South  of  International  Law  

 
 
Programme  
 
Day  1.    
8  July  2010  
 
9.30-­10.00  am   Registration  &  Coffee  
 
10.00-­10.15  am   Opening  &  Welcome  
Sundhya  Pahuja  (Melbourne  Law  School)  
 
10.15-­11.15  am   Panel  1.  Disciplines  of  Empire  
 
Chair:  [TBC]  
 
1. Vik   Kanwar   (Jindal   Global   Law   School,   Delhi):   From   the   Standard   of  
Civilization  to  the  Standardization  of  Indicators:  Methods,  Phases  and  Spaces  
of  Global  Governance.  
2. Peter   Odhiambo   (Sydney   Law   School):   Confronting   the   International   Law  
Principle   of   Territorial   Integrity   through   a   Critical   Look   at   the   ‘Fictitious’  
Borders  of  the  South.  
3. Catriona  Drewe  (School  of  Law,  SOAS,  London):  [Title,  TBC]  
 
11.15-­11.45  am   Coffee  Break  
 
 
11.45-­12.30  pm     Panel  1.  Discussion  
 
 
12.30-­1.30  pm     Lunch  
 
 
1.30-­2.30  pm     Panel  2.  Technologies  of  Law  
 
Chair:  Nesam  McMillan  (School  of  Social  and  Political  Sciences,  Melbourne)  
 
1. Yoriko   Otomo   (Melbourne   Law   School):   Air-­Conditioned   Nation:   The  
Promise  of  Life  in  a  Post-­Millennium  Age.  
2. Olivia   Barr   (Melbourne   Law   School):   Death   in   Antarctica:   Accounting   for  
Lawfulness  in  the  Polar  South.  
3. Fleur  Johns  (Sydney  Law  School):  Marginal  Notes:  Death,  Disaster  and  Infra-­
legality  in  International  Law.  
 
2.30-­3.00  pm     Coffee  Break  

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3.00-­3.45  pm     Panel  2.  Discussion  
 
 
3.45-­4.00  pm     Short  Break  
 
 
4.00-­5.00  pm     Featured  Session:    
 
Chair:  Shaun  McVeigh  (Melbourne  Law  School)  
 
The  South,  International  Law  and  the  pleasures  of  the  Apocalyptic  Sublime.  
 
Judith   Grbich   (Griffith   Law   School   &   Institute   of   Postcolonial   Studies,   School   of  
Social  and  Political  Sciences,  Melbourne)  
 
 
6.00-­8.00  pm     Drinks  &  Dinner  
 
Location:  [TBC]  
 
Day  2.    
9  July  2010  
 
9.30-­10.30  am   Guest  Speaker  –  Video  Conference  
 
Chair:  Ann  Genovese  (Melbourne  Law  School)  
 
Legal  Fetishism:  
On  the  Emotional  and  Symbolic  Meanings  of  Human  Rights  Law.  
 
Julieta   Lemaitre   Ripoll   (Centro   de   Investigaciones   Socio-­Jurídicas   –CIJUS-­,  
Universidad  de  los  Andes,  Bogotá):    
 
 
10.30-­10.45  am   Coffee  Break  
 
 
10.45-­12.15  pm     Reading  Group  
 
Chair:  Luis  Eslava  (Melbourne  Law  School)  
 
Reading  Discussants:    
1. Maria  Elander  (Melbourne  Law  School)  
2. Jeffrey  Scott  McGee  (School  of  Law,  Newcastle)  
3. John  Morss,  Associate  (Law  School,  Deakin)  
 
 

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12.15-­1.15  pm   Lunch  
 
 
1.15-­2.30  pm     Panel  3.  Rights  and  Relations  
 
Chair:  Jacqueline  Mowbray  (Sydney  Law  School)  
 
1. Deborah   Whitehall   (Melbourne   Law   School):   Southern   Situations,  
Worldliness  and  'Her'  Right  to  Have  Rights  in  International  Law.  
2. Maria   Beatriz   Juarez   Aguilar   (PhD   Candidate,   UNAM,   Mexico):   Tracing   the  
Construction   Processes   of   Chinese   Constitutional   Law:   Within   A   South-­South  
Dialogue.  
3. Oishik   Sircar   (Jindal   Global   Law   School,   Delhi):   Liberal   Seductions:  
Re/presentations   of   the   Postcolonial   Queer   in   International   Human   Rights  
Law.  
4. Ruth  Buchanan  (Osgoode  Hall  Law  School,  Toronto):  [Title,  TBC]  
 
 
2.30-­3.00  pm     Coffee  Break  
 
 
3.30-­4.30  pm     Panel  3.  Discussion  
 
 
4.30-­4.45  pm     Short  Break  
 
 
4.45-­5.15  pm     Featured  Session:  [TBC]  
Chair:  Gerry  Simpson  (Melbourne  Law  School)  
 
Kevin  Murray,  [TBC].    
 
 
5.15-­5.30  pm     Closing  Remarks  
 
 
6.00-­7.00  pm     Drinks  @  University  House  

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