Dr Danae Azaria speaks at UN event commemorating 75th anniversary of International Law Commission

The event took place in Geneva on 24 May 2024 and was jointly hosted with the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.

Dr Azaria’s talk concerned “State Silence and the International Law Commission” on a panel concerning the ILC’s authority. Part of her talk is based on her article published (open access) in the European Journal of International Law, “‘Codification by Interpretation’: The International Law Commission as an Interpreter of International Law” (2020).

The event’s video can be accessed on YouTube (Dr Azaria’s panel begins at 26:00 and Dr Azaria’s talk at 44:00).

This is the second invitation extended to Dr Azaria by the ILC to speak at a UN ILC commemorative event. In 2018, Dr Azaria, was an invited speaker to the UN official commemorative event for the ILC’s 70th anniversary. Her publication on which her talk was based was entitled “The Working Methods of the International Law Commission: Adherence to Methodology, Commentaries and Decision-Making”, and has been published in the volume “Seventy Years of the International Law Commission: Drawing a Balance for the Future” (2020).