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British Yearbook of International Law
Despite the ever-growing literature that turns to history in international law, few legal scholar... more Despite the ever-growing literature that turns to history in international law, few legal scholars have interrogated the tradition of Expositions Universelles, let alone reflected on their importance for the formation of imperial legal projects in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In this paper, I attempt to engage Science and Technology Studies with International Legal History, analyzing these World Fairs as prime spaces for the co-production of socio-technical imaginaries of global governance.
Cynical International Law?, 2020
Since the early 1990s, constitutional rights—and international human rights—have been mobilised t... more Since the early 1990s, constitutional rights—and international human rights—have been mobilised to transform structural conditions of injustice before courtrooms all around the world. From San Jose to Karlsruhe, Strasbourg to New Delhi, in both the Global North and South, judges have been at the forefront of the establishment of a new jus gentium common to all humankind. Implicit in this narrative, however, lies the idea that transnational judicial activism has inherent progressive outcomes: the rule of law, human rights, or liberalism tout court are the necessary products of judicial dialogue. In this chapter, I argue that this implicit premise, which emerged from the naivete of the post-Cold War period, can no longer hold in an increasingly illiberal world. Thus, I highlight that judicial activism can also favour illiberal outcomes. Long before liberals and disgruntled socialists turned to judges to protect human rights, courts had been a bulwark of the status quo. The controversi...
Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science
Across the humanities and the social sciences, Foucault’s work has often taken wildly divergent r... more Across the humanities and the social sciences, Foucault’s work has often taken wildly divergent routes. As an unexpected corollary, some of his interventions have been compartmentalized into different fields — with few attempts to read his different contributions across disciplinary boundaries. Conversely, in this article, I place Foucault’s early works on the history of Western systems of thought (and, in particular, The Order of Things) with some of his later interventions on sovereignty and punishment (and, in particular, Security, Territory, Population and Discipline & Punish). I draw from his early archeological explorations of the Western episteme(s), which have not been comprehensively explored by legal scholars, to reread his later works as an archeological exploration of the production of knowledge relative to sovereignty. This allows placing Foucault’s early epistemological and methodological concerns at the forefront of his later work on the “withering away” of public law...
The field of international legal history finds itself at a crossroads. After some decades, the to... more The field of international legal history finds itself at a crossroads. After some decades, the tone of the literature on the "turn to history" has turned from celebration to self-critique. 1 Indeed, the last couple of years have witnessed increased calls to pursue new directions in international legal history, departing from the "well-worn paths" initially explored. 2 In this vein, some urge for a localized approach to the study of "legal politics," 3 while others push for a "history of international law in the vernacular," 4 a "grassroots analysis," 5 or a "radical historical critique." 6 In my own work, I have argued for a (new) materialist approach, 7 which resonates with other broader drives for the retrieval of Marxist perspectives in international legal history. 8 Moreover, the "marked absences" of class, gender, and race from the traditional canon of the discipline seem like an increasingly inexcusable exclusion. 9 In sum, the stage is set for a profound reconsideration of the aims, methodologies, and archives of contemporary international legal history.
Leiden Journal of International Law, 2021
Since the end of the Cold War, the content, scope, and extent of extraterritorial human rights ob... more Since the end of the Cold War, the content, scope, and extent of extraterritorial human rights obligations has become a pressing concern for international lawyers. On one end of the debate, mainstream scholarship argues that jurisdiction is primarily territorial, identifying a limited range of situations in which jurisdiction (and responsibility) is triggered. On the other end, critical scholars suggest that Empire still haunts jurisdiction. By reconstructing the history of this doctrine, they show that the imperial reach has always been extra-territorial and that the intimate linkage between state, territory, and population is of a rather recent and tenuous origin. In both of these narratives, however, lies the assumption that jurisdiction operates as a secularized power. Even if empires/states were once religious, faith’s legacy remains confined to the past. In this article, conversely, I trace a critical genealogy of Christian authority as a jurisdictional structure, in which ter...
Journal of International Criminal Justice, 2022
From 2012 to 2016, the Colombian Government and the FARC-EP guerilla group sought to end the regi... more From 2012 to 2016, the Colombian Government and the FARC-EP guerilla group sought to end the region's longest non-international armed conflict. Under the auspices of the international community, this process drew from a complex series of practices and knowledge often known as 'transitional justice'. Indeed, international expertise-in law and other fields-was also actively mobilized by both parties, as well as civil society and the anti-peace opposition, to contest the meaning of these terms. On paper, the peace agreement adopted a cutting-edge and comprehensive system aimed at delivering truth, justice, reparation, and non-repetition (the SIVJRNR), including both judicial and extrajudicial mechanisms following international standards and best practices. Yet in practice, the situation became increasingly dire after the peace agreement was narrowly voted down in October 2016. Two years later, having entered government, the former populist opposition proudly announced its plan to shred the peace accord and the SIVJRNR (including its crown jewel: the Special Jurisdiction for Peace or JEP). In this context, * Lawyer from the Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano, holder of a specialist degree in human rights and international humanitarian law and an LLM from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. He was one of the founders of the Colombian Chapter of the International Institute of Human Rights. Currently, he works at the Revision Section of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace. In addition, he lectures on International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at the Universidad del Bosque and teaches the course 'Armed Conflicts in the XX and XXI Centuries' at the Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano.
Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science, 2022
Across the humanities and the social sciences, Foucault's work has often taken wildly divergent r... more Across the humanities and the social sciences, Foucault's work has often taken wildly divergent routes. As an unexpected corollary, some of his interventions have been compartmentalized into different fields-with few attempts to read his different contributions across disciplinary boundaries. Conversely, in this article, I place Foucault's early works on the history of Western systems of thought (and, in particular, The Order of Things) with some of his later interventions on sovereignty and punishment (and, in particular, Security, Territory, Population and Discipline & Punish). I draw from his early archeological explorations of the Western episteme(s), which have not been comprehensively explored by legal scholars, to reread his later works as an archeological exploration of the production of knowledge relative to sovereignty. This allows placing Foucault's early epistemological and methodological concerns at the forefront of his later work on the "withering away" of public law in the Western imagination.
As International Organizations (IOs) tend to work in practice, few international lawyers have pai... more As International Organizations (IOs) tend to work in practice, few international lawyers have paid much thought to how they work in theory. As Klabbers and Sinclair noted recently, international organization law "is one of those fields of international law where the theorization by lawyers has been kept to a minimum" (2020, p. 489). As an example, functionalism-the main theoretical approach produced by international lawyers-which unsurprisingly "has been developed by practitioners, responding to practical challenges, often in piecemeal fashion and through mimicry or comparison" (Klabbers 2016, p. 618). Our neighboring disciplines, however, have been much more attentive to the theorization of these institutions. In the last three decades, scholars have increasingly applied the tools of international relations (IR), history, or ethnography-inter aliato rethink the role of IOs in global governance (
Cognitio, 2021
Despite the ever-growing literature that turns to history in international law, few legal schola... more Despite the ever-growing literature that turns to history in international law, few legal scholars have interrogated the tradition of Expositions Universelles, let alone reflected on their importance for the formation of imperial legal projects in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In this paper, I attempt to engage Science and Technology Studies with International Legal History, analyzing these World Fairs as prime spaces for the co-production of socio-technical imaginaries of global governance.
