More than a Morbid Quest: obituaries and mapping the invisible college of international lawyers
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This presentation narrates my experience using obituariesmapping-the-invisible-college-of-international-lawyers-through-obituaries.pdf
Luíza Leão Soares Pereira is a Lecturer in International Law at the University of Sheffield, and Doctoral Candidate at the University of Cambridge, both in the UK. Her research focuses on the role of individual members of the international legal profession in the making of international law, using an eclectic methodology. Previously, she undertook her LLB at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), and an LLM at the University of Cambridge, where she received the Clive Parry (Overseas) Prize for International Law. She was an intern at the Office of the Prosecutor in the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (Radovan Karadzic Case), and a Pegasus Trust Scholar at Inner Temple.
[1] More specifically, the obituaries published since 1920 in the British Yearbook of International Law.
[2] Luiza Leao Soares Pereira and Niccolò Ridi, ‘Mapping the “Invisible College of International Lawyers” through Obituaries’ Leiden Journal of International Law (Forthcoming).
[3] Isobel Roele, ‘The Making of International Lawyers: Winnicott’s Transitional Objects’ in Jessie Hohmann and Daniel Joyce (eds), International Law’s Objects (OUP 2018) 73.
[4] Isobel Roele, ‘Policing Critique’ (2018) 81 701, 721.
[5] Anne Orford, ‘International Law and the Limits of History’, The Law of International Lawyers: Reading Martti Koskenniemi (Forthcoming) (2015) 8.
PIL Discussion Group Convenors: Xiaotian (Kris) Yu and Natasha Holcroft-Emmes
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