History of International Law @World

For a Workshop and Publication, the organizers are calling for contributions that deal with questions of land tenure in any region of the former Portuguese and Spanish empires in Asia, Africa, Europe (incl. Italy and the Netherlands), and the Americas during the early modern period. The contributions may explore the role of families, marriage, kinship, corporations (the Church, cabildos/concelhos, pueblos, etc.), and other kinds of institutions in the regulation of land. Case studies, comparisons, as well as methodological and analytical approaches are particularly welcome. A selection of the papers presented at the workshop will be published as a volume of the Brill series Max Planck Studies in Global Legal History of the Iberian Worlds.

Submission:

Please send your book chapter proposals in Spanish, English, or Portuguese to Dr. Manuel Bastias Saavedra (bastias@...) until October 31, 2021. A full manuscript will be required before the conference.

More information can be found here. 

The British Academy Global Professorship and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and Private International Law have joint forces to organize a second workshop around the theme 'Decolonial comparative legal history: indigenous and global South law prior to colonialism', which will take place on 9-10 September 2022 at the University of Oxford. 

Interested scholars are invited to submit papers (max. 5000 words) that destabilize coloniality by engaging with how indigenous and global South societies defined or practiced law prior to colonialism. Papers should be based on original research, ideally relying on primary or indigenous sources from prior to the colonial era (broadly defined). Papers should identify “law” in a specific tradition or place, with particular attention to indigenous or pre-colonial epistemologies and practices. Since colonial legal notions continue to distort historiography, we welcome papers that decolonize (i.e., identify and replace) coloniality in the legal historiography of the precolonial global South and indigenous communities.

Papers have to be submitted by February 9, 2022. More information can be found here.

Starting on December 16, 2020, the T.M.C. Asser Institute will organize a (digital) lecture series on Method, Methodology and Critique in International Law. The aim of the program is to explore the many methodological "turns" the discipline of international law has taken and to think together about the theoretical commitments these entail, the crafts they demand and the modes of critique they enable.

You can read the description and program of the initiative. If you would like to receive details on future workshops in this series, you can register for the workshop.