Workshop with David Schneiderman on Investment Law’s Alibis
Location:
Raeburn Room
Old College
Date/time
Fri 13 October 2023
10:00 - 15:30
Edinburgh Law School are pleased to welcome David Schneiderman to Edinburgh to participate in a workshop to discuss a series of prompts from his recently published book Investment Law’s Alibis (Cambridge University Press 2022). In the book, David Schneiderman explores the 'matrix of past practices' (at 5), associated with colonialism and imperialism, that continue to 'lay waste’ to communities, indigenous peoples, and the environment, especially amongst the global majority.
The book inspires the rethinking of a number of topics, including genealogies and counter-factual historical inquiries, debt and damages, and the relationship between critical and mainstream international investment law.
10.00-10.30 - Coffee and Welcome
10.30-11.30 - Damages, Debt, and Development
Speakers: Toni Marzal and Mavluda Sattorova
Chair: Neil Walker
11.40-12.40 - Of Genealogies and Counter(Factual) Historical Inquiries
Speakers: Deval Desai and Akbar Rasulov
Chair: Mavluda Sattorova
13.40-14.40 - The Relationship Between Legal Practice and Critical Inquiry
Speakers: Filippo Fontanelli, Christian Tams, and Ana María Daza Vargas
Chair: Michelle Burgis-Kasthala
14.40 - 15.15 - Andrew Lang in Conversation with David Schneiderman