{"id":12960,"date":"2014-02-13T09:30:06","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T14:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/its-cuthemedev1.carleton.ca\/law\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=12960"},"modified":"2025-07-07T11:11:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T15:11:51","slug":"chet-mitchell-memorial-lecture-peter-fitzpatrick","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/event\/chet-mitchell-memorial-lecture-peter-fitzpatrick\/","title":{"rendered":"Mar. 13 | Chet Mitchell Memorial Lecture with Prof. Peter Fitzpatrick"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">* * *<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"in-the-revolutionary-past-decolonizing-occidental-law\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8220;In the Revolutionary Past: Decolonizing Occidental Law&#8221;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>with Professor Peter Fitzpatrick<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Combining a radical revision of the historical formation of occidental law with perspectives derived from decolonial thought, this lecture offers a deconstruction of occidental law. This is an occidental law seen not, or not so much, in its colonial manifestation. It is the law extant within the Occident itself. Although occidental law is in this way shown to be comprehensively imperial in orientation, that same deconstruction reveals resistant dimensions intrinsic to law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b><br>\n<\/b><b>Peter Fitzpatrick<\/b><i> is currently Anniversary Professor of Law at Birkbeck, University of London and Honorary Professor of Law in the University of Kent.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><i>He has taught at universities in Europe, North America and Papua New Guinea and published many books on legal philosophy, law and social theory, law and racism, and imperialism, the latest ones being Law as Resistance: Modernism, Imperialism, Legalism (Ashgate, 2008) and, with Ben Golder, Foucault\u2019s Law (Routledge, 2009). Outside the academy he has been in an international legal practice and was also in the Prime Minister\u2019s Office in Papua New Guinea for several years.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"seating-is-limited-please-register-for-this-complimentary-event\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">**Seating is limited. Please <strong>REGISTER<\/strong> for this complimentary event!**<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13456,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[567],"cu_event_audience":[],"class_list":["post-12960","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_event_type-chet-mitchell"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2014-03-13 00:00:00","cu_event_end_date":"2014-03-13 00:00:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":"DT","cu_event_meeting_room":"2017","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":"","cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"","cu_event_email":"","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/12960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/12960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32806,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/12960\/revisions\/32806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=12960"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=12960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}