VUB Contextual Research in Law

Abstract: The cosmopolitan distinctiveness of José Rodrigues Miguéis' (1901-1980) work in Portuguese literature invites new perspectives on his writing. Lisbon, Brussels, and New York are objective stages in a body of work that sought to highlight the “cases of life” as a journalist of the accidental, particular manifestations of human suffering. Foreign to the esprit de corps of literary movements, sympathetic to the Herculean fortune of the disadvantaged, Miguéis was able to find the geographical and political conditions for an art liberated from national convention Contact: Joao dot Tiago dot Freitas dot Mendes at vub dot be

  (image source: William Rappard Centre/ WTO ) Daniel Quiroga-Villamarin, currently  visiting  our research group from Geneva, will hold an L&C Talk on  Friday 10 June.  This talk will be hybrid (on campus -  Vergaderzaal PE (3C204)   and online, on Teams). Abstract: While the intellectual trajectories of international law's "move to Institutions" in the early twentieth century has been often explored in the literature, most accounts divorce their analysis from the seemingly banal histories of "buildings, staffs, and letterheads." Conversely, in this article, I place the spatiality of the Centre William Rappard at the forefront of the history of 20th century internationalisms. Erected to serve the International Labor Organization (in 1926), this building was, among other things, repurposed to host the World Trade Organization (in 1975). In this piece, I reconstruct how struggles over claims of universality can be explored through disputes related t...