The inaugural ICLQ Annual Lecture was held in 2011 to celebrate 60 Volumes of the journal. An Annual Lecture has been held every year on a topic explored in the journal over the previous 12 months.

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Previous lectures:

• 2025 - Benoît Mayer, The "Highest Possible Ambition" in Climate Change Mitigation as a Legal Standard
• 2024 - Russell Buchan, Non-Forcible Measures and the Law of Self-Defence
• 2023 - Clair Gammage and Philip Syrpis, Sovereignty Fictions in the United Kingdom's Trade Agenda
• 2022 - Mark Eccleston-Turner and Michelle Rourke, Arguments against the Inequitable Distribution of Vaccines using the Access and Benefit Sharing Transaction
• 2021 - Simon Chesterman, Artificial Intelligence and the Limits of Legal Personality
• 2020 - Philippa Webb and Rosana Garciandia, State Responsibility for Modern Slavery: Uncovering and Bridging the Gap
• 2019 - Panos Koutrakos, Judicial Review in the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy
• 2018 - Fareda Banda and John Eekelaar, International Conceptions of the Family
• 2017 - Christof Heyns, Dapo Akande, Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne and Thompson Chengeta, The International Law Framework regulating the Use of Armed Drones
• 2016 - Sandra Fredman, Foreign Fads or Fashions? The Role of Comparativism in Human Rights Law
• 2015 - Jonathan Hill, Determining the Seat of an International Arbitration: Party Autonomy and the Interpretation of Arbitration Agreements
• 2014 - Mindy Chen-Wishart, Legal Transplant and Undue Influence: Lost in Translation or a Working Misunderstanding?
• 2013 - Myriam Hunter-Henin, Why the French Don't Like the Burqa: Laïcité, National Identity and Religious Freedom
• 2012 - Trevor C Hartley - Choice of Law regarding the Voluntary Assignment of Contractual Obligations under the Rome I Regulation
• 2011 - Christine Bell and Catherine O'Rourke - Peace Agreements or Pieces of Paper? The Impact of UNSC Resolution 1325 on Peace Processes and their Agreements