The IGLP Fall 2025 Advanced Faculty Colloquium explored how the legacies of colonialism shape contemporary legal and political arrangements, revisiting concepts such as empire, postcolonialism, and center/periphery dynamics. The discussions

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

This symposium will feature two roundtable conversations exploring the entanglements of law, colonialism, and racialisation. Bringing together scholars whose work interrogates the global afterlives and continuities of empire, the panels will

What role can international law play in confronting the racialised effects of rising fascism? Join the Institute for Global Law and Policy for the Virtual Launch of Emancipating International Law: Confronting the

How are the legacies of colonialism relevant for understanding contemporary legal and political arrangements?  How might we advance -- or move beyond --  insights drawn from TWAIL and fellow travelers?

The Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School is pleased to announce the 2026 Global Scholars Intensive organized in collaboration with Sciences Po Law School. The Intensive, to be held in Paris, France from June 11 –

This IGLP Advanced Faculty Colloquium convened approximately 50 global scholars at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland for three days of focused discussion under the theme “Law in a Changing