Chantal Thomas
Biographic Data
| ID | 3606247 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chantal Thomas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chantal |
| FAMILY NAME | Thomas |
| SIGNATURE | THOMAS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Race, Racism, and International Law
What would it look like to place race at the center of international legal scholarship? From its inception in the 70s and 80s, critical race theory's target was the field of law, revealing it to be a repository for racial power. This particular critique of law was explosive because of law's putatively apolitical status, making it a unique site for an intellectual sit-in that has forever changed the way that race and racism are understood in Ameri…
Introduction to Symposium
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The Wicked Queen—Marie-Antoinette
Between 1770 and 1780, in their effort to create a stir, beautiful women enlisted the aid of artifice, as they had always done. In the fashion world, as we know, the natural is the height of art. 1 And the natural responds to variable norms. Faces, until then dotted with beauty spots (as fashionable for men as for women), become more uniform, but the heavy application of rouge continued undaunted. Equal effort must be made to imagine the eighteen…
Gender and Political Economy
This roundtable brings together a group of legal scholars whose projects concern gender and political economy. These speakers, drawing from critical legal thought (including American legal realist and post-realist traditions), sociological and historical analyses of social reproduction, critical race theory and racial capitalism, postcolonial history and theory, and feminism and queer theory, discuss methods for assessing legal rules and architec…
International Economic Law and Racialized “Others”
This essay seeks to show how racialized histories of global political economy have shaped core issues in international economic law. The essay begins by noting challenges to framing the topic of racialized “others,” and then turns to the case study of cotton, showing how U.S. domestic production subsidies—long a focal point of international trade law in both formal dispute settlement and agreement negotiations—have affected persons of African her…
Introduction to the Symposium on Joost Pauwelyn and Krzysztof Pelc, “Who Guards the ‘Guardians of the System’? The Role of the Secretariat in WTO Dispute Settlement”
Who Guards the "Guardians of the System"? The Role of
The Contested Boundaries of Emerging International Migration Law in the Post-Pandemic
One measure of how and whether the COVID-19 pandemic reshapes the emerging field of international migration law will be the extent to which transnational civil society and activist movements can counteract the intensification of state border controls that the pandemic has triggered. Before the pandemic, transnational efforts to establish a new normative framework for migration seemed to be accelerating. These efforts included new, if non-binding,…
Mapping Global Migration Law, or the Two Batavias
This symposium has marshaled numerous insights regarding the emergence of a general field of inquiry within international law on the movement of people. To move into this conceptual terrain has required a certain amount of defiance of the conventional wisdom that questions of migration are within the purview of the sovereign state, and a matter of sovereign territorial prerogative. Yet this conventional wisdom manifestly no longer describes the t…
Transnational Migration, Globalization, and Governance
This chapter emphasizes the role of political economy, and the ways in which global governance has affected (or failed to affect) it, in generating immigration crises. Going beyond politics toward political economy illuminates both the origins of US intervention in Central America, and the ways in which that intervention has shaped migration from the region. US involvement stemmed from global power struggles over the organization of economic prod…
The New Abolitionism, International Law, and the Memory of Slavery
Today, millions of migrant workers, some of them caught in debt bondage, some victims of fraud or forced migration, and others simply desperate for a better life elsewhere but instead finding themselves working for below subsistence wages or no pay at all, could be called modern-day slaves. Campaigns to end modern-day slavery have taken many forms. Most visibly, what is sometimes called “the new abolitionism,” constitutes a strand of modern antis…
Anti-Trafficking Law as a key to Global Economic Contradictions
