(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
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