IILAH Reading Group 2024: Recent Interventions on the History and Theory of International Law
The reading group will be co-convened by André Dao and Richard Joyce.
Meetings will be held in-person at Melbourne Law School.
Sessions will commence Wednesday 31 July 2024, 12:00pm – 1:00pm in the Level 10 Boardroom unless specified.
Semester 2, 2024
- Wednesday 31 July 2024
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Level 10 Boardroom
Vasuki Nesiah, ‘A Double Take on Debt Reparations Claims and Regimes of Visibility in a Politics of Refusal’ (2022) 59 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 153
Available online here.
- Wednesday 14 August 2024
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Room G01, Ground Floor (Note room change for this session)
Cait Storr, International Status in the Shadow of Empire: Nauru and the Histories of International Law (CUP, 2020) (Chapter 1: International Status, Imperial Form: Nauru and the Histories of International Law, 1-36 & highlighted extract from prologue).
Book available online through the library here.
- Wednesday 28 August 2024
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Level 10 Boardroom
Christopher Gevers, ‘“Unwhitening the World”: Rethinking Race and International Law’ (2021) 67(6) UCLA Law Review 1652
PDF available through the library here.
- Wednesday 11 September 2024
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Level 10 Boardroom
Julia Dehm, ‘Reconfiguring Environmental Governance in the Green Economy: Extraction, Stewardship and Natural Capital’ in J. Dehm and U. Natarajan (eds), Locating Nature: Making and Unmaking International Law, 70-107 (focusing on pp 70-83; 98-107)
Chapter available online through the library here.
- Wednesday 9 October 2024
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Level 10 Boardroom
Antony Anghie, ‘Rethinking International Law: A TWAIL Retrospective’ (2023) 34 European Journal of International Law 7 (Parts 1-3; pages 7-62), with Afterword by Ratna Kapur
Available online here.
- Wednesday 16 October 2024
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Level 10 Boardroom
Antony Anghie, ‘Rethinking International Law: A TWAIL Retrospective’ (2023) 34 European Journal of International Law 7 Parts 4-8; pages 62-112), with Afterword by Arnulf Becker Lorca
Available online here.
- Wednesday 30 October 2024
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Level 10 Boardroom
Godwin Dzah, Sustainable Development, International Law, and a Turn to African Cosmologies (Cambridge University Press, 2024), Introduction
Book available online through the library here.