IILAH Reading Group 2024: Recent Interventions on the History and Theory of International Law

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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.

Register your attendance here!

Semester 2, 2024

Wednesday 31 July 2024
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.