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BEYOND BORDERS: IIC-NFI LECTURE SERIES

 

Hospitable Jurisprudence in Inhospitable Times

Speaker: Lawrence Liang, Dean, School of Law, Governance and Citizenship, Ambedkar University and co-founder of Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore

 

Introduction: Dr. Monica Banerjee, Director NFI

Moderator: Kishalay Bhattacharjee, Associate Professor, O P Jindal Global University, Sonepat, Haryana

 

The Muslim ban promulgated by the Trump administration and the stance of the Indian government towards the Rohingyas are kindred instances of the challenge we face. If the law has been inherently spatial and territorial, where then do turn to if we are to articulate a radical politics of belonging - Is the Kantian ideal of a cosmopolitan right to hospitality a solution or only a bigger problem in neo liberal times? In this talk which is by way of a set of exploratory wanderings, Lawrence Liang will set up a few problems of thinking of the overlap between law, hostility and hospitality

 

(Collaboration: National Foundation for India)