Berlin Colloquium on Global and Comparative Public Law

Presentations summer semester 2019:

April 18

Evan Fox-Decent (McGill University, Montreal)

"Jurisprudential Reflections on Cosmopolitan Law"

April 25

Claudio Corradetti (University of Rome Tor Vergata)

"Hegemony Criticism and the Crisis of the European Union"

May 2

Victor Ferreres Comella (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)

"Investment Treaty Arbitration"

May 9

Kai Möller (London School of Economics and Political Science)

"Male and Female Genital Cutting: Between the Best Interest of the Child and Genital Mutilation"

May 16

Rainer Bauböck (European University Institute, Florence)

"Democratic Norms and Immigration"

May 23

Liav Orgad (WZB Berlin Social Science Center / European University Institute, Florence)

"How to 'Make' a Good Citizen"

June 6

Theunis Roux (University of New South Wales, Sydney)

"In Defence of Empirical Entanglement - The Methodological Flaw in Waldron's Case against Judicial Review"

June 13

Anne Peters (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg)

"Global Constitutionalism - The Social Dimension"

June 20

Yoon Jin Shin (Seoul National University School of Law)

"Proportionality in South Korea: Contextualizing the Cosmopolitan Rights Grammar"

About the Berlin Colloquium

The Berlin Colloquium focuses on work in progress by leading contemporary scholars of global and comparative public law. The invited guest speakers discuss their work in person with participants. Most contributions concentrate on central concepts and ideas relating to public law (such as sovereignty, democracy, rule of law, human rights) generally or as as they play out in specific institutional and doctrinal contexts.

Texts are distributed in advance and participants are expected to read and prepare each session to enable them to engage in discussions with the author. The majority of presenting scholars present in the English language, the lingua franca of global public law scholarship. The colloquium is likely to be of particular interest to persons seriously considering writing a dissertation in either legal or political philosophy or public, European or international law.

Papers are available here closer to the presentations.