What tools has international law offered throughout the centuries and how successful were these avenues? What types of barriers prevent or impede the management or resolution of conflicts? What are the most effective strategies for overcoming these barriers and how can the institutional structure of international law help achieve this? What are the potential roles of third parties in conflict resolution? What are the deficiencies and shortcomings of international institutions and could they be improved? Through concrete examples, the next MCC Budapest Lecture aims to discuss these and similar crucially important and timely questions with Allen S. Weiner, director of the Stanford Program in International and Comparative Law and the Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation. The moderator of the event will be Lénárd Sándor, Head of School of Law of the Mathias Corvinus Collegium.

 

Date: November 7, 2024 (Thursday), 4.00 PM – 5.00 PM

Venue: MCC Scruton (Budapest, Tas Vezér Utca 3-7., 1113)

The event is open to the press and all, but pre-registration is required

Program

4:00 PM – 4:45 PM                       Moderated Discussion

  • Allen S. Weiner, Director of the Stanford Program in International and Comparative Law and the Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation
  • Moderator: Lénárd Sándor, Head of the Law School at MCC

 

4:45 PM – 5:00 PM                         Q&A

 

BIO

Allen S. Weiner is an academic who is a senior lecturer in international law at Stanford Law School. He is the director of the Stanford Program in International and Comparative Law and the Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation. Weiner’s scholarship is deeply informed by experience; for more than a decade he practiced international law in the U.S. Department of State, serving as an attorney-adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser and as legal counselor at the U.S. Embassy in The Hague. In those capacities, he advised government policy-makers, negotiated international agreements, and represented the United States in litigation before the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, and the International Court of Justice. He teaches courses in public international law, international conflict resolution, and international security matters at Stanford Law School.

Lénárd Sándor is the Head of the School of Law and of the Center for International Law at the Mathias Corvinus Collegium, he is an Associate Professor of Law and the Head of the Barna Horváth Hungary Law and Liberty Circle that operates independently but in cooperation with the Federalist

Society. He previously served at the Office of the Attorney General and later on as a chief counsel at the Constitutional Court of Hungary in Budapest and as an advisor at the European Parliament in Brussels where his focus was on constitutional affairs of the European cooperation. He was a visiting researcher at the Federal Judicial Center (Washington, D.C., U.S.A.), the research and education agency of the judicial branch of the U.S. government.