American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “The Multiplicity of International Persons: State, Empire and Sovereignty in the Global Public Order of the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries,” November 5, 2021 @ 1:15 – 2:40 pm

1:15 PM – 2:40 PM

The Multiplicity of International Persons: State, Empire and Sovereignty in the Global Public Order of the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries (Frenchman 1)

Chair: Edward Kolla, Georgetown University (ejk55@georgetown.edu), Commentator: Edward Kolla, Georgetown University (ejk55@georgetown.edu)

Sarath Pillai, University of Chicago (sarathpillai@uchicago.edu)
German Lessons: Princely Sovereignty and the Origins of Comparative Constitutionalism in Interwar India

Youssef Ben Ismail, Harvard University (ybenismail@g.harvard.edu) Tunisian Consuls? State Sovereignty, Provincial Autonomy, and Diplomatic Representation in a Disputed Ottoman Province (ca. 1800-1900)

Aden Knaap, Harvard University (adknaap@g.harvard.edu)
How to Make a State: The Permanent Court of Arbitration and Statehood, 1899–1907

Idriss Fofana, Columbia University (idriss.fofana@columbia.edu)
The International Personality of Colonial Polities: Experiments with Non-State Sovereignty in the Age of High Imperialism

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