The Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lecture is an annual three-part lecture series given in Cambridge to commemorate the unique contribution to the development of international law of Sir Hersch Lauterpacht. These lectures are given annually by a person of eminence in the field of international law.

The 2022 lecture was delivered by Benedict Kingsbury, Vice Dean and Murry and Ida Becker Professor of Law at New York University, Director of the Institute for International Law and Justice, and Faculty Director of the Guarini Institute for Global Legal Studies on the topic of “International Law Futures”.

Recordings of the lectures are now available on the Lauterpacht Centre’s website:

• Lecture 1: Futurities: International Law as Planning (61 mins)
• Lecture 2: Infrastructure, Data & AI (59 mins 39 secs)
• Lecture 3: Replenishing the International Law Endowment in the Planetary Epoch (60 mins)