06 1814 – 1914 – 1989: Paradigm Shifts in Public International Law and Politics
The Congress of Vienna, the First World War and the fall of the Berlin Wall marked the Western political and historical imaginary and gave international lawyers the possibility to time and categorise international law. They envisaged a progressive history of international law divided into epochs, structured through different paradigms and governed by an evolutionary principle that led, happily, to the international law of the twentieth century. Assuming that periodisation is not a natural fact but an intellectual construction, the seminar intends to discuss critically how far this periodisation is still valid today. What effects did it produce on public international law? Which histories of public international law can still be told?
Recommended Literature:
1. Luigi Nuzzo, Milos Vec (eds.), Constructing International Law. The Birth
of a Discipline, Frankfurt am Main, Klostermann, 2012
2. Renate Kicker, Markus Möstl, Standard-Setting through Monitoring? The role of Council of Europe expert bodies in the development of human rights, Strasbourg, Council of Europe Publishing, 2012
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DDr. Renate KICKER
Director, European Training and Research Center for Human Rights and Democracy; Deputy Head, Institute of International Law and International Relations, University of Graz
1972 | Doctorate degree in Law, Karl-Franzens University Graz
1974 | Doctoral degree in Political Sciences, Karl-Franzens University Graz
1972-1975 | Research Assistant, Institute of International Law and International Relations, Karl-Franzens-University Graz
since 1995 | Associate Professor, Institute of International Law and International Relations, Karl-Franzens-University Graz
since 2005 | Deputy Head, Institute of International Law and International Relations, Karl-Franzens-University Graz
1997-2009 | Member of the Council of CPT - European Commitee for the Prevention of Torture
2007-2009 | 1st Vice-president, CPT - European Commitee for the Prevention of Torture
since 2010 | Director, ETC - European Training and Research Center for Human Rights and Democracy, Graz
Dr. Luigi NUZZO
Professor of Legal History, Faculty of Law, Università del Salento, Lecce
1992 | LLB and LLM Faculty of Law, University of Pavia
1996 | Attorney at Law
1997 | Scholarship holder, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt am Main
2001 | PhD History of Modern Law, University of Siena
2001 | Lecturer of Legal History, University of Salento
2007 | Robbins Fellow, School of Law, University of California at Berkeley
2008 | Research Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt am Main
2010 | Research Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
2011 | Professor of Legal History, University of Salento
2012 | Senior Robbins Fellow, School of Law, University of California at Berkeley
2013 | Research fellow , Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Seminar of East Asian Studies, Freie Universität Berlin