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