International Law Chats is a podcast from the American Branch of the International Law Association (ABILA), hosted by Professor Chiara Giorgetti, Alison Macdonald KC, and Professor Milena Sterio. The podcast is edited and produced by Freya Doughty-Wagner. Episodes air on the first Monday of every month and will feature prominent guests in the field of international law. Episodes are available on Spotify, YouTube, and our website.

Chiara and Milena interviewed our Chair, Leila Nadya Sadat, about her longstanding efforts to establish a treaty on Crimes Against Humanity.

Professor ⁠Leila Nadya Sadat⁠ is the James Carr Professor of International Criminal Law at Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. Professor Sadat has served as Special Adviser on Crimes Against Humanity to the International Criminal Court Prosecutor from 2012-2023, and is one of the world’s foremost authorities in the fields of public international law, international criminal law, human rights, and foreign affairs.

Chiara, Alison, and Milena sat down with Amb. Namira Negm and Tafadzwa Pasipanodya at the American Society of International Law’s Annual Meeting to discuss the importance of African practice in international law.

Amb. Negm is the first Director of the African Migration Observatory and Honorary President of the African Society for International Law. She is a Visiting Professor at the Geneva Summer School in International Law and International Humanitarian Law (Geneva University) and was the first female Legal Counsel of the African Union.

Tafadzwa Pasipanodya is a partner in Foley Hoag’s international litigation and arbitration department and chairs the firm’s Africa practice group. For almost two decades, she has represented sovereign States from all over the world in investor-state arbitrations concerning natural resources, mining, the environment, infrastructure, and health policy before arbitration tribunals.

This month’s episode features Professor ⁠Gian Luca Burci⁠, Adjunct Professor of international law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva since 2012. He is also the Director of the joint LLM on Global Health Law and Governance between the Graduate Institute and Georgetown Law School, as well as Academic Adviser in the Global Health Centre of the Graduate Institute. Since 2016, Prof. Burci has been a Visiting Professor and Senior Scholar at the O’Neill Center on National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University School of Law.

This month’s episode features Professor Oona A. Hathaway. Professor Hathaway is the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law at Yale Law School, Professor of International Law and Area Studies at the Yale University MacMillan Center, Professor of the Yale University Department of Political Science, and Director of the Yale Law School Center for Global Legal Challenges.