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JHIL Journal of the History of International Law

POLITICS AND THE HISTORIES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW

Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law

and International Law, Heidelberg

15 – 16 February 2019

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Contact

Anette Kreutzfeld

Richard Dören

Robert Stendel

Wanda Metze

E-Mail: [email protected]

Phone: +49 (0) 6221 482307

on Twitter: #JHIL2019

In Collaboration with/Financed by:

Heidelberger Gesellschaft für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht e.V.

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Conveners

Prof. Dr. Anne Peters

Raphael Schäfer

JHIL Journal of the History of International Law

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NOTES

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Concept and Format ........................................................................................................... 6

Programme ........................................................................................................................ 8

List of Speakers ............................................................................................................... 13

List of Engaged Listeners .................................................................................................. 16

Short Biographies of Speakers ........................................................................................... 19

Short Biographies of Engaged Listeners .............................................................................. 34

General Information (with map) ......................................................................................... 46

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CONCEPT AND FORMAT


The cover painting for the conference shows Clio,

the Muse of History. In the fine arts, she often

appears carrying a parchment scroll or book and

trumpet. Thus she represents not only the crafts-

manship of the historical discipline but also hints at

its political dimensions by her spreading the mes-

sage contained in the books. The 1632 painting,

however, has further political implications: Artemi-

sia Gentileschi was one of the few female baroque

painters to be accepted in seventeenth-century

Italy, and her personal life illustrates the degree to

which she was subject to the political convictions

of her time.

The inherent political relevance of history encapsu-

lated in Gentileschi’s Clio also characterizes inter-

national law. Here, history has always been used

as a political tool, which is as true today as ever

before. The social tensions caused by globalization

and a lack of meaningful contemporary ideas for

the future motivate an idealizing retrogression and

fuel nationalist, protectionist, and aggressive his-

torical narratives. Some European countries only

recently penalized statements on delicate histori-

cal events through so-called ‘memory laws’.

This ongoing instrumentalization of history for

political means is particularly relevant for interna-

tional law. Governing – traditionally – the relations

between states, international law is per se politi-

cal. The content of its rules depends on the polit-

ical power of international law’s actors. Addition-

ally, given their different (national) backgrounds,

it is hardly possible for international lawyers to dis-

tance themselves from their own political predis-

positions in legal debates.

Besides its political nature, international law has

been deeply shaped by history. This is especially

true for the sources of international law. Here, the

prerogative of interpreting the past can set the

agenda for future developments: without a central

legislative body, often decades- and even centu-

ries-old treaties have to provide answers to current

debates, and customary international law requires

uniform and often long-lasting practice. This nexus

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between international law and history explains why

international law does not have a single history but

several histories.

Against this backdrop, the ‘Politics and the Histo-

ries of International Law’ Conference investigates

the interplay between international law, its histo-

ries, and their respective political implications, and

offers a forum within which these issues can be

constructively debated. The aim of the conference

is to discuss the political predispositions, circum-

stances, contexts and consequences of research

on the history of international law by analyzing

concrete examples and interrelated topics. Inter-

disciplinary and transcultural perspectives guar-

antee a stimulating atmosphere in the pursuit of

new impulses for further research on the histories

of international law.

Across nine different panels and in two plenary

sessions, the conference will shed light on the con-

vergence of international law, politics and history.

In order to facilitate an open and frank discussion

among the panelists, participation will be limited

to speakers, chairs and engaged listeners. The lat-

ter are mainly PhD candidates and junior schol-

ars selected to participate in the conference on the

basis of a public call.

The event will take place at the Max Planck Insti-

tute for Comparative Public Law and International

Law in Heidelberg and under the auspices of

the Journal of the History of International Law.

Funding has been generously provided by Brill,

the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft – DFG

(German Research Foundation), and the Heidel-

berger Gesellschaft für ausländisches öffentliches

Recht und Völkerrecht e.V.

Palazzo Blu in Pisa, Italy, kindly gave permission

to use images of Artemisia Gentileschi’s painting

entitled ‘Clio’.

Selected papers will be published in a special issue

of the Journal of the History of International Law.

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PROGRAMME

FRIDAY, 15 FEBRUARY 2019

8.00 – 9.00 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE

9.00 – 10.00 WELCOME ADDRESS (ROOM 038)

Anne Peters and Randall Lesaffer

Keynote Opening by Sundhya Pahuja:

Doing Legal History in a Postcolonial World

10.00 – 10.30 BREAK

10.30 – 12.30 SESSION I

PANEL I A: (ROOM 014) SLAVERY, SLAVE TRADE AND THE LAW OF THE SEA

(Chair: Raphael Schäfer)

Anne-Charlotte Martineau, The Politics of Writing on Slavery and Interna-

tional Law

Parvathi Menon, Protecting Empire in Slave Colonies

Stefano Cattelan, Law and Politics, the Genesis of the Law of the Sea

PANEL I B: (ROOM 038) INTERNATIONAL LAW BEFORE AND BEYOND THE WEST

(Chair: Luigi Nuzzo)

Emiliano Buis, The Politics of Anti-Politics: Mainstream Histories of

International Law and the Paradox of Antiquity

Radhika Jagtap, Developing an Anticolonial Historiography of

International Law from a Social Movements’ Perspective

Sebastian Spitra, New Narratives for a Critical History of World Cultural

Heritage

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PANEL I C: (ROOM 037) VULNERABILITY AND INTERNATIONAL LAW

(Chair: Robert Stendel)

León Castellanos-Jankiewicz, Nationalism and Early International Rights

Karin Loevy, Histories of International Law as Windows to Law’s Politics:

Dicey, Humanitarianism and the Jews

Momchil Milanov, One Hundred Years of Soli(dari)tude: The Making of the

Refugee Status and the Politics of Humanitarianism

Ignacio de la Rasilla del Moral, Women’s Historical Invisibility in Interna-

tional Law

12.30 – 13.30 LUNCH

13.30 – 15.30 SESSION II

PANEL II A: (ROOM 038) THE POLITICIZATION OF WESTERN LEGAL HISTORY

(Chair: Miloš Vec)

Jan Lemnitzer/Morten Rasmussen, Bringing Politics Back in: What the

‘Turn to Practice’ Means for the Writing of Histories of International Law

Thibaut Fleury Graff, Henry Wheaton and the Powers of History: Justifying

the Power of the US Federal Government in the 19th Century by Rewriting

the History and Contents of International Law

Maria Adele Carrai, W. A. P. Martin as a Legal Historian and the Politics of

History in Late Qing-China

Angelo Dube/Lindelwa Mhlongo, The Forgotten Continent? Interrogating

Africa’s Contribution to the History and Development of International Law

PANEL II B: (ROOM 037) THE POLITICS OF LEGAL HISTORY IN THE BOOKS

(Chair: Annabel Brett)

Julia Bühner, Let There be Light – Histories Hidden in the Shadow of Fran-

cisco de Vitoria

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Deborah Whitehall, The Politics of Writing the History of International Law

as a Treatise

PANEL II C: (ROOM 014) THE LAWS OF WAR IN CONTEXT

(Chair: Rüdiger Wolfrum)

Hirofumi Oguri, Taming Politics in the Historiographies of International

Law: Between Naïve Positivism and Agnosticism

Rotem Giladi, Rites of Affirmation: Progress and Immanence in Internatio-

nal Humanitarian Law Historiography

Claire Vergerio, Inventing the History of the Laws of War: The Revival of

Alberico Gentili in the late 19th Century

15.30 – 16.00 BREAK

16.00 – 18.00 SESSION III

PANEL III A: (ROOM 014) THE POLITICS OF THE USE OF FORCE AND THE FUNCTION OF PEACE

(Chair: Anthony Carty)

John Hursh, What is a Threat to the Peace? Historical Assessment and Shi-

fting Legal Meaning

Thilo Marauhn, Narratives of Peace as Justifications for the Use of Force:

Henry A. Kissinger and the Long Peace of the 19th Century

Hendrik Simon, In the Shadow of War and Order. Historical Reflections on

the Interrelationship between Political and Scholarly Practices of Justifying

War

Katie Szilagyi/Jon Khan, There Might Come Soft Rains: Technological

Determinism, International Law, and the Age of Intelligent Machines

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PANEL III B: (ROOM 037) LEGITIMACY, SECURITY AND SOVEREIGNTY IN INTERNATIONAL LEGAL HISTORY

(Chair: Inge Van Hulle)

Michael Mulligan, Politics and the Histories of International Law: Interna-

tional Law and the Spectre of Legitimacy

Ríán Derrig, The Psychoanalytic New Haven School: A Case Study of

Interwar Legal Science

Etienne Henry, Soviet Praxis of Collective Security in the League of Nations

Era

Mikhail Antonov, The Rise of the Sovereignty Argument in Russian Appro-

aches to International Law

PANEL III C: (ROOM 038) THE ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL LEGAL HISTORY BEFORE INTERNATIONAL COURTS AND TRIBUNALS

(Chair: Thomas Duve)

Gustavo Prieto, Mixed Claim Commissions in Latin America During the

19th and 20th Centuries

Jakob Zollmann, Searching for History in Law. The Polish-German Mixed

Arbitral Tribunal after 1919

Valeria Vázquez Guevara, Crafting the ‘Lawful Truth’: Chile‘s 1990 Truth

Commission, International Human Rights Law, and the Museum of Memory

Michel Erpelding, International Law and the European Court of Justice:

The Politics of Avoiding History

20.00 – 23.00 BRILL CONFERENCE DINNER WITH KEYNOTE BY JACOB KATZ COGAN: TOWARD A SOCIAL HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW

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SATURDAY, 16 FEBRUARY 2019

09.00 – 09.30 COFFEE

09.30 – 12.00 CONCLUDING PANEL WITH DISCUSSION (ROOM 038)

(Chair: Randall Lesaffer)

Nehal Bhuta, Histories of/in International Law

Jean d’Aspremont, Critical Attitudes in Historiographical International Legal

Studies

Aoife O’Donoghue/Henry Jones, Histories of International Law and Self-

Reflection within the Discipline

Madeleine Herren-Oesch, Aliens, Race and Law: A History of the Odd Ones

Out

Please note that photos will be taken during the event for our reporting and communication with the public.

