Dr. Edwin Rubio Medina (Centre for Social Studies, Universidade de Coimbra): The dilemmas of the native. Interlegality processes in the conquest of the new world. A decolonial narrative of global legal history.

About the Speaker:
Edwin Rubio is a postdoc researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra, where he integrates the research thematic line on Democracy, Justice, and Human Rights. He has published in the areas of International Law, decoloniality of law, customary law, and legal theory.

About the Topic:
Latin American indigenous people have faced different phases of resistance and negotiation against various subjects who have claimed ownership or rights over their territory. It is usually assumed that they had a passive role at the arrival of the Spanish empire. This lecture highlights the types of interlegality conducted by indigenous people during the colonial period in several Latin American countries. It points out legal knowledge mechanisms through colonial law, resorting to the Decoloniality approach as a theoretical reference to the extent that this thesis sustains that colonization does not end with the Latin American revolutions of the 19th. This interdisciplinary work sheds new light on the forms of global production of the European colonial rule and its consequences on the configuration of normative forms of agency of indigenous peoples in the continent.

Der Vortrag findet als Präsenzveranstaltung vor Ort im Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht, Mittelweg 187, 20148 Hamburg statt.