Analysing the visual life of international law engages with the way in which it is constructed and experienced through image and object, event and practice, architecture and design. This talk explores the modalities of that engagement, examining images driving international law-production, depictions of international law, symbols used by international legal actors, architecture of international courts and institutions, and the erasures that occur in those spaces. 

SPEAKER

Kate Miles is a Fellow and Director of Studies in Law at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of a monograph published by Cambridge University Press: The Origins of International Investment Law: Empire, Environment and the Safeguarding of Capital. She is also the author of a forthcoming monograph also with Cambridge University Press: Visual International Law: Image, Symbol, Art and Architecture.  

Dr Miles has served on the International Law Association’s Study Group on the Role of Soft Law Instruments in International Investment Law and coordinated the international investment law network for the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL). She served as the Deputy Director of the Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law, University of Sydney, and acted as a consultant to APEC, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), and the International Development Law Organization (IDLO) on matters related to investor-state arbitration and climate change. She has spoken at meetings of the OECD in Paris, at the 2009 Copenhagen Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 15), and at the World Trade Organisation Ministerial Conference in Geneva. She has also been engaged as an expert witness in litigation involving environmental impact assessment requirements in the South Pacific.  

DISCUSSANT

Andrea Bianchi, Director of Studies and Professor of International Law, Geneva Graduate Institute

MODERATOR

James Hollway, Associate Professor of International Relations/Political Science and Co-Director of the Global Governance Centre, Geneva Graduate Institute.

This event is part of the workshop series "New Directions in the Theory & History of International Law"