Centre for European Law and Internationalisation (CELI)
CELI brings together researchers with an interest in the fields of all aspects of European law in the widest sense and in trends of internationalisation, for example in relation to global trade or in relation to human rights. It promotes academic research (including postgraduate research), holds seminars and conferences, and receives visitors wishing to conduct research in this area.
News, Events and Publications
Building peace in fractured societies. The League of Nations and the protection of national minorities in the 1920s, 22 May 2019
The lecture addresses the challenges of creating peace in Europe after the First World War.
Research workshop: The Future of EU Social Security Law
This workshop brings together leading experts in EU Social Security Law.
The Trump Administration and International Law
Who is winning: Donald Trump or International Law? Prof Harold Hongju Koh, currently Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale and Goodhart Visiting Professor at Cambridge, formerly Yale Law Dean and U.S. State Department Legal Adviser gives his assessment.
Would it be difficult for China to ratify the 1999 Second Protocol to the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property?, 21 March 2019
Prof Xiujuan Hu will present a paper that examines the reasons why China is reluctant to be a party to the 1999 Second Protocol.
Same-sex marriage under International law
Research seminar jointly organised by the international law cluster and CELI on the status of same sex marriages under international law
Registration open for Leicester Law School conference on migrants’ rights on 22 March
Law School lecturer Alan Desmond has been awarded funding by the Modern Law Review to host a conference at the University of Leicester on 22 March on the future of migrants’ rights protection.
Peace Building in Mid-Town Manhattan: The UN’s Architecture and Art collection as a Way of Exploring its Early Understandings of Peace (1945 to 1952)
Our next peace talk will be delivered by Dr Isobel Roele (QMUL) and will analyse what ideas of peace, order and security emerge if we read the UN as the product of aesthetic design.
Brexit and the UK Parliament: scrutiny and influence
Joint event organised by the European law and policy research cluster and the politics department on the role of the UK Parliament on the Brexit process.
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