News from the CCIL
July 6, 2020
The conference organising committee is pleased to announce its plans for an exciting series of virtual events starting in September. In collaboration with its partners, including the Canadian Red Cross, the Société française pour le droit international, the Société québécoise de droit international, the Canadian Partnership for International Justice (CPIJ) & others, the CCIL will offer individual webinars from September to November and two 1/2-days of conference on October 29 & 30. More
May 21, 2020
On April 8, 2020, the CCIL sadly lost one of its Honourary Life Member, Edward Graham Lee. Ted was involved in different capacities over the years, including as CCIL President in 1994-1996. In 2008, he was awarded the John Read Medal in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the cause of international law and organization. A career diplomat, he served Canada for almost 40 years in that capacity. Upon his retirement in 1993, he taught international law at the University of Ottawa, and authored numerous articles published in Canadian law journals.
On behalf of CCIL, we offer our condolences to his family and loved ones.
Our next CCIL Bulletin will offer a tribute to Ted.
From his obituary :
Born in Vancouver and educated at the University of British Columbia (B.A., LL.B.) and Harvard (LL.M.). Served as a Flying Officer in RCAF Intelligence 1952-55. Called to the B.C. Bar in 1958 and appointed...
April 27, 2020
The CCIL community was saddened by the passing of Allan Gotlieb on April 18, 2020. Most people will remember him as a distinguished Canadian international lawyer, and in particular one who has made a lasting mark on Canada-US relations as Ambassador to the US in the 1980s. However, few may know that he was one of the members of the first Executive Board of CCIL. Specifically, he was elected at the June 5, 1972 meeting where the CCIL was established. Over the years, he was a speaker and participant in some of the CCIL conferences.
On behalf of CCIL, we offer our condolences to his family and loved ones.
Our next CCIL Bulletin will offer a tribute to Allan Gotlieb.
From his obituary:
A Rhodes scholar and graduate of Berkeley, Oxford, and Harvard, Allan taught law at Oxford before returning to Canada to join the Department of External Affairs. He held a number of senior positions over the course of a...
April 22, 2020
Given the outbreak of COVID-19 and the present need for online educational materials and resources, the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law (AVL) is a unique online multimedia resource, which provides high quality international law training and research materials free of charge and can be accessed in the vicinity of any home at: https://legal.un.org/avl/.
Additionally, the Audiovisual Library of International Law is available as a podcast at: https://soundcloud.com/un_avl. It can also be accessed on Apple and Google devices through their respective preinstalled podcast application by searching: “Audiovisual Library of International Law”.
While the AVL team is currently not able to publish new lectures on the AVL website due to outbreak of COVID-19, it will continue to disseminate new audio lectures through its podcast in the meantime.