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LIST OF SPEAKERS

Prof. Dr. Mikhail Antonov – National Research University “Higher School of Economics”, Saint Petersburg

Prof. Nehal Bhuta – University of Edinburgh / Edinburgh Centre for International and Global Law

Dr. Annabel Brett – University of Cambridge

Julia Bühner – University of Münster

Prof. Dr. Emiliano J. Buis – University of Buenos Aires (UBA) / Central University / Universidad de San Andrés

Dr. Maria Adele Carrai – Leuven Centre for Global Governance – KU Leuven / Harvard University

Prof. Anthony Carty – Beijing Institute of Technology

Dr. León Arturo Castellanos Jankiewicz – T.M.C. Asser Institute for International and European Law, The Hague

Stefano Cattelan – Aarhus University

Prof. Jacob Katz Cogan – University of Cincinnati

Prof. Jean d’Aspremont – University of Manchester / Sciences Po School of Law / Manchester International Law Centre (MILC)

Prof. Dr. Ignacio de la Rasilla del Moral – Wuhan University

Ríán Derrig – European University Institute, Florence

Prof. Angelo Dube – University of South Africa, Pretoria

Prof. Dr. Thomas Duve – Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt / Goethe University Frankfurt

Dr. Michel Erpelding – Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Inter-national, European and Regulatory Procedural Law, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Prof. Dr. Thibaut Fleury Graff – University of Rennes

Dr. Rotem Giladi – Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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Dr. Etienne Henry – Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Minis-try of Foreign Affairs

Prof. Dr. Madeleine Herren-Oesch – University of Basel

John Hursh – Stockton Center for International Law, Naval War College, Newport, USA

Radhika Jagtap – Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Dr. Henry Jones – University of Durham

Jon Khan – University of Pennsylvania / University of Toronto

Dr. Jan Martin Lemnitzer – University of Southern Denmark / Oxford University

Prof. Dr. Randall Lesaffer – University of Tilburg / University of Leuven

Dr. Karin Loevy – New York University

Prof. Dr. Thilo Marauhn – University of Giessen

Dr. Anne-Charlotte Martineau – Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris

Parvathi Menon – Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law, Luxembourg / University of Helsinki

Lindelwa Mhlongo – University of South Africa

Momchil Milanov – International Court of Justice / University of Geneva

Michael Mulligan – British University in Egypt, Cairo

Prof. Luigi Nuzzo – University of Salento

Prof. Aoife O’Donoghue – University of Durham

Dr. Hirofumi Oguri – The Open University of Japan

Prof. Sundhya Pahuja – University of Melbourne

Prof. Dr. Anne Peters – Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg

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Dr. Gustavo Prieto – University of Turin

Morten Rasmussen – University of Copenhagen

Raphael Schäfer – Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg

Hendrik Simon – Peace Research Institute Frankfurt

Dr. Sebastian M. Spitra – University of Michigan

Robert Stendel – Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg

Katie Szilagyi – University of Ottawa

Dr. Inge Van Hulle – University of Tilburg

Valeria Vazquez Guevara – University of Melbourne

Prof. Dr. Miloš Vec – University of Vienna

Dr. Claire Vergerio – University of Leiden

Dr. Deborah Whitehall – University of Sydney

em. Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Rüdiger Wolfrum – Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg

Dr. Jakob Zollmann – Berlin Social Science Center (WZB)

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LIST OF ENGAGED LISTENERS

Prof. Dr. Ebrahim Afsah – University of Vienna

Shubhangi Agarwalla – National Law University, Delhi

Paulette Baeriswyl Banciella – University of Zurich

Kanad Bagchi – Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg

Yateesh Begoore – Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law, Heidelberg

Leander Beinlich – Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg

em. Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Rudolf Bernhardt – Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg

Dr. Raphaël Cahen – Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Tatiana Cardoso Squeff – Federal University of Uberlândia (Brazil)

Dr. Alina Cherviatsova – V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv

Prof. Dr. Justo Corti Varela – National University of Distance Education (Spain)

Prof. Dr. Frederik Dhondt – Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Richard Dören – Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg

Prof. Dr. Isabel Feichtner – University of Wuerzburg

Judith Hackmack – Humboldt University of Berlin / European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, Berlin

Dr. Matthias Hartwig – Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg

Ayan Huseynova – University of Administrative Sciences, Speyer

Dr. Francesca Iurlaro – Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Neo-Latin Studies Innsbruck

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Viktorija Jakjimovska – University of Leuven

Alexandra Kemmerer – Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg

Sanja Kreštalica – University of East Sarajevo Faculty of Law, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Prof. Dino Kritsiotis – University of Nottingham

Dr. Felix Lange – Humboldt University Berlin

Andrea Leiter – University of Melbourne/ University of Vienna

Deepak Mawar – University of London

Attila Nagy – Lecturer and Independent Researcher

Raphael Oidtmann – University of Mannheim

Dr. Magdalena Pacholska – Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Inter-national, European and Regulatory Procedural Law, Luxembourg

Benjamin Peters – Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva

Dr. Stéphanie Prévost – Paris Diderot University

Daniel Ricardo Quiroga Villamarin – Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva

Muratcan Sabuncu – Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne

Dr. Lena Salaymeh – Tel Aviv University

Dr. Tom Sparks – Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg

Silvia Steininger – Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg

Dr. Verena Steller – Goethe University Frankfurt am Main

Milan Tahraoui – Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg

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Dr. Piotr Uhma – Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University

Justina Uriburu – Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva

Alexander Wentker – Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg

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SHORT BIOGRAPHIES OF SPEAKERS

PROF. DR. MIKHAIL ANTONOV

National Research University “Higher School of Economics”, Saint Petersburg

Mikhail Antonov is Profes-

sor of Law associated

with the Law Faculty at

the National Research

University “Higher

School of Economics”

(Saint Petersburg) where

he teaches legal theory

and comparative law. He

also is member of the editorial boards of the Pravo-

vedenie, the Review of Central and East European

Law, the Rechtstheorie, the Russian Law Journal,

and of a number of other international scientific

journals. Professor Antonov’s research interests

focus upon contemporary legal theory, the prob-

lems of normativity in law and of sociological juris-

prudence and on the theory of sovereignty, the his-

tory of Russian legal philosophy. He is also practis-

ing as a member of the Saint Petersburg Bar

Association.

PROF. NEHAL BHUTA

University of Edinburgh / Edinburgh Centre for International and Global Law

Nehal Bhuta holds the

Chair of Public Interna-

tional Law at University

of Edinburgh and is

Co-Director of the Edin-

burgh Centre for Interna-

tional and Global Law.

He previously held the

Chair of Public

International Law at the European University Insti-

tute in Florence, where he was also Co-Director of

the Institute’s Academy of European Law. He is a

member of the editorial boards of the European

Journal of International Law, the Journal of Interna-

tional Criminal Justice, Constellations and a found-

ing editor of the interdisciplinary journal Humanity.

He is also a series editor of the Oxford University

Press (OUP) series in The History and Theory of

International Law.

DR. ANNABEL BRETT

University of Cambridge

Annabel Brett lectures on

the history of political

thought in the Faculty of

History, Cambridge. Her

research interests

include the history of

natural law, human

rights and international

law, as well as medieval

and early modern conceptions of the political more

broadly. She is interested in how geographical

space and non-human nature have historically

been conceived in relation to human beings and

political formations, and how those issues are the-

orised in contemporary political thought.

Major publications include Liberty, right and

nature: Individual rights in later scholastic thought

(1997) and Changes of state: Nature and the limits

of the city in early modern natural law (2011).

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JULIA BÜHNER

University of Münster

Julia Bühner is a sec-

ond-year doctoral stu-

dent and research assis-

tant of Professor Martin

Kintzinger at the Univer-

sity of Münster. She

studied History, focusing

on the medieval era, and

German studies and

graduated in 2017. Her dissertation project deals

with the transmission of international law’s prac-

tices and ideas from the conquest of the Canary

Islands and the scholarly reflections of the 15th

century to the conquest of Latin America and the

School of Salamanca. Moreover, she is interested

in theory, method and historiography of Intellectual

History, and History of International Law.

PROF. DR. EMILIANO J. BUIS

University of Buenos Aires (UBA) / Central University / Universidad de San Andrés

Emiliano Buis holds two

BA in Classics and Law,

an MA in History (Pan-

théon-Sor-bonne) and a

PhD (UBA). He is a Per-

manent Researcher in

Law and Philology at the

National Council for

Science and Technology

(CONICET) in Argentina. He is the Director of the

Seminar on Theory and History of International

Law at the Ambrosio Gioja Research Institute and

the Chair of the Working Group on Ancient Greek

Law (DEGRIAC) at the National Institute for Legal

History.

His research interests include the theory and his-

tory of International Law in Antiquity, Athenian law

and Greek drama. His latest book in English, Tam-

ing Ares. War, Interstate Law, and Humanitarian

Discourse in Classical Greece, was published this

year by Brill/Nijhoff.

