Robert St. Martin Westley: “Reparations for Slave Trade, Chattel Slavery and Racial Subordination in the USA. A Comparative Law Framework for Thinking about Temporality and Transitional Justice”
Public Keynote Lecture | 23. März 2022, 19:00 Uhr | Online-Veranstaltung
The Department of Contemporary History and the Unit for Peace and Conflict Studies is pleased to invite you to a Keynote Lecture with Robert St. Martin Westley on March 23rd, 2022 at 19:00 on “Reparations for Slave Trade, Chattel Slavery and Racial Subordination in the USA: A Comparative Law Framework for Thinking about Temporality and Transitional Justice”. Robert Westley is LOCHEF Professor of Legal Ethics & Professional Responsibility at Tulane University Law School in New Orleans. His research and teaching interests are in the fields of critical race theory, constitutional law, philosophy of law, law and literature, and the legal profession. This Keynote lecture is part of a closed workshop on the theme of “Addressing Injustice, Atrocities and Violence: Exploring Reparations in Global Perspective.”
Programm:
Public Keynote Lecture with Robert Westley
Robert Westley is LOCHEF Professor of Legal Ethics & Professional Responsibility at Tulane University Law School in New Orleans. His research and teaching interests are in the fields of critical race theory, constitutional law, philosophy of law, law and literature, and the legal profession. He is the author of Restitution Claims for Wrongful Enslavement and the Doctrine of the Master’s Good Faith in THE SOCIAL AND LEGAL CONSTRUCTION OF WHITENESS: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY ANALYSIS, University of Mississippi Press (2016) as well as First-Time Encounters: “Passing” Revisited and Demystification as a Critical Practice, 18 Yale Journal of Law and Social Policy 297 (2000). He is currently working on a book on reparations for historical injustice. Professor Westley is a 2021 recipient of the Tulane University Provost’s Award for Excellence in Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.
Konzept und Organisation:
Rina Alluri, Unit for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Innsbruck
gemeinsam mit:
Eric Burton, Department of Contemporary History, University of Innsbruck
Noam Zadoff, Department of Contemporary History, University of Innsbruck
Kontakt:
Ass.-Prof. Dr. Noam Zadoff
Institut für Zeitgeschichte
Universität Innsbruck
Innrain 52d, 6020 Innsbruck
Noam.Zadoff@uibk.ac.at
Bild: © Robert St. Martin Westley / Tulane University