The Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law has published the programme for the conference Politics and the Histories of International Law. More information can be found here
15 – 16 February 2019, MPIL, Heidelberg, Germany
Time
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Friday, 15 February 2019
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08.00-09.00
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Registration and Coffee
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09.00-10.00
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Welcome Address by Anne Peters, Randall Lesaffer and Emmanuelle Tourme Jouannet
Keynote Opening by Sundhya Pahuja
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10.00-10.30
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Break
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10.30-12.30
Session
I
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Panel Ia:
Slavery, Slave Trade and the Law of the Sea
(Chair: Raphael Schäfer)
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Panel Ib:
International Law before and beyond the West
(Chair: Luigi Nuzzo)
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Panel Ic:
Vulnerability and
International Law
(Chair: Robert Stendel)
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Anne-Charlotte Martineau,
The Politics of Writing on Slavery and International Law
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Emiliano Buis,
The Politics of Anti-Politics: Mainstream Histories of International Law and the Paradox of Antiquity
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León Castellanos-Jankiewicz,
Nationalism and Early International Right
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Parvathi Menon,
Protecting Empire in Slave Colonies
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Salina Belmessous,
Indigenous Peoples and International Law
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Karin Loevy,
Histories of International Law as Windows to Law’s Politics: Dicey, Humanitarianism and the Jews
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Stefano Cattelan,
Law and Politics, the Genesis of the Law of the Sea
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Radhika Jagtap,
Developing an Anticolonial Historiography of International Law from a Social Movements’ Perspective
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Momchil Milanov,
One Hundred Years of Soli(dari)tude: The Making of the Refugee Status and the Politics of Humanitarianism
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Sebastian Spitra,
New Narratives for a Critical History of World Cultural Heritage
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Ignacio de la Rasilla del Moral,
Women’s Historical Invisibility in International Law
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12.30-13.30
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Lunch
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13.30-15.30
Session
II
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Panel IIa:
The Politicization of Western Legal History
(Chair: Miloš Vec)
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Panel IIb:
The Politics of Legal History in the Books
(Chair: Annabel Brett)
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Panel IIc:
The Laws of War in Context
(Chair: Rüdiger Wolfrum)
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Jan Lemnitzer,
Bringing Politics Back in: What the ‘Turn to Practice’ Means for the Writing of Histories of International Law
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Paolo Amorosa,
The Politics of the International Legal Canon: Revisiting the Legacy of the Carnegie Classics Series
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Hirofumi Oguri,
Taming Politics in the Historiographies of International Law: Between Naïve Positivism and Agnosticism
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Thibaut Fleury Graff,
Henry Wheaton and the Powers of History: Justifying the Power of the US Federal Government in the 19thCentury by Rewriting the History and Contents of International Law
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Julia Bühner,
Let There be Light – Histories Hidden in the Shadow of Francisco de Vitoria
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Rotem Giladi,
Rites of Affirmation: Progress and Immanence in International Humanitarian Law Historiography
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Maria Adele Carrai,
W. A. P. Martin as a Legal Historian and the Politics of History in Late Qing-China
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Deborah Whitehall,
The Politics of Writing the History of International Law as a Treatise
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Claire Vergerio,
Inventing the History of the Laws of War: The Revival of Alberico Gentili in the late 19th Century
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Angelo Dube / Lindelwa Mhlongo, The Forgotten Continent? Interrogating Africa’s Contribution to the History and Development of International Law
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Amanda Alexander, The Politics of the Depoliticized Civilian
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15.30-16.00
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Break
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16.00-18.00
Session III
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Panel IIIa:
The Politics of the Use of Force and the Function of Peace
(Chair: Anthony Carty)
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Panel IIIb:
Legitimacy, Security and Sovereignty in International Legal History
(Chair: Inge Van Hulle)
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Panel IIIc:
The Role of International Legal History before International Courts and Tribunals
(Chair: Thomas Duve)
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John Hursh,
What is a Threat to the Peace? Historical Assessment and Shifting Legal Meaning
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Michael Mulligan,
Politics and the Histories of International Law: International Law and the Spectre of Legitimacy
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Gustavo Prieto,
Mixed Claim Commissions in Latin America During the 19th and 20th Centuries
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Thilo Marauhn / Marie-Christin Stenzel,
Narratives of Peace as Justifications for the Use of Force: Henry A. Kissinger and the Long Peace of the 19th Century
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Ríán Tuathal Derrig,
The Psychoanalytic New Haven School: A Case Study of Interwar Legal Science
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Jakob Zollmann,
Searching for History in Law. The Polish-German Mixed Arbitral Tribunal after 1919
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Hendrik Simon,
In the Shadow of War and Order. Historical Reflections on the Interrelationship between Political and Scholarly Practices of Justifying War
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Etienne Henry,
Soviet Praxis of Collective Security in the League of Nations Era
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Valeria Vázquez Guevara,
A Critical Re-Description of the History of Truth Commissions
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Katie Szilagyi / Jon Khan,
There Might Come Soft Rains: Technological Determinism, International Law, and the Age of Intelligent Machines
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Mikhail Antonov, The Rise of the Sovereignty Argument in Russian Approaches to International Law
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Michel Erpelding,
International Law and the European Court of Justice: The Politics of Avoiding History
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20.00-23.00
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BRILL Conference Dinner with Keynote by
Jacob Katz Cogan
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Time
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Saturday, 16 February 2019
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08.30-09.00
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Coffee
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09.00-11.00
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Plenary Session
(Chair: Randall Lesaffer)
Nehal Bhuta, Histories of/in International Law
Jean d’Aspremont, Critical Attitudes in Historiographical International Legal Studies
Aoife O’Donoghue / Henry Jones, Histories of International Law and Self-Reflection within the Discipline
Madeleine Herren, Aliens, Race and Law: A History of the Odd Ones Out
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11.00-11.30
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Break
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11.30-12.30
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Concluding Observations by Matthew Craven and the Editors
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(source: ESCLH Blog)
