!!! Monateri and Koskenniemi on Capitalism's Religion !!!

 

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A Global Pact for the Environment ? SciencesPo – Thursday April 12th, 2018

SciencesPo -- Professor Jérôme SGARD - Standard Contracts as Pathways to Global Markets

SEMINAIRE PILAGG Standard Contracts as Pathways to Global Markets - the Experience of the London Corn Trade Association (1880-1914) Professor Jérôme SGARD (Professeur d'économie politique à Sciences Po)   Commodity markets were typically governed during the first global era (ca 1870-1914) by private, London-based “Trade Associations”, managed by a small number of top market insiders. One of their key contribution was to write and constantly adjust a set of Standard Contracts, tailored to each specific commodity and to each country or port of origin. These contracts followed the English contract law and were confirmed and eventually enforced by English courts. But such intervention proved extremely rate, just as, more generally the support from government authorities when dealing with foreign countries or authorities. No concern whatsoever was shown either for rules of international law (private or public). Hence, private ordering on a trade basis and self-enforcement worked pretty well within an overall geopolitical order that was clearly imperialist and hegemonic.   Friday, March 9th 2018 14.00 – 16.30 Law School meeting room (410T), 4th floor Sciences Po, 13 rue de l'Université, 75007 Paris   The program of the seminars is available on the Pilagg website (pilagg/blog/sciences po)     IMPORTANT:  Due to security measures, access to Sciences Po buildings is restricted. If you intend to attend the seminar, please send an email tofilipe.silva@sciencespo.fr  indicating your full name. Security officers will be provided with the list of participants.   Do not forget to bring a VALID ID.

New Publication: "Global Governance and Democracy A Multidisciplinary Analysis" - EElgar 2015

Global Governance and Democracy

A Multidisciplinary Analysis 

Leuven Global Governance series 

Edited by Jan Wouters, Full Professor of International Law and International Organizations, Jean Monnet Chair ad personam EU and Global Governance, Director, Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies and Institute for International Law, Antoon Braeckman, Professor, Institute of Philosophy, Matthias Lievens, Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre for Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy and Emilie Bécault, Research Manager, Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, KU Leuven, Belgium

Globalization needs effective global governance. The important question of whether this governance can also become democratic is, however, the subject of a political and academic debate that began only recently. This multidisciplinary book aims to move this conversation forward by drawing on insights from international relations, political theory, international law and international political economy. Focusing on global environmental, economic, security and human rights governance, it sheds new light on the democratic deficit of existing global governance structures, and proposes a number of tools to overcome it.

This book will be required reading for researchers, academics and students with an interest in political science and law, and indeed anyone concerned with the future of global governance.

Link here: http://www.e-elgar.com/shop/global-governance-and-democracy

!!! PILAGG event: Teubner and Monateri discussing on Global Justice !!!

The Anonymous Matrix:

Human Rights Violations by “Private” Transnational Actors.

Do fundamental rights obligate not only States, but also private transnational actors? Since violations of fundamental rights stem from the totalising tendencies of partial rationalities, there is no longer any point in seeing the horizontal effect as if rights of private actors have to be weighed up against each other. On one side of the human rights relation is no longer a private actor as the fundamental-rights violator, but the anonymous matrix of an autonomised communicative medium. On the other side, the fundamental rights are divided into three dimensions: Firstly institutional rights protecting the autonomy of social discourses – art, science, religion – against their subjugation by the totalising tendencies of the communicative matrix; secondly personal rights protecting the autonomy of communication, attributed not to institutions, but to the social artefacts called ‘persons’; and thirdly human rights as negative bounds on societal communication, where the integrity of individuals’ body and mind is endangered.

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 Prof. Gunther Teubner (Frunkfurt University)

Prof. Pier Giuseppe Monateri (Sciences Po; University of Turin)

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Meeting - Private international law in global perspective: what’s the point? - January, 23 - Sciences Po

Private international law in global perspective:

what’s the point?

The First Season of PILAGG (2011-2014) set the stage for thinking about the visible and invisible role 

of private international law in the disembedding of the global economy.

We are ready now to launch the Second Season of the series (2015 -…) !

Please read the rest in the joined document…

Seminario - The BRICS group in the spotlight. An interdisciplinary approach - Parma 6/7 novembre 2014

Giovedì 6 e venerdì 7 novembre si tiene presso l'Aula dei Filosofi dell'Università di Parma un convegno sul tema The BRICS group in the spotlight. An interdisciplinary approach. All'interno del convegno viene presentato il volume curato da N. Lupo e L. Scaffardi, Comparative law in legislative drafting. The increasing importance of dialogue among Parliaments (Eleven International Publisher, 2014).

Per ulteriori informazioni, cliccare sull'immagine.

