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CLSGC Conference on Authority in a Transnational Age

Events 2024-25

CLSGC Annual Lecture 2025

Alessandra Mezzadri (SOAS, Development Studies) and Keynote for QMUL Law and Marxism Speaker series will deliver the CLSGC Annual Lecture 2025. She will discuss the reproductive laws of capitalism in the planetary social factory.

Register for the CLSGC Annual Lecture 2025.

Colonial Legacies in Public Law: histories, theories, pitfalls and potentials

The Queen Mary Centre of Law and Society in a Global Context (CLSGC) is thrilled to announce a Masterclass with Professor Philipp Dann that will take place on 14-16 January 2025.

Organisers: Mohsin Bhat, Tanzil Chowdhury and Eva Nanopoulos. 

The legacies of empire and colonialism are becoming visible everywhere these days. They shape various debates in public law but also indicate a new phase of globalization. The Masterclass will study these legacies and discuss their various dimensions and implications in comparative constitutional, public international and European Union law. The Class will draw on history and political theory, especially post-/decolonial theories to contextualize public law. It will use examples (such as the concept of development and democracy) to understand how empire and colonialism have shaped constitutional, international and European Union law and their scholarly reflection over time. But it will also turn to the future and ask participants to explore the potentials (and pitfalls) for re-imagining public law and its scholarship in the 21st century through the colonial lens. The Class is an invitation to rethink public law and the role of legal scholarship in a truly global way mindful of the broader legacies of modernity and colonialism.

Law with Marxism Series

The Underworld series

The series is convened by Marie Petersmann and Dimitri Van Den Meerssche and co-organised by QMUL (the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences and the Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context) and the LSE Law School.

Thinkery

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