The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World
The Bonavero Institute of Human Rights in collaboration with The Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC), opens the Institute's Collaborative Seminar Series, inviting Prof. Oona Hathaway (Yale Law School) to talk about the forthcoming book co-authored with Prof. Scott Shapiro (Yale Law School), entitled The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World.
On a summer afternoon in 1928, world leaders assembled in Paris to outlaw war. Within a year, the treaty signed that day, known as the Peace Pact, was ratified by nearly every state in the world. War, for the first time in history, had become illegal. Within a decade, the states that signed the pact were again at war, and as a result many dismissed the pact as folly.
In their new book The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World, Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro argue that this dismissal was mistaken, and that the pact ushered in a sustained march towards peace. While doing so, they tell the history of how the pact came to be and of the lawyers, politicians, and intellectuals whose ideas have shaped our understanding of war’s role in a just world order.
Speaker: Oona Hathaway is the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law and Counselor to the Dean at the Yale Law School. She is also Professor of International Law and Area Studies at the Yale University MacMillan Center, on the faculty at the Jackson Institute for International Affairs, and Professor of the Yale University Department of Political Science. In 2014-15, she took leave from Yale Law School to serve as Special Counsel to the General Counsel for National Security Law at the U.S. Department of Defense, where she was awarded the Office of the Secretary of Defense Award for Excellence.
The event will take place at Mansfield College, in the Sir Joseph Hotung Auditorium, within the new Hands Building (shown on the map as Love Lane building). Please report to the Lodge on arrival and ask for directions.