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JHIL Journal of the History of International Law
POLITICS AND THE HISTORIES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law
and International Law, Heidelberg
15 – 16 February 2019
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Contact
Anette Kreutzfeld
Richard Dören
Robert Stendel
Wanda Metze
E-Mail: [email protected]
Phone: +49 (0) 6221 482307
on Twitter: #JHIL2019
In Collaboration with/Financed by:
Heidelberger Gesellschaft für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht e.V.
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POLITICS AND THE HISTORIES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
Conveners
Prof. Dr. Anne Peters
Raphael Schäfer
JHIL Journal of the History of International Law
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NOTES
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Concept and Format ........................................................................................................... 6
Programme ........................................................................................................................ 8
List of Speakers ............................................................................................................... 13
List of Engaged Listeners .................................................................................................. 16
Short Biographies of Speakers ........................................................................................... 19
Short Biographies of Engaged Listeners .............................................................................. 34
General Information (with map) ......................................................................................... 46
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CONCEPT AND FORMAT
POLITICS AND THE HISTORIES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
The cover painting for the conference shows Clio,
the Muse of History. In the fine arts, she often
appears carrying a parchment scroll or book and
trumpet. Thus she represents not only the crafts-
manship of the historical discipline but also hints at
its political dimensions by her spreading the mes-
sage contained in the books. The 1632 painting,
however, has further political implications: Artemi-
sia Gentileschi was one of the few female baroque
painters to be accepted in seventeenth-century
Italy, and her personal life illustrates the degree to
which she was subject to the political convictions
of her time.
The inherent political relevance of history encapsu-
lated in Gentileschi’s Clio also characterizes inter-
national law. Here, history has always been used
as a political tool, which is as true today as ever
before. The social tensions caused by globalization
and a lack of meaningful contemporary ideas for
the future motivate an idealizing retrogression and
fuel nationalist, protectionist, and aggressive his-
torical narratives. Some European countries only
recently penalized statements on delicate histori-
cal events through so-called ‘memory laws’.
This ongoing instrumentalization of history for
political means is particularly relevant for interna-
tional law. Governing – traditionally – the relations
between states, international law is per se politi-
cal. The content of its rules depends on the polit-
ical power of international law’s actors. Addition-
ally, given their different (national) backgrounds,
it is hardly possible for international lawyers to dis-
tance themselves from their own political predis-
positions in legal debates.
Besides its political nature, international law has
been deeply shaped by history. This is especially
true for the sources of international law. Here, the
prerogative of interpreting the past can set the
agenda for future developments: without a central
legislative body, often decades- and even centu-
ries-old treaties have to provide answers to current
debates, and customary international law requires
uniform and often long-lasting practice. This nexus
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between international law and history explains why
international law does not have a single history but
several histories.
Against this backdrop, the ‘Politics and the Histo-
ries of International Law’ Conference investigates
the interplay between international law, its histo-
ries, and their respective political implications, and
offers a forum within which these issues can be
constructively debated. The aim of the conference
is to discuss the political predispositions, circum-
stances, contexts and consequences of research
on the history of international law by analyzing
concrete examples and interrelated topics. Inter-
disciplinary and transcultural perspectives guar-
antee a stimulating atmosphere in the pursuit of
new impulses for further research on the histories
of international law.
Across nine different panels and in two plenary
sessions, the conference will shed light on the con-
vergence of international law, politics and history.
In order to facilitate an open and frank discussion
among the panelists, participation will be limited
to speakers, chairs and engaged listeners. The lat-
ter are mainly PhD candidates and junior schol-
ars selected to participate in the conference on the
basis of a public call.
The event will take place at the Max Planck Insti-
tute for Comparative Public Law and International
Law in Heidelberg and under the auspices of
the Journal of the History of International Law.
Funding has been generously provided by Brill,
the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft – DFG
(German Research Foundation), and the Heidel-
berger Gesellschaft für ausländisches öffentliches
Recht und Völkerrecht e.V.
Palazzo Blu in Pisa, Italy, kindly gave permission
to use images of Artemisia Gentileschi’s painting
entitled ‘Clio’.
Selected papers will be published in a special issue
of the Journal of the History of International Law.
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PROGRAMME
FRIDAY, 15 FEBRUARY 2019
8.00 – 9.00 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
9.00 – 10.00 WELCOME ADDRESS (ROOM 038)
Anne Peters and Randall Lesaffer
Keynote Opening by Sundhya Pahuja:
Doing Legal History in a Postcolonial World
10.00 – 10.30 BREAK
10.30 – 12.30 SESSION I
PANEL I A: (ROOM 014) SLAVERY, SLAVE TRADE AND THE LAW OF THE SEA
(Chair: Raphael Schäfer)
Anne-Charlotte Martineau, The Politics of Writing on Slavery and Interna-
tional Law
Parvathi Menon, Protecting Empire in Slave Colonies
Stefano Cattelan, Law and Politics, the Genesis of the Law of the Sea
PANEL I B: (ROOM 038) INTERNATIONAL LAW BEFORE AND BEYOND THE WEST
(Chair: Luigi Nuzzo)
Emiliano Buis, The Politics of Anti-Politics: Mainstream Histories of
International Law and the Paradox of Antiquity
Radhika Jagtap, Developing an Anticolonial Historiography of
International Law from a Social Movements’ Perspective
Sebastian Spitra, New Narratives for a Critical History of World Cultural
Heritage
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PANEL I C: (ROOM 037) VULNERABILITY AND INTERNATIONAL LAW
(Chair: Robert Stendel)
León Castellanos-Jankiewicz, Nationalism and Early International Rights
Karin Loevy, Histories of International Law as Windows to Law’s Politics:
Dicey, Humanitarianism and the Jews
Momchil Milanov, One Hundred Years of Soli(dari)tude: The Making of the
Refugee Status and the Politics of Humanitarianism
Ignacio de la Rasilla del Moral, Women’s Historical Invisibility in Interna-
tional Law
12.30 – 13.30 LUNCH
13.30 – 15.30 SESSION II
PANEL II A: (ROOM 038) THE POLITICIZATION OF WESTERN LEGAL HISTORY
(Chair: Miloš Vec)
Jan Lemnitzer/Morten Rasmussen, Bringing Politics Back in: What the
‘Turn to Practice’ Means for the Writing of Histories of International Law
Thibaut Fleury Graff, Henry Wheaton and the Powers of History: Justifying
the Power of the US Federal Government in the 19th Century by Rewriting
the History and Contents of International Law
Maria Adele Carrai, W. A. P. Martin as a Legal Historian and the Politics of
History in Late Qing-China
Angelo Dube/Lindelwa Mhlongo, The Forgotten Continent? Interrogating
Africa’s Contribution to the History and Development of International Law
PANEL II B: (ROOM 037) THE POLITICS OF LEGAL HISTORY IN THE BOOKS
(Chair: Annabel Brett)
Julia Bühner, Let There be Light – Histories Hidden in the Shadow of Fran-
cisco de Vitoria
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Deborah Whitehall, The Politics of Writing the History of International Law
as a Treatise
PANEL II C: (ROOM 014) THE LAWS OF WAR IN CONTEXT
(Chair: Rüdiger Wolfrum)
Hirofumi Oguri, Taming Politics in the Historiographies of International
Law: Between Naïve Positivism and Agnosticism
Rotem Giladi, Rites of Affirmation: Progress and Immanence in Internatio-
nal Humanitarian Law Historiography
Claire Vergerio, Inventing the History of the Laws of War: The Revival of
Alberico Gentili in the late 19th Century
15.30 – 16.00 BREAK
16.00 – 18.00 SESSION III
PANEL III A: (ROOM 014) THE POLITICS OF THE USE OF FORCE AND THE FUNCTION OF PEACE
(Chair: Anthony Carty)
John Hursh, What is a Threat to the Peace? Historical Assessment and Shi-
fting Legal Meaning
Thilo Marauhn, Narratives of Peace as Justifications for the Use of Force:
Henry A. Kissinger and the Long Peace of the 19th Century
Hendrik Simon, In the Shadow of War and Order. Historical Reflections on
the Interrelationship between Political and Scholarly Practices of Justifying
War
Katie Szilagyi/Jon Khan, There Might Come Soft Rains: Technological
Determinism, International Law, and the Age of Intelligent Machines
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PANEL III B: (ROOM 037) LEGITIMACY, SECURITY AND SOVEREIGNTY IN INTERNATIONAL LEGAL HISTORY
(Chair: Inge Van Hulle)
Michael Mulligan, Politics and the Histories of International Law: Interna-
tional Law and the Spectre of Legitimacy
Ríán Derrig, The Psychoanalytic New Haven School: A Case Study of
Interwar Legal Science
Etienne Henry, Soviet Praxis of Collective Security in the League of Nations
Era
Mikhail Antonov, The Rise of the Sovereignty Argument in Russian Appro-
aches to International Law
PANEL III C: (ROOM 038) THE ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL LEGAL HISTORY BEFORE INTERNATIONAL COURTS AND TRIBUNALS
(Chair: Thomas Duve)
Gustavo Prieto, Mixed Claim Commissions in Latin America During the
19th and 20th Centuries
Jakob Zollmann, Searching for History in Law. The Polish-German Mixed
Arbitral Tribunal after 1919
Valeria Vázquez Guevara, Crafting the ‘Lawful Truth’: Chile‘s 1990 Truth
Commission, International Human Rights Law, and the Museum of Memory
Michel Erpelding, International Law and the European Court of Justice:
The Politics of Avoiding History
20.00 – 23.00 BRILL CONFERENCE DINNER WITH KEYNOTE BY JACOB KATZ COGAN: TOWARD A SOCIAL HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
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SATURDAY, 16 FEBRUARY 2019
09.00 – 09.30 COFFEE
09.30 – 12.00 CONCLUDING PANEL WITH DISCUSSION (ROOM 038)
(Chair: Randall Lesaffer)
Nehal Bhuta, Histories of/in International Law
Jean d’Aspremont, Critical Attitudes in Historiographical International Legal
Studies
Aoife O’Donoghue/Henry Jones, Histories of International Law and Self-
Reflection within the Discipline
Madeleine Herren-Oesch, Aliens, Race and Law: A History of the Odd Ones
Out
Please note that photos will be taken during the event for our reporting and communication with the public.
