{"id":13454,"date":"2014-03-07T14:18:23","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T19:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/its-cuthemedev1.carleton.ca\/law\/?p=13454"},"modified":"2025-06-23T11:43:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:43:13","slug":"mar-13-chet-mitchell-memorial-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/2014\/mar-13-chet-mitchell-memorial-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Mar. 13 | Chet Mitchell Memorial Lecture w\/ Prof. Fitzpatrick"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Mar. 13 | Chet Mitchell Memorial Lecture w\/ Prof. Fitzpatrick\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Join us for the latest session in the <a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/events-calendar\/chet-mitchell-lecture-series\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Chet Mitchell Memorial Lecture<\/strong> series<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"in-the-revolutionary-past-decolonizing-occidental-law\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201cIn the Revolutionary Past: Decolonizing Occidental Law\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>with Professor Peter Fitzpatrick<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Thursday, March 13th | 6pm<\/strong><br>\n<strong> 2017 Dunton Tower<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" id=\"irc_mi\" title=\"Rene Magritte's &quot;Le Ch\u00e2teau des Pyr\u00e9n\u00e9es&quot;\" alt=\"Rene Magritte's &quot;Le Ch\u00e2teau des Pyr\u00e9n\u00e9es&quot;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saleoilpaintings.com\/paintings-image\/rene-magritte\/rene-magritte-la-chateau-des-pyrenees.jpg\" width=\"259\" height=\"311\"><\/figure><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b><br>\n<\/b><b>Peter Fitzpatrick<\/b><i> is currently Anniversary Professor of Law at Birkbeck, University of London and Honorary Professor of Law in the University of Kent.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Please remember to <a href=\"http:\/\/events.carleton.ca\/in-the-revolutionary-past-decolonizing-occidental-law\/\" target=\"_blank\">REGISTER ONLINE<\/a> for this complimentary event!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us for the latest session in the Chet Mitchell Memorial Lecture series! \u201cIn the Revolutionary Past: Decolonizing Occidental Law\u201d with Professor Peter Fitzpatrick Thursday, March 13th | 6pm 2017 Dunton Tower Combining a radical revision of the historical formation of occidental law with perspectives derived from decolonial thought, this lecture offers a deconstruction of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13454"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13458,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13454\/revisions\/13458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}