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The Quest for Imperial Peace: On the Politics of International Law
This talk explains the impunity gap for the crime of aggression in the current international legal order. It recasts the genealogy of the crimes against peace to the Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals through their liberal imperial context. It argues that international criminal law in the postwar order has been premised on the pursuit of liberal imperial peace. Revisiting Judge Pal’s dissent at the Tokyo Tribunal, it brings this genealogy to bear with the current questions of Ukraine and Palestine.
Date:
10 March 2026, 14:00
Venue:
Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details:
Main Lecture Theatre, Floor 1, Elevator Access
Speaker:
Oumar Ba (Cornell University)
Organising department:
Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR)
Organisers:
Ayse Polat (University of Oxford),
Meera Sabaratnam (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
ayse.polat@politics.ox.ac.uk
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Ayse Polat
