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SUMMARY:"In the name of the Holy Trinity": Credibility under anarchy through three centuries of treaty-making
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Professor Krzysztof Pelc (McGill University)\nChair: Dr Mona Paulsen (LSE) \nWhere does the binding force of international treaties come from? This lecture considers three centuries of international peace treaties to examine how signatories sought to convince one another of the viability of their commitments. I argue that one means of doing so was by invoking divine authority: treaty violations were punished by divine sanction in heaven and excommunication on earth. Anarchy\, “the fundamental assumption of international politics\,” is commonly defined as “the absence of a supreme power\,” yet an examination of peace treaties from the 1600s onwards suggests that for much of the post-Westphalian era\, sovereigns would not have envisioned themselves as operating under anarchy. Rather\, they strategically invoked divine authority to add credibility to their commitments. I test these beliefs using text analyses of over two thousand peace and commercial treaties spanning three centuries. Signatories facing a high probability of war are seen relying more heavily on invocations of divine authority: a history of conflict is associated with more invocations of God in treaties; closer kinship ties between signatories are associated with fewer invocations. Strikingly\, those treaties that invoke divine authority show a greater conflict-abating effect. God appears to be statistically significant. \nProfessor Kryzstof Pelc\nKrzysztof Pelc is the William Dawson Professor of International Political Economy in the Department of Political Science at McGill University. His research examines the global economy\, in particular the concept of credibility in political and commercial markets. He has published widely on issues relating to international rules\, trade\, and economic law\, and writes frequent opinion articles for popular press including The Financial Times\, The Washington Post and The Atlantic. His book Beyond Self-Interest: Why the Market Rewards Those Who Reject It was published in Summer 2022 by Bloomsbury and Oxford University Press. \nThis seminar is organised by the Public International Law Research Hub. \n  \n\n\n	Related
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LOCATION:CBG 1.04\, Centre Building\, LSE\, Select a State:\, WC2A 2AE\, United Kingdom
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stephen Humphreys":MAILTO:S.J.Humphreys@lse.ac.uk
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SUMMARY:The climate change turn in human rights
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr Doreen Lustig (Tel Aviv University)\nChair:  Dr Devika Hovell (LSE) \nIn the aftermath of the Paris Agreement\, the turn to litigation as a vehicle for addressing the climate crisis intensified dramatically.  The surge in litigation entailed a discursive turn – the framing of climate change arguments in human rights terms. Advocates of this turn frequently emphasized its strategic advantages. Yet\, what may have commenced as a strategic move\, introduced intriguing conceptual and normative challenges to the conventional scope and meaning of human rights. These challenges include\, inter alia\, conceptual changes such as the use of scientific numerical benchmarks as normative standards (from norms to numbers); the use of a state of emergency to protect human rights (rather than to constrain them); a shift of the temporal lens from the past to forward-looking responsibilities; an expansion of the territorial scope of human rights; a shift to joint and several responsibilities (discarding “the drop in the ocean” defence); a recognition of business corporations as duty bearers and the turn to rights of nature. This paper surveys these challenges and explores their subversive potential: do they disrupt the underlying logics of human rights\, redefining their scope and meaning\, or do they undermine and constrain the possibility of reimagining climate justice as an alternative normative lens in lieu of human rights? \nDr Doreen Lustig\nDoreen Lustig is a tenured\, Associate Professor at Tel Aviv University\, Faculty of Law. She teaches and researches in the fields of international law\, global governance\, constitutional law and climate change. She earned her J.S.D and L.L.M from NYU Law School where she won the 2005 Hauser Research Scholar Fellowship and served as a former IILJ Scholar (Institute of International Law and Justice). She also holds an LL.B. degree (magna cum laude) and B.A degree in sociology and anthropology from Tel Aviv University. Prior to joining Tel Aviv University she clerked for The Honorable Eliezer Rivlin\, Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel. She won the 2019 Zeltner Prize in the category of junior legal scholar. Lustig was the Chief Editor of the Tel Aviv U. Law Review and serves as Member of the Editorial Board of the European Journal of International Law. \nThis seminar is organised by the Public International Law Research Hub. \n\n\n	Related
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LOCATION:32L.G.03\, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields\, LSE\, WC2A 3PH\, United Kingdom
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stephen Humphreys":MAILTO:S.J.Humphreys@lse.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221116T140000
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SUMMARY:Towards more-than-human rights? From the “living constitution” to the “constitution of the living”
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr Marie-Catherine Petersmann (Tilburg Law School) \nAmong the many legacies left by Rudolf Bernhardt\, the significance he attached to the doctrine of the ‘living instrument’ is crucial. Accordingly\, the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) must be interpreted as evolving and dynamic – as a ‘living’ organism. In this lecture\, I reflect on what it would mean to move from a ‘living constitution’ to a ‘constitution of the living’. To answer this question\, I consider what constitutes ‘life’ itself which forms of ‘life’ currently merit legal consideration and care. The argument unfolds in three steps\, each tracing a different way in which the protection of ‘life’ is being (re)configured against the backdrop of ecological and climate change. The first part of the lecture is devoted to the ‘liberal response’\, which calls for a recognition of a self-standing ‘human right to a healthy environment’ to safeguard human life. The second part of the lecture focuses on the ‘critical liberal response’\, which advocates granting ‘rights to nature’ to better protect nonhuman life. Finally\, I explore how the protection of ‘life’ might appear in feminist posthumanist\, new materialist\, and symbiotic understandings of liveability. My objective here is not to propose a legal reform of the institutional functioning of the European Court of Human Rights\, but to speculate about how this ‘living constitution’ could ‘constitute the living’ differently. If the metaphor of ‘life’ acts as a ruling device in the interpretation of the ECHR\, only particular life-forms get protected\, while others are eclipsed. I think with Bernhardt’s invitation to consider the ‘living’ nature of the ECHR instrument to reconceptualize the notion of ‘life’ that animates human rights theory and practice today. \nDr Marie-Catherine Petersmann\nBio: Marie Petersmann is a Senior Researcher at Tilburg Law School (Netherlands)\, where she works as part of a project on ‘Constitutionalizing in the Anthropocene’. She is specialised in environmental law\, human rights and climate change. Her current research focuses on non-anthropocentric normativities and more-than-human legalities. In 2022\, she was awarded a 3-year ‘Veni’ grant by the Dutch NWO to develop a project on ‘Anthropocene Legalities: Reconfiguring Legal Relations with/in More-than-human Worlds’. The project rethinks key co-ordinates of modern environmental law – such as agency\, autonomy\, subjecthood\, territory\, and sovereignty – to make sense of entangled human-nonhuman relationalities. Her project draws on work from legal theory\, ecological philosophy\, feminist posthumanism and critical Black studies to revisit these categories\, and explore different forms of socialities beyond them. In 2022\, she was selected to be a Resident Fellow at the Istituto Svizzero in Rome (2022-2023) to work with artists and ecological activists on practices of ‘more-than-human commoning’. Her book – When Environmental Protection and Human Rights Collide: The Politics of Conflict Management by Regional Courts – was published with Cambridge University Press in October 2022. Marie earned a PhD and LLM in International Law from the European University Institute (Florence) and an MA in International Law from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva). \nThis seminar is organised by the Public International Law Research Hub. \n\n\n	Related
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LOCATION:MAR 2.04\, Marshall Building\, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields\,LSE\, WC2A 2ES\, United Kingdom
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