Inaugurata la Summer University in Comparative Law

Prof. Frankenberg lecturing

Si è inaugurata in questi giorni a Perugia la Summer University in Comparative Law diretta e organizzata da Giovanni Marini.

La seduta inaugurale presieduta dal prof. Paciullo si è tenuta nella magnifica cornice dell'antico palazzo dell'Università per Stranieri.

Gli studenti selezionati e provenienti dalle più diverse sedi accademiche  e dottorati, hanno poi assistito ai primi seminari tenuti da Gunter Frankenberg su Comparative Constitutional Law; Pierre Schlag su Critical Comparative Jurisprudence, P.G.Monateri su Hamlet and the State of Exception, e da Leopold Specht su Global/Local in financial markets and property.

L'iniziativa si segnala tra le più innovative e prestigiose nel panorama degli insegnamenti internazionali di Diritto Comparato; destinata a diventare un appuntamento fisso come momenti di incontro e discussione tra giovani studiosi e intellettuali di rango internazionale, essa si prefigge di diventare il locus della 'theory' e dell'approccio critico alla comparazione giuridica.

... Read More at the Institute for Global Law and Policy di Harvard
and click HERE to see the whole program.

Ferrarese on Governance

Global Bad Government ?

Sharing the Blame: The Global Roots of Bad Government - by Mick Moore - Zed Books. http://amzn.to/bkJDsm

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Fondazione Basso sull'Utopia del Costituzionalismo Globale

Fondazione Lelio e Lisli Basso-Issoco                                                                           Centro Studi Americani

"Globalizzazione economica e Costituzionalismo: l'utopia del costituzionalismo globale"

Roma, 12 gennaio 2010

Centro Studi Americani

Via Caetani, 32

La centralità e la complessità delle tematiche internazionali impongono lo sviluppo di una capacità critica di “anticipare” le linee prospettiche dei processi mondiali. Ciò comporta un impegnativo aggiornamento delle nostre culture, che ci consenta di leggere le nuove dinamiche delle relazioni internazionali. In questa ottica si propone una iniziativa volta a individuare le nuove prospettive delle relazioni internazionali che sembrano entrare in una nuova fase, dopo quella della “emergenza” apertasi con l’11 settembre, caratterizzata da una nuova idea dell’unità del mondo. Sembra emergere il tema di un “costituzionalismo globale”, finora considerato soltanto un’utopia.

Va tenuta presente la centralità della crisi economica, sia in termini di quantità che di qualità. Siamo infatti di fronte all’esaurimento di un modello di sviluppo, quello derivato dalle culture neoliberiste, che impone un grande sforzo di riflessione intorno alle cause effettive e alle possibili prospettive. La crisi può costituire la nuova base di una cultura cosmopolita: le urgenze economiche sollecitano nuovi studi sul nodo del costituzionalismo globale. Il convegno internazionale che si propone dovrà essere incentrato sulle risposte di tipo sopranazionale alle grandi questioni economiche, istituzionali, politiche e sociali; sulla tutela dei diritti, sul problema della democrazia.

Il problema è che si è globalizzato il capitale e si è globalizzata anche la criminalità, ma non la democrazia. Ma non solo. Il cambiamento in corso è imprevedibile e un nuovo modello di sviluppo potrebbe portare a esiti anche di carattere autoritario se non si accompagna all’estensione dei diritti e della democrazia.

Il punto critico sembra essere il tema della democrazia: va ricordato come crisi economiche abbiano contribuito al crollo di democrazie deboli.

Lo scenario globale è il giusto contesto all’interno del quale inserire il tema della crisi economica e i suoi possibili esiti, mettendo al centro della riflessione l’“eccezione europea”, da confrontare con le altre aree del mondo. L’Europa come soluzione politica e culturale, come processo di innovazione nella storia del secondo Novecento, come speranza e come modello, rispetto a una democrazia che ha vissuto in modo acritico all’ombra del capitalismo. In questo contesto l’Europa rappresenta l’unica nota di scarto, ma è fragile ed è poco attrezzata, anche sul piano intellettuale. Finisce per cercare nel diritto ciò che non riesce a risolvere con la politica.

Il tema della crisi economica, se visto isolatamente, rischia di portare fuori strada. Il punto centrale è quello politico: l’economia e la guerra in questi anni hanno “parlato” in assenza della politica. Si tratta di riportare in gioco e al centro la politica. Il tema è quello dei “dilemmi della democrazia”, dilemmi che non sono solo il frutto della economia (il liberismo ha prodotto anche ampio consenso), ma riguardano il ruolo e la sconfitta dei partiti e dei sindacati: la vera debolezza dell’Europa. Occorre domandarsi se la crisi della democrazia derivi da un limite soggettivo della politica o anche da un suo dato strutturale.

