Private Citizen of the World: A conference in honour of Karen Knop

(Photo by Veikko Somerpuro courtesy of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies)

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Karen Knop joined U of T's Faculty of Law as a special lecturer in 1990 and a full-time faculty member in 1992. She quickly established herself as a beloved teacher and colleague, as well as a leading voice in international law scholarship. Early in her career, she won an undergraduate teaching award, and over the years, her mentoring of graduate students helped launch many careers.

Read Remembering U of T's Karen Knop

Her monograph Diversity and Self-Determination in International Law was published by Cambridge University Press in 2002 and was recognized by the American Society of International Law with its prestigious Certificate of Merit in 2003. From her early success to her 2020 Hague Lectures – the ultimate honour for an international lawyer – Karen's was a remarkable academic career.

To honour her memory and extraordinary scholarship, leading public and private international law scholars, including two young scholars who completed their doctoral work under Karen's supervision, will deliver papers on 'Knopian' themes:

• Roxana Banu, Lecturer in Law, Queen Mary College, London
• Nehal Bhuta, Chair of Public International Law, University of Edinburgh
• Karen Engle, Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in International Law, University of Texas at Austin
• Fleur Johns, Professor, Faculty of Law and Justice, University of New South Wales (via Zoom)
• David Kennedy, Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law, Harvard University
• Benedict Kingsbury, Murray and Ida Becker Professor of Law, New York University
• Martti Koskenniemi, Emeritus Professor of International Law, University of Helsinki
• Ralf Michaels, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg
• Annelise Riles, Executive Director of the Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Studies, Northwestern University
• Philippe Sands, Professor of Laws, University College London (via Zoom)
• Mai Taha, Assistant Professor in Human Rights, Sociology, London School of Economics
• Robert S. Wai, Associate Professor of Law, Osgoode Hall Law School

This special conference is generously sponsored by the University of Toronto Press and the papers will be published in a special issue of the University of Toronto Law Journal, of which Karen was a transformational editor.

Please join us in celebrating Karen's scholarly legacy.

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