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Foreign Relations Law
September 12, 2014 @ 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Campbell McLachlan, Q.C. Victoria University of Wellington Foreign Relations Law
Reviewer/Discussant:
Stephen Toope
Friday, September 12, 2014
12:30 – 2:00
Solarium (room FA2), Falconer Hall
84 Queen’s Park
What legal principles govern the external exercise of the public power of states within common law legal systems? Foreign Relations Law tackles three fundamental issues: the distribution of the foreign relations power between the or¬gans of government; the impact of the foreign relations power on individual rights; and the treatment of the foreign state within the municipal legal system. Focusing on the four Anglo-Commonwealth states (the United Kingdom, Aus¬tralia, Canada and New Zealand), McLachlan examines the interaction between public international law and national law and demonstrates that the prime function of foreign relations law is not to exclude foreign affairs from legal regulation, but to allocate jurisdiction and determine applicable law in cases involving the external exercise of the public power of states: between the organs of the state; amongst the national legal systems of different states; and between the national and the international legal systems.
Campbell McLachlan QC is Professor of International Law at Victoria University of Wellington. He is a New Zealand Law Foundation International Research Fel¬low and sometime Visiting Fellow at All Souls Col¬lege, Oxford. He has been President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law and taught at The Hague Academy of International Law. He is a member of Essex Court Chambers (London) and Bankside Chambers (Auckland & Singapore).
Stephen Toope recently stepped down after eight years as President and Vice-Chancellor of UBC. In January, he will become Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs at U of T. He previously served as Dean of Law at McGill and President of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation. He has written extensively on the interplay between domestic and international law, especially in the area of human rights.
For more workshop information, please contact Nadia Gulezko at n.gulezko@utoronto.ca.