History of International Law @World

Starting on 16 December 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 find the description and program of the initiative here and a registration link for the opening event on 16 December 2020 at 14:00 CET (with Professor Wouter Werner) here. If you cannot attend the opening event but you would like to receive details on future workshops in this series, you can register here.

At 28 and 29 January 2021, Dr Inge van Hulle (Tilburg University) and Dr Diana M. Natermann (Leiden University) will organize a conference titled ''Imperial Artefacts: History, Law, and the Looting of Cultural Property''.

This interdisciplinary conference aspires to bring together (post-)colonial historians,
legal historians, curators, international lawyers, and others engaged with the field to establish research collaborations by critically investigating stories of colonial looting, the framing of colonial history within museums, the origins of the legal framework concerning European laws of war and restitution, as well as a way forward for restitution claims.

Read more information.

PLEASE NOTE: depending on how the current Covid-19 situation unfolds come winter, this conference may ultimately be scheduled online or be postponed to a later date in 2021.