Wednesday 7 March 2018 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, Finley Library
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Part 2: Decolonisation and Battles over Global Corporations and International Law
This lecture will trace the struggles over the question of the corporation, how it should be conceptualized, and its proper relation to international law during the period bookended by the end of the Second World War, and the end of the Cold War.
It will focus in particular on the attempt in 1974, by the ‘Group of 77’ developing states, to assert international legal control over trans or multi-national corporations through the establishment of the Commission on Transnational Corporations, as well as consider the rivalrous jurisprudence and institutional initiatives emerging at the same time.
Sundhya Pahuja
Sundhya Pahuja is Professor of Law at the Melbourne Law School, and Director of the Institute for International Law and the Humanities at the University of Melbourne. Her work centres on the history, theory and political economy of international law, particularly as it relates to questions of global inequality and to the relationship between North and South. Her books include the prize winning, Decolonising International Law: Development Growth and the Politics of Universality, as well as the edited collections, Events: The Force of International Law (with Johns and Joyce), and Reading Modern Law: Critical Methodologies and Sovereign Formations (with Buchanan and Motha). She is currently working on the book Cold War International Law as well as the edited collection Cold War Histories of International Law, both with Matt Craven and Gerry Simpson as part of a project funded by the Australian Research Council, and UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. In 2017, Sundhya was a Fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Studies in South Africa, in 2016, a Fulbright Senior Scholar at Harvard Law School, and in 2014, served as Director of Studies in Public International law at the Hague Academy of International Law. Sundhya is also a Professorial Fellow at SOAS, University of London, and Senior Faculty at the Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School.
Numbers are limited so please arrive early to avoid disappointment. Please note the lecture programme is subject to revision without notice.
The Sir Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lecture
The Sir Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lecture is a series of annual lectures given in Cambridge to commemorate the unique contribution to the development of international law of Sir Hersch Lauterpacht. The lectures are given by a person of eminence in the field of international law and a revised and expanded version of the lectures is usually published in the Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lecture Series by Cambridge University Press.
Speaker: Professor Sundhya Pahuja, Melbourne Law School
Dates: Part 2: Wednesday 7 March 2018
Time: 6:00pm
Venue: Finley Library, Lauterpacht Centre, 5 Cranmer Rd, Cambridge