With Ntina Tzouvala, Rose Parfitt, Grietje Baars Tarik Kochi, Rob Knox, Maia Pal.
This panel brings together, in the form of a roundtable discussion and Q&A, new research on how and why to historicise law and capitalism, through concepts of the legal form and the corporation, reproduction and state formation, civilization, jurisdictional accumulation, race, and justice. The panellists have recently produced large-scale works that use different Marxist approaches to question the ways and means through which international law has been formed, practised, and historicised so as to justify capitalism and other modes of structural inequality. From European ancient philosophy, to early modern European institutions, and to the classic 19th and 20th century periods of colonisation and the emergence of modern international law, the panellists will share insights from their work in terms of what it means for the present relationship between law and capitalism, and what it teaches us about Marxist methodology as a contribution to law, historical sociology, and international relations. The roundtable is an opportunity to collectively launch exciting new books and reflect on new trends in legal histories of capitalism. These challenge liberal accounts of the law as neutral, progressive, and able to 'civilise' capitalism; a dangerous and pervasive discourse that still dominates public policy and academic debates. How can history teach us to see past these myths and rethink the relationship between authority and means of production?
Participants details:
Ntina Tzouvala, Australian National University (Capitalism as Civilization: a history of international law, CUP, 2020)
Rose Parfitt, University of Kent (The Process of International Legal Reproduction: Inequality, Historiography, Resistance, CUP, 2019)
Grietje Baars, City, University of London (The Corporation, Law and Capitalism: a Radical Perspective on the Role of Law in the Global Political Economy Haymarket 2020/Brill, 2019)
Tarik Kochi, University of Sussex (Global Justice and Social Conflict: the foundations of liberal order and international law, Routledge, 2019)
Rob Knox, University of Liverpool and HM editor (author of numerous articles on law, capitalism, and race)
Maia Pal, Oxford Brookes University and HM editor (Jurisdictional Accumulation: an early modern history of law, empires, and capital, CUP, 2020).
For shorter introductions to the speakers' work, check out the following links and book pages:
Ntina Tzouvala: https://twailr.com/capitalism-civilisation-and-international-law/
https://www.cambridge.org/it/academic/subjects/law/public-international-law/capitalism-civilisation-history-international-law (discount CAC2020)
Grietje Baars: https://academic.oup.com/lril/article/8/1/211/5936956
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1461-the-corporation-law-and-capitalism (Paperback now available)
Rose Parfitt: https://brill.com/view/journals/jhil/22/1/article-p187_10.xml
https://www.cambridge.org/it/academic/subjects/law/public-international-law/process-international-legal-reproduction-inequality-historiography-resistance (Paperback available to pre-order)
Rob Knox: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/.../race-and-international-law/
https://academic.oup.com/lril/article-abstract/4/1/81/2413109
Tarik Kochi: https://criticallegalthinking.com/2020/07/28/what-kind-of-justice-for-a-global-new-deal/
https://www.routledge.com/Global-Justice-and-Social-Conflict-The-Foundations-of-Liberal-Order-and/Kochi/p/book/9780367406813 (Paperback)
Maïa Pal: https://www.cambridge.org/it/academic/subjects/law/public-international-law/jurisdictional-accumulation-early-modern-history-law-empires-and-capital (discount PAL2020)
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