CONFERENCE: The League of Nations and International law, 1919-1945 (13-14 June 2019, University of Copenhagen)

(Source: University of Copenhagen)

Today and tomorrow, the University of Copenhagen is hosting an international conference on the League of Nations and international law. Here the programme:

THURSDAY June 13

9.30-10.15 Welcome by Morten Rasmussen

10.15-11.45

The League of Nations system and International Law

• Morten Rasmussen (Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen), The History of the Legal Section of the League of Nations, 1919-1925
• Aden Knaap (Doctoral student, Harvard University), The Court of the Future: The Rise and Fall of World Courts, 1940-45

Discussant: Marcus Payk (Professor, Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg)

11.45-13.00 LUNCH

13.00-15.15

The League of Nations and International Law seen from state actors

• Tomoko Akami (Associate Professor, Australian National University): Making imperial polities anomaly: the Japanese Association of International Law and the League of Nations
• Andrei Mamolea (PhD, Visiting Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for European History, Frankfurt): The Uruguayan approach to International Law during the   League of Nations Era
• Thomas Storgaard (Doctoral student, University of Copenhagen): Unlocking the technology of international law within the German Foreign Office, 1914 – 1920

Discussant: Haakon Ikonomou (Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen)

15.15-15.45 COFFEE

15.45-17.15

The shape of international law and legal discourse

• Megan Donaldson (Junior Research Fellow, University of Cambridge): The Edges of Law: Boundaries of Legal Discourse in the League of Nations
• Leonard Smith (Professor, Oberlin College & Conversatory), Sovereignty and mandates in legal discourse

Discussant: Jan Lemnitzer (Assistant Professor, University of Southern Denmark)

18.00-21.00 DINNER Restaurant Marv og Ben

14 June

8.30-9.00 Publication plans by Morten Rasmussen

9.00-10.30

Lawyers and legal networks I

• Henri de Waele (Professor, Radboud University): A New League of Extraordinary Gentlemen? The Professionalisation of International Law Scholarship and Practice in the Netherlands, 1919-1940
• Jens Wegener (Post.doc., Ruhr-Universität Bochum): International Lawyers of Peace: The League, Philanthropy and the Making of a Transnational Social Space

Discussant: Jean-Michel Guieu (Associate Professor, Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

10.30-10.45 COFFEE

10.45-12.15

Lawyers and legal networks II

• Karin van Leeuwen (Assistant Professor, University of Maastricht): Promoting a 'common international concept' of international law: the Hague Academy and international law teaching, 1923-1940
• Rasmus Søndergaard (Post.doc., Georgetown University): International Law and the League: The Life and Work of Manley O. Hudson

Discussant : Morten Rasmussen (Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen)

12.15-13.30 LUNCH

13.30-14.45

League of Nations policies and international law I

• Omer Aloni (Post.doc. University of Potsdam): Early Environmentalism and Diplomacy at the Birth of Modern International Law: The League of Nations, 1919-1939
• Nicholas Mulder (Doctoral student, Columbia University): League of Nations Sanctions and the Creation of Public War, 1925-1931

Discussant: Daniel Maul (Associate Professor, Oslo University)

14.45-15.15 COFFEE

 15.15-16.45

League of Nations policies and international law II

• Marilena Papadaki (Scientific Associate, K. Koufa Foundation): The Protection of Individual and Minority Rights within the LoN Framework: the case of Nicolas Politis (1872-1942)
• Michel Erpelding, Developing a systematic case-law on individual and minority rights: the role of Felix Calonder (1863-1952) as President of the Mixed Commission for Upper Silesia (1922-1937)

Discussant: Jan Lemnitzer (Assistant Professor, University of Southern Denmark)

17.00-18.00

Conclusion

Marcus Payk (Professor, Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg), Jan Lemnitzer (Assistant Professor, University of Southern Denmark) and Morten Rasmussen (Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen)

All info about the conference can be found here