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Jean d'Aspremont, The Love for International Organizations
Jean d'Aspremont, The Love for International Organizations
Date：2023-07-03
On May 25, 2023, Jean d'Aspremont, Professor of International Law at Sciences Po School of Law and Professor of Public International Law at the University of Manchester, gave a lecture on "The Love for International Organizations."
Despite being the subject of compelling criticisms in recent decades, international organizations continue to occupy a very central place in the practical, conceptual, cognitive, imaginary, and emotional universe of international lawyers. d'Aspremont argued that the resilient centrality of international organizations in international legal thought and practice is the manifestation of international lawyers' love for such institutions.
His lecture is to provide an account of the drivers that inform international lawyers' love for international organizations with a view to elucidating what lies behind the centrality of international organizations in international legal thought and practice. Among the drivers of international lawyers' love for international organizations, d'Aspremont paid attention to their representations as:
Despite being the subject of compelling criticisms in recent decades, international organizations continue to occupy a very central place in the practical, conceptual, cognitive, imaginary, and emotional universe of international lawyers. d'Aspremont argued that the resilient centrality of international organizations in international legal thought and practice is the manifestation of international lawyers' love for such institutions.
His lecture is to provide an account of the drivers that inform international lawyers' love for international organizations with a view to elucidating what lies behind the centrality of international organizations in international legal thought and practice. Among the drivers of international lawyers' love for international organizations, d'Aspremont paid attention to their representations as:
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Taking care of people
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Showing where to look for power
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Knowing so much
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Romanticizing history
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Providing a shared standard of experience
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Textualizing the universe
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Providing and organizing space for discontent
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Expanding international lawyers' field of study
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Holding many secrets
International organizations are not perfect, but they are essential to the functioning of the international legal system. International lawyers should continue to love international organizations, even in the face of criticism, and to work to make them even better.
- Speaker Profile：
Jean d'Aspremont is Professor of International Law at Sciences Po School of Law. He also holds a chair of Public International Law at the University of Manchester. He is General Editor of the Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law, Director of Oxford International Organizations (OXIO) and series editor of the Melland Schill Studies in International Law. He has written extensively on questions of international law. His work has been translated in several languages including Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Hindi, Japanese and Persian.
To learn more about the event, please check out: https://www.law.pku.edu.cn/xwzx/xwdt/150603.htm