"Wo bleibt der Dritte im Rechtspluralismus?"

13. Januar 2011

Prof. Dr. Klaus Günther, Institut für Kriminalwissenschaften und Rechtsphilosophie der Uni Frankfurt

Über das Faktum des Rechtspluralismus im Zeitalter der Globalisierung wird kaum noch gestritten. Welche normativen Konsequenzen daraus zu ziehen sind, ist derzeit jedoch eine offene und kontrovers diskutierte Frage. Der Vortag will sich vor allem mit denjenigen Positionen kritisch auseinandersetzen, die für eine Selbstregulierung und Selbstkoordination pluralisierter Rechtswelten plädieren.

"Domesticating Modernities: Transfer of Ideologies and Institutions in Southeastern Europe"

3. Februar 2011

Prof. Dr. Diana Mishkova, Director of Centre for Advanced Study Sofia (CAS)

The lecture will seek to explicate the process of transfer of ideologies and institutions during the foundational period of state-building and modernity import in Southeastern Europe. Its methodological part will look into the notion of transfer in the light of the relationship between national and transnational frameworks of analysis and between core and peripheries. In order to elucidate the creativity of native “re-institutionalizations,” stock will be taken of the timing and historical context of transfer; the channels of transmission; the “institutional legacy”; the semantic and functional transformations of the transferred ideas and institutions; the variety of ideological-political agendas determining the selection and adaptation of transfer. This approach will be exemplified by surveying several characteristic instances of transfer of liberal ideas and institutions in Southeastern Europe in the course of the 19th century.

"International Law in a World of Empires: Constructing a Global Prohibition Regime in the Long Nineteenth Century"

7. März 2011

Prof. Dr. Lauren Benton, History Department, New York University

"The New Global Law. A Historical Perspective"

14. April 2011

Prof. Dr. Rafael Domingo Oslé, Faculty of Law, Universidad de Navarra

The dislocations of the worldwide economic crisis, the necessity of a system of global justice to address crimes against humanity, and the notorious "democratic deficit" of international institutions highlight the need for an innovative and truly global legal system, one that permits humanity to reorder itself according to acknowledged global needs and evolving consciousness. This lecture offers a historical-juridical foundation for the development of this new global law.