Book launch: Post-Colonial Globalisation: Law, power and actors in the 21st Century
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5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
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- SOAS University of London
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- Wolfson Lecture Theatre
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About this event
Authors Dr Yonit Manor-Percival and Professor Janet Dine join us to speak about their latest book Post-Colonial Globalisation: Law, power and actors in the 21st Century.
Humanity is perhaps facing its greatest existential threat to date. As the world enters into a period of ongoing polycrises, mired in conflict, climate change and migration, and biodiversity loss, the challenge to understand both the opportunities and dangers facing the planet remain evermore significant.
What was once perceived as a threat to globalisation is now increasingly understood as the threat of globalisation: the ongoing demand to secure resources for the few to the detriment of the many.
In this thought-provoking new book, Yonit Manor-Percival and Janet Dine offer an insight into the actors who animate the globalist project and the power dynamics which run through it. Using law as a prism through which the globalist project of our times is examined, and fusing historical and contemporary perspectives, Post-Colonial Globalisation offers a fresh take on the politics of taking, and an extractivist mindset which continues to threaten both species and planet.
This event is free for all, no registration needed.
About the speakers
Yonit Manor-Percival specialises in the interface between law, society and corporations within the framework of the global political economy, with a focus on the People’s Republic of China (PRC). She completed her PhD research in international investment protection law at Queen Mary University of London.
Dr. Percival is fluent in Mandarin and previously practiced as a solicitor in the City of London and Shanghai, specializing in international investment and trade law with emphasis on Chinese corporations in relation to their overseas activities. She is an arbitrator on the panel of the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission.
Janet Dine is Professor of International Economic Development Law at Queen Mary University of London with over four decades experience teaching, research and writing on international law, development, company law and corporate governance.
In addition to a distinguished career as a barrister and solicitor prior to joining the academe, she is the author of multiple monographs, including: The Governance of Corporate Groups, Company, International Trade and Human Rights, Human Rights and Capitalism (editor) and The Nature of Corporate Governance: the Significance of National Cultural Identity.
Discussants
Malgosia Fitzmaurice holds a chair of public international law at the Department of Law, Queen Mary University of London. She is a full Member of the Institue de Droit International. In 2021 she was awarded the Doctorate Honoris Causa of the University of Neuchâtel.
She specialises in international environmental law; the law of treaties; and indigenous peoples. She publishes widely on these subjects.
Michelle Staggs Kelsall is a Senior Lecturer in International Law and Co-Director of the Centre for Human Rights Law at the School of Law, Gender and Media, SOAS University of London. In addition to publications in the European Journal of International Law, the German Yearbook of International Law, the Palestine Yearbook of International Law and a variety of other presses, Michelle’s forthcoming book considers the emergence of the field of Business and Human Rights and how it is changing understandings of international human rights law in the twenty-first century.
