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Legal Histories beyond the State brings together historians, political theorists and lawyers who are interested in the social, economic and political dimensions of law in the early modern and modern periods. We focus on the ways in which law and legal institutions order space and people. This encompasses both imperial and international law, and domestic law in its manifold influences on the nature and form of relations across borders. We are interested in legal actors and institutions, both national and supranational; doctrines and concepts, like jurisdiction; and diverse forms of legal border-crossing, including the migration of people, ideas and objects across time and place. Embracing new trends in legal and historical research, we pursue the exchange of legal ideas in formal and informal contexts, and the creation, appropriation and interpretation of law by non-traditional actors, and in unexpected places.

The seminar is an initiative of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, the Centre for History and Economics, and the Cambridge Centre for Political Thought.

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0 upcoming talks and 22 talks in the archive.

Law Made Immortal: Inheritance and Personhood in Modern German Legal Thought

Draft paper will be circulated from up to one week in advance

UserCharlotte Johann, Churchill College, Cambridge .

HouseLauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

ClockWednesday 11 May 2022, 17:00-18:15

Traditional Medicine Goes Global: Pan-African Precedents, Cultural Decolonization, and Cold War Rights/Properties’

Paper available for pre-reading

UserHelen Tilley, Northwestern University .

HouseZoom + TBC venue.

ClockWednesday 09 March 2022, 17:00-18:15

Protection-Shopping among Empires: Suspended Sovereignty in the Cocos-Keeling Islands

The paper will be made available before the seminar

UserLauren Benton, Yale University .

HouseBateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius .

ClockTuesday 15 February 2022, 17:00-18:15

Slavery and empire in early modern Iberian thought

Draft paper will be circulated from up to one week in advance

UserDaniel Allemann, University of Lucerne .

HouseBateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius .

ClockWednesday 24 November 2021, 17:00-18:15

The corporation and law in the making of global capitalism

There will be a pre-circulated reading for this talk. Please contact Surabhi at sr496@cam.ac.uk if you would like a copy

UserDr Grietje Baars, The City Law School, City, University of London .

HouseLauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

ClockThursday 13 February 2020, 17:00-18:15

Thinking Inside the Box: ‘Modular’ Historiography, the Ethiopian Empire and Other Subjects of International Law

There will be a pre-circulated reading for this talk. Please contact Surabhi at sr496@cam.ac.uk if you would like a copy

UserDr Rose Parfitt, Kent Law School, University of Kent .

HouseLauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

ClockThursday 30 January 2020, 17:00-18:15

Use, war, and commercial society. Changing paradigms of human relations with animals in the early modern law of nature and of nations

Organised jointly with the Centre for History and Economics

UserProfessor Annabel Brett, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge .

HouseLauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

ClockWednesday 30 October 2019, 17:00-18:15

American States of Nature: The Origins of Independence

UserDr Mark Somos (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law).

HouseLauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

ClockThursday 25 April 2019, 17:15-18:30

International Law's Objects: A Conversation

UserDr Jessie Hohmann (QMUL) and Dr Daniel Joyce (University of New South Wales).

HouseLauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

ClockThursday 21 March 2019, 18:00-19:15

The Rise of the Inter-American Human Rights Commission, the OAS and Responses to the Cuban Revolution: Towards a Humanitarian and Geopolitical Genealogy of Human Rights in the Americas

UserJuan Pablo Scarfi (Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina; Visiting Professor, Institut des Hautes Études de l'Amérique Latine, Université Paris 3).

HouseLauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

ClockWednesday 23 January 2019, 17:15-18:30

Act of State and the Limits of Adjudication

UserProfessor Pat Capps (University of Bristol Law School).

HouseLauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

ClockWednesday 28 November 2018, 17:15-18:30

Debating the rise and fall of the first East African Community in East Africa’s public sphere, 1960s-1970s

UserDr Emma Hunter (Senior Lecturer, African History, University of Edinburgh).

HouseLauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

ClockWednesday 14 November 2018, 17:15-18:30

'The consciousness of a duty done': British attitudes towards self-determination and the case of the Sudan

UserDr Sarah Nouwen (University Senior Lecturer in International Law) & Orfeas Chasapis-Tassinis (doctoral candidate, Lauterpacht Centre of International Law).

HouseLauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

ClockWednesday 17 October 2018, 17:15-18:30

Constructing International Law: Property, Commerce, and "Expectations"

UserDr Kate Miles (Fellow and Lecturer in Law, Gonville & Caius).

HouseLauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

ClockWednesday 29 November 2017, 17:15-18:30

Transnational Conflicts: A New Kind of War?

UserDr Ziv Bohrer (Bar-Ilan University; visitor, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law).

HouseLauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

ClockWednesday 25 October 2017, 17:15-18:30

The Grand Dichotomies: Sovereignty, the Public/ Private Divide, and Company States

For the paper in advance, please contact md718@cam.ac.uk

UserProfessor Jason Sharman (POLIS).

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockThursday 01 June 2017, 15:30-16:45

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