Conversations : Globalization and Law

Professors Emma Lees from the European University Institute and Tiina Palonnittty from the University of Helsinki are our guests for this episode.    The episode is hosted by Dr André Nunes Chaib, Maastricht University and Prof. Mariolina Elianntonio. In this episode, with our guests, we discuss how courts tackle complex global environmental problems and the role of science and expertise in such d...

Our guest for this episode is Professor Ulf Linderfalk from Lund University, Sweden. The episode is hosted by Dr Henrique Marcos, Foundations of Law Department, Maastricht University. Professor Linderfalk and Dr Marcos discuss various topics in international law and legal theory. They explore different philosophical approaches to legal interpretation, decision-making, and the exercise of discretio...

Our guest for this new episode is former EU Commissioner for Trade and Home Affairs, Cecilia Malmström.  The episode is hosted by Belén Gracia, a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Law at Maastricht University. She is joined by Andrea Ott, a Professor of EU External Relations Law at the same Faculty. They discuss various topics with Cecilia Malmström, ranging from the EU's trade position and pol...

Our guest today is Professor Sacha Garben, from the Collège d'Europe, and she talks about the challenges of constructing a more social Europe.   Professor Garben is a renowned expert in European Law and has written extensively about over-constitutionalization of EU economic freedoms, and has published widely on the intersection of constitutional law, European law, and Labour law. She is also...

Anthony Pagden is the Distinguished Professor of Political Science and History at UCLA, and has in the past been affiliated with Oxford, Cambridge, the EUI (Florence), and Johns Hopkins University.   Easily one of the most important intellectual historians alive, Anthony Pagden has written extensively on European, and in particular Spanish history, with a special focus on the relationship between...

Antoine is a Senior Researcher at the TMC Asser Instituut, where he coordinates the research strand on 'Advancing Public Interests in International and European Law'. He obtained his PhD from the European University Institute in 2015 after defending a thesis on the interaction between the lex sportiva (the private regulations governing international sports) and EU Law. He is the founder...

Signe Rehling Larsen is the author of The Constitutional Theory of the Federation and the European Union   (OUP 2021) , as well as European Public Law after Empires , European Law Open (2022) . In these strikingly original works, she argues, contrary to settled assumptions, that the European Union is neither a unique nor an unprecedented political structure, but one that has a venerable ideal in t...

Janne Nijman and Helmut Aust join us to talk about their recently published Research Handbook on International Law and Cities  (Edward Elgar 2021) , co-edited with the assistance of Miha Marchenko. The book, which was awarded the ESIL (European Society of International Law) Collaborative Book Prize in 2022 , is the result of a long process of collaboration and numerous conferences, involving sever...

Evan Fox-Decent is Full Professor at the Faculty of Law at McGill University in Montreal, where he has held a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Cosmopolitan Law and Justice since October 2019. He is the author of several books such as Sovereignty’s Promise: The State as Fiduciary (OUP 2012) and - together with his regular co-author Evan Criddle (William & Mary Law School) - Fiduciaries of Huma...

Our guest for today is Katharina Pistor , the Edwin B Parker Professor of Comparative Law at Columbia Law School, where she also heads the Center on Global Legal Transformation. Besides these appointments, Katharina is a research associate with the Centre for Economic Policy Research, has served as principal investigator of the Global Finance and Law Initiative (2011–2013), and as a board member (...

Our guest for this episode is Guy Fiti Sinclair, one of the world's foremost experts in the areas of international organizations law, the history of international law, and law and social theory, as well as the author of To Reform the World: International Organizations and the Making of Modern States (OUP 2017). In the book, Guy provides a detailed history of crucial periods of development for...

Our guest for this episode is Adom Getachew , author of Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination (Princeton UP, 2019) . The book relates the little-known histories of Anglophone African and Black Caribbean postcolonial movements. Her core claim in the book is that the goal of these African and Caribbean anti-colonial movements was not to recreate their societies in the ima...

What 'values' do international law and international humanitarian law attempt to manifest? When do states acquire duties with respect to human rights towards people outside their borders? How 'binding' are these duties? Our guest for this episode is Lea Raible, who spoke to us about her recent book Human Rights Unbound: A Theory of Extraterritoriality , published by Oxford Univ...

Suppose someone assaults you. You defend yourself. Your aggressor is not allowed to use further force to 'defend' herself against your acts of self-defence. Only victims get to defend themselves; aggressors do not. However, under the contemporary law of war - euphemistically called 'international humanitarian law' by international lawyers - aggressors appear to be permitted to...