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This fifth edition of the Ateliers d'histoire du droit colonial will focus on a few key words, characteristic of the colonial origins of international law and the unanimous desire at the end of the 19th century to build a unified European law, a guarantor, it was believed at the time, of a certain peace, and yet largely inspired by the colonial experiences of the countries involved in this undertaking.
Initiated in 2021 at the Faculty of Law and Economics of the University of Limoges, the Ateliers d'histoire du droit colonial (Colonial Law History Workshops) take a diachronic, interdisciplinary approach to the emergence, construction and evolution of legal concepts in the mainly French-speaking world. The inaugural edition (2021-2022) addressed a number of major colonial themes (indigénat, judicial institutions, labor law), while the second edition (2022-2023) focuses on the meaning of certain terms and concepts characteristic of the colonial era, and on understanding their origins in the history of the French overseas territories, with the aim of analyzing the ruptures or continuities of their legal scope with contemporary realities. They take an interdisciplinary approach, bringing together recognized specialists from different fields: academic, university, political and scientific, enabling new and dynamic cross-disciplinary approaches. A hybrid event, accessible both face-to-face and remotely, the Ateliers have been a great success with students and researchers since their inception. Thanks to the richness of their program and their methodological proposals, which focus in particular on sources and archival work, but also to the quality and expertise of the speakers, and the new avenues of reflection they open up, these Workshops have established themselves as a full-fledged player in the history of colonial law as a new field of research. They have already led to the publication of several studies, as well as Master 1 & 2 theses and doctoral dissertations in progress.
This year's event will be a little more itinerant than previous ones, in that the five presentations scheduled for this year will take place in Nantes (Faculté de droit), Paris (IUF), and Senegal (Institut d'études avancées de Saint-Louis). In Nantes, the event is supported by the Faculty of Law and Political Science and the Law and Social Change Laboratory (DCS-UMR_C 6297), in Limoges by GEOLAB (Faculty of Arts & CNRS), and in Paris by the Institut Universitaire de France, the Institut Universitaire de France and the Académie des sciences d'outre-mer, in Senegal, the Institut d'études avancées de Saint-Louis, the Académie Nationale des Sciences et des Techniques and the Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis, and in Switzerland, the Faculté de droit de Zürich.
