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dr. Michel Erpelding (Research Group Leader, MPILHLT) will deliver this year's JHIL Lecture at the Akademie für europäischen Menschenrechtsschutz in Cologne, organised by the Journal of the History of International Law/Revue d'histoire du droit international.
On the speaker:
Michel Erpelding is Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. His current research focusses on the history of international and European integration law, with a special interest in their interaction with colonial law and practices. He is an associate member of the Institut de recherche en droit international et européen de la Sorbonne (IREDIES) and teaches at the University of Luxembourg and the Sorbonne Law School.
Abstract:
Present-day commentators often present the rise of the individual as a subject of international law – and notably as a fully-fledged claimant before international courts – as a phenomenon that only emerged after 1945. However, between the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, several treaty regimes had already established internationally composed judicial institutions endowed with jurisdiction over treaty-based claims by private persons both against other private persons and sovereign states. Despite their pioneering role and their rich practice, these early international courts have today largely disappeared from the collective memories of international lawyers and the broader public, resulting in the creation of what the French historian Gérard Noiriel has described as ‘spaces of collective amnesia’ (non-lieux de mémoire). This presentation will retrace the creation, expansion, and eventual disappearance of this phenomenon while questioning why it fell into oblivion.
The event will take place on Monday 16 March 2026 at 18:00 Cologne time.
Address below:
RSVP with submissions dot jhil at mpil dot de.
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