The Past as Present

RESEARCH PROJECT ON PAST AND PRESENT LEGAL FRAGMENTATION IN THE KONGO/DRC

NEWS

To the right, you can see the latest project updates and upcoming events within the project. If you want to invite us to give a presentation on the project, please feel free to contact us.

UPCOMING BOOK RELEASE

A historical-anthropological study of Swedish Protestant mission, colonial violence, and social transformation in King Leopold’s Congo.

Simon Larsson | Routledge, 2027

Available to pre-order from 31 August

PRE-ORDER

Fulfilling the Christian Mission Through Law

The ‘Thick’ and the ‘Thin’ of Sovereign Power in the Congo Free State with Matilda Arvidsson: New Pod Cast episode from Laureate Program in Global Corporations and International Law

Uppcoming stream on Nordic Colonial Legal History

Matilda Arvidsson

Associate professor in international law, assistant senior lecturer in law and theory, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

matilda.arvidsson@law.gu.se

Simon Larsson

Researcher Gothenburg Research Institute, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

simon.larsson@gri.gu.se

Britta Sjöstedt

Senior Lecturer in Environmental Law at the Faculty of Law at Lund University, Sweden

britta.sjostedt@jur.lu.se