2008 Press Releases

"Do Legal Advisers matter? - Lessons from the Iraq War"
22.02.2008

UCC's MA in Politics Visiting Speaker Series will host a talk on Monday next, February 25th 2008 by Professor Tony Carty, Professor of Public Law in the University of Aberdeen and the author of Philosophy of International Law.

In his talk titled "Do Legal Advisers matter? - Lessons from the Iraq War", Professor Carty will discuss the Iraq War and the role of legal advisors in the rush to war. He will talk about the continuing place of international law advice in the contemporary crisis of British Government and foreign policy.

Tony Carty has written The Decay of International Law (1986) and has edited Post-Modern Law, Enlightenment, Revolution and the Death of Man (1990). In 1996 he published Was Ireland Conquered (Pluto Press), a work applying Stephen Greenblatt's theories of literature and history to the history of Irish, Norman, Scottish and English relations in a colonial and imperial context. He is a graduate from Queen's University Belfast, University College London and Jesus College Cambridge, where he completed a doctorate on historiography of 19th century textbooks on international law.

Tony Carty has also written on the role of lawyers in the latter stages of the foreign affairs of the British Empire, concentrating on the Second World War, the Cold War and the End of Empire. This led to the volume Sir Gerald Fitzmaurice and the World Crisis, A Legal Adviser in the Foreign Office, 1932-1945.

The talk takes place on Monday next, February 25th at 6pm in Boole II Lecture Theatre.  All are welcome.

Picture: Professor Tony Carty

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