This course is available on the BA in Anthropology and Law and LLB in Laws. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
This course is available on the BA in Anthropology and Law and LLB in Laws. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
This course will have a minimum of two hours of teaching content each week in Michaelmas Term and Lent Term, either in the form of a two hour seminar or an online lecture and one hour class. This course includes a reading week in Weeks 6 of Michaelmas Term and Lent Term.
Students will be expected to submit one 2,000-word essay
Fernand Braudel, The Perspective of the World (Civilization and Capitalism), 3 vols. trans. Sian Reynolds (Collins, 1984); Sarah Rose, For All the Tea in China (Arrow Books, 2010); Jean Baudrillard, The Consumer Society (Sage, 1998 [1970]); Duncan Kennedy (1985) 'The Role of Law in Economic Thought: Essays on the Fetishism of Commodities' 34 The American University Law Review 939-1001; Hugo Grotius, The Freedom of the Seas, or the Right Which Belongs to the Dutch to take part in the East Indian Trade [Mare Liberum], trans. Ralph Van Deman Magoffin (Oxford UP, 1916); Alfred Rubin, The Law of Piracy (Naval War College Press, 1988); David Graeber, Debt: the First 5000 Years (Melville House, 2011); Martti Koskenniemi (2011) ?Empire and International Law: The Real Spanish Contribution? 61 University of Toronto Law Journal 1-36; Lauren Benton and Benjamin Straumann (2010) ?Acquiring Empire by Law: From Roman Doctrine to Early Modem European Practice? 28 Law and History Review 1-37; Richard Tuck, Natural Rights Theories, Cambridge UP (1979); Michel Foucault, Territory, Security, Population (Palgrave, 2009); Anne Orford (2005) ?Beyond Harmonization: Trade, Human Rights and the Economy of Sacrifice? 18 Leiden Journal of International Law 179-213; Lorraine Talbot (2013) ?Why Shareholders Shouldn?t Vote: A Marxist-progressive Critique of Shareholder Empowerment? 76 Modern Law Review 791-816; Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, The Many-Headed Hydra: The Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic (Verso 2002); Steven Topik, Carlos Marichal and Zephyr Frank (eds), From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000 (Duke University Press, 2006).
Essay (85%, 8000 words) in the LT and ST. Project (15%) in the MT and LT. Summative assessment will be in two parts:? 85% for a 6,000-8,000 word long essay (proposal to be submitted in LT) 15% for participation in, and presentation of, a research project.