Understanding Law through Objects
Episode Description
In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Dr Jessie Hohmann (Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney) about understanding law through the study of objects.
Readings Recommended by Dr Jessie Hohmann
Joyce, D. (2018), International Law’s Cabinet of Curiosities. In Hohmann, J. & Joyce, D. (eds.), International Law’s Objects (OUP).
Blomley, N. (2007), Making private property: enclosure, common right and the work of hedges. 18 Rural History 1.
Parfitt, R. (2018), Fascism, Imperalism and International Law: An Arch Met a Motorway and the Rest is History’ 31 Leiden Journal of International Law 509.
Hohmann, J. (2021), Treaty Documents: Materialising International Legal Agreement. In Biber, K., Luker, T. & Vaughan, P. (eds.), Law’s Documents: Authority, Materiality, Aesthetics (Routledge).
About the Speaker
Dr Jessie Hohmann
Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney
Dr Jessie Hohmann is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology Sydney. Her work focuses on the objects and material culture of international law, on human rights—with a particular focus on the right to housing—and on Indigenous Peoples in international law. She has a passion for exploring new methodologies for international legal thought, particularly those that help us understand how international law is embedded and experienced in everyday life and is the editor, with Dr Daniel Joyce, of International Law’s Objects, published in 2018 by OUP.