Emancipating International Law: Confronting the Violence of Racialised Boundaries (OUP, 2025), edited by Mohsen al Attar and Claire Smith, critically examines the entanglements of race, racism, and international law. Across twenty-four chapters, authored by scholars from across the world, reveals how racial hierarchies and white supremacy are embedded within the discipline’s doctrines, institutions, and frameworks. In its own way, each contribution challenges the orthodoxy of international legal scholarship and offers insights for dismantling systemic oppression.

Each of the speakers will speak for 10-12 minutes to their chapter or to the theme more broadly, followed by a Q&A section.

The event will last 90 minutes. All welcome.