WORKSHOP: Sovereignty and Property in (Post)Colonial Contexts (15 July 2019, Goethe University Frankfurt)

(Source: Goethe Universität Frankfurt)

We learned of a workshop on Sovereignty and Property in (Post)Colonial Contexts at the Goethe Universität next month.

John Locke, Making Property Rights and International Law Mónica García-Salmones Rovira (Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights, University of Helsinki)

Methodological issues relating to the history of European colonial expansion in international law: insights from Alfred Schutz’s phenomenological sociology Mamadou Hébié (Leiden University, International Court of Justice)

Rights of Conquest, Discovery and Occupation, and the Freedom of the Seas: the Colonial Invention of International Law and the Natural Resource Injustice Petra Gümplová (Max Weber Kolleg, University of Erfurt)

Cultural Artefacts – Returning Colonial Objects Jochen von Bernstorff (University of Tübingen)

The Entanglement of Sovereignty and Property in International Law. From German Southwest Africa to the Great Land Grab? Matthias Goldmann (Goethe University Frankfurt & MPIL Heidelberg)

Comments by: Kanad Bagchi   & Alexandra Kemmerer (MPIL Heidelberg), Isabel Feichtner (U Würzburg), Stefan Kadelbach (Goethe U Frankfurt), Manuel Bastias Saavedra (MPIeR Frankfurt)

Venue: Normative Orders EG.01, Campus Westend, Goethe University

Convener: Matthias Goldmann, Goethe University Frankfurt

Registration required:

arens@hof.uni-frankfurt.de

The poster for the event can be found here