Webinar: Oppenheim's Law, 1905

Please join the Centre for Law and Social Justice (LSJ) and Dr Prabhakar Singh for an online-only talk on his paper, Oppenheim's Law, 1905.

Abstract:  This paper invites readers to walk the foothills of the semi-colonial parts of South Asia to the mapping of a century of discourse produced by two influential books – Oppenheim’s in 1905 and Anghie’s in 2005 – that normatively sit with their backs to each other, I add the legal historian Benton’s arguments for a corridoring and enclaving quality of the interimperial machinations. Incidentally, both Oppenheim and Benton speak of “anomaly” as a device but with opposite intentions, the former to exclude and the latter to include. Legal anomaly while gave to universalism a South Asian particularity, even within south Asia these particularities varied according to the geography of the space ultimately making law more omnipresent than universal. This paper talks about the landscape’s law.

About the Speaker: Dr Prabhakar Singh is Professor at the School of Law at BML Munjal University, India and he is currently a member of the executive council of the Asian Society of International Law.

How to Attend: Please sign up here. A Teams link will be sent to you the day before the event.