On the Social Anatomy of Law and World Ordering

Thursday Colloquium

#Thursday Colloquium with Dennis Schmidt

What is international law? What role does it play in world politics? And what values and goals does it promote? The presentation sketches out the contours of a book project on the social anatomy of international law. Structured around a set of interdisciplinary meditations, the book examines the critical role law plays in establishing, maintaining, and transforming global order. It envisions international law as a historically evolved global ordering practice, critically explores its deep-seated political struggles and normative tensions, and shows how it has organised the world through logics of inclusion and exclusion over the past five centuries.

^{This event is addressed to HIAS Fellows and Tandem Partners.}