Juan Pablo Scarfi, "The Hidden History of International Law in The Americas: Empires and Legal Networks" (Oxford UP, 2017)

In Conversation: An OUP Podcast · Jul 30, 2020 · 1h 1m

In his book The Hidden History of International Law in The Americas: Empires and Legal Networks (Oxford University Press, 2017), Juan Pablo Scarfi shows the central role of a coterie of elite Latin American jurists and intellectuals in constructing a Pan-American inflected conception of international law. In exploring the rise of so-called “American” international law, Scarfi’s monograph contributes to the now burgeoning literature on the rise of global governance, by showing how many of the legal ideas that came to serve as the foundation of organizations like the United Nations were first…