Rolf Einar Fife, CILRAP Conversations

Speaker: Ambassador Rolf Einar Fife (Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
Topic: A CILRAP Conversation on World Order focusing on ‘international law-making’; the diversity of processes which influence the formulation of an international convention in the International Law Commission; how international law reacts with the domestic legal order of a state; international law as a common legal language; diplomatic considerations of an international lawyer; the power of precedent as enriching one’s manner and diversity of legal expression; problem solving, rather than doctrine, as a primary driver in international law-making; the ability to identify extra-legal consequences of legal rules as an essential skill in value creation; the inclusion of new fundamental legal goods or values in international law; emerging technologies, the evolution of existing rules and the development of new values; and the importance of being perceived as a neutral international actor.
Date of recording: 5 June 2018
Place of recording: Florence 
Duration of recording: 01:11:30
PURL of film: www.cilrap.org/cilrap-film/180605-fife/
PURL of related Kreß Conversation: https://www.cilrap.org/cilrap-film/190612-kress/
PURL of related Perrin de Brichambaut Conversation: https://www.cilrap.org/cilrap-film/170520-perrin-de-brichambaut/
PURL of related Singh Conversation: https://www.cilrap.org/cilrap-film/170823-singh/