DR. MARIA ADELE CARRAI

Leuven Centre for Global Governance – KU Leuven / Harvard University

Maria Adele Carrai Ph.D.

is a sinologist and politi-

cal scientist who is finish-

ing a book about sover-

eignty in China (A Gene-

ology of the Concept

of Sovereignty in China

since 1840, forthcom-

ing with Cambridge Uni-

versity Press). She is a recipient of a three-year

Marie Curie Fellowship at the Leuven Centre for

Global Governance – KU Leuven and a Fellow at

Harvard University Asia Center. Her interdiscipli-

nary research focuses on China’s legal history and

how it affects the country’s foreign policy.

PROF. ANTHONY CARTY

Beijing Institute of Technology

Anthony Carty is a Profes-

sor of Law at the Beijing

Institute of Technology

since 2017. He was pre-

viously Professor at

Westminster, Aberdeen,

Hong Kong and Tsing-

hua University. He is a

Legal Consultant to the

Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and to the

China Institute of Maritime Affairs. He holds an

LL.B (Q.U. Belfast 1968), an LL.M. (U.C. London

1969) and a PhD from Cambridge University

(1973). His major publications include ‘The Decay

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of International Law’ (2nd reprint with Introduction

2019) and ‘Philosophy of International Law’ (2nd

edition 2017).

DR. LEÓN ARTURO CAS-TELLANOS-JANKIEWICZ

T.M.C. Asser Institute for International and European Law, The Hague

León Castellanos-Jankie-

wicz is Researcher at the

T.M.C. Asser Institute for

International and Euro-

pean Law, The Hague,

where he works as mem-

ber of the MELA research

consortium (Memory

Laws in European and

Comparative Perspectives). His current book pro-

ject focuses on human rights during the interwar

period. Previously, León was Max Weber Postdoc-

toral Fellow at the European University Institute,

Florence, and Lecturer in the Law of International

Organizations at Bocconi University, Milan. He

holds a PhD in International Law from the Gradu-

ate Institute of International and Development

Studies, Geneva (2017).

STEFANO CATTELAN

Aarhus University

Stefano Cattelan is a PhD

fellow at the Department

of Law, Aarhus Univer-

sity, Denmark (2017-

2020). His main

research field is the his-

tory of public interna-

tional law. He is currently

writing a monograph on

the genesis of the law of the sea in the Early Mod-

ern Age. He focuses on the development of the

principles of mare liberum and mare clausum,

analysing both jurisprudence and international

legal practice of the time. Moreover, he has been

teaching international law at the Department of

Law, Aarhus University. He holds a Master Degree

in Law from the University of Trento, Italy.

PROF. JACOB KATZ COGAN

University of Cincinnati

Jacob Katz Cogan is Asso-

ciate Dean of Faculty

and Judge Joseph P.

Kinneary Professor of

Law at the University of

Cincinnati College of

Law. Prior to joining the

Cincinnati faculty, he

served for five years as

an attorney-adviser in the Office of the Legal

Adviser, U.S. Department of State. He received his

Ph.D. in History from Princeton, where he was a

student of Hendrik Hartog, and his J.D. from Yale,

where he worked with Michael Reisman.

PROF. JEAN D’ASPREMONT

University of Manchester / Sciences Po School of Law / Manchester International Law Centre (MILC)

Jean d’Aspremont is Pro-

fessor of International

Law at Sciences Po

School of Law. He also

holds a chair of Public

International Law at the

University of Manchester

where he founded the

Manchester Interna-

tional Law Centre (MILC). He is General Editor of

the Cambridge Studies in International and

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Comparative Law and Director of Oxford Interna-

tional Organizations (OXIO).

PROF. DR. IGNACIO DE LA RASILLA DEL MORAL

Wuhan University

Ignacio de la Rasilla is the

Han Depei Professor of


Wuhan University Insti-

tute of International Law

in China. He was edu-

cated in Spain (LLB,

Complutense), Switzer-

land (MA and PhD, The

Graduate Institute), the United States (LLM, Har-

vard) and Northern Italy (Max Weber Fellow, EUI).

Previously, he served as Lecturer and, then, as

Senior Lecturer in Law at Brunel University London

and as Adjunct Professor at NYU-La Pietra. He is

the author of circa sixty journal articles and book

chapters, and the author or editor of five books on

international law and its history.

RÍÁN DERRIG

European University Institute, Florence

Ríán Derrig is a Ph.D.

Researcher in interna-

tional law at the Euro-

pean University Institute.

He holds an LL.B. in Law

and Political Science

(2013) from Trinity Col-

lege Dublin and an LL.M.

in Public International

Law (2014) from the London School of Economics.

He has been a Visiting Researcher at Yale Law

School. Ríán has taught jurisprudence and femi-

nist legal theory at Trinity College Dublin. In 2018

he was awarded the Young Scholar Prize of the

European Society of International Law.

PROF. ANGELO DUBE

University of South Africa, Pretoria

Angelo Dube (LLD) is an

Associate Professor of


University of South

Africa, Pretoria Campus.

His research interests

include international

criminal law, the African

criminal court, the law of

war, aviation law, universal jurisdiction, and law

and business. Angelo has published in the areas of

aviation law and international criminal law. He also

published a book entitled Universal Jurisdiction In

Respect of International Crimes: Theory and Prac-

tice in Africa (2016) Galda Verlag, Germany

PROF. DR. THOMAS DUVE

Max Planck Institute for European Legal His-tory, Frankfurt / Goethe University Frankfurt

Thomas Duve is Director

at the Max Planck Insti-

tute for European Legal

History and Professor for

Comparative Legal His-

tory at the Goethe Uni-

versity Frankfurt.

His research focuses on

the legal history of the early Modern Age and the

Modern Era with particular interest in Ibero-Amer-

ican legal history and the history of legal scholar-

ship in the 20th Century.

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DR. MICHEL ERPELDING

Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Inter-national, European and Regulatory Proce-dural Law

Dr. Michel Erpelding is a

Senior Research Fellow

at the Max Planck Insti-

tute Luxembourg for

Procedural Law. He

holds a Ph.D. from

Sorbonne Law School.

His dissertation on the

history of slavery and

forced labour in international law (Le droit interna-

tional antiesclavagiste des ‘nations civilisées’,

1815-1945) was published in 2017. Michel is also

a sessional lecturer in international relations and in

French public law at the Institut de droit des

affaires internationales (Sorbonne Law School/

Cairo University). His current research project on

historical international courts and tribunals

focusses on the interwar period, including on the

international ‘experiment’ of Upper Silesia

(1922-1937).

PROF. DR. THIBAUT FLEURY GRAFF

University of Rennes

Thibaut Fleury Graff is

public law professor at

Rennes University

(Paris, France), where

he co-directs a Master’s

degree in International

Affairs and teaches inter-

national law, constitu-

tional law and aliens &

refugees law. He holds a Ph.D. in Public Interna-

tional Law from Panthéon-Assas University (Paris,

France). He does research on territorial issues, ref-

ugees law and on theoretical and historical con-

structions of international law. His major

publications include Etat et territoire en droit inter-

national (Paris, Pedone 2013), Manuel de droit

international public (Paris, PUF 2016) and Droit de

l’asile (forthcoming, Paris, PUF 2019).

DR. ROTEM GILADI

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Dr. Rotem Giladi studied

at the University of Essex

(LLB), the Hebrew Uni-

versity (LLM) and the

University of Michigan

Law School (SJD). His

doctoral thesis offered a

critical reading of the law

of occupation, its intel-

lectual history, claim to humanitarianism, and

effects on political order. He teaches at the Hebrew

University and the University of Leipzig, is a docent

in international law at the University of Helsinki

and a research fellow at the Leibniz Institute for

Jewish History and Culture—Simon Dubnow, Leip-

zig. His research focuses on the history of interna-

tional law—especially the laws of war—and on

Jewish engagements with international law. His

forthcoming book on the role of identity and ideol-

ogy in shaping Israel’s early attitude towards inter-

national law will be published in 2019 by OUP.

DR. ETIENNE HENRY

Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Etienne Henry holds a

PhD in law from the Uni-

versity of Neuchâtel

(summa cum laude). His

thesis, now available as a

book (Pedone 2017),

deals with the principle

of military necessity as a

fundamental norm of

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international humanitarian law. More recently, he

has conducted research in the field of jus contra

bellum, in the framework of a project funded by the

Swiss National Science Foundation. He is currently

visiting the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian

Foreign Ministry of Foreign Affairs, working on a

research project titled Russia’s praxis in the field of

collective security: legal and historical

perspectives.

PROF. DR. MADELEINE HERREN-OESCH

University of Basel

Madeleine Herren is full

professor of modern his-

tory and director of the

Institute for European

Global Studies, Univer-

sity of Basel, Switzer-

land. From 2007 to 2012

she co-directed the clus-

ter of excellence ‘Asia

and Europe in a global context’ at the University of

Heidelberg in Germany. She has written several

books, book chapters and journal articles on Euro-

pean and global history of the 19th and 20th cen-

turies, internationalism and the history of interna-

tional organizations, networks in historical per-

spective, historiography and intellectual history.

JOHN HURSH

Stockton Center for International Law, Naval War College, Newport

John Hursh is the Director

of Research at the Stock-

ton Center for Interna-

tional Law, U.S. Naval

War College and Editor-

in-Chief of International

Law Studies, the oldest

international law journal

in the United States. He holds a LL.M. from McGill

University and a J.D. from Indiana University. He

was a Snyder Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for

International Law, University of Cambridge and an

O’Brien Fellow at the Centre for Human Rights and

Legal Pluralism, McGill University. He has pub-

lished academic articles on numerous security and

human rights issues and is a regular contributor to

Just Security.

