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SUMMARY:Histories of International Law\, History within International Law:
  Questions of Method - Dr Kate Purcell
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DESCRIPTION:**Note change from our usual Wednesday meeting time**\n\n**For
  a copy of the paper (available one week in advance)\, or to join the semi
 nar mailing list\, please contact md718**\n\nThis paper will discuss the r
 elationship between the uses and forms of history within international law
  and questions of method in the development of histories of international 
 law. It focuses on the advantages of genealogy as an approach to the histo
 ry of international law\, given its capacity to both explain the way in wh
 ich the law itself makes use of the past\, and intervene in this. Elaborat
 ing on the compatibility between genealogy and elements of the contextual 
 approach to history associated with the ‘Cambridge School’\, the paper
  challenges recent suggestions that anachronism is irrelevant\, unavoidabl
 e\, or even a ‘method’ that might be fruitfully embraced in studies of
  international law’s past directed towards explaining and potentially al
 tering its present. It will be argued that historians of international law
  should take the dangers of anachronism seriously\, particularly if the hi
 stories they develop are to operate as a form of critique and basis for ch
 ange.\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER : Dr Kate Purcell is Chancellor's Postdoctoral 
 Research Fellow in the Faculty of Law\, University of Technology\, Sydney\
 ; and currently a Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for Internatio
 nal Law.\n\nABOUT THE SEMINAR : The seminar will proceed on the basis that
  participants have read the paper in advance.\n\nThe Legal Histories beyon
 d the State series is an initiative of the Lauterpacht Centre for Internat
 ional Law\, the Centre for History and Economics\, and the Cambridge Centr
 e for Political Thought. It brings together historians\, political theoris
 ts and lawyers who are interested in the social\, economic and political d
 imensions of law in the early modern and modern periods. We focus on the w
 ays in which law and legal institutions order and organize space and peopl
 e. This encompasses both imperial and international law\, and domestic pub
 lic and private law in its manifold influences on the nature and form of r
 elations across borders. We are interested in legal actors and institution
 s\, both national and supranational\; doctrines and concepts\, like jurisd
 iction\; and also diverse forms of legal border-crossing\, including the m
 igration of people\, ideas and objects across time and place. Embracing ne
 w trends in legal and historical research\, we pursue the exchange of lega
 l ideas in formal and informal contexts\, and the creation\, appropriation
  and interpretation of law by non-traditional actors\, and in unexpected p
 laces.\n\nSome sessions will be devoted to discussion of new\, published w
 ork in the field\, and others to the sharing of works-in-progress\, whethe
 r draft articles\, chapters or book prospectuses\, with a core group of sc
 holars from a variety of disciplines.\n\nAll are welcome.
LOCATION:Lauterpacht Centre for International Law\, 5 Cranmer Rd
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