Typologies of International Legal Obligations

Join us for a substantive panel discussion with two experts on public international law from the Codification Division of the Office of Legal Affairs of the United Nations. Our Panelists are: Dr. Xiao Mao who currently works at the Codification Division of the Office of Legal Affairs of the United Nations, where she services the International Law Commission, the Sixth (Legal) Committee of the United Nations General Assembly, and diplomatic conferences concerned with the codification and progressive development of international law. Our second Panelist is: Dr. Mahaliana Ravaloson is from Madagascar. She is a Legal Officer at the Codification Division of the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs in New York. She previously served as an Associate Legal Officer at the Treaty Section and at the International Court of Justice.
The two panelists will examine several ways in which international legal obligations may be categorised, drawing on examples from international law-making and adjudication processes under the United Nations framework.
Their presentation will cover a diverse range of categorisations of international obligations, such as positive and negative obligations; obligations of conduct and obligations of result; obligations based on different temporal structures of breach (instantaneous, continuing, and composite); primary and secondary obligations and so on.
The discussion will address the concept, implications and importance of typologies of obligations in legal practices with empirical cases.
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