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LIST OF SPEAKERS
Prof. Dr. Mikhail Antonov – National Research University “Higher School of Economics”, Saint Petersburg
Prof. Nehal Bhuta – University of Edinburgh / Edinburgh Centre for International and Global Law
Dr. Annabel Brett – University of Cambridge
Julia Bühner – University of Münster
Prof. Dr. Emiliano J. Buis – University of Buenos Aires (UBA) / Central University / Universidad de San Andrés
Dr. Maria Adele Carrai – Leuven Centre for Global Governance – KU Leuven / Harvard University
Prof. Anthony Carty – Beijing Institute of Technology
Dr. León Arturo Castellanos Jankiewicz – T.M.C. Asser Institute for International and European Law, The Hague
Stefano Cattelan – Aarhus University
Prof. Jacob Katz Cogan – University of Cincinnati
Prof. Jean d’Aspremont – University of Manchester / Sciences Po School of Law / Manchester International Law Centre (MILC)
Prof. Dr. Ignacio de la Rasilla del Moral – Wuhan University
Ríán Derrig – European University Institute, Florence
Prof. Angelo Dube – University of South Africa, Pretoria
Prof. Dr. Thomas Duve – Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt / Goethe University Frankfurt
Dr. Michel Erpelding – Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Inter-national, European and Regulatory Procedural Law, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Prof. Dr. Thibaut Fleury Graff – University of Rennes
Dr. Rotem Giladi – Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Dr. Etienne Henry – Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Minis-try of Foreign Affairs
Prof. Dr. Madeleine Herren-Oesch – University of Basel
John Hursh – Stockton Center for International Law, Naval War College, Newport, USA
Radhika Jagtap – Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Dr. Henry Jones – University of Durham
Jon Khan – University of Pennsylvania / University of Toronto
Dr. Jan Martin Lemnitzer – University of Southern Denmark / Oxford University
Prof. Dr. Randall Lesaffer – University of Tilburg / University of Leuven
Dr. Karin Loevy – New York University
Prof. Dr. Thilo Marauhn – University of Giessen
Dr. Anne-Charlotte Martineau – Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris
Parvathi Menon – Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law, Luxembourg / University of Helsinki
Lindelwa Mhlongo – University of South Africa
Momchil Milanov – International Court of Justice / University of Geneva
Michael Mulligan – British University in Egypt, Cairo
Prof. Luigi Nuzzo – University of Salento
Prof. Aoife O’Donoghue – University of Durham
Dr. Hirofumi Oguri – The Open University of Japan
Prof. Sundhya Pahuja – University of Melbourne
Prof. Dr. Anne Peters – Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
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Dr. Gustavo Prieto – University of Turin
Morten Rasmussen – University of Copenhagen
Raphael Schäfer – Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
Hendrik Simon – Peace Research Institute Frankfurt
Dr. Sebastian M. Spitra – University of Michigan
Robert Stendel – Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
Katie Szilagyi – University of Ottawa
Dr. Inge Van Hulle – University of Tilburg
Valeria Vazquez Guevara – University of Melbourne
Prof. Dr. Miloš Vec – University of Vienna
Dr. Claire Vergerio – University of Leiden
Dr. Deborah Whitehall – University of Sydney
em. Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Rüdiger Wolfrum – Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
Dr. Jakob Zollmann – Berlin Social Science Center (WZB)
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LIST OF ENGAGED LISTENERS
Prof. Dr. Ebrahim Afsah – University of Vienna
Shubhangi Agarwalla – National Law University, Delhi
Paulette Baeriswyl Banciella – University of Zurich
Kanad Bagchi – Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
Yateesh Begoore – Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law, Heidelberg
Leander Beinlich – Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
em. Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Rudolf Bernhardt – Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
Dr. Raphaël Cahen – Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Tatiana Cardoso Squeff – Federal University of Uberlândia (Brazil)
Dr. Alina Cherviatsova – V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv
Prof. Dr. Justo Corti Varela – National University of Distance Education (Spain)
Prof. Dr. Frederik Dhondt – Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Richard Dören – Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
Prof. Dr. Isabel Feichtner – University of Wuerzburg
Judith Hackmack – Humboldt University of Berlin / European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, Berlin
Dr. Matthias Hartwig – Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
Ayan Huseynova – University of Administrative Sciences, Speyer
Dr. Francesca Iurlaro – Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Neo-Latin Studies Innsbruck
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Viktorija Jakjimovska – University of Leuven
Alexandra Kemmerer – Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
Sanja Kreštalica – University of East Sarajevo Faculty of Law, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Prof. Dino Kritsiotis – University of Nottingham
Dr. Felix Lange – Humboldt University Berlin
Andrea Leiter – University of Melbourne/ University of Vienna
Deepak Mawar – University of London
Attila Nagy – Lecturer and Independent Researcher
Raphael Oidtmann – University of Mannheim
Dr. Magdalena Pacholska – Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Inter-national, European and Regulatory Procedural Law, Luxembourg
Benjamin Peters – Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva
Dr. Stéphanie Prévost – Paris Diderot University
Daniel Ricardo Quiroga Villamarin – Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva
Muratcan Sabuncu – Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne
Dr. Lena Salaymeh – Tel Aviv University
Dr. Tom Sparks – Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
Silvia Steininger – Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
Dr. Verena Steller – Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
Milan Tahraoui – Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
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Dr. Piotr Uhma – Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University
Justina Uriburu – Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva
Alexander Wentker – Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
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SHORT BIOGRAPHIES OF SPEAKERS
PROF. DR. MIKHAIL ANTONOV
National Research University “Higher School of Economics”, Saint Petersburg
Mikhail Antonov is Profes-
sor of Law associated
with the Law Faculty at
the National Research
University “Higher
School of Economics”
(Saint Petersburg) where
he teaches legal theory
and comparative law. He
also is member of the editorial boards of the Pravo-
vedenie, the Review of Central and East European
Law, the Rechtstheorie, the Russian Law Journal,
and of a number of other international scientific
journals. Professor Antonov’s research interests
focus upon contemporary legal theory, the prob-
lems of normativity in law and of sociological juris-
prudence and on the theory of sovereignty, the his-
tory of Russian legal philosophy. He is also practis-
ing as a member of the Saint Petersburg Bar
Association.
PROF. NEHAL BHUTA
University of Edinburgh / Edinburgh Centre for International and Global Law
Nehal Bhuta holds the
Chair of Public Interna-
tional Law at University
of Edinburgh and is
Co-Director of the Edin-
burgh Centre for Interna-
tional and Global Law.
He previously held the
Chair of Public
International Law at the European University Insti-
tute in Florence, where he was also Co-Director of
the Institute’s Academy of European Law. He is a
member of the editorial boards of the European
Journal of International Law, the Journal of Interna-
tional Criminal Justice, Constellations and a found-
ing editor of the interdisciplinary journal Humanity.
He is also a series editor of the Oxford University
Press (OUP) series in The History and Theory of
International Law.
DR. ANNABEL BRETT
University of Cambridge
Annabel Brett lectures on
the history of political
thought in the Faculty of
History, Cambridge. Her
research interests
include the history of
natural law, human
rights and international
law, as well as medieval
and early modern conceptions of the political more
broadly. She is interested in how geographical
space and non-human nature have historically
been conceived in relation to human beings and
political formations, and how those issues are the-
orised in contemporary political thought.
Major publications include Liberty, right and
nature: Individual rights in later scholastic thought
(1997) and Changes of state: Nature and the limits
of the city in early modern natural law (2011).
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JULIA BÜHNER
University of Münster
Julia Bühner is a sec-
ond-year doctoral stu-
dent and research assis-
tant of Professor Martin
Kintzinger at the Univer-
sity of Münster. She
studied History, focusing
on the medieval era, and
German studies and
graduated in 2017. Her dissertation project deals
with the transmission of international law’s prac-
tices and ideas from the conquest of the Canary
Islands and the scholarly reflections of the 15th
century to the conquest of Latin America and the
School of Salamanca. Moreover, she is interested
in theory, method and historiography of Intellectual
History, and History of International Law.
PROF. DR. EMILIANO J. BUIS
University of Buenos Aires (UBA) / Central University / Universidad de San Andrés
Emiliano Buis holds two
BA in Classics and Law,
an MA in History (Pan-
théon-Sor-bonne) and a
PhD (UBA). He is a Per-
manent Researcher in
Law and Philology at the
National Council for
Science and Technology
(CONICET) in Argentina. He is the Director of the
Seminar on Theory and History of International
Law at the Ambrosio Gioja Research Institute and
the Chair of the Working Group on Ancient Greek
Law (DEGRIAC) at the National Institute for Legal
History.
His research interests include the theory and his-
tory of International Law in Antiquity, Athenian law
and Greek drama. His latest book in English, Tam-
ing Ares. War, Interstate Law, and Humanitarian
Discourse in Classical Greece, was published this
year by Brill/Nijhoff.
DR. MARIA ADELE CARRAI
Leuven Centre for Global Governance – KU Leuven / Harvard University
Maria Adele Carrai Ph.D.
is a sinologist and politi-
cal scientist who is finish-
ing a book about sover-
eignty in China (A Gene-
ology of the Concept
of Sovereignty in China
since 1840, forthcom-
ing with Cambridge Uni-
versity Press). She is a recipient of a three-year
Marie Curie Fellowship at the Leuven Centre for
Global Governance – KU Leuven and a Fellow at
Harvard University Asia Center. Her interdiscipli-
nary research focuses on China’s legal history and
how it affects the country’s foreign policy.
