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Conversations : Globalization and LawEmma Lees and Tiina Palonnitty - Science and CourtsProfessors Emma Lees from the European University Institute and Tiina Palonnittty from the University of Helsinki are our guests for this episode. The episode is hosted by Dr André Nunes Chaib, Maastricht University and Prof. Mariolina Elianntonio. In this episode, with our guests, we discuss how courts tackle complex global environmental problems and the role of science and expertise in such decision-making. They explore the challenges, difficulties, and opportunities courts face when using science to decide on matters of importance in times of climate and social crises. Enjoy the episode!2024-07-0236 minConversations : Globalization and LawUlf Linderfalk - Theory of Discretion in International LawOur guest for this episode is Professor Ulf Linderfalk from Lund University, Sweden.The episode is hosted by Dr Henrique Marcos, Foundations of Law Department, Maastricht University. Professor Linderfalk and Dr Marcos discuss various topics in international law and legal theory. They explore different philosophical approaches to legal interpretation, decision-making, and the exercise of discretion in international law by stakeholders and international courts.Enjoy the episode!2024-06-1946 minConversations : Globalization and LawCecilia Malmström - EU, Trade and GeopoliticsOur guest for this new episode is former EU Commissioner for Trade and Home Affairs, Cecilia Malmström. The episode is hosted by Belén Gracia, a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Law at Maastricht University. She is joined by Andrea Ott, a Professor of EU External Relations Law at the same Faculty. They discuss various topics with Cecilia Malmström, ranging from the EU's trade position and policies to the forthcoming elections for the EU Parliament.Enjoy the episode! 2024-05-2851 minConversations : Globalization and LawSacha Garben - On a Social EuropeOur 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. She is also currently the editor of the Oxford University Press Online Encyclopedia of EU Law. The episode was hosted by Eline Couperus, a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Law, Maastricht University, and Professor Merijn Chamon, fro...2024-03-2254 minConversations : Globalization and LawAnthony Pagden - The Pursuit of Europe: A HistoryAnthony 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 relationship between the peoples of Europe and its overseas settlements and those of the non-European world from the Atlantic to the Pacific. In this episode, Anthony joins us to discuss his latest book, The Pursuit of Europe: A Hi...2023-03-171h 08Conversations : Globalization and LawAntoine Duval - Sports Law, the World Cup, and Human RightsAntoine 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 founder and editor-in-chief of the ASSER International Sports Law Blog, founder and editor of the Yearbook of International Sports Arbitration, and a member of the editorial board of the International Sports Law Journal and International Sports Law book Series...2022-12-081h 09Conversations : Globalization and LawSigne Rehling Larsen - The Constitutional Theory of the Federation and the European UnionSigne 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 ideal in the form of the 'federation', as well as an uncomfortable relationship with the imperial heritage of its Member States. Signe is currently an Examination Fellow in Law at Magdalen College, Oxford University. She obtained her doctorate in...2022-12-0642 minConversations : Globalization and LawHelmut Aust & Janne Nijman - International Law and CitiesJanne 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, involving several experts in the field of international law and cities. Leading the podcast today is Carlo Colombo, Assistant Professor of Administrative Law and Governance at the Faculty of Law, Maastricht University. Carlo is a contributor to the Research Handbook me...2022-10-1358 minConversations : Globalization and LawEvan Fox-Decent - Mandatory MultilateralismEvan 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) - Fiduciaries of Humanity: How International Law Constitutes Authority (OUP 2016). As these titles indicate, Evan’s research interests span both private and public law, and his project may be described as one of trying to explicate the concept of s...2022-05-3146 minConversations : Globalization and LawKatharina Pistor - The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and InequalityOur 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 a board member (2011–2014) and fellow (2019) of the European Corporate Governance Institute. Together with Martin Hellwig she was awarded the 2012 Max Planck Research Award on International Financial Regulation, and in 2015 she was elected a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. ...2022-05-2451 minConversations : Globalization and LawGuy Fiti Sinclair - To Reform the World: International Organizations and the Making of Modern StatesOur 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 development for three major international organisations - the International Labor Organization from the 1920s until the end of World War II, the emergence of United Nations peacekeeping in the 1950s and early 1960s, and...2022-04-1949 minConversations : Globalization and LawAdom Getachew - Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-DeterminationOur 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 societies in the image of their colonial oppressors' - or, in academic legalese, to 'universalise Westphalian sovereignty'. Instead of ‘nation-building’, their project was one of ‘world-making’ organised around the principle of 'non-domination': they sought not just to bring freedom and self-determination for the peop...2022-03-2448 minConversations : Globalization and LawLea Raible - Human Rights Unbound: A Theory of ExtraterritorialityWhat '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 Press in 2020. Lea currently works as a Lecturer in Public Law at the University of Glasgow, but before this she held academic positions in Edinburgh, University College London, and here at Maastricht University. Lea was also...2022-03-1043 minConversations : Globalization and LawArthur Ripstein - Kant and the Law of WarSuppose someone assaults you. You defend yourself. Your aggressor is not allowed to use further force to 'defend' herself against your acts of self-defence. Only victims get to defend themselves; aggressors do not.However, under the contemporary law of war - euphemistically called 'international humanitarian law' by international lawyers - aggressors appear to be permitted to carry on using force in exactly the same way as defenders, once the both of them are in a war. How does this make any sense?Also, why is it that a non-uniformed scientist on the cusp of building...2022-02-241h 06