'A Cosmopolitan Perspective on the Responsibility to Protect' by Professor Olivier de Frouville

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Description:	The Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (LCIL), University of Cambridge hosts a regular Friday lunchtime lecture series on key areas of International Law. Previous subjects have included UN peacekeeping operations, the advisory jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice, the crime of agression, whaling, children and military tribunals, and theories and practices for proving individual responsibility criminal responsibility for genocide and crimes against humanity. This lecture, entitled 'A Cosmopolitan Perspective on the Responsibility to Protect', was delivered at the Lauterpacht Centre on Friday 11th May 2012 by Professor Olivier de Frouville, Professor of Public Law and Director of the International Law Programme, University of Montpellier 1. and chaired by Professor Marc Weller, Director of the Lauterpacht Centre and Professor of International Law and International Constitutional Studies, University of Cambridge. This recording is presented on iTunes U as a video file. For more information about the series, please see the LCIL website at www.lcil.cam.ac.uk

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The Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (LCIL), University of Cambridge hosts a regular Friday lunchtime lecture series on key areas of International Law. Previous subjects have included UN peacekeeping operations, the advisory jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice, the crime of agression, whaling, children and military tribunals, and theories and practices for proving individual responsibility criminal responsibility for genocide and crimes against humanity.

This lecture, entitled 'A Cosmopolitan Perspective on the Responsibility to Protect', was delivered at the Lauterpacht Centre on Friday 11th May 2012 by Professor Olivier de Frouville, Professor of Public Law and Director of the International Law Programme, University of Montpellier 1. and chaired by Professor Marc Weller, Director of the Lauterpacht Centre and Professor of International Law and International Constitutional Studies, University of Cambridge.

This recording is presented on iTunes U as a video file.

For more information about the series, please see the LCIL website at www.lcil.cam.ac.uk


Created:	2012-05-17 14:36
Collection:	LCIL International Law Seminar Series (VIDEO MOVED)
Publisher:	University of Cambridge
Copyright:	University of Cambridge
Language:	eng (English)
Keywords:	international law; Responsibility to Protect; cosmopolitanism; International intervention; international community;


Abstract:	It is often argued that the responsibility to protect (R2P) is a concept that flows from cosmopolitanism. The idea that intervention by the 'international community' to protect a civilian population against its own government would be part of a neo-kantian humanitarism and federalism. In this lecture, Professor de Frouville suggests that not only is the R2P alien with the cosmopolitan theory, but that its founding concepts are open to serious criticisms. On these premises, Professor de Frouville gives a brief overview of how a proper cosmopolitan conception of intervention d’humanité could be articulated – a conception that, in his opinion, would escape the criticisms faced by the R2P.

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It is often argued that the responsibility to protect (R2P) is a concept that flows from cosmopolitanism. The idea that intervention by the 'international community' to protect a civilian population against its own government would be part of a neo-kantian humanitarism and federalism. In this lecture, Professor de Frouville suggests that not only is the R2P alien with the cosmopolitan theory, but that its founding concepts are open to serious criticisms. On these premises, Professor de Frouville gives a brief overview of how a proper cosmopolitan conception of intervention d’humanité could be articulated – a conception that, in his opinion, would escape the criticisms faced by the R2P.

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