"The Universality of International Law and its Discontent"
5:00pm - 7:00pm /
Tuesday 11th March 2025
/ Venue: First Floor, Flex 2 502 Teaching Hub, Mount Pleasant / Online event
Type: Seminar /
Category: Research
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Guest lecture by Dr Işıl Aral and Prof Jean d’Aspremont
The lecture will take a hard look at the rise and use of the narrative of a universal international law to justify imperialist, western centric, capitalist, phallocentric, destructive, exploitative, and unjust policies. Attention will also be paid to the resistance strategies and the counter-narratives that have emerged in the last decades. The critique of universality will simultaneously be re-assessed in the light of the most contemporary political discourses as well as recent international developments.
Işıl Aral is Assistant Professor of Public International Law at Koç University and director of the Center for Global Public Law. Her research focuses on international legal theory and international human rights law. Her monograph 'International Law as a Set of Narratives' will be published by Cambridge University Press.
Jean d’Aspremont is Professor of International Law at Sciences Po School of Law and at the University of Manchester. He is General Editor of Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law.
Online attendance at: https://liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/94754479371?pwd=e6SqJdKuD6LgVothxRL9irvd2J7ATJ.1 (Meeting ID: 947 5447 9371 ; Passcode: pa8Rhnm# )
The lecture will take a hard look at the rise and use of the narrative of a universal international law to justify imperialist, western centric, capitalist, phallocentric, destructive, exploitative, and unjust policies. Attention will also be paid to the resistance strategies and the counter-narratives that have emerged in the last decades. The critique of universality will simultaneously be re-assessed in the light of the most contemporary political discourses as well as recent international developments.
Işıl Aral is Assistant Professor of Public International Law at Koç University and director of the Center for Global Public Law. Her research focuses on international legal theory and international human rights law. Her monograph 'International Law as a Set of Narratives' will be published by Cambridge University Press.
Jean d’Aspremont is Professor of International Law at Sciences Po School of Law and at the University of Manchester. He is General Editor of Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law.
Online attendance at: https://liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/94754479371?pwd=e6SqJdKuD6LgVothxRL9irvd2J7ATJ.1 (Meeting ID: 947 5447 9371 ; Passcode: pa8Rhnm# )