PROF. ANTHONY CARTY
Beijing Institute of Technology
Anthony Carty is a Profes-
sor of Law at the Beijing
Institute of Technology
since 2017. He was pre-
viously Professor at
Westminster, Aberdeen,
Hong Kong and Tsing-
hua University. He is a
Legal Consultant to the
Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and to the
China Institute of Maritime Affairs. He holds an
LL.B (Q.U. Belfast 1968), an LL.M. (U.C. London
1969) and a PhD from Cambridge University
(1973). His major publications include ‘The Decay
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of International Law’ (2nd reprint with Introduction
2019) and ‘Philosophy of International Law’ (2nd
edition 2017).
DR. LEÓN ARTURO CAS-TELLANOS-JANKIEWICZ
T.M.C. Asser Institute for International and European Law, The Hague
León Castellanos-Jankie-
wicz is Researcher at the
T.M.C. Asser Institute for
International and Euro-
pean Law, The Hague,
where he works as mem-
ber of the MELA research
consortium (Memory
Laws in European and
Comparative Perspectives). His current book pro-
ject focuses on human rights during the interwar
period. Previously, León was Max Weber Postdoc-
toral Fellow at the European University Institute,
Florence, and Lecturer in the Law of International
Organizations at Bocconi University, Milan. He
holds a PhD in International Law from the Gradu-
ate Institute of International and Development
Studies, Geneva (2017).
STEFANO CATTELAN
Aarhus University
Stefano Cattelan is a PhD
fellow at the Department
of Law, Aarhus Univer-
sity, Denmark (2017-
2020). His main
research field is the his-
tory of public interna-
tional law. He is currently
writing a monograph on
the genesis of the law of the sea in the Early Mod-
ern Age. He focuses on the development of the
principles of mare liberum and mare clausum,
analysing both jurisprudence and international
legal practice of the time. Moreover, he has been
teaching international law at the Department of
Law, Aarhus University. He holds a Master Degree
in Law from the University of Trento, Italy.
PROF. JACOB KATZ COGAN
University of Cincinnati
Jacob Katz Cogan is Asso-
ciate Dean of Faculty
and Judge Joseph P.
Kinneary Professor of
Law at the University of
Cincinnati College of
Law. Prior to joining the
Cincinnati faculty, he
served for five years as
an attorney-adviser in the Office of the Legal
Adviser, U.S. Department of State. He received his
Ph.D. in History from Princeton, where he was a
student of Hendrik Hartog, and his J.D. from Yale,
where he worked with Michael Reisman.
PROF. JEAN D’ASPREMONT
University of Manchester / Sciences Po School of Law / Manchester International Law Centre (MILC)
Jean d’Aspremont is Pro-
fessor of International
Law at Sciences Po
School of Law. He also
holds a chair of Public
International Law at the
University of Manchester
where he founded the
Manchester Interna-
tional Law Centre (MILC). He is General Editor of
the Cambridge Studies in International and
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Comparative Law and Director of Oxford Interna-
tional Organizations (OXIO).
PROF. DR. IGNACIO DE LA RASILLA DEL MORAL
Wuhan University
Ignacio de la Rasilla is the
Han Depei Professor of
International Law at the
Wuhan University Insti-
tute of International Law
in China. He was edu-
cated in Spain (LLB,
Complutense), Switzer-
land (MA and PhD, The
Graduate Institute), the United States (LLM, Har-
vard) and Northern Italy (Max Weber Fellow, EUI).
Previously, he served as Lecturer and, then, as
Senior Lecturer in Law at Brunel University London
and as Adjunct Professor at NYU-La Pietra. He is
the author of circa sixty journal articles and book
chapters, and the author or editor of five books on
international law and its history.
RÍÁN DERRIG
European University Institute, Florence
Ríán Derrig is a Ph.D.
Researcher in interna-
tional law at the Euro-
pean University Institute.
He holds an LL.B. in Law
and Political Science
(2013) from Trinity Col-
lege Dublin and an LL.M.
in Public International
Law (2014) from the London School of Economics.
He has been a Visiting Researcher at Yale Law
School. Ríán has taught jurisprudence and femi-
nist legal theory at Trinity College Dublin. In 2018
he was awarded the Young Scholar Prize of the
European Society of International Law.
PROF. ANGELO DUBE
University of South Africa, Pretoria
Angelo Dube (LLD) is an
Associate Professor of
International Law at the
University of South
Africa, Pretoria Campus.
His research interests
include international
criminal law, the African
criminal court, the law of
war, aviation law, universal jurisdiction, and law
and business. Angelo has published in the areas of
aviation law and international criminal law. He also
published a book entitled Universal Jurisdiction In
Respect of International Crimes: Theory and Prac-
tice in Africa (2016) Galda Verlag, Germany
PROF. DR. THOMAS DUVE
Max Planck Institute for European Legal His-tory, Frankfurt / Goethe University Frankfurt
Thomas Duve is Director
at the Max Planck Insti-
tute for European Legal
History and Professor for
Comparative Legal His-
tory at the Goethe Uni-
versity Frankfurt.
His research focuses on
the legal history of the early Modern Age and the
Modern Era with particular interest in Ibero-Amer-
ican legal history and the history of legal scholar-
ship in the 20th Century.
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DR. MICHEL ERPELDING
Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Inter-national, European and Regulatory Proce-dural Law
Dr. Michel Erpelding is a
Senior Research Fellow
at the Max Planck Insti-
tute Luxembourg for
Procedural Law. He
holds a Ph.D. from
Sorbonne Law School.
His dissertation on the
history of slavery and
forced labour in international law (Le droit interna-
tional antiesclavagiste des ‘nations civilisées’,
1815-1945) was published in 2017. Michel is also
a sessional lecturer in international relations and in
French public law at the Institut de droit des
affaires internationales (Sorbonne Law School/
Cairo University). His current research project on
historical international courts and tribunals
focusses on the interwar period, including on the
international ‘experiment’ of Upper Silesia
(1922-1937).
PROF. DR. THIBAUT FLEURY GRAFF
University of Rennes
Thibaut Fleury Graff is
public law professor at
Rennes University
(Paris, France), where
he co-directs a Master’s
degree in International
Affairs and teaches inter-
national law, constitu-
tional law and aliens &
refugees law. He holds a Ph.D. in Public Interna-
tional Law from Panthéon-Assas University (Paris,
France). He does research on territorial issues, ref-
ugees law and on theoretical and historical con-
structions of international law. His major
publications include Etat et territoire en droit inter-
national (Paris, Pedone 2013), Manuel de droit
international public (Paris, PUF 2016) and Droit de
l’asile (forthcoming, Paris, PUF 2019).
DR. ROTEM GILADI
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Rotem Giladi studied
at the University of Essex
(LLB), the Hebrew Uni-
versity (LLM) and the
University of Michigan
Law School (SJD). His
doctoral thesis offered a
critical reading of the law
of occupation, its intel-
lectual history, claim to humanitarianism, and
effects on political order. He teaches at the Hebrew
University and the University of Leipzig, is a docent
in international law at the University of Helsinki
and a research fellow at the Leibniz Institute for
Jewish History and Culture—Simon Dubnow, Leip-
zig. His research focuses on the history of interna-
tional law—especially the laws of war—and on
Jewish engagements with international law. His
forthcoming book on the role of identity and ideol-
ogy in shaping Israel’s early attitude towards inter-
national law will be published in 2019 by OUP.
DR. ETIENNE HENRY
Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Etienne Henry holds a
PhD in law from the Uni-
versity of Neuchâtel
(summa cum laude). His
thesis, now available as a
book (Pedone 2017),
deals with the principle
of military necessity as a
fundamental norm of
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international humanitarian law. More recently, he
has conducted research in the field of jus contra
bellum, in the framework of a project funded by the
Swiss National Science Foundation. He is currently
visiting the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian
Foreign Ministry of Foreign Affairs, working on a
research project titled Russia’s praxis in the field of
collective security: legal and historical
perspectives.
PROF. DR. MADELEINE HERREN-OESCH
University of Basel
Madeleine Herren is full
professor of modern his-
tory and director of the
Institute for European
Global Studies, Univer-
sity of Basel, Switzer-
land. From 2007 to 2012
she co-directed the clus-
ter of excellence ‘Asia
and Europe in a global context’ at the University of
Heidelberg in Germany. She has written several
books, book chapters and journal articles on Euro-
pean and global history of the 19th and 20th cen-
turies, internationalism and the history of interna-
tional organizations, networks in historical per-
spective, historiography and intellectual history.
JOHN HURSH
Stockton Center for International Law, Naval War College, Newport
John Hursh is the Director
of Research at the Stock-
ton Center for Interna-
tional Law, U.S. Naval
War College and Editor-
in-Chief of International
Law Studies, the oldest
international law journal
in the United States. He holds a LL.M. from McGill
University and a J.D. from Indiana University. He
was a Snyder Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for
International Law, University of Cambridge and an
O’Brien Fellow at the Centre for Human Rights and
Legal Pluralism, McGill University. He has pub-
lished academic articles on numerous security and
human rights issues and is a regular contributor to
Just Security.