Anti-trafficking law, with its rapid ascent to public visibility since the establishment of the Palermo Protocol fifteen years ago, offers a highly salient framework for understanding, and addressing, human exploitation. Yet this framework, as Professor Janie Chuang brilliantly illustrates in her article, Exploitation Creep and the Un-making of Human Trafficking Law,1 has proven both over-inclusive and, simultaneously and problematically, under-i…
The World Bank Legal Review
The World Bank legal review gathers this input from around the world and compiles it into a useful resource for all development practitioners and scholars. The subtitle of this volume, legal innovation and empowerment for development, highlights how the law can respond to the chal-lenges posed to development objectives in a world slowly emerging from an economic crisis. The focus on innovation is a call for new, imaginative strategies and ways of…
Migrant Domestic Workers in Egypt
This Essay links a particular legal case study with a broader set of questions about the “family” in a global political and economic context. Part I clarifies the analytic links between the household, the market, and globalization. By studying Egypt, the Essay focuses on one part of this global sociolegal continuum and draws out the special significance of transnational background rules and conditions for the “developmental state.” Part II presen…
Max Weber, Talcott Parsons and the Sociology of Legal Reform
Giacomo Casanova
This paper will analyse three major episodes of Casanova's Histoire de ma vie during which Casanova comes to grips with practices of charlatanism or magic, either as a “patient” or actively: 1. His cure, as a child by the sorceress of Murano to whom he is taken by his beloved grandmother.2. His guest in the little Italian village of Cesena for a buried treasure whic he prides himself on being able to discover with the help of a sacred knife.3. Hi…
Le régent
Il a gouverné la France pendant huit ans, mais son ombre, ou son rayonnement, s’étend sur trois siècles. Il a été considéré, tour à tour et simultanément, comme l’incarnation des vices les plus noirs et des vertus les plus sublimes ; comme le comble de la frivolité et celui de la profondeur politique ; comme le symbole de la décomposition de la monarchie et celui de la modernité. Il est passé par les mains de la princesse Palatine, sa mère, de Sa…
Theme I
In this presentation I shall describe (i) a process of expanding the institutional frameworks of economic and social development that apply on a global scale principles found in the Anglo-American world; (ii) the reinterpretation of these institutional frameworks by ascribing to them a narrow – to a certain extent ideological – meaning which does not reflect the variety of meanings carried by those institutions in the Anglo-American world; and (i…
Entretien avec Edmund White
The Role of Female Homosexuality in Casanova's Memoirs
Terror in Lyon
BEFORE 1793, LYON, THE SECOND LARGEST CITY IN FRANCE, had been a flourishing urban center-until the Revolution struck. city owed its prosperity to the silk industry. Of its 120,000 inhabitants, 50,000 worked in silk production. This is why the city was so deeply affected by the economic disarray of revolutionary France. Lyon was particularly hostile to the war politics of the Convention: The day war was declared against England [1 February], fore…
Sade and the Narrative of Transgression
This major collection of essays on the Marquis de Sade, first published in 1995, encompasses a wide range of critical approaches to his œuvre, including some of the most celebrated texts in Sade scholarship. It focuses on several distinctly contemporary areas of interest: the explicitly libidinal components of Sade's work and the effects they engender, the textual and narrative apparatus which supports these operations, the ethical and political …
Rencontres entre Sade et l'univers des pamphlets ou le mal comme unique programme politique
Pamphlets and Sade' s novels share the assumption that power promotes - the domination of evil. However, Sade balances his use of pamphleteer rhetoric in Isabelle de Bavière with his poetics and logic, thus revealing the ambivalent fascination of pamphleteers for their subject of indignation while making of Isabelle another Juliette
La glossolalie et la glossographie dans les délires théologiques
Weiss Allen S., Thomas Chantal. La glossolalie et la glossographie dans les délires théologiques. In: Langages, 23e année, n°91, 1988. Les glossolalies. pp. 105-110
The New Abolitionism, International Law, and the Memory of Slavery
Today, millions of migrant workers, some of them caught in debt bondage, some victims of fraud or forced migration, and others simply desperate for a better life elsewhere but instead finding themselves working for below subsistence wages or no pay at all, could be called modern-day slaves. Campaigns to end modern-day slavery have taken many forms. Most visibly, what is sometimes called “the new abolitionism,” constitutes a strand of modern antis…