RADHIKA JAGTAP

Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Radhika Jagtap is a final

year Doctoral candidate

at the Centre for Interna-

tional Legal Studies in

School of International

Studies, Jawaharlal

Nehru University, New

Delhi. Having written her

M.phil dissertation under

Prof. B.S. Chimni, she is currently writing her doc-

toral thesis under Prof. Bharat Desai. Her areas of

prime interest happen to the Third World

Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), Interna-

tional Humanitarian Law (IHL) and International

Human Rights Law. She has briefly worked with

civil society organisations like the International

Committee of Red Cross (ICRC), Regional Delega-

tion and intergovernmental bodies like the Asian-

African Legal Consultative Organisation (AALCO).

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DR. HENRY JONES

University of Durham

Henry Jones is an assis-

tant professor at Durham

Law School. He holds

degrees from the Univer-

sity of Sheffield and the

University of Leicester.

He teaches across inter-

national law, property

law and legal history. He

does research on history and spatiality of interna-

tional law. His major publications include ‘Lines in

the Ocean: Thinking with the sea about territory

and international law’ in the London Review of

International Law and ‘Property, Territory, Colonial-

ism: an international legal history of enclosure’ in

Legal Studies.

JON KHAN

University of Pennsylvania / University of Toronto

Jon Khan graduated from

the University of Ottawa

Common Law program

in 2013. He specialized

in international law and

graduated as the Max-

well Cohen international

law scholar. He contin-

ues to develop his inter-

national law knowledge as a coach of Ottawa’s

Philip C. Jessup moot team. Currently, Jon is a

masters of law (LLM) candidate at the University of

Toronto. His research interests are legal reform,

human-centered design, and the judicial judg-

ment. His is researching how to use human-cen-

tered design to redesign the judicial judgment.

Before his LLM, Jon worked full-time as a govern-

ment lawyer.

DR. JAN MARTIN LEMNITZER

University of Southern Denmark / Oxford University

Jan Martin Lemnitzer is

Assistant Professor at

the Center for War Stud-

ies, University of South-

ern Denmark, and a

research associate at the

Changing Character of

War Programme at Pem-

broke College, Oxford

University. His completed his PhD thesis on the

1856 Declaration of Paris at the London School of

Economics and was awarded the British Interna-

tional History Group’s award for the best thesis in

2010. It was published with Palgrave Macmillan

under the title Power, Law, and the End of Priva-

teering. He was a lecturer in modern history at

Christ Church and Pembroke College, Oxford, and

has published on the history of international law in

Diplomacy & Statecraft, the International History

Review and the European Journal of International

Law.

PROF. DR. RANDALL LESAFFER

University of Tilburg / University of Leuven

Randall Lesaffer is profes-

sor of legal history at Til-

burg University, profes-

sor of international and

European legal history at

the University of Leuven,

and visiting professor at

Catolica Global School of

Law, Lisbon. From 2008

to 2012 he served as dean of Tilburg Law School.

He is general editor of Oxford Historical Treaties,

The Cambridge History of International Law and

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Studies in the History of International Law (Brill).

He is also an editor of The Journal of the History of

International law, The Global Law Series (CUP) and

president of the Grotiana Foundation.

DR. KARIN LOEVY

New York University

Karin Loevy is the man-

ager of the JSD Program

at NYU School of Law, a

researcher at the Insti-

tute for International Law

and Justice (IILJ) and a

Kathleen Fitzpatrick

Postdoctoral Visiting Fel-

low with the Laureate

Program in International Law (Melbourne Law

School). Her book, Emergencies in Public Law:

The Legal Politics of Containment, was published

by Cambridge University Press in 2016. Her new

book project, Visions of Territory: Negotiating the

Future of the Middle East (1915-1923) is a history

of international law in the Middle East in the period

leading to the mandate system.

PROF. DR. THILO MARAUHN, M. PHIL.

University of Giessen

Thilo Marauhn is Profes-

sor of Public Law and

International Law at Jus-

tus Liebig University

Giessen, Germany, and

head of the newly estab-

lished International Law

Research Group of the

Peace Research Institute

Frankfurt. He chairs the German National Commit-

tee on International Humanitarian Law, is a mem-

ber of the Advisory Board on United Nations Issues

of the German Foreign Office and First

Vice-President of the International Humanitarian

Fact-Finding Commission. Thilo Marauhn holds a

permanent visiting position at the University of

Lucerne, Switzerland. Among the various exter-

nally funded research projects, the two most recent

ones address securitization in a historical perspec-

tive (funded by the German Research Foundation

DFG as part of the Collaborative Research Centre

SFB/TRR 138 on “dynamics of security”) and “UN

policing – legal basis, status and directives on the

use of force” (German Foundation of Peace

Research). Since 2017 he is President of the Inter-

national Humanitarian Fact-finding Commission.

DR. ANNE-CHARLOTTE MARTINEAU

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris

Anne-Charlotte Martineau

is a tenured researcher

(CNRS, French Institute

for Scientific Research)

and works at Ecole nor-

male supérieure in Paris.

Her research aims to

revisit the role of interna-

tional law and lawyers in

the establishment, justification and maintenance

of slavery. She is particularly interested in looking

at the legal discourse and mechanisms with which

the French Empire managed to rule over foreign

territories and populations. Anne-Charlotte com-

pleted her PhD at the University of Helsinki and

Sorbonne University; her thesis (published in

French) dealt with the debate on the fragmentation

of international law. She also has an LLM in Inter-

national Law and an LLM in Legal Theory.

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PARVATHI MENON

Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Inter-national, European and Regulatory Proce-dural Law / University of Helsinki

Parvathi Menon is a

Research Fellow at the

Max Planck Institute in

Luxembourg and a PhD

candidate at the Univer-

sity of Helsinki super-

vised by Prof Martti

Koskenniemi. She has

an LL.M. from Harvard

Law School and another LL.M. from the London

School of Economics. She was a lecturer at the

National Law School of India University, Banga-

lore, and at the University of The Gambia. She was

also a visiting fellow at the Erik Castrén Institute of

International Law and Human Rights in Helsinki.

Her PhD is a historical study of the meaning of pro-

tection in International Law within the British

Empire.

LINDELWA MHLONGO

University of South Africa

Lindelwa Mhlongo started

her career in academia

at the University of South

Africa (Unisa) in 2014 as

a research assistant

while doing her final

semester of LLB. She

was promoted to a lec-

tureship position in 2017

and is currently an international law and education

law lecturer at Unisa (Department of Public, Con-

stitutional and International law). She completed

her LLM degree in international economic law in

2017 and has just applied to be admitted into the

LLD in international economic law programme at

Unisa.

MOMCHIL MILANOV

International Court of Justice / University of Geneva

Momchil Milanov (1986,

Sofia, Bulgaria) is Judi-

cial Fellow at the Inter-

national Court of Justice

and PhD candidate at

the University of Geneva.

He holds master degrees

in Public international

law and international

relations from the University of Strasbourg and the

College of Europe in Bruges. Between 2016-2018

he was teaching assistant at the University of

Geneva. Prior to that he worked as junior diplomat

at the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign affairs. In 2014

he was a trainee at the international law unit of the

Legal Service of the European Commission.

MICHAEL MULLIGAN

British University in Egypt, Cairo

Michael Mulligan teaches

international law at the

British University in

Egypt based in Cairo. His

current research is

focused on the evolution

of the concept of sover-

eignty, with a particular

emphasis on ‘sovereign’ non-state actors, and the

notion of semi-sovereignty.

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PROF. LUIGI NUZZO

University of Salento

Luigi Nuzzo is professor

of Legal History at the

University of Salento. As

permanent fellow of the

Alexander von Humboldt

Stiftung, he has been

research fellow at the

Max Planck Institute for

European Legal History,

the University of California at Berkeley, the New

York University and the European University Insti-

tute. His research focuses on the history of interna-

tional law, colonial law and Ibero-American legal

history. His major publications include Il linguaggio

giuridico della conquista. Strategie di controllo

nelle Indie spagnole (2004), Origini di una Sci-

enza. Diritto internazionale e colonialismo nel XIX

secolo (2012); Space, Time and Law in a Global

City: Tianjin 1860-1945 (forthcoming 2019).

PROF. AOIFE O’DONOGHUE


Aoife O‘Donoghue’s

research focuses on

constitutionalism, global

governance and legal

theory. Aoife queries the

structures that enable

law to regulate political

governance at the inter-

national and domestic

levels. Aoife’s work examines constitutionalism,

tyranny, feminism, legal theory and international

legal history. Aoife also researches the interaction

between law and feminism, particularly within

institutions such as the UN and the process of

feminist judging. Currently Aoife is heavily engaged

with research and policy debates on Brexit with a

focus on Northern Ireland.

DR. HIROFUMI OGURI

The Open University of Japan

Hirofumi Oguri is a Post-

doctoral Research Fel-

low at The Open Univer-

sity of Japan and cur-

rently a Visiting

Researcher at the Insti-

tute. The working title of

his postdoctoral research

project is The Concept of

Customs in the Law of Nations: Historical Appraisal

of the Sources of International Law. His main

research interests are sources of international law

and its history in the 19th century. Hirofumi

obtained his Ph.D. from Kyushu University (Japan)

in 2018 and the title of his dissertation was The

Structure and Development of Consensual Theory

in the History of International Law: Lassa Oppen-

heim’s Common Consent Theory Revisited (in

Japanese).

PROF. SUNDHYA PAHUJA

University of Melbourne

Sundhya Pahuja is Pro-

fessor of International

Law and Director at the

Institute for International

Law and the Humanities,

University of Melbourne.

