Podcasts

ELAC produces audio podcasts wherever possible for our seminars and other events. All podcasts are listed below individually or alternatively you can subscribe to our podcast RSS feed to ensure you receive podcasts as soon as they are released. Q&A are not included in the recordings.

Please note that the views and opinions expressed during these seminars are those of the respective speakersr(s) and are not neccessarily those of ELAC or CCW.

Lectures and Seminars Podcast RSS Feed

• 'Targeted Killing: Exploring its Legality, Morality and Effectiveness'

  6 Feb 2012, An ELAC/Law Faculty Event

  Professor Amos N. Guiora (University of Utah) with respondent Professor Jeremy Waldron (New York University School of Law and Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, Oxford)

• 'Targeted Killing in War and Peace: A Philosophical Analysis'

  31 Jan 2012, ELAC/CCW Seminar Series

  Professor Fernando Teson (Florida State University College of Law)

• 'Targeted Killing in War and Peace: A Philosophical Analysis'

  31 Jan 2012, ELAC/CCW Seminar Series

  Professor Fernando Teson (Florida State University College of Law)

  Professor Teson has made his paper for the seminar available - please click on this link: Targeted Killing in War and Peace: A Philosophical Analysis

• 'Ending Wars in a Wilsonian World: Sovereignty at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919’

  24 Jan 2012, ELAC/CCW Seminar Series

  Professor Leonard Smith (Oberlin)

• 'Humanitarian Ethics in Armed Conflict: Aid Agency Dilemmas and Responsibility’

  17 Jan 2012, ELAC/CCW Seminar Series

  Dr Hugo Slim (Visiting Fellow, ELAC)

• 'Permissible Preventive Cyberwar’

  22 Nov 2011, ELAC/CCW Seminar Series

  Professor George Lucas (United States Naval Academy)

  Professor Lucas has made his paper for the seminar available - please click on this link: Permissible Preventive Cyberwar

• 'The Prosecutor’ Panel Discussion (extracts)

  17 Nov 2011, ELAC Film Screening Panel Discussion

  Anneke van Woudenberg (Human Rights Watch) and Mr Rodney Dixon (Barrister, Temple Garden Chambers)

• 'Rights, Liability, and the Moral Equality of Combatants’

  9 Nov 2011, ELAC/CCW Seminar

  Professor Uwe Steinhoff (University of Hong Kong)

• 'Does War Have a Meaning?’

  8 Nov 2011, ELAC/CCW Seminar Series

  Professor Michael Boylan (Marymount)

• 'The Shadow of the ICC: Positive Complementarity and the Situation in Kenya’

  25 Oct 2011, ELAC/CCW Seminar Series

  Professor Chandra Sriram (SOAS)

• 'Strategy for Action: Using Force Wisely in the 21st Century’

  18 Oct 2011, ELAC/CCW Seminar Series

  Commodore Steve Jermy (Royal Navy)

• 'None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture’

  11 Oct 2011, ELAC/CCW Seminar Series

  Josh Phillips (Journalist)

• State Control over Private Military and Security Companies in Armed Conflict

  10 Oct 2011, OTJR and ELAC Book Launch

  Dr. Hannah Tonkin (Lawyer at the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda)

• 'Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict: The Legacy of 9/11'

  10 Oct 2011, ELAC Panel Discussion

  Professor Jennifer Welsh, Dr David Rodin and Dapo Akande (ELAC)

• 'Migration, Digital Images and the Future of Insurgency'

  15 June 2011, ELAC/CCW Seminar Series

  Dr John Mackinlay (King’s College London)

• 'Morality and Law in War'

  7 June 2011, ELAC/CCW Seminar Series

  Dr Seth Lazar (Research Associate, ELAC, Oxford)

• ‘Humanitarianism and History: Rethinking the Neutrality Debate’

  6 June 2011, An Oxford Humanitarian Group Event

  Tom Smith (QEH, Oxford)

• ‘Intervention in Libya and Implications for European and Transatlantic Defence Cooperation'

  31 May 2011, ELAC/CCW Seminar Series

  Camille Grand (Director Fondation pour la Recherche Strategique (FRS, Paris)

• ‘Targeted Killings: A Modern Strategy of the State’ (partial)

  24 May 2011, ELAC/CCW Seminar Series

  William F. Owen (Cranfield Defence and Security, UK Defence Academy)

• 'Intervening to Protect Civilians: Debating the NATO-led mission in Libya'

