The Jonathan I. Charney Distinguished Lecture in International Law honors Professor Charney, one of the world's preeminent experts on international law, who held the Lee S. & Charles A. Speir Chair at Vanderbilt Law School until his death in 2002. The series funds academic lectures and other presentations on international law by distinguished figures in the field.
2022-2023 Jonathan I. Charney Lecture in International Law - Pramila Patten, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, the United Nations Office of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, "Evolution and Impact of the Mandate on Conflict-Related Sexual Violence" - November 10, 2022
2019-20 Jonathan I. Charney Lecture in International Law - Paul C. Ney, Jr. '84 (MBA'84), General Counsel at the Department of Defense, "The Rule of Law in International Security Affairs: A U.S. Defense Department Perspective" - September 3, 2019
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2018-19 Jonathan I. Charney Lecture in International Law - Judge Howard Morrison, International Criminal Court based in The Hague, Netherlands, "International Criminal Justice - The Road Less Traveled"
2016-17 Jonathan I. Charney Distinguished Lecture in International Law - Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, "Global Challenges to Human Rights"
2014-15 Jonathan I. Charney Distinguished Lecture in International Law - Sir Michael Wood, a senior fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Lauterpacht Centre for International Law and a member of the International Law Commission, London, "“International Organizations and Customary Law”
2012-13 Jonathan I. Charney Distinguished Lecture in International Law - Fatou B. Bensouda, Chief Prosecutor, International Criminal Court, The Hague, "Reflections from the International Criminal Court Prosecutor"
2011-12 Jonathan I. Charney Distinguished Lecture in International Law - Lucy Reed, Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer US, "International Claims Tribunals: Known and Unknown"
2010-11 Jonathan I. Charney Distinguished Lecture in International Law - David Caron, President, American Society of International Law, "Three Images of the Arctic and the Legal and Political Trends They Suggest"
2009-10 Jonathan I. Charney Distinguished Lecture in International Law - Ambassador Christian Wenaweser,
Permanent Representative of Liechtenstein to the United Nations in New York, "International Criminal Court Review Conference: Progress and Prognosis," April 6, 2010
2008-09 Jonathan I. Charney Distinguished Lecture in International Law - John B. Bellinger III, Legal Adviser to the Secretary of State, U.S. State Department, “Enforcing Human Rights in the U.S. Courts and Abroad: The Alien Tort Statute and Other Approaches” - April 11, 2008
2007-08 Jonathan I. Charney Distinguished Lecture in International Law - The Right Honourable Madam Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin, P.C., "Intolerance in the 20th Century: Will the 21st Century Be Better?" - April 5, 2007
2006-07 Jonathan I. Charney Distinguished Lecture in International Law- Jeremy J. Waldron, University Professor, Columbia University - February 3, 2006
2005-06 Jonathan I. Charney Distinguished Lecture in International Law- William A. Schabas, Commissioner on the Truth Commission for Sierra Leone and Director of Irish Center for Human Rights at National University of Ireland, Galway, "Genocide and International Law: Darfur, Srebrenica and Cambodia" � February 28, 2005
2004-05 Jonathan I. Charney Distinguished Lecture in International Law- Anne Marie Slaughter, Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs and Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University - February 4, 2004
