Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School, 1545 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA (2026)

The Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP) at Harvard Law School is a collaborative faculty effort to nurture innovative approaches to global policy in the face of a legal and institutional architecture manifestly ill-equipped to address our most urgent global challenges. The IGLP explores the ways in which they are reproduced and what might be done in response. We aim to provide a platform at Harvard for new thinking about international legal and institutional arrangements, with particular emphasis on ideas and issues of importance to the global South.

09/02/2026

We are pleased to celebrate the publication of "Off the Map: A Critical Geography of International Law" by IGLP Faculty Member Nikolas Rajkovic, Professor and Chair of International Law at Tilburg University.

Described by IGLP Faculty Director David Kennedy as “an interdisciplinary tour de force,” the book explores how international law’s traditional, territory-based understanding of the world is increasingly challenged by a world that is “pixelated, networked, transversal.”

Over the coming months, Professor Rajkovic will host a series of book talks offering opportunities to engage with the book’s central themes and ideas. See the poster below for more information about upcoming events.

Learn more about the book here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/off-the-map/0BD47DBEA72157F689988262501E3498

06/12/2026

The IGLP is currently in Paris, France, convening the 2026 Global Scholars Intensive in collaboration with Sciences Po Law School.

More than 65 faculty and scholars from 35 countries have gathered for a three-day intensive workshop to develop new approaches to the world’s most pressing policy challenges.

04/27/2026

Join us tomorrow for the virtual launch of "Emancipating International Law: Confronting the Violence of Racialised Boundaries"

Tuesday, 28 April | 9:00 AM EST / 2:00 PM GMT

Zoom Registration: https://tinyurl.com/Zoom-IGLP

Is there a role for international law in confronting the racialised effects of fascism? How have international legal scholars responded?

To answer these questions, we invite you to the Virtual Launch of "Emancipating International Law: Confronting the Violence of Racialised Boundaries" (OUP, 2026), a collection of chapters that explores the dynamic relationship between race, racism, and international law. Contributors speak to the racialised features that permeate the international law project, and structures central to international law, with a view to interrogating both its potential and its limitations in addressing today’s — and tomorrow’s — challenges.

04/23/2026

Virtual Book Launch — Emancipating International Law: Confronting the Violence of Racialised Boundaries

Tuesday, 28 April | 9:00 AM EST / 2:00 PM GMT

Zoom Registration: https://tinyurl.com/Zoom-IGLP

Is there a role for international law in confronting the racialised effects of fascism? How have international legal scholars responded?

To answer these questions, we invite you to the Virtual Launch of "Emancipating International Law: Confronting the Violence of Racialised Boundaries" (OUP, 2026), a collection of chapters that explores the dynamic relationship between race, racism, and international law. Contributors speak to the racialised features that permeate the international law project, and structures central to international law, with a view to interrogating both its potential and its limitations in addressing today’s — and tomorrow’s — challenges.

04/17/2026

What role can international law play in confronting the racialised effects of rising fascism?

Join the Institute for Global Law and Policy for the Virtual Launch of "Emancipating International Law: Confronting the Violence of Racialized Boundaries" (OUP 2026), edited by Mohsen al Attar and Claire Smith.

Tuesday, 28 April | 9:00 AM EST / 2:00 PM GMT | Zoom
Registration: https://tinyurl.com/Zoom-IGLP

The global resurgence of fascist narratives has been propelled by the persistence of racist ideologies and practices. Paralleling historic moments of crisis, power today is being consolidated through racialised violence and subordination. This has manifested through the mainstreaming of racist discourse; the dispensability of non-white life in war and genocide; hostile policies towards migrants and refugees; and the suppression of racial justice initiatives across civil society and academic spaces. The fault-lines in international law, including the racial dynamics embedded in its doctrines, have become increasingly apparent, raising questions about the framework’s silence and complicity in the face of evolving racial injustice(s).

Is there a role for international law in confronting the racialised effects of fascism? How have international legal scholars responded? To answer these questions, we invite you to the Virtual Launch of "Emancipating International Law: Confronting the Violence of Racialised Boundaries" (OUP, 2026), a collection of chapters that explores the dynamic relationship between race, racism, and international law. Contributors speak to the racialised features that permeate the international law project, and structures central to international law, with a view to interrogating both its potential and its limitations in addressing today’s — and tomorrow’s — challenges.

04/07/2026

Tomorrow: Colonialism, Empire and Race Symposium at Harvard Law School

This symposium, organized by the IGLP Fellows, will feature two roundtables and a film screening to engage the entanglements of law, colonialism, and racialisation, exploring how legal regimes shape and are shaped by colonial and racial hierarchies, as well as the role of the university.

Find more information here: https://tinyurl.com/IGLPsymposium
Register here: https://tinyurl.com/IGLPregistration

We hope to see you there!

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