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SUMMARY:Universalizing the Promise of Empire - Dr Emma Mackinnon
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DESCRIPTION:**For a copy of the paper (available one week in advance)\, or
  to join the seminar mailing list\, please contact md718**\n\nThis paper r
 econstructs the French government’s response to accusations of rights ab
 uses in Algeria\, drawing on material from the drafting of reports to the 
 UN about human rights in the colonies\, negotiations with the Red Cross ab
 out prisoners in Algeria\, and discussions of how to respond to petitions 
 received by the UN. Throughout\, France offered a narrative that relied on
  ideas about  education and tutelage in order to render a commitment to ri
 ghts compatible with ongoing colonial violence. Tracing several scandals i
 n\nthe metropole over French action in Algeria\, I look at the relationshi
 p between this narrative of gradual universalization and the accusations o
 f hypocrisy that France faced from its critics at the time\, and in histor
 ical accounts now\, to consider how different understandings of human righ
 ts hypocrisy relate to narratives of gradual universalization.\n\nABOUT TH
 E SPEAKER : Dr Mackinnon holds a PhD in political science from the Univers
 ity of Chicago\, and is currently a Junior Research Fellow at Emmanuel Col
 lege.\n\nABOUT THE SEMINAR : The seminar will proceed on the basis that pa
 rticipants have read the paper in advance. \n\nThe Legal Histories beyond 
 the State series is an initiative of the Lauterpacht Centre for Internatio
 nal Law\, the Centre for History and Economics\, and the Cambridge Centre 
 for Political Thought. It brings together historians\, political theorists
  and lawyers who are interested in the social\, economic and political dim
 ensions of law in the early modern and modern periods. We focus on the way
 s in which law and legal institutions order and organize space and people.
  This encompasses both imperial and international law\, and domestic publi
 c and private law in its manifold influences on the nature and form of rel
 ations across borders. We are interested in legal actors and institutions\
 , both national and supranational\; doctrines and concepts\, like jurisdic
 tion\; and also diverse forms of legal border-crossing\, including the mig
 ration of people\, ideas and objects across time and place. Embracing new 
 trends in legal and historical research\, we pursue the exchange of legal 
 ideas in formal and informal contexts\, and the creation\, appropriation a
 nd interpretation of law by non-traditional actors\, and in unexpected pla
 ces.\n\nSome sessions will be devoted to discussion of new\, published wor
 k in the field\, and others to the sharing of works-in-progress\, whether 
 draft articles\, chapters or book prospectuses\, with a core group of scho
 lars from a variety of disciplines.
LOCATION:Lauterpacht Centre for International Law\, 5 Cranmer Rd
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