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SUMMARY:Chet Mitchell Memorial Lecture | “The Free Sea: A Counter Legal History”
DESCRIPTION:With special guest, Prof. Renisa Mawani (Department of Sociology, UBC)



In European accounts of international law, the history of the sea as a juridical space of the international commonly begins with Hugo Grotius’s, Mare Liberum (1609). This talk, which draws from Prof. Mawani’s book, 'Across Oceans of Law', presents a counter legal history of the sea. Specifically, it situates the freedom of the sea in the oceanic movements and imaginaries of subaltern travelers who, as legal subjects, produced their own juridical conceptions of maritime space, ones that often undermined the land/sea divide that proved so crucial to Grotius and to the legal history of the sea that has since followed.



This event is co-sponsored by: the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, the Faculty of Public Affairs, School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies, and the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies - Human Rights



**Limited seating** 



**Light refreshments will be served.
LOCATION:2017 Dunton Tower, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Dr, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6
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