20110558 - Legal Philosophy in a Global Perspective

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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Fruizione: 20110358 Legal philosophy in a global perspective(Global legal studies) in GIURISPRUDENZA LMG/01 RIGO ENRICA

Programma

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


Testi Adottati

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




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