Professor Benedict Kingsbury – Sustaining Shared Futurities in a Planetary

Join us for a lecture by Professor Benedict Kingsbury, one of the world’s leading scholars of international law and global governance, visiting La Trobe Law School as part of the La Trobe International Visitors Scheme. Drinks and canapés reception afterwards.

About the Lecture

How can we imagine and sustain shared futures in a time of profound planetary challenges?

This lecture explores how law and infrastructure shape our capacity to live together on a rapidly changing planet. From digital systems and global and space networks to legal and institutional arrangements, infrastructures do more than provide technical support — they organise relationships, distribute power, and structure responsibility and opportunity.

By understanding infrastructure as a set of social and legal relationships rather than merely technical objects, the lecture examines how new publics emerge, where law falls out of step, and how practices of care, repair, and collective action might help sustain shared futures across local and planetary scales.

About the Speaker

Professor Benedict Kingsbury is Murry and Ida Becker Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for International Law and Justice at New York University School of Law (NYU). He is internationally recognised for his foundational contributions to international law and governance scholarship. He has authored or edited more than 120 publications, including 18 books and numerous articles in leading international journals. His pioneering work on Global Administrative Law and Law and Metrics has helped define these fields, and his current research on infrastructural governance and planetary thinking continues to shape global legal scholarship.

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