nilufer oral
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nilufer oral
@niluferoral
Director, Centre for Intl Law- NUS. Member of UN International Law Commission. Retweets are not endorsements.
Singapore
Joined February 2009
- What an honour to meet ICJ candidate Prof. Hilary Charlesworth in person today in New York at her Fireside chat with Prof. Jose Alvarez. As an admirer of her great legal intellect I hope to see her elected as the fifth woman member of the Court since 1946 (not counting PCIJ)#ICJ
- The ILC adopts 23 draft conclusions on peremptory norms of general international law (jus cogens)! Congratulations Dire Tladi for his leadership in guiding the Commission on this important and fascinating subject #internationallaw #internationallawcommission
- UN Geneva Law Library commemoration of Judge James Crawford. Many thanks to Rachel the head librarian. #UnitedNations
- The 74th session of the #International Law Commission started with a milestone election of the two senior women members of WEOG to serve as Chairpersons in successive order. The first part will be chaired by myself and the second part by @patricia Galvao Teles. A great honour!
- It is an immense honor to have been elected to the Institut de Droit International especially on its 150th anniversary. I am grateful to the support of the Members and warmly congratulate my dear colleagues elected. @mariooyarzabalReplying to @idi_iilL'IDI félicite aussi les nouveaux membres pour avoir été élus à l'Institut: M. Payam Akhavan, Mmes Edith Brown-Weiss, Cecilia Fresnedo de Aguirre, MM. Slim Laghmani, Petros Mavroidis, Mmes Angelika Nußberger, Nilufer Oral, MM. Mario Oyarzabal, Pavel Šturma et Nassib Ziadé.
- Congratulations to Prof Mathias Forteau on his appointment as Special Rapporteur on the #ILC topic Non-legally binding international agreements! #internationallaw
- The four women members of the International Law Commission (Marja Lehto, Concepcion Escobar, @PatrciaGalvoTe1 and Nilüfer Oral) with the wonderful UN Geneva Law Librarian Rachel Forman. #ILC ##UN @UNGeneva @UNOGLibrary
- Thank you team @Turkey_UN for all your hard work, sleepless nights and confidence. Sonsuz tesekkurler🇹🇷🇹🇷
- It is an exciting time for international law when we have three advisory opinions related to climate change happening all at the same time. Please join us for what should be a very interesting conversation about these advisory opinions! #climatechange
- It is an honour of a lifetime to have chaired part 1 of the 74th session of #ILC_2023 and a great pleasure to pass the gavel to my dear friend @PatrciaGalvoTe1 to chair part 2. In 74 years we are only the second women to chair the ILC!! #women #internationallaw #UN
- Live from ITLOS and minutes away from the opening session of the historic COSIS advisory opinion. More photos to come! @Phoebe_Okowa and Zachary Philips #COSIS #ITLOS #climatechange
- Celebrating in the clouds (literally as I am in a plane)this historic agreement to protect the oceans BRAVO to the delegates, the NGOs and the many who have devoted years to reach this moment! #BBNJ International law works! #internationallawBBNJ President Rena Lee: "The ship has reached the shore." The BBNJ Agreement is agreed.
00:00 - Apologies for the self-promotion but I take this opportunity on Oceans Day to highlight the tremendous climate stress the oceans are under and the need for ocean-climate action #OceanDay #ClimateCrisisOn World Oceans Day we invite you to watch the lecture “Climate Change and the Protection of the Ocean” by Professor Nilüfer Oral, available at: legal.un.org/avl/ls/Oral_EL… #internationallaw #WorldOceansDay #climatechange
