International legal scholar Professor Sundhya Pahuja will deliver a lecture on ‘International Law and the Making of the World’ at Kent on Tuesday 10 November.
Professor Pahuja is Professor of International Law at Melbourne Law School and Director of the Law and Development Research Programme at the Institute for International Law and the Humanities at the University of Melbourne. She has been invited to speak by the Centre for Critical International Law (CeCIL) at Kent Law School as part of its Speaker Nights series, the theme for which is centred this year on ‘The Victims of International Law’.
Co-Director of CeCIL Dr Luis Eslava said: ‘It is our great privilege to host Professor Pahuja at Kent Law School. She will share with us during her talk parts of her influential work on the relationship between international law and institutions, and the particular kind of post-colonial world brought into being in the second half of the twentieth century.
‘As well as offering an historical account of the institutions of contemporary international law, Professor Pahuja will touch on why we might have so much trouble thinking about well-being as if the earth mattered, and why we institute austerity to save the economy, but only ever “aspire” to change our behaviours to save the planet.’
Professor Pahuja is also Research Professor in Law at SOAS, holds a visiting chair at Birkbeck, University of London, and serves as Senior Faculty at the Harvard Institute for Global Law and Policy. Her book Decolonising International Law: Development, Growth and the Politics of Universality was awarded the 2012 American Society of International Law Certificate of Merit. She is currently working on several projects which each relate to international law and the question of global inequality in different ways. She is also interested in questions of pedagogy, particularly in the Global South.
CeCIL aims to foster critical approaches to the field of international law, and other areas of law that touch upon global legal problems, through promoting collaboration and exchange at the Law School and within the broader scholarly community. In addition to its series of Speaker Nights, CeCIL offers a full annual programme of activities designed to engage students, scholars and practitioners based at other institutions. This includes films, workshops and an annual lecture addressing emerging themes in critical scholarship in the field of international law. Along with Dr Eslava, the Centre is co-directed by Dr Emily Haslam and Dr Sara Kendall.
Professor Pahuja’s lecture will be held at 6pm in Eliot Lecture Theatre 2 (ELT2) and is open to all staff and students.
A copy of CeCIL’s programme for the year is available to download in PDF format: CeCIL Annual Programme 2015-2016