Antony Anghie
Samuel D. Thurman Professor of Law
Professor Anghie received a B.A. and an LL.B. from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He earned an S.J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he also served as a MacArthur Scholar at the Harvard Center for International Affairs and a Senior Fellow in the Graduate Program at the law school. In the summer of 1994, he completed an internship with the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C. He also practiced law in Melbourne, Australia.
Professor Anghie joined the faculty at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law faculty in 1995. He served on the University President's Task Force on Internationalization and on various other committees examining issues of internationalization at the university level. He has served as Visiting Professor at the American University Cairo, Cornell, Harvard, the London School of Economics, and the University of Tokyo and he has also taught and lectured at various other universities around the world including Melbourne Law School, the University of Auckland, the Law College in Sri Lanka and Jahangirnagar Law School in Bangladesh. He has served on the Executive Council of the Asian Society of International Law since its founding, and was a principal organizer of its biennial conference in Beijing in 2011. He delivered the Grotius Lecture at the American Society of International Law in 2010.
Professor Anghie's research interests include public and private international law; human rights; globalization, development issues, and international law; terrorism and the use of force; international business transactions and international economic law; colonialism and the history of public international law; and third world approaches to international law
Scholarship Highlights
Books
Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of International Law (Cambridge Univ. Press 2005)
The Third World and International Legal Order: Law, Politics and Globalization, co-edited with Chimni, Mickelson & Okafor (Kluwer Law Int'l 2003)
Legal Visions of the 21st Century: Essays in Honour of Judge Christopher Weeramantry, co-edited with Garry Sturgess (Kluwer Law Int'l Publishers 1998)
Book Chapters
Identifying Regions and Sub-Regions in the History of International Law (Bardo Fassbender, Anne Peters, Simone Peter and Daniel Hogger eds., Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law, Oxford University Press 2012)
Vattel and Colonialism: Some Preliminary Observations (Vincent Chetail and Peter Haggenmacher eds., Vattel’s International Law in a XXIst Century Perspective, Martinus Nijhoff 2011)
Hegemonic International Law in Retrospect, in Making Transnational Law Work in the Global Economy, Essays in Honour of Detlev Vagts (Pieter H. F. Bekker, Rudolf Dolzer, Michael Waibel eds., Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge 2010)
The Rights of Aliens: Legal Regimes and Historical Perspectives, co-authored with Wayne McCormack, in Migration in the 21st Century: Rights, Outcomes and Policy (Thomas Maloney & Kim Korineck, eds., Routledge, 2010)
Basic Principles of international law: a historical perspective (Basak Cali ed., International Law for International Relations, Oxford University Press 2010)
The History of International Law: an Introduction, in International Law for International Relations (Basak Cali ed., Oxford Univ. Press 2009)
Between the Worlds, in Regards d’une generation sur le Droit International (Helene Ruiz Fabri & Jean-Marc Sorel eds., Pedone, Paris 2008)
On Critique and the Other, in International Law and its Others (Anne Orford ed., Cambridge Univ. Press 2006)
Decolonising Good Governance, in Decolonizing International Relations (Branwen Gruffydd Jones ed., Rowman & Littlefield 2006)
International Financial Institutions, in The Politics of International Law, (Smit ed., Cambridge Univ. Press 2004)
Articles
The Grotius Lecture: International Law in a Time of Change, Am. U. Int'l L. Rev. 26(5) 1315 (2011)
The Evolution of International Law: Colonial and Post-Colonial Realities, 27(5) Third World Q. 739 (2006)
Nationalism, Development and the Postcolonial State: the Legacies of the League of Nations, 41 Tex. Int'l L. J. 447 (2006)
The War on Terror and Iraq in Historical Perspective, 43 Osgoode Hall L. J. 7 (2005)
The Bush Preemption Doctrine and the United Nations, ASIL, Proceedings of the 98th Annual Meeting 326 (2004)
Third World Approaches to International Law and Individual Responsibility in Internal Conflict, co-authored with B.S.Chimni, 2 Chinese J. Int'l L. 77 (2003)
Colonialism and the Birth of International Institutions: Sovereignty, Economy and the Mandate System of the League of Nations, 34 N.Y.U. J. Int'l L. & Pol. 513 (2002)
C.G. Weeramantry at the International Court of Justice, 14 Leiden J. Int'l L. 829 (2001)
Time Present and Time Past: Globalization, International Financial Institutions and the Third World, 32 N.Y.U. J. Int'l L. & Pol. 243 (2000)
Works in Progress
A History of the Rights of Aliens in International Law
Vattel and Colonialism
Selected Talks and Presentations
Panelist, International Law and Justice, Conference on International Law and Justice, joint meeting of the Asian Society of International Law and Australia-New Zealand Society of International Law, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Oct. 2012
Globalization and International Law in Historical Perspective, Jahangirnagar University, July 2012
Sovereignty, Civilization and Teleology in Nineteenth Century International Law, Workshop on Europe 1815-1914, Frankfurt, Germany, June 2012
Panelist, International Foreign Investment Law in Historical Perspective, Conference on Africa and International Law, Albany Law School, April 2012
Panelist, History: Origins of the Responsibility to Protect, Conference on Popular Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Protect, Yale University, April 2012
