Seminar on abolition of nuclear weapons & nuclear power plants, June 27, 2024, with LCNP's John Burroughs; Jun Sasamoto, President, Confederation of Lawyers of Asia and the Pacific; and Terry Lodge, Ohio-based attorney. Video, texts, and other resources available. Sponsored by People’s Academy of International Law.
Existential Risks of Nuclear War and Deterrence Through a Legal Lens - webinar with Charles Moxley and Jonathan Granoff, both members of LCNP Board of Directors. Hosted by New York State Bar Association on April 17, 2024.
Nuclear Weapons and International Law - The Renewed Imperative in Light of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine (Virtual conference held November 8, 2023)
Nuclear Fusion “Breakthrough” - Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy virtual panel feat. LCNP Executive Director Ariana Smith; LCNP Senior Analyst John Burroughs; TriValley CAREs, Livermore, Executive Director and Co-Founder Marylia Kelley; and M.V. Ramana, Professor and Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia, and Graduate Program Director of its Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs program.
“Critical Voices: Rule of Law and Nuclear Weapons:” Virtual Event Hosted by the Sorensen Center for International Peace and Justice at CUNY School of Law and featuring LCNP Executive Director Ariana Smith, LCNP Board Member and ICAN UN Liaison Seth Shelden, and former LCNP Intern Hadeel Abu Ktaish
Nuclear Dangers: Zoom Discussion of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with Jacqueline Cabasso and Andrew Lichterman of Western States Legal Foundation and LCNP Senior Analyst John Burroughs. Sponsored by Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. October 27, 2022. Video; text of Burroughs’ remarks.
Nuclear Threats & Nuclear Sharing Versus the Non-Proliferation Regime, Side Event to the 10th NPT Review Conference, August 4, 2022
Nuclear Threats and International Law, IPPNW Canada webinar with LCNP Senior Analyst John Burroughs, June 8, 2022
Threat of Use of Nuclear Weapons & Russia’s War on Ukraine: Meeting the Legal & Political Challenge: May 3, 2022; text of remarks by LCNP Senior Analyst John Burroughs
Hannah Kohn, LCNP intern, “Nuclear Weapons and the Human Right to Life,” in workshop “The Foundations of Peace: Nuclear Abolition and the Law,” Second International Peace Bureau World Peace Congress, (Re) Imagine our World: Action for Peace and Justice, Barcelona, 16 October 2021 | text | slides
Danielle Samler, LCNP Research Officer, “Human Rights, Nuclear Weapons, and the Environment,” civil society presentation, UN General Assembly First Committee, 8 October 2021
John Burroughs, LCNP Senior Analyst, remarks at “Nuclear Weapons & Climate Change: Shine a Light, Stop the Hate, Lower the Heat” rally at Livermore Nuclear Weapons Laboratory, California, 6 August 2021 video of rally
Looking Back and Looking Ahead: the 25th anniversary of the 1996 ICJ Advisory Opinion on the Legality of Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons! IALANA, 8 July 2021 | video | program
The Enduring Nuclear Threat; A Deeper Look: United for Peace and Justice Webinar, 30 March 2021, video, with Jacqueline Cabasso, Executive Director, Western States Legal Foundation (WLF), text: part 1 | part 2; John Burroughs, LCNP Senior Analyst, text; and Andrew Lichterman, WSLF policy analyst and lawyer, text
Reckless Spending to Increase Nuclear Danger, 17 March 2021, sponsored by NGO Committee on Disarmament, Peace and Security, with John Burroughs, LCNP Senior Analyst, and Jacqueline Cabasso, Executive Director, Western States Legal Foundation and LCNP advisor
Nuclear Weapons & International Law: Virtual Conference with the New York State Bar Association, November 2020—Full Video Recording; Program; LCNP-Global Security Institute Report; Fordham International Law Journal Special Edition, Proceedings of Conference
Ariana Smith, LCNP Executive Director, “Nuclear Weapons and the Legal Norms of Non-Use and Abolition,” civil society presentation, UN General Assembly First Committee, 13 October 2020
The Right to Life and the Right to Democracy, workshop, #wethepeoples2020, September 26, 2020, with LCNP Senior Analyst John Burroughs, LCNP Research Officer Danielle Samler, and Western States Legal Foundation policy analyst and lawyer Andrew Lichterman
Peter Weiss, LCNP President Emeritus, I Was 20 in 1945 (text and video), J. Michael Adams Lecture and Conversation, United Nations, 20 November 2019
Human Rights, Democracy, and Nuclear Weapons (text and video), NPT PrepCom Side Event, 1 May 2019, with Daniel Rietiker, Bonnie Docherty, and Andrew Lichterman
The Right to Life Versus Nuclear Weapons: A Bold Intervention by the UN Human Rights Committee (text and video), Bahá’í UN Office, 10 December 2018, with Roger Clark, LCNP advisor; Ariana Smith, LCNP Executive Director; and Peter Weiss, LCNP President Emeritus