RADHIKA JAGTAP
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Radhika Jagtap is a final
year Doctoral candidate
at the Centre for Interna-
tional Legal Studies in
School of International
Studies, Jawaharlal
Nehru University, New
Delhi. Having written her
M.phil dissertation under
Prof. B.S. Chimni, she is currently writing her doc-
toral thesis under Prof. Bharat Desai. Her areas of
prime interest happen to the Third World
Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), Interna-
tional Humanitarian Law (IHL) and International
Human Rights Law. She has briefly worked with
civil society organisations like the International
Committee of Red Cross (ICRC), Regional Delega-
tion and intergovernmental bodies like the Asian-
African Legal Consultative Organisation (AALCO).
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DR. HENRY JONES
University of Durham
Henry Jones is an assis-
tant professor at Durham
Law School. He holds
degrees from the Univer-
sity of Sheffield and the
University of Leicester.
He teaches across inter-
national law, property
law and legal history. He
does research on history and spatiality of interna-
tional law. His major publications include ‘Lines in
the Ocean: Thinking with the sea about territory
and international law’ in the London Review of
International Law and ‘Property, Territory, Colonial-
ism: an international legal history of enclosure’ in
Legal Studies.
JON KHAN
University of Pennsylvania / University of Toronto
Jon Khan graduated from
the University of Ottawa
Common Law program
in 2013. He specialized
in international law and
graduated as the Max-
well Cohen international
law scholar. He contin-
ues to develop his inter-
national law knowledge as a coach of Ottawa’s
Philip C. Jessup moot team. Currently, Jon is a
masters of law (LLM) candidate at the University of
Toronto. His research interests are legal reform,
human-centered design, and the judicial judg-
ment. His is researching how to use human-cen-
tered design to redesign the judicial judgment.
Before his LLM, Jon worked full-time as a govern-
ment lawyer.
DR. JAN MARTIN LEMNITZER
University of Southern Denmark / Oxford University
Jan Martin Lemnitzer is
Assistant Professor at
the Center for War Stud-
ies, University of South-
ern Denmark, and a
research associate at the
Changing Character of
War Programme at Pem-
broke College, Oxford
University. His completed his PhD thesis on the
1856 Declaration of Paris at the London School of
Economics and was awarded the British Interna-
tional History Group’s award for the best thesis in
2010. It was published with Palgrave Macmillan
under the title Power, Law, and the End of Priva-
teering. He was a lecturer in modern history at
Christ Church and Pembroke College, Oxford, and
has published on the history of international law in
Diplomacy & Statecraft, the International History
Review and the European Journal of International
Law.
PROF. DR. RANDALL LESAFFER
University of Tilburg / University of Leuven
Randall Lesaffer is profes-
sor of legal history at Til-
burg University, profes-
sor of international and
European legal history at
the University of Leuven,
and visiting professor at
Catolica Global School of
Law, Lisbon. From 2008
to 2012 he served as dean of Tilburg Law School.
He is general editor of Oxford Historical Treaties,
The Cambridge History of International Law and
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Studies in the History of International Law (Brill).
He is also an editor of The Journal of the History of
International law, The Global Law Series (CUP) and
president of the Grotiana Foundation.
DR. KARIN LOEVY
New York University
Karin Loevy is the man-
ager of the JSD Program
at NYU School of Law, a
researcher at the Insti-
tute for International Law
and Justice (IILJ) and a
Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Postdoctoral Visiting Fel-
low with the Laureate
Program in International Law (Melbourne Law
School). Her book, Emergencies in Public Law:
The Legal Politics of Containment, was published
by Cambridge University Press in 2016. Her new
book project, Visions of Territory: Negotiating the
Future of the Middle East (1915-1923) is a history
of international law in the Middle East in the period
leading to the mandate system.
PROF. DR. THILO MARAUHN, M. PHIL.
University of Giessen
Thilo Marauhn is Profes-
sor of Public Law and
International Law at Jus-
tus Liebig University
Giessen, Germany, and
head of the newly estab-
lished International Law
Research Group of the
Peace Research Institute
Frankfurt. He chairs the German National Commit-
tee on International Humanitarian Law, is a mem-
ber of the Advisory Board on United Nations Issues
of the German Foreign Office and First
Vice-President of the International Humanitarian
Fact-Finding Commission. Thilo Marauhn holds a
permanent visiting position at the University of
Lucerne, Switzerland. Among the various exter-
nally funded research projects, the two most recent
ones address securitization in a historical perspec-
tive (funded by the German Research Foundation
DFG as part of the Collaborative Research Centre
SFB/TRR 138 on “dynamics of security”) and “UN
policing – legal basis, status and directives on the
use of force” (German Foundation of Peace
Research). Since 2017 he is President of the Inter-
national Humanitarian Fact-finding Commission.
DR. ANNE-CHARLOTTE MARTINEAU
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris
Anne-Charlotte Martineau
is a tenured researcher
(CNRS, French Institute
for Scientific Research)
and works at Ecole nor-
male supérieure in Paris.
Her research aims to
revisit the role of interna-
tional law and lawyers in
the establishment, justification and maintenance
of slavery. She is particularly interested in looking
at the legal discourse and mechanisms with which
the French Empire managed to rule over foreign
territories and populations. Anne-Charlotte com-
pleted her PhD at the University of Helsinki and
Sorbonne University; her thesis (published in
French) dealt with the debate on the fragmentation
of international law. She also has an LLM in Inter-
national Law and an LLM in Legal Theory.
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PARVATHI MENON
Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Inter-national, European and Regulatory Proce-dural Law / University of Helsinki
Parvathi Menon is a
Research Fellow at the
Max Planck Institute in
Luxembourg and a PhD
candidate at the Univer-
sity of Helsinki super-
vised by Prof Martti
Koskenniemi. She has
an LL.M. from Harvard
Law School and another LL.M. from the London
School of Economics. She was a lecturer at the
National Law School of India University, Banga-
lore, and at the University of The Gambia. She was
also a visiting fellow at the Erik Castrén Institute of
International Law and Human Rights in Helsinki.
Her PhD is a historical study of the meaning of pro-
tection in International Law within the British
Empire.
LINDELWA MHLONGO
University of South Africa
Lindelwa Mhlongo started
her career in academia
at the University of South
Africa (Unisa) in 2014 as
a research assistant
while doing her final
semester of LLB. She
was promoted to a lec-
tureship position in 2017
and is currently an international law and education
law lecturer at Unisa (Department of Public, Con-
stitutional and International law). She completed
her LLM degree in international economic law in
2017 and has just applied to be admitted into the
LLD in international economic law programme at
Unisa.
MOMCHIL MILANOV
International Court of Justice / University of Geneva
Momchil Milanov (1986,
Sofia, Bulgaria) is Judi-
cial Fellow at the Inter-
national Court of Justice
and PhD candidate at
the University of Geneva.
He holds master degrees
in Public international
law and international
relations from the University of Strasbourg and the
College of Europe in Bruges. Between 2016-2018
he was teaching assistant at the University of
Geneva. Prior to that he worked as junior diplomat
at the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign affairs. In 2014
he was a trainee at the international law unit of the
Legal Service of the European Commission.
MICHAEL MULLIGAN
British University in Egypt, Cairo
Michael Mulligan teaches
international law at the
British University in
Egypt based in Cairo. His
current research is
focused on the evolution
of the concept of sover-
eignty, with a particular
emphasis on ‘sovereign’ non-state actors, and the
notion of semi-sovereignty.
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PROF. LUIGI NUZZO
University of Salento
Luigi Nuzzo is professor
of Legal History at the
University of Salento. As
permanent fellow of the
Alexander von Humboldt
Stiftung, he has been
research fellow at the
Max Planck Institute for
European Legal History,
the University of California at Berkeley, the New
York University and the European University Insti-
tute. His research focuses on the history of interna-
tional law, colonial law and Ibero-American legal
history. His major publications include Il linguaggio
giuridico della conquista. Strategie di controllo
nelle Indie spagnole (2004), Origini di una Sci-
enza. Diritto internazionale e colonialismo nel XIX
secolo (2012); Space, Time and Law in a Global
City: Tianjin 1860-1945 (forthcoming 2019).
PROF. AOIFE O’DONOGHUE
University of Durham
Aoife O‘Donoghue’s
research focuses on
constitutionalism, global
governance and legal
theory. Aoife queries the
structures that enable
law to regulate political
governance at the inter-
national and domestic
levels. Aoife’s work examines constitutionalism,
tyranny, feminism, legal theory and international
legal history. Aoife also researches the interaction
between law and feminism, particularly within
institutions such as the UN and the process of
feminist judging. Currently Aoife is heavily engaged
with research and policy debates on Brexit with a
focus on Northern Ireland.
DR. HIROFUMI OGURI
The Open University of Japan
Hirofumi Oguri is a Post-
doctoral Research Fel-
low at The Open Univer-
sity of Japan and cur-
rently a Visiting
Researcher at the Insti-
tute. The working title of
his postdoctoral research
project is The Concept of
Customs in the Law of Nations: Historical Appraisal
of the Sources of International Law. His main
research interests are sources of international law
and its history in the 19th century. Hirofumi
obtained his Ph.D. from Kyushu University (Japan)
in 2018 and the title of his dissertation was The
Structure and Development of Consensual Theory
in the History of International Law: Lassa Oppen-
heim’s Common Consent Theory Revisited (in
Japanese).
PROF. SUNDHYA PAHUJA
University of Melbourne
Sundhya Pahuja is Pro-
fessor of International
Law and Director at the
Institute for International
Law and the Humanities,
University of Melbourne.
Her current projects
focus on the history of
corporations, cold war
international law, and empire, race and interna-
tional law. Her publications include the prize win-
ning, Decolonising International Law, and the col-
lections, International Law and the Cold War (forth-
coming with Craven and Simpson) and Events:
The Force of International Law (with Johns and
Joyce). In 2018, Sundhya delivered The Lauter-
pacht Memorial Lectures at Cambridge. In 2017,
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she held a fellowship at STIAS, South Africa, and in
2016 was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at Harvard.
