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Thursday, 16 January 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 event will start at 5:30 p.m. and will take place in Finley Library at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. The conversation will explore how different ways of employing methods open and foreclose space(s) for political engagement. The so-called “turn to history” and the growing interdisciplinary literature in and around international law will serve as our starting points. Marina and Francisco will lead the conversation for ~45 minutes after which they will pass the pleasure and responsibility on to the audience. Drinks and light snacks will be served in the Old Library after the Conversation.

Speaker: Professor Gerry Simpson was appointed to a Chair in Public International Law at the LSE in January, 2016. He previously taught at the University of Melbourne (2007-2015), the Australian National University (1995-1998) and LSE (2000-2007) and has held visiting positions at ANU, Melbourne, NYU and Harvard. He is the author of Great Powers and Outlaw States (Cambridge, 2004), winner of the American Society of International Law Annual Prize for Creative Scholarship in 2005 and Law, War and Crime: War Crimes Trials and the Reinvention of International Law (Polity 2007), and co-editor (with Kevin Jon Heller) of Hidden Histories (Oxford, 2014) and (with Raimond Gaita) of Who’s Afraid of International Law? (Monash, 2016). Gerry is a Fellow of the British Academy.

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