Balázs Trencsényi
2019 marked the centenary of the Paris Peace Treaties of 1919 – an international global order that particularly shaped Central and Eastern Europe but which remains contested not only among legal scholars until today. Several talks on these treaties were given by Milos Vec in Frankfurt, Stockholm, Vienna, and Paris in the course of an international conference at the German Historical Institute (DHI). In January, his research on outlaw weapons was concluded with a talk in Vienna as a monthly lecture at the IWM, which will be published by a Japanese publishing house in 2020.
A new book project was launched as part of The Cambridge History series on the history of international law with the working title “Western International Law, 1776 – ca. 1870”, co-edited by Milos Vec and Paulina Starski (Heidelberg/Hamburg), was launched. This period covers the heyday of the so-called European Law of Nations, a normative order based on treaties, customs as well as on natural law and spreading all over the world, fueled by ideas of constitutionalism and international rule of law as well as industrial revolution, imperialism, colonialism and also racism. A first meeting with potential book authors as well as representatives of the CUP publishing house took place at beginning of October 2019 in Cambridge. Already in September 2019, the IWM hosted an author’s workshop, bringing together chapter authors with discussants from various disciplines to discuss methodological and substantive issues.
