Legal Histories beyond the State seminar: 'Constructing International Law: Property, Commerce and "Expectations"'

The session will be devoted to work-in-progress by Dr Kate Miles (Gonville & Caius), on 'Constructing International Law: Property, Commerce and "Expectations") (please contact md718@cam.ac.uk for the paper). The paper situates the 20th-century conceptualization of 'expectations' as property in a longer history of the construction of (international) law from the 16th century to the present. It bears on the position of property and commerce in imperial and international ordering, but also on the processes through which legal norms are generated.

As usual, Dr Miles will make some very brief comments on the paper, and we will then have a Q&A/discussion grounded in the draft, followed by wine.

Dr Miles is the author of The Origins of International Investment Law: Empire, Environment and the Safeguarding of Capital (2013), and a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG), and the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL), Montreal, Canada.

All welcome.