History & Theory

IILJ History and Theory of International Law: Legal Sabotage, Ernst Fraenkel in Hitler’s Germany

A conversation with David Dyzenhaus, Lawrence Douglas, Benjamin Hett, Hassan Jabareen, David J. Luban, Inga Markovitz, Jens Meierheinrich, and author Douglas Morris.>

IILJ History and Theory of International Law Workshop: Human Shields, A History of People in the Line of Fire  

Please join us for an online book panel discussion of Neve Gordon and Nicola Perugini's new book Human Shields: A History of People in the Line of Fire (University of California Press, 2020).>

IILJ History and Theory of International Law Workshop: Covid 19 and the Scripts of Emergency Powers

Emergency measures enacted across the planet make it vital that scholars, administrators, and journalists grapple with multiple forms of emergency and the implications for executive power.>

IILJ History and Theory of International Law Workshop: Kelsen’s Contribution to Contemporary Philosophy of International Law

Co-sponsored by the Contract Theory Colloquium and the IILJ History & Theory of International Law Workshops.>

IILJ History and Theory of International Law Workshop: The Morals of the Market, Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism

Co-sponsored by: the IILJ History and Theory of International Law Workshops, the Gallatin Human Rights Initiative, and the JSD Program>

IILJ History and Theory of International Law Workshop: War and Algorithm

The authors, Max Liljefors, Gregor Noll, and Daniel Steuer, will present their contribution to understanding and resisting algorithmic warfare in 'an emerging world of war'.>

IILJ History and Theory of International Law Workshop: Private and Public Law & Organization of Agreements between States

a special session of Professor Richard R. W. Brooks' Contract Theory and Law Colloquium with Julian Arato, David Dyzenhaus, and Michael Waibel>

IILJ History and Theory of International Law Workshop: International Legal Orders as Histories, China and the West

This workshop explores roles of ideas about history in ordering projects past and present. We launch the discussion from two starting points with authors of major recent scholarly contributions, with the aim however of generating a unified inquiry. >

IILJ History and Theory of International Law Workshop: The Process of International Legal Reproduction, Inequality, Historiography, Resistance

What is international law’s role in establishing and perpetuating inequalities of wealth, power, and fulfillment? And what are the strategies of resistance that are generated in that process?>

IILJ History and Theory in International Law Workshop: The Emergence of the Concept of a ‘Welfare State’ in British Political Discourse, 1940-1950

David Garland will present "The Emergence of the Concept of a ‘Welfare State’ in British Political Discourse, 1940-1950">