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SUMMARY:Public Lecture: ’European Colonial Law’: Past, Present and Future
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DESCRIPTION:For a long time, colonial law was celebrated in Europe as a symbol of national achievement; an orderly system that justified overseas expansion while ignoring the voices and experiences of the colonized. Historians and jurists debated whether one empire was more “humane” than another, while the darker realities of dispossession, violence, racism, and enslavement remained largely invisible. Since the mid-twentieth century, however, scholarship has begun to challenge these Eurocentric and nationalist narratives. Today, historians ask fundamental questions such as; Was there ever truly a distinct “colonial law”? How did legal systems overlap across empires and continents? And how might acknowledging non-European legal traditions transform our understanding of the past? This public lecture invites us to explore these debates and to rethink European colonial law as a complex, contested field that continues to shape our world today.\n
Keynote Speaker:\n
Prof. Tamar Herzog\n
Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs; Department of History, Harvard University\n
Date: 20 October 2025\n
Time: 18.15hrs\n
Venue: ESA West 221\n
Organisers: Dr. Dorothy Makaza-Goede & Prof. Markus Kotzur\n
LOCATION:, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, 20146 Hamburg, ESA W 221
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