The course will provide an overview of the main issues central to international debates on legal philosophy. The students will acquire theoretical and methodological instruments for the analysis and the understanding of processes of legal globalization.
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The course will also confront specific topics including migration and border studies, postcolonial theory, gender studies and intersectionality, law and economic theory.
During the course, the students will be encouraged to attend seminars organised with guest speakers.
Course Learning Objectives
At the end of this course, students should be proficient in the following subject areas and skills:
familiarity with the transformations that have occurred as a result of the shift from a state-centred paradigm of law to the current paradigm of global legal pluralism
familiarity with the theoretical approaches related to globalization and the transformation of legal systems, transnationalism and struggles for recognition
acquisition of instruments to interpret contemporary debates on rights’ recognition, redistribution and global justice
Kelsen, Peace through Law, Part I and II
Schmitt, The nomos of the Earth, Part I and part IV
Papers/journal articles
Kennedy, The Three Globalizazion of Law
Twining, Globalization and Legal Theory
Teubner, Global Bukowina: Legal Pluralism in the World Society
Lindhal, Inside and Outside Global http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/SydLawRw/2019/1.html
Chimni, Prolegomena to a class approach to international law
de Sousa Santos, Beyond Neoliberal Governance: the World Social Forum as subaltern cosmopolitan politics and legality
Macmillan, Critical law and development
Otto, D. ., Subalternity and international law: The problems of global community and the incommensurability of difference
Hilary Charlesworth, Christine Chinkin and Shelley Wright, Feminist Approaches to International Law
Mezzadra, How Many Histories of Labor? Towards a Theory of Postcolonial Capitalism, https://transversal.at/transversal/0112/mezzadra/en
All readings will be uploaded on the e-learning platform
Programme
The following concepts will be addressed from the perspective of legal theory: International law and sovregny; boundaries and legal space; citizenship, identity, legal subjectivity; institutions and pluralism.The course will also confront specific topics including migration and border studies, postcolonial theory, gender studies and intersectionality, law and economic theory.
During the course, the students will be encouraged to attend seminars organised with guest speakers.
Course Learning Objectives
At the end of this course, students should be proficient in the following subject areas and skills:
familiarity with the transformations that have occurred as a result of the shift from a state-centred paradigm of law to the current paradigm of global legal pluralism
familiarity with the theoretical approaches related to globalization and the transformation of legal systems, transnationalism and struggles for recognition
acquisition of instruments to interpret contemporary debates on rights’ recognition, redistribution and global justice
Core Documentation
booksKelsen, Peace through Law, Part I and II
Schmitt, The nomos of the Earth, Part I and part IV
Papers/journal articles
Kennedy, The Three Globalizazion of Law
Twining, Globalization and Legal Theory
Teubner, Global Bukowina: Legal Pluralism in the World Society
Lindhal, Inside and Outside Global http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/SydLawRw/2019/1.html
Chimni, Prolegomena to a class approach to international law
de Sousa Santos, Beyond Neoliberal Governance: the World Social Forum as subaltern cosmopolitan politics and legality
Macmillan, Critical law and development
Otto, D. ., Subalternity and international law: The problems of global community and the incommensurability of difference
Hilary Charlesworth, Christine Chinkin and Shelley Wright, Feminist Approaches to International Law
Mezzadra, How Many Histories of Labor? Towards a Theory of Postcolonial Capitalism, https://transversal.at/transversal/0112/mezzadra/en
All readings will be uploaded on the e-learning platform