International Politics Reviews, 2020
Across the arts, social sciences, and the humanities there is a growing interest in the materiali... more Across the arts, social sciences, and the humanities there is a growing interest in the materiality of everyday experience. Feminist engagements with the social studies of science laid the foundations for a new generation of critical thinking that took a break from the hegemony of discourse to embrace the material practices that underpin knowledge, science, and power. (International) legal history, however, has been conspicuously absent from these discussions. For many scholars and practitioners, law is still a discipline that revolves around written texts limiting our engagements with its diverse material manifestations. Instead of outlining a single approach to materiality and international legal history, in this article I review several trends of ‘new materialist’ thinking, showing how each might enrich legal inquiries. International legal scholarship, which is undergoing a moment of theoretical openness, has much to gain from the engagement with the overlapping, contradictory, and unstable insights of the renewed materialisms.
En La Cuestión Judía (1843), el Marx temprano busca analizar las condiciones de posibilidad de la... more En La Cuestión Judía (1843), el Marx temprano busca analizar las condiciones de posibilidad de la emancipación humana a partir de una crítica del entendimiento de Bauer de la situación de los judíos. Este texto ha sido leído principalmente para (i) justificar el antisemitismo de Marx, o (ii) entender las críticas marxistas a la noción de derechos. En esta segunda lectura, la comunidad epistémica cercana a los derechos humanos ha buscado entender La Cuestión Judía como una crítica a la posibilidad de existencia de los derechos humanos en un orden económico capitalista. El presente texto buscará mostrar cómo dicha lectura incorpora elementos posteriores del marxismo para argumentar que la principal preocupación del Marx de La Cuestión no es la propiedad privada, sino la presencia de la sociedad civil. En consecuencia, se argumentará que una lectura contextual de dicho texto permite repensar los encuentros y las tensiones entre los derechos humanos (y el Estado) y la noción de "sociedad civil," los cuales han sido poco problematizados por los académicos y practicantes del discurso del derecho internacional de los derechos humanos.
UNA Revista de Derecho, 2019
En La Cuestión Judía (1843), el Marx temprano busca analizar las condiciones de posibilidad de la... more En La Cuestión Judía (1843), el Marx temprano busca analizar las condiciones de posibilidad de la emancipación humana a partir de una crítica del entendimiento de Bauer de la situación de los judíos. Este texto ha sido leído principalmente para (i) justificar el antisemitismo de Marx, o (ii) entender las críticas marxistas a la noción de derechos. En esta segunda lectura, la comunidad epistémica cercana a los derechos humanos ha buscado entender La Cuestión Judía como una crítica a la posibilidad de existencia de los derechos humanos en un orden económico capitalista. El presente texto buscará mostrar cómo dicha lectura incorpora elementos posteriores del marxismo para argumentar que la principal preocupación del Marx de La Cuestión no es la propiedad privada, sino la presencia de la sociedad civil. En consecuencia, se argumentará que una lectura contextual de dicho texto permite repensar los encuentros y las tensiones entre los derechos humanos (y el Estado) y la noción de “sociedad civil,” los cuales han sido poco problematizados por los académicos y practicantes del discurso del derecho internacional de los derechos humanos.
Journal of the History of International Law, 2019
Latin America played a crucial role in furthering the cause of human rights at the nascent United... more Latin America played a crucial role in furthering the cause of human rights at the nascent United Nations (UN) when great powers were mostly interested in limiting the scope to issues of collective security. Following this line of thought, this article aims to understand the Latin American contributions to the promotion of ESCRs in both global and regional debates by tracing the figure of the Chilean diplomat Hernán Santa-Cruz and his efforts as both a drafter of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and founder of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). In Santa-Cruz’s silhouette we can find a vivid example of Latin American thought regarding social rights, marked by the intersections and contradictions of regional discourses such as social Catholicism, socialist constitutionalism, and developmentalist economic theories.
Revista de la Asociación Cavelier del Derecho, 2018
Las categorías de la justicia transicional han ocupado, merecidamente, un lugar privilegiado en l... more Las categorías de la justicia transicional han ocupado, merecidamente, un lugar privilegiado en la discusión pública sobre los acuerdos –y más importante aún, los desacuerdos– de la Habana pactados entre el Gobierno Nacional y las FARC-EP. En el presente artículo, se analizan dichas cate- gorías desde la historia conceptual, para sostener que las instituciones jurídicas no son perennes e inmutables, sino que res- ponden a momentos históricos contingen- tes y presiones particulares. Así, pensar so- bre la trayectoria conceptual de la justicia transicional permitirá entender mejor el rol de la misma en los debates –pasados, presentes y futuros– en Colombia.
Palabras clave: Justicia Transicional, Teoría e Historia del Derecho Internacional
The categories of transitional justice have occupied a privileged position in the public discussion regarding the peace agreements –and perhaps most importantly, the disagreements– be- tween the Colombian Government and the FARC-EP. Since 2012, the discourses of the field we call transitional justice have been used to contest the legitimacy and legality of what is being discussed in the peace process. Yet, these debates have not been accompanied with a profound reflection regarding the history and trajectory of said categories, and their pertinence with the particular needs of the Colombian peace process.
Keywords: Transitional Justice, History and Theory of International Law
La relación entre la adjudicación individual de derechos sociales y la sostenibilidad fiscal del ... more La relación entre la adjudicación individual de derechos sociales y la sostenibilidad fiscal del Estado ha sido un punto prioritario en la agenda colombiana sobre políticas públicas. No en vano se aprobaron recientemente reformas constitucionales y legales para limitar el impacto de las sentencias de las altas cortes en el erario público. Estas nuevas instituciones son promovidas partiendo de prácticas y discursos similares a ni- vel transnacional, que se incorporan al ordenamiento colombiano. Desde el derecho constitucional comparado, en el presente texto analizo las raíces internacionales de dichas reformas y sus transformaciones al llegar al marco constitucional colombiano.
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The relationship between the individual adjudication of social rights and the fiscal sustainability of the State has been a priority of Colombia’s public policy agenda. The recent approval of constitutional and legal reforms to limit the impact of high court decisions on the public treasury have not been in vain. These new institutions are promoted on the basis of similar practices and discourses at a transnational level that have been incorporated in the Colombian legal system. In this text, I make a comparative constitutional law analysis of the international roots of said reforms and the transformation that they have undergone upon their inclusion in the Colombian constitutional framework.
