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Dietrich Schindler Lecture – Law in Global Affairs: Thinking Critically About Order, Justice, Empire and Political Economy
December 9, 2025 @ 6:15 pm - 7:30 pm
Professor David Kennedy, Faculty Director of the IGLP, was invited to deliver the 2025 Dietrich Schindler Lecture at the University of Zurich.
In his lecture, Professor Kennedy reflected on law’s relationship to aspirations for order and justice in world affairs, its entanglements with the colonial and hegemonic ambitions of North Atlantic powers, and the ways legal frameworks shape the distributions and hierarchies of contemporary political-economic life.
The Institute for International Law and Comparative Constitutional Law established the Dietrich Schindler Lectures in 2019 to honor the legacy of Dietrich Schindler Sr. (1890–1948) and Dietrich Schindler Jr. (1924–2018). Each semester, an outstanding scholar of international or constitutional law is invited to deliver a lecture on a foundational topic.
A recording of the lecture is available here: https://tinyurl.com/Dietrich-Schindler-Lecture