  19 May 2011, ELAC Panel Discussion

  Professor Jennifer Welsh, Dr David Rodin and Dapo Akande (ELAC)

• ‘Sovereign Equality and Moral Disagreement: Premises of a Pluralist International Legal Order’

  17 May 2011, ELAC/CCW Seminar Series

  Professor Brad Roth (Wayne State, Detroit)

• ‘Stabilisation, Security and Capacity Building - What the Business Schools and Sociologists might tell the Military’

  10 May 2011, ELAC/CCW Seminar Series

  Colonel Duncan Barley (British Army [ret])

• ‘Killing in Humanitarian Wars’

  3 May 2011, ELAC/CCW Seminar Series

  Professor Cecile Fabre (Oxford)

• ‘Aiding the Peace in Southern Sudan: A Multi-donor Evaluation of Support to Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Activities in Southern Sudan 2005-2010’

  7 March 2011, An Oxford Humanitarian Group Event

  Jon Bennett (Director, Oxford Development Consultants)

• ‘Military Ethics as Professional Ethics: The Limits of the Philosophical Approach’

  1 March 2011, ELAC/CCW Seminar Series

  Professor Martin Cook (US Naval War College)

• ‘The Battlefield from Afar: Independently Operating Weapons Systems and their Compatibility with the Laws of Armed Conflict’

  15 Feb 2011, ELAC/CCW Seminar Series

  Professor Markus Wagner (Miami)

• ‘Being Humanitarian: Personal Morality and Political Project in Today's Wars’

  14 Feb 2011, An Oxford Humanitarian Group Event

  Dr Hugo Slim (Director of CforC, London and Visiting Fellow, ELAC)

• ‘Contemporary Security Challenges’ (partial)

  8 Feb 2011, ELAC/CCW Seminar Series

  Dr Paul Cornish (Chatham House)

• ‘Special Responsibilities in World Politics’

  1 Feb 2011, ELAC/CCW Seminar Series

  Professor Ian Clark (Aberystwyth) with Professor Christian Reus-Smit (European University Institute, Florence)

• ‘Pre-emptive Strikes - Israel and Iran’

  25 Jan 2011, ELAC/CCW Seminar Series

  Dr Tamar Meisels (Tel Aviv)

• ‘A “Fighting Chance” or Fighting Dirty? Michael Gross meets the Spartans’

  18 Jan 2011, ELAC/CCW Seminar Series

  Dr Cian O’Driscoll (Glasgow)

• 'The Nation in Arms and French Military Identity’

  30 Nov 2010, ELAC/CCW Seminar Series

  Professor Alan Forrest (York University)

• 'Access to a Court and the Security Council: Implications for Normative Hierarchy’

  9 Nov 2010, ELAC/CCW Seminar Series

  Dr Antonios Tzanakopoulos (Glasgow)

• ‘Invisible War'

  2 Nov 2010

  Professor Joy Gordon (Fairfield University) with Professor David Miller (Oxford)

• ‘Norms and Modern Military Coalitions: the Significance of Token Forces’

  2 Nov 2010, ELAC/CCW Seminar Series

  Professor Katharina Coleman (British Colombia/ CIS Visiting Fellow)

• ‘Power and Norms: What can the Nobel Peace Prize accomplish? The Inside Story’

  26 October 2010

  Professor Geir Lundestad (Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo and Secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee)

• 'A Strategic Analysis of the First Anglo-Afghan War 1839-42: Lessons for Today’

  26 October 2010, ELAC/CCW Seminar Series

  Col Adam Finlay (Australian Army, CCW Visiting Fellow)

• ‘The Wager Lost By Winning: on the 'Triumph' of the Just War Tradition’

  19 October 2010, ELAC/CCW Seminar Series

  Professor Nicholas Rengger (St Andrews)

• ‘The Untold War’

  12 October 2010, ELAC/CCW Seminar Series

  Professor Nancy Sherman (Georgetown).

• ‘Why We Fight’ - The Second Annual Meeting of the Oxford War Group, Nuffield College Oxford

  7 and 8 October 2010

  • Dr Seth Lazar ‘On the Moral Importance of Winning'
  • Dr Gerhard Øverland ‘An Extraordinary Humanitarian Intervention’
  • Professor Yitzhak Benbaji ‘Just Cause for War: A Contractarian Analysis’.
  • Professor Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen ‘Global Injustice and Redistributive Wars’
  • Dr Patrick Emerton ‘Cosmopolitanism, Self-Determination and National Self-Defence’
  • Professor Cecile Fabre ‘Civil Wars’
  • Professor Christopher Kutz ‘Violence as Victory’
  • Professor Jeff McMahan ‘Is War Evil’?

