International Law and the Politics of History

13 September 2022

5.30-7.00pm, Room AS03

Anne Orford

Melbourne Law School

in conversation with:

ANNAMARIA MONTI (Bocconi University), ENZO CANNIZZARO (Sapienza University of Rome), LEONARDO BORLINI (Bocconi University) Introduction CESARE CAVALLINI (Bocconi University) and CATHERINE ROGERS (Bocconi University)

International lawyers are very familiar with the claim that international law has taken a turn to history. Indeed, for some more dramatically inclined legal scholars, there is a struggle for the soul of international law being played out through debates about the past. In her book International Law and the Politics of History (Cambridge University Press, 2021; European Society of International Law Monograph Prize 2022), Anne Orford seeks to reveal the political stakes of that historical turn by exploring the ideological, political, and material stakes of apparently technical disputes over how the legal past should be studied and understood. In this Bocconi Seminar in International Law, she will situate debates over the origins of international law and the meaning of past legal material within the broader field of political, social, economic, and institutional transformation that has reshaped the theory and practice of international law since the end of the Cold War.

The event will be in hybrid form, to join online click here

Meeting ID: 927 6546 3364

Passcode: 718428