Her current projects

focus on the history of

corporations, cold war

international law, and empire, race and interna-

tional law. Her publications include the prize win-

ning, Decolonising International Law, and the col-

lections, International Law and the Cold War (forth-

coming with Craven and Simpson) and Events:

The Force of International Law (with Johns and

Joyce). In 2018, Sundhya delivered The Lauter-

pacht Memorial Lectures at Cambridge. In 2017,

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she held a fellowship at STIAS, South Africa, and in

2016 was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at Harvard.

PROF. DR. ANNE PETERS

Director, Max Planck Institute for Compar-ative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg

Anne Peters is Director at

the Max Planck Institute

for Comparative Public

Law and International

Law Heidelberg, a pro-

fessor at Heidelberg,

Freie Universität Berlin,

and Basel, and a William

C. Cook Global Law Pro-

fessor at the University of Michigan. She has been

a member of the European Commission for Democ-

racy through Law (Venice Commission) in respect

of Germany (2011-2015) and served as the Presi-

dent of the European Society of International Law

(2010-2012). Her current research interests relate

to public international law including its history,

global animal law, global governance and global

constitutionalism, and the status of humans in

international law.

DR. GUSTAVO PRIETO

University of Turin

Gustavo Prieto is a Post-

doctoral Fellow at the

Law Department of Uni-

versity of Turin, Italy. He

is a former professor of

law in Ecuador (his

country of origin) and

also invited lecturer in

Bulgaria, Ukraine, Italy,

and Russia. He has been visiting researcher (stays

between 2014-2018) at the Max Planck Institute in

Heidelberg. He earned his Ph.D. in Corporate Law

and Economics – Doctor Europaeus from Univer-

sity of Verona, Italy (2017) with a thesis on the

legitimacy of international investment arbitration in

Latin America. His current research interests

involve international economic law including its

history.

MORTEN RASMUSSEN

University of Copenhagen

Morten Rasmussen is

associate professor at

the SAXO Institute, Uni-

versity of Copenhagen.

He has been one of the

pioneers in developing a

legal history of the Euro-

pean Union on the basis

of a systematic use of

documentary evidence from private, state and

European archives. From 2012-2016, he con-

ducted a large collective research project funded

by the Danish Agency for Science and Innovation

(DASI) on this topic (https://europeanlaw.saxo.

ku.dk). Most recently, he has launched a new col-

lective project also financed by the DASI on the

history of the League of Nations and International

law that will run from 2018 to 2020 (https://inter-

nationallaw.ku.dk).

RAPHAEL SCHÄFER

Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg

Raphael Schäfer is a



Comparative Public Law

and International Law

(MPIL) in Heidelberg

and the managing editor

of the Journal of the

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History of International Law. Raphael’s research

focuses on the history of international legal thought.

In his PhD-project he explores the debate sur-

rounding the codification process of the laws of war

in the 19th century and sheds light on their func-

tion in the ius publicum europaeum. Raphael stud-

ied law at the University of Heidelberg with a spe-

cialization in public international law. Research

stays led him to the University of Cambridge and to

SciencesPo Paris.

HENDRIK SIMON

Peace Research Institute Frankfurt

Hendrik Simon is Research

Associate at the Peace

Research Institute

Frankfurt and Lecturer

at Frankfurt University.

He was Visiting Fellow at

the University of Sussex

(2017), at the University

of Vienna (2016, 2018),

at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal His-

tory (2015-16) and at the Cluster of Excellence

‘Normative Orders’ (2011-12). Hendrik Simon

holds a Diploma in political science and a Magister

Artium in history and law from Frankfurt Univer-

sity. His research covers inter-/transnational rela-

tions as well as political and legal history, with a

particular focus on ‘modern’ justifications of war

and international order. Among his main publica-

tions is “The Myth of Liberum Ius ad Bellum: Jus-

tifying War in 19th-Century Legal Theory and Polit-

ical Practice” in the EJIL 1/2018.

DR. SEBASTIAN M. SPITRA

University of Michigan

Sebastian M. Spitra is Gro-

tius and Fulbright Fellow

at the University of Mich-

igan Law School. He

obtained his degrees in

Law (Mag.iur., Dr.iur.)

and Philosophy (B.A.)

from the University of

Vienna. In 2017, he

received a visiting fellowship from the MPIL and a

research grant from the Heinrich-Graf-Har-

degg’sche Stiftung. Next summer, he will be post-

doc scholar at the MPIeR Frankfurt. Before going

to Michigan, he was research fellow at the Institute

for Legal and Constitutional History in Vienna,

where he teached constitutional history and history

of international law. His doctoral thesis “Adminis-

tering Culture in International Law – A Post-colo-

nial History” is forthcoming with Nomos in 2019.

ROBERT STENDEL


Robert Stendel is a





(MPIL) in Heidelberg. He

studied law at the Uni-

versities of Jena and Hei-

delberg with a specializa-

tion in public international law and passed his Sec-

ond State Exam in 2018. In Mai 2018, Robert

joined the MPIL as a research fellow and PhD can-

didate. His PhD-project deals with moral damages

in international law. In this project, he analyses

whether moral damages under international law

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have – from their origin in municipal private law –

developed towards a more public law-like remedy.

KATIE SZILAGYI

University of Ottawa

Katie Szilagyi is a doctoral

candidate and part-time

professor at the Univer-

sity of Ottawa Faculty of

Law. She holds a JD with

joint specializations in

technology law and inter-

national law (uOttawa),

an LLM in law & technol-

ogy (Tel Aviv University), and an engineering

degree (University of Manitoba). She teaches con-

tract law and lectures on technology law issues.

Her doctoral work focuses on the rule of law prob-

lems created by machine learning algorithms, pre-

dictive analytics, and the fact that people are con-

stantly staring at their smartphones. Her most

recent publication is entitled “A Bundle of Block-

chains? Digitally Disrupting Property Law.”

DR. INGE VAN HULLE

University of Tilburg

Inge Van Hulle is an

assistant professor of

legal history at Tilburg

University. She is a spe-

cialist of the history of

international law and

empire in the nineteenth

and twentieth centuries.

Her PhD (KU Leuven)

discussed the imperialist legal strategies used by

Britain in West Africa during the early and

mid-nineteenth century. In 2016 she won the first-

ever Robert Feenstra Award for best article pub-

lished in the Legal History Review (2014-2016).

Her most recent publication is ‘British Protection,

Extraterritoriality and Protectorates in West Africa

1807-1880’ in Protection and Empire. A Global

History, eds. Lauren Benton, Adam Clulow and

Bain Attwood, 194-210. Cambridge University

Press, 2017.

VALERIA VÁZQUEZ GUEVARA

University of Melbourne

Valeria Vázquez Guevara

is a Ph.D. candidate at

Melbourne Law School.

Her research is con-

cerned with how law,

through its particular

forms, ‘works’ after vio-

lent conflict, and what

sort of post-conflict soci-

ety it shapes, especially in the global South. Vale-

ria’s research is informed by the scholarship in the

tradition of ‘law and the humanities’, with particu-

lar focus on jurisdictional thinking, legal aesthet-

ics, and the histories of international law and

development. She holds an M.A. in Peace Studies

(University of Notre Dame, USA), an M.A. in Soci-

ology of Law (International Institute for the Sociol-

ogy of Law, Spain), and an LL.B. (University of Gra-

nada, Spain).

PROF. DR. MILOŠ VEC

University of Vienna

Miloš Vec is Professor of

European Legal and

Constitutional History at

Vienna University and a

Permanent Fellow at the

Institute for Human

Sciences (IWM, Vienna).

Habilitation in Legal His-

tory, Philosophy of Law,

Theory of Law, and Civil Law from Goethe

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University Frankfurt am Main. Until 2012 he

worked at the Max Planck Institute for European

Legal History and taught there. Further teaching at

the Universities of Bonn, Hamburg, Konstanz,

Lyon, Tübingen, and Vilnius. Fellow to the Wissen-

schaftskolleg, Berlin, 2011/2012; Senior Global

Hauser Fellow at NYU in 2017; associate member

of the Cluster of Excellence “Normative Orders” at

Frankfurt University; free-lance journalist, particu-

larly for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

DR. CLAIRE VERGERIO

University of Leiden

Claire Vergerio is an Assis-

tant Professor at Leiden

University’s Institute of

Political Science. As a

scholar of international

relations, she works at

the intersection of politi-

cal thought, history, and

international law. She is

particularly interested in the regulation of warfare

and its relationship to different visions of interna-

tional order, as well as in the construction of the

historical narratives that underpin the disciplines of

International Law and International Relations. She

is currently finalizing a book on the role played by

the thought of Alberico Gentili in the restriction of

the legal right to wage war exclusively to sovereign

states.

DR. DEBORAH WHITEHALL

University of Sydney

Deborah Whitehall is a

Lecturer in Law at the

University of Sydney,

Australia. Her research

draws on intellectual his-

tory, in cross-disciplinary

locations, to reflect on

the patterns and chal-

lenges of international

legal history after 1914, particularly the search

for a common human denominator and a suita-

ble frame for its protection. Recent or forthcoming

work includes an article in the European Journal of

International Law (29(4) (2018)) and a book under

contract with Oxford University Press on the alter-

native histories of international human rights and

Hannah Arendt (2019). She has graduate qualifi-

cations in law and human rights from the Univer-

sity of Oxford and the University of Melbourne.

EM. PROF. DR. DR. H.C. RÜDIGER WOLFRUM


Rüdiger Wolfrum was a

professor for national

public law and interna-

tional public law at the

law faculties of Mainz

(1982), Kiel (1982-

1993, at the same time

director of the Institute

on International Law)

and Heidelberg (1993-2012) and was Director at

the MPIL Heidelberg (1993-2012). He is a Mem-

bre de l’Institut de Droit International (since 2007)

and became Managing Director of the Max Planck

Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of

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Law in 2013. He was a Judge at the International

Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (1996-2017) as well

as its Vice-President (1996-1999) and President

(2005-2008). He is and was member of several

international arbitral tribunals. He published widely

on international law in general, United Nations law,

human rights, law of the sea, international trade

law, environmental law and international dispute

settlement as well as on national and comparative

public law.