PROF. DR. ANNE PETERS
Director, Max Planck Institute for Compar-ative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
Anne Peters is Director at
the Max Planck Institute
for Comparative Public
Law and International
Law Heidelberg, a pro-
fessor at Heidelberg,
Freie Universität Berlin,
and Basel, and a William
C. Cook Global Law Pro-
fessor at the University of Michigan. She has been
a member of the European Commission for Democ-
racy through Law (Venice Commission) in respect
of Germany (2011-2015) and served as the Presi-
dent of the European Society of International Law
(2010-2012). Her current research interests relate
to public international law including its history,
global animal law, global governance and global
constitutionalism, and the status of humans in
international law.
DR. GUSTAVO PRIETO
University of Turin
Gustavo Prieto is a Post-
doctoral Fellow at the
Law Department of Uni-
versity of Turin, Italy. He
is a former professor of
law in Ecuador (his
country of origin) and
also invited lecturer in
Bulgaria, Ukraine, Italy,
and Russia. He has been visiting researcher (stays
between 2014-2018) at the Max Planck Institute in
Heidelberg. He earned his Ph.D. in Corporate Law
and Economics – Doctor Europaeus from Univer-
sity of Verona, Italy (2017) with a thesis on the
legitimacy of international investment arbitration in
Latin America. His current research interests
involve international economic law including its
history.
MORTEN RASMUSSEN
University of Copenhagen
Morten Rasmussen is
associate professor at
the SAXO Institute, Uni-
versity of Copenhagen.
He has been one of the
pioneers in developing a
legal history of the Euro-
pean Union on the basis
of a systematic use of
documentary evidence from private, state and
European archives. From 2012-2016, he con-
ducted a large collective research project funded
by the Danish Agency for Science and Innovation
(DASI) on this topic (https://europeanlaw.saxo.
ku.dk). Most recently, he has launched a new col-
lective project also financed by the DASI on the
history of the League of Nations and International
law that will run from 2018 to 2020 (https://inter-
nationallaw.ku.dk).
RAPHAEL SCHÄFER
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
Raphael Schäfer is a
research fellow at the
Max Planck Institute for
Comparative Public Law
and International Law
(MPIL) in Heidelberg
and the managing editor
of the Journal of the
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History of International Law. Raphael’s research
focuses on the history of international legal thought.
In his PhD-project he explores the debate sur-
rounding the codification process of the laws of war
in the 19th century and sheds light on their func-
tion in the ius publicum europaeum. Raphael stud-
ied law at the University of Heidelberg with a spe-
cialization in public international law. Research
stays led him to the University of Cambridge and to
SciencesPo Paris.
HENDRIK SIMON
Peace Research Institute Frankfurt
Hendrik Simon is Research
Associate at the Peace
Research Institute
Frankfurt and Lecturer
at Frankfurt University.
He was Visiting Fellow at
the University of Sussex
(2017), at the University
of Vienna (2016, 2018),
at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal His-
tory (2015-16) and at the Cluster of Excellence
‘Normative Orders’ (2011-12). Hendrik Simon
holds a Diploma in political science and a Magister
Artium in history and law from Frankfurt Univer-
sity. His research covers inter-/transnational rela-
tions as well as political and legal history, with a
particular focus on ‘modern’ justifications of war
and international order. Among his main publica-
tions is “The Myth of Liberum Ius ad Bellum: Jus-
tifying War in 19th-Century Legal Theory and Polit-
ical Practice” in the EJIL 1/2018.
DR. SEBASTIAN M. SPITRA
University of Michigan
Sebastian M. Spitra is Gro-
tius and Fulbright Fellow
at the University of Mich-
igan Law School. He
obtained his degrees in
Law (Mag.iur., Dr.iur.)
and Philosophy (B.A.)
from the University of
Vienna. In 2017, he
received a visiting fellowship from the MPIL and a
research grant from the Heinrich-Graf-Har-
degg’sche Stiftung. Next summer, he will be post-
doc scholar at the MPIeR Frankfurt. Before going
to Michigan, he was research fellow at the Institute
for Legal and Constitutional History in Vienna,
where he teached constitutional history and history
of international law. His doctoral thesis “Adminis-
tering Culture in International Law – A Post-colo-
nial History” is forthcoming with Nomos in 2019.
ROBERT STENDEL
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
Robert Stendel is a
research fellow at the
Max Planck Institute for
Comparative Public Law
and International Law
(MPIL) in Heidelberg. He
studied law at the Uni-
versities of Jena and Hei-
delberg with a specializa-
tion in public international law and passed his Sec-
ond State Exam in 2018. In Mai 2018, Robert
joined the MPIL as a research fellow and PhD can-
didate. His PhD-project deals with moral damages
in international law. In this project, he analyses
whether moral damages under international law
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have – from their origin in municipal private law –
developed towards a more public law-like remedy.
KATIE SZILAGYI
University of Ottawa
Katie Szilagyi is a doctoral
candidate and part-time
professor at the Univer-
sity of Ottawa Faculty of
Law. She holds a JD with
joint specializations in
technology law and inter-
national law (uOttawa),
an LLM in law & technol-
ogy (Tel Aviv University), and an engineering
degree (University of Manitoba). She teaches con-
tract law and lectures on technology law issues.
Her doctoral work focuses on the rule of law prob-
lems created by machine learning algorithms, pre-
dictive analytics, and the fact that people are con-
stantly staring at their smartphones. Her most
recent publication is entitled “A Bundle of Block-
chains? Digitally Disrupting Property Law.”
DR. INGE VAN HULLE
University of Tilburg
Inge Van Hulle is an
assistant professor of
legal history at Tilburg
University. She is a spe-
cialist of the history of
international law and
empire in the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries.
Her PhD (KU Leuven)
discussed the imperialist legal strategies used by
Britain in West Africa during the early and
mid-nineteenth century. In 2016 she won the first-
ever Robert Feenstra Award for best article pub-
lished in the Legal History Review (2014-2016).
Her most recent publication is ‘British Protection,
Extraterritoriality and Protectorates in West Africa
1807-1880’ in Protection and Empire. A Global
History, eds. Lauren Benton, Adam Clulow and
Bain Attwood, 194-210. Cambridge University
Press, 2017.
VALERIA VÁZQUEZ GUEVARA
University of Melbourne
Valeria Vázquez Guevara
is a Ph.D. candidate at
Melbourne Law School.
Her research is con-
cerned with how law,
through its particular
forms, ‘works’ after vio-
lent conflict, and what
sort of post-conflict soci-
ety it shapes, especially in the global South. Vale-
ria’s research is informed by the scholarship in the
tradition of ‘law and the humanities’, with particu-
lar focus on jurisdictional thinking, legal aesthet-
ics, and the histories of international law and
development. She holds an M.A. in Peace Studies
(University of Notre Dame, USA), an M.A. in Soci-
ology of Law (International Institute for the Sociol-
ogy of Law, Spain), and an LL.B. (University of Gra-
nada, Spain).
PROF. DR. MILOŠ VEC
University of Vienna
Miloš Vec is Professor of
European Legal and
Constitutional History at
Vienna University and a
Permanent Fellow at the
Institute for Human
Sciences (IWM, Vienna).
Habilitation in Legal His-
tory, Philosophy of Law,
Theory of Law, and Civil Law from Goethe
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University Frankfurt am Main. Until 2012 he
worked at the Max Planck Institute for European
Legal History and taught there. Further teaching at
the Universities of Bonn, Hamburg, Konstanz,
Lyon, Tübingen, and Vilnius. Fellow to the Wissen-
schaftskolleg, Berlin, 2011/2012; Senior Global
Hauser Fellow at NYU in 2017; associate member
of the Cluster of Excellence “Normative Orders” at
Frankfurt University; free-lance journalist, particu-
larly for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
DR. CLAIRE VERGERIO
University of Leiden
Claire Vergerio is an Assis-
tant Professor at Leiden
University’s Institute of
Political Science. As a
scholar of international
relations, she works at
the intersection of politi-
cal thought, history, and
international law. She is
particularly interested in the regulation of warfare
and its relationship to different visions of interna-
tional order, as well as in the construction of the
historical narratives that underpin the disciplines of
International Law and International Relations. She
is currently finalizing a book on the role played by
the thought of Alberico Gentili in the restriction of
the legal right to wage war exclusively to sovereign
states.
DR. DEBORAH WHITEHALL
University of Sydney
Deborah Whitehall is a
Lecturer in Law at the
University of Sydney,
Australia. Her research
draws on intellectual his-
tory, in cross-disciplinary
locations, to reflect on
the patterns and chal-
lenges of international
legal history after 1914, particularly the search
for a common human denominator and a suita-
ble frame for its protection. Recent or forthcoming
work includes an article in the European Journal of
International Law (29(4) (2018)) and a book under
contract with Oxford University Press on the alter-
native histories of international human rights and
Hannah Arendt (2019). She has graduate qualifi-
cations in law and human rights from the Univer-
sity of Oxford and the University of Melbourne.
EM. PROF. DR. DR. H.C. RÜDIGER WOLFRUM
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
Rüdiger Wolfrum was a
professor for national
public law and interna-
tional public law at the
law faculties of Mainz
(1982), Kiel (1982-
1993, at the same time
director of the Institute
on International Law)
and Heidelberg (1993-2012) and was Director at
the MPIL Heidelberg (1993-2012). He is a Mem-
bre de l’Institut de Droit International (since 2007)
and became Managing Director of the Max Planck
Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of
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Law in 2013. He was a Judge at the International
Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (1996-2017) as well
as its Vice-President (1996-1999) and President
(2005-2008). He is and was member of several
international arbitral tribunals. He published widely
on international law in general, United Nations law,
human rights, law of the sea, international trade
law, environmental law and international dispute
settlement as well as on national and comparative
public law.
