Professor Peer Zumbansen, founding director of the Dickson Poon Transnational Law Institute at King\u2019s College London, will deliver the annual lecture for the Centre for Critical International Law (CeCIL) on Friday 13 March.<\/p>\n
Entitled \u2018International Law’s Local Blindside: Reflecting on the Public and Private in Global Governance\u2019<\/a>, Professor Zumbansen\u2019s lecture will explore the nature of international legal sovereignty. He will be introduced by\u00a0Kent Law School\u2019s most recently appointed Emeritus Professor Wade Mansell<\/a>.<\/p>\n In the abstract for his lecture, Professor Zumbansen says: \u2018\u2026the lecture attempts to draw our attention to the domestic legal-political realm, where negotiations of sovereignty claims, justifications as well as contestations of state intervention or debates around the validity and legitimacy of norms in ‘law’ or ‘non-law’ occur on a daily basis, and often with very little reference to \u2018public\u2019 law. Building on this look at the ‘domestic’, we might be able to better recognise some of the continuities between ideology battles on the global and the local level.\u2019<\/p>\n The lecture, to be preceded by a drinks reception at 5pm in Keynes Teaching Foyer, will begin at 6pm in Keynes Lecture Theatre 3. All staff and students are welcome.<\/p>\n On the same day, Professor Zumbansen will also attend a CeCIL workshop entitled \u2018The Victims of International Law<\/a><\/em>\u2019 beginning at 1.30pm in Keynes S17, during which members of CeCIL will present their work in progress.<\/p>\n