DR. JAKOB ZOLLMANN

Berlin Social Science Center (WZB)

Jakob Zollmann reads his-

tory, law, philosophy,

and political science. He

has taught at the Univer-

sity of Namibia, Wind-

hoek, were he also

undertook research. He

was Visiting Fellow at the

German Historical Insti-

tute in Paris, London, and Washington D.C. and is

currently researcher at the Center for Global Con-

stitutionalism of the WZB Berlin Social Science

Center. His research focuses on the history of inter-

national law and on the history of colonial Africa.

He has published Koloniale Herrschaft und ihre

Grenzen. Die Kolonialpolizei in Deutsch-Südwest-

afrika, Göttingen, Vandenhoek&Ruprecht, 2016,

and Naulila 1914. World War I in Angola and Inter-

national Law, Baden-Baden, Nomos, 2016.

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SHORT BIOGRAPHIES OF ENGAGED LISTENERS

PROF. DR. EBRAHIM AFSAH

University of Vienna

Currently professor of

Islamic law at the Uni-

versity of Vienna and

associate professor of


University of Copenha-

gen, Ebrahim Afsah

obtained his law degree

from SOAS London, fol-

lowed by graduate degrees at Trinity College Dublin

and Harvard. He worked for a number of years at

the MPIL where he was responsible for overseas

legal transfer projects, mainly in Afghanistan, fol-

lowed by a long career as a management consult-

ant focusing on public law and administrative

reform in post-conflict settings. In recent years he

has been a senior fellow at the EUI (Fernand Brau-

del), at the Norwegian Centre for Advanced Stud-

ies (Nordic Civil Wars in Comparative Perspective),

at Harvard Law School (Islamic Legal Studies Pro-

gram), and the National University of Singapore

(Centre for Asian Legal Studies).

SHUBHANGI AGARWALLA

National Law University, Delhi

Shubhangi Agarwalla is a

student of National Law

University, Delhi (NLU-

D). She interns at the



and International Law. At

NLU-D, she has served

as a member of the Legal

Services Committee and the Moot Court Commit-

tee. She is also an Associate Editor of the NLU-D

Student Law Journal and a Visiting Editor at the

Bologna Law Review. The inequity present in inter-

national law disturbs her greatly, and upon com-

pletion of her law degree she hopes to work

towards countering that.

PAULETTE BAERISWYL BANCIELLA

University of Zurich

Paulette Baeriswyl is PhD

candidate and Master of

Laws from the University

of Zurich. The topic of

her research is the his-

torical roots of the uni-

versal system of interna-

tional human rights’ pro-

ject in the American con-

tinent from 19th to the first half of the 20th Cen-

tury, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Elisabetta

Fiocchi Malaspina.

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She started researching human rights from a his-

torical perspective since her master thesis. Her

major publications include: The development of

universal human rights law: Latin American col-

laboration as key determinants to the international

historical legal process, 2018.

KANAD BAGCHI


Kanad Bagchi is currently

a research fellow at the



and International Law,

Heidelberg and is pursu-

ing his doctorate under

the supervision of Prof.

Dr. Armin von Bogdandy.

Previously he was an MSc candidate in Law and

Finance at the faculty of law, Oxford University

(2015-2016) and LL.M candidate at the Europa-In-

stitut, Saarbruecken (2013-2014). He holds a

bachelor’s degree in law (2008-2013) from KIIT

University, India. His research involves exploring

questions of public international law and monetary

policy coordination and deals especially with the

issue of power and dominance within coordinating

forums, process and instruments. His major publi-

cations include: Revisiting the Taper Tantrum: A

Case for International Monetary Policy Coordina-

tion. In: Oxford Journal of Financial Regulation,

1-10 (2017).

YATEESH BEGOORE

Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law, Heidelberg

Yateesh Begoore is a


Max Planck Foundation

for International Peace

and the Rule of Law. His

current research inter-

ests include treaty law,

immunity law, interna-

tional organisations law,

and international humanitarian law. He has previ-

ously worked as a Legal Consultant at the United

Nations Office of Legal Affairs at New York, and as

a Consultant at the Embassy of India to the United

States of America in Washington, D.C. His recent

publications include Uniting for Enforcement:

Resolving the World Court’s Enforcement Gap,

LPICT 17 (2018) and Prisoners Dilemma: Ascer-

taining and Augmenting the Multinational NIAC

Detention Regime, Max Planck UNYB 20 (2016).

LEANDER BEINLICH


Leander Beinlich stud-

ied law with a special

focus on public inter-

national law at the Uni-

versity of Heidelberg.

During his studies he

spent five months as a

trainee at the European

Center for Constitutional

and Human Rights in Berlin. In 2017 he joined the


and International Law in Heidelberg as a research

fellow and PhD candidate (Freie Universität Ber-

lin). His PhD project relates to individual repara-

tion claims of victims of armed conflict against the

forum state and in this context focuses on the role

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and potential of procedural (human) rights stem-

ming from international law.

EM. PROF. DR. DR. H.C. RUDOLF BERNHARDT


Rudolf Bernhardt began

his law studies at Frank-

furt University in 1948,

passed two state exami-

nations in 1952 and

1956 and received his

Dr. jur. in 1955. From

1954-1965 he was a



and International Law in Heidelberg. He did his

“habilitation“ at Heidelberg University in 1962 for

German and Foreign Public Law and Public Inter-

national Law. After teaching as professor at Frank-

furt University from 1965 to 1970 (Dean of Faculty

1967/68) he became director at the Max Planck

Institute and at the same time professor of law at

the Heidelberg Law Faculty (1970-1993). He was

Judge (1981-1998), Vice-President (1992-1997)

and President (1998) of the European Court of

Human Rights in Strasbourg.

DR. RAPHAËL CAHEN

Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Raphaël Cahen is a

Pegasus Incoming

Marie-Sklodowska Curie

Fellow as well as a visit-

ing professor at the Vrije

Universiteit Brussel. He

has studied law, history

and political sciences in

Aix-en-Provence, Peru-

gia and Munich and holds a Joint PhD in Law and

political sciences from Aix-Marseille University and

the LMU Munich. He is teaching a master course

on the history of International Law. He is doing

research on intellectual history, migration history

as well as history of institutions and history of inter-

national law. His major publications include: Frie-

drich Gentz (1764-1832): Penseur post-Lumières

et acteur du nouvel ordre européen, Berlin, Boston

2017 and ‘The Mahmoud ben Ayad case and the

transformation of International Law around 1856’

in Lesaffer/Van Hulle (ed), From the Public Law of

Europe to Global International Law: International

Law in the 19th Century (Leiden/Boston 2019) .

TATIANA CARDOSO SQUEFF

Federal University of Uberlândia (Brazil)

Tatiana Cardoso Squeff

holds a tenure position

as an assistant professor

of International Law at

the Federal University of

Uberlândia - UFU/ Bra-

zil. She is the co-leader

of the GEPDI Research

Group on International

Law at UFU, registered at CAPES, currently devel-

oping a research on the decolonization of interna-

tional law. She holds a PhD in International Law

from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul -

UFRGS/Brazil, with a visiting researcher period at

Ottawa University/Canada. She also holds an LLM

in Public Law from Unisinos/Brazil, with a visiting

researcher period at the University of Toronto/

Canada.

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DR. ALINA CHERVIATSOVA

V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University

Alina Cherviatsova, Asso-

ciate professor V.N.

Karazin Kharkiv National

University (Kharkiv,

Ukraine), Faculty of Law,

Coordinator of the Jean

Monnet Module ‘The

Foreign Policy of the

European Union’ (2018-

2021) and Jean Monnet Module ‘Starting a Course

on EU Law’ (2014-2017), Alexander von Hum-

boldt Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute

for Comparative Public International Law (from

October 2016 to July 2018). Her research interests

include comparative public law, human rights,

freedom of speech, memorial laws, history of law,

post-soviet studies.

PROF. DR. JUSTO CORTI VARELA

National University of Distance Education (Spain)

Justo Corti Varela is a law

associate professor

(ANECA) at the Public

International Law

Department. He has

been post-doctoral


Centre National de la

Recherche Scientifique

(2008), visiting scholar at University College Lon-

don (2007), visiting professor at Université de

Nanterre – Paris X (2013-2016), and visiting

scholar at Scoula Superiore Sant’Anna – Pisa

(2016). He does research on History of Interna-

tional Law, International Environmental Law and

International Economic Law.

PROF. DR. FREDERIK DHONDT

Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Frederik Dhondt is Assis-

tant Professor at the Vrije

Universiteit Brussel and

Visiting Professor at the

University of Antwerp,

where he teaches legal

and political history. He

obtained the degrees of

master of law (Ghent),

master in history (Ghent/Paris IV), research master

in international relations (Sciences Po Paris) and

doctor of law (Ghent, 2013, under the supervision

of Dirk Heirbaut). He has been a visiting researcher

in Frankfurt (MPI for European Legal History), Hei-

delberg (MPI for Comparative Public Law and

International Law) and Geneva (Graduate Institute

of International and Development Studies). His

research interests concern international and con-

stitutional legal discourse and diplomacy in the

18th and 19th centuries. See also www.vub.ac.be/

CORE/members/dhondt.

