Workshop Organizers:
Dr Tugba Basaran, University of Cambridge
Prof Alexandre (Sandy) Kedar, University of Haifa
Sponsored by Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement, Emmanuel College
Critical legal geographies engage with spatio-legal dimensions of international law. They draw attention to the creation of realms of power, zones of security and insecurity, legal and illegal presence, emplacement and displacement, beyond the realm of state territory. This workshop brings together some of the key figures to explore international law from a critical legal geographies’ perspective (Blomley 1994; Delaney 2004, 2015: Yiftachel 2006; Braverman et al. 2014; Kedar 2014). This workshop will engage with sovereignty, borders, territory, occupation, colonialism, resources, state responsibility, international courts and tribunals.
09.00 – 10.30 Thematic Panel I: International Law and Settler Colonialism
Chair/ Discussant: Nick Blomley, Simon Fraser University
Erez Tzfadia, Sapir College, Israel; University of Michigan, Planning by Emergency Ordinances in Israel’s Development Towns
Elya Milner and Alexandre (Sandy) Kedar, University of Haifa, Trapped Lands: Settlements Outline Plans and the de-facto annexation of Palestinian lands
Alexandre (Sandy) Kedar, University of Haifa and Elya Milner, Urban planning in the Jewish settlements and the debate on the legality of the separation barrier in the West Bank (short intervention)
Hadeel S. Abu Hussein, University of Haifa, On Theory, Nationalism, Law and the Ethnocratic State
10.30 – 10.45 Coffee Break
10.45 – 12.15 Thematic Panel II: International Law, Violence and Colonial Reach
Chair/ Discussant: Phil Hubbard, King’s College London
Matteo Nicolini, Universita di Verona, Manufacturing Imperial Spatialities: The British Integrated Legal Geography of Land and Sea.
Kuniko Yoshida, Hokkaido University, Some Critical Analysis of the Japanese ‘Legal Transplant’ Concept from a Legal Geography Perspective
Andrea Pavoni, ISCTE, Violence as a public health problem? Cure, Curate, Care
Tugba Basaran, University of Cambridge, On Law, Violence and Liberal Statecraft
12.15 -13.30 Lunch Break (Newnham College)
13.30 – 15.00 Thematic Panel III
Chair/ Discussant: Erez Tzfadia, Sapir College, Israel; University of Michigan
Phil Hubbard, King’s College London, ‘Trouble in Oysteropolis’ municipal law, gentrification and the non-human
Joanna Kusiak, University of Cambridge, Radically Legal: Berlin Constitutes the Future
Francesco Chiodelli, University of Turin, Researching on the geography of the illegal: a methodological compass for legal geographers
Elsa Noterman, Queen Mary, and Nicolas Blomley, Simon Fraser University, Children’s legal geographies and the ‘make-believe’ of property
16.00 – 18.00 Public Event
Roundtable: International Law and Territory - A view from Critical Legal Geographies. Nicholas Blomley’s book on Territory (2023)
Nicholas Blomley, Simon Fraser University
Alexander (Sandy) Kedar, University of Haifa
Tugba Basaran, University of Cambridge
Alex Jeffrey, University of Cambridge