Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena

Workshop: From the Margin of Empire

Central & Eastern European and Latin American Prosopographies of International Law

27. May 2024 - 10:00
Venue: Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena

The workshop is a cooperation between the Chair of Public Law, Public International Law, European Union Law and Comparative Law the Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena (both University of Jena) and the Geneva Graduate Institute. It is organised by Alejandro Rodiles Bretón, Jakub Szumski, and Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín.

Programme:

10:00 - 10:15 // Law as an Obstacle to Social Change? Rereading Eduardo Novoa Monreal into a Latin American ‘Law and Political Economy’ Tradition”
                       Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín (Geneva Graduate Institute & MPI Halle)

10:15 - 10:30 // When Non-Mainstream Western Scholars Influenced the Soviet (International) Law: the case of Alejandro Alvarez and Carl Schmitt”
                       Artur Simonyan (University of Tartu & KFG Potsdam/Berlin)

10:30 - 10:45 // Banana Republics: Locating the United Fruit Company in the History of International Law and Empire
                       Sué González Hauck (Helmut-Schmidt-Universität)

10:45 - 11:00 // Krzysztof Skubiszewski and the Personal History of Internationalism in East-Central Europe
                      Jakub Szumski (Imre Kertész Kolleg, Friedrich Schiller University Jena)

11:00 - 11:40 // Discussion

11:40 - 12:00 // Closing Remarks & Steps Forward