Wednesday, 21 October 2009
Campus Westend, Hörsaalzentrum HZ 3
Professor Dr. Klaus Dieter Wolf, Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
Unternehmen als Normunternehmer
Die Einbindung privater Akteure in grenzüberschreitende politische Steuerungsprozesse
Biographical sketch
Klaus Dieter Wolf has been Professor of Political Science with a concentration on international relations at the Institute for Political Science at the TU Darmstadt since 1992 and is one of the Principal Investigators of the Cluster of Excellence ‘The Formation of Normative Orders’. Questions of the effectiveness and legitimacy of cross-border governance, particularly as regards the role of private actors, form the main focus of his research. Professor Wolf has been Head of Research Department at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt since 2005 and has served as its Deputy Director since 2007. Recent publications: Die UNO: Geschichte, Aufgaben, Perspektiven (2005); Die neuen Internationalen Beziehungen: Forschungsstand und Perspektiven in Deutschland (co-edited with Gunther Hellmann and Michael Zürn) (2003).
Abstract
There is widespread agreement that the concept of law is not definitionally tied to the political organisation of a state. At least as law and legal pluralism are understood in legal anthropology, law can be made and applied by non-state actors, even if it is not recognised as ‘established law’ within national and international legal systems. However, it does not follow that the state and state law do not exert a profound influence on the emergence and operation of such a law. Therefore, this lecture will attempt to show that statements concerning ‘Law without the State’ call for a differentiated approach in complex contemporary legal systems, and it will suggest what such an approach might look like from an anthropological point of view.
