This conference brought together scholars working in law, history, international relations, and political theory to think critically about the ideology, institutions, practices, and technologies that condition modern humanitarianism and its relation to international law. Photos are available here, and further details are available at the conference website.

The Laureate Program in International Law with Kent Law School are co-sponsoring the second workshop in Rose Parfitt's ‘Fascism and the International’ series, involving scholars, artists and activists working in and across international law, history, history of art, international relations, postcolonial studies, sociology, anthropology, political theory, geography, sound studies, feminist studies, queer theory, critical race theory and beyond. Details are available at the workshop website.

This workshop explored critical approaches to scholarship in international law across different fields and different places of international law.

This conference marked the 100-year anniversary of the October Revolution and the passage of the revolutionary Mexican constitution.

Anne Orford presented a lecture on 'Civil War, Intervention, and International Law' and a seminar on 'Critical Thinking and International Law' at the Higher School of Economics (Moscow) as part of the International Law Lectures in Russia series.

In this keynote lecture presented at the launch of the Lund Human Rights Hub, Anne Orford explored what it means to study human rights as part of an institutional culture committed to critical thinking and academic freedom. 

This workshop explored the shifting relationship between international humanitarian law and other fields of international law, and the ways in which the principles, practices, vocabulary, and logics of humanitarianism are transforming international law.

The aim of this roundtable was to situate the 2016 asylum crisis within a broader field than that of migration and refugee politics alone, exploring its links with challenges to the social state in Europe and beyond, the conduct of interventions in civil wars in the Middle East and North Africa, and the possibilities offered by a renewed focus on social rights and inclusion in the European project. The roundtable was convened by Anne Orford, Gregor Noll, and Morten Kjaerum.

This workshop brought together senior scholars and early career scholars in law and the humanities interested in exploring the methodological challenges involved in undertaking interdisciplinary research at the intersection of international law, history, political theory, and political economy.