International Law as a Tool of Resistance

August Reinisch is professor of international and European law at the University of Vienna and a Member of the International Law Commission (ILC) as well as of the Institut de droit international. He is president of the Austrian branch of the ILA. 

He has published widely in international law with a focus on international investment law and on the law of international organizations. August Reinisch currently serves as the ILC’s Special Rapporteur on the topic “Settlement of disputes to which international organizations are parties”. He has been a frequent expert and arbitrator in investment cases mostly under ICSID and UNCITRAL Rules.

Professor Christine Chinkin, FBA, CMG, is Executive Chair of the ILA. She was previously Professor of International Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Global Law Professor at the University of Michigan. She is co-author of The Boundaries of International Law: a Feminist Analysis (2000), The Making of International Law (2007) and International Law and New Wars (2017), Gendered Peace through International Law (2024) and author of Women, Peace and Security and International Law (2022).

Rainer Hofmann; Senior Professor for Public Law, Public International Law and European Law, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main; Treasurer, International Law Association; Member, German Committee on Humanitarian Law; Chairman, Scientific Advisory Board, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights (Vienna). Former Member (1998-2004, 2008-2012) and President (1998-2204, 2010-2012) of the Advisory Committee under the Council of Europe Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities; Former Member (2001-2021) of the Advisory Council on Public International Law, German Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Former Secretary-General (2006-2016) and President (2016-2025) of the German Association for International Law (German Branch of the International law Association); Former Member (2015-2021) of the Management and of the Executive Board of the European Union Fundamental Rights Agency.

Lucas Lixinski is a Professor at the Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney. He holds a PhD in International Law from the European University Institute (Florence, Italy), an LLM in Human Rights Law from Central European University (Budapest, Hungary), and an LLB from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Porto Alegre, Brazil). He researches and teaches across a range of fields in international law, primarily international cultural heritage law and international human rights law. He is the Director of Studies of the ILA.

Dr. The Hon. Mme. Justice Chantal Ononaiwu is a Judge of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) and Chair of the CCJ Academy for Law. She has specialist expertise in Caribbean Community Law and International Law, including International Trade Law, and varied legal experience as an adjudicator, litigator, legal advisor and university lecturer. Justice Ononaiwu was the Director, External Trade at the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, leading the coordination of CARICOM’s external trade policy and serving as a negotiator of CARICOM’s international trade agreements. She is the ILA's Diversity and Inclusion Officer, President of the ILA Caribbean Branch and was a member of the ILA Study Group on the International Law of Regional Organizations.

Antonios Tzanakopoulos is Secretary-General of the ILA and Professor of Public International Law at the University of Oxford Faculty of Law. He is the author of Disobeying the Security Council (2011) and co-editor of the Research Handbook on the Law of Treaties (2016), The Settlement of International Disputes (2d ed 2023), and The Engagement of Domestic Courts with International Law (2024). Antonios has acted as counsel and advocate before the ICJ, ITLOS, and other international and domestic courts and tribunals, and he practices from Three Stone Chambers in Lincoln's Inn.