The conveners of ‘The Natural’ in International Law workshop—co-organised by the Asia School of Business, the Amsterdam Center for International Law and the Global Governance Centre—are accepting paper proposals that unpack what ‘natural’ means in international law and the actors determining its meaning.
What is ‘natural’ in international law and who decides what is ‘natural’?
This workshop aims to explore what international law represents as ‘the natural’ and where ideas of what is natural come from. It will delve into how international law naturalises certain conditions and how it responds to changes of what social systems perceive as ‘the natural’.
In this workshop, we will also discuss whether appeals to the natural are productive and under what circumstances they should be used, or if they should be used at all in law and legal reasoning.
We invite contributions that explore, or relate to, some of the following questions:
The full call for papers can be found here. Abstracts of no more than 300 words and a bio of 200-300 words should be submitted by the 6th of May.
The workshop will be held in person on 8 and 9 September 2022 at the University of Amsterdam.
More information can be found on the University of Amsterdam website.
This is a joint event by Asia School of Business, the Amsterdam Center for International Law and the Graduate Institute Global Governance Centre. Convenors: Kevin Crow, Eliana Cusato & Lys Kulamadayil.
