A Far Larger Family: Kinship and the International Legal Imagination
Speaker
Susan Marks, LSE Law School Susan Marks joined LSE in 2010 as Professor of International Law. She previously taught at King’s College London and, prior to that, at the University of Cambridge, where she was a fellow of Emmanuel College. Her work attempts to bring insights from the radical tradition to the study of international law and human rights. She is the author of four books: The Riddle of All Constitutions (OUP 2000); International Human Rights Lexicon, with A. Clapham (OUP 2005); A False Tree of Liberty (OUP 2019); Trucanini’s Stare: Reconsidering Dignity in Theory and Practice (CUP 2025). Her current research projects include an analysis of the characterization of the world as a family (See ‘If the World is a Family, What Kind of Family Is It?’, EJIL 2025).
Discussant
Irene Manganini, PhD researcher in International Law, Geneva Graduate Institute