Author: Sebastian Willert

Symposium on Confronting Colonial Objects: On the Duality of the Ottoman Antiquity Law: Enabling and Constraining Extractive Practices

[Sebastian Willert is a Research Associate at the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow in Leipzig and Part-time Lecturer at NYU Berlin]. A central theme of Confronting Colonial Objects is law’s complicity in cultural takings and colonial violence. Carsten Stahn’s book shows how colonial law transformed conceptions of property and culture and facilitated cultural extractions. It argues that law...