• ‘Ethics Under Fire’

  8 June 2010, ELAC/CCW Event

  With Dr David Rodin (ELAC), Wg Cdr Ash Mitchell (Defence Academy of the UK), Dapo Akande (ELAC and Law, Oxford) and Prof Henry Shue (Philosophy, Oxford)

  A recording of this event with commentary on the footage (without audience comments) is also available here.

• ‘Do International Criminal Courts Strengthen Justice on the Ground in Post-Conflict Societies?’

  8 June 2010, ELAC/CCW Seminar Series

  Prof Jane Stromseth (Georgetown University)

• ‘Intelligence and the Dhofar Insurgency: New Perspectives’

  1 June 2010, ELAC/CCW Seminar Series

  Prof Clive Jones (Leeds University)

• 'Kicking Bodies and Damning Souls: The Danger of Harming "Innocent" Individuals While Punishing"Delinquent" States'

  25 May 2010, ELAC/CCW Seminar Series

  Prof Toni Erskine (Aberystwyth University)

• 'Strategic Shortfall: The Somalia Syndrome and the March to 9/11'

  18 May 2010, ELAC/CCW Seminar Series

  Prof Robert Patman (Otago, NZ)

• 'Why it doesn't matter whether we're at war with al-Qaeda'

  11 May 2010, ELAC/CCW Seminar Series

  Anthony Dworkin (European Council on Foreign Relations)

• 'The Mafia and the Mullah: Counternarcotics, Counterinsurgency and Realpolitik in Afghanistan’

  4 May 2010, ELAC/CCW Seminar Series

  Captain William Park (U.S. Navy Hudson Fellow, CCW Visiting Fellow and ELAC Research Associate)

• 'The Review Conference of the Rome Statute: Amending the Statute and Taking Stock of the Court’ (partial)

  27 April 2010, ELAC/CCW Seminar Series

  Prof William Schabas (NUI) with Prof Claus Kress (University of Cologne)

• 'Understanding the Mind in Peace Negotiations’

  10 March 2010

  Jeremy Lack (Lawyer and Mediator, Etude Altenburger Switzerland) / Professor Baroness Susan Greenfield (Institute for the Future of the Mind, Oxford)

• 'War Crimes Trials, Solemnity and the Problem of Evil’

  2 March 2010, ELAC/CCW Seminar Series

  Prof Gerry Simpson (LSE / University of Melbourne)

• 'Empires of Mud: Afghanistan 2001-2010'

  23 Feb 2010, ELAC/CCW Seminar Series

  Dr Antonio Giustozzi (LSE)

• 'Rethinking the nuclear taboo: The French perspective'

  16 Feb 2010, ELAC/CCW Seminar Series

  Dr Bastien Irondelle (Visiting Research Fellow, CCW)

• ‘Human Rights, Sovereignty and Military Intervention: A Dialogue with JS Mill’

  9 Feb 2010, ELAC/CCW Seminar Series

  Prof Michael Doyle (Columbia Law School)

• ‘War and Love: The Role of Special Relationships in the Ethics of War’

  2 Feb 2010, ELAC/CCW Seminar Series

  Dr Seth Lazar (Oxford)

• ‘Strategic thinking for an Age of Austerity’

  26 Jan 2010, ELAC/CCW Seminar Series

  David Blagden (Oxford)

• ‘Punitive War’

  19 Jan 2010, ELAC/CCW Seminar Series

  Prof Victor Tadros (Professor, Law, University of Warwick).

• Global Eradication of Infectious Diseases: Can ‘Not Very Much' undermine the goal of ‘None at All'?

  26-Nov-09, Getting to Zero Seminar Series

  Dr Jodie McVernon (Programme Leader, Mathematical Modelling. Deputy Head, Vaccine and Immunisation Research Group, Melbourne School of Population Health, Australia)

• A New Approach to Nuclear Disarmament: Learning from International Humanitarian Law Success

  19-Nov-09, Getting to Zero Seminar Series

  Dr Patricia Lewis (Deputy Director, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, California, USA)

• Dealing with Doctrines: Time to Outlaw Nuclear Weapon Use?

  05-Nov-09, Getting to Zero Seminar Series

  Dr Rebecca Johnson (Executive Director, Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy, London)

• Private Diplomacy, Public Peace

  04-Nov-09

  Martin Griffiths (Henry Dunant Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (HD Centre)

• Bottom Billion or Bottom Zero?