Este artículo, publicado en la prensa local 070, busca resumir los principales hechos de la Toma ... more Este artículo, publicado en la prensa local 070, busca resumir los principales hechos de la Toma y Retoma del Palacio de Justicia, con base a la sentencia de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos sobre el dicho caso.
This paper was prepared as a background guide for the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal... more This paper was prepared as a background guide for the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ) at the National High School Model United Nations (NHSMUN) 2016.
Prepared by the International Model United Nations Association (IMUNA).
Copyright IMUNA and Daniel R. Quiroga Villamarin, All Rights Reserved.
La Cascada (2006). C. Jacanamijoy Daniel Quiroga Derecho Constitucional Profesor : Eduardo Cifuen... more La Cascada (2006). C. Jacanamijoy Daniel Quiroga Derecho Constitucional Profesor : Eduardo Cifuentes 15 mayo del 2014 El Derecho Fundamental a la Consulta Previa 1 El Derecho Fundamental a la Consulta Previa Problemáticas frente a el ejercicio efectivo • Introducción La Consulta Previa es una de las reivindicaciones sociales más fuertes e importantes que se han desarrollado recientemente, especialmente en el sur global. No en vano, se ha dicho que ha adquirido un lugar protagónico en los sistemas jurídicos latinoamericanos contemporáneos (Rodríguez & Orduz, 2012, p. 5). No obstante, a pesar de la amplia aceptación, el ejercicio efectivo de este derecho fundamental ha sido escaso, y las buenas prácticas han brillado por su ausencia. En el presente escrito, analizaré brevemente qué es la Consulta Previa -qué requisitos tiene, de dónde nace su obligatoriedad y su relación con otros derechos -, sus antecedentes históricos y su desarrollo en la doctrina constitucional Colombiana. Por ultimo, examinaré que elementos han contribuido a debilitar este derecho fundamental, y que soluciones -aun cuando preliminares-se pueden ofrecer para hacer el mañana más democrático y pluralista.
British Yearbook of International Law
Despite the ever-growing literature that turns to history in international law, few legal scholar... more Despite the ever-growing literature that turns to history in international law, few legal scholars have interrogated the tradition of Expositions Universelles, let alone reflected on their importance for the formation of imperial legal projects in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In this paper, I attempt to engage Science and Technology Studies with International Legal History, analyzing these World Fairs as prime spaces for the co-production of socio-technical imaginaries of global governance.
Cynical International Law?, 2020
Since the early 1990s, constitutional rights—and international human rights—have been mobilised t... more Since the early 1990s, constitutional rights—and international human rights—have been mobilised to transform structural conditions of injustice before courtrooms all around the world. From San Jose to Karlsruhe, Strasbourg to New Delhi, in both the Global North and South, judges have been at the forefront of the establishment of a new jus gentium common to all humankind. Implicit in this narrative, however, lies the idea that transnational judicial activism has inherent progressive outcomes: the rule of law, human rights, or liberalism tout court are the necessary products of judicial dialogue. In this chapter, I argue that this implicit premise, which emerged from the naivete of the post-Cold War period, can no longer hold in an increasingly illiberal world. Thus, I highlight that judicial activism can also favour illiberal outcomes. Long before liberals and disgruntled socialists turned to judges to protect human rights, courts had been a bulwark of the status quo. The controversi...
Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science
Across the humanities and the social sciences, Foucault’s work has often taken wildly divergent r... more Across the humanities and the social sciences, Foucault’s work has often taken wildly divergent routes. As an unexpected corollary, some of his interventions have been compartmentalized into different fields — with few attempts to read his different contributions across disciplinary boundaries. Conversely, in this article, I place Foucault’s early works on the history of Western systems of thought (and, in particular, The Order of Things) with some of his later interventions on sovereignty and punishment (and, in particular, Security, Territory, Population and Discipline & Punish). I draw from his early archeological explorations of the Western episteme(s), which have not been comprehensively explored by legal scholars, to reread his later works as an archeological exploration of the production of knowledge relative to sovereignty. This allows placing Foucault’s early epistemological and methodological concerns at the forefront of his later work on the “withering away” of public law...
The field of international legal history finds itself at a crossroads. After some decades, the to... more The field of international legal history finds itself at a crossroads. After some decades, the tone of the literature on the "turn to history" has turned from celebration to self-critique. 1 Indeed, the last couple of years have witnessed increased calls to pursue new directions in international legal history, departing from the "well-worn paths" initially explored. 2 In this vein, some urge for a localized approach to the study of "legal politics," 3 while others push for a "history of international law in the vernacular," 4 a "grassroots analysis," 5 or a "radical historical critique." 6 In my own work, I have argued for a (new) materialist approach, 7 which resonates with other broader drives for the retrieval of Marxist perspectives in international legal history. 8 Moreover, the "marked absences" of class, gender, and race from the traditional canon of the discipline seem like an increasingly inexcusable exclusion. 9 In sum, the stage is set for a profound reconsideration of the aims, methodologies, and archives of contemporary international legal history.
Leiden Journal of International Law, 2021
Since the end of the Cold War, the content, scope, and extent of extraterritorial human rights ob... more Since the end of the Cold War, the content, scope, and extent of extraterritorial human rights obligations has become a pressing concern for international lawyers. On one end of the debate, mainstream scholarship argues that jurisdiction is primarily territorial, identifying a limited range of situations in which jurisdiction (and responsibility) is triggered. On the other end, critical scholars suggest that Empire still haunts jurisdiction. By reconstructing the history of this doctrine, they show that the imperial reach has always been extra-territorial and that the intimate linkage between state, territory, and population is of a rather recent and tenuous origin. In both of these narratives, however, lies the assumption that jurisdiction operates as a secularized power. Even if empires/states were once religious, faith’s legacy remains confined to the past. In this article, conversely, I trace a critical genealogy of Christian authority as a jurisdictional structure, in which ter...
Journal of International Criminal Justice, 2022
From 2012 to 2016, the Colombian Government and the FARC-EP guerilla group sought to end the regi... more From 2012 to 2016, the Colombian Government and the FARC-EP guerilla group sought to end the region's longest non-international armed conflict. Under the auspices of the international community, this process drew from a complex series of practices and knowledge often known as 'transitional justice'. Indeed, international expertise-in law and other fields-was also actively mobilized by both parties, as well as civil society and the anti-peace opposition, to contest the meaning of these terms. On paper, the peace agreement adopted a cutting-edge and comprehensive system aimed at delivering truth, justice, reparation, and non-repetition (the SIVJRNR), including both judicial and extrajudicial mechanisms following international standards and best practices. Yet in practice, the situation became increasingly dire after the peace agreement was narrowly voted down in October 2016. Two years later, having entered government, the former populist opposition proudly announced its plan to shred the peace accord and the SIVJRNR (including its crown jewel: the Special Jurisdiction for Peace or JEP). In this context, * Lawyer from the Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano, holder of a specialist degree in human rights and international humanitarian law and an LLM from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. He was one of the founders of the Colombian Chapter of the International Institute of Human Rights. Currently, he works at the Revision Section of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace. In addition, he lectures on International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at the Universidad del Bosque and teaches the course 'Armed Conflicts in the XX and XXI Centuries' at the Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano.
Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science, 2022
Across the humanities and the social sciences, Foucault's work has often taken wildly divergent r... more Across the humanities and the social sciences, Foucault's work has often taken wildly divergent routes. As an unexpected corollary, some of his interventions have been compartmentalized into different fields-with few attempts to read his different contributions across disciplinary boundaries. Conversely, in this article, I place Foucault's early works on the history of Western systems of thought (and, in particular, The Order of Things) with some of his later interventions on sovereignty and punishment (and, in particular, Security, Territory, Population and Discipline & Punish). I draw from his early archeological explorations of the Western episteme(s), which have not been comprehensively explored by legal scholars, to reread his later works as an archeological exploration of the production of knowledge relative to sovereignty. This allows placing Foucault's early epistemological and methodological concerns at the forefront of his later work on the "withering away" of public law in the Western imagination.
As International Organizations (IOs) tend to work in practice, few international lawyers have pai... more As International Organizations (IOs) tend to work in practice, few international lawyers have paid much thought to how they work in theory. As Klabbers and Sinclair noted recently, international organization law "is one of those fields of international law where the theorization by lawyers has been kept to a minimum" (2020, p. 489). As an example, functionalism-the main theoretical approach produced by international lawyers-which unsurprisingly "has been developed by practitioners, responding to practical challenges, often in piecemeal fashion and through mimicry or comparison" (Klabbers 2016, p. 618). Our neighboring disciplines, however, have been much more attentive to the theorization of these institutions. In the last three decades, scholars have increasingly applied the tools of international relations (IR), history, or ethnography-inter aliato rethink the role of IOs in global governance (
Cognitio, 2021
Despite the ever-growing literature that turns to history in international law, few legal schola... more Despite the ever-growing literature that turns to history in international law, few legal scholars have interrogated the tradition of Expositions Universelles, let alone reflected on their importance for the formation of imperial legal projects in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In this paper, I attempt to engage Science and Technology Studies with International Legal History, analyzing these World Fairs as prime spaces for the co-production of socio-technical imaginaries of global governance.
International Politics Reviews, 2020
Across the arts, social sciences, and the humanities there is a growing interest in the materiali... more Across the arts, social sciences, and the humanities there is a growing interest in the materiality of everyday experience. Feminist engagements with the social studies of science laid the foundations for a new generation of critical thinking that took a break from the hegemony of discourse to embrace the material practices that underpin knowledge, science, and power. (International) legal history, however, has been conspicuously absent from these discussions. For many scholars and practitioners, law is still a discipline that revolves around written texts limiting our engagements with its diverse material manifestations. Instead of outlining a single approach to materiality and international legal history, in this article I review several trends of ‘new materialist’ thinking, showing how each might enrich legal inquiries. International legal scholarship, which is undergoing a moment of theoretical openness, has much to gain from the engagement with the overlapping, contradictory, and unstable insights of the renewed materialisms.
En La Cuestión Judía (1843), el Marx temprano busca analizar las condiciones de posibilidad de la... more En La Cuestión Judía (1843), el Marx temprano busca analizar las condiciones de posibilidad de la emancipación humana a partir de una crítica del entendimiento de Bauer de la situación de los judíos. Este texto ha sido leído principalmente para (i) justificar el antisemitismo de Marx, o (ii) entender las críticas marxistas a la noción de derechos. En esta segunda lectura, la comunidad epistémica cercana a los derechos humanos ha buscado entender La Cuestión Judía como una crítica a la posibilidad de existencia de los derechos humanos en un orden económico capitalista. El presente texto buscará mostrar cómo dicha lectura incorpora elementos posteriores del marxismo para argumentar que la principal preocupación del Marx de La Cuestión no es la propiedad privada, sino la presencia de la sociedad civil. En consecuencia, se argumentará que una lectura contextual de dicho texto permite repensar los encuentros y las tensiones entre los derechos humanos (y el Estado) y la noción de "sociedad civil," los cuales han sido poco problematizados por los académicos y practicantes del discurso del derecho internacional de los derechos humanos.
UNA Revista de Derecho, 2019
En La Cuestión Judía (1843), el Marx temprano busca analizar las condiciones de posibilidad de la... more En La Cuestión Judía (1843), el Marx temprano busca analizar las condiciones de posibilidad de la emancipación humana a partir de una crítica del entendimiento de Bauer de la situación de los judíos. Este texto ha sido leído principalmente para (i) justificar el antisemitismo de Marx, o (ii) entender las críticas marxistas a la noción de derechos. En esta segunda lectura, la comunidad epistémica cercana a los derechos humanos ha buscado entender La Cuestión Judía como una crítica a la posibilidad de existencia de los derechos humanos en un orden económico capitalista. El presente texto buscará mostrar cómo dicha lectura incorpora elementos posteriores del marxismo para argumentar que la principal preocupación del Marx de La Cuestión no es la propiedad privada, sino la presencia de la sociedad civil. En consecuencia, se argumentará que una lectura contextual de dicho texto permite repensar los encuentros y las tensiones entre los derechos humanos (y el Estado) y la noción de “sociedad civil,” los cuales han sido poco problematizados por los académicos y practicantes del discurso del derecho internacional de los derechos humanos.
Journal of the History of International Law, 2019
Latin America played a crucial role in furthering the cause of human rights at the nascent United... more Latin America played a crucial role in furthering the cause of human rights at the nascent United Nations (UN) when great powers were mostly interested in limiting the scope to issues of collective security. Following this line of thought, this article aims to understand the Latin American contributions to the promotion of ESCRs in both global and regional debates by tracing the figure of the Chilean diplomat Hernán Santa-Cruz and his efforts as both a drafter of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and founder of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). In Santa-Cruz’s silhouette we can find a vivid example of Latin American thought regarding social rights, marked by the intersections and contradictions of regional discourses such as social Catholicism, socialist constitutionalism, and developmentalist economic theories.
Revista de la Asociación Cavelier del Derecho, 2018
Las categorías de la justicia transicional han ocupado, merecidamente, un lugar privilegiado en l... more Las categorías de la justicia transicional han ocupado, merecidamente, un lugar privilegiado en la discusión pública sobre los acuerdos –y más importante aún, los desacuerdos– de la Habana pactados entre el Gobierno Nacional y las FARC-EP. En el presente artículo, se analizan dichas cate- gorías desde la historia conceptual, para sostener que las instituciones jurídicas no son perennes e inmutables, sino que res- ponden a momentos históricos contingen- tes y presiones particulares. Así, pensar so- bre la trayectoria conceptual de la justicia transicional permitirá entender mejor el rol de la misma en los debates –pasados, presentes y futuros– en Colombia.
