4th International Annual Conference of the Cluster of Excellence

Legal Cultures, Legal Transfer, and Legal Pluralism

10-12 November 2011

Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main
Campus Bockenheim, Alte Aula

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 globalisation 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 pluralisation 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.

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Programme:

Thursday, 10 November 2011

6pm Welcoming Address
6.15pm Opening Lecture
Martin Loughlin „Some reflections on the concept of constitutional pluralism”

Friday, 11 November 2011

10am Official Inauguration
(Rainer Forst & Stefan Kadelbach)

10.30am 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”

2pm Panel II
Transfer of Normative Orders - Normative Orders from Transfer
Chair: Annette Warner
Lecture Michael Stolleis „Transfer normativer Ordnungen. Baumaterial für junge Nationalstaaten – ein Südosteuropa-Projekt”
Lecture Jane Burbank „The Rights of the Ruled: Legal Process and Sovereignty in Imperial Russia”

4.30pm 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, 12 November 2011

10am 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?“
Vortrag Alexander Peukert „Intellectual Property: The Global Spread of a Legal Concept”

12pm Conference Concludes

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