Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context events
Events 2023-24
Colonial Legacies in Public Law: histories, theories, pitfalls and potentials
The Queen Mary Centre of Law and Society in a Global Context (CLSGC) is thrilled to announce a Masterclass with Professor Philipp Dann that will take place on 14-16 January 2025.
Organisers: Mohsin Bhat, Tanzil Chowdhury and Eva Nanopoulos.
The legacies of empire and colonialism are becoming visible everywhere these days. They shape various debates in public law but also indicate a new phase of globalization. The Masterclass will study these legacies and discuss their various dimensions and implications in comparative constitutional, public international and European Union law. The Class will draw on history and political theory, especially post-/decolonial theories to contextualize public law. It will use examples (such as the concept of development and democracy) to understand how empire and colonialism have shaped constitutional, international and European Union law and their scholarly reflection over time. But it will also turn to the future and ask participants to explore the potentials (and pitfalls) for re-imagining public law and its scholarship in the 21st century through the colonial lens. The Class is an invitation to rethink public law and the role of legal scholarship in a truly global way mindful of the broader legacies of modernity and colonialism.
Find out more and apply to attend the event.
The Underworld series
The series is convened by Marie Petersmann and Dimitri Van Den Meerssche and co-organised by QMUL (the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences and the Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context) and the LSE Law School.
- Oceans (with Renisa Mawani and Surabhi Ranganathan) – 27 September 2023
- Oil / Coal (with Lys Kulamadayil and On Barak) – 25 October 2023
- Breath (with Daniela Gandorfer and Jean-Thomas Tremblay) – 22 November 2023
- Debt (with Vasuki Nesiah and Kojo Koram) – 13 December 2023
- Commons (with Isabel Feichtner and Elsa Noterman) – 24 January 2024
- Frontier(s) (with Christine Schwöbel-Patel and Cait Storr) – 28 February 2024
- Waste (with Heather Davis and Michael Hennessy Picard) – 27 March 2024
- Hope (with Claire Colebrook and David Chandler) – 24 April 2024
- Wild / Feral (with Irus Braverman and Floris De Witte) – 29 May 2024
- Vessels (with Rinaldo Walcott and Itamar Mann) – 19 June 2024
Thinkery
- Time and Reproductive Justice - 9 October 2023
Past events
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The directors welcome suggestions for new events – please contact one of us if you would like to collaborate.
- Dr Eva Nanopoulos: e.nanopoulos@qmul.ac.uk
- Dr Tanzil Chowdhury: Tanzil.Chowdhury@qmul.ac.uk