Migrant Domestic Workers in Egypt
This Essay links a particular legal case study with a broader set of questions about the “family” in a global political and economic context. Part I clarifies the analytic links between the household, the market, and globalization. By studying Egypt, the Essay focuses on one part of this global sociolegal continuum and draws out the special significance of transnational background rules and conditions for the “developmental state.” Part II presen…
La glossolalie et la glossographie dans les délires théologiques
Weiss Allen S., Thomas Chantal. La glossolalie et la glossographie dans les délires théologiques. In: Langages, 23e année, n°91, 1988. Les glossolalies. pp. 105-110
Rencontres entre Sade et l'univers des pamphlets ou le mal comme unique programme politique
Pamphlets and Sade' s novels share the assumption that power promotes - the domination of evil. However, Sade balances his use of pamphleteer rhetoric in Isabelle de Bavière with his poetics and logic, thus revealing the ambivalent fascination of pamphleteers for their subject of indignation while making of Isabelle another Juliette
Sade and the Narrative of Transgression
This major collection of essays on the Marquis de Sade, first published in 1995, encompasses a wide range of critical approaches to his œuvre, including some of the most celebrated texts in Sade scholarship. It focuses on several distinctly contemporary areas of interest: the explicitly libidinal components of Sade's work and the effects they engender, the textual and narrative apparatus which supports these operations, the ethical and political …
The Role of Female Homosexuality in Casanova's Memoirs
Terror in Lyon
BEFORE 1793, LYON, THE SECOND LARGEST CITY IN FRANCE, had been a flourishing urban center-until the Revolution struck. city owed its prosperity to the silk industry. Of its 120,000 inhabitants, 50,000 worked in silk production. This is why the city was so deeply affected by the economic disarray of revolutionary France. Lyon was particularly hostile to the war politics of the Convention: The day war was declared against England [1 February], fore…
Le régent
Il a gouverné la France pendant huit ans, mais son ombre, ou son rayonnement, s’étend sur trois siècles. Il a été considéré, tour à tour et simultanément, comme l’incarnation des vices les plus noirs et des vertus les plus sublimes ; comme le comble de la frivolité et celui de la profondeur politique ; comme le symbole de la décomposition de la monarchie et celui de la modernité. Il est passé par les mains de la princesse Palatine, sa mère, de Sa…
Theme I
In this presentation I shall describe (i) a process of expanding the institutional frameworks of economic and social development that apply on a global scale principles found in the Anglo-American world; (ii) the reinterpretation of these institutional frameworks by ascribing to them a narrow – to a certain extent ideological – meaning which does not reflect the variety of meanings carried by those institutions in the Anglo-American world; and (i…
Entretien avec Edmund White
Max Weber, Talcott Parsons and the Sociology of Legal Reform
Giacomo Casanova
This paper will analyse three major episodes of Casanova's Histoire de ma vie during which Casanova comes to grips with practices of charlatanism or magic, either as a “patient” or actively: 1. His cure, as a child by the sorceress of Murano to whom he is taken by his beloved grandmother.2. His guest in the little Italian village of Cesena for a buried treasure whic he prides himself on being able to discover with the help of a sacred knife.3. Hi…
Migrant Domestic Workers in Egypt
This Essay links a particular legal case study with a broader set of questions about the “family” in a global political and economic context. Part I clarifies the analytic links between the household, the market, and globalization. By studying Egypt, the Essay focuses on one part of this global sociolegal continuum and draws out the special significance of transnational background rules and conditions for the “developmental state.” Part II presen…
The World Bank Legal Review
The World Bank legal review gathers this input from around the world and compiles it into a useful resource for all development practitioners and scholars. The subtitle of this volume, legal innovation and empowerment for development, highlights how the law can respond to the chal-lenges posed to development objectives in a world slowly emerging from an economic crisis. The focus on innovation is a call for new, imaginative strategies and ways of…
Anti-Trafficking Law as a key to Global Economic Contradictions
