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SUMMARY:Thinking Inside the Box: ‘Modular’ Historiography\, the Ethiop
 ian Empire and Other Subjects of International Law - Dr Rose Parfitt\, Ken
 t Law School\, University of Kent 
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CONTACT:Surabhi Ranganathan
DESCRIPTION:Rose will discuss some of the historiographical aspects of the
  argument she makes in a new book\, The Process of International Legal Rep
 roduction: Inequality\, Historiography\, Resistance (CUP\, 2019). Drawing 
 on a renegade group of Marxist theorists\, including Walter Benjamin\, Mik
 hail Bakhtin\, Stuart Hall and Bernard Edelman\, the book develops a mater
 ialist approach to the study of the history of law and international law t
 hat refuses to pitch ‘context’ and ‘anachronism’ against one anoth
 er\, instead relying on and celebrating both. This approach is centered\, 
 above all\, on a particular understanding of the relationship between the 
 micro and the macro – between the individual and the state as legal subj
 ects\, for example\, or between ‘Abyssinia Crisis’ of 1935-36 (her cen
 tral case study) and the general process via which\, it argues\, new subje
 cts of international law are brought into being and disciplined. In order 
 to perform (or materialise) this historiographical\npart of its interventi
 on\, and get away at least to some extent from the linearity of the writte
 n volume\, the book’s ‘modular history’ of what it calls the process
  of international legal reproduction is constructed in the form of a shado
 w-box\, within which a set of distinct historical elements may be seen in 
 relation to one another from different angles\, added to\, moved about and
  in general played around with by the reader/viewer.\n\n(Rose will also be
  giving a lunchtime lecture at the Lauterpacht Centre on the\nfollowing da
 y\, Friday 31 January. In this lecture she’ll focus on the juridical/doc
 trinal rather than on the methodological/historical aspects of the book 
 – in particular\, the conditional relationship between individual and in
 ternational legal subjectivity which the process of international legal re
 production brings to light\, and its implications for some of internationa
 l law’s foundational doctrines – those of sovereignty equality and the
  domestic analogy\, for example.)
LOCATION:Lauterpacht Centre for International Law\, 5 Cranmer Rd
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