Events

Forthcoming events

24 July 2019 Digital Citizens Research Network

Machine Listening

Seminar
29 July 2019 IILAH Roundtable

Teaching (Law) Through the Arts

Workshop
15 August 2019 CDSN, IILAH and IPCS Workshop

Intuiting the Archive: A Workshop for Researchers and Storytellers

Workshop
21 August 2019 Assoc. Prof. Samera Esmeir

Saba Mahmood Memorial Lecture: On the Ruins of History and the Obstinacy of Struggles

Seminar
26 August 2019 IILAH/CREEL Joint Workshop

Supporting Personhood: An examination of the evolving relationship between the legal person and the state

Workshop
20 September 2019 Professor Desmond Manderson

Desmond Manderson Masterclass

Masterclass
20 September 2019 Professor Desmond Manderson

Book Panel with Desmond Manderson: Danse Macabre

Seminar
9 - 10 December 2019 Conference

12th Annual Melbourne Doctoral Forum on Legal Theory

Seminar

Past events

16 July 2019 Professor Mando Rachovista

What are International Courts Made of? The Law and Politics of 'Recognised Competence in Internation Law' and How to Control the Bench

Seminar
11 July 2019 Lizzie O'Shea

Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach us About Digital Technology

Seminar
10 July 2019 Prof. Saptarishi Bandopadhyay

Disaster Relief and the Sovereignty of Knowledge

Seminar
28 May 2019 Professor César Rodríguez-Garavito

The Future of Human Rights: Rising to the Populist Challenge

Seminar
23 May 2019 Professor Stepan Wood

Advancing Marginalized Actors and Regulatory Quality in Transnational Governance

Seminar
30 April 2019 Dr Shane Chalmers

Native Dignity

Seminar
03 May 2019 Professor Robert Wai

Beyond Normal Trade Law?

Seminar
09 May 2019 Professor Kerry Rittich

Colonial Labour Market Governance Redux? Making Productive Workers, Then and Now

Seminar
09 May 2019 Workshop

Refining Your Research Project: A Symposium with Kerry Rittich

Workshop
10 May 2019 Luis Eslava, Sundhya Pahuja and Kerry Rittich

Exploratory Roundtable: Development, Geopolitics and the New Cold War?

Seminar
10 May 2019 Workshop - Call for Papers

Writing Place, Writing Laws: Laws & the Humanities in the 'Anthropocene'.

Workshop
24 April 2019 Assistant Professor Jeffery Hewitt

Indigenous Legal Orders: Objects and Narratives

Seminar
12 April 2019 Professor Karen Yeung

Implications of AI technologies on the concept of responsibility from a 'human rights' perspective.

Seminar
05 April 2019 Professor Antoine Buyse

Human Rights in a Shrinking Civic Space

Seminar
26 March 2019 Panel Discussion

The Chagos Archipelago Advisory Opinion: A Panel Discussion

Panel
21 March 2019 Professor David Lyon

Surveillance, Trust and Democracy

Lecture
28 February 2019 Professor Rande Kostal

Laying Down the Law: Americans as Makers of Legal Worlds in Occupied Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan

Seminar
7 - 8 February 2019 Workshop - Drs Adil Khan and Ben Silverstein

Thinking with Walter Benjamin

Workshop
12 February 2019 Dr Cassandra Mudgway

Patriarchy in International Human Rights Law

Seminar
31 January - 1 February 2019 MLS, UNSW & La Trobe University

Redistributive Human Rights? Workshop

Workshop
20 December 2018 Dr Rose Sydney Parfitt

Historiographical Materialism: Law, Art, Fascism, Resistance

Seminar
3 December 2018 Surabhi Shukla

Transgender Persons In Indian Courtrooms: Legal Rights Transformed or Status Quo Maintained?

Seminar
4 December 2018 Peter Rush & Mari Hirayama

Audio-visual recording of interrogations in Japan and Australia

Seminar
4-5 December 2018 11th Melbourne Doctoral Forum

Facts, Laws and Critique

Forum
5 December 2018 Dr Eve Lester

Book Launch | Making Migration Law: The Foreigner, Sovereignty, and the case of Australia

Launch
19 November 2018 IILAH Skills Circle

IILAH Skills Circle: Conference Presentations

Workshop
24 July - 28 October 2018 Eavesdropping

A Liquid Architecture, Ian Potter Museum of Art and Melbourne Law School collaboration

Seminar
18 October 2018 Shane Chalmers

Book Launch: Liberia and the Dialectic of Law: Critical Theory, Pluralism, and the Rule of Law.

Book Launch
19 September 2018 Associate Professor Jessie Allen

Performing Justice

Seminar
31 August 2018 Professor Oren Yiftachel

Terra Nullius in Hebrew? The Legal Geography of Indigenous Bedouins in Israel/Palestine

Seminar
24 August 2018 Dr Mia Swart

The Case That Never Was: Al Bashir and the Great Unsaid

Seminar
23 August 2018 Mr Peter Tzeng

Litigating before the International Court of Justice

Seminar
16 August 2018 Professor Helmut Aust

The Changing Role of Cities in the Global Climate Change Regime

Seminar
14 August 2018 Professor Nico Schrijver

The Role of Elected Members on the Security Council: Key Players or Lame Ducks?

Seminar
25 June 2018 Art + Conflict Workshop

Investigating Cross-Disciplinary Methodologies

Workshop
25 June 2018 Professor Desmond Manderson

Art’s Superpowers: Law and the Crimes of Justice

Seminar
21 June 2018 Valeria Vazquez Guevara

Living Together with Law after Violent Conflict: Truth Commissions, Peacebuilding and Technologies of International Jurisdiction

Confirmation Seminar
7 June 2018 Dr Patrick Graham

Legalism and the Latham High Court in Emergency

Seminar
5 June 2018 IGLP - IILAH Workshop

Learning From Failure

Workshop
22 May 2018 Professor Dayna Scott

Learning from Kanawayandan D’aaki. Is There (Still) Only One Law?

Lecture
28 May 2018 Professor Rosemary Coombe

Transforming the Work of Geographical Indications to Decolonize Political Ecologies of Racialized Labor

Seminar
17 May 2018 Dr Luis Eslava

Empire in Motion

Seminar
18 May 2018 Dr Isobel Roele

Work in Progress Roundtable with Isobel Roele

Seminar
14-15 May 2018 IILAH Workshop

Art and International Law Workshop

Workshop
21 March 2018 Feature: Professor Jan Klabbers

Between Mission and Market: International Organisations and the Public Sector

Lecture
27 March 2018 Feature: Professor Sally Engle Merry

How big is the problem of violence against women?

Seminar
07 March 2018 Professor Terence Halliday

International Organisations in the Crafting of World Markets: IILAH Seminar Series

Seminar
21 February 2018 Philippe Sands QC

Creative Non-Fiction in Law: Philippe Sands QC in Conversation with Hilary Charlesworth

Seminar

Lecture theatre

Previous Events (2014-2017)

The Institute for International Law and the Humanities organises conferences, public lectures, workshops, seminars and reading groups.

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