Based on his PhD thesis successfully defended at UQAM (Montréal) in March 2017, entitled “Le contitutionnalisme d’occupation en Iraq”, Dr. Picard will analyse the influence of Western legal transplantation on State-creation and succession in Iraq. Using the British precedent of State-creation (1915-1932) as a distant mirror of the United States’ practice of State-succession (2003-2011), his historical approach to the study of imposed constitutionalism highlights the importance of debt creation and reduction as a mechanism to include foreign economic rights in the drafting of State constitutions under military occupation.
Based on his PhD thesis successfully defended at UQAM (Montréal) in March 2017, entitled “Le contitutionnalisme d’occupation en Iraq”, Dr. Picard will analyse the influence of Western legal transplantation on State-creation and succession in Iraq. Using the British precedent of State-creation (1915-1932) as a distant mirror of the United States’ practice of State-succession (2003-2011), his historical approach to the study of imposed constitutionalism highlights the importance of debt creation and reduction as a mechanism to include foreign economic rights in the drafting of State constitutions under military occupation.
The seminar will be conducted in English.
Organised within the frameworks of the Middle East Directions Programme and the Muslim World Working Group.
- Location:
- Sala Belvedere, Villa Schifanoia
- Affiliation:
- Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies
- Department of Political and Social Sciences
- Type:
- Seminar
- Contact:
- Sarah Katherine St John – Send a mail
- Discussant:
- Dr Virginie Collombier (EUI)
- Organiser:
- Nedra Cherif (EUI – Department of Political and Social Sciences)
- Speaker:
- Michael Hennessy Picard (McGill University)