Harvard academic David Armitage to lecture on George III
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Professor David Armitage
Harvard professor David Armitage is to deliver a lecture on George III – his education in constitutionalism and the law of nations, how he gathered and processed information about imperial and international affairs, and how this constitutional and juridical knowledge shaped his understanding of international relations, the American Revolution, and the abolition of slavery.
Professor Armitage will deliver the second Arthur Berriedale Keith Lecture – George III and the Law of Nations –at Edinburgh Law School this evening.
Professor Armitage is the Lloyd C. Blankfein professor of history at Harvard University and an affiliated professor at Harvard Law School.
He is also an honorary professor of History at both the University of Sydney and Queen’s University Belfast and an Honorary Fellow of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge.
He is the author or editor of eighteen books, among them The Ideological Origins of the British Empire (2000), The Declaration of Independence: A Global History (2007), Foundations of Modern International Thought (2013), The History Manifesto (2014, co-auth.), and Civil Wars: A History in Ideas (2017).
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