ESIL Interest Group History of International Law

ESIL Interest Group History of International Law

Thursday, 7 April 2016

CONFERENCE: Harvard Law School SJD Association: "International Legal History Day"(14 Apr 2016)

The Harvard Law School SJD Association invites you to a day-long event on international legal history featuring book talks, paper presentations and a discussion on methodology. The event is co-sponsored by the Institute for Global Law and Policy, the Harvard Law School Graduate Program, and the Law and History Program.

  10am   “Exporting Freedom: Religious Liberty and American Power"
Book talk: Anna Su, University of Toronto
Commentator: Mark Tushnet, Harvard University  

11am   “The Illusion of Territorial Jurisdiction
                       
Paper presentation: Péter Szigeti, European University Institute 
Commentator: Charles Maier, Harvard University 

12pm   Lunch 

1pm     “Writing International Legal History: Approaches, Methods, Prospects
 Chair: David Armitage, Harvard University
 Panelists: Arnulf Becker Lorca, Brown University; Anna Su, University of Toronto; Péter Szigeti, European University Institute 

2.30pm     “Mestizo International Law: A Global Intellectual History, 1842-1933
Book talk: Arnulf Becker Lorca, Brown University 
Commentators: David Kennedy, Harvard University; Erez Manela, Harvard University 

See poster here.