Palabras clave: Justicia Transicional, Teoría e Historia del Derecho Internacional
The categories of transitional justice have occupied a privileged position in the public discussion regarding the peace agreements –and perhaps most importantly, the disagreements– be- tween the Colombian Government and the FARC-EP. Since 2012, the discourses of the field we call transitional justice have been used to contest the legitimacy and legality of what is being discussed in the peace process. Yet, these debates have not been accompanied with a profound reflection regarding the history and trajectory of said categories, and their pertinence with the particular needs of the Colombian peace process.
Keywords: Transitional Justice, History and Theory of International Law
La relación entre la adjudicación individual de derechos sociales y la sostenibilidad fiscal del ... more La relación entre la adjudicación individual de derechos sociales y la sostenibilidad fiscal del Estado ha sido un punto prioritario en la agenda colombiana sobre políticas públicas. No en vano se aprobaron recientemente reformas constitucionales y legales para limitar el impacto de las sentencias de las altas cortes en el erario público. Estas nuevas instituciones son promovidas partiendo de prácticas y discursos similares a ni- vel transnacional, que se incorporan al ordenamiento colombiano. Desde el derecho constitucional comparado, en el presente texto analizo las raíces internacionales de dichas reformas y sus transformaciones al llegar al marco constitucional colombiano.
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The relationship between the individual adjudication of social rights and the fiscal sustainability of the State has been a priority of Colombia’s public policy agenda. The recent approval of constitutional and legal reforms to limit the impact of high court decisions on the public treasury have not been in vain. These new institutions are promoted on the basis of similar practices and discourses at a transnational level that have been incorporated in the Colombian legal system. In this text, I make a comparative constitutional law analysis of the international roots of said reforms and the transformation that they have undergone upon their inclusion in the Colombian constitutional framework.
Este artículo, publicado en la prensa local 070, busca resumir los principales hechos de la Toma ... more Este artículo, publicado en la prensa local 070, busca resumir los principales hechos de la Toma y Retoma del Palacio de Justicia, con base a la sentencia de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos sobre el dicho caso.
This paper was prepared as a background guide for the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal... more This paper was prepared as a background guide for the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ) at the National High School Model United Nations (NHSMUN) 2016.
Prepared by the International Model United Nations Association (IMUNA).
Copyright IMUNA and Daniel R. Quiroga Villamarin, All Rights Reserved.
La Cascada (2006). C. Jacanamijoy Daniel Quiroga Derecho Constitucional Profesor : Eduardo Cifuen... more La Cascada (2006). C. Jacanamijoy Daniel Quiroga Derecho Constitucional Profesor : Eduardo Cifuentes 15 mayo del 2014 El Derecho Fundamental a la Consulta Previa 1 El Derecho Fundamental a la Consulta Previa Problemáticas frente a el ejercicio efectivo • Introducción La Consulta Previa es una de las reivindicaciones sociales más fuertes e importantes que se han desarrollado recientemente, especialmente en el sur global. No en vano, se ha dicho que ha adquirido un lugar protagónico en los sistemas jurídicos latinoamericanos contemporáneos (Rodríguez & Orduz, 2012, p. 5). No obstante, a pesar de la amplia aceptación, el ejercicio efectivo de este derecho fundamental ha sido escaso, y las buenas prácticas han brillado por su ausencia. En el presente escrito, analizaré brevemente qué es la Consulta Previa -qué requisitos tiene, de dónde nace su obligatoriedad y su relación con otros derechos -, sus antecedentes históricos y su desarrollo en la doctrina constitucional Colombiana. Por ultimo, examinaré que elementos han contribuido a debilitar este derecho fundamental, y que soluciones -aun cuando preliminares-se pueden ofrecer para hacer el mañana más democrático y pluralista.
For most international lawyers and global historians, the study of world ordering tends to revolv... more For most international lawyers and global historians, the study of world ordering tends to revolve around the planetary imaginations of (allegedly) secular, liberal, and cosmopolitan North Atlantic institutions. In this narrative, anticolonial critiques of the “rules-based liberal order” have been dismissed as the lethargic and parochial pangs of Third World nationalism. Conversely, recent interventions in these fields have highlighted how anticolonial decolonization entailed not only a call for the nation-state but also a reimagination of the structures of global governance. Drawing from -and aiming to contribute to- this literature, in this piece I capture two vignettes of instances in which postcolonial actors engaged in conference-hosting as a way of state-building and world- making. By centering the material and spatial politics of conferencing, I interrogate the relation between concrete infrastructural arrangements and seemingly immaterial imaginaries of anticolonial cosmopolitanism. I argue that the material implications of the struggles that one can trace in Bogota’s 1948 IX Pan-American Conference (which led to the creation of the Organization of American States OAS) or at the inauguration of the Kenyatta Conference Centre in 1973 still reverberate in our contemporary reimaginations of liberal internationalism.
Draft to presented at the 6th TAU (Tel Aviv University) Workshop for Junior Scholars in Law - November 14-16, 2021& the 14th Melbourne Law School Doctoral Forum on Legal Theory - 22-23 November 2021.
Draft, 2021
For most international lawyers and global historians, the study of world ordering tends to revolv... more For most international lawyers and global historians, the study of world ordering tends to revolve around the planetary imaginations of (allegedly) secular, liberal, and cosmopolitan North Atlantic institutions. In this narrative, anticolonial critiques of the “rules-based liberal order” have been dismissed as the lethargic and parochial pangs of Third World nationalism. Conversely, recent interventions in these fields have highlighted how anticolonial decolonization entailed not only a call for the nation-state but also a reimagination of the structures of global governance. Drawing from -and aiming to contribute to- this literature, in this piece I capture two vignettes of instances in which postcolonial actors engaged in conference-hosting as a way of state-building and world- making. By centering the material and spatial politics of conferencing, I interrogate the relation between concrete infrastructural arrangements and seemingly immaterial imaginaries of anticolonial cosmopolitanism. I argue that the material implications of the struggles that one can trace in Bogota’s 1948 IX Pan-American Conference (which led to the creation of the Organization of American States OAS) or at the inauguration of the Kenyatta Conference Centre in 1973 still reverberate in our contemporary reimaginations of liberal internationalism.
Draft to be presented at the the 6th TAU (Tel Aviv University) Workshop for Junior Scholars in Law November 14-16, 2021 & at the 14th Melbourne Doctoral Forum on Legal Theory will take place on 22-23 November 2021.
