Legal Affairs Annual Lecture 2025, ‘Women, Peace, and International Law: Power and Resistance’ | Prof Christine Chinkin of LSE

Legal Affairs Committee of the Welsh Centre for International Affairs (WCIA)

Annual Lecture 2025 – ‘Women, Peace, and International Law: Power and Resistance’

Professor Christine Chinkin, London School of Economics (LSE)

Thursday 4 December 2025, 6-7.30 pm

@ Temple of Peace and Health, Cardiff

This lecture will outline normative progress over the past decades through the lens of women’s rights, and of women’s activism in the pursuit of equality and peace through international law.  This lens illustrates both how progress can be achieved and the fragility of that progress in the contemporary environment hostile to the international rule of law. It will conclude by asking how international lawyers, activists, and advocates can resist the erosion of such norms and whether international law can itself be a tool of resistance, of social justice and of peace – a tool we should hang on to in the current environment.

The Welsh Centre for International Affairs (WCIA) was founded as a charitable trust in 1973, but its origins stretch back to the founding of the Welsh League of Nations Union after World War One. It aims to inspire people in Wales to learn and act on global issues.

The Legal Affairs Committee, which has members from all of Wales’s Law Schools and international law practitioners based in or with a connection to Wales provides a forum for discussion on contemporary issues of international law.

With thanks to our sponsors:  Hugh James, Apex Chambers, the Wales & Chester  Circuit, the European Circuit and Temple Garden Chambers