Arnulf Becker Lorca
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Arnulf Becker Lorca is a legal scholar specialized in the history of international law. Since September 2023, he holds the Chair of International Law at the European University Institute,[1] one of Europe's leading postgraduate institutions.[2]
Career
[edit]Arnulf Becker Lorca is originally from Chile, where he obtained his law degree from Universidad Gabriela Mistral and a master's degree from Universidad de Chile.[3] He pursued his postgraduate education in the United States, obtaining a doctoral degree from Harvard Law School.[4]
Before joining the European University Institute, he was a lecturer at King's College London,[5] a lecturer at Georgetown University,[6] and a research professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaiso.[7]
In 2022, Becker Lorca assisted the then-ongoing Chilean Constitutional Convention,[8] providing legal advice during the draft process.[9]
Academic work
[edit]Becker Lorca's research focuses on how international law can enable both colonialism and resistance to colonialism.[10] As of the end of 2024, his publications have garnered over a thousand citations in Google Scholar.[11]
His book Mestizo international law: a global intellectual history 1842–1933, published in 2015, explores how international lawyers from outside the Western countries have been active in shaping international law during the period in question.[12] According to the book, the intellectual contribution of lawyers from non-Western countries helped to make international law an universal system based on the principle of sovereignty,[13] as opposed to a framework that only applied to the relations between "civilized countries".[6] In 2016, Becker Lorca was awarded the European Society of International Law's anual book prize due to his writing of Mestizo international law.[14]
Selected works
[edit]- Arnulf Becker Lorca, Mestizo international law: a global intellectual history 1842–1933 (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
- Arnulf Becker Lorca, "Universal International Law: Nineteenth-Century Histories of Imposition and Appropriation" (2010) 51 Harvard International Law Journal 475.
- Arnulf Becker Lorca, "Sovereignty Beyond the West: The End of Classical International Law[15]" (2011) 13 Journal of the History of International Law 7.
- Arnulf Becker Lorca "Eurocentrism in the History of International Law" in Bardo Fassbender, Anne Peters (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law (Oxford University Press, 2012).
- Arnulf Becker Lorca, "Petitioning the International: A 'Pre-history' of Self-determination" (2014) 25 European Journal of International Law 497.
References
[edit]- ^ "Four distinguished professors join the EUI Law Department". European University Institute. Retrieved 2025-01-20.
- ^ Palayret, Jean-Marie (2024-09-18), "A University for Europe?", Building Europe Through Education, Building Education Through Europe (1 ed.), London: Routledge, pp. 114–133, doi:10.4324/9781003247838-7, ISBN 978-1-003-24783-8, retrieved 2025-01-20
- ^ "Arnulf Becker Lorca". Retrieved 2025-01-20.
- ^ "Arnulf Becker Lorca". European University Institute. Retrieved 2025-01-20.
- ^ "Arnulf Becker Lorca". King's College London. Retrieved 2025-01-20.
- ^ a b Alter, Karen J. (January 2019). "The Empire of International Law?". American Journal of International Law. 113 (1): 183–199. doi:10.1017/ajil.2018.81. ISSN 0002-9300.
- ^ "Arnulf Becker Lorca, "The Tawantisuyo invaded by demons: Inca interventions in Spanish colonial law." | Department of History". history.fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2025-05-08.
- ^ "Convención Constitucional - Registro de Asesores de la Convención Constitucional". 2023-02-03. Archived from the original on 3 February 2023. Retrieved 2025-05-08.
- ^ Gandhi, Ankita; Gangwar, Shivangi (June 2023). "Decolonising the understanding of constitutional developments in Chile: A conversation with Arnulf Becker Lorca". Jindal Global Law Review. 14 (1): 165–185. doi:10.1007/s41020-023-00201-3. ISSN 0975-2498.
- ^ "Arnulf Becker Lorca joins the EUI as Chair in Public International Law". European University Institute. Retrieved 2025-01-20.
- ^ "Arnulf Becker Lorca". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2025-01-20.
- ^ von Bernstorff, Jochen (November 2016). "Arnulf Becker Lorca. Mestizo International Law: A Global Intellectual History 1842–1933". European Journal of International Law. 27 (4): 1173–1176. doi:10.1093/ejil/chw069. ISSN 0938-5428.
- ^ Veçoso, Fabia Fernandes Carvalho (2018-01-19). "Mestizo International Law: A Global Intellectual History 1842–1933, written by Arnulf Becker Lorca". Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international. 20 (1): 125–131. doi:10.1163/15718050-20010050. ISSN 1388-199X.
- ^ "2016 ESIL Book Prize". European Society of International Law | Société européenne de droit international. Retrieved 2025-01-20.
- ^ Lorca, Arnulf Becker (2011). "Sovereignty beyond the West: The End of Classical International Law". Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'Histoire du Droit International. 13: 7–73. doi:10.1163/157180511X552045.
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