An international workshop on the theme of International Law and Empire will be held at the University of Helsinki Oct. 4-6, 2011. The workshop is co-sponsored by the Erik Castrén Institute for International Law and Human Rights, University of Helsinki; the Institute for International Law and the Humanities, University of Melbourne; the European Research Council research project on “Europe between Revolution and Reaction 1815-1914, and the Australian Research Council research project on “Cosmopolitanism and the Future of International Law.”
This workshop will bring together leading scholars from international law, history, anthropology, international relations and literature, to assess the role of law in the organisation and occasional critique of formal and informal empire, and the role of empire (and the righteous critique of empire) in the organisation of modern international law.
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