CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: Revue de synthèse, "Histoire du droit des gens classique" (DEADLINE: 15 January 2023)

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Appel à contribution

Histoire du droit des gens classique

Date limite le dimanche 15 janvier 2023

La Revue de synthèse ouvre un appel à contribution pour un dossier thématique sur l'histoire du droit des gens classique, de sa naissance aux XVIe-XVIIe siècles à ses résurgences actuelles. Le dossier se propose d'engager une recontextualisation historique de la doctrine et de dégager l'« outillage mental » mobilisé par les scolastiques et juristes de la première modernité, en prêtant une attention particulière à la genèse de nouvelles notions, aux passerelles conceptuelles entre le droit, la politique et la philosophie, et à l'impact de leurs travaux sur le plan intellectuel et pratique.

Quatre axes de recherches sur la doctrine du droit des gens classiques seront privilégiés :
1. Les références au dominium, aux royaumes, aux frontières ou à la liberté de circulation
2. Le développement du commerce international
3. Les rapports entre théorie et pratique – le droit de guerre, les intermédiaires de la paix et la question du recours au droit des gens en cas de conflit international
4. Les résurgences contemporaines de la doctrine du droit des gens classique.

Les articles peuvent être rédigés en anglais ou en français. Les propositions de contribution, d'une quinzaine de lignes, sont à adresser avec une courte notice biographique avant le 15 janvier 2023 à Gaëlle Demelemestre (gdemelemestre@gmail.com). La date limite de remise des articles est le 15 mars 2024.

    The full call for papers is available at the portail universitaire du droit.

CALL FOR PAPERS: "The Evolution of the Global Payments System", Oxford University (DEADLINE: 2 January 2023)

 

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Conference: The Evolution of the Global Payments System

A GloCoBank Project Event | 23-24 March 2023 | St Hilda’s College | University of Oxford

DEADLINE EXTENSION: Deadline for proposals: 2 January 2023

The global payments system represents the underlying plumbing of globalisation, determining the efficiency and security of cross-border payments for goods and services. Despite its fundamental importance surprisingly little is known about the evolution of this system, especially the dynamics of the network of bilateral bank relationships used for cross-border settlements across the past 150 years.

The European Research Council funded ‘Global Correspondent Banking 1870–2000’ project would like to invite proposals from researchers at all levels for a conference on the evolution of the global payments system during the 19th and 20th centuries. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Correspondent banking, international banking networks and the development of the global payments system
• The changing shape, patterns and dynamics of international banking networks, and the impact of financial crises, world events and regulatory changes
• Banking technologies and the ‘plumbing’ of the international payments system, e.g. bills of exchange, ICT innovation
• Bank internationalisation strategies

The conference will be held at St Hilda’s College, Oxford on Thursday 23rd and Friday 24th March 2023.

Submission details:

Proposed titles and paper abstracts of c. 300 words, along with a short biography of the author, should be submitted to glocobank@history.ox.ac.uk by Monday 2 January 2023. Participants will be notified in early January if their proposal has been accepted.

Conference organisers:

Professor Catherine R. Schenk; Dr Marco Molteni; Dr Alena Pivavarava | GloCoBank Project

About GloCoBank:

‘Global Correspondent Banking 1870–2000’ (GloCoBank) is a 5-year research project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) which seeks to identify and analyse the international network of correspondent banking relationships across the 20th century. Read more about the project.

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BOOK: Ryan Martinez MITCHELL, "Recentering the World: China and the Transformation of International Law" (Cambridge University Press, 2022)

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Recentering the World recovers a richly contextual, detailed history of Western-imposed legal structures in China, as well as engagements with international law by Chinese officials, jurists, and citizens. Beginning in the Late Qing era, it shows how international law functioned as a channel for power relations, techniques of economic domination, as well as novel forms of resistance. The book also radically diversifies traditionally Eurocentric accounts of modern international law's origins, demonstrating how, by the mid-twentieth century, Chinese jurists had made major contributions to international organizations and the UN system, the international judiciary, the laws of armed conflict, and more. Drawing on extensive archival research, this book is a valuable guide to China's often conflicted role in international law, its reception and contention of concepts of sovereignty, property, obligation, and autonomy, and its gradual move from the 'periphery' to a shared spot at the 'center' of global legal order.