Programma

Saluti

Elena Paciotti (Presidente Fondazione Lelio e Lisli Basso)

Introduzione Giuliano Amato (Presidente Centro Studi Americani)

ore 10.00 I Panel

Economia e Global Governance: tendenze e sviluppi auspicabili

Presiede e introduce

Giorgio Ruffolo (CER)

Intervengono

Marcello De Cecco (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)

Paolo Leon (Università di Roma Tre)

Ferdinando Targetti (Università di Trento)

dibattito

ore 13.00-14.00 Buffet

ore 14.15 II panel

Crisi della democrazia e prospettive del Costituzionalismo Globale

Presiede e introduce

Valerio Onida (Università degli Studi di Milano)

Intervengono

Maria Rosaria Ferrarese (Università di Cagliari)

Maurizio Fioravanti (Università di Firenze)

Jean L. Cohen (Columbia University)

ore 16.00-16.30 Coffee Break

ore 16.30-17.30

Luigi Ferrajoli (Università di Roma Tre)

Tania Groppi (Università di Siena)

dibattito

ore 17.45

Conclusioni Giacomo Marramao (Università di Roma Tre)

Centro Studi Americani

via M. Caetani, 32 - 00186 Roma

Tel. 0668801613 fax 0668307256

info@centrostudiamericani.org www.centrostudiamericani.org

Fondazione Lelio e Lisli Basso

via della Dogana Vecchia, 5 - 00186 Roma

Tel. 066879953 fax 0668307516

basso@fondazionebasso.it www.fondazionebasso.it

Peters on Global Constitutionalism

Peters on Global Constitutionalism

Anne Peters (University of Basel - Faculty of Law) has posted The Merits of Global Constitutionalism(Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, Vol. 16, No. 2, 2009) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:

Global constitutionalism is an agenda that identifies and advocates for the application of constitutionalist principles in the international legal sphere. Global constitutionalization is the gradual emergence of constitutionalist features in international law. Critics of global constitutionalism doubt the empirical reality of constitutionalization, call into question the analytic value of constitutionalism as an academic approach, and fear that the discourse is normatively dangerous because it is anti-pluralist, artificially creates a false legitimacy, and promises an unrealistic end of politics. This article addresses these objections. I argue that global constitutionalization is likely to compensate for globalization induced constitutionalist deficits on the national level, that a constitutionalist reading of international law can serve as a hermeneutic device, and that the constitutionalist vocabulary uncovers legitimacy deficits of international law and suggests remedies. Global constitutionalism, therefore, has a responsibilizing and much needed critical potential.

Kuo on Kingsbury on Global Administrative Law

Kuo on Kingsbury on Global Administrative Law

Ming-Sung Kuo (Yale University - Law School) has posted Inter-Public Legality or Post-Public Legitimacy? A Response to Professor Kingsbury’s Conception of Global Administrative ‘Law’(European Journal of International Law, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:

Departing from the Westphalian tradition, global administrative law is seen as arising from the pragmatic needs of transboundary regulation underpinned by a normative aspiration to rule of law beyond national boundaries. Unhinged from state consent, however, it faces a twofold challenge: legality and legitimacy. The former centers on the distinction between law and non-law; the latter is concerned with the legitimacy of global administrative law. Benedict Kingsbury’s "The Concept of ‘Law’ in Global Administrative Law" (20 EJIL 23 (2009)) attempts to answer this twofold challenge by centering the new paradigm of international law, as epitomized by global administrative law, on the notion of publicness. First, he pins its solution on the substantive concept of publicness. Second, he portrays global administrative law as an inter-public law, governing the relationship among regulatory regimes in accordance with the value of publicness. This Response argues that Kingsbury’s publicness-centered conception of international law does not resolve the challenges facing global administrative law. Rather, his version of global administrative law does not so much correspond to an inter-public law as points to a post-public conception of legitimacy, reflecting the trend of addressing the issue of fragmentation by tacitly adopting the strategy of privatization in global administrative law scholarship.

A. Debeljak: “In praise of hybridity: Globalization and the modern western paradigm”

The division of the world into “the West and the rest” is a misrepresentation, writes Ales Debeljak. Cultural globalization is not the transplantation of western ideas and technologies across the planet, but the adaptation of these according to local requirements. Hybridity, the product of a longe durée, is at the heart of the contemporary western paradigm.

