Deconstructing International Law

Panel 1: A Deconstructed History of International Law

Discussant: Dino Kritsiotis, University of Nottingham

Sué González Hauck (she/her), German Center for Integration and Migration Studies (DeZIM-Institut) Berlin | Deconstructing International Law’s Founding Myths

Aman Kumar (he/him), IFIM Law School | Examining the Role of Cambridge’s Whewell Professors of International Law in India’s Colonisation

Christopher Rossi (he/him), UiT, Arctic University of Norway | Deconstructing Jus Soli, the Discovery Doctrine, and the Mindset of Founders of American International Law

Matheus Gobbato Leichtweis (he/him), Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil | Crisis, Critique, and Transformation: Historicizing Agenda 2030 for a Radical Critique of International ‘Sustainable Development’ Law

Panel 2: Deconstructing the Rules and Practice of International Law

Discussant: Henrique Marcos, Maastricht University/São Paolo University

Jiang Zhifeng (he/him), National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law, and Yale-NUS College | Pacta Sunt Servanda and Empire: A Critical Examination of the Evolution, Invocation, and Application of an International Law Axiom

Shahd Hammouri (she/her), University of Kent | Inferential Inflexions in the Normative Representation of the War Economy

William Byrne (he/him, iCourts, Centre of Excellence for International Courts, University of Copenhagen | Is Critique Part of the Practice of International Law?

Nciko wa Nciko Arnold (he/him), Afronomicslaw Academic Forum | Towards Winning the Battle of Long-term Decolonization of International Law that African Law Schools Have Lost: The Role of the Afronomicslaw Academic Forum

Lunch

Panel 3: Deconstructing the Ideas and Ideals of International Criminal Law

Discussant: Craig Eggett, Maastricht University

Kerstin Bree Carlson (she/her), Roskilde University | Between Differend and Show Trial: International Criminal Law in the 21st Century

Sanjana Rebecca (she/her) and Lekha Suki (she/her), School of Law, Christ University, Bangalore | The Imperialistic Underpinnings of International Criminal Law

Daimeon Dean Shanks (he/him), University of California, Berkeley, School of Law | The Ideologies of Ecocide: Marxism, the Other, and the Regulation of Ecological Crisis

Panel 4: Statehood and Subjecthood, Deconstructed

Discussant: Sarah McGibbon, Maastricht University

Ruth Osaretin Ogbewekon, Pan African Lawyers Union | When the shoe doesn't fit: An African's deconstruction of the notion of the nation-state

Ralph Janik (he/him), Sigmund Freud University Vienna | States are not Men: Time to Say Goodbye to Hegel and de Vattel

Przemyslaw Tacik (he/him), Jagiellonian University in Kraków and Nomos Centre | Deconstructing Self-Determination of Peoples: On a Peculiar Zone of Exception Within International Law

Pablo Colmegna (he/him), University of Buenos Aires | Constructing the Relevance and Centrality of Corporations for International Law