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DESCRIPTION:With Prof. E. Tendayi Achiume\n\nAbstract\n\nMost legal theory 
 treats border governance as a function of nation-state sovereignty\, and a
 s primarily the domain of the state. Prof. Achiume's previous work has don
 e the same\, and to the extent that she has theorized borders and possibil
 ities for their re-imagining\, she has centered states as the duty-bearers
  and world-makers. In this project\, Prof. Achiume wants to explore non-st
 ate\, and specifically corporate control and constitution of international
  migration and nation-state borders\, and to use the concepts of “corporat
 e borders” and “corporate sovereignty” to trouble traditional ways of thin
 king about border and migration justice. Central to her exploration will b
 e the ways in which transnational corporations (colonial and contemporary)
  have made and used borders and race together as technologies of economic 
 profit. \n\nProf. Achiume aims to explore the ways in which “corporate bor
 ders” are racial borders\, in the sense that they reify racial hierarchy a
 nd the sustain racialized exploitation. From the perspective of just inter
 national borders and migration\, what is the challenge presented by the re
 lationship between race and capitalism\, and specifically by the ways inte
 rnational law serves as pivotal technology in sustaining injustice at this
  intersection? If international borders are significantly corporate border
 s\, what are the implications for international law\, and for the state-ce
 ntrism of international legal theory of borders? What difference might it 
 make to engage with corporations as de facto sovereign or super-sovereigns
  as the baseline from which border justice is re-imagined? If the neocolon
 ialism of borders\, and the racial injustices embedded in these borders ar
 e significantly a corporate affair\, what sort of reorientation is require
 d in scholarship\, advocacy and policymaking on the future of borders and 
 migration governance? \n\nBio\n\nProfessor Achiume is the inaugural Alicia
  Miñana Professor of Law\, and currently the Leah Kaplan Visiting Professo
 r in Human Rights at Stanford Law School (2022-23). She is also a Research
  Associate with the African Centre for Migration and Society at the Univer
 sity of Witwatersrand\, and a Research Associate with the Refugee Studies 
 Center at the University of Oxford. The current focus of her work is the g
 lobal governance of racism and xenophobia\; and the legal and ethical impl
 ications of colonialism for contemporary international migration. More gen
 erally\, her research and teaching interests lie in international human ri
 ghts law\, international refugee law\, and\, international migration. She 
 received the Distinguished Teaching Award in 2020—UCLA’s highest honor for
  excellence in teaching—and the Eby Award for the Art of Teaching.\n\nIn N
 ovember 2017\, the UN Human Rights Council appointed Professor Achiume the
  UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism\, Racial Discrimina
 tion\, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance\, making her the first woman to 
 serve in this role since its creation in 1993. In 2016\, she was appointed
  to co-chair the 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Internatio
 nal Law (ASIL)\, and she is former co-chair of the ASIL Migration Law Inte
 rest Group. In 2021\, she was appointed to the American Journal of Interna
 tional Law Board of Editors. She also sits on the editorial board of Just 
 Security.\n\nProfessor Achiume's publications appear in the Stanford Law R
 eview\, the Georgetown Law Journal\, the Georgetown Journal of Internation
 al Law\, and the Minnesota Law Review\, among others. She earned her B.A. 
 from Yale University\, her J.D. from Yale Law School\, and a Graduate Cert
 ificate in Development Studies from Yale. Prof. Achiume has clerked for De
 puty Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke and Justice Yvonne Mokgoro on the Cons
 titutional Court of South Africa\, and has practiced law in Johannesburg a
 nd New York\n\nLunch will be available from 12h30. Participants should con
 tact jennifer.raso [at] mcgill.ca for a copy of the workshop paper.\n
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LOCATION:NCDH room 201
SUMMARY:Annie Macdonald Langstaff Workshop | Race\, Corporate Sovereigns\, 
 and Corporate Bodies
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/law/channels/event/annie-macdonald-langstaff-work
 shop-race-corporate-sovereigns-and-corporate-bodies-345101
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