International Humanitarian Law series 2023

The annual International Humanitarian Law (IHL) series welcomed distinguished guest speaker, Professor Gerard Quinn, Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities. In the first part of the series, Professor Quinn delivered the annual lecture at the School of Law on a theme he vocalised in his first thematic report as UN Special Rapporteur, “From Object to Subject: Increasing the Visibility of Persons with Disabilities in International Humanitarian Law.” on which he wrote in July 2021, “the visibility—or relative invisibility—of persons with disabilities in norms and practices that have evolved over decades to address all points along the peace conflict continuum."

The second and final part of the series, saw professor Quinn join the LLM students along with visiting experts at the annual roundtable (with the kind sponsorship and support of the British Red Cross) on the thematic of disability and warfare to test the extent of the unevenness of this landscape, and to try to navigate how best international humanitarian law can take forward the interest but also the agency of persons with disabilities.

This series was hosted by International Humanitarian Law Unit of the Nottingham International Law & Security Centre (NILSC), Co-directed by Professor Dino Kritsiotis, who chaired this event.