Nico Krisch Seminar
Location:
Virtual Event
Date/time
Thu 17 March 2022
14:00-15:30
Please note that this event will now take place virtually (Zoom)
The Edinburgh Centre for International and Global Law presents
The Paths of International Law
Professor Nico Krisch, Professor of International law, Faculty Associate, Global Governance Centre, Graduate Institute Geneva
About the seminar
How does international law change? While the question is fundamental to understanding how international law works, it has found surprisingly little sustained attention, and most international lawyers assume that doctrinal categories regarding change - in customary international law or treaty interpretation - give us a sufficiently accurate picture of reality. In a book project, my co-authors and myself challenge existing understandings and develop an own account of the process of international law, its paths and the conditions under which change attempts succeed or fail. This account seeks to capture the significant variation across the different fields and contexts of international law as well as the fact that much of this variation has less to do with formal rules and more with social practices and the authority structures they generate. The resulting picture is that of an international legal order with far more dynamism than most doctrinal accounts would allow, but also one with significant limitations when it comes to adapting to changed political and societal circumstances.
About the speaker
Dr Nico Krisch is a professor of international law and former co-director of the Global Governance Centre at the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies. His main research interests concern the legal structure of international organizations and global governance, the politics of international law, and the postnational legal order emerging at the intersection of domestic, transnational and international law. Prior to joining the Institute, he was an ICREA research professor at the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals and held faculty positions at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin and the Law Department of the London School of Economics. He was also a research fellow at Oxford University’s Merton College, at New York University School of Law and at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, as well as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and Columbia Law School. Originally from Germany, he holds a PhD in law from the University of Heidelberg. His 2010 book, Beyond Constitutionalism: The Pluralist Structure of Postnational Law (OUP), received the Certificate of Merit of the American Society of International Law. Dr Krisch is a member of the Council of the International Society of Public Law, and of the editorial/advisory boards of the European Journal of International Law, the Journal of International Dispute Settlement, and the London Review of International Law. In 2017, he was awarded a European Research Council Advanced Grant for a project on change and stability in international law. In 2019, he received the inaugural Max Planck-Cambride Prize for International Law.
This event is free and open to all but registration is required.
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