Conversations : Globalization and Law

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. Sh

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 relatio

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 fo

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

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, in

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) - F

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

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 devel

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 societ

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 University