Book Celebration: Lawless Zones, Rightless Subjects

In-person tickets on Eventbrite will close at 4:00 PM on March 6, 2025. Those that have signed up for an in-person ticket will receive an email with a QR code from [email protected] needed to enter the Columbia University campus. Each guest must have their own QR code so each guest needs to be registered. Please use your legal first and last name when registering for the event. Please also bring a government-issued ID that matches the name on your registration to present to CU Public Safety staff. If you would like to attend in-person and have not RSVP'd before 4:00 PM on March 6, 2025, please reach out to Ricardo Lombera at [email protected]. Requests for access after 4:00 PM on March 6, 2025, unfortunately, cannot be guaranteed.

Please join Professors Seyla Benhabib and Ayelet Shachar for a celebration of their newly published book, Lawless Zones, Rightless Subjects: Migration Asylum, and Shifting Borders. A reception will follow the event.

Responding to ever-increasing pressures of migration, states, supranational, and subnational actors deploy complex moves and maneuvers to reconfigure borders, rights, and territory, giving rise to a changing legal cartography of international relations and international law. The purpose of this volume is to study this new reconfiguration of rights, territoriality, and jurisdiction, employing legal, historical, philosophical, critical, and postcolonial perspectives.

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