SYMPOSIUM: Evaluating the Turn to History of International Law (ESIL Conference, Naples, 6 Sep 2017)

ESIL 2017 Annual Conference

Symposium of the 

Interest Group on the History of International Law

“Evaluating the Turn to History of International Law” 

Naples, Wednesday, 6 September 2017

13:00-17:00, Venue TBA

13:00: Welcome and Opening Remarks

Thomas Skouteris (The American University in Cairo)

13:00-14:30: Session 1

Martin Clark (London School of Economics): “Ambivalences, anxieties / Adaptations, advances”

Valentina Vadi (Lancaster University): “International Law and its Microhistories”

Amrita Mukherjee (University of Leeds): “Subaltern Studies & International Law”

Discussant: Gerry Simpson (London School of Economics)

Moderator: Thomas Skouteris (The American University in Cairo)

15:00-16:30: Session 2

Miriam Bak Mackenna (Lund University) & Matilda Arvidsson (Lund University): “The ‘turn to history’ and the sources doctrine in international law: disruption, democratization, and distress”

Jan Martin Lemnitzer (University of Southern Denmark): “Writing a new history of international criminal law – where do we start?

Immi Tallgren (University of Helsinki): “A turn to women? Histories of ‘international criminal lawyers”

Discussant: Ignacio de la Rasilla del Moral (Brunel University)

Moderator: Inge van Hulle (Tilburg University)

16:30: Closing remarks and discussion on future activities of the IGHIL

Symposium Conveners/ IGHIL Coordinating Committee Members

Frederik Dhondt, Inge van Hulle, Ignacio de la Rasilladel Moral, and Thomas Skouteris