Panelist, What is a Global Law School and Who is a Global Lawyer Forum on Global Legal Education, Harvard Law School, March 2012
Panelist, The Asian Society of International Law, Panel at the American Society of International Law Annual Conference, March 2012
Panelist, Politics and Power: Domination, Upheaval and Empire, Conference on Global Justice: Economic Globalization, Crisis and the Common Good, Tanner Center for Human Rights, University of Utah, Feb. 2012
Panelist, Sovereignty and Political-Economy in the Jurisprudence of Emer de Vattel, Third World Approaches to International Law Conference on Capitalism and the Common Good, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oct. 2011
Third World Approaches to International Law, the 2011 Stead Lecture on International and Comparative Law, University of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD, Oct. 2011
Plenary Panel on Global Justice, Lat-Crit Conference, San Diego, Oct. 2011
Commentator on Samuel Moyn’s Book, The Last Utopia, American Political Science Association, Seattle, WA, Sept. 2011
Panelist, The Life and Work of Professor R.P.Anand, Asian Society of International Law, Biennial Conference, Beijing, China, Aug. 2011
Race and Sovereignty, Conference on `Race and Sovereignty’ Fifth Annual Critical Race Studies Symposium, UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, CA, April 2011
International Law in a Time of Change, Northeastern Law School, Boston, MA, March 2011
Vattel and Colonialism, Workshop on International Law and Globalization, Yale Law School, New Haven CT, Feb. 2011
The Third World and Corporate Responsibility Under International Law, Conference on Corporate War Crimes: Prosecuting Pillage of Natural Resources, the Hague, Netherlands, Oct. 2010
International Law and the Rights of Minorities, Conference on Judicial Independence in Times of Crisis, S.J.Quinney School of Law, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, Oct. 2010
Globalization, European Society of International Law, Biennial Conference, Cambridge, Sept. 2010
Imperialism and the History of International Law, workshop on Third World Approaches to International Law, Sorbonne, Paris, July 2010
Third World Approaches to International Law, China University of Foreign Affairs, Beijing, China., June 2010
Vattel and Imperialism, workshop on James Tully and Philosophy in a New Key, Victoria University, Canada, May 2010
International law in a time of change-should international law lead or follow, The Grotius Lecture, American Society of International Law, March 2010
The Mandate System and the Origins of Development, Conference on Towards a Global History of Development, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Oct. 2009
History and Third World Approaches to International Law, BIARI, Brown University, Providence, RI, June 2009
Imperialism and International Law, University of Chicago Political Theory Seminar, Chicago, IL, May 2009
International Law and Nation Building: Perspectives, Problems and Prospects, Melbourne Law School, Melbourne, Australia, March 2009
Imperialism and Sovereignty, Warwick University Law School, UK, Oct. 2008
Sovereignty and Democracy, Inaugural Conference of the Malaysian Society of International Law, Kuala Lampur, Malaysia, Aug. 2008
Scarcity and International Law in Historical Perspective, Australia New Zealand Society of International Law, Canberra, Australia, June 2008
Western Discourses of Sovereignty, Conference on New Worlds and New Sovereignties, Melbourne, Australia, June 2008
Imperialism and International Law, Special Golden Jubilee Lecture, Indian Society of International Law, New Delhi, India, March 2008
Special Golden Jubilee Lecture on Imperialism and International Law, Indian Society of International Law, New Delhi, India, March 2008
Nation Building and International Law in Historical Perspective, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, March 2008
The Rights of Aliens in International Law, Conference on Migration, Rights and Identities, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, March 2008
Nation Building in Historical Context: The Mandate System of the League of Nations, International and Comparative Law Workshop, Duke University School of Law, Durham, NC, Oct. 2007
The New World and the State of Exception, Conference on International Law and Wars of Religion, University of Lund, Sweden, Sept. 2007
International Trade Law and the Developing World in Historical Context, Conference on The WTO and the Doha Development Round, Colombo, Sri Lanka, July 2007
How to Govern Backward People, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, July 2006
Empire and its Aftermath, European Society of International Law, Paris, France, May 2006
Imperialism and International Law, Conference on The Force of International Law, Birkbeck College, University of London, London, England, May 2006
Professional Affiliations
Member, Third World Approaches to International Law
Member, American Society of International Law
Member, European Society of International Law
Member, Executive Council, American Society of International Law (2005-2008)
Member, Executive Council, Asian Society of International Law (2007-present)
Member, Core Group and Planning Committee, Inaugural Conference establishing the Asian Society of International Law (2007)
Member, Research and Planning Committee, Asian Society of International Law (Tokyo 2009)
Member, Annual Conference Planning Committee, American Society of International Law (2000, Centenary Conference 2006)
Member, Editorial Board, Chinese Journal of International Law
Member, Editorial Board, Muslim World Journal of Human Rights
Member, Editorial Board, Human Rights and Human Welfare
Member, Editorial Board, International Relations Theory