Daniel Ricardo Quiroga-Villamarín (The Graduate Institute Geneva) describes his dissertation, ‘Architects of the Better World’: The Birth of the International Conference Complex (1918-1998), a study of how infrastructure, commodities, and material objects have shaped the contours of global governance and law in just sixty seconds.

Antoney Bell (McGill University) discusses his research on slavery and racial politics, transatlantic networks of métissage, and the intersection of colonial legal systems in the Atlantic world in just sixty seconds.