Forthcoming, Leiden Journal of International Law, 2021
Since the end of the Cold War, the content, scope, and extent of extraterritorial human rights ob... more Since the end of the Cold War, the content, scope, and extent of extraterritorial human rights obligations has become a pressing concern for international lawyers. On one end of the debate, mainstream scholarship argues that jurisdiction is primarily territorial, identifying a limited range of situations in which jurisdiction (and responsibility) is triggered. On the other hand, critical scholars suggest that Empire still haunts jurisdiction. By reconstructing the history of this doctrine, they show that the imperial reach has always been extra-territorial, and that the intimate linkage between state, territory, and population is of a rather recent and tenuous origin. In both of these narratives, however, lies the assumption that jurisdiction operates as a secularized power. Even if empires/states were once religious, faith’s legacy remains confined to the past. In this paper, conversely, I trace a critical genealogy of Christian authority as a jurisdictional structure, in which territoriality was never presumed. After all, one cannot forget that Catholicism and Universalism were forged in the same etymological crucible. By drawing from Foucault’s analysis of pastoral power, I argue that international law has deep roots in Christianity’s claims of governmentality upon “men and souls” instead of over defined territories.
Human Rights Law Review, 2020
Review of Susan Marks, A False Tree of Liberty: Human Rights in Radical Thought (OUP, 2020). Fort... more Review of Susan Marks, A False Tree of Liberty: Human Rights in Radical Thought (OUP, 2020). Forthcoming at the "Human Rights Law Review."
Melbourne Journal of International Law, 2020
By drawing from a wide array of sources, both methodologically and substantively, this edited vo... more By drawing from a wide array of sources, both methodologically and substantively, this edited volume invites the reader to engage with materiality in, through, and as international law. It offers a ground-breaking collection of artifacts, which (in their own ways) interrogate the complex relationship between the normative and the material, the discursive and the tangible. By weaving their analysis of the objects with vivid images and pictures, the contributors provide snapshots of diverging “ways of seeing” international law in theory and in practice. This “visualization of international law” quickly turns readers into spectators and calls for an inquiry into the politics of the gaze. Hence, the book is nothing less than an invitation to self-reflexivity in the exercise of seeing – or avoiding to see – the performances of international law. By collecting a series of objects which are held together by international law claim’s to authority, it offers a mirror in which a careful spectator can reflect on how the discipline exercises procedures of “legibility” to make the world through its gaze.
Forthcoming in issue 21(1) of the Melbourne Journal of International Law (July 2020).
Cynical International Law? Abuse and Circumvention in Public International and European Law, 2020
Since the early 90s, constitutional rights – and, mutatis mutandis, international human rights – ... more Since the early 90s, constitutional rights – and, mutatis mutandis, international human rights – have been mobilized to transform structural conditions of injustice before courtrooms all around world. From San José to Karlsruhe, Strasbourg to New Delhi, in both the Global North and South, judges have been at the forefront of the establishment of a new jus gentium common to all humankind. Implicit in this narrative, however, lies the idea that transnational judicial activism has inherent progressive outcomes: the rule of law, human rights, or liberalism tout court are the necessary products of judicial dialogue. In this paper, I argue that this implicit premise, which responds to the naiveté of the post-cold war period, can no longer hold in an increasingly illiberal world. Thus, I highlight that judicial activism can also favor illiberal outcomes. Long before liberals and disgruntled socialists turned to judges to protect human rights, courts had been a bulwark of the statu quo. The (in)famous Lochner case before the US Supreme Court bears witness to the fact that Courts not only have the potential to speak truth to power, but also, to speak power’s truth.
Keywords: International Courts, Judicial Dialogue, History and Theory of International Law, Populism, Backlash.
La historia no resuelve los problemas contemporáneos, pero sí logra bajar de los cielos conceptua... more La historia no resuelve los problemas contemporáneos, pero sí logra bajar de los cielos conceptuales, para mostrar que [el derecho] es parte de un mundo humano, que da forma y dota de significado nuestras agendas y propósitos 1 .
Latin America played a crucial role in furthering the cause of human rights at the nascent United... more Latin America played a crucial role in furthering the cause of human rights at the nascent United Nations (UN) at a time when great powers were mostly interested in limiting the scope of the organization to issues of collective security. Thus, this article aims to understand the Latin American contributions to the promotion of ESCRs in both global and regional debates by tracing the figure of the Chilean diplomat Hernán Santa Cruz and his efforts as both a drafter of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and founder of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). In Santa Cruz´ silhouette we can find a vivid example of Latin American thought regarding social rights, marked by the intersections, interactions, and contradictions of regional discourses such as social Catholicism, socialist constitutionalism, and developmentalist economic theories.
Las categorías de la justicia transicional han ocupado, merecidamente, un lugar privilegiado en ... more Las categorías de la justicia transicional han ocupado, merecidamente, un lugar privilegiado en la discusión pública sobre los acuerdos – y más importante aún, los desacuerdos – de la Habana pactados entre el Gobierno Nacional y las FARC-EP. En el presente artículo, se analizan dichas categorías desde la historia conceptual, para sostener que las instituciones jurídicas no son perennes e inmutables, sino que responden a momentos históricos contingentes y presiones particulares. Así, pensar sobre la trayectoria conceptual de la justicia transicional permitirá entender mejor el rol de la misma en los debates – pasados, presentes y futuros - en Colombia.
Palabras clave: Justicia Transicional, Teoría e Historia del Derecho Internacional
Global Histories, 2018
From the 26th to the 28th of September, the international symposium “Rethinking and Renewing the ... more From the 26th to the 28th of September, the international symposium “Rethinking and Renewing the Study of International Law in/from/about Latin America” convened in Bogotá, Colombia. This event, co-organized by three leading Colombian research universities, aimed to provide critical insights for students, practitioners and scholars who are concerned with the relationship between the Latin American region and international law.
Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory Research Paper Series 2023-03, 2023
What place, if any, should buildings and artworks have in the history of international law? In th... more What place, if any, should buildings and artworks have in the history of international law? In the state of the art, there doesn’t seem to be much space for either space or art. Indeed, despite the renaissance of legal and historical scholarship on the League of Nations, we still know little about the materiality and aesthetics of the sites in which this institution fashioned a shell for itself. In this essay, I analyze the place of José María Sert y Badia’s mural “The Lesson of Salamanca” (1936) in international legal history. This colossal artwork was commissioned and donated by the fledging Second Spanish Republic to adorn the meeting hall of the League’s highest organ: its Council. By glorifying the memory of the Spanish theologian Francisco de Vitoria, “The Lesson of Salamanca” also purported to tell a story about the relationship between the past, present, and future of international law — it acted as a history of international law. To illuminate its role in, and as, international legal history, I trace how Sert’s homage to peace instead became its funeral oration, highlighting the connections between this painting, the Spanish Civil war, and the crisis of the League’s “imperial internationalism.”