  29-Oct-09, Getting to Zero Seminar Series

  Professor Tony Venables (University of Oxford).

• Eliminating Nuclear Weapons

  22-Oct-09, Getting to Zero Seminar Series

  Rt Hon Sir Malcolm Rifkind MP

• Zero Chance? Aiming for Zero in Weapons Control

  15-Oct-09, Getting to Zero Seminar Series

  Prof. Richard Price (University of British Columbia)

• Proportionality and Noncombatant Immunity Roundtable (21.7 MB)

  08-Oct-09

  Prof. Jeff McMahan (Rutgers University), Dr. Helen Frowe (University of Sheffield), and Dr. Seth Lazar (ELAC)

• The "Cultural Heritage of All Mankind": Metaphysics, Ethics and the Positive Laws of War (20.8 MB)

  18-May-09, Trinity Term Seminar Series

  Prof. Roger O'Keefe (Cambridge University)

• The Enigma of Article 2(4): Interests and Norms in IR Theory (20.1 MB)

  11-May-09, Trinity Term Seminar Series

  Prof. Ian Hurd (Northwestern University)

• Uncertainty, Lags and and Nonlinearity: Challenges to Governance in a Turbulent World (23.7 MB)

  7-May-09 | <<PowerPoint slides (7.6MB)>>

  Prof. Thomas-Homer Dixon ( University of Waterloo), Discussant: Prof. Nick Bostrom (Future of Humanity Institute)

• The Social Ethics of Believing (24 MB)

  4-May-09, Trinity Term Seminar Series

  Prof. Allen Buchanan (Duke University)

• Proportionality and the Laws of War: Conflicting Interpretation (23 MB)

  27-Apr-09, Trinity Term Seminar Series

  Prof. Thomas Hurka (University of Toronto), Prof. Henry Shue (Oxford), and Dr. David Rodin (Oxford)

• 15 Years After Genocide: Where Now for Rwanda?

  17-Mar-09, Symposium held in conjunction with the Oxford Transitional Justice Research Group and the European Studies Centre

  • Session 1- Genocide Memory and Complicity (to follow soon)
  • Session 2- Domestic Justice and Governance (16.5MB)
    • Dr. Phil Clark, "The Politics of Post-Genocide Justice and Reconciliation
    • Jean-Baptiste Kayigamba "The Failure of Post-Genocide Justice"
  • Session 3- Regional and International Impact of the Genocide (32.2MB)
    • Zachary D. Kaufman "The Establishment of the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda"
    • Bruno Versailles "Economic and Political Rationales for Aid Giving in Rwanda"
    • Dr. Devon Curtis "Peace- and State-Building in the Great Lakes Region"
• A Leap of Trust? Overcoming Distrust in US-Iranian Nuclear Relations (17.9 MB)

  2-Mar-09, Hilary Term Seminar Series

  Prof. Nicholas Wheeler (Aberystwyth University)

• How Individual Rights Transformed World Politics (14.7 MB)

  24-Feb-09, Hilary Term Seminar Series

  Prof. Christian Reus-Smit (Australian National University)

• Institutional Responsibility for Private Military Contractors (23.1 MB)

  23-Feb-09, Hilary Term Seminar Series

  Prof. Nigel White (University of Sheffield) Discussant: Antonios Tzanakopoulos
  (DPhil candidate, Oxford)

• Who Should Intervene? The Agents of Humanitarian Intervention & the Responsibility to Protect (18.3 MB)

  9-Feb-09, Hilary Term Seminar Series

  Dr James Pattison (University of the West of England) Discussant: Seth Lazar (DPhil, Oxford)

• Rebuilding War-Torn States: The Challenge of Post-Conflict Economic Reconstruction (19 MB)

  5-Feb-09

  Prof. Graciana del Castillo (Columbia University). Discussant: Dr. Dominik Zaum (University of Reading)

• Indiscriminate Disproportionality: Another Attempt at Rules with Teeth (23 MB)

  26-Jan-09, Hilary Term Seminar Series

  Prof. Henry Shue (Oxford). Discussant: Janina Dill (DPhil candidate, Oxford)

• Ethical Competence and Understanding War in International Relations (17.5 MB)

  19-Jan-09, Hilary Term Seminar Series

  Prof. Mervyn Frost (King's College London). Discussant: Dr. Christopher Bickerton (Oxford)