ESIL Interest Group History of International Law

ESIL Interest Group History of International Law

Wednesday 16 December 2020

ESIL IGHIL Online Symposium: JHIL Special Issue "Politics and the Histories of International Law" (18 DEC 2020)

(image: Le salon de Mme Geoffrin by Gabriel Lemonnier (1812); source: Wikimedia Commons)

The ESIL IGHL organizes an MS Teams-symposium on the JHIL Special Issue "Politics and the Histories of International Law" on 09:00 CET. The line-up is as follows:

Panel 1 (09:00-09:45)

  • Florenz Volkaert (UGent-VUB/FWO) on Strength through Diversity? The Paradox of Extraterritoriality and the History of the Odd Ones Out (Madeleine Herren)
  • Daniel Ricardo Quiroga Villamarin (Graduate Institute, Geneva) on Three Wartime Textbooks of International Law (Deborah Whitehall)
  • Wouter De Rycke (VUB/FWO) on Theorising Order in the Shadow of War. The Politics of International Legal Knowledge and the Justification of Force in Modernity (Hendrik Simon)
Panel 2 (09:50-10:35)
  • Rafael Zelesco Barretto (Naval War College of Brazil) on Histories Hidden in the Shadow: Vitoria and the International Ostracism of Francoist Spain (Julia Bühner)
  • Filip Batselé (UGent-VUB/FWO) on A History of International Law in the Vernacular (Jacob Katz Cogan)
  • Jaanika Erne (Tartu) on Turntablism in the History of IL (Jean d'Aspremont)
Conveners:
  • Jan Lemnitzer (Southern Denmark)
  • John Morrs (Deakin University)
  • Markus Beham (Passau)
  • Frederik Dhondt (VUB/UGent)
  • Jaanika Erne (Tartu)

To attend, RSVP with esilighil@gmail.com