Table of contents: 

Introduction: 'In the Nineteenth Century, There was No International Law'

Part I. Preserving Stateliness, 1850–1894:

1. Universal Prosperity

2. Synarchy

3. Vast Imperium

Part II. Asserting Sovereignty, 1895–1921:

4. The Public Law of Planet Earth

5. The Problem of Equality

6. Reconstituted Hierarchies

Part III. Internationalisms, 1922–2001:

7. Changing Circumstances

8. New Orders

9. Perpetual Peace

Conclusion: From Object to Subject? – China in a World of Institutions

Glossary of Chinese and Japanese Names

Bibliography

Index

About the author: 

Ryan Martínez Mitchell is an associate professor at the Faculty of Law of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a Ph.D. in Law from Yale University. His scholarship on China and international law has appeared in a number of leading scholarly journals.

More information can be found here.  

(Source: ESCLH blog)

CONFERENCE CALL: "The Tangier Statute Centenary Conference", KULeuven (DEADLINE: 15 MAY 2023)

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The Tangier Statute Centenary Conference, 18th December 2023

Organised by Willem Theus (KU Leuven – UCLouvain), Dr. Michel Erpelding (University of Luxembourg), Prof. Dr. Francesco Tamburini (University of Pisa), Prof. Dr. Fouzi Rherrousse (University of Oujda), Prof. Dr. Geert Van Calster (KU Leuven).

The full call for papers in English is available here, but a French, Arabic, Italian and Spanish version are available as well. The deadline to submit an expression of interest is the 15th of May 2023.

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On 18 December 2023 (i.e. a year from now), Willem Theus (KU Leuven – UCLouvain), Dr Michel Erpelding (University of Luxembourg), Prof Dr Francesco Tamburini (University of Pisa), Prof Dr Fouzi Rherrousse (University of Oujda), and myself are organising a conference to celebrate the centenary of the Statute of Tangier, signed at Paris. Credit for kicking off the process goes to Willem.

This treaty, signed between France, Spain and the United Kingdom, and later joined by Sweden, Belgium, the Netherlands, Portugal and Italy, provided for the creation of a new legal entity: the International Zone of Tangier. Established by 1925, the Tangier Zone was formally an integral part of Morocco, but subject to a special regime that left most of its institutions under the joint administration of several Western powers. This special regime would last until Morocco’s independence in 1956, with some international elements remaining in place under a Royal Charter until 1960.

Thinking about the Zone triggers an extravaganza of thoughts on international commercial courts, conflict of laws, history of law and so much more. The call asks for papers on

The Politics of Individual Powers Towards/Within the Zone

Moroccan Attitudes and Policies Towards/Within the Zone and Its Institutions

The Interzonal and Foreign Relations of the International Zone17

Politics in the International Legislative Assembly

The Veto-Role of the Committee of Control

The Zone’s Legal System/Codes

The Operation, Case Law and Reforms of the Mixed Court

The Bar of the International Zone

Careers of Individual Lawyers/Officials/Businessmen/Intermediaries

The Tangier Banking System

The Ecclesiastical, Jewish and Sharia Courts

The Working and Case Law of the American Consular Court

The Spanish Civil War and its Impact on the Zone

The Architecture of the International Administrative Buildings of the Zone

Smugglers and the Law; and

The Legal System of the Transition Period (1956–1960)

Source: website Prof. Geert van Calster (KULeuven)

CALL FOR PAPERS: "Treaties and Literature", Diplomatica: A Journal of Diplomacy and Society (DEADLINE: 15 February 2023)

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Treaties and Literature

(Diplomatica special issues)

Deadline for submissions: 15 February 2023

For two special issues of Diplomatica we invite proposals for essays on (1) the history and culture of diplomatic treaties; and (2) aspects of diplomacy’s relationship to literature. Essays may cover any historical period up to the present-day. The central questions that the special issues pose are:

(1) Treaties

– How and why have diplomatic texts evolved?