Anti-trafficking law, with its rapid ascent to public visibility since the establishment of the Palermo Protocol fifteen years ago, offers a highly salient framework for understanding, and addressing, human exploitation. Yet this framework, as Professor Janie Chuang brilliantly illustrates in her article, Exploitation Creep and the Un-making of Human Trafficking Law,1 has proven both over-inclusive and, simultaneously and problematically, under-i…
Transnational Migration, Globalization, and Governance
This chapter emphasizes the role of political economy, and the ways in which global governance has affected (or failed to affect) it, in generating immigration crises. Going beyond politics toward political economy illuminates both the origins of US intervention in Central America, and the ways in which that intervention has shaped migration from the region. US involvement stemmed from global power struggles over the organization of economic prod…
The New Abolitionism, International Law, and the Memory of Slavery
Today, millions of migrant workers, some of them caught in debt bondage, some victims of fraud or forced migration, and others simply desperate for a better life elsewhere but instead finding themselves working for below subsistence wages or no pay at all, could be called modern-day slaves. Campaigns to end modern-day slavery have taken many forms. Most visibly, what is sometimes called “the new abolitionism,” constitutes a strand of modern antis…
Mapping Global Migration Law, or the Two Batavias
This symposium has marshaled numerous insights regarding the emergence of a general field of inquiry within international law on the movement of people. To move into this conceptual terrain has required a certain amount of defiance of the conventional wisdom that questions of migration are within the purview of the sovereign state, and a matter of sovereign territorial prerogative. Yet this conventional wisdom manifestly no longer describes the t…
The Contested Boundaries of Emerging International Migration Law in the Post-Pandemic
One measure of how and whether the COVID-19 pandemic reshapes the emerging field of international migration law will be the extent to which transnational civil society and activist movements can counteract the intensification of state border controls that the pandemic has triggered. Before the pandemic, transnational efforts to establish a new normative framework for migration seemed to be accelerating. These efforts included new, if non-binding,…
International Economic Law and Racialized “Others”
This essay seeks to show how racialized histories of global political economy have shaped core issues in international economic law. The essay begins by noting challenges to framing the topic of racialized “others,” and then turns to the case study of cotton, showing how U.S. domestic production subsidies—long a focal point of international trade law in both formal dispute settlement and agreement negotiations—have affected persons of African her…
Introduction to the Symposium on Joost Pauwelyn and Krzysztof Pelc, “Who Guards the ‘Guardians of the System’? The Role of the Secretariat in WTO Dispute Settlement”
Who Guards the "Guardians of the System"? The Role of
The Wicked Queen—Marie-Antoinette
Between 1770 and 1780, in their effort to create a stir, beautiful women enlisted the aid of artifice, as they had always done. In the fashion world, as we know, the natural is the height of art. 1 And the natural responds to variable norms. Faces, until then dotted with beauty spots (as fashionable for men as for women), become more uniform, but the heavy application of rouge continued undaunted. Equal effort must be made to imagine the eighteen…
Gender and Political Economy
This roundtable brings together a group of legal scholars whose projects concern gender and political economy. These speakers, drawing from critical legal thought (including American legal realist and post-realist traditions), sociological and historical analyses of social reproduction, critical race theory and racial capitalism, postcolonial history and theory, and feminism and queer theory, discuss methods for assessing legal rules and architec…
Race, Racism, and International Law
What would it look like to place race at the center of international legal scholarship? From its inception in the 70s and 80s, critical race theory's target was the field of law, revealing it to be a repository for racial power. This particular critique of law was explosive because of law's putatively apolitical status, making it a unique site for an intellectual sit-in that has forever changed the way that race and racism are understood in Ameri…
Introduction to Symposium
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
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