15 - 16 December, 2022 - PhD/Early Career Workshop - Cambridge University
Date and time: 15 – 16 December 2022
Location: Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, Cambridge University
Organised by Professors Sundhya Pahuja (Melbourne, Laureate Program in Global Corporations and International Law) and Surabhi Ranganathan (Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (Cambridge))
The purpose of this workshop is to begin to think together about how the research questions international lawyers ask might change if we started with the company/corporation. We invite participants to give a short, exploratory presentation which takes your current research, locates a company or corporation within it, and tells the story from that point.
Proposals are invited for short presentations on any aspect of the intersection of international law and the corporation. The task is to offer a narrative in a way which centres on or starts with the company or corporation, rather than with other entities such as the state or international organisations, for instance. We encourage proposals from other disciplines that engage with this approach and research questions that centre international law and the corporation.
Presentations will be short. Early stage and exploratory work is welcome. PhD candidates and early career scholars are specifically invited to present. A number of PhD students from the University of Melbourne Law School will also present their work. A selection of senior scholars will be present and will engage with the presentations and the questions which arise. As well as Sundhya Pahuja and Surabhi Ranganathan, they will include Dan Danielsen (Northeastern), Jason Jackson (MIT), Grietje Baars (City), Shaun McVeigh (MLS) and Margaret Young (MLS).
This is a local workshop designed to focus on scholars based in the UK, alongside scholars from the Melbourne Law School. We plan to host future workshops in other regions of the world . There is no registration fee, and food over the two days will be provided, but there is no general travel support available. There is no online/hybrid element at this workshop, though future events may be online .
The workshop, Professor Pahuja’s visit, and the participation of MLS Faculty and PhD students are supported by the ARC Laureate Program in Global Corporations and International Law, the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, a Cambridge Law Faculty - Melbourne Law School Partnership Grant, the Institute for International Law and the Humanities, and the Leverhulme Foundation.
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2 November, 2022 - Research Seminar: 'Empire Comes Home: Researching the Global Corporation and International Law - Warwick Law School
On Wednesday 2 November 2022, Professor Sundhya Pahuja gave a research seminar at Warwick Law School. In the seminar, Professor Pahuja spoke about the intuition sparking the Laureate Research Program on Global Corporations and International Law, outlined the need for a new approach to respond to the rising power of global corporations, and sketched the lineaments of the research trajectory.
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1 November, 2022 - PhD Roundtable - Warwick Law School
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Dr Christine Schwobel-Patel, Professor Illan Wall, Professor Sundhya Pahuja, Professor Celine Tan, Associate Professor Stephen Connelly.
21 October, 2022 - Seminar: 'Approaching the Global Corporation in International Law' - Cambridge University
Professor Sundhya Pahuja recently gave a Work-in-Progress Seminar at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law.
In this informal seminar, Prof Pahuja outlined this project, mapped existing approaches, and described the key elements of her approach with the intention of starting a conversation with Lauterpacht Centre researchers, to launch future collaboration.
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