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Neg­ar Man­souri

Postdoc

Subjects
International law Trade UN International relations Globalisation

Primary research areas

Law and Political Economy

Drawing from Marxist social and legal theory, political economy, and historical sociology, this paper examines the interplay between state/international law and the market's laws of motion.

History and Theory of International Law

Understanding socio-political formations around capitalist social relations on a planetary scale in the 19th and 20th centuries.

International Organisations

Exploring the origin and operation of technical intergovernmental organisations and their lawmaking and standard-setting activities.

Historicizing today’s socio-political structures through the lens of 'international law'

I am currently a postdoctoral researcher in historical sociology and economic law within the European Research Council advanced grant ‘Global Value Chains: Constituting  Connectivity, Corporations and Corporations (GLOBALVALUE)' led by Professor Poul Fritz Kjaer, at Copenhagen Business School. Prior to joining the CBS, I defended my thesis in international law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland.

Within the GLOBALVALUE project, I have written on value chains of European wine and tropical timber in a historical perspective, as well as neoliberalism and crisis of the international order. More broadly, my research investigates legal and political formations around capitalist social relations, focusing particularly on the interplay between liberal/competitive capitalism and state capitalism in the international economic order in the 19th and 20th centuries. My selected publications are: 

The Colonial Aftertaste: Algerian Wine, the French Appellation of Origin, and the European Sovereignty-Property Complex in International Law, April 2026, In: European Journal of International Law, 34p, https://doi.org/10.1093/ejil/chag007

Research output: Contribution to journal, peer review 

Laissez-Faire, State Capitalism, and the Making of International Organizations. In N. Mansouri & D. R. Quiroga-Villamarín (Eds.), Ways of Seeing International Organizations: New Perspectives for International Institutional Law (pp. 248–270). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009552646 

Research output: Chapter, peer review 

Capitalist State, State Capitalism and the Current Conjuncture of International Law. In: Journal of Law and Political Economy. Forthcoming 2026 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5513680

Research output: Contribution to journal, peer review 

Money, magic, and machines: International Telecommunication Union and liberalisation of telecommunications networks and services (1970s–1990s). In: London Review of International Law, 11(2), 231–272. https://doi.org/10.1093/lril/lrad011

Research output: Contribution to journal, peer review 

For other publications, see https://research.cbs.dk/da/persons/negar-mansouri/