This workshop will discuss whether appeals to the natural are productive and under what circumstances they should be used, or if they should be used at all in law and legal reasoning. In tackling these questions, we will build on scholarly work on how international law reflects and reproduces social conditions, how it transforms historical contingencies into inevitabilities and how it solidifies social hierarchies by naturalizing them. The workshop will focus on three primary subject areas, namely the environment, the economy, and social order.

This is a joint event by Asia School of Business, the Amsterdam Center for International Law, and the Geneva Graduate Institute Global Governance Centre. 

Convenors: Kevin Crow, Eliana Cusato & Lys Kulamadayil.

Please register here for the opening and closing panels of the conference.