Edinburgh Law School’s Chair of Public International Law Nehal Bhuta delivers lecture at UCL
Tue 12 March 2019
On Thursday 7th March 2019, Professor Nehal Bhuta gave a lecture titled ‘Hugo Grotius’s Theory of the State: Lessons for our Time?’ at the Faculty of Laws, University College London.
The lecture was part of the Current Legal Problems (CLP) series, which was established over fifty-five years ago by the UCL and is recognised as a major reference point for legal scholarship.
The lecture explored the ideas of Grotius, a theorist and jurist of natural law, through a political lens. Discussing the important implications of Grotius’s theories for our contemporary world, Prof. Bhuta looked at questions such as what a state is,the circumstances under which we might justifiably breach its sovereignty, and the difficulties of re-making state orders when they have failed, collapsed, or been destroyed by foreign intervention.
Prof. Bhuta, as well as his position as Chair of Public International Law at the University of Edinburgh, is also Co-Director of the Edinburgh Centre for International and Global Law.