London Review of International Law Annual Lecture: Moving Oil with Laleh Khalili
Channel: LSE Law School
Date: 2022-01-27

In this talk, Prof. Laleh Khalili will reflect on the world that hydrocarbons have forged and are destroying by examining the maritime transportation of oil over the course of the long 20th century. Moving oil by ships across the world's oceans can act as a lens through which to apprehend the embedding of fossil fuels in the way we work, in the wildly unequal accumulation of capital across the planet, in automation, in financing, and in the making (or breaking) of laws, rules, and regulations around bodies, workers, sovereignty over natural resources, and stewardship of the world's air, earth, and water.