Sous le signe de la "civilisation" : Droit international, antiesclavagisme et impérialisme entre 1815 et 1945

Séminaire du Louvain Lab for Law, History and Society

Intervenant : Michel Erpelding, Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory in Frankfurt, Germany.

Michel Erpelding's work focusses on the history of international and European integration law, with a special interest in their interaction with colonial law and practices. His research group ‘The Hidden Heritage of the European Union: the Legacy of the Law of the League of Nations’ further explores this theme. It analyses how legal practices developed during the interwar period both in Europe itself and on its colonial peripheries and informed European ‘integration-through-law’ after the Second World War.