Category Archive: Lecture

Thursday, 5 April: Legal forms of inter-alterity (A critical study in private international law) by Horatia Muir Watt

Thursday, 5 April: Legal forms of inter-alterity (A critical study in private international law) by Horatia Muir Watt

Legal Forms of Inter-Alterity (A Critical Study in Private International Law) By Prof. Horatia Muir Watt   We can understand the discipline of private international law as a …

 

Friday, 23 March – Epistemic Jurisdiction: Science, Expertise and Standardisation as Global Governance – by David Winickoff

Friday, 23 March – Epistemic Jurisdiction: Science, Expertise and Standardisation as Global Governance – by David Winickoff

Epistemic Jurisdiction: Science, Expertise and Standardisation as Global Governance David Winickoff Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA While there is …

 

November 25th – Economic Transplants and Transnational Law: A Dialogue, by Katja Langenbucher and Brooke Adele Marshall

November 25th – Economic Transplants and Transnational Law: A Dialogue, by Katja Langenbucher and Brooke Adele Marshall

FRIDAY 25th November 2016, Prof. Katja Langenbucher (Sciences Po Ecole de Droit and Goethe-University’s House of Finance) & Brooke Adele Marshall (Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for …

 

Friday 18th November – (Foreign) Law as Self-Fashioning, by Pierre Legrand

Friday 18th November – (Foreign) Law as Self-Fashioning, by Pierre Legrand

FRIDAY 18th November 2016, Professor Pierre Legrand (Sciences Po Ecole de Droit) The argument is that no account of (foreign) law — no matter how purportedly descriptive — …

 

October 19th – Coercion and Autonomy in Transnational Private Law, by Robert Wai

October 19th – Coercion and Autonomy in Transnational Private Law, by Robert Wai

WEDNESDAY 19th October 2016, Prof. Robert Wai (Osgoode Hall Law School, York University) The turn to transnational law admirably directs analysis of contemporary society towards a realistic sense of …

 

October 7th – Rethinking Comparative Law: Mapping Law’s Transformations, by Leone Niglia

October 7th – Rethinking Comparative Law: Mapping Law’s Transformations, by Leone Niglia

FRIDAY 7th October 2016, Prof. Leone Niglia (University CIII of Madrid) This seminar contributes to comparative scholarly analyses of ‘legal transplants’ and ‘legal change’. Drawing on a combination …

 

September 30th – The Institutional Origins of Corporate Social Irresponsibility, by Paddy Ireland

September 30th – The Institutional Origins of Corporate Social Irresponsibility, by Paddy Ireland

FRIDAY 30th September 2016, Prof. Paddy Ireland (University of Bristol) There has never been a shortage of instances of corporate irresponsibility. They do, however, seem to …

 

Coming PILAGG Seminars

Coming PILAGG Seminars

CANCELLED FRIDAY 13th NOVEMBER 2015: Prof. Neil Walker (Edinburgh Law School) “Global Law and Global Justice: The Gap” (see previous post). Discussant: Prof. David Kinley   FRIDAY 4th DECEMBER …

 

CANCELLED Fourth PILAGG Seminar / November 13th – Global Law and Global Justice: The Gap, by Prof. Neil Walker (Edinburgh Law School)

CANCELLED Fourth PILAGG Seminar / November 13th – Global Law and Global Justice: The Gap, by Prof. Neil Walker (Edinburgh Law School)

CANCELLED ‘GLOBAL LAW AND GLOBAL JUSTICE: THE GAP’ Prof. Neil Walker’s aims is to develop some of the normative implications of the argument in his recent book – ‘Intimations …

 

Third PILAGG Seminar – 16th October – Global Law and Interdisciplinary Inquiry, Alexander Panayotov

Third PILAGG Seminar – 16th October – Global Law and Interdisciplinary Inquiry, Alexander Panayotov

JURISDICTIONAL POLITICS AND SOCIAL MECHANISMS: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY SYNTHESIS?  The interdisciplinary collaboration between law and social science has often been hailed as a promising avenue for studying …