Notice:
This event occurs in the past.
Mar. 13 | Chet Mitchell Memorial Lecture with Prof. Peter Fitzpatrick
Thursday, March 13, 2014 from 12:00 am to 12:00 am
- In-person event
- 2017, Dunton Tower, Carleton University
- 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6
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“In the Revolutionary Past: Decolonizing Occidental Law”
with Professor Peter Fitzpatrick
Combining a radical revision of the historical formation of occidental law with perspectives derived from decolonial thought, this lecture offers a deconstruction of occidental law. This is an occidental law seen not, or not so much, in its colonial manifestation. It is the law extant within the Occident itself. Although occidental law is in this way shown to be comprehensively imperial in orientation, that same deconstruction reveals resistant dimensions intrinsic to law.
Peter Fitzpatrick is currently Anniversary Professor of Law at Birkbeck, University of London and Honorary Professor of Law in the University of Kent.
He has taught at universities in Europe, North America and Papua New Guinea and published many books on legal philosophy, law and social theory, law and racism, and imperialism, the latest ones being Law as Resistance: Modernism, Imperialism, Legalism (Ashgate, 2008) and, with Ben Golder, Foucault’s Law (Routledge, 2009). Outside the academy he has been in an international legal practice and was also in the Prime Minister’s Office in Papua New Guinea for several years.