and International Humanitarian Law. Ruvi holds DPhil, MPhil, and BCL degrees from Oxford University.