– How has their hermeneutics changed over time?

– Are treaties better understood as literary artifacts or as socio-political constructs?

– What can the evolution of treaties tell us about the evolution of diplomacy and the diplomatic profession?

(2) Literature

– How does literary skill manifest itself in diplomatic practice?

– How do diplomatic ‘narratives’ shape actual diplomacy?

– Are there particular diplomatic ‘genres’ and, if so, how are they best understood?

Possible topics include:

– histories and/or literary comparisons of particular treaties;

– case studies of literary diplomats and/or diplomatic works;

– semiotic analyses of particular treaties or other agreements;

– visual, musical, and cinematic depictions of literature in diplomatic contexts.

Please send expressions of interest, or abstracts of 500 words and a brief bio-note to the issue editors, newdiplo@gmail.com by 15 February 2023. Please quote ‘Treaties’ or ‘Literature’ in the subject line.

Notification of acceptance will be no later than 1 March 2023. If accepted, full essays (of 7000 to 9000 words) will be due by 15 December 2023.

Review essays and interviews pertinent to the special issue are also very welcome. Please contact the journal editors with any questions.

Source: Diplomatica newsletter

PODCAST: TRADE TALKS, "Did Britain’s slave trade help drive its industrial revolution?"

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Economic historians have had a long-running debate as to whether Britain's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade and its holding of the enslaved on colonial plantations contributed to its industrial revolution.

Discussions over reparations also benefit from improved understanding of the extent to which some countries, especially enslaving countries like Britain, benefited from this horrendous practice.

Stephen Redding joins this week to explain some new research that quantifies just how big those benefits were, both for local industrial development in Britain and for the British economy as a whole.

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Host: Chad Bown (Peterson Institute)

Guest: Stephen Redding (Princeton University) explains new research that reveals how Britain’s historical economic development benefited tremendously from the country’s involvement in the brutal transatlantic slave trade and its slave holdings (26:53).

References

Heblich, Stephan, Stephen J. Redding, and Hans-Joachim Voth. 2022. Slavery and the British Industrial Revolution. NBER Working Paper No. 30,451, September.

Nunn, Nathan and Leonard Wantchekon. 2011. The Slave Trade and the Origins of Mistrust in Africa. American Economic Review 101(7): 3221-3252.

Solow, Barbara L. 1985. Caribbean slavery and British growth: The Eric Williams hypothesis. Journal of Development Economics 17 (1–2): 99-115.

Williams, Eric. 1944. Capitalism and Slavery. UNC Press Books.

   More information and a transcript are available on the podcast website of Trade Talks.

PODCAST: BORDERLINE JURISPRUDENCE, "Martti Koskenniemi on Philosophy, History, and International Legal Scholarship"

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Imagine there is a podcast on hardcore philosophy and jurisprudence of international law. Imagine there are people geeky enough to be ready to talk about this non-stop. That’s right. That’s "Borderline Jurisprudence". By Başak Etkin and Kostia Gorobets.

Professor Martti Koskenniemi (University of Helsinki) joins us to discuss philosophy and history of international law, international legal scholarship, and the Helsinki school. 

Publications referred to in the episode:

Koskenniemi, Martti. From Apology to Utopia: The Structure of International Legal Argument. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Koskenniemi, Martti. The Gentle Civilizer of Nations: The Rise and Fall of International Law 1870–1960. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Koskenniemi, Martti. To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth: Legal Imagination and International Power 1300–1870. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Powers, Richard. The Overstory. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2018.

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Listen to the episode via Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5IAgvmdHI2GtbsJsYaiA3r?si=tnfHWkgyRgaSOET2_zdhbQ 

Listen to the episode via Apple Podcasts:

https://podcasts.apple.com/be/podcast/episode-16-martti-koskenniemi-on-philosophy-history/id1561575704?i=1000587495437