Derecho Internacional Económico (E. Prieto & R. Urueña, eds.)
En esta sección se presentará contexto jurídico de la migración internacional. Segundo, la libe... more En esta sección se presentará contexto jurídico de la migración internacional. Segundo, la liberalización de la movilidad de trabajadores siempre ha sido parte, en mayor y menor medida, del proyecto de globalización libre-mercadista. Si bien la famosa lista del Consenso de Washington no mencionaba la liberalización de la migración, y si bien el tema nunca tuvo lugar en las negociaciones del GATT, más allá de los tímidos pasitos en el contexto del GATS (véase abajo sección 2.1.) la verdad es que siempre fue claro que un mercado libre que fuera realmente libre tiene que incluir a la libre movilidad de la oferta y demanda laboral. No solamente ha sido esta la posición de los fundamentalistas del libre mercado, sino que también ha terminado siendo un elemento importante en muchos de los regímenes regionales de integración económica. Estaremos ofreciendo un panorama de todas estas liberalizaciones regionales en las secciones 2.2 y 2.3 y se podrá apreciar que ya existen varios regímenes de libre movimiento en el mundo.
La figura del migrante, del trabajador transfronterizo, también ha sido objeto de atención en el seno de la ONU y de la OIT, en unos esfuerzos por generar un normatividad para estos sujetos alejados de su jurisdicción nacional . Examinaremos estos esfuerzos en la sección 3. Finalmente, si uno mira a la migración desde la perspectiva de las políticas económicas que desarrollan los estados a todos los ‘niveles de desarrollo’, se observará que la migración es un tema que una gran mayoría de los estados tienen en mente. En otras palabras, no solamente en la creación de mercados comunes regionales, sino en las perspectivas de desarrollo económico, la migración es un componente importante para muchos países, independiente de si se trata de una economía ‘avanzada’ o una economía ‘en vía de desarrollo’. Expondremos las formas cómo sucede esto en la sección 4. Cerraremos con una estudiada perspectiva al futuro.
Este capitulo aparecerá en el 2020.
Plan de Cours - Cónference de Méthode Sciences Po campus in Nancy, Fall 2020.
MA Dissertation, 2020
While the history of international law has been mainly dominated by intellectual history, the nei... more While the history of international law has been mainly dominated by intellectual history, the neighboring humanities and social sciences have witnessed a “material turn.” Influenced by the new materialisms, historians, sociologists, and anthropologists have highlighted the role of objects and nonhuman infrastructures in the making of the social. Law, however, has been conspicuously absent from these discussions. Only until recently, things began to be studied as instruments of -global- regulation.
In this dissertation, I argue that these insights from socio-legal historical methodologies could push international lawyers to go beyond texts and engage with the materiality of global governance (past, present, and future). In this vein, I trace a history of transnational regulation through the materiality of shipping containers (1956-1968). Drawing from the Foucauldian notion of governmentality, I study containers as instruments through which power and regulation manifest, albeit in a way that defies traditional categories of state-focused law-making processes.
IHEID Research Bulletin, 2024
Metaphors drawn from architecture are extensively used by both scholars and practitioners in the ... more Metaphors drawn from architecture are extensively used by both scholars and practitioners in the world of global governance: one often hears reference to "the international" as if it were an "edifice", with "pillars" and "areas" of regulation. In his doctoral research, Daniel Quiroga-Villamarín took this metaphorical language seriously as an object of study in international legal history and traced the processes which lead to the creation of the buildings in which "the international" is forged and contested-from the shores of the lac Léman all throughout the globe in the short twentieth century.
Toynbee Prize Global History Blog, 2024
Violence is, in the public imagination, the law’s radical Other. Brutality and cruelty, we tend t... more Violence is, in the public imagination, the law’s radical Other. Brutality and cruelty, we tend to believe, are elements that flourish in law’s absence. Not only is the appearance of violence a symptom of the absence of order, but its bloody outbursts are taken to be utterly meaningless. The narrative of the emergence of “modern” law —both within, and beyond, the nation-state— is usually that of the triumph of reason and deliberation over violence. This progression supposedly entailed the prohibition (or at least, the domestication) of force in local and global politics. Against this rather rosy narrative, Lauren Benton invites us to read the ways in which violence and law act, together, to cement claims of global order.
Imprenta (Facultad de Ciencias Sociales Universidad de los Andes), 2023
Las y los estudiantes de “Derecho Internacional” del semestre 2023-1 de la Universidad de los And... more Las y los estudiantes de “Derecho Internacional” del semestre 2023-1 de la Universidad de los Andes simularon un debate jurídico y geopolítico sobre lo que sucede en el Consejo de Seguridad de Naciones Unidas, alrededor del territorio conocido como el “Óblast de Kaliningrado”.
Haciendo las veces de embajadoras y embajadores, las y los estudiantes representaron a sus países ante el “Gran Leviatán”. Lo que les permitió ver de primera mano las oportunidades y límites del Derecho Internacional.
Profesor de cátedra: Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín
Toynbee Prize Foundation Global History Blog, 2023
For a long time, international legal scholars and practitioners tended to see the League of Natio... more For a long time, international legal scholars and practitioners tended to see the League of Nations solely as a historical failure. In leading textbooks and inside the classroom, it was not uncommon to read and hear depictions of the interwar international institutions as a mere prelude to the post-1945 international order. The League, in comparison to the United Nations, was dismissed as a moment of not yet. In the last decade or so, however, more nuanced waves of scholarship across disciplines have unearthed the inner lives of international ordering, exploring the immense efforts and disappointments that surrounded the work of the League and other interwar institutions. In his recent monograph, Omer Aloni joins this renaissance of historical scholarship, adding a distinctively socio-legal perspective grounded in rich archival research to a conversation in which lawyers have been relative latecomers. In this sense, The League of Nations and the Protection of the Environment (Cambridge University Press, 2021) provides an exploration the ways in which the relations between "nature, environment, and humankind" were legally regulated at the international plane in the interwar period-and beyond. Aloni's monograph offers a textured account not only of the origins of modern international environmental law, but also of the deep roots of our contemporary ecological crises. In it, we find that many of the issues that contemporary commentators decry as novel have, in fact, long histories. For instance, Aloni details that the quest for environmental protection and conservation has long been tangled with difficult questions related to scientific expertise, civil society participation, colonial and imperial hegemony, industrial lobbies and economic interests, and the relationship between public and private interests. By exploring several cases studies (which, as Aloni notes, "cover almost every part of the Earth-from the depth of the oceans to wooden documents.
Toynbee Prize Foundation Global History , 2022
Interview with Professor Victoria Phillips on her monograph "Martha Graham’s Cold War: The Dance ... more Interview with Professor Victoria Phillips on her monograph "Martha Graham’s Cold War: The Dance of American Diplomacy" (Oxford University Press, 2020).
