History, Politics, Law

Annabel Brett is a leading historian of late medieval and early modern political thought, with a particular interest in natural law and the law of nations. She is the author of Liberty, Right and Nature: Individual Rights in Later Scholastic Thought (1997) and Changes of State: Nature and the Limits of the City in Early Modern Natural Law (2011). Martti Koskenniemi is a leading critical scholar of the theory and history of international law. His works are studied by lawyers, historians and international relations scholars across the world. He has held visiting professorships at many of world's leading universities, is Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Megan Donaldson has published on nineteenth and twentieth-century shifts in treaty-making, statehood and international organisations. Her forthcoming monograph traces the evolution of secrecy in the international legal order.

I. Methods: Approaches and Encounters: 1. Between History, Politics and Law: History of Political Thought and History of International Law Annabel Brett; The Past According to International Law: A Practice of History and Histories of a Practice Martti Koskenniemi; The Context for Context: International Legal History in Struggle David Kennedy; II. Thinking Through the International: Carl Schmitt's International Thought and the State Armin von Bogdandy and Adeel Hussain; Carl Schmitt on the Theory and Practice of Occupation and Dictatorship Joshua Smeltzer and Duncan Kelly; Law of Nations, World of Empires: The Politics of Law's Conceptual Frames Jennifer Pitt; The History of Political Thought in the African Political Present Emma Hunter; The (In)hospitable World; Ventriloquism in Geneva: The League of Nations as International Organisation Megan Donaldson; Sea Change Surabhi Ranganathan; The Political Economy of Context: Theories of Economic Development and the Study of Conceptual Change Joel Isaac; Gender in the State of Nature Anna Becker; Gender and the Lost Private Side of International Law Karen Knop.