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Alumni Talk: How Private and Public International Law Shape Our Lives
Date: 19 July 2018 (Thursday)
Time: 6:30-8:30pm
Venue: Societe Generale (Level 34, Three Pacific Place,1 Queen’s Road East HK)
Cost: £10 (approximately HK$105)
RSVP: Please click here for online registration and payment
You are warmly invited to a unique ‘In Conversation’ event, featuring a discussion between a St. Anne’s Fellow, Dr. Antonios Tzanakopoulos, and an alumnus of the College, Mr. Bernard Man, on the fascinating intersection between life and law. This talk is being held during the visit the Principal of St. Anne’s, Helen King, and academic colleagues for the St Anne’s College Hong Kong Summer School. Information on the summer school programme is available here.
About the Speakers
Antonios Tzanakopoulos is Associate Professor of Public International Law at the University of Oxford and Fellow of St Anne's College. He has taught as a visiting professor around the world, including in France, Israel, China, and Greece; he has also delivered a special course in international law at the Xiamen Academy of International Law in 2017 and has been invited by the Curatorium of The Hague Academy of International Law to serve as Director of Studies in 2021. Antonios's books include Disobeying the Security Council (OUP 2011, re-issued in paperback with a new introduction 2013); The Settlement of International Disputes (Hart 2012, co-edited with CJ Tams); The UN Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and their Property (OUP 2013, edited by R O'Keefe and CJ Tams, ass't ed) and the Research Handbook on the Law of Treaties (Elgar 2014, co-edited with CJ Tams and A Zimmermann, and re-issued in paperback 2016). He has also published in the fields of the law of the sea, international investment law, and others.
Antonios has acted as counsel, advisor, or assistant to counsel, and has provided expert opinions in a number of cases before international and domestic courts and tribunals, including the International Court of Justice, EU courts, the European Court of Human Rights, ad hoc and ICSID arbitral tribunals. Antonios is the Secretary-General of the International Law Association and the Joint Secretary of its British Branch; and member of the editorial board of Oxford Reports on International Law in Domestic Courts.
Alumni Talk: How Private and Public International Law Shape Our Lives
Date: 19 July 2018 (Thursday)
Time: 6:30-8:30pm
Venue: Societe Generale (Level 34, Three Pacific Place,1 Queen’s Road East HK)
Cost: £10 (approximately HK$105)
RSVP: Please click here for online registration and payment
You are warmly invited to a unique ‘In Conversation’ event, featuring a discussion between a St. Anne’s Fellow, Dr. Antonios Tzanakopoulos, and an alumnus of the College, Mr. Bernard Man, on the fascinating intersection between life and law. This talk is being held during the visit the Principal of St. Anne’s, Helen King, and academic colleagues for the St Anne’s College Hong Kong Summer School. Information on the summer school programme is available here.
About the Speakers
Antonios Tzanakopoulos is Associate Professor of Public International Law at the University of Oxford and Fellow of St Anne's College. He has taught as a visiting professor around the world, including in France, Israel, China, and Greece; he has also delivered a special course in international law at the Xiamen Academy of International Law in 2017 and has been invited by the Curatorium of The Hague Academy of International Law to serve as Director of Studies in 2021. Antonios's books include Disobeying the Security Council (OUP 2011, re-issued in paperback with a new introduction 2013); The Settlement of International Disputes (Hart 2012, co-edited with CJ Tams); The UN Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and their Property (OUP 2013, edited by R O'Keefe and CJ Tams, ass't ed) and the Research Handbook on the Law of Treaties (Elgar 2014, co-edited with CJ Tams and A Zimmermann, and re-issued in paperback 2016). He has also published in the fields of the law of the sea, international investment law, and others.
Antonios has acted as counsel, advisor, or assistant to counsel, and has provided expert opinions in a number of cases before international and domestic courts and tribunals, including the International Court of Justice, EU courts, the European Court of Human Rights, ad hoc and ICSID arbitral tribunals. Antonios is the Secretary-General of the International Law Association and the Joint Secretary of its British Branch; and member of the editorial board of Oxford Reports on International Law in Domestic Courts.
Bernard Man is a grateful alumnus of St. Anne’s. He matriculated in 1995 and obtained a BA (Jurisprudence) and a BCL in 1998 and 1999 respectively. In 2000, he was called to the Bar in England and Wales and in Hong Kong. Since then he has practised as a barrister in Hong Kong from Temple Chambers, with an emphasis on civil and commercial matters. He became Senior Counsel in Hong Kong in 2015.
University event
University of Oxford Freshers' Orientation 2018 Hong Kong
Date :Thursday 26 July
Time: 6:30 - 8:00 pm (Registration at 6pm)
Venue:Suite 4018, Cosco Tower, 183 Queen's Road Central, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong
Do you have a conditional or unconditional offer to pursue an undergraduate or postgraduate course at the University of Oxford this autumn? Come to this orientation event and find out all you need to know to prepare for life at the city of dreaming spires, from student visas to preparing for your first tutorial. There will also be an opportunity to mingle with Oxford alumni for an insider guide to life as an Oxonian. For enquiries, please contact info@oxforduchina.org.
University of Oxford Freshers' Orientation 2018 Hong Kong
Date :Thursday 26 July
Time: 6:30 - 8:00 pm (Registration at 6pm)
Venue:Suite 4018, Cosco Tower, 183 Queen's Road Central, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong
Do you have a conditional or unconditional offer to pursue an undergraduate or postgraduate course at the University of Oxford this autumn? Come to this orientation event and find out all you need to know to prepare for life at the city of dreaming spires, from student visas to preparing for your first tutorial. There will also be an opportunity to mingle with Oxford alumni for an insider guide to life as an Oxonian. For enquiries, please contact info@oxforduchina.org.
University event
Introducing the Q20:20, the World’s First Working Quantum Processor
Date: 2 August 2018 (Thursday)
Time: 6:30-8:30pm
Venue: Cafe 8, Roof Level, Hong Kong Maritime Museum, Central Ferrt Pier No. 8, Central, Hong Kong Societe
RSVP: Please click here for online registration.
Cost: This event is free.
You are warmly invited for a special look at quantum computing research at Oxford. Drawing on the material that he first shared at the 2017 Oxford China Lecture in Beijing, Prof. Walmsley will introduce the counter-intuitive features of the quantum world that are being harnessed to create quantum computers, the challenges scientists and engineers have yet to overcome in order to build such a machine, and the breakthroughs at the University of Oxford that are paving the way for the Q20:20, the world’s first working quantum processor.
Introducing the Q20:20, the World’s First Working Quantum Processor
Date: 2 August 2018 (Thursday)
Time: 6:30-8:30pm
Venue: Cafe 8, Roof Level, Hong Kong Maritime Museum, Central Ferrt Pier No. 8, Central, Hong Kong Societe
RSVP: Please click here for online registration.
Cost: This event is free.
You are warmly invited for a special look at quantum computing research at Oxford. Drawing on the material that he first shared at the 2017 Oxford China Lecture in Beijing, Prof. Walmsley will introduce the counter-intuitive features of the quantum world that are being harnessed to create quantum computers, the challenges scientists and engineers have yet to overcome in order to build such a machine, and the breakthroughs at the University of Oxford that are paving the way for the Q20:20, the world’s first working quantum processor.