The Cambridge Handbook of the League of Nations and International Law is out!
Andrei Mamolea
@andreimamolea.bsky.social
Historian of international law and politics | asst prof at BU https://www.bu.edu/pardeeschool/profile/andrei-mamolea/
📢 New on First View! Andrei Mamolea (@andreimamolea.bsky.social) shows that a Latin American bloc with a common agenda emerged in Geneva in the 1920s. #LeagueofNations #LatinAmerica #internationallaw #smallstates #transatlantic Read Open Access here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...
Third annual Conference on the Jewish Left, featuring Peter Beinart, Prof Marjorie Feld, Arielle Angel, Ian Lustick, Zol Zayn, Dove Kent, Liana Krupp, Fadi Quran, Prof Michael Zank, and 16 workshops led by scholars, faith leaders, and national orgs like the SPLC. Join us! www.bit.ly/jewishleft
Here’s the recording of my conversation yesterday with some super smart friends about the US intervention in Venezuela 🗃️ @shafrhistorians.bsky.social
UNC Press@uncpress.bsky.social · 9mo agoWhat does US intervention in Venezuela mean for Latin America and how did we get here? Authors unpack the history, policy, and implications in this must-watch discussion. Watch it here👇 youtu.be/VGlfGplYdm4
I'm delighted to announce BU's Clark Legal History Series @bostonu.bsky.social @bulaw.bsky.social Weds 4:20 to 6:20: Starting 1/21: @johnfabianwitt.bsky.social presenting his outstanding new book "The Radical Fund" Then @sherifgirgis.bsky.social @beaubaumann.bsky.social & more:
In 1921, a Venezuelan diplomat, Diógenes Escalante, considered the League of Nations as a place where Latin America could "counterbalance the all-absorbing influence of the United States" by removing the region "from Washington’s tutelage" and
Anyone interested in doing a funded PhD on Latin America and the League of Nations should apply for this position at the Graduate Institute:
The US has repeatedly violated international law in its relations with Venezuela and not just through the illegal use of force. In 1908, it helped engineer a coup so that it could relitigate an arbitral case that Venezuela had won. I briefly tell the story in this chapter:
Anyone interested in doing a funded PhD on Latin America and the League of Nations should apply for this position at the Graduate Institute:
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🌟 Call for papers 🌟 'How is the earth written, by whom and to what ends? And how is it written through law? What distinguishes the planetary, the global & the international—and how might these distinctions matter legally?' Join us in Florence in June! @eui-eu.bsky.social @uoelawschool.bsky.social
The Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University @bupardeeschool.bsky.social is inviting applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Latin American Studies. Please share.
The Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University @bupardeeschool.bsky.social is inviting applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Latin American Studies. Please share.
A reminder to folks in Boston: Professor Bradley Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social will be giving a book talk on The First Right next Monday Oct. 27 at 4pm at 121 Bay State Road, Boston University. Come join us!
A reminder to folks in Boston: Professor Bradley Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social will be giving a book talk on The First Right next Monday Oct. 27 at 4pm at 121 Bay State Road, Boston University. Come join us!
SHAFR-ites! Come learn the truth about Edwin Borchard, John Bassett Moore, William Borah, and neutralism in the 1930s and 1940s! But stay for the cutting-edge research on law, migration, and forced displacement by my brilliant co-panelists Tomorrow at 10:15 in Salon 3. #SHAFR2025
Please join us on Monday Apr. 14 from 2-4PM in 5052 Wasserstein Hall for our final workshop of the semester:
Friends, Allison Powers Useche will be giving a book talk, “Arbitrating Empire: United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law,” today at 4:00 in the Riverside Room of 121 Bay State Road in Boston. Please join us.
