Arnulf Becker Lorca is Chair in Public International Law at the European University Institute in Florence and visiting Professor at Harvard Law School. He has taught at King’s College London, Brown University, University of Helsinki and Amherst College, and received his doctoral degree from Harvard Law School.

His research examines the intellectual history of international law from the perspective of the Global South. His book, ‘Mestizo International Law’ published by Cambridge University Press, was the winner of the 2016 Book Prize of the European Society of International Law.

He is currently working on the Spanish/Amerindian encounter, exploring the appropriation of the law of peoples by Inca intellectuals. In relation to contemporary international law, he works on international lawyers’ legal strategies to obtain North/South redistribution. And having worked as a legal adviser to the Chilean Constitutional Convention, his research explores the constitutional law traditions of the Global South.

Research projects, clusters and working groups

International Law Working Group

Supervisees

Fields of expertise

Global governance Climate change governance Human rights Global, imperial and colonial history Colonialism Latin America International law and international relations Comparative international law Theory of international law History of international law Spanish Empire Politics of international law Eurocentrism and international law Critical approaches to international law Public international law Third World approaches to international law

Recent research output

BECKER LORCA, Arnulf Arturo Joachim (2024), A racist international law : domination and resistance in the Americas of the 19th century, Working Paper