Roundtable: Perspectives on International LegitimacyAntje Wiener spoke at this event organized by the Law and Polity Project in co-operation with the Chair of Global Governance

9. Oktober 2018

Foto: The University of Edinburgh: Edinburgh Law School

Brexit, the euro-crisis, Trump’s threats to NAFTA and the WTO, withdrawals from the International Criminal Court among a host of other events bring into sharp focus the issue of why the institutions, legal systems and structures of supra-state law and governance involving free trade, the Washington consensus on economic governance, human rights and global justice which evolved after the second world war suffer from legitimacy crises, whether they can be fixed and how. This roundtable, which will launch the International Legitimacy project, will explore these issues in general terms with contributions from law, philosophy and political science to help understand the ways in which we can conceptualise legitimacy in supra-state law and governance and its crises; whether crisis is an endemic feature of the post-war global governance and whether changes are inevitable if it is to survive in its current form.

You can find the event flyer here and the seminar series flyer here.

Speakers:

• Andrea Birdsall (SPSS, Edinburgh)
• Nehal Bhuta (Edinburgh Law School)
• Cormac Mac Amhlaigh (Edinburgh Law School)
• Neil Walker (Edinburgh Law School).
• Antje Wiener (Chair of Political Science esp. Global Governance, University of Hamburg & By-Fellow Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge)

The event will take place 09 October 2018, 14:00 – 17:00 in the Balcony Room, Old Moray House, University of Edinburgh.

This event is free and all are welcome. It will be followed by a drinks reception.