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10.11.2011
Conference

Legal Cultures, Legal Transfer, and Legal Pluralism

4th Annual International Conference of the Cluster of Excellence

The subject of the conference concerns recent developments of normative orders in general and legal orders in particular: The fact that in the area of globalization our traditional image of an integrated normative order within a nationstate on one territory which can be identified by its borders becomes more and more obsolete. International and transnational norms emerge and influence or determine national law, different kinds of norms govern people on the local as well as on the global level and different actors of normativity are active beyond territorial borders. The fact of legal pluralism reveals the other fact that law is and always was an integral part of cultures – and the plurality of cultures determines in a certain way the pluralization of law as well as conflicts about the law and the different processes of exchange and transfer between different normative orders. It is also obvious that the fact of legal pluralism has a long historical continuity – and it might be that a unified and centralized national law and legal code was an exception and not the normal condition of modern societies.

Program

Thursday, November 10, 2011

18.00 Welcome
18:15 Opening lecture:
Martin Loughlin “Some reflections on the concept of constitutional pluralism”

Friday, November 11, 2011

10.00 a.m. Official opening
(Rainer Forst & Stefan Kadelbach)

10.30 a.m. Panel I
Global Legal Pluralism: Fact, Fiction, Forecast, Norm?
Chair: Christoph Menke
Lecture Paul Schiff Berman “Global Legal Pluralism as a Normative Project”
Lecture Klaus Günther “Normative Legal Pluralism and Its Discontents”

14.00 Panel II
Transfer of Normative Orders – Normative Orders from Transfer
Chair: Annette Warner
Lecture Michael Stolleis “Transfer of Normative Orders. Baumaterial für junge Nationalstaaten – ein Südosteuropa-Projekt”
Lecture Jane Burbank “The Rights of the Ruled: Legal Process and Sovereignty in Imperial Russia”

16.30 Panel III
The Politics of Legal Pluralism and the Role of Experts
Chair: Gunther Hellmann
Lecture Jean Cohen “The Politics and Risks of the New Legal Pluralism”
Lecture Jens Steffek “Law, Expertise, and the Legitimacy of International Governance”

Saturday, November 12, 2011

10.00 a.m. Panel IV
Emerging Transnational Normative Orders: Efforts on the Ground-Level
Chair: Stefan Kadelbach
Lecture Christian Joerges “What is left of the ‘integration through law’ project?”
Lecture Alexander Peukert “Intellectual Property: The Global Spread of a Legal Concept”

12.00 p.m. End of conference

 

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