One of the world’s leading scholars of international law and global governance, Professor Benedict Kingsbury, recently visited La Trobe Law School as part of the La Trobe International Visitors Scheme.
His visit included a week of events where students, colleagues and collaborators explored a shared question: How are planetary futures already being shaped through infrastructures of technology, care, collective life and memory?
Professor Lorne Neudorf, Dean of La Trobe Law School, said the lecture was a powerful invitation to rethink law’s role in planetary transformations.
“Professor Kingsbury’s lecture invited us to reconceptualise infrastructure as a form of regulation. His visit reflects La Trobe Law School’s commitment to hosting leading thinkers from around the world, and to fostering a scholarly environment in which ideas thrive and research is collaborative and outward-looking.”
As part of his visit, Professor Kingsbury participated in a PhD roundtable with doctoral researchers working on global governance, extractivism, poverty, water justice and international adjudication.
He also led a two-day workshop on ‘Thinking and Acting Together: Planetary Shared Futurities and Infrastructures’.
The workshop brought together colleagues and collaborators from across La Trobe University, including the International and Comparative Law Cluster, the Law in Context Cluster, the Centre for Human Security and Social Change and the Care Economy Research Institute. It also featured speakers from the University of Tasmania, University of Melbourne and the Human Rights Law Centre.
“Engagement through forums such as this workshop is central to La Trobe Law School’s research culture, supporting emerging scholars and strengthening a connected and intellectually vibrant community.”
