Seminar: 'Reconceiving State Engagement with International Law and Institutions in a Populist Era' - Professor Jolyon Ford, Australian National University and Associate Professor Imogen Saunders, Australian National University

Time: 3 pm - 4 pm

This project seeks to address the fundamental problem of how to reconceive engagement by states with the international legal order, in the face of an apparent backlash against it. The project proposes to develop a new analytical framework to evaluate the origins, impact and evolution of scepticism towards the legal norms and architecture of the international community.  It will do so in four case study countries (India, Philippines, UK, US) and in four key international institutions (UNSC, UNHRC, WHO & WTO).

Please join us for a discussion at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law as we try and answer the following questions:

•    Why have states disengaged from/undermined the ILO in the period 2014-25? 
•    How do differing perceptions of international law affect how states engage in international institutions?
•    How do the structure, politics and changing nature of international law influence and affect domestic politics?
•    How might state interaction with the international legal order be reconceived so as to maximise forms of committed engagement, and minimise disengagement?

Chair: Dr Matilda Gillis
 
This is an in-person event, and no registration is required.