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Teaching by historicising private international law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 November 2022

Roxana Banu
Roxana Banu*
Affiliation:
Lecturer in Private International Law, Queen Mary University School of Law, UK
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*Corresponding author. E-mail: r.banu@qmul.ac.uk
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Abstract

This paper proposes a historical contextual pedagogy for private international, which helps students reflect on the impact of the field's legal techniques in different historical contexts. To emphasise the richness of a historical lens, the paper reflects on the development and use of private international law tort rules in a colonial, intellectual and gender historical context. By taking Phillips v. Eyre as a reference, the goal is to illustrate how the canonical cases in private international law can serve as entry points towards a broader historical contextualisation of private international law, beyond the doctrine, though inspired by it.

Keywords

conflict of lawsprivate international lawcolonial historyhistorical pedagogy
Type
Special Issue Article
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International Journal of Law in Context , Volume 18 , Special Issue 4: Contextual Legal Pedagogy , December 2022 , pp. 383 - 392
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press

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