The 45th annual CCIL Conference was held from November 3rd to 5th at the Department of Global Affairs in Ottawa. Once again, the CCIL was pleased with the amazing engagement of the international law community! Attended by delegates and speakers from across Canada and abroad, the Conference brought together scholars and legal professionals from a broad spectrum of backgrounds to discuss the 2016 theme: The Promise of International Law: Solutions for the World’s Crises.

 

The CCIL would like to thank everyone who made this conference possible: sponsors, speakers, volunteers and participants. Special thanks to the Conference Co-chairs, the immediate past President Adrienne Jarabek Marion and Vice-President Andrew Lanouette for their enthusiasm and tireless effort without which the conference would not have been possible. Our sincere thanks to the entire Intertask team who helped with the logistics and to ensure we were on track with our objectives.

 

We would also like to thank all the distinguished speakers who offered stimulating discussion and perspectives on various matters such as Brexit, the compliance of non-state armed groups with IHL in Syria, Iraq and Libya, the migrant crisis, climate change and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. In particular, CCIL would like to thank our keynote speakers:

 

Mrs. Fatou Bensouda, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court

 

The Honourable Mr. Justice Thomas Albert Cromwell, Supreme Court Justice, Supreme Court of Canada

 

Valerie Hughes, Director of Legal Affairs, World Trade Organization (WTO) Secretariat

 

Joseph H.H. Weiler, European Union Jean Monnet Chair, New York University School of Law, President, European University Institute (EUI), Florence, Italy   

 

The CCIL would also like to extend our gratefulness to our generous sponsors: CIGI International Law Research Program (Diamond), Professional Association of Foreign Services Officers; Munk School of Global affairs, University of Toronto (Platinum), Bennett Jones, University of Ottawa Faculty of Law, SSHRCC (Gold), Canadian Red Cross, ICRC, University Laval and University of Windsor (Bronze). Without your continuing support, the CCIL could not have produced such an outstanding conference.

 

Finally and not least, we would like to congratulate once again the recipient of the John E. Read Medal, Valerie Hughes and the Public Sector Lawyer Award, Alan Willis!

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With kind regards,

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The CCIL Board of Directors