Glasgow Conversations in International Law
Issued: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:25:00 GMT
Glasgow Conversations in International Law
The 'New Stream' Twenty Years On: A Critical Genealogy
Friday 19th February, 2 - 5pm
Charles Wilson seminar room
All welcome.
The 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall has triggered much soul-searching among international lawyers. How has the international legal system grown in the last 20 years? What has the post-Cold War era given the international law profession? Following the trend that seems to have spread across the whole international law field, the Glasgow Conversations in International Law project has also decided to engage in some 'stock-taking', 'reflecting', and 'looking-back'. Rather than taking on such monumental questions as the (post-)modern history of the whole of the international legal system, however, the group shall address the subject of the 'New Stream of International Law' movement.
Questions will be raised such as: how has this project evolved over the last 20 years? how did it end up where it finds itself today? where has it started from, where has it come to, and what are the main events that have defined this transition? why do some critical vocabularies and approaches that seemed popular/available at the start of the 1990s no longer seem that popular today and vice versa? Why did some other sets of vocabularies never pick up at all?
Format
The event will be in the mode of a free-flowing, round-table discussion. Some members of the group will prepare short position papers that will be circulated before the event. Others can simply contribute at the event
Round-table participants: Jason Beckett (Leicester), Michelle Burgis (St Andrews), Emilios Christodoulidis (Glasgow), Florian Hoffmann (LSE), Rob Knox (LSE), Rose Parfitt (SOAS), Akbar Rasulov (Glasgow), Owen Taylor (SOAS), Antonios Tzanakopoulos (Glasgow).
For more information, please contacat Akbar Rasulov: a.rasulov@law.gla.ac.uk
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