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Esquirol on Globalization of Legal Thought in Perugia

UNIVERSITA’ DEGLI STUDI DI PERUGIA

Facoltà di Giurisprudenza

Cattedra di Diritto Privato Comparato

Prof. Giovanni Marini

GLOBALIZATION OF LEGAL THOUGHT

 Comparative Law in Perugia

November – December 2009

Prof. JORGE LUIS ESQUIROL

FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW

25 Novembre 2009 - aula 11 ore 16,00

Postmodern Comparative Law

26 Novembre 2009 – aula 11 ore 12,00

Legal Orientalism

27 Novembre 2009 – aula 7 ore 10,00

Difference Comparativists

2 Dicembre 2009 - aula 11 ore 16,00

  Latin American/European Transnationalism

3 Dicembre 2009 – aula 11 ore 12,00

Latin American/U.S. Transnationalism

4 Dicembre 2009 – aula 7 ore 10,00

Comparative Legal Theory

Call for Submissions : Transnational Legal Theory

Hart Publishing has recently announced the following:

Article submissions are now being accepted for Transnational Legal Theory, a new quarterly journal. The journal publishes articles of (optimally) 10,000-15,000 words and book reviews of 1000-2500 words. Also considered for publication are “review essays”. The journal is refereed and employs a double-blind peer review procedure.

The objective of Transnational Legal Theory is to publish high-quality theoretical scholarship that addresses transnational dimensions of law and legal dimensions of transnational fields and activity. Central to Transnational Legal Theory’s mandate is publication of work that explores whether and how transnational contexts, forces and ideations affect debates within existing traditions or schools of legal thought. Similarly, the journal aspires to encourage scholars debating general theories about law to consider the relevance of transnational contexts and dimensions for their work. With respect to particular jurisprudence, the journal welcomes not only submissions that involve theoretical explorations of fields commonly constructed as transnational in nature (such as commercial law, maritime law, or cyberlaw) but also explorations of transnational aspects of fields less commonly understood in this way (for example, criminal law, family law, company law, tort law, evidence law, and so on). Submissions of work exploring process-oriented approaches to law as transnational (from transjurisdictional litigation to delocalized arbitration to multi-level governance) are also encouraged.

Equally central to Transnational Legal Theory’s mandate is theoretical work that explores fresh (or revived) understandings of international law and comparative law ‘beyond the state’ (and the interstate). The journal has a special interest in submissions that explore the interfaces, intersections, and mutual embeddedness of public international law, private international law, and comparative law, notably in terms of whether such inter-relationships are reshaping these sub-disciplines in directions that are, in important respects, transnational in nature. Other areas of interest for the journal include the interaction of systems or orders along such axes as the following examples: constitutional law theory on the reception of various forms of external law by states’ legal orders; jurisdictional theory on the external projection of states’ legal orders; public law theory on the evolution of regional legal orders; panstate religious normativity; and the theorization of law as “global” in preference or contradistinction to law as either international or transnational.

Legal theory is understood broadly to encompass a variety of inter- and subdisciplinary theoretical approaches to law or to law-like normativity, including, to name only some, philosophy of law, legal sociology, legal history, law and economics, and international relations theory.

If you wish to contribute a paper or discuss ideas for future articles, please contact tlteditorial@hartpub.co.uk or to submit a book review tltbookreviews@hartpub.co.uk. Full guidelines for contributors are available here.
From Sean Donlan, Irish Society for Comparative Law
AIDC WebSite Comparative Law News

Andrew Halpin and Volker Roeben on Theorising the Global Legal Order

This book aims to capture an exploratory approach to theorising the global legal order. Avoiding any brand loyalty to a particular academic perspective, it brings together scholars who contribute a variety of insights covering quite different topics and viewpoints. It sets itself the target of producing a distinctively legal theory of global phenomena, which is capable of illuminating the path of law as an academic discipline, as it confronts a bewildering array of novel situations and innovative ways of thinking about law. The broad base of perspectives found among the contributors, combined with a helpful commentary from the editors, makes the book an ideal Reader to introduce a subject that is becoming of increasing importance for academics, students and practitioners, in law and related fields.
PUBLISHER
Hart Publishing
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From Empire to Commonwealth: The New Book of Hardt and Negri on Globalisation

Politics and globalization have to cope with the new critical analysis by M. Hardt and A. Negri.
See the reference: Hardt and Negri, Commonwealth, Harvard University Press, 2009
posted by the Law & Geopolitcs web
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Global Economy and Universal Law ?

Convegno “Globalizzazione dell’economia, universalità del diritto”

Il convegno si terrà alla Facoltà di Economia della Libera Università di Bolzano 
nei giorni 11 e 12 dicembre 2009.

Interventi di: Francesco Galgano, Maria Rosaria Ferrarese, Massimo Franzoni, Renzo Cavalieri, Paolo Giudici, Gabriele Crespi Reghizzi, Andrea Zoppini, Fernando Gomez, PierGiuseppe Monateri, Fabrizio Marrella, Franco Ferrari, Laurent Manderieux.

Organizzazione scientifica: Laura Valle

Informazioni:

http://www.unibz.it/it/economics/events/default.html