DR. JAKOB ZOLLMANN
Berlin Social Science Center (WZB)
Jakob Zollmann reads his-
tory, law, philosophy,
and political science. He
has taught at the Univer-
sity of Namibia, Wind-
hoek, were he also
undertook research. He
was Visiting Fellow at the
German Historical Insti-
tute in Paris, London, and Washington D.C. and is
currently researcher at the Center for Global Con-
stitutionalism of the WZB Berlin Social Science
Center. His research focuses on the history of inter-
national law and on the history of colonial Africa.
He has published Koloniale Herrschaft und ihre
Grenzen. Die Kolonialpolizei in Deutsch-Südwest-
afrika, Göttingen, Vandenhoek&Ruprecht, 2016,
and Naulila 1914. World War I in Angola and Inter-
national Law, Baden-Baden, Nomos, 2016.
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SHORT BIOGRAPHIES OF ENGAGED LISTENERS
PROF. DR. EBRAHIM AFSAH
University of Vienna
Currently professor of
Islamic law at the Uni-
versity of Vienna and
associate professor of
international law at the
University of Copenha-
gen, Ebrahim Afsah
obtained his law degree
from SOAS London, fol-
lowed by graduate degrees at Trinity College Dublin
and Harvard. He worked for a number of years at
the MPIL where he was responsible for overseas
legal transfer projects, mainly in Afghanistan, fol-
lowed by a long career as a management consult-
ant focusing on public law and administrative
reform in post-conflict settings. In recent years he
has been a senior fellow at the EUI (Fernand Brau-
del), at the Norwegian Centre for Advanced Stud-
ies (Nordic Civil Wars in Comparative Perspective),
at Harvard Law School (Islamic Legal Studies Pro-
gram), and the National University of Singapore
(Centre for Asian Legal Studies).
SHUBHANGI AGARWALLA
National Law University, Delhi
Shubhangi Agarwalla is a
student of National Law
University, Delhi (NLU-
D). She interns at the
Max Planck Institute for
Comparative Public Law
and International Law. At
NLU-D, she has served
as a member of the Legal
Services Committee and the Moot Court Commit-
tee. She is also an Associate Editor of the NLU-D
Student Law Journal and a Visiting Editor at the
Bologna Law Review. The inequity present in inter-
national law disturbs her greatly, and upon com-
pletion of her law degree she hopes to work
towards countering that.
PAULETTE BAERISWYL BANCIELLA
University of Zurich
Paulette Baeriswyl is PhD
candidate and Master of
Laws from the University
of Zurich. The topic of
her research is the his-
torical roots of the uni-
versal system of interna-
tional human rights’ pro-
ject in the American con-
tinent from 19th to the first half of the 20th Cen-
tury, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Elisabetta
Fiocchi Malaspina.
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She started researching human rights from a his-
torical perspective since her master thesis. Her
major publications include: The development of
universal human rights law: Latin American col-
laboration as key determinants to the international
historical legal process, 2018.
KANAD BAGCHI
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
Kanad Bagchi is currently
a research fellow at the
Max Planck Institute for
Comparative Public Law
and International Law,
Heidelberg and is pursu-
ing his doctorate under
the supervision of Prof.
Dr. Armin von Bogdandy.
Previously he was an MSc candidate in Law and
Finance at the faculty of law, Oxford University
(2015-2016) and LL.M candidate at the Europa-In-
stitut, Saarbruecken (2013-2014). He holds a
bachelor’s degree in law (2008-2013) from KIIT
University, India. His research involves exploring
questions of public international law and monetary
policy coordination and deals especially with the
issue of power and dominance within coordinating
forums, process and instruments. His major publi-
cations include: Revisiting the Taper Tantrum: A
Case for International Monetary Policy Coordina-
tion. In: Oxford Journal of Financial Regulation,
1-10 (2017).
YATEESH BEGOORE
Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law, Heidelberg
Yateesh Begoore is a
Research Fellow at the
Max Planck Foundation
for International Peace
and the Rule of Law. His
current research inter-
ests include treaty law,
immunity law, interna-
tional organisations law,
and international humanitarian law. He has previ-
ously worked as a Legal Consultant at the United
Nations Office of Legal Affairs at New York, and as
a Consultant at the Embassy of India to the United
States of America in Washington, D.C. His recent
publications include Uniting for Enforcement:
Resolving the World Court’s Enforcement Gap,
LPICT 17 (2018) and Prisoners Dilemma: Ascer-
taining and Augmenting the Multinational NIAC
Detention Regime, Max Planck UNYB 20 (2016).
LEANDER BEINLICH
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
Leander Beinlich stud-
ied law with a special
focus on public inter-
national law at the Uni-
versity of Heidelberg.
During his studies he
spent five months as a
trainee at the European
Center for Constitutional
and Human Rights in Berlin. In 2017 he joined the
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law
and International Law in Heidelberg as a research
fellow and PhD candidate (Freie Universität Ber-
lin). His PhD project relates to individual repara-
tion claims of victims of armed conflict against the
forum state and in this context focuses on the role
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and potential of procedural (human) rights stem-
ming from international law.
EM. PROF. DR. DR. H.C. RUDOLF BERNHARDT
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
Rudolf Bernhardt began
his law studies at Frank-
furt University in 1948,
passed two state exami-
nations in 1952 and
1956 and received his
Dr. jur. in 1955. From
1954-1965 he was a
research fellow at the
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law
and International Law in Heidelberg. He did his
“habilitation“ at Heidelberg University in 1962 for
German and Foreign Public Law and Public Inter-
national Law. After teaching as professor at Frank-
furt University from 1965 to 1970 (Dean of Faculty
1967/68) he became director at the Max Planck
Institute and at the same time professor of law at
the Heidelberg Law Faculty (1970-1993). He was
Judge (1981-1998), Vice-President (1992-1997)
and President (1998) of the European Court of
Human Rights in Strasbourg.
DR. RAPHAËL CAHEN
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Raphaël Cahen is a
Pegasus Incoming
Marie-Sklodowska Curie
Fellow as well as a visit-
ing professor at the Vrije
Universiteit Brussel. He
has studied law, history
and political sciences in
Aix-en-Provence, Peru-
gia and Munich and holds a Joint PhD in Law and
political sciences from Aix-Marseille University and
the LMU Munich. He is teaching a master course
on the history of International Law. He is doing
research on intellectual history, migration history
as well as history of institutions and history of inter-
national law. His major publications include: Frie-
drich Gentz (1764-1832): Penseur post-Lumières
et acteur du nouvel ordre européen, Berlin, Boston
2017 and ‘The Mahmoud ben Ayad case and the
transformation of International Law around 1856’
in Lesaffer/Van Hulle (ed), From the Public Law of
Europe to Global International Law: International
Law in the 19th Century (Leiden/Boston 2019) .
TATIANA CARDOSO SQUEFF
Federal University of Uberlândia (Brazil)
Tatiana Cardoso Squeff
holds a tenure position
as an assistant professor
of International Law at
the Federal University of
Uberlândia - UFU/ Bra-
zil. She is the co-leader
of the GEPDI Research
Group on International
Law at UFU, registered at CAPES, currently devel-
oping a research on the decolonization of interna-
tional law. She holds a PhD in International Law
from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul -
UFRGS/Brazil, with a visiting researcher period at
Ottawa University/Canada. She also holds an LLM
in Public Law from Unisinos/Brazil, with a visiting
researcher period at the University of Toronto/
Canada.
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DR. ALINA CHERVIATSOVA
V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
Alina Cherviatsova, Asso-
ciate professor V.N.
Karazin Kharkiv National
University (Kharkiv,
Ukraine), Faculty of Law,
Coordinator of the Jean
Monnet Module ‘The
Foreign Policy of the
European Union’ (2018-
2021) and Jean Monnet Module ‘Starting a Course
on EU Law’ (2014-2017), Alexander von Hum-
boldt Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute
for Comparative Public International Law (from
October 2016 to July 2018). Her research interests
include comparative public law, human rights,
freedom of speech, memorial laws, history of law,
post-soviet studies.
PROF. DR. JUSTO CORTI VARELA
National University of Distance Education (Spain)
Justo Corti Varela is a law
associate professor
(ANECA) at the Public
International Law
Department. He has
been post-doctoral
research fellow at the
Centre National de la
Recherche Scientifique
(2008), visiting scholar at University College Lon-
don (2007), visiting professor at Université de
Nanterre – Paris X (2013-2016), and visiting
scholar at Scoula Superiore Sant’Anna – Pisa
(2016). He does research on History of Interna-
tional Law, International Environmental Law and
International Economic Law.
PROF. DR. FREDERIK DHONDT
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Frederik Dhondt is Assis-
tant Professor at the Vrije
Universiteit Brussel and
Visiting Professor at the
University of Antwerp,
where he teaches legal
and political history. He
obtained the degrees of
master of law (Ghent),
master in history (Ghent/Paris IV), research master
in international relations (Sciences Po Paris) and
doctor of law (Ghent, 2013, under the supervision
of Dirk Heirbaut). He has been a visiting researcher
in Frankfurt (MPI for European Legal History), Hei-
delberg (MPI for Comparative Public Law and
International Law) and Geneva (Graduate Institute
of International and Development Studies). His
research interests concern international and con-
stitutional legal discourse and diplomacy in the
18th and 19th centuries. See also www.vub.ac.be/
CORE/members/dhondt.
RICHARD DÖREN
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
Richard Dören is a
research fellow at the
Max Planck Institute for
Comparative Public Law
and International Law in
Heidelberg. He studied
law with a specialization
in international law at
Heidelberg University.
