[We have the following announcement. DRE]
On 6 September 2022, the Journal of the History of International Law is organising an online evening symposium (CET 20.00h-22.00) to celebrate the publication of Martti Koskenniemi's book “To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth”: Legal Imagination and International Power, 1300-1870 (Cambridge University Press, 2021). The event will take place on Zoom.
This is the program:
20.00h: Welcome by Prof. Randall Lesaffer (KU Leuven/Tilburg University)
20.05h: Presentation of book by Prof. Martti Koskenniemi (University of Helsinki)
20.30h: Comments by Prof. Koen Stapelbroek (James Cook University): 'Commerce, capitalism and the law of nations'
20.45h: Comments by Prof. Jennifer Pitts (University of Chicago): 'The struggle between statehood and civil society'
21.00h: Comments by Prof. Wim Decock (UCLouvain): 'Theology and the justification of sovereignty and property'
21.15h: Response by Prof. Martti Koskenniemi
21.30h: Open discussion and questions
Please register by sending an email to: vanhulle@lhlt.mpg.de
