GLC Conversation with CIA General Counsel Kate Heinzelman
On Oct. 1, the Yale Law School Center for Global Legal Challenges hosted a lunch discussion featuring Kate Heinzelman, General Counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Moderated by Professor Oona Hathaway, the Gerard and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law and Director of the Center for Global Legal Challenges, alongside Professor Ted Wittenstein from the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs, the event focused on Heinzelman's career in law and the vital work of the CIA. She provided YLS students with valuable insight into navigating a career in national security law and understanding the intelligence community's dynamic legal landscape.
A Book Talk with Patrick Quinton-Brown: “Intervention before Interventionism: A Global Genealogy”
On Oct. 8, the Center for Global Legal Challenges hosted author Patrick Quinton-Brown in a discussion with Professor Aslı Bâli about his new book, "Intervention before Interventionism: A Global Genealogy."
During the discussion, Quinton-Brown contended that the age of interventionism has come to an end in international relations. Instead, the dominant discourse today focuses on defending sovereign borders, constructing walls, and respecting or realizing national identity. In light of this, we must reconsider the meaning of intervention and non-intervention in international society, particularly in light of non-Western contestations of the Western-dominated order since 1945. This is what "Intervention before Interventionism: A Global Genealogy" seeks to accomplish.
Quinton-Brown further discussed how the normative and institutionalized trajectories of intervention have been shaped fundamentally by encounters with the Global South or ‘Bandung Powers.’ As such, Quinton-Brown said, understanding our present dilemma requires that we recover a lens of anticolonial and solidarist internationalism from the ashes of interventionism, which involves unlearning much of what we thought to be true.