Introductory Remarks, Dean Renée Hutchins, Maryland Carey Law and Professor Guy-Uriel Charles, Harvard Law School.
Join us for the investiture and lecture by Professor Matiangai Sirleaf on Hierarchy & International Law.
Professor Sirleaf is the Nathan Patz Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. She holds a secondary appointment as a professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Professor Sirleaf writes and teaches in the areas of global public health law, public international law, international human rights law, international criminal law, post-conflict and transitional justice, and criminal law.
Professor Sirleaf’s scholarly agenda seeks to make visible the extant hierarchies in international law and to remedy the inequities reflected in it. Her work elucidates how seemingly neutral laws further global inequities. Her research theorizes avenues for greater involvement of historically subordinated peoples in the making of international law. The common thread through all her scholarship whether examining issues of racial justice, civil and political violations, or socio-economic violations, is responsibility. International law conceives of responsibility in narrow ways and her scholarships seeks to render it more emancipatory.
In addition to being honored as the Nathan Patz Professor of Law, we are celebrating the publication of Professor Sirleaf’s new book Race & National Security.
A reception with drinks and hors d’oeuvres will immediately follow the program.
To register for the Race & National Security Book Launch & Conference on Friday November 17, 2023 from 9-5 pm at the Frederick Douglass - Isaac Myers Maritime Park Living Classrooms Foundation 1417 Thames Street, Baltimore, MD please go here.