During his studies, he interned with the German
Bundestag in Berlin and the German Embassy in
Washington. In his research, he investigates the
reappraisal of colonialism from a legal
perspective.
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PROF. DR. ISABEL FEICHTNER
University of Wuerzburg
Isabel Feichtner is profes-
sor of public law and
international economic
law at the University of
Würzburg. Her research
interests include trans-
national resource law –
with a focus on extrac-
tive industries, deep sea-
bed mining and asteroid mining – and the legal
design of money and finance. Isabel Feichtner is
member of the editorial board of the European
Journal of International Law and Principal Investi-
gator of the Bavarian research cluster “The Future
of Democracy”.
JUDITH HACKMACK
Humboldt University of Berlin / European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights
Judith Hackmack is a
Legal Advisor with the
European Center for
Constitutional and
Human Rights (ECCHR).
She holds a law degree
from Humboldt Univer-
sity in Berlin and a mas-
ters degree in Philoso-
phy, History and the Law from the University of
Regensburg. In her doctoral research project, she
examines select aspects of the German colonial
past from a legal historical perspective.
DR. MATTHIAS HARTWIG
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
Matthias Hartwig is a sen-
ior research fellow at
MPIL. He holds law
degrees from the univer-
sities of Freiburg/Brsg.
and Heidelberg. He
teaches in Trento/Italy,
Santiago de Chile and
Almaty/Kazakhstan. He
does research on comparative constitutional law,
international law (human rights, use of force, inter-
national organizations, friendly settlement of dis-
putes). His major publications include books and
articles on international organizations, use of force,
comparative constitutional law, and practice of
international law.
AYAN HUSEYNOVA
University of Administrative Sciences, Speyer
Ayan Huseynova is a doc-
toral candidate at Ger-
man University of
Administrative Sciences
Speyer. She holds
degrees in Public
Administration from
Andrássy Gyula German
Speaking University
Budapest and The Academy of Public Administra-
tion under the President of the Republic of
Azerbaijan.
Her research interests include: International and
European politics, International and European law,
comparative law, Russian constitutional law, Rus-
sian politics, Soviet law, Soviet politics.
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DR. FRANCESCA IURLARO
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Neo-Latin Studies, Innsbruck
Francesca Iurlaro holds a
PhD in Law from the
European University
Institute in Florence
(2018). She graduated
in the history of philoso-
phy (University of Mac-
erata, 2014) and has an
LLM in Comparative,
European and International Laws (European Uni-
versity Institute, 2015). For her PhD thesis, she
worked on a history of the concept of customary
international law in the natural law and ius gentium
tradition from Francisco de Vitoria to Emer de
Vattel.
Her research interests include international legal
thought, history of political thought, history and
reception of natural law theories, law and litera-
ture, food ethics, and animal rights. In 2012 she
was awarded the Alberico Gentili Prize for her Ital-
ian translation of and introduction to Alberico Gen-
tili’s Lectionis Virgilianae Variae Liber ad Rober-
tum filium, a less-known commentary of Vergil’s
Eclogues published by the famous jurist in 1603.
VIKTORIJA JAKJIMOVSKA
University of Leuven
Viktorija Jakjimovska is a
doctoral candidate at the
University of Leuven. She
holds law degrees from
Skopje, Cambridge and
Geneva. She does
research on international
law and civil wars in the
nineteenth century. Her major publications include
‘Uneasy Neutrality: Great Britain and the Greek
War of Independence (1821-1832)’ in Inge Van
Hulle and Randall Lesaffer (eds), International Law
in the Long Nineteenth Century (c. 1775-1914)
(Brill/Nijhoff, forthcoming).
ALEXANDRA KEMMERER
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
Alexandra Kemmerer is a
senior research fellow
and academic coordina-
tor at MPIL, and head of
the institute’s Berlin
Office. From a perspec-
tive of reflexive legal dis-
ciplinarity, her research
in international, Euro-
pean and comparative law regularly explores and
integrates histories, theories, and politics of law. In
her work on Eric Stein (1913-2011), Alexandra
has developed a contextual biographical approach,
re-contextualizing not only the protagonist, but
European legal integration in its broader political,
economic, social and cultural environments while
tracing the intertwined pathways of its emergence
from international to supranational law from a
transnational perspective.
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SANJA KREŠTALICA
University of East Sarajevo Faculty of Law, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Sanja Kreštalica is a doc-
toral candidate in the
field of Public Interna-
tional Law at the Univer-
sity of Belgrade, Faculty
of Law, Serbia. She holds
law degrees from the
University of East Sara-
jevo, Faculty of Law
(bachelor) and the University of Belgrade, Faculty
of Law (master degree). She teaches practical
courses for undergraduates in Public International
Law and EU Law at the University of East Sarajevo,
Faculty of Law. She has been a visiting scholar at
the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg (stays
between 2016-2017), and a doctoral researcher at
the Hague Academy of International Law (2018).
Currently, her research involves the notion of the
legal personality in international law, with special
emphasis on the legal status of the individual in
international law.
Her major publications include: “The position of
the individual in the European Union through the
lens of the access to justice”, in Jean Monnet
International Scientific Conference proceedings:
“Procedural Aspects of EU Law” (Faculty of Law
University Josip Juraj Strossmayer Osijek 2017);
“Appointment of the judges to the ECtHR in light of
the principle of judicial independence”, in Collec-
tion of Papers “International standards on the inde-
pendence of the judiciary and the independence of
the prosecution” (International Criminal Law Asso-
ciation 2016).
PROF. DINO KRITSIOTIS
University of Nottingham
Dino Kritsiotis is Professor
of Public International
Law at the University of
Nottingham, where he
chairs the Programme in
International Humanitar-
ian Law of the Notting-
ham International Law &
Security Centre (NILSC).
He specializes in the use of force, the law of armed
conflict as well as the history and theory of public
international law. Most recently, he is co-editor
(together with his Nottingham colleague Michael J.
Bowman) of Conceptual and Contextual Perspec-
tives on the Modern Law of Treaties (Cambridge
University Press, 2018).
DR. FELIX LANGE
Humboldt University Berlin
Felix Lange is a Postdoc at
Humboldt University
Berlin. He holds a history
degree from Freiburg
University and law
degrees from Humboldt
University and New York
University. He teaches
international, European
and constitutional law. He does research on the
history of public and international law in the 20th
century and currently studies contemporary
approaches towards international law by Germany,
India, South Africa and the United States.
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ANDREA LEITER
Melbourne University / Vienna University
Andrea Leiter is a PhD
candidate in law working
on the history of interna-
tional investment law in a
jointly-awarded degree
program between the
Melbourne University
and the Vienna Univer-
sity. She is currently a
visiting researcher at Institute of Global Law and
Policy at Harvard Law School where she finishes
her dissertation. She is particularly interested in the
historical formation of legal norms, modes of dis-
pute settlement, and the internationalisation of
authority. Beside her dissertation she researches
and consults in law and blockchain technology,
with a focus on dispute resolution, the automation
of decision making, and algorithmic governance.
DEEPAK MAWAR
Kings College London
Deepak Mawar is a PhD
Candidate and Visiting
Lecturer at King’s College
London. His current
research is on the history
and theory of public
international law. Deepak
has an LLB from the Uni-
versity of Kent (2012)
and an LLM in Public International Law from Lei-
den University (2013). He was also a legal intern at
the Special Tribunal for Lebanon and has taught
international law at King’s College London in the
War Studies and Law departments respectively.
ATTILA NAGY
Lecturer and Independent Researcher
Attila is a Law Lecturer and
Independent Researcher
focusing on Law subjects
and has worked for many
years as a Lecturer at the
International Business
College Mitrovica in
Kosovo. He was teaching
Law, Public Administra-
tion and EU related subjects. Since recently he is
engaged in a field research on the most important
topics related to the EU. Apart from the refugee cri-
sis he is now focusing on Brexit. He has also
worked at the City Administration of Subotica in
Serbia at the Department for the Local Economic
Development. Attila has held many guest lectures
for students and professionals and also published
articles in various fields concerning mostly law
enforcement and local economic development in
the post-conflict Kosovo.
RAPHAEL OIDTMANN
University of Mannheim
Raphael Oidtmann is a
research fellow and lec-
turer in international law
at the University of
Mannheim. He holds
master’s degrees in poli-
tics, international law
and international rela-
tions, respectively, and is
an alumnus of the Hague Academy of International
Law. His teaching and research activities currently
focus on selected notions of international law, the
law of armed conflict as well as the interplay of
international law and international relations (includ-
ing its historical dimensions).
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DR. MAGDALENA PACHOLSKA
Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Interna-tional, European and Regulatory Procedural Law
Magda Pacholska is a Vis-
iting Scholar at the Max
Planck Institute Luxem-
bourg for International,
European and Regula-
tory Procedural Law. She
has recently submitted
her Ph.D. dissertation in
Law at the Hebrew Uni-
versity of Jerusalem. Her doctoral work concerning
the United Nations’ responsibility for aiding and
assisting human rights and IHL violations in the
context of peacekeeping was conducted as part of
the Human Rights under Pressure interdisciplinary
research training group in cooperation with the
Freie Universität Berlin. She is an Expert Rappor-
teur with Oxford Reports on International Law, par-
ticularly on issues related to peace operations,
international responsibility of international organi-
zations, and international criminal law.
BENJAMIN PETERS
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva
Benjamin Peters has fol-
lowed a double bachelor
program in the course of
which he spent two years
studying interdisciplinary
social sciences at
SciencesPo, Paris and
majored in political
sciences at the Free Uni-
versity of Berlin. Since September 2018 he is doing
a master’s degree in international law at the Grad-
uate Institute Geneva. Benjamin’s research areas
of interest lie in the theory and history of
international law, as well as in the protection of cul-
tural objects and heritage.
