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Shannon Maree Torrens

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International and Human Rights Lawyer

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Keynote Speeches, Lectures, Papers

Invited Keynote Speeches

'The Future of International Criminal Law', Erudite Scholar in Residence Program, Seminar on International Legal Norms on Terrorism & Counter-Terrorism (29 January 2019, Government Law College Calicut, Kerala, India) 


'An Overview of Terrorism and International Law', Seminar on International Legal Norms on Terrorism & Counter-Terrorism (28 January 2019, Government Law College Calicut, Kerala, India) 


Invited Guest Lectures

‘Human Rights and Politics in the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond', III Congreso de Relaciones Internacionales (3rd Congress of International Relations) (forthcoming 12 November 2020, Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola (St. Ignatius of Loyola University), Lima, Peru – via video conferencing due to COVID-19) 


'International Criminal Law in Practice' (4 February 2019, National University of Advanced Legal Studies (NUALS), Kochi, Kerala, India) 


'Human Rights - Emerging Trends in International Criminal Justice' (1 February 2019, The Friday Club Ernakulam (Judges and Lawyers of the High Court of Kerala), Kerala, India) 


'International Human Rights Law: Current Issues, Challenges and Prospects', Erudite Scholar in Residence Program, The Centre for Law, Governance and Policy Studies (CLGPS) (31 January 2019, Government Law College Ernakulam, Kerala, India)


'The Politics and Diplomacy of International Law and Climate Change', Erudite Scholar in Residence Program, the Centre for Economy Development and Law (CED&L) (30 January 2019, Government Law College Thrissur, Kerala, India)


‘The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Compared’ (17 March 2010, The Royal University of Phnom Penh, Phnom Penh, Cambodia)


Invited Special Addresses

'Inaugural Address', Seminar on International Legal Norms on Terrorism & Counter-Terrorism (27 January 2019, Government Law College Calicut, Kerala, India) 


'Closing Address', Seminar on International Legal Norms on Terrorism & Counter-Terrorism (27 January 2019, Government Law College Calicut, Kerala, India)


Conference Papers

‘Palestinians, Yazidis and Hate Speech: Potential Responses to Genocide at the ICC’, 14th Doha Conference on Interfaith Dialogue: Religion and Human Rights (forthcoming December 2021, Doha International Center for Interfaith Dialogue, Doha, Qatar)


‘Appeasing Tyrants, Superpowers and those Pursuing the Greater Good - The Metamorphosis of International Criminal Law: 2020 and Beyond’, 28th Annual Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law (ANZSIL) Conference: International Law in the Third Decade of the 21st Century: International Law: A Tool for Challenge or Appeasement? (forthcoming July 2021, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia)


‘The Khmer Rouge Tribunal and its Contribution to Narratives of International Criminal Justice’, 2019 Australian Roundtable on Khmer Rouge Tribunal (15 November 2019, University of Sydney Law School, Sydney Southeast Asia Centre & Sydney Centre for International Law, Sydney, Australia) 


‘The Politics of “The Decider” and the ICC’s Response to the Afghanistan and Palestine Situations’, Australian International Criminal Law Workshop 2019: International Criminal Justice Futures (28 October 2019, Griffith University Law Futures Centre, Brisbane, Australia)


‘Creating International Criminal Courts and Tribunals: The Politics of “The Decider”’ 27th Annual Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law (ANZSIL) Conference: International Law Futures: The Intersection of Law with Knowledge, Information and Expertise (4 July 2019, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia)


‘Intersections of Dissent at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal’, Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) Roundtable: Legacies, Law, and Peoples (7 December 2018, Griffith University Asia Institute and the Law Futures Centre, Brisbane, Australia) 


‘The International Criminal Court, Victim Agency and Palestine’, 2018 International Criminal Law Workshop (29 October 2018, Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia)


‘African Sovereignty, Local Initiatives and International Crime: Current Challenges and Future Responses’, 26th Annual Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law (ANZSIL) Conference: International Law: From the Local to the Global (6 July 2018, Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand)


‘Palestine, Impunity and the Prosecution of International Crimes’, Annual Meeting on Law and Society: Law at the Crossroads (8 June 2018, The Law and Society Association and the Canadian Law and Society Association, Toronto, Canada)


