Dean for Medway and Kent Law School professor Nick Grief will reflect on his experiences of representing the Marshall Islands before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) when he delivers the Keith Tucker Memorial Lecture at Kent.

The lecture on Thursday 10 November will be hosted jointly by Kent Law Society http://www.kentlawsociety.com/index.html and Kent Law School https://www.kent.ac.uk/law/ and is open to all.

Professor Grief https://www.kent.ac.uk/law/people/academic/Grief,_Nick.html, who teaches Public International Law and EU Law at Kent Law School, practises at the Bar from Doughty Street Chambers where he is an associate tenant. He is a member of the international legal team representing the Marshall Islands in cases alleging that each of the respondent States is failing to comply with its obligation under international law to pursue in good faith and conclude negotiations for the worldwide elimination of nuclear weapons. He helped draft the RMI’s applications to the ICJ and appeared before the Court in the oral hearings in March 2016.

Earlier this year, The Marshall Islands’ legal team, led by the Republic’s former Foreign Minister Tony de Brum, was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize https://www.kent.ac.uk/news/kentlife/9046/medway-dean-in-nobel-peace-prize-nomination-team by Secretary-General of the International Peace Bureau Colin Archer.

The evening of the Keith Tucker lecture will begin with welcome refreshments in the Grimond Building https://www.kent.ac.uk/maps/canterbury/canterbury-campus/building/grimond-building from 18.00 and Professor Grief’s talk, entitled ‘Nuclear Disarmament and the Law’, will begin at 18.30 in Grimond Lecture Theatre 1 (GLT1). After a brief opportunity for questions and answers there will be a networking buffet from 19.30 with the evening closing by 21.00.

If you would like to attend, please reserve your place by emailing Roger.Cruttenden@btinternet.com (no payment is required but numbers are needed to assist with catering).