Eric LOEFFLAD

Dr Eric Loefflad is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Kent. His
research is largely focused on the world-historical co-evolution of
international law and modern political consciousness in a manner that
centres empire, colonialism, and capitalist political economy. Towards
this end, he is especially interested in the base-level material
structures of law, property, the state, and the international order,
and, relatedly, in the construction of identity and ideology in
liminal/semi-peripheral regions, especially Central/Eastern Europe (with
a particular interest in Zionism’s ideological development in this
context), the former Soviet Union, and Latin America. His work is highly
interdisciplinary and, in addition to law, draws upon international
relations theory, historical sociology, global history, intellectual
history, history of political thought, and legal/political anthropology.
He holds a BA in Political Science from the Pennsylvania State
University, a JD from the Gonzaga School of Law, an LLM in International
Law from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of
London, and a PhD from Kent Law School. Additionally, he has been
admitted to practice law before the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania and the Tribal Court of Kalispel Nation and has legal
practice experience in the domains of US civil rights law and tribal law
in the North American Indigenous context.