Legal Studies PhD Candidate Jerusa Ali will be attending the Harvard Institute of Global Law and Policy (IGLP) Workshop, in Doha, Qatar (January 2014).
Ali will participate in the ‘Legacies of Colonialism for Global Policy’ stream with other doctoral candidates and junior scholars from around the world. She is grateful for this unique opportunity to take part in writing workshops and discussion groups that correspond with her research interests in critical approaches to International Law.
Legacies of Colonialism for Global Policy (LCGP)
“This Stream will explore the history, meaning and significance of unequal encounters in global society. In particular we will ask how we might deepen our understanding of the history of colonialism to enrich our understanding of contemporary patterns of global legal ordering, as well as political-economic ordering. To do this, we will consider how unequal encounters have been conceptualised in and through international law, including in international legal doctrines, theories and institutions, and the impact of those ideas on political economic relations. We will consider too, whether there may be ways of thinking about the ongoing encounters between ‘Europe’, its heirs and what Chatterjee calls ‘most of the world’, which could disrupt, resist and refigure these historically resilient patterns.”
