Contests of Powers / Conflicts of Values: Law in a Transnational and Transsystemic Society

Organisé par le professeur Darren Rosenblum, Boursier Wainwright, cet atelier explorera comment le pouvoir économique et politique mondial est passé du contrôle exclusif des États westphaliens à une myriade d'acteurs privés et publics qui se font compétition. Les participant.e.s peuvent se préparer en lisant le matériel.

Résumé

[En anglais seulement] Our conversations will concentrate on analyzing what these new regimes look like, how they exercise power, what value conflicts have emerged, and what law looks like in the midst of these radical shifts. How do economic resources and rights claims turn into legitimacy within law and material power? What are the techniques and purposes of boundaries – not just literal walls or borders, but those of jurisdiction and legal categories? What society is being imagined by the privatization of power transnationally?

We will attempt to answer these questions, and others that surface, through a collective engagement with central texts by Horatia Muir Watt and Frances Olsen, among others, as well as two or three draft texts from participants.

This workshop will resist the temptation to allow disciplines and methodologies to cabin independent thought: our conversations will cross disciplines (notably corporate law, family law, international private law, comparative law and others) and methodological approaches (critical theory, economic analyses including Marxism, pluralism and others).

External participants include Horatia Muir-Watt (Sciences Po), Kerry Rittich (Toronto), Robert Wai (Osgoode Hall), Chantal Thomas (Cornell), Amy Cohen (Ohio State) and Will Moon (Maryland).

Le déjeuner et des rafraîchissements seront servis. Prière de darren.rosenblum [at] mcgill.ca (confirmer sa présence) afin que nous puissions bien assurer l'intendance.