20110358 - Legal philosophy in a global perspective(Global legal studies)

The course is designed to provide students with the theoretical instruments necessary to confront contemporary debates on law and globalization.
Students will acquire familiarity with:
 theoretical approaches related to globalization and the transformation of legal systems, current paradigms of transnationalism and legal pluralism, struggles for recognition and justice
 familiarity with critical approaches to law and globalization from post-colonial and and feminist perspectives
 instruments to interpret contemporary debates on rights’ recognition, redistribution and global justice
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Programme

The following themes will be addressed during the course: the legal globalisation; the theories of war and peace in international law; critical international law and postcolonial theory; the feminist critique to globalization; different approaches to environmental justice.

During the course, the students will be encouraged to attend seminars organised with guest speakers and to actively take part in the lessons.


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

books

Kelsen, Peace through Law, Part I and II

Schmitt, The nomos of the Earth, Part I and part IV



Papers/ articles



Kennedy, The Three Globalizazion of Law


Teubner, Global Bukowina: Legal Pluralism in the World Society

De Vito, Critical enviromental Law

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

Fraser, N. Contradictions of Capitalism and Care

All readings will be uploaded on the e-learning platform



Reference Bibliography

books Kelsen, Peace through Law, Part I and II Schmitt, The nomos of the Earth, Part I and part IV Papers/ articles Kennedy, The Three Globalizazion of Law Teubner, Global Bukowina: Legal Pluralism in the World Society De Vito, Critical enviromental Law 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 Fraser, N. Contradictions of Capitalism and Care All readings will be uploaded on the e-learning platform

Type of delivery of the course

the course will be in presence

Attendance

course attendancy is higly recommended

Type of evaluation

the final exam will be an oral interview The students that attend class will also be evaluated for their partecipation in class, a coursework and an interim written test.