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Wednesday, 5 February 2020 - 5.30pm
Location: 
Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, Finley Library

International Law and Political Engagement (ILPE)

A series of conversations on international legal scholarship, political engagement and the transformative potential of academia. Each conversation will be chaired by Francisco José Quintana and Marina Veličković and will centre around a theme, concept or a method and their relationship to political movements, struggles and margins from which they have emerged and within (and for) which they have emancipatory potential.

The conversation will focus on the methodological and theoretical possibilities open once International Law is approached from the South. We will examine the socio-political and geographical complexities of the Global South, the meaning and emancipatory potential of Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) in the 21st century, the critical value of South-centred international legal histories and ethnographies, as well as questions of identity and resistance in a world deeply shaped by the international legal order. Marina and Francisco will lead the conversation for ~45 minutes after which they will pass the responsibility on to the audience. Drinks and light snacks will be served in the Old Library after the Conversation.

Speaker: Dr Luis Eslava is a Reader in International Law and Co-Director of the Centre for Critical International Law at Kent Law School. He also holds visiting positions at Melbourne Law School and Universidad Externado de Colombia, and teaches regularly at Harvard Law School’s Institute for Global Law and Policy Workshops.

Bringing together insights from anthropology, history and legal and social theory, his work focuses on the multiple ways in which international norms, aspirations and institutional practices, both old and new, come to shape and become part of everyday life, arguing that closer critical attention needs to be paid to this co-constitutive relationship between international law ‘up there’ and life ‘down here’.

He is the author of Local Space, Global Life: The Everyday Operation of International Law and Development, and co-editor of Bandung, Global History and International Law: Critical Pasts, Pending Futures, both published by Cambridge University Press. He is also the co-editor of Imperialismo y Derecho Internacional: History y Legado, published by Siglo del Hombre. His work has been recognised by several awards, including the 2016 SLSA Hart Socio-Legal Book Prize and the 2016 SLSA Prize for Early Career Academics.

 

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