The Long Legal Memory of The Congress of Vienna 1814/1815

Organized for the 2013 Meeting of the American Society for Legal History, this multi-session workshop will look forward to the year 2014 as the shared bicentennial of the Congress of Vienna 1814/1815 and the centennial of the beginning of the First World War (1914). In global perspective, it will examine the geopolitical and geo-economic consequences of the collapse of the First French Empire on, for example, jurisprudence, theories and practices of supranational cooperation, international law, commerce and trade during times of war, rules of warfare, nation-state constitutionalism, human rights and rights to resistance and the construction and operation of supranational legal fictions more generally to include “race,” gender, class, the corporation and/or the “State.” The workshop also investigates how the long legal memory of Congress of Vienna has been awakened, re-imagined and invoked in times of conflict and conflict resolution, with particular attention to the impact of enactments and ruptures of international law.

Information:
http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/termine/id=20909