DR. STÉPHANIE PRÉVOST
Paris Diderot University
Dr. Stéphanie Prévost is
Senior Lecturer in
19th-century British his-
tory at Paris Diderot Uni-
versity and holds a Ph.D.
in English Studies from
Tours University (2010).
She has widely published
on British-Ottoman rela-
tions, British representations of the ‘East’ and non-
state actors in diplomacy, especially their role in
humanitarian campaigns. Currently on research
leave, she is preparing a monograph on British Lib-
erals’ engagement with international law (circles) at
the occasion of the Armenian Question (1878-
1915). Her most significant article (2016) is enti-
tled: ‘Britain and the Armenian Question: Memory
and Power Issues in British national and private
archives, 1889-1896’ (http://journals.openedition.
org/eac/1170).
DANIEL R. QUIROGA-VILLAMARIN
Graduate Institute of International and Devel-opment Studies Geneva
Daniel R. Quiroga-Vil-
lamarin holds a Law
degree (with a minor in
Government and Public
Affairs) from the Univer-
sidad de los Andes
(Bogotá, Colombia), and
is currently studying the
Master in International
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Law programme at the Graduate Institute of Inter-
national and Development Studies (Geneva, Swit-
zerland). He is interested in international and con-
stitutional law, with a special concern about the
movement of legal ideas through both time and
space (intellectual legal history).
MURATCAN SABUNCU
Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne
Muratcan Sabuncu is a
Ph.D. student in public
international law at the
University of Paris I Pan-
théon-Sorbonne under
the direction of Jean
Matringe and Anne
Peters. His research pro-
ject focuses on Turkish
approaches of international law. His research inter-
ests relate to public international law including its
history, comparative international law, human
rights and constitutional law. Muratcan graduated
in law and obtained a Master’s degree in interna-
tional law from the University of Paris I Pan-
théon-Sorbonne in 2018. He speaks Turkish,
French, English and Russian.
DR. LENA SALAYMEH
Tel Aviv University
Lena Salaymeh is Associ-
ate Professor at Tel Aviv
Law and Visiting Associ-
ate Research Scholar at
Princeton’s Davis Center
(2018-2019). She is cur-
rently researching
Islamic interstate law
and secular assumptions
underlying the disciplines of comparative and inter-
national law. Her book, The Beginnings of Islamic
Law: Late Antique Islamicate Legal Traditions
(Cambridge University Press, 2016) explores how
critical historiography can illuminate Islamic legal
beginnings; it was awarded the American Academy
of Religion Award for Excellence in the Study of
Religion, Textual Studies. She has a PhD in Legal
and Middle Eastern History (UC Berkeley) and a JD
(Harvard Law School).
PROF. ROBERT SCHÜTZE
University of Durham
Robert Schütze is Profes-
sor of European Union
Law. Outside the Law
School, he co-directs the
Global Policy Institute
together with the political
scientist Professor David
Held. He is also a Visiting
Professor at the School
of Government of LUISS Guido Carli University
(Rome) and at the College of Europe (Bruges).
Schütze is a constitutional scholar with a particular
expertise in the law of the European Union and
comparative federalism. He has published exten-
sively and his work has been translated into a num-
ber of languages. He is one of the co-editors of the
Yearbook of European Law and the “Oxford Princi-
ples of European Union Law”; and he also co-di-
rects the Hart Series on “Parliamentary Democracy
in Europe”.
DR. TOM SPARKS
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
Dr. Tom Sparks is a Senior
Research Fellow at the
MPIL, where he works on
international environ-
mental law, the humani-
sation of international
law and legal theory in
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the research group of Professor Anne Peters. Prior
to joining the MPIL, he wrote his doctoral thesis at
the University of Durham, entitled Towards a
Human-Centred International Law: Self-Determina-
tion and the Structure of the International Legal
System. The thesis won the Global Policy North
network of research universities prize for the best
doctoral dissertation of 2018. The judges com-
mented in particular on the thesis’ methodological
sophistication, which combined sociological, juris-
prudential and historical approaches.
SILVIA STEININGER
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
Silvia Steininger is a
Research Fellow at the
MPIL. She holds gradu-
ate degrees in public
international law from
the University of Amster-
dam (LL.M.) and in polit-
ical science from the
University of Heidelberg
(M.A.). Her research interests lie in the interdisci-
plinary, theoretical and empirical analysis of the
structures, institutions, and norms of international
decision-making, in particular in the areas of
human rights and international economic law. In
her PhD thesis, she analyzes the institutional resil-
ience of regional human rights regimes in times of
backlash.
DR. VERENA STELLER
Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
After her PhD in Interna-
tional History in 2009,
Verena Steller joined the
Cluster of Excellence on
the Formation of Norma-
tive Orders at Goethe
University Frankfurt. She
is currently a Senior
Researcher at the History
Department of Goethe University and a Temporary
Principal Investigator funded by the German
Research Foundation for her habilitation project on
“Law and Empire. The ‘Rule of law’ in British India,
1858-1950” (Eigene Stelle). Her main research
interests are in the history of international relations
and international law, New Imperial History as well
as in legal pluralism(s).
MILAN TAHRAOUI
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
Milan Tahraoui is a
Research Fellow at the
Max Planck Institute for
Comparative Public Law
and International Law
and a Ph.D. candidate in
international law at the
universities Paris 1 Pan-
théon-Sorbonne and
Freie Universtität zu Berlin under the supervision
of both Prof. Evelyne Lagrange and Prof. Anne
Peters. His thesis deals with the transnational pro-
tection of the private sphere in times of digital sur-
veillance. Besides that, Milan Tahraoui is currently
working on a co-authored publication project deal-
ing with the potential of China’s Belt and Road Ini-
tiative to strengthen or challenge international law
‘universality’ in the 21st century.
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DR. PIOTR UHMA
Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University
Dr. Piotr Uhma serves as
a lecturer in international
law and postdoctoral
researcher at the Andrzej
Frycz Modrzewski
Krakow University,
located in Krakow,
Poland. Prior to entering
academia, Uhma served
as a Senior Officer in the OSCE field offices in West-
ern Balkans. He performed various consultancy
and public speaking assignments around the
world. Uhma earned his doctorate in law from the
Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. He also
holds a Postgraduate Diploma of Company Law
from the Law School of Warsaw University and a
Masters of Law from the Jagiellonian University in
Krakow.
JUSTINA URIBURU
Graduate institute of International and Devel-opment Studies, Geneva
Justina Uriburu is a Ph.D.
in International Law Can-
didate at The Graduate
Institute of International
and Development Stud-
ies (IHEID), where she
works under the direc-
tion of Prof. Nico Krisch.
Prior to her doctoral stud-
ies, Justina was a Lecturer in International Law at
Torcuato Di Tella University (both in the JD pro-
gram and MSc in International Relations). She is
the Co-Director of the Revista Latinoamericana de
Derecho Internacional (Latin American Journal of
International Law). She graduated from Torcuato Di
Tella University’s School of Law in 2013 and com-
pleted an LL.M. in International Law at University
College London as a Chevening Scholar in 2016.
Moreover, she clerked for Argentina’s Attorney
General, advising on matters of international law,
constitutional law, and crimes against humanity.
ALEXANDER WENTKER
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
Alexander Wentker is a
research fellow in inter-
national law at MPIL. He
completed his First State
Examination in law in
Berlin (Humboldt-Uni-
versität) and holds mas-
ter’s degrees in law from
the universities of Oxford
and Paris II. Before joining MPIL, Alexander
clerked at the Supreme Court of Namibia and
interned, inter alia, with the UN Office for the Coor-
dination of Humanitarian Affairs in New York.
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GENERAL INFORMATION
Hotel
During the conference, speakers will be accommodated at Leonardo Hotel Heidelberg City Center, Berg-
heimer Straße 63, 69115 Heidelberg (see map next page).
Pre-Conference Get-Together, Thursday, 14 February, from 7 pm onwards
Our informal Get-Together takes place at Café Rossi (upper floor), Rohrbacher Straße 4, 69115 Heidel-
berg, at your own expense. From the hotel, it is a six-minute walk (see map).
Tram Connection Hotel – MPIL
On Friday: Starting from the hotel, please go to tram stop Römerstraße and then take tram 21 (last stop:
Handschuhsheim Hans-Thoma-Platz) until stop Technologiepark (4 stations). From there, you can walk
to the Institute in 3 minutes.
On Saturday: Starting from the hotel, please go to tram stop Römerstraße and then take tram 5 (last
stop: Mannheim Hauptbahnhof) until stop Betriebshof. There you can change into the tram 24 (last stop:
Handschuhsheim Hans-Thoma-Platz) to stop Technologiepark and walk to the Institute.
Taxi Companies
Taxizentrale Heidelberg, phone number: +49 6221/302030
Taxi HDirekt, phone number: +49 6221/739090
Taxi costs are not reimbursable.
Internet access during the conference
During the conference, you may access the internet via eduroam using the account of your home institu-
tion. Additionally, you will be provided with personal login details upon registering.
Coffee Breaks
Coffee, tea, water and fruits are available during the coffee breaks.
Lunch, 15 February, 12:30 to 1:30 pm
On Friday, a lunch buffet will be available for all participants in the Institute’s “Rotunde” (Foyer).
BRILL Conference Dinner, Friday, 15 February, 8 pm
Our BRILL Conference Dinner for speakers will take place at NH Hotel, Bergheimer Straße 91, 69115
Heidelberg. It is a five-minute walk from the hotel (see map). For Engaged Listeners the participation is
limited due to space constraints. They may participate at their own expense.
For any further questions you can turn to the organization team at anytime.
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We especially thank Verena Schaller-Soltau for layouting this brochure.
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