RICHARD DÖREN


Richard Dören is a




and International Law in

Heidelberg. He studied

law with a specialization

in international law at

Heidelberg University.

During his studies, he interned with the German

Bundestag in Berlin and the German Embassy in

Washington. In his research, he investigates the

reappraisal of colonialism from a legal

perspective.

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PROF. DR. ISABEL FEICHTNER

University of Wuerzburg

Isabel Feichtner is profes-

sor of public law and

international economic

law at the University of

Würzburg. Her research

interests include trans-

national resource law –

with a focus on extrac-

tive industries, deep sea-

bed mining and asteroid mining – and the legal

design of money and finance. Isabel Feichtner is

member of the editorial board of the European

Journal of International Law and Principal Investi-

gator of the Bavarian research cluster “The Future

of Democracy”.

JUDITH HACKMACK

Humboldt University of Berlin / European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights

Judith Hackmack is a

Legal Advisor with the

European Center for

Constitutional and

Human Rights (ECCHR).

She holds a law degree

from Humboldt Univer-

sity in Berlin and a mas-

ters degree in Philoso-

phy, History and the Law from the University of

Regensburg. In her doctoral research project, she

examines select aspects of the German colonial

past from a legal historical perspective.

DR. MATTHIAS HARTWIG


Matthias Hartwig is a sen-

ior research fellow at

MPIL. He holds law

degrees from the univer-

sities of Freiburg/Brsg.

and Heidelberg. He

teaches in Trento/Italy,

Santiago de Chile and

Almaty/Kazakhstan. He

does research on comparative constitutional law,

international law (human rights, use of force, inter-

national organizations, friendly settlement of dis-

putes). His major publications include books and

articles on international organizations, use of force,

comparative constitutional law, and practice of

international law.

AYAN HUSEYNOVA

University of Administrative Sciences, Speyer

Ayan Huseynova is a doc-

toral candidate at Ger-

man University of

Administrative Sciences

Speyer. She holds

degrees in Public

Administration from

Andrássy Gyula German

Speaking University

Budapest and The Academy of Public Administra-

tion under the President of the Republic of

Azerbaijan.

Her research interests include: International and

European politics, International and European law,

comparative law, Russian constitutional law, Rus-

sian politics, Soviet law, Soviet politics.

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DR. FRANCESCA IURLARO

Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Neo-Latin Studies, Innsbruck

Francesca Iurlaro holds a

PhD in Law from the

European University

Institute in Florence

(2018). She graduated

in the history of philoso-

phy (University of Mac-

erata, 2014) and has an

LLM in Comparative,

European and International Laws (European Uni-

versity Institute, 2015). For her PhD thesis, she

worked on a history of the concept of customary

international law in the natural law and ius gentium

tradition from Francisco de Vitoria to Emer de

Vattel.

Her research interests include international legal

thought, history of political thought, history and

reception of natural law theories, law and litera-

ture, food ethics, and animal rights. In 2012 she

was awarded the Alberico Gentili Prize for her Ital-

ian translation of and introduction to Alberico Gen-

tili’s Lectionis Virgilianae Variae Liber ad Rober-

tum filium, a less-known commentary of Vergil’s

Eclogues published by the famous jurist in 1603.

VIKTORIJA JAKJIMOVSKA

University of Leuven

Viktorija Jakjimovska is a

doctoral candidate at the

University of Leuven. She

holds law degrees from

Skopje, Cambridge and

Geneva. She does

research on international

law and civil wars in the

nineteenth century. Her major publications include

‘Uneasy Neutrality: Great Britain and the Greek

War of Independence (1821-1832)’ in Inge Van

Hulle and Randall Lesaffer (eds), International Law

in the Long Nineteenth Century (c. 1775-1914)

(Brill/Nijhoff, forthcoming).

ALEXANDRA KEMMERER


Alexandra Kemmerer is a

senior research fellow

and academic coordina-

tor at MPIL, and head of

the institute’s Berlin

Office. From a perspec-

tive of reflexive legal dis-

ciplinarity, her research

in international, Euro-

pean and comparative law regularly explores and

integrates histories, theories, and politics of law. In

her work on Eric Stein (1913-2011), Alexandra

has developed a contextual biographical approach,

re-contextualizing not only the protagonist, but

European legal integration in its broader political,

economic, social and cultural environments while

tracing the intertwined pathways of its emergence

from international to supranational law from a

transnational perspective.

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SANJA KREŠTALICA

University of East Sarajevo Faculty of Law, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Sanja Kreštalica is a doc-

toral candidate in the

field of Public Interna-

tional Law at the Univer-

sity of Belgrade, Faculty

of Law, Serbia. She holds

law degrees from the

University of East Sara-

jevo, Faculty of Law

(bachelor) and the University of Belgrade, Faculty

of Law (master degree). She teaches practical

courses for undergraduates in Public International

Law and EU Law at the University of East Sarajevo,

Faculty of Law. She has been a visiting scholar at

the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg (stays

between 2016-2017), and a doctoral researcher at

the Hague Academy of International Law (2018).

Currently, her research involves the notion of the

legal personality in international law, with special

emphasis on the legal status of the individual in

international law.

Her major publications include: “The position of

the individual in the European Union through the

lens of the access to justice”, in Jean Monnet

International Scientific Conference proceedings:

“Procedural Aspects of EU Law” (Faculty of Law

University Josip Juraj Strossmayer Osijek 2017);

“Appointment of the judges to the ECtHR in light of

the principle of judicial independence”, in Collec-

tion of Papers “International standards on the inde-

pendence of the judiciary and the independence of

the prosecution” (International Criminal Law Asso-

ciation 2016).

PROF. DINO KRITSIOTIS

University of Nottingham

Dino Kritsiotis is Professor

of Public International

Law at the University of

Nottingham, where he

chairs the Programme in

International Humanitar-

ian Law of the Notting-

ham International Law &

Security Centre (NILSC).

He specializes in the use of force, the law of armed

conflict as well as the history and theory of public

international law. Most recently, he is co-editor

(together with his Nottingham colleague Michael J.

Bowman) of Conceptual and Contextual Perspec-

tives on the Modern Law of Treaties (Cambridge

University Press, 2018).

DR. FELIX LANGE

Humboldt University Berlin

Felix Lange is a Postdoc at

Humboldt University

Berlin. He holds a history

degree from Freiburg

University and law

degrees from Humboldt

University and New York

University. He teaches

international, European

and constitutional law. He does research on the

history of public and international law in the 20th

century and currently studies contemporary

approaches towards international law by Germany,

India, South Africa and the United States.

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ANDREA LEITER

Melbourne University / Vienna University

Andrea Leiter is a PhD

candidate in law working

on the history of interna-

tional investment law in a

jointly-awarded degree

program between the

Melbourne University

and the Vienna Univer-

sity. She is currently a

visiting researcher at Institute of Global Law and

Policy at Harvard Law School where she finishes

her dissertation. She is particularly interested in the

historical formation of legal norms, modes of dis-

pute settlement, and the internationalisation of

authority. Beside her dissertation she researches

and consults in law and blockchain technology,

with a focus on dispute resolution, the automation

of decision making, and algorithmic governance.

DEEPAK MAWAR

Kings College London

Deepak Mawar is a PhD

Candidate and Visiting

Lecturer at King’s College

London. His current

research is on the history

and theory of public

international law. Deepak

has an LLB from the Uni-

versity of Kent (2012)

and an LLM in Public International Law from Lei-

den University (2013). He was also a legal intern at

the Special Tribunal for Lebanon and has taught

international law at King’s College London in the

War Studies and Law departments respectively.

ATTILA NAGY

Lecturer and Independent Researcher

Attila is a Law Lecturer and

Independent Researcher

focusing on Law subjects

and has worked for many

years as a Lecturer at the

International Business

College Mitrovica in

Kosovo. He was teaching

Law, Public Administra-

tion and EU related subjects. Since recently he is

engaged in a field research on the most important

topics related to the EU. Apart from the refugee cri-

sis he is now focusing on Brexit. He has also

worked at the City Administration of Subotica in

Serbia at the Department for the Local Economic

Development. Attila has held many guest lectures

for students and professionals and also published

articles in various fields concerning mostly law

enforcement and local economic development in

the post-conflict Kosovo.

RAPHAEL OIDTMANN

University of Mannheim

Raphael Oidtmann is a

research fellow and lec-

turer in international law

at the University of

Mannheim. He holds

master’s degrees in poli-

tics, international law

and international rela-

tions, respectively, and is

an alumnus of the Hague Academy of International

Law. His teaching and research activities currently

focus on selected notions of international law, the

law of armed conflict as well as the interplay of

international law and international relations (includ-

ing its historical dimensions).

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DR. MAGDALENA PACHOLSKA

Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Interna-tional, European and Regulatory Procedural Law

Magda Pacholska is a Vis-

iting Scholar at the Max

Planck Institute Luxem-

bourg for International,

European and Regula-

tory Procedural Law. She

has recently submitted

her Ph.D. dissertation in

Law at the Hebrew Uni-

versity of Jerusalem. Her doctoral work concerning

the United Nations’ responsibility for aiding and

assisting human rights and IHL violations in the

context of peacekeeping was conducted as part of

the Human Rights under Pressure interdisciplinary

research training group in cooperation with the

Freie Universität Berlin. She is an Expert Rappor-

teur with Oxford Reports on International Law, par-

ticularly on issues related to peace operations,

international responsibility of international organi-

zations, and international criminal law.

BENJAMIN PETERS

Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva

Benjamin Peters has fol-

lowed a double bachelor

program in the course of

which he spent two years

studying interdisciplinary

social sciences at

SciencesPo, Paris and

majored in political

sciences at the Free Uni-

versity of Berlin. Since September 2018 he is doing

a master’s degree in international law at the Grad-

uate Institute Geneva. Benjamin’s research areas

of interest lie in the theory and history of

international law, as well as in the protection of cul-

tural objects and heritage.