Toynbee Prize Foundation, 2022
The image of two men, sitting awkwardly across each other in a solemn conference table, suddenly ... more The image of two men, sitting awkwardly across each other in a solemn conference table, suddenly sprouted everywhere in my Twitter feed last winter. As a terrifying war erupted over competing visions of eastern Europe's place in the international order, this somewhat surreal picture of the rulers of France and Russia conferencing offered little respite. It was precisely at this time that I had the pleasure to converse with the incoming Toynbee Prize Foundation President Glenda Sluga about her most recent monographThe Invention of International Order: Remaking Europe after Napoleon (Princeton University Press). As the so-called international order comes under increasing pressure in Ukraine and beyond, Sluga's timely book invites us to engage with the "two centuries of multilateral principles, practices, and expectations" to understand the promises and limits of our contemporary arrangements (p. xi). It places the recent meeting between Macron and Putin in the context of the rise and consolidation of "a new professional, procedural, and bureaucratic approach to diplomacy, based on the sociability of men" (p. 6). After all, our modern notions of international "politics" or "society" were forged in the aftermath of a previous European-wide conflagration that had France and Russia at its helm: the Napoleonic wars.
Sluga's account does not aim to blindly celebrate nor to categorically condemn this modern political imaginary of international ordering. Others have dismissed the post-Napoleonic diplomatic constellation as reactionary or have lauded it as protoliberal. Sluga, above all, is interested in questioning it. She invites us to: reflect on for whom this order has been built; push against the ways it narrows our perspective; and grapple with its inner tensions and contradictions (p. 282). At the heart of the book, I would suggest, lies a concern about the paradoxical record of European modernity: a project that "has offered an expansive horizon of political expectations but delivered a voice only for some" (p. 7). By taking women, non-Europeans, and "non-state" actors seriously as political agents, she shows how bankers, Jews, or ambassadrices were ironically crucial in the making of a system that came to exclude them from the historical record. And, unsurprisingly, these exclusions lead to tensions that threaten to upend international order from within and without-from 1821, 1848, or 1853 to 2022. In our conversation, we attempt to make sense of these paradoxes, contradictions, and ambiguities of international ordering.
—Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín, Graduate Institute Geneva
Open Letter, 2021
Press release May 7, 2021 More than 300 academics, practitioners, lawyers, and students of inter... more Press release
May 7, 2021
More than 300 academics, practitioners, lawyers, and students of international law from around the world denounced the excessive use of force by Colombian police on unarmed protesters exercising their right to peaceful assembly since April 28. The Open Letter´s signatories remind the Colombian government that international human rights standards on the use of force by police must be followed, even when controlling or detaining isolated cases of violence or vandalism during protests. Colombian security forces must follow the principles of legality, precaution, necessity and proportionality when controlling protests. Adding military armed forces to situations of civil unrest or public disorder increases the possibility of further human rights violations. The signatories ask the Colombian State to investigate any reasonable suspicion of abuse or illegal use of force and hold those who violate domestic or international law accountable. Additionally, the letter calls on state authorities to cooperate with international organizations and civil society associations in order to achieve an adequate environment for peaceful demonstration and the resolution of the problems that instigated the protests throughout the country.
Even before the Unitedstatesean President Truman urged the attendants of the 1945 United Nations ... more Even before the Unitedstatesean President Truman urged the attendants of the 1945 United Nations Conference on International Organization to see themselves as "architects of the better world," the field of global governance has proven to be a fertile ground for metaphors drawn from architecture. Indeed, in the collective imagination of practitioners and scholars alike, the international legal order appears as a vast and towering edifice: a veritable "legal architecture" of globality that overlooks "areas" of governance sustained by figurative and normative "pillars." But international law's castles, of course, were not built solely in the air. For the metaphorical use of architectonical language only hides international law's profound lack of engagement with the material and concrete spaces in which the "international" is produced, contested, and disputed.
Conversely, in this doctoral project, Daniel Ricardo Quiroga-Villamarín argues that the "architecture of international cooperation" is a relevant question for international legal history. Instead of taking purpose-built environments for granted, he traces a genealogy of the emergence of the international parliamentary complex in the twentieth century (1919-1998). In particular, he reconstructs a material history of the erection of "international parliamentary palaces" in Geneva; New York City, Bogotá, Addis Ababa, and Vienna-purposefully created to host new global institutions. Historicizing space and spatializing history, he suggests, might allow us to understand the tessellations between architecture, democracy, and law in global governance.
Scholars who would like to present a paper at the second workshop on “Beauty and Power: Aesthetic... more Scholars who would like to present a paper at the second workshop on “Beauty and Power: Aesthetics, History, & International Law” are invited to submit a title and abstract (250─500 words) to daniel.quiroga@graduateinstitute.ch before November 25, 2022 (23:59 Geneva Time - CET). A decision on acceptance of the abstract will be communicated by mid-December. We expect to host these workshops in person, but hybrid participation might be considered depending on the overall sanitary situation and the guidelines issued by the Geneva Graduate Institute. We are keen on exploring options for a collective publication effort after the workshop. As such, we encourage potential participants to bear this in mind as they prepare their abstracts.
Part of the “New Directions in the Theory & History of International Law” series, this workshop w... more Part of the “New Directions in the Theory & History of International Law” series, this workshop will be dedicated to the theme of “Beauty and Power: Aesthetics, History, and International Law.” In the context of the workshop, a diverse group of scholars will discuss what the study of aesthetics, broadly understood, can bring to the theory and history of international law. As such, the papers discussed in the workshop seek to strike exciting conversations between the field of international law and recent developments in visual politics, art history, architecture, visual international relations, literature, and visual anthropology.
Alongside three thematic panels and a concluding roundtable, Kate Miles (University of Cambridge) will give an opening keynote lecture entitled “Through Image and Object: Constructing, Erasing, and Living Visual International Law.”
Convened by Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín and hosted by the Global Governance Centre, this workshop has been organized with the generous support of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), the Conférence Universitaire de Suisse Occidentale (CUSO), and the Departments of International law and International History & Politics at the Geneva Graduate Institute.
Save the date! Workshop "Beauty and Power: Aesthetics, History, and International Law." 19-20 Oct... more Save the date! Workshop "Beauty and Power: Aesthetics, History, and International Law." 19-20 October 2023, Geneva Graduate Institute.
Join us for the second workshop of the series "New Directions in the Theory & History of International Law." In the context of the workshop, a diverse group of scholars will discuss what the study of aesthetics, broadly understood, can bring to the theory and history of international law. As such, the papers discussed in the workshop seek to strike exciting conversations between the field of international law and recent developments in visual politics, art history, architecture, visual international relations, literature, and visual anthropology.
Please find the tentative programme in the following link:
https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/communications/events/beauty-and-power-aesthetics-history-and-international-law-0