16/11/2021
The Department of Law at The School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at AUC gapp AUC The American University in Cairo has the pleasure of cordially inviting you to the below webinar "The Fragmentation of International Lawyers" by Dr. Jason Beckett, Assistant Professor, Law Department, GAPP, AUC.
Discussant: Dr. Geoff Gordon, Senior Researcher at the T.M.C. Asser Institute Centre for International & European Law.
Moderator: Dr. Nora Salem, Assistant Professor and Head of the Public International Law Department, The German University in Cairo.
The webinar is scheduled on Wednesday, November 17, 2021 at 6:00 pm (Cairo Time).
To join the webinar, please click on the below link:
https://aucegypt.zoom.us/j/97052460665
Dr. Beckett argues that the lack of materiality in Public International Law (PIL) engenders an unbearable mass of “legally cognizable materials”, huddled indiscriminately together; and not subject to any authoritative ranking or evaluation. Thus we have no right to expect our analyses to lead to coherent results. PIL is not actually a thing, but a conflictual mass of discrete communities. Each with its own standards for norm-recognition, interpretation, and competent legal argument. He will reflect on the simple existence of these chaotically co-existing communities in PIL; particularly in light of its lack of material existence or effect. There are many different ways of “doing” PIL. These have varying levels of prestige in specific settings. But none is more (in)competent than any other.
