Draft:Arnulf Becker Lorca
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
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] and a research professor at the Pontificial Catholic University of Valparaiso,[6] and was among the few Latin American scholars to hold a visiting professorship at Harvard Law School,[7]
In his research, Becker Lorca approaches international law as a site of engagement that has not only enabled colonialism but also resistance to it.[8] His book "Mestizo international law: a global intellectual history 1842–1933" focuses on the role non-European lawyers have played in shaping modern international law as a "counter-hegemonic strategy".[9] This book was reviewed by some of the leading international law journals, such as the European Journal of International Law[9] and the Journal of the History of International Law,[10] and it was awarded the 2016 ESIL Prize[11] by the European Society of International Law. Overall, his work has been garnered over a thousand citations in Google Scholar as of the end of 2024.[12]
Selected works
- 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" (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
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Arnulf Becker Lorca". www.humboldt-foundation.de. Retrieved 2025-01-20.
- ^ Wright, Kim. "La Alianza provides students space for professional development and activism". Harvard Law School. Retrieved 2025-01-20.
- ^ "Arnulf Becker Lorca joins the EUI as Chair in Public International Law". European University Institute. Retrieved 2025-01-20.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ "Arnulf Becker Lorca". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2025-01-20.