‘Multi-Level Political Interference and Internationalised Hybrid Courts’, Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP): The Conference - Law in Global Political Economy: Heterodoxy Now (3 June 2018, Harvard Law School, Cambridge Massachusetts, USA)


‘Legal, Diplomatic and Policy Responses to the Health Consequences of Climate Change in the Pacific Islands,’ Stanford One Health 2018 – Climate Change and Its Impact on Human and Animal Health (12 May 2018, Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA)


‘International Law, Politics and Climate Activism’, Tenth International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts & Responses: Engaging with Policy on Climate Change (21 April 2018, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, USA)


‘The Genocide, Persecution and Oppression of the Kurds: Silences in International Criminal Justice’, Interdisciplinary Conference on Kurdish Politics and Societies (8 April 2018, Yale University, New Haven, USA) 


‘The Prosecution of International Crimes in Palestine: Impediments and the Way Forward’, 35th Annual Conference on Islam in the Post-Obama Era - The American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies (ACSIS) (24 March 2018, Boston College, Boston, USA) 


‘ISIS, the ICC and Accountability in Syria and Iraq: Challenges Prosecuting Religious Violence, Extremism and Terrorism at the International Level’, Policy Studies Organisation - Middle East Dialogue: A New Collective Vision (23 March 2018, Whittemore House, Washington D.C., USA) 


‘Reconciliation and Lessons Learned in Hybrid Justice: The Creation of a South Sudan Court’, Twenty-First Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities (ASLCH) (16 March 2018, Georgetown Law School, Washington D.C., USA) 


‘The Response of International Criminal Law to the Persecution of Religious Minorities and Ethnic Cleansing’, 13th Doha Conference on Interfaith Dialogue: Religion and Human Rights (21 February 2018, Doha International Center for Interfaith Dialogue, Doha, Qatar)


‘Climate Change, Pacific Livelihoods and the Range Shifting of Fisheries in the Pacific’, Asia-Pacific Workshop on International Law, Climate Change, Oceans and Coasts (14 February 2018, University of Tasmania Faculty of Law and Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), Hobart, Australia)


‘Dissent in International Criminal Justice and the Creation and Reemergence of the Hybrid Court’, Hybrid Justice: Internal and External Resilience in Post-Conflict Societies: Workshop 3 (5 January London School of Economics, The Hybrid Justice Project, London, UK)


‘The Interconnectedness of Justice, Law and Time at the ECCC’, Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) Roundtable (15 December 2017, held jointly by Melbourne Law School and La Trobe University, Australia)


‘International Criminal Justice and Intersections with Time’, 10th Melbourne Doctoral Forum on Legal Theory: Time in Law - Law in Time(8 December 2017, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne, Australia)


‘The Rule of Law, Complexity and International Criminal Justice’, Complexity, Legal and Institutional Change, and Rule of Law Conference(2 December 2017, Loyola University Chicago, Rome, Italy) 


‘Environmental Destruction at the International Criminal Court: Benefits and Challenges’, International Conference - The Role of Human Rights Research: Current Challenges and Future Opportunities (27 November 2017, The University of Padova Human Rights Centre, The University of Padova, Italy) 


‘Understanding the Discrepancy between Aims and Practice in International Criminal Justice: A Critical Perspective’, The 6th Euroacademia Global Forum of Critical Studies: Asking Big Questions Again (25 November 2017, Euroacademia, Agora Cultural Centre, Lucca, Italy) 


‘Reconciling Purpose and Practice at the International Criminal Court through the Preamble to the Rome Statute’, The Fifth Australian International Criminal Law Workshop 2017: "Where are we now? Looking forward to the 20th Anniversary of the Rome Statute" (5 September 2017, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne, Australia)


‘Spoken and Unspoken Voices at the Khmer Rouge Trials’, University of Sydney Division of Humanities and Social Sciences Postgraduate Research Conference: “Empowering Identities: Challenges and Opportunities” (11 November 2016, University of Sydney Law School, Australia) 


‘Inconsistent Justice Aspirations at the ECCC’, Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) Roundtable (25 October 2016, Australian Human Rights Centre/University of New South Wales Faculty of Law, Sydney, Australia)


‘Humanitarian and Hegemonic Voices at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia’, Fourth Annual International Criminal Law Workshop: “The Politics of International Criminal Law” (15 September 2016, University of Western Australia Faculty of Law, Perth, Australia) 


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