Speaker: Sundhya Pahuja, Director of the Australian Research Council Laureate Program in Global Corporations and International Law at the Melbourne Law School

Time: 15:00 - 17:00 p.m., Sep 24, 2024, GMT+8

Venue: Rm 307, Kaiyuan Building, Law School, PKU

Abstract: 

Large corporations are increasingly assertive on the international stage. A glance at contemporary media would suggest that corporate power and corporate impunity are both on the rise. In this lecture, Sundhya Pahuja will reflect on the struggle to find meaningful ways to engage with corporations as global actors by considering this puzzle from the position of a teacher of public international law. She will ask whether the split between public and private international law contributes to our difficulties, and what the history of that split might reveal about corporate power and its relationship to empire. Understanding this history has implications for how we imagine, understand and seek to regulate corporations in a post-colonial context.

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Source: School of Transnational Law, PKU