MIR 526
Legal and Institutional Issues in Global Politics
Spring 2018
Z. Umut Türem
(Office hours: Thursdays @5.30 pm)
Description
This is a course on law and globalization. Law is a constitutive element of modern politics and it occupies a central place in the international and global landscape. The course aims to capture this centrality and introduce students to the main debates on law and institutions in the processes of globalization.
The course is roughly divided into three (and a half) parts: The first part (weeks 2-4) introduces the basics of law, politics and society relationship from the international to the global. The second part (weeks 5-10) introduces the intersections of law and globalization in three selected issue areas: trade, human rights and the environment. The third part (weeks 11-12) introduces certain new legal forms emerging in the process of globalization. In the last class, we will address notable criticisms to the language and practice of global(izing) law as of 2018.
Requirements
The requirements for the course are:
1) Attendance and participation (20%)
2) 3 class presentations(30%)
3) Final exam(50%)
Schedule
Introduction (Feb. 8)
I. STATES, LAW AND THE GLOBAL DOMAIN
The modern state and law (Feb. 15)
Poggi, Gianfranco (1990) The State: Its Nature, Development and Prospects (Stanford), pp. 1-33
Kalberg, Stephen (2005) Max Weber: Readings and Commentary on Modernity (Wiley), Part 6, The Nation, The Modern State, and Modern Law, pp. 221-244
The formation of the international (law and institutions)(Feb. 22)
Neff, Stephen (2014) “A Short History of International Law” in Evans, Malcolm (ed.)
International Law (Oxford), pp. 3-31
Klabbers, Jan (2002) An Introduction to International Institutional Law (Cambridge),
Ch. 2- The Rise of International Organizations, pp. 16-41
Globalization and/of law (March 1)
Domingo, Rafael (2010) The New Global Law (Cambridge), Ch. 4, The Crisis of International Law, pp. 53-97
Halliday, Terrence and Pavel Osinsky (2006) "Globalization of law" Annual Review of Sociology (v. 32, pp. 447-70)
II. ISSUE AREAS
“Free trade” animating globalization and / of law (March 8)
Rodrik, Dani (2011) The Globalization Paradox (Oxford), Chs. 1-4, pp. 3-88
Bilateral, Regional or Global? The Architecture of Free Trade Today (March 15)
Griffith, Melissa; Richard Steinberg & John Zysman (2017) “From Great Power Politics to a Strategic Vacuum: Origins and Consequences of the TPP and TTIP” Business and Politics (v. 19, n. 4, pp. 573-592)
Bown, Chad (2017) “Mega Regional Trade Agreements and the Future of the WTO” Global Policy (v. 8, n. 1, pp. 107-112)
Pauly, Louis (2002) “Global Finance, Political Authority, and the Problem of Legitimation” in Rodney Bruce Hall and Thomas J. Biersteker, eds. Emergence of Private Authority in Global Governance (Cambridge), pp. 76-90
Human Rights (March 22)
Simmons, Beth (2009) Mobilizing for Human Rights (Cambridge), Ch. 2, “Why International Law? The Development of the International Human Rights Regime in the Twentieth Century” pp. 23-56
Alston, Philip (2005) “Not a Cat Syndrome: Can the International Human Rights Regime Accomodate Non State Actors?” in Alston, Philip (ed.) Non State Actors and Human Rights (Oxford), pp. 3-36
Humanity’s Law? A Critical Take (March 29)
Teitel, Ruti G. (2013) Humanity’s Law (Oxford), Chs. 1, 5, 7. (pp. 3-18, 105-138, 165-192)
Ecological protection(April 5)
Kingsbury, Benedict (1995) “Tuna Dolphin Controversy, The World Trade Organization, and the Liberal Project to Reconceptualize International Law” Yearbook of International Environmental Law (v. 5, n. 1, pp: 1-40)
Bratspies, Rebecca M. (2012) “Assuming Away the Problem? The Vexing Relationship between International Trade and Environmental Protection” in Cecilia Bailliett, ed., Non State Actors, Soft Law and Protective Regimes, From the Margins(Cambridge), pp. 227-253
Global Climate Regime (April 12)
Bodansky, Daniel (2016) “The Paris Climate Change Agreement: A New Hope?” The American Journal of International Law (v. 110, pp. 288-319)
Turhan, Ethemcan, convener (2017) “Climate Change Policy in Turkey: Current Opportunities, Persistent Problems”, Roundtable, New Perspectives on Turkey (v. 56, pp. 131-162)
III. NEW TOOLS AND FORMS OF LEGALITY
Regulation (April 26)
Morgan, Bronwen and Karen Yeung (2007) An Introduction to Law and Regulation (Cambridge), Chs. 1, 6
Soft Laws and Voluntary Mechanisms of Regulation (May 3)
Abbott, Kenneth W. and Duncan Snidal (2000) “Hard and Soft Law in International Governance” International Organization (v. 54, n. 3, pp. 421-456)
Courville, Sasha (2003) “Social Accountability Audits: Challenging or Defending Democratic Governance?” Law and Policy (v. 25, n. 3, pp. 269-298)
Hall, Bruce Rodney and Thomas J. Biersteker (2002) “The Emergence of Private Authority in the International System”, in Rodney Bruce Hall and Thomas J. Biersteker, eds. Emergence of Private Authority in Global Governance (Cambridge), pp. 3-22
Criticisms and (Is there a/) the way forward?(May 10)
Stiglitz, Joseph (2017) “Overselling of Globalization” Business Economics, (v. 52, n. 3, pp. 129-137)
Chimni, B.S. (2004) "International Institutions Today: An Imperial Global State in the Making"European Journal of International Law (v. 15, n. 1, pp. 1-37)
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