DR. STÉPHANIE PRÉVOST

Paris Diderot University

Dr. Stéphanie Prévost is

Senior Lecturer in

19th-century British his-

tory at Paris Diderot Uni-

versity and holds a Ph.D.

in English Studies from

Tours University (2010).

She has widely published

on British-Ottoman rela-

tions, British representations of the ‘East’ and non-

state actors in diplomacy, especially their role in

humanitarian campaigns. Currently on research

leave, she is preparing a monograph on British Lib-

erals’ engagement with international law (circles) at

the occasion of the Armenian Question (1878-

1915). Her most significant article (2016) is enti-

tled: ‘Britain and the Armenian Question: Memory

and Power Issues in British national and private

archives, 1889-1896’ (http://journals.openedition.

org/eac/1170).

DANIEL R. QUIROGA-VILLAMARIN

Graduate Institute of International and Devel-opment Studies Geneva

Daniel R. Quiroga-Vil-

lamarin holds a Law

degree (with a minor in

Government and Public

Affairs) from the Univer-

sidad de los Andes

(Bogotá, Colombia), and

is currently studying the

Master in International

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Law programme at the Graduate Institute of Inter-

national and Development Studies (Geneva, Swit-

zerland). He is interested in international and con-

stitutional law, with a special concern about the

movement of legal ideas through both time and

space (intellectual legal history).

MURATCAN SABUNCU

Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne

Muratcan Sabuncu is a

Ph.D. student in public


University of Paris I Pan-

théon-Sorbonne under

the direction of Jean

Matringe and Anne

Peters. His research pro-

ject focuses on Turkish

approaches of international law. His research inter-

ests relate to public international law including its

history, comparative international law, human

rights and constitutional law. Muratcan graduated

in law and obtained a Master’s degree in interna-

tional law from the University of Paris I Pan-

théon-Sorbonne in 2018. He speaks Turkish,

French, English and Russian.

DR. LENA SALAYMEH

Tel Aviv University

Lena Salaymeh is Associ-

ate Professor at Tel Aviv

Law and Visiting Associ-

ate Research Scholar at

Princeton’s Davis Center

(2018-2019). She is cur-

rently researching

Islamic interstate law

and secular assumptions

underlying the disciplines of comparative and inter-

national law. Her book, The Beginnings of Islamic

Law: Late Antique Islamicate Legal Traditions

(Cambridge University Press, 2016) explores how

critical historiography can illuminate Islamic legal

beginnings; it was awarded the American Academy

of Religion Award for Excellence in the Study of

Religion, Textual Studies. She has a PhD in Legal

and Middle Eastern History (UC Berkeley) and a JD

(Harvard Law School).

PROF. ROBERT SCHÜTZE


Robert Schütze is Profes-

sor of European Union

Law. Outside the Law

School, he co-directs the

Global Policy Institute

together with the political

scientist Professor David

Held. He is also a Visiting

Professor at the School

of Government of LUISS Guido Carli University

(Rome) and at the College of Europe (Bruges).

Schütze is a constitutional scholar with a particular

expertise in the law of the European Union and

comparative federalism. He has published exten-

sively and his work has been translated into a num-

ber of languages. He is one of the co-editors of the

Yearbook of European Law and the “Oxford Princi-

ples of European Union Law”; and he also co-di-

rects the Hart Series on “Parliamentary Democracy

in Europe”.

DR. TOM SPARKS


Dr. Tom Sparks is a Senior


MPIL, where he works on

international environ-

mental law, the humani-

sation of international

law and legal theory in

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the research group of Professor Anne Peters. Prior

to joining the MPIL, he wrote his doctoral thesis at

the University of Durham, entitled Towards a

Human-Centred International Law: Self-Determina-

tion and the Structure of the International Legal

System. The thesis won the Global Policy North

network of research universities prize for the best

doctoral dissertation of 2018. The judges com-

mented in particular on the thesis’ methodological

sophistication, which combined sociological, juris-

prudential and historical approaches.

SILVIA STEININGER


Silvia Steininger is a


MPIL. She holds gradu-

ate degrees in public

international law from

the University of Amster-

dam (LL.M.) and in polit-

ical science from the

University of Heidelberg

(M.A.). Her research interests lie in the interdisci-

plinary, theoretical and empirical analysis of the

structures, institutions, and norms of international

decision-making, in particular in the areas of

human rights and international economic law. In

her PhD thesis, she analyzes the institutional resil-

ience of regional human rights regimes in times of

backlash.

DR. VERENA STELLER

Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

After her PhD in Interna-

tional History in 2009,

Verena Steller joined the

Cluster of Excellence on

the Formation of Norma-

tive Orders at Goethe

University Frankfurt. She

is currently a Senior

Researcher at the History

Department of Goethe University and a Temporary

Principal Investigator funded by the German

Research Foundation for her habilitation project on

“Law and Empire. The ‘Rule of law’ in British India,

1858-1950” (Eigene Stelle). Her main research

interests are in the history of international relations

and international law, New Imperial History as well

as in legal pluralism(s).

MILAN TAHRAOUI


Milan Tahraoui is a





and a Ph.D. candidate in


universities Paris 1 Pan-

théon-Sorbonne and

Freie Universtität zu Berlin under the supervision

of both Prof. Evelyne Lagrange and Prof. Anne

Peters. His thesis deals with the transnational pro-

tection of the private sphere in times of digital sur-

veillance. Besides that, Milan Tahraoui is currently

working on a co-authored publication project deal-

ing with the potential of China’s Belt and Road Ini-

tiative to strengthen or challenge international law

‘universality’ in the 21st century.

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DR. PIOTR UHMA

Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University

Dr. Piotr Uhma serves as

a lecturer in international

law and postdoctoral

researcher at the Andrzej

Frycz Modrzewski

Krakow University,

located in Krakow,

Poland. Prior to entering

academia, Uhma served

as a Senior Officer in the OSCE field offices in West-

ern Balkans. He performed various consultancy

and public speaking assignments around the

world. Uhma earned his doctorate in law from the

Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. He also

holds a Postgraduate Diploma of Company Law

from the Law School of Warsaw University and a

Masters of Law from the Jagiellonian University in

Krakow.

JUSTINA URIBURU

Graduate institute of International and Devel-opment Studies, Geneva

Justina Uriburu is a Ph.D.

in International Law Can-

didate at The Graduate

Institute of International

and Development Stud-

ies (IHEID), where she

works under the direc-

tion of Prof. Nico Krisch.

Prior to her doctoral stud-

ies, Justina was a Lecturer in International Law at

Torcuato Di Tella University (both in the JD pro-

gram and MSc in International Relations). She is

the Co-Director of the Revista Latinoamericana de

Derecho Internacional (Latin American Journal of

International Law). She graduated from Torcuato Di

Tella University’s School of Law in 2013 and com-

pleted an LL.M. in International Law at University

College London as a Chevening Scholar in 2016.

Moreover, she clerked for Argentina’s Attorney

General, advising on matters of international law,

constitutional law, and crimes against humanity.

ALEXANDER WENTKER


Alexander Wentker is a

research fellow in inter-

national law at MPIL. He

completed his First State

Examination in law in

Berlin (Humboldt-Uni-

versität) and holds mas-

ter’s degrees in law from

the universities of Oxford

and Paris II. Before joining MPIL, Alexander

clerked at the Supreme Court of Namibia and

interned, inter alia, with the UN Office for the Coor-

dination of Humanitarian Affairs in New York.

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GENERAL INFORMATION

Hotel

During the conference, speakers will be accommodated at Leonardo Hotel Heidelberg City Center, Berg-

heimer Straße 63, 69115 Heidelberg (see map next page).

Pre-Conference Get-Together, Thursday, 14 February, from 7 pm onwards

Our informal Get-Together takes place at Café Rossi (upper floor), Rohrbacher Straße 4, 69115 Heidel-

berg, at your own expense. From the hotel, it is a six-minute walk (see map).

Tram Connection Hotel – MPIL

On Friday: Starting from the hotel, please go to tram stop Römerstraße and then take tram 21 (last stop:

Handschuhsheim Hans-Thoma-Platz) until stop Technologiepark (4 stations). From there, you can walk

to the Institute in 3 minutes.

On Saturday: Starting from the hotel, please go to tram stop Römerstraße and then take tram 5 (last

stop: Mannheim Hauptbahnhof) until stop Betriebshof. There you can change into the tram 24 (last stop:

Handschuhsheim Hans-Thoma-Platz) to stop Technologiepark and walk to the Institute.

Taxi Companies

Taxizentrale Heidelberg, phone number: +49 6221/302030

Taxi HDirekt, phone number: +49 6221/739090

Taxi costs are not reimbursable.

Internet access during the conference

During the conference, you may access the internet via eduroam using the account of your home institu-

tion. Additionally, you will be provided with personal login details upon registering.

Coffee Breaks

Coffee, tea, water and fruits are available during the coffee breaks.

Lunch, 15 February, 12:30 to 1:30 pm

On Friday, a lunch buffet will be available for all participants in the Institute’s “Rotunde” (Foyer).

BRILL Conference Dinner, Friday, 15 February, 8 pm

Our BRILL Conference Dinner for speakers will take place at NH Hotel, Bergheimer Straße 91, 69115

Heidelberg. It is a five-minute walk from the hotel (see map). For Engaged Listeners the participation is

limited due to space constraints. They may participate at their own expense